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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hank Lason at inter Commercial, Johnny, say, did you ever
hear the Collisio diamond.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Doesn't strike a card.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Worth about two hundred thousand on the open market.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's insured and it's been stolen, right.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I can't say definitely that it's been stolen, but it's gone.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
The owner's name was Benson.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Lived here in hotmand Why the past tense?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
They found him last night in his study, murdered.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Edmund O'Brien. In another transcribed adventure of the Man with
the action packed expense accounts, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
It was truly Johnny Dolla. Expense account submitted by Special
Investigator Johnny Dolla to the inter Commercial Insurance Companies of
America Home Offices, Hartford, Connecticut, Attention, Henry Rayson. The following
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is an accounting of my expenditure during investigation of the
Colegio diamond matter. Expense account Item one one dollar and
twenty cents taxi fare to the western part of town where.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
The better homes are situated.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Mister Charles Benson's home was back from the street and
encircled with a high, well trimmed hedge.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The black wreath was already on the door.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
A young lady, very pretty at black dress, received me
in the study.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
You're a mister dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Mister Layson phoned and said you were on your way.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I hate a body with matter like this. Right now,
Miss Benson is in.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Yes, it's quite all right. Maybe if I go over
it all again.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
It'll help me realize that it's happened. The dad's gone,
it's still like a bad dream. The beginning was when
dad bought the colegial diamond.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
When was that about three years ago?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
In Italy?
Speaker 7 (01:56):
He bought it from a diamond train who had just
come into Florence from South Africa.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
About that interest then.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
No, it was just a tourist.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
He'd heard about this diamond from a friend of his,
a collector. Seems the diamond to belong to a minor
official to the Mediceese, a man named Colesio was given
to him in return for favor. Since then, it's passed
from hand to hand until Dad bought it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
What did he pay for it?
Speaker 7 (02:18):
You know, about two hundred thousand or the Italian equivalent
at that time in Lira.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
But mister Dollar, the diamond has a strange history.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Now, don't tell me there's a curse on it.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
No, nothing like that.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
But I guess it a months to the same thing.
Everyone who's owned the diamond has died with it in
his possession, died violently.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
There's nothing particularly mysterious about that.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
Anything worth as much as that be a glass is
worth killing for it. Say, uh, who's living with you
here now?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
My mother, just the two of us. You have no
idea how hard it's been for her, mister Dollar. She's
hardly been out of her room since since Dad died.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Can you tell me about last night? Was bencent Well?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
I was out with Bob, my fiance. We were out
till about three. Dad was home alone. He had a
habit of reading very late.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
In this room. As a matter of fact, the light
in the study was.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
On when we came in. It was the only light
on in the house. Bob and I went in. Dad's
back was to the door, Please go on. He was
slumped over in his chair facing the window. His book
had dropped to the floor. The wall safe was wide open,
and on the desk was the velvet line box. The
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diamond was kept in the diamond was gone. Dad had
a bullet hole in his temple.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
I say he kept the diamond right on these premises
always we.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Warned him, time after time, not till we told him
to keep it in his safety deposit box at the bank.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
But he refused. Always said that a diamond.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Wasn't worth having unless you kept it in your possession
and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Who knew about the diamond, Miss Benson, Oh.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
So many people, family, of course myself, Bob. The papers
were filled with the news when Dad came back with
it from Midaly.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh, I mean who knew where it was? Who knew
the combination of the safe?
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Nobody but Dad and of course mother, Oh yes, and
mister Carrigan, who's mister Cargan, Dad's lawyer.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Dad kept the will in there and a few other
papers that mister Cargan would come and get every once
in a while.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
We Cargan came into the house and got papers out
of your dance safe any time.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
He wanted to, anytime he wanted to.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think I'd better talk to mister Cargan before I.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Go any further now, mister Dollar, mister Cargan wouldn't lives.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Probably not. We'd better have a talk just the same.
I'd like to have as a dress, please.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Expenser con item two eighty cents Taxi fair to Main
Street where mister Carrigan's office was located. AN elevator ride
and a walk down a marble hole took me to
the frosted glass door, on which was printed Carragan and
Bishop attorneys at law. I talked myself past a receptionist
and the secretary and wound up refusing a cigar from
Carragan himself.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
You're in the insurance business, the investigation ended. I understand
you are mister Benson's lawyer. That's right, mister Benson had
the utmost excuse me, yes, no, vermont maple forty five
thousand is way too much. Yes, in board feet, I
have them shipped from Montpellier. That's the case. Well, have
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them try to get it down then. Yeah, yes, mister Donald.
Mister Benson and I have associated for about fifteen years,
one way or another. We went to school together. It
was a terrible shock to learn of it from excuse me,
ohoh oh, put him on Harry. What's with Chicago? No, No,
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same thing. No, she's in Arizona. I'll write it well
little better nowadays. Yeah, we'll do that, and my love Danny.
Oh okay, you're very yeah, you're vet.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Sure. Bye. Now you're here about.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
The diamond or about the life insurance policy? The diamond, Well,
diamond's a very rare item. We ever got into the
safe knew the combination. I understand there weren't many who
knew the combination. Well, that's true, mister and missus Benson
myself are the only ones. I suppose I'm the prime suspect.
But of course, these safe crackers they use a stethoscope
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these days.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You probably know more about that than I do. Excuse me?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Oh oh yes, put him on? Yes, yes, oh it
is os well yeah, yeah, it's a shame, isn't it. Yeah,
very young man Qualy five, Oh yes, terribly upset. Well, yeah,
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she's due heared about well any minute now we're gonna
make the arrangements.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
I wouldn't let it go near the place. No, I
certainly tell her you're we yeah, you we.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You're w Yeah. Bye.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Well, exactly what did you want to know, mister Dollon
anything that would help us locate the diamond?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Have you talked to the police.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Now, I thought i'd amble around among the persons involved first. Well,
as I say, you probably know more about that than
I do. I wish there was something I could say,
but the last time I saw George Benson was about
two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Do you think this was an outside jime?
Speaker 8 (07:42):
Well, that's my opinion, but it's sheer speculation. Excuse me?
Oh she is. Well, I'll send her in blease. I
hope you won't mind, mister Dollar. That's Missus Benson. I'm
taking it down to the dressmakers.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh, I say, uh, why don't you go out that door? Fine? No, thanks,
mister Carrgan. It's quite all right. Something else I can.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Do, you'll let me know you. I didn't leave. I
stood in the little outer room and sneaked a listen.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Through the door.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
There was some reason why mister Karagan had rushed me
at one door while Missus Benson came in another one.
I heard some things that made the whole case of
the Colegio Diamond a lot more interesting. I pushed the
door open a crack.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You look lovely and black.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
I'm going out of my mind.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
All those people calling having to act unhappy.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Well, this is your opportunity to be a real actress.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm awful at tears. You're beautiful, Damn.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
What if somebody should see?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Well, let them let them see. Is what do I care?
Speaker 8 (08:43):
We're as free as birds. There's a little place down
in Bermuda, a resort I got a folded the other day.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Beautiful place to you.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Won't believe how beautiful and as soon as it's prominent. Well,
I told her before I left it. I wanted a divorce,
I told her, and she knows it. That's why she
went to Arizonaet a way to think things over.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I didn't want to hurt her, but I wanted her
to know.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Darling, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's too good to be true.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
But we gotta be care very careful. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It will be late, Darling. I love you.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
On that summer touching note, I quietly closed the office door,
turned toward the door that would lead me out into
the corridor, put my foot to a rough edge of carpet.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
And promptly fell flat on my face. This brought Carragan running.
I thought you were gone, mister Donna. I thought so too.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Do you consider it quite ethical? Listening at keyholes. Didn't
You'll know?
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Investigation is just a very polite word for snooping, mister Carrgan,
he's an insurance investigator. Everything, not everything, missus Benson, just
enough to tell me that black.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Is your color.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
No, it isn't a load black.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Did o your husband?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I tolerated my husband, mister Dolla.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
You don't have to explain anything to him, Darling, He's
just an insurance man. The police might be interested to
know about this little relationship. There are a number of
angles here. Could be that you and missus Benson killed
mister Benson and removed the diamond to make the whole
thing look like robbery. Yes, mister Dollar, it could be.
I welcome any police investigation.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Fine, I'll go right over.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
Oh wait, I don't think right now would be quite
the opportune time.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Guilty or not guilty. I have a reputation in the
light of that corny love seeing you two just played.
I can't imagine why, mister Dollar, Sorry, well, what do
we do? We'll stand around embarrassed. Let's have it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Why did I get the rush Act out of your office?
Speaker 8 (10:48):
And that's simple, mister Doller, I was afraid that Diane
would give away our relationship.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
He's right, I'm not a very good actress. When did
this thing start? Must you know everything? I think so
about seven years ago. A wool you were.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Pulling over Benson's eyes must be pretty worn by now.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
We did nothing to be ashamed of.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
I resent this.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I resent the whole thing. I don't think I want
to tell you anything more, mister Dalla.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
I don't play any and you know it's all kind
of dull. Anyway, I'll go to the police. It'll probably
have something much more interesting. Don't worry, Cargan. I'm not
going to breathe a worried of this unless I feel
it necessary.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
But I never made it to police headquarters. I got
out in the street when a very large, very quiet
man and a brown and white sports shirt stopped me.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Mister Dollar, Yes, you like some information about what the
fifth of Tropical I never played the ponies.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
These ponies? You play? Hop In? Thanks?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh, come on hop In? Is that dangerous that steel
thing in your pocket?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
I'm very discerning of you to recognize the outline. Insight right, okay.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Bunny, relaxed? Dollar, where are we going?
Speaker 8 (12:07):
You're going to sleep? I awoke with a groan in
my own apartment. Nobody was there, but nobody.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
As soon as I could focus my eyes, I tried
to lift myself off the floor. After five tries, I
managed to turn my head. What I saw made me
want to go back to sleep again. The place was
a mess. There wasn't one inch that hadn't been gone
over with what must have been attracted. Every drawer in
the place had been turned upside down. The problem was
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reaching the phone. It was all of ten feet away,
but it might have been ten miles. I started to
crawl about halfway to it. I grabbed hold of the cord.
I pulled the.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Phone toward me until I got my hands on the receiver.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh hello, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Hello, Hello Johnny. Yeah, Johnny Johnny, you sound awful. Yeah,
I can understand it.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
What you find out about the Colegio Gamon.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You were right about what it's gone where.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't know, well what are you doing to find out?
Right now? I'm just lying around.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Somebody gave me a tumble, Say are you drunk? Rety,
Send a doctor. I think I'm gonna pass out again.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Johnny Junny, Hello, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Johnny I can't talk to you now.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I'm not on the phone.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'm here. Huh.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Oh you look funny with fourheads.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh I as well put this phone on.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Oh come on, come on, stop that nonsense. Now, look,
I hate to Bobby with business, but what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'll tell it all of the police.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You think I want the police in on this. Oh,
I keep them out publicity for the company. I want
the public to think into commercial is able to take
care of itself.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Now, come on, what happened? Somebody asked me for a ride?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
I mean asked me if I wanted a ride, then
they gave it to me.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Oh, that looks like they were looking for something.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Did you have something they might have been looking for?
Speaker 8 (14:21):
If I had something they were looking for, I wouldn't
know it, but they must have thought I had something
they would look. I'm going round and around already asked me,
no questions.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Have you got any idea what it might be they.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Were looking for?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Maybe the diamond?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, say, maybe the diamond.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
See that's right, there could be I'll go away.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well, we'll take you off the case and put someone
else on. Sure you can have a nice rest.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh no, you don't well, I thought that would pep
you up.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Money always does. Knock it out of here and let
me fasten my head back on.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Do you want something?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, get me an ask them hello, sister Dollar. Yeah,
this is scary sty again. Oh yeah sure, how are you.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Mister Dollar? The police have justed here.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
They found the gun that Joe dead?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Oh good? Where was it in my purse?
Speaker 8 (15:27):
We will return to the second act of yours, truly
Johnny Dollar in just a moment, for an hour of
rapid fire entertainment.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The show goes on.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
It's the show for you these Friday nights on most
of these same CBS stations. It's an intimate glimpse into
a fascinating angle of backstage life, a series of honest
to goodness auditions for jobs in theater and nightclubs and radio.
The singers and comedians you hear are face to face
with managers, agents and bookers ready to hire.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Them on the spot.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Take an option or turn thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Be sure to hear.
Speaker 8 (15:58):
The show goes on and it's lightest acts this Friday night.
Now with our star Edmond O'Brien, we returned to the
second act of Yours truly, Johnny dollar.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Expenser? Can it him? Three taxi?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Fair?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Again?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
One dollar and cents to the Hartford City jail or.
An old buddy of mine by the name of Lieutenant
Parnell was quizzing miss Benson with the nastiest bunch of
leading questions I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Now, why did you kill your father? Miss Benson? I'll
come on, come on, We'll make it much easier for
you if hey.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Panel, come on, give her a break. The insurance man
and I wondered when you'd be over me? Hey, what
happened to your head? When I find out, I'll let
you know. I'll let him talk you into a thing. Betty,
get a good lawyer now for one thing. Corrigan is
on his way over for another. The best lawyer in
the world couldn't do it any good. The gun had
hurt prints all over it.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Would I put a murder weapon in my purse with
my fingerprints on it?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Lieutenant?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Would I?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
If you didn't have time to get rid of the gun?
Why not?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
You're getting woosy, Lieutenant? Why don't you take a peek?
They've got the giants came on the radio out there?
Why not go out and see how they're doing.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No, hold on, I might miss something, Dolly. Maybe you
can do better with her than I can. I'll just
sit down over here and the whisky. I know. How's
that fine? Okay? Now, Betty? How'd the gun get me
a purse?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I don't know, mister Dollar. The lieutenant was searching through
my room and found this purse. There it was, But
I didn't carry that person the night Dad was killed.
I haven't used that person a long time. Somebody put
the gun in there?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Can you prove it?
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
No, nobody saw you that evening.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Nobody but Bob, Bob, your boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Eh.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
All right, now I've got the necessary paper. You leave
her alone. Dollar, What are you doing here? I just
came over to ad to the confusion. Betty A you
all right?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Hello, Dy, I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It looks like Grand Central Station. Come on, we're gonna
have you out of here. In Duke Times.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
This is Bob Gorman, my fiance, mister Dollar, and Lieutenant Paniell.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Nice, like a Washington hostess. Now let's try to wind
this thing up. Mister Cardigan. Were you anywhere in the
vicinity of the Benson home that that mister Benson was murdered.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Oh yes, you were. You are visiting Betty's mother.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That's a deliberate lie. I was nowhere near.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
I don't know why I'm submitting to intimidation from you, Gorman.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Seems to be a little difference of opinion here, Lieutenant
m hm. You were quite a comfort to Missus Benson
during the period of the Ferbey reavement, weren't you, Cardigan?
I refused to answer on the ground that it might
incriminate me.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
You darn right it would incriminate you the way you've
been carrying on with Missus Benson. Everybody knows about him. No,
I'm going to get it off my chest. Betty's father
was no sooner dead than he was hustling Missus Benson
this place.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And then why you temper, mister Cardigan. Let's save that
for the jury. He can't make accusations like that.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
They aren't just accusations, mister Cargan, They're true. Nobody had
a better reason to kill Dad Love.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Say, anybody in this room happened. I know where the
Collegio Diamond is. No, I didn't think so. I just
wanted to say goodbye. Okay, Now go.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Ahead, expensive can item four twelve dollars and twenty cents,
miscellaneous taxi fairs all over the place.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I went on a little visit.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
To Carrigan's apartment and found something of interest, a little
slip of paper on which was written in the highest
form of legal language. Of course, I owe you two
thousand dollars, George Benson.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I worked my way into Bob Gorman's apartment.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
There I found a bill from the guarant Detective Agency.
Then the police headquarters again, where I found a picture
of a man who was tall and thin and had
a little well trimmed mustache. Then I went home, where
I found a man who was tall, thin and had
a little well trimmed mustache, who was drinking my bourbon.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
You're drinking my bourbon, flossy bourbon. Look what you did
in my head.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's an improvement, all right. What do you want the diamond?
What else?
Speaker 8 (20:10):
I don't have it. I don't believe it. We'll search
the place I already did. Well, I guess that doesn't
see you later. Don't go out of the way, I said,
don't go, you crazy, Okay, drop the gun, ah, sit
down and finish your drink.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I didn't come here alone.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
If I'm not downstairs in three minutes, you'll come up.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm all the marria. Who do you work for? Myself?
That's right, friend, I want all.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
The excuse I can get to beat the pulp out
of it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh no, cut it? Who do you work for? Corrigan?
What's the deal? He wanted me to get the gun,
so you planted it in Betty's purse.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I didn't and I didn't kill bench neither. I went
to get the gun but it was gone, and I
thought you had it, but you didn't have it.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So you were working for Carrigan.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah, okay, now let's start all over again.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Who do you work for? I told you Cargan. This
isn't going to be much fun for you.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Friend, listen, lay off of me. I'm telling you the truth.
I tell you the truth and you keep on hitting.
Now that ain't fair work. Okay, okay, missus Spence? What's
the deal? She hired me to get the diamond why?
She killed her husband so she'd get away with Corgan.
She wanted me to break in and get the diamonds
so it looked like robbery. Seeing robbery and murder, Say here.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We go again, will you leave me be. I can
keep this up all night. If I have this, Why
don't you tell me who you think I work for?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Then?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Instead of beating up on me, I want to hear
it from you.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Look, chum, since you knocked me on the head, I
get spells a bad temper. All right, all right, I
guarantee to take the business.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Now we're getting someplace. Baby, How did you know my name?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Well, it's a byword in every precinct police station from
here to Ishpamin. You were hired by Bob Gorman.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I was hired by Bob Goman. You killed Benson. I
don't know who killed Benson. What would hired for? It
gets a diamond and Bob's got it in his apartment.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
I started working on you. No, no, don't don't axtra
tough Now who's got the diamond?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Harrigan? Look if you golly answers, what are you asking
me for? Vic? My boy, I'm amazed.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I've seen liars in my time, but I've never run
across anything like you.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
How can you do it?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
It's just straight face? Huh, here's a practice. Now, I'll
tell you the truth as you see.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Don't you hit me no more now Bob Gorman hired here,
that's the truth, all right, and he hided you to
get the diamond.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But you didn't find the diamond there. You found Benson dead.
I walked in there.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I'm telling you, I was never more surprised than my
life there was Benson in that chair.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I hired out to do a lot of things, but murder.
That's not for me.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
There ain't money enough in the world to make me
come ait murder. Slugging you do for good money, Bick.
I'm not interested in who killed Benson personally. I don't
think you know. I want to know where the diamond is.
I don't know I know where the diamond is. It
was gone when I got there. I thought you were
at it. That's why I slugged you very all right.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'm tired of a splitting a headache.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
That's your drink, No thanks, it really is, Larzi Berger.
Things were as dark as ever. Vic was no help.
I knew Bob hired him, but that was all I knew.
The next stop seemed to me to be Bob himself.
I called him and told him to come over.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
He was very accommodating. A half hour later, he was
tapping gently at my door. Allot, mister dollar in, don't
mind the dirty glass on the table there. I just
got through entertaining one of your employees.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
One of my employees, I believe he's had. His name
is Vic Vic Hasting.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I never heard of him on, Bob, you can be
yourself with me. Vic talked to me like your brother.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I never heard of it.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
You may not be conscious of it, Bob, but you're
in plenty of trouble. The police are looking for the diamond,
and they're sure whoever has the diamond killed mister Benson.
I'm just an insurance investigator. I have nothing to do
with the police department, all.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Right, mister Dollar. I did hire Vaccasey, and I sent
him after the dimon.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
He thought I had it. Yes.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
When he found out you didn't, he came back and
threatened me. He wanted money. I didn't have any, but
I told him I give him a cut when I
got it.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Is this a regular business of yours? Stealing diamonds?
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Look, mister Dollar, I didn't kill mister Bennett.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I didn't ask you that. I asked you about the diamond.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
I heard about the diamond when mister Benson bought it.
I had to have it. I wasn't going to sell it,
not then I just wanted it. I crashed a party
at the Benson house about four or five months ago.
I met Betty and I started the.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Dat that's as good a way as any for You've.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Got it wrong, mister Dollar. Sure, I wanted to get
at the diamonds. That's why I started taking Betty out.
But things are different. I love her, We want to
get married.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Very sweet.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Only you didn't hire e Vic to get the diamond
four or five months ago, Gorman. So I get that
pleading look out of your eyes. You don't do a
thing to me.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You're not going to the police. Put it down, Gorman.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Stay where you are, don't try to follow me, or
I'll blow your head off. It's a long Dolly.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Parnell speaking.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
This is Dollar, Lieutenant. Let us send out a cold
one on Bob Gorman.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
What you wanted for it?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And you can call it suspicion of murder. It's Spencer count.
I had him five one twenty taxi pair of the
Benson home. I found missus Benson.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
In a sad speed upstairs due to her husband's death
and her daughters in conservation.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Why must you pester me about a thing like this now,
mister dollar, haven't you any consideration?
Speaker 8 (25:31):
But it's a job soon as we get over this
hurdle a better Now. I know all about your relationship.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
And sorry, all of that has nothing to do with.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The case, perhaps nothing.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I know who plays my husband, and I know why,
and I know who has the diamonds who I can't
see that. I couldn't take it into a court of law.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Let me worry about that. But your idea, missus. Benson,
Bob Gorman, why do you think he did it?
Speaker 6 (25:52):
He has a violent temper. He hated George, hated him
like poison. George never wanted him to marry Betty.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Sorry, that motive doesn't click with me. And let me
tell you who killed your husband.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You and Carragan. You want to get rid of him.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You two are the only ones who knew the combinations
of the safe. You took the diamond and killed Benson,
and you planted the gun in Betty's.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Pursey, do you mean to suggest that I would try
to make my own daughter out to.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Be a murderer just but you hope the police would
think that if anybody were framing your daughter, it wouldn't
be you. You knew the police would clear Betty because
she was nowhere near the house when the murder occurred,
and you thought they'd assume that Bob Gorman planted the
gun in Betty's pursey. What a lot on, Missus Benson.
It's all out in the open. Now tell you where
you are, doughter Cara. I was expecting you.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
You're pretty good at this business of investigation, aren't you.
It's a shame to have to endu your brilliant career.
That's the way it goes here, today, gone tomorrow. You
aren't going to mess up Missus Benson's pretty bedroom, not
at all. We'll just go out the back way, open
the door door.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Glad to after you. He's all right, Missus Benson.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Come on, get up. Carragan, the lieutenant is waiting in
case you should ask, how did you know, mister Dollard,
that Carrigan and Missus Benson killed George Benson.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
The answer, I took a big guess.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
I told them my guess, and with the authority of
an Illinois judge, they swallowed it, and they confessed to
wind it all up.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
I might add the following. They got Bob Gorman. He's
being sent up along with Vic Hastings. His police record
makes VIX look like a bad report card, which means
Betty is going to have to look for a new boyfriend.
The insurance company has saved.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
A good deal of money. Everybody bad goes to the penitentiary.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Everybody good stays free, which proves that bluff is better
than logic this time anyway. Expense account item six, doctor
Bill and miscellany for my sore head, amounting to twenty
five dollars. Expense account total sixty five dollars and thirty
four cents.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That's pretty cheap. Yours Truly, Johnny Dowers.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role.
Is written by Gil Dowd and David Ella's with music
composed and conducted by Leith Stephens. Edmund O'Brien can soon
be seen in the Columbia Pictures production seven eleven Ocean Drive.
Featured in our cast this evening were Wally Meyer, Jane Webb,
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Bill Johnstone, Virginia, Greg Stacy, Harris, Bill Bouchet, and Harry Bartel.
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by him
Del Vaie join us again next week at the same
time when from Hollywood, Edmund O'Brien returns. In another transcribed adventure.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Of yours Truly, Johnny dava.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Prime goes down for the count on Friday Night with
two of CBS's top thrillers. Broadway is My Beat and
up for Parole. Heard over most of these same CBS stictions,
The Gay White Way is the scene for many. An
exciting criminal chase with Danny Clover on Broadway is my beat.
The actual files of parole boards across America come the
stories of men and women who are up for parole.
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For a thrill and a chill, Broadway is my beat
and up for parole.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Fill the bill. M hmmmm.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
This is CBS where you thrill to Gangbusters every Saturday night.
The Columbia Broadcasting Systems
Speaker 1 (30:15):
M h
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hank Lason at inter Commercial, Johnny, say, did you ever
hear the Collisio diamond.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Doesn't strike a card.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Worth about two hundred thousand on the open market.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's insured and it's been stolen, right.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I can't say definitely that it's been stolen, but it's gone.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
The owner's name was Benson.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Lived here in hotmand Why the past tense?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
They found him last night in his study, murdered.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Edmund O'Brien. In another transcribed adventure of the Man with
the action packed expense accounts, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
It was truly Johnny Dolla. Expense account submitted by Special
Investigator Johnny Dolla to the inter Commercial Insurance Companies of
America Home Offices, Hartford, Connecticut, Attention, Henry Rayson. The following
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is an accounting of my expenditure during investigation of the
Colegio diamond matter. Expense account Item one one dollar and
twenty cents taxi fare to the western part of town where.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
The better homes are situated.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Mister Charles Benson's home was back from the street and
encircled with a high, well trimmed hedge.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The black wreath was already on the door.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
A young lady, very pretty at black dress, received me
in the study.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
You're a mister dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Mister Layson phoned and said you were on your way.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I hate a body with matter like this. Right now,
Miss Benson is in.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Yes, it's quite all right. Maybe if I go over
it all again.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
It'll help me realize that it's happened. The dad's gone,
it's still like a bad dream. The beginning was when
dad bought the colegial diamond.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
When was that about three years ago?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
In Italy?
Speaker 7 (01:56):
He bought it from a diamond train who had just
come into Florence from South Africa.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
About that interest then.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
No, it was just a tourist.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
He'd heard about this diamond from a friend of his,
a collector. Seems the diamond to belong to a minor
official to the Mediceese, a man named Colesio was given
to him in return for favor. Since then, it's passed
from hand to hand until Dad bought it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
What did he pay for it?
Speaker 7 (02:18):
You know, about two hundred thousand or the Italian equivalent
at that time in Lira.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
But mister Dollar, the diamond has a strange history.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Now, don't tell me there's a curse on it.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
No, nothing like that.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
But I guess it a months to the same thing.
Everyone who's owned the diamond has died with it in
his possession, died violently.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
There's nothing particularly mysterious about that.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
Anything worth as much as that be a glass is
worth killing for it. Say, uh, who's living with you
here now?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
My mother, just the two of us. You have no
idea how hard it's been for her, mister Dollar. She's
hardly been out of her room since since Dad died.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Can you tell me about last night? Was bencent Well?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
I was out with Bob, my fiance. We were out
till about three. Dad was home alone. He had a
habit of reading very late.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
In this room. As a matter of fact, the light
in the study was.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
On when we came in. It was the only light
on in the house. Bob and I went in. Dad's
back was to the door, Please go on. He was
slumped over in his chair facing the window. His book
had dropped to the floor. The wall safe was wide open,
and on the desk was the velvet line box. The
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diamond was kept in the diamond was gone. Dad had
a bullet hole in his temple.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
I say he kept the diamond right on these premises
always we.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Warned him, time after time, not till we told him
to keep it in his safety deposit box at the bank.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
But he refused. Always said that a diamond.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Wasn't worth having unless you kept it in your possession
and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Who knew about the diamond, Miss Benson, Oh.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
So many people, family, of course myself, Bob. The papers
were filled with the news when Dad came back with
it from Midaly.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh, I mean who knew where it was? Who knew
the combination of the safe?
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Nobody but Dad and of course mother, Oh yes, and
mister Carrigan, who's mister Cargan, Dad's lawyer.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Dad kept the will in there and a few other
papers that mister Cargan would come and get every once
in a while.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
We Cargan came into the house and got papers out
of your dance safe any time.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
He wanted to, anytime he wanted to.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think I'd better talk to mister Cargan before I.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Go any further now, mister Dollar, mister Cargan wouldn't lives.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Probably not. We'd better have a talk just the same.
I'd like to have as a dress, please.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Expenser con item two eighty cents Taxi fair to Main
Street where mister Carrigan's office was located. AN elevator ride
and a walk down a marble hole took me to
the frosted glass door, on which was printed Carragan and
Bishop attorneys at law. I talked myself past a receptionist
and the secretary and wound up refusing a cigar from
Carragan himself.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
You're in the insurance business, the investigation ended. I understand
you are mister Benson's lawyer. That's right, mister Benson had
the utmost excuse me, yes, no, vermont maple forty five
thousand is way too much. Yes, in board feet, I
have them shipped from Montpellier. That's the case. Well, have
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them try to get it down then. Yeah, yes, mister Donald.
Mister Benson and I have associated for about fifteen years,
one way or another. We went to school together. It
was a terrible shock to learn of it from excuse me,
ohoh oh, put him on Harry. What's with Chicago? No, No,
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same thing. No, she's in Arizona. I'll write it well
little better nowadays. Yeah, we'll do that, and my love Danny.
Oh okay, you're very yeah, you're vet.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Sure. Bye. Now you're here about.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
The diamond or about the life insurance policy? The diamond, Well,
diamond's a very rare item. We ever got into the
safe knew the combination. I understand there weren't many who
knew the combination. Well, that's true, mister and missus Benson
myself are the only ones. I suppose I'm the prime suspect.
But of course, these safe crackers they use a stethoscope
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these days.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You probably know more about that than I do. Excuse me?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Oh oh yes, put him on? Yes, yes, oh it
is os well yeah, yeah, it's a shame, isn't it. Yeah,
very young man Qualy five, Oh yes, terribly upset. Well, yeah,
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she's due heared about well any minute now we're gonna
make the arrangements.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
I wouldn't let it go near the place. No, I
certainly tell her you're we yeah, you we.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You're w Yeah. Bye.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Well, exactly what did you want to know, mister Dollon
anything that would help us locate the diamond?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Have you talked to the police.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Now, I thought i'd amble around among the persons involved first. Well,
as I say, you probably know more about that than
I do. I wish there was something I could say,
but the last time I saw George Benson was about
two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Do you think this was an outside jime?
Speaker 8 (07:42):
Well, that's my opinion, but it's sheer speculation. Excuse me?
Oh she is. Well, I'll send her in blease. I
hope you won't mind, mister Dollar. That's Missus Benson. I'm
taking it down to the dressmakers.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh, I say, uh, why don't you go out that door? Fine? No, thanks,
mister Carrgan. It's quite all right. Something else I can.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Do, you'll let me know you. I didn't leave. I
stood in the little outer room and sneaked a listen.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Through the door.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
There was some reason why mister Karagan had rushed me
at one door while Missus Benson came in another one.
I heard some things that made the whole case of
the Colegio Diamond a lot more interesting. I pushed the
door open a crack.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You look lovely and black.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
I'm going out of my mind.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
All those people calling having to act unhappy.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Well, this is your opportunity to be a real actress.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm awful at tears. You're beautiful, Damn.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
What if somebody should see?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Well, let them let them see. Is what do I care?
Speaker 8 (08:43):
We're as free as birds. There's a little place down
in Bermuda, a resort I got a folded the other day.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Beautiful place to you.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Won't believe how beautiful and as soon as it's prominent. Well,
I told her before I left it. I wanted a divorce,
I told her, and she knows it. That's why she
went to Arizonaet a way to think things over.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I didn't want to hurt her, but I wanted her
to know.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Darling, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's too good to be true.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
But we gotta be care very careful. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It will be late, Darling. I love you.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
On that summer touching note, I quietly closed the office door,
turned toward the door that would lead me out into
the corridor, put my foot to a rough edge of carpet.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
And promptly fell flat on my face. This brought Carragan running.
I thought you were gone, mister Donna. I thought so too.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Do you consider it quite ethical? Listening at keyholes. Didn't
You'll know?
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Investigation is just a very polite word for snooping, mister Carrgan,
he's an insurance investigator. Everything, not everything, missus Benson, just
enough to tell me that black.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Is your color.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
No, it isn't a load black.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Did o your husband?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I tolerated my husband, mister Dolla.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
You don't have to explain anything to him, Darling, He's
just an insurance man. The police might be interested to
know about this little relationship. There are a number of
angles here. Could be that you and missus Benson killed
mister Benson and removed the diamond to make the whole
thing look like robbery. Yes, mister Dollar, it could be.
I welcome any police investigation.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Fine, I'll go right over.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
Oh wait, I don't think right now would be quite
the opportune time.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Guilty or not guilty. I have a reputation in the
light of that corny love seeing you two just played.
I can't imagine why, mister Dollar, Sorry, well, what do
we do? We'll stand around embarrassed. Let's have it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Why did I get the rush Act out of your office?
Speaker 8 (10:48):
And that's simple, mister Doller, I was afraid that Diane
would give away our relationship.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
He's right, I'm not a very good actress. When did
this thing start? Must you know everything? I think so
about seven years ago. A wool you were.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Pulling over Benson's eyes must be pretty worn by now.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
We did nothing to be ashamed of.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
I resent this.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I resent the whole thing. I don't think I want
to tell you anything more, mister Dalla.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
I don't play any and you know it's all kind
of dull. Anyway, I'll go to the police. It'll probably
have something much more interesting. Don't worry, Cargan. I'm not
going to breathe a worried of this unless I feel
it necessary.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
But I never made it to police headquarters. I got
out in the street when a very large, very quiet
man and a brown and white sports shirt stopped me.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Mister Dollar, Yes, you like some information about what the
fifth of Tropical I never played the ponies.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
These ponies? You play? Hop In? Thanks?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh, come on hop In? Is that dangerous that steel
thing in your pocket?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
I'm very discerning of you to recognize the outline. Insight right, okay.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Bunny, relaxed? Dollar, where are we going?
Speaker 8 (12:07):
You're going to sleep? I awoke with a groan in
my own apartment. Nobody was there, but nobody.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
As soon as I could focus my eyes, I tried
to lift myself off the floor. After five tries, I
managed to turn my head. What I saw made me
want to go back to sleep again. The place was
a mess. There wasn't one inch that hadn't been gone
over with what must have been attracted. Every drawer in
the place had been turned upside down. The problem was
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reaching the phone. It was all of ten feet away,
but it might have been ten miles. I started to
crawl about halfway to it. I grabbed hold of the cord.
I pulled the.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Phone toward me until I got my hands on the receiver.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh hello, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Hello, Hello Johnny. Yeah, Johnny Johnny, you sound awful. Yeah,
I can understand it.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
What you find out about the Colegio Gamon.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You were right about what it's gone where.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't know, well what are you doing to find out?
Right now? I'm just lying around.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Somebody gave me a tumble, Say are you drunk? Rety,
Send a doctor. I think I'm gonna pass out again.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Johnny Junny, Hello, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Johnny I can't talk to you now.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I'm not on the phone.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'm here. Huh.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Oh you look funny with fourheads.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh I as well put this phone on.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Oh come on, come on, stop that nonsense. Now, look,
I hate to Bobby with business, but what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'll tell it all of the police.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You think I want the police in on this. Oh,
I keep them out publicity for the company. I want
the public to think into commercial is able to take
care of itself.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Now, come on, what happened? Somebody asked me for a ride?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
I mean asked me if I wanted a ride, then
they gave it to me.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Oh, that looks like they were looking for something.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Did you have something they might have been looking for?
Speaker 8 (14:21):
If I had something they were looking for, I wouldn't
know it, but they must have thought I had something
they would look. I'm going round and around already asked me,
no questions.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Have you got any idea what it might be they.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Were looking for?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Maybe the diamond?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, say, maybe the diamond.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
See that's right, there could be I'll go away.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well, we'll take you off the case and put someone
else on. Sure you can have a nice rest.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh no, you don't well, I thought that would pep
you up.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Money always does. Knock it out of here and let
me fasten my head back on.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Do you want something?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, get me an ask them hello, sister Dollar. Yeah,
this is scary sty again. Oh yeah sure, how are you.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Mister Dollar? The police have justed here.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
They found the gun that Joe dead?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Oh good? Where was it in my purse?
Speaker 8 (15:27):
We will return to the second act of yours, truly
Johnny Dollar in just a moment, for an hour of
rapid fire entertainment.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The show goes on.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
It's the show for you these Friday nights on most
of these same CBS stations. It's an intimate glimpse into
a fascinating angle of backstage life, a series of honest
to goodness auditions for jobs in theater and nightclubs and radio.
The singers and comedians you hear are face to face
with managers, agents and bookers ready to hire.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Them on the spot.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Take an option or turn thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Be sure to hear.
Speaker 8 (15:58):
The show goes on and it's lightest acts this Friday night.
Now with our star Edmond O'Brien, we returned to the
second act of Yours truly, Johnny dollar.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Expenser? Can it him? Three taxi?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Fair?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Again?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
One dollar and cents to the Hartford City jail or.
An old buddy of mine by the name of Lieutenant
Parnell was quizzing miss Benson with the nastiest bunch of
leading questions I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Now, why did you kill your father? Miss Benson? I'll
come on, come on, We'll make it much easier for
you if hey.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Panel, come on, give her a break. The insurance man
and I wondered when you'd be over me? Hey, what
happened to your head? When I find out, I'll let
you know. I'll let him talk you into a thing. Betty,
get a good lawyer now for one thing. Corrigan is
on his way over for another. The best lawyer in
the world couldn't do it any good. The gun had
hurt prints all over it.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Would I put a murder weapon in my purse with
my fingerprints on it?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Lieutenant?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Would I?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
If you didn't have time to get rid of the gun?
Why not?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
You're getting woosy, Lieutenant? Why don't you take a peek?
They've got the giants came on the radio out there?
Why not go out and see how they're doing.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No, hold on, I might miss something, Dolly. Maybe you
can do better with her than I can. I'll just
sit down over here and the whisky. I know. How's
that fine? Okay? Now, Betty? How'd the gun get me
a purse?
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I don't know, mister Dollar. The lieutenant was searching through
my room and found this purse. There it was, But
I didn't carry that person the night Dad was killed.
I haven't used that person a long time. Somebody put
the gun in there?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Can you prove it?
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
No, nobody saw you that evening.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Nobody but Bob, Bob, your boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Eh.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
All right, now I've got the necessary paper. You leave
her alone. Dollar, What are you doing here? I just
came over to ad to the confusion. Betty A you
all right?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Hello, Dy, I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It looks like Grand Central Station. Come on, we're gonna
have you out of here. In Duke Times.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
This is Bob Gorman, my fiance, mister Dollar, and Lieutenant Paniell.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Nice, like a Washington hostess. Now let's try to wind
this thing up. Mister Cardigan. Were you anywhere in the
vicinity of the Benson home that that mister Benson was murdered.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Oh yes, you were. You are visiting Betty's mother.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That's a deliberate lie. I was nowhere near.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
I don't know why I'm submitting to intimidation from you, Gorman.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Seems to be a little difference of opinion here, Lieutenant
m hm. You were quite a comfort to Missus Benson
during the period of the Ferbey reavement, weren't you, Cardigan?
I refused to answer on the ground that it might
incriminate me.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
You darn right it would incriminate you the way you've
been carrying on with Missus Benson. Everybody knows about him. No,
I'm going to get it off my chest. Betty's father
was no sooner dead than he was hustling Missus Benson
this place.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And then why you temper, mister Cardigan. Let's save that
for the jury. He can't make accusations like that.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
They aren't just accusations, mister Cargan, They're true. Nobody had
a better reason to kill Dad Love.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Say, anybody in this room happened. I know where the
Collegio Diamond is. No, I didn't think so. I just
wanted to say goodbye. Okay, Now go.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Ahead, expensive can item four twelve dollars and twenty cents,
miscellaneous taxi fairs all over the place.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I went on a little visit.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
To Carrigan's apartment and found something of interest, a little
slip of paper on which was written in the highest
form of legal language. Of course, I owe you two
thousand dollars, George Benson.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I worked my way into Bob Gorman's apartment.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
There I found a bill from the guarant Detective Agency.
Then the police headquarters again, where I found a picture
of a man who was tall and thin and had
a little well trimmed mustache. Then I went home, where
I found a man who was tall, thin and had
a little well trimmed mustache, who was drinking my bourbon.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
You're drinking my bourbon, flossy bourbon. Look what you did
in my head.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's an improvement, all right. What do you want the diamond?
What else?
Speaker 8 (20:10):
I don't have it. I don't believe it. We'll search
the place I already did. Well, I guess that doesn't
see you later. Don't go out of the way, I said,
don't go, you crazy, Okay, drop the gun, ah, sit
down and finish your drink.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I didn't come here alone.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
If I'm not downstairs in three minutes, you'll come up.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm all the marria. Who do you work for? Myself?
That's right, friend, I want all.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
The excuse I can get to beat the pulp out
of it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh no, cut it? Who do you work for? Corrigan?
What's the deal? He wanted me to get the gun,
so you planted it in Betty's purse.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I didn't and I didn't kill bench neither. I went
to get the gun but it was gone, and I
thought you had it, but you didn't have it.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So you were working for Carrigan.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah, okay, now let's start all over again.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Who do you work for? I told you Cargan. This
isn't going to be much fun for you.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Friend, listen, lay off of me. I'm telling you the truth.
I tell you the truth and you keep on hitting.
Now that ain't fair work. Okay, okay, missus Spence? What's
the deal? She hired me to get the diamond why?
She killed her husband so she'd get away with Corgan.
She wanted me to break in and get the diamonds
so it looked like robbery. Seeing robbery and murder, Say here.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We go again, will you leave me be. I can
keep this up all night. If I have this, Why
don't you tell me who you think I work for?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Then?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Instead of beating up on me, I want to hear
it from you.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Look, chum, since you knocked me on the head, I
get spells a bad temper. All right, all right, I
guarantee to take the business.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Now we're getting someplace. Baby, How did you know my name?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Well, it's a byword in every precinct police station from
here to Ishpamin. You were hired by Bob Gorman.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I was hired by Bob Goman. You killed Benson. I
don't know who killed Benson. What would hired for? It
gets a diamond and Bob's got it in his apartment.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
I started working on you. No, no, don't don't axtra
tough Now who's got the diamond?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Harrigan? Look if you golly answers, what are you asking
me for? Vic? My boy, I'm amazed.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I've seen liars in my time, but I've never run
across anything like you.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
How can you do it?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
It's just straight face? Huh, here's a practice. Now, I'll
tell you the truth as you see.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Don't you hit me no more now Bob Gorman hired here,
that's the truth, all right, and he hided you to
get the diamond.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But you didn't find the diamond there. You found Benson dead.
I walked in there.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I'm telling you, I was never more surprised than my
life there was Benson in that chair.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I hired out to do a lot of things, but murder.
That's not for me.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
There ain't money enough in the world to make me
come ait murder. Slugging you do for good money, Bick.
I'm not interested in who killed Benson personally. I don't
think you know. I want to know where the diamond is.
I don't know I know where the diamond is. It
was gone when I got there. I thought you were
at it. That's why I slugged you very all right.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'm tired of a splitting a headache.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
That's your drink, No thanks, it really is, Larzi Berger.
Things were as dark as ever. Vic was no help.
I knew Bob hired him, but that was all I knew.
The next stop seemed to me to be Bob himself.
I called him and told him to come over.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
He was very accommodating. A half hour later, he was
tapping gently at my door. Allot, mister dollar in, don't
mind the dirty glass on the table there. I just
got through entertaining one of your employees.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
One of my employees, I believe he's had. His name
is Vic Vic Hasting.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I never heard of him on, Bob, you can be
yourself with me. Vic talked to me like your brother.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I never heard of it.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
You may not be conscious of it, Bob, but you're
in plenty of trouble. The police are looking for the diamond,
and they're sure whoever has the diamond killed mister Benson.
I'm just an insurance investigator. I have nothing to do
with the police department, all.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Right, mister Dollar. I did hire Vaccasey, and I sent
him after the dimon.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
He thought I had it. Yes.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
When he found out you didn't, he came back and
threatened me. He wanted money. I didn't have any, but
I told him I give him a cut when I
got it.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Is this a regular business of yours? Stealing diamonds?
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Look, mister Dollar, I didn't kill mister Bennett.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I didn't ask you that. I asked you about the diamond.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
I heard about the diamond when mister Benson bought it.
I had to have it. I wasn't going to sell it,
not then I just wanted it. I crashed a party
at the Benson house about four or five months ago.
I met Betty and I started the.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Dat that's as good a way as any for You've.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Got it wrong, mister Dollar. Sure, I wanted to get
at the diamonds. That's why I started taking Betty out.
But things are different. I love her, We want to
get married.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Very sweet.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Only you didn't hire e Vic to get the diamond
four or five months ago, Gorman. So I get that
pleading look out of your eyes. You don't do a
thing to me.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You're not going to the police. Put it down, Gorman.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Stay where you are, don't try to follow me, or
I'll blow your head off. It's a long Dolly.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Parnell speaking.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
This is Dollar, Lieutenant. Let us send out a cold
one on Bob Gorman.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
What you wanted for it?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And you can call it suspicion of murder. It's Spencer count.
I had him five one twenty taxi pair of the
Benson home. I found missus Benson.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
In a sad speed upstairs due to her husband's death
and her daughters in conservation.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Why must you pester me about a thing like this now,
mister dollar, haven't you any consideration?
Speaker 8 (25:31):
But it's a job soon as we get over this
hurdle a better Now. I know all about your relationship.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
And sorry, all of that has nothing to do with.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The case, perhaps nothing.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I know who plays my husband, and I know why,
and I know who has the diamonds who I can't
see that. I couldn't take it into a court of law.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Let me worry about that. But your idea, missus. Benson,
Bob Gorman, why do you think he did it?
Speaker 6 (25:52):
He has a violent temper. He hated George, hated him
like poison. George never wanted him to marry Betty.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Sorry, that motive doesn't click with me. And let me
tell you who killed your husband.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You and Carragan. You want to get rid of him.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You two are the only ones who knew the combinations
of the safe. You took the diamond and killed Benson,
and you planted the gun in Betty's.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Pursey, do you mean to suggest that I would try
to make my own daughter out to.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Be a murderer just but you hope the police would
think that if anybody were framing your daughter, it wouldn't
be you. You knew the police would clear Betty because
she was nowhere near the house when the murder occurred,
and you thought they'd assume that Bob Gorman planted the
gun in Betty's pursey. What a lot on, Missus Benson.
It's all out in the open. Now tell you where
you are, doughter Cara. I was expecting you.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
You're pretty good at this business of investigation, aren't you.
It's a shame to have to endu your brilliant career.
That's the way it goes here, today, gone tomorrow. You
aren't going to mess up Missus Benson's pretty bedroom, not
at all. We'll just go out the back way, open
the door door.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Glad to after you. He's all right, Missus Benson.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Come on, get up. Carragan, the lieutenant is waiting in
case you should ask, how did you know, mister Dollard,
that Carrigan and Missus Benson killed George Benson.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
The answer, I took a big guess.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
I told them my guess, and with the authority of
an Illinois judge, they swallowed it, and they confessed to
wind it all up.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
I might add the following. They got Bob Gorman. He's
being sent up along with Vic Hastings. His police record
makes VIX look like a bad report card, which means
Betty is going to have to look for a new boyfriend.
The insurance company has saved.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
A good deal of money. Everybody bad goes to the penitentiary.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Everybody good stays free, which proves that bluff is better
than logic this time anyway. Expense account item six, doctor
Bill and miscellany for my sore head, amounting to twenty
five dollars. Expense account total sixty five dollars and thirty
four cents.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That's pretty cheap. Yours Truly, Johnny Dowers.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role.
Is written by Gil Dowd and David Ella's with music
composed and conducted by Leith Stephens. Edmund O'Brien can soon
be seen in the Columbia Pictures production seven eleven Ocean Drive.
Featured in our cast this evening were Wally Meyer, Jane Webb,
(28:37):
Bill Johnstone, Virginia, Greg Stacy, Harris, Bill Bouchet, and Harry Bartel.
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by him
Del Vaie join us again next week at the same
time when from Hollywood, Edmund O'Brien returns. In another transcribed adventure.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Of yours Truly, Johnny dava.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Prime goes down for the count on Friday Night with
two of CBS's top thrillers. Broadway is My Beat and
up for Parole. Heard over most of these same CBS stictions,
The Gay White Way is the scene for many. An
exciting criminal chase with Danny Clover on Broadway is my beat.
The actual files of parole boards across America come the
stories of men and women who are up for parole.
(29:48):
For a thrill and a chill, Broadway is my beat
and up for parole.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Fill the bill. M hmmmm.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
This is CBS where you thrill to Gangbusters every Saturday night.
The Columbia Broadcasting Systems
Speaker 1 (30:15):
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