July 17, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rob Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Dollar, the insurance investigator that's working on the bar and
Hey's killing.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
That's right, who's this?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I got a few things to say about the shooting.
I can't say him to the police, but if you
leveled with me, maybe I can say him to you.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
All right, But I've got to be sure of you too.
Who are you? And how'd you find out about me?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
One of the papers mentioned that you'd come to New York.
I guess you've read about me too. And what they
call the chief suspect object of a widespread.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Search, Roy Corona. That's right?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Do you want to talk to me?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Sure? Roy? Anytime you say, I thought so.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm going to give the phone to a friend that's
with me. He'll tell you where to go and what
to do so he can pick you up.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of the Man with the
action packed expense accounts America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dalla to Home
Office Corinthian All Risk Insurance Company. The following is an
accounting of expenditures. During my investigation of the Byron Hayes
matter expense account I had have won twelve dollars transportation
from Hartford to New York.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
There wasn't much to be done that first day.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The police had their theory on who had killed Hayes,
and I hadn't had time to form mine. And then
that evening I received a phone call from a man
who called himself Roy Corona, the basis of the police theory.
Twenty minutes later, according to instructions, I was standing on
a Seventh Avenue street corner holding a copy of Life
magazine in front of my face so i'd be recognized.
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Hey you, Yeah, what's your name?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm your man? All right?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Come on, oh ay dollar?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
He didn't do anything I told you not to do
on the phone, did you? And he told you I
wouldn't do anything, didn't. A lot of people make a
lot of promises they don't keep maybe soon. Well, I
guess all I can do is either trust you, drive
fast enough and far enough to shake a tail if
I don't trust you, or you can drop me if
you don't want to go through with this. I didn't
ask to come. You know that's right, and I don't
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think you should have been asked. But it's Roy's neck,
not mine. I'll just pretend there's a tale on me
so I won't.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Get out of practice.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
The doorway next to the poultry store there, thanks for
the ride down on the ground floor, thicking door back. Hell,
Royal shot out here for a minute and then park
the car.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Sure tell on my being in a little while.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Yeah, yeah, Roy, Yeah, my uh friends stay outside.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, he said he was going to park the car.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I'm not so sure I did the right thing calling you,
but I guess they couldn't make things worse by doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I guess not Roy. They want you a real Band's
sure they do, cause I'm a natural.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Once you've been in prison, you are natural for anything.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
There's more to it than that, isn't he according to
the papers?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, but not really.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I didn't kill this Hayes guy.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't even know him.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The police don't seem to think that's important. They figure
that a guy who spends two years in a prison,
it was out to find this girl mixed up with
a lot of men.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It's gonna get me oot balance. Yeah, I guess that
part of It's true.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It did hit me pretty hard, but not hard enough
to make me kill anybody.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
They think it did. Hayes was one of the men.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You lost your girl too, so they figure you wouldn't
have to know him to kill him. That you were
waiting outside her apartment when Hayes came out you blasted him.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Sure, they get it all worked out. The anything wrong
with it is that it ain't true. They don't care
about that, but I do.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
If you can prove they're wrong, you got nothing to
worry about it.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
My proof that I was someplace else is a couple
of ex convicts like myself. Statements from guys like that
have broken down before they even make them.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Isn't that right? I guess they could be better alibi?
Why did you bring me here? Roy? Try out your
alibi on me? Or to tell me who killed Byron Hayes.
I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Killed him, but it would help if you believed that
the proof I was someplace else, it'd.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Stand up if you have something else to back it up.
Let's assume that I do believe it.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
It's something that police won't find.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And now Rita was blackmailing his How do you know that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I heard him right after I came out. When I
was having a bad time over Rita. I was in
the hallway one night and I saw him go into
her apartment. I listened at the door, and I heard him.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Talking about it. That would make it pretty careless, wouldn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Though it was him that was talking, so I could
hear it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
He told her he couldn't afford to pay her anymore,
but didn't have to stop.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It. Wouldn't do you any good to make this.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Up, roy, I know that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And if she was taken him, she must be taking
the others. A cop wouldn't get the truth out anybody,
but you might be able to check it if they'll
trust you.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
All right, I'll look into it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What about the police? You gonna tell him? And I
got it from you?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It either taught me to a cellar, lab me out
of town if I did. Unless you'd like to stick
around and back me up, huh, I don't think I will.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I gave it in.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
By the time my friend gets you back to your hotel,
I'll be out of here and hold up someplace else.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Sure, I thought you would.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The only reason the tip from the number one suspect
meant anything to me was at the date, no progress
at all had been made.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Rita Cobb outside of his door. Hayes had been killed.
Said she'd known him only casually, that he just dropped in.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Nobody else could be found who knew about the association,
and even the widow, Agnes Hayes said she.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Had never heard of Rita Cob.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
After I was dropped at the hotel, I decided to
try out a new lead on the widow.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
First.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
I've told the police everything I know, mister Dolla.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'm afraid it wasn't very much, Missus Hayes, and I
wondered if there might not be something you didn't tell
them because you didn't want to. What do you mean,
I'm not a policeman. There are no reporters around.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Everything you say to me will be kept in confidence.
Missus Hayes. Didn't you really know that your husband was
seeing Rita Cob.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
If I'd thought he was, do you think I wouldn't
have done something about it?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You didn't suspect anything.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
No, even now, I don't think he was seen as.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
You put it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Do you know why he would have dropped in to
see her? As she said he did?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
No I knew nothing about it. Oh please, mister Dollar,
you must understand that this has been very difficult for
me as far as I'm concerned. My my husband always
was a man above question, his friends, his business associates.
Everybody looked up to him. I looked up to him,
and now you and the others asked me to believe
that he knew this woman.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
She said as much. No, she was lying.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
There must be something else she's hiding. She's saying she
knew Byron to hide something else.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
She didn't know him.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
She's lying.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
We'll learn the truth, Missus Hayes. Someone told me that
Rita carb was blackmailing her husband.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
That's not true.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That he was heard saying he couldn't pay her any more.
It's not true.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Why should he pay her anything?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He didn't know it, all right, Missus Hayes. I only
wanted to tell you what somebody said. It's not true,
all right, Missus Hayes.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I thought a little more of Roy Corona's lead after
I got the widow's reaction. Nobody can deny so vehemently
and not be doubted. I wondered how the beautiful blonde
in the case would.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Take the bait Hello, Miss karn, Hello, I'd like to
talk to you.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Why I told you on the police everything I know?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Answered Missus Hayes told me just a little while ago.
I think i'd better come in.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, I have no right to do this, I suppose not.
But you have no right to hold back information from
the police either.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
I haven't held anything back.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I want to be sure of that. So far, the
police and I have been working completely blind. Nobody has
known anything. Hayes is shot to death right outside your apartment,
and nobody has the faintest idea.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Why do you think I'm enjoying it?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Do you think I like seeing my face plastered all
over the papers labeled the mystery woman. Don't you think
I'd like to see this guard up?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Would you like to see it come out that Hayes
was more than a casual acquaintance of yours.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
I met him once or twice, that's all. Why did
you say that?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
How many other casual acquaintances do you have?
Speaker 8 (09:15):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
What about a man named Donald Smith?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
How did you find out about him?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That's not the point.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
I refuse to have the names of my friends dragged
into this. It wouldn't do any good, wouldn't do anything
but hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Donald Smith is about the same kind of man. Hayes
was married, past middle age, good sized bank account.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Don't drag him into this, please.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
How about your friend Earl Fisher, married past middle age,
good sized bank account.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
What did you learn about him?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I've learned about two or three more of the man.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
The police know not yet. You got to tell them.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I may have to.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
I wish you wouldn't. I didn't mention them because I
didn't think there was any reason to. None of them
had anything to do with Byron.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
How did you know that? Did?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Could none of them move about him?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Because he was such a casual friend.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
No. I lied about that, but not to hide anything.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
From the police.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And why I don't know.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
I was afraid to tell about him.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I can see why a lot of things that aren't
being told about this, But it'll come out if everybody
in town has to be dragged into it. I'll think
that over readA in case you feel like coming clean.
She didn't feel like saying any more to me anyway.
At about ten PM when I left her, my first
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stop was a phone booth a half block away from
her apartment building. I dialed a number and got what
I'd expected, a busy segment. There was nothing definite, but
I would mistaked my expense account total on the hunch
that she was warning somebody to bear me out. The
phone was ringing in my hotel room when I got
(11:03):
Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
This is Little Fisher, mister dollar, Earl Fisher.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yes, you mentioned my name to beat a car a
short time ago. Eh, I had a feeling I should
have talked to someone before this, That's right, should I
hope you can understand, however, my feelings. I naturally didn't
want my name to enter this public Naturally I have
a great deal to consider a family reputation.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yes, yes, Aster Fisher, but.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I feel that I have to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Did you tell rider car that you were going to hardly?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Did she threaten me with dire consequences if I did?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
All right, mister Fisher, where can we get together?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'd have to know that I could count on your confidence,
at least temporarily.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I think you can count ann Could you meet me
this evening?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Where do you know Ricky's Club on Lexington near Eighties?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I can find it.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Then, Shall I see you there? In thirty minutes? The
bartender will point me out to you.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'll be there, mister Fisher, thanks for calling. That was
the first real result of the lead given to me
by Roy Corona. The second was quick to follow. I
would have done another bed that a warning by Rita
Cob had decided somebody else to correct the.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Situation in another way. It happened when I left the
lobby and called for a cab.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Hey, the shots came from a car double part. First
I saw the pistol come out of the window. Then
I dropped him from a prone position. I heard the rest,
and I remember lying there. I didn't wonder so much
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about who was shooting at me. Then I wondered how
many people in the city of Greater New York wanted
to see me and my information out of the way.
(13:11):
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Speaker 3 (13:45):
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Speaker 1 (13:45):
With our star Rip O'Brien, we return you to the
second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. I didn't want
to talk to the police right then, but I didn't
have a chance not to. A patrolman was on the
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scene almost before I could get up off the sidewalk.
Twenty five minutes later, I was in my room with
the sergeant of detectives i'd met earlier in.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
The case What's going on? Dollar, who's out?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Afty? I think I was mistaken for somebody else. Now
you know better than that.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I've got witnesses that for ten minutes the car was
still parked in front of this hotel, and that time
four or five men came out of that lobby. But
a minute you step out, they opened fire. That doesn't
sound like a mistake, does it?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Still could be?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Are you holding out anything?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Dollar? I don't know who shot at me. That's what
you mean.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
That's the only part of what I mean. I don't
want anybody killed. Working on one of my cases.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I want to get dug up.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
If you don't give it to me, I'm going to
put you under wraps for your own gut.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Okay, mayor oh, then you do have something well.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I didn't think much of it at first. Was a
lead on Ritak what kind of belief on what might
really have gone on between her and Hayes.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
And where to come from?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I took it to the word so first, she still
denied knowing her husband was acquainted with a cobwoman. But
she may have realized that by admitting it, she'd be
giving herself a motive that's not new, No, but the
possibility of blackmail is.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And she could have known about that too.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Blackmail.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Where'd that come from? I can't tell you, but I
think it's worth something.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I have a list of names men who might be
on the same spot that Hayes was.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Got it written down, yeah right here, wait to get this.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Dollar, names, addresses and occupations.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Sorry, I can't tell you that you're going to refuse
to answer police question, just that one. I'm not trying
to hike a case ejud Middleton or trying to be
hard to get along with.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
But you've got to understand you.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Must have given your word to an informer somewhere along
the line.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
All right to let it pass for now.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Thanks, And I guess you understand too that you are
probably holding the names of some potential suicides if you
break this publicly right now?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
What about a potential killer? Do these men know you're
onto them?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'm not sure how many. I tossed a couple of
names of Rita generalized the rest. Then one of them
phoned me when I was leaving the hotel.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I was on my way to meet him.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Probably baited you out onto the side.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It could be. I couldn't tell where he was phoning from,
maybe right downstairs.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Which one was he?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
This one?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Earl Fisher, married family fairly big gun on.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
The stock exchange, would have enough to make.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
A try on you.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
No proof that he fired the shots, but I'd pick
up Rita Cobb as a material witness or something. Somebody
might think of putting.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Her out of the way if they haven't.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Already, No, not if they know you have their names.
Trying to get you right, But I'll pick her up anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Let me get on the phone. Just try it. Chick
on Earl Fishing. I called the bar where Fisher said
he'd meet me.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
The answer I got didn't do much to alibio for
the attempt on my life. The bartender told me that
Fisher not only hadn't been there that night, but that
he the bartender, had never heard of them. While Sergeant
Middleton went out to pick up Rita cob, I hopped
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the cab went.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Back to the Hayes address to try their widow again.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
M Is it a necessary, mister Donna? I'm so distarughted.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm afraid it is necessary, Missus Hayes. A number of
things have happened since I left you very well.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
I hope you won't stay long.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I'm trying not to.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Would you like to sit down?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I think all right?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Come in here.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
I hope you will forgive for the appearance of the
apartment I haven't had.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
The servantine might have been better for your hand rather
than staying here alone.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
I couldn't. I couldn't face her. I don't know how
I'll be able to face anybody ever.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
We've been not what you.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Call prominent people, but certainly quite acceptable. Then have Byron
killed in that sordid place under these circumstances?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
What circumstances, missus Hayes, girl.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
No one will ever really believe that Baron didn't know
and no matter what the truth is.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I think you know what the truth is, but you've
had reason to deny it. Now what reason? What are
you trying to save? Save?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
What is there to save? Now?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I can't think of anything except what's left of your pride,
Missus Hayes, If you'll excuse my saying.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
So, you're a cruel young man.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I don't like to be, but sometimes it's worse to
be too kind.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You've taken advantage of the police and me by holding
back the truth of purely selfish reasons. Mister Dollar, you're
less interested in seeing your husband's death cleared up than
you are and what your neighbors will.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Think of you when the truth does come out, And
it has.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Come out, mister Dollar, and you're in danger of having
to answer impeding the investigation of the death of your
own husband.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Now, what will your neighbors think of that?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Mister Dollar?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
What are you saying?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
What do you mean to carp admitted to me that
your husband was more than a casual friend. She's like
another acceptable husband. Admitted to me that she was blackmailing him.
There are others, so it's only logical to assume that
she was blackmailing her husband.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
That's not true.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
How do you know it can't be true.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The state was spent a year looking into mister Hayes's
money transactions.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
They have to and there's something else. I'm convinced that
you knew about it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I was convinced by the way you reacted when I
told you earlier tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I'm so confused.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I told the police how you acted. Their first thought
was that possibly you'd kill your husband. Your motive would
be that you knew about Rida Cob, so naturally you
wouldn't want to admit it.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Don't that they can't my own husband, no matter what
he did.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Police minds go that way when people don't cooperate with him.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
I was wrong.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I thought it didn't make any difference. I thought nothing did.
But Byron's death.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You knew about this carb, didn't you, miss Cobb?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Yes, I knew about that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why didn't you tell us?
Speaker 7 (19:54):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And you knew about the blackmail?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Yes? Oh, I know why I I didn't tell you.
I I've been trying to spare myself, as you said,
but for far worse reasons. I'm responsible for Byron's.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Death, how missus as because.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
I was a righteous wife. It wasn't enough that I
found out about her and her blackmail. But I wasn't
big enough to forgive him or even think calmly. If
I had been, it would have ended.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Then there would have been no reason to consent a blackmail.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You learned just recently.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Then, Yes, I made.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Him go to this woman. I made him going tell
her that he was through and that he was going
to report her to the police. That's why he was killed.
I sent him, and I was afraid to admit my responsibility.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
He was killed night before last. You must have learned
that day.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
A man came here. He said, Byron knew that woman.
I didn't believe him. But when I faced Byron, im
you this man?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Did he give you his name?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What did he look like? Was he dark? Quite as
tall as I am?
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Yes, at least go.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I've told you.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I've told you. No, I want you to go. I
and took with me one more piece of the puzzle
that looked like it was ready to fall into place.
The man I had described to her was my original informant,
Roy Corona, and now.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's a serious dollar.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
You shouldn't have met with Roy Corona without telling us
about it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I don't think your best squad car could have telled
the guy that drove me sergeant. After I met him
me he moved someplace else, So it probably doesn't make
any difference. And when do you think his game the
way I said he was in love with Rita Cobb.
Two years in prison, he comes out and finds her
involved with these men. He did enough listening at doors
to satisfy himself that she was blackmailing Hades.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
As far as I can go, he's hoping to frame
her for it or whether he talking.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Well, you shouldn't have met him.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
My door was coming up.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Yeah, did you bring me down here for your witness?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
But it looks like you and what's downstairs?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It's some fast explaining reader And Hayes, I told you
for blackmailing hay I found that out.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
If it wasn't blackmail, I borrowed some money from Byron
once in a while.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
That isn't what Roy Corona told missus.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Hayes, Oh, I should have known. Well, I don't care
what he told her.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Go through.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Just what happened the other night again it's the same
as before.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Byron left.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I heard some shots and ran out. Byron was lying there.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
You ran right out, didn't say anybody.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You're sure you didn't see anybody.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
If I had. Don't you think I'd say so?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You didn't see Roy Corona.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
I wish I had, But I don't care what you've
got on you. I'm not changing my story. I heard
the shots, ran out and Byron was lying there.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Have you seen a lawyer?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Is there a long inser?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Are you sure you didn't run out first, then hear
the shots and then see him lying there?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Are you asking me if I killed him?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
If you didn't, who did.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
I heard the shots, ran out and he was lying there.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
We figured how to motive for you. Now.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Byron's wife got after him, made him come down and
tell you he was going to turn you in.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Didn't he say that? Turn me for what?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Byron and I are good friend. He dropped in, So
you proved that's.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
What he said.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
We've got pretty good proof that you were blackmailing five
men at least.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Oh, I don't think you'll find anybody who'll say that's
what it was.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, you had enough dollar. I had had a note.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I am gonna see her charge with murder tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He was certainly got it here.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's the way things stood that night and until my
hotel room phone rang in the morning. Ah, Johnny Dollar Dollar,
this is Roy Corona.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, what are your warring?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I read in the morning paper they're charging reader with murder.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
She didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I did. Why are you talking? Ile's the matter with it?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Nothing's the matter with me.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Only she didn't kill him. I did.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I shouldn't have it.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
When I found out she was seeing him and she
wouldn't see me, I went crazy. I saw him come
out of her apartment and I killed him. I want
you to come in.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Nobody has to come and get you, Roy, nobody's interested
in you. If you want to make a statement, look
up Sergeant Middleton and make one.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I can't do it that way. Look I'm where you
first met me. Bring the sergeant and come out after me,
and do it fast before I change my mind.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Hello. Hello.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
After working half a night, that Sergeant Middleton even more
than it did me, But it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Was something that we thought we should look into.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
About forty five minutes later, we were knocking on the
door of the dingy.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Room next to the poetry shop. Who's that dollar? That's right, Roy,
it came too late.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I told you I might change my mind.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Well I have. Oh come on, Roy, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh I kill him if there's no chance of working
out my life with Rita.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You might just look, Roy, everything is okay. I'll let
him happ.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Roy Corona made a good try as well. He might have,
since he went to missus Hayes and started the whole thing.
But his shots went wild, and the sergeant's mind it too.
When we dragged him out, he was still telling the
same story. He didn't stop trying to save her until
he heard about the confession made by Rita Cobb after
I'd left her, about her motive, and about the murder
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gun that turned up in her apartment find and closed.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
His reaction to that.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I'm sorry I started it. I wanted to get her
away from these men. Thought I could scare her away
from the things she was doing. That's why I went
to Hayes's wife.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I never thought it would lead to this, and I'd
take the rap.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
For Rita if I could. I wanted to get her
to come back to me.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Now, look, expense account Item two one hundred and forty
dollars miscellaneous expenses in New York item free same as
Item one. Transportation back to Hartford expense account total one
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hundred eighty dollars and eighty cents. Remarks Earl Fisher, the
man suspected of shooting at me, was brought in for
questioning because there was no.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Proof he survived at but I felt sorry for him.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I saw his wife, and what lay ahead for him
at her hands was obvious. He was a condemned man.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yours Julie Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It stars Admiral O'Brien in the title role and is
written by Gildad with music by Wilbur Hatch. Edmitd O'Brien's
latest picture is the Paramount Pictures production The.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Redhead and the Cowboy.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Featured in tonight's cast were Jim Knusser, Lee Patrick gene Bates,
Ed Begley and Jack Moyles. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is
produced and directed by him del Vaie. This is Dick
cutting and finding you to join us next week at
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Speaker 3 (29:21):
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Speaker 1 (29:38):
The Columbia Broadcasting System
Rob Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Dollar, the insurance investigator that's working on the bar and
Hey's killing.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
That's right, who's this?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I got a few things to say about the shooting.
I can't say him to the police, but if you
leveled with me, maybe I can say him to you.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
All right, But I've got to be sure of you too.
Who are you? And how'd you find out about me?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
One of the papers mentioned that you'd come to New York.
I guess you've read about me too. And what they
call the chief suspect object of a widespread.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Search, Roy Corona. That's right?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Do you want to talk to me?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Sure? Roy? Anytime you say, I thought so.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm going to give the phone to a friend that's
with me. He'll tell you where to go and what
to do so he can pick you up.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of the Man with the
action packed expense accounts America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dalla to Home
Office Corinthian All Risk Insurance Company. The following is an
accounting of expenditures. During my investigation of the Byron Hayes
matter expense account I had have won twelve dollars transportation
from Hartford to New York.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
There wasn't much to be done that first day.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The police had their theory on who had killed Hayes,
and I hadn't had time to form mine. And then
that evening I received a phone call from a man
who called himself Roy Corona, the basis of the police theory.
Twenty minutes later, according to instructions, I was standing on
a Seventh Avenue street corner holding a copy of Life
magazine in front of my face so i'd be recognized.
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Hey you, Yeah, what's your name?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm your man? All right?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Come on, oh ay dollar?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
He didn't do anything I told you not to do
on the phone, did you? And he told you I
wouldn't do anything, didn't. A lot of people make a
lot of promises they don't keep maybe soon. Well, I
guess all I can do is either trust you, drive
fast enough and far enough to shake a tail if
I don't trust you, or you can drop me if
you don't want to go through with this. I didn't
ask to come. You know that's right, and I don't
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think you should have been asked. But it's Roy's neck,
not mine. I'll just pretend there's a tale on me
so I won't.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Get out of practice.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
The doorway next to the poultry store there, thanks for
the ride down on the ground floor, thicking door back. Hell,
Royal shot out here for a minute and then park
the car.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Sure tell on my being in a little while.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Yeah, yeah, Roy, Yeah, my uh friends stay outside.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, he said he was going to park the car.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I'm not so sure I did the right thing calling you,
but I guess they couldn't make things worse by doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I guess not Roy. They want you a real Band's
sure they do, cause I'm a natural.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Once you've been in prison, you are natural for anything.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
There's more to it than that, isn't he according to
the papers?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, but not really.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I didn't kill this Hayes guy.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't even know him.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
The police don't seem to think that's important. They figure
that a guy who spends two years in a prison,
it was out to find this girl mixed up with
a lot of men.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It's gonna get me oot balance. Yeah, I guess that
part of It's true.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It did hit me pretty hard, but not hard enough
to make me kill anybody.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
They think it did. Hayes was one of the men.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You lost your girl too, so they figure you wouldn't
have to know him to kill him. That you were
waiting outside her apartment when Hayes came out you blasted him.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Sure, they get it all worked out. The anything wrong
with it is that it ain't true. They don't care
about that, but I do.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
If you can prove they're wrong, you got nothing to
worry about it.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
My proof that I was someplace else is a couple
of ex convicts like myself. Statements from guys like that
have broken down before they even make them.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Isn't that right? I guess they could be better alibi?
Why did you bring me here? Roy? Try out your
alibi on me? Or to tell me who killed Byron Hayes.
I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Killed him, but it would help if you believed that
the proof I was someplace else, it'd.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Stand up if you have something else to back it up.
Let's assume that I do believe it.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
It's something that police won't find.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And now Rita was blackmailing his How do you know that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I heard him right after I came out. When I
was having a bad time over Rita. I was in
the hallway one night and I saw him go into
her apartment. I listened at the door, and I heard him.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Talking about it. That would make it pretty careless, wouldn't it.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Though it was him that was talking, so I could
hear it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
He told her he couldn't afford to pay her anymore,
but didn't have to stop.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It. Wouldn't do you any good to make this.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Up, roy, I know that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And if she was taken him, she must be taking
the others. A cop wouldn't get the truth out anybody,
but you might be able to check it if they'll
trust you.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
All right, I'll look into it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What about the police? You gonna tell him? And I
got it from you?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It either taught me to a cellar, lab me out
of town if I did. Unless you'd like to stick
around and back me up, huh, I don't think I will.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I gave it in.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
By the time my friend gets you back to your hotel,
I'll be out of here and hold up someplace else.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Sure, I thought you would.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The only reason the tip from the number one suspect
meant anything to me was at the date, no progress
at all had been made.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Rita Cobb outside of his door. Hayes had been killed.
Said she'd known him only casually, that he just dropped in.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Nobody else could be found who knew about the association,
and even the widow, Agnes Hayes said she.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Had never heard of Rita Cob.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
After I was dropped at the hotel, I decided to
try out a new lead on the widow.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
First.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
I've told the police everything I know, mister Dolla.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'm afraid it wasn't very much, Missus Hayes, and I
wondered if there might not be something you didn't tell
them because you didn't want to. What do you mean,
I'm not a policeman. There are no reporters around.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Everything you say to me will be kept in confidence.
Missus Hayes. Didn't you really know that your husband was
seeing Rita Cob.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
If I'd thought he was, do you think I wouldn't
have done something about it?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You didn't suspect anything.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
No, even now, I don't think he was seen as.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
You put it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Do you know why he would have dropped in to
see her? As she said he did?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
No I knew nothing about it. Oh please, mister Dollar,
you must understand that this has been very difficult for
me as far as I'm concerned. My my husband always
was a man above question, his friends, his business associates.
Everybody looked up to him. I looked up to him,
and now you and the others asked me to believe
that he knew this woman.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
She said as much. No, she was lying.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
There must be something else she's hiding. She's saying she
knew Byron to hide something else.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
She didn't know him.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
She's lying.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
We'll learn the truth, Missus Hayes. Someone told me that
Rita carb was blackmailing her husband.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
That's not true.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That he was heard saying he couldn't pay her any more.
It's not true.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Why should he pay her anything?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He didn't know it, all right, Missus Hayes. I only
wanted to tell you what somebody said. It's not true,
all right, Missus Hayes.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I thought a little more of Roy Corona's lead after
I got the widow's reaction. Nobody can deny so vehemently
and not be doubted. I wondered how the beautiful blonde
in the case would.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Take the bait Hello, Miss karn, Hello, I'd like to
talk to you.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Why I told you on the police everything I know?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Answered Missus Hayes told me just a little while ago.
I think i'd better come in.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, I have no right to do this, I suppose not.
But you have no right to hold back information from
the police either.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
I haven't held anything back.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I want to be sure of that. So far, the
police and I have been working completely blind. Nobody has
known anything. Hayes is shot to death right outside your apartment,
and nobody has the faintest idea.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Why do you think I'm enjoying it?
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Do you think I like seeing my face plastered all
over the papers labeled the mystery woman. Don't you think
I'd like to see this guard up?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Would you like to see it come out that Hayes
was more than a casual acquaintance of yours.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
I met him once or twice, that's all. Why did
you say that?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
How many other casual acquaintances do you have?
Speaker 8 (09:15):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
What about a man named Donald Smith?
Speaker 8 (09:18):
How did you find out about him?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That's not the point.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
I refuse to have the names of my friends dragged
into this. It wouldn't do any good, wouldn't do anything
but hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Donald Smith is about the same kind of man. Hayes
was married, past middle age, good sized bank account.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Don't drag him into this, please.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
How about your friend Earl Fisher, married past middle age,
good sized bank account.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
What did you learn about him?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I've learned about two or three more of the man.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
The police know not yet. You got to tell them.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I may have to.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
I wish you wouldn't. I didn't mention them because I
didn't think there was any reason to. None of them
had anything to do with Byron.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
How did you know that? Did?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Could none of them move about him?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Because he was such a casual friend.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
No. I lied about that, but not to hide anything.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
From the police.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And why I don't know.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
I was afraid to tell about him.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I can see why a lot of things that aren't
being told about this, But it'll come out if everybody
in town has to be dragged into it. I'll think
that over readA in case you feel like coming clean.
She didn't feel like saying any more to me anyway.
At about ten PM when I left her, my first
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stop was a phone booth a half block away from
her apartment building. I dialed a number and got what
I'd expected, a busy segment. There was nothing definite, but
I would mistaked my expense account total on the hunch
that she was warning somebody to bear me out. The
phone was ringing in my hotel room when I got
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Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
This is Little Fisher, mister dollar, Earl Fisher.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yes, you mentioned my name to beat a car a
short time ago. Eh, I had a feeling I should
have talked to someone before this, That's right, should I
hope you can understand, however, my feelings. I naturally didn't
want my name to enter this public Naturally I have
a great deal to consider a family reputation.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yes, yes, Aster Fisher, but.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I feel that I have to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Did you tell rider car that you were going to hardly?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Did she threaten me with dire consequences if I did?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
All right, mister Fisher, where can we get together?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'd have to know that I could count on your confidence,
at least temporarily.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I think you can count ann Could you meet me
this evening?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Where do you know Ricky's Club on Lexington near Eighties?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I can find it.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Then, Shall I see you there? In thirty minutes? The
bartender will point me out to you.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'll be there, mister Fisher, thanks for calling. That was
the first real result of the lead given to me
by Roy Corona. The second was quick to follow. I
would have done another bed that a warning by Rita
Cob had decided somebody else to correct the.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Situation in another way. It happened when I left the
lobby and called for a cab.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Hey, the shots came from a car double part. First
I saw the pistol come out of the window. Then
I dropped him from a prone position. I heard the rest,
and I remember lying there. I didn't wonder so much
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about who was shooting at me. Then I wondered how
many people in the city of Greater New York wanted
to see me and my information out of the way.
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Speaker 3 (13:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
With our star Rip O'Brien, we return you to the
second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. I didn't want
to talk to the police right then, but I didn't
have a chance not to. A patrolman was on the
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scene almost before I could get up off the sidewalk.
Twenty five minutes later, I was in my room with
the sergeant of detectives i'd met earlier in.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
The case What's going on? Dollar, who's out?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Afty? I think I was mistaken for somebody else. Now
you know better than that.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I've got witnesses that for ten minutes the car was
still parked in front of this hotel, and that time
four or five men came out of that lobby. But
a minute you step out, they opened fire. That doesn't
sound like a mistake, does it?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Still could be?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Are you holding out anything?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Dollar? I don't know who shot at me. That's what
you mean.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
That's the only part of what I mean. I don't
want anybody killed. Working on one of my cases.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I want to get dug up.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
If you don't give it to me, I'm going to
put you under wraps for your own gut.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Okay, mayor oh, then you do have something well.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I didn't think much of it at first. Was a
lead on Ritak what kind of belief on what might
really have gone on between her and Hayes.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
And where to come from?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I took it to the word so first, she still
denied knowing her husband was acquainted with a cobwoman. But
she may have realized that by admitting it, she'd be
giving herself a motive that's not new, No, but the
possibility of blackmail is.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And she could have known about that too.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Blackmail.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Where'd that come from? I can't tell you, but I
think it's worth something.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I have a list of names men who might be
on the same spot that Hayes was.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Got it written down, yeah right here, wait to get this.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Dollar, names, addresses and occupations.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Sorry, I can't tell you that you're going to refuse
to answer police question, just that one. I'm not trying
to hike a case ejud Middleton or trying to be
hard to get along with.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
But you've got to understand you.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Must have given your word to an informer somewhere along
the line.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
All right to let it pass for now.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Thanks, And I guess you understand too that you are
probably holding the names of some potential suicides if you
break this publicly right now?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
What about a potential killer? Do these men know you're
onto them?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'm not sure how many. I tossed a couple of
names of Rita generalized the rest. Then one of them
phoned me when I was leaving the hotel.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I was on my way to meet him.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Probably baited you out onto the side.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It could be. I couldn't tell where he was phoning from,
maybe right downstairs.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Which one was he?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
This one?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Earl Fisher, married family fairly big gun on.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
The stock exchange, would have enough to make.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
A try on you.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
No proof that he fired the shots, but I'd pick
up Rita Cobb as a material witness or something. Somebody
might think of putting.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Her out of the way if they haven't.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Already, No, not if they know you have their names.
Trying to get you right, But I'll pick her up anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Let me get on the phone. Just try it. Chick
on Earl Fishing. I called the bar where Fisher said
he'd meet me.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
The answer I got didn't do much to alibio for
the attempt on my life. The bartender told me that
Fisher not only hadn't been there that night, but that
he the bartender, had never heard of them. While Sergeant
Middleton went out to pick up Rita cob, I hopped
(17:09):
the cab went.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Back to the Hayes address to try their widow again.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
M Is it a necessary, mister Donna? I'm so distarughted.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm afraid it is necessary, Missus Hayes. A number of
things have happened since I left you very well.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
I hope you won't stay long.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I'm trying not to.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Would you like to sit down?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I think all right?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Come in here.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
I hope you will forgive for the appearance of the
apartment I haven't had.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
The servantine might have been better for your hand rather
than staying here alone.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
I couldn't. I couldn't face her. I don't know how
I'll be able to face anybody ever.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
We've been not what you.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Call prominent people, but certainly quite acceptable. Then have Byron
killed in that sordid place under these circumstances?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
What circumstances, missus Hayes, girl.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
No one will ever really believe that Baron didn't know
and no matter what the truth is.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I think you know what the truth is, but you've
had reason to deny it. Now what reason? What are
you trying to save? Save?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
What is there to save? Now?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I can't think of anything except what's left of your pride,
Missus Hayes, If you'll excuse my saying.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
So, you're a cruel young man.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I don't like to be, but sometimes it's worse to
be too kind.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You've taken advantage of the police and me by holding
back the truth of purely selfish reasons. Mister Dollar, you're
less interested in seeing your husband's death cleared up than
you are and what your neighbors will.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Think of you when the truth does come out, And
it has.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Come out, mister Dollar, and you're in danger of having
to answer impeding the investigation of the death of your
own husband.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Now, what will your neighbors think of that?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Mister Dollar?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
What are you saying?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
What do you mean to carp admitted to me that
your husband was more than a casual friend. She's like
another acceptable husband. Admitted to me that she was blackmailing him.
There are others, so it's only logical to assume that
she was blackmailing her husband.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
That's not true.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
How do you know it can't be true.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The state was spent a year looking into mister Hayes's
money transactions.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
They have to and there's something else. I'm convinced that
you knew about it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I was convinced by the way you reacted when I
told you earlier tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I'm so confused.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I told the police how you acted. Their first thought
was that possibly you'd kill your husband. Your motive would
be that you knew about Rida Cob, so naturally you
wouldn't want to admit it.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Don't that they can't my own husband, no matter what
he did.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Police minds go that way when people don't cooperate with him.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
I was wrong.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I thought it didn't make any difference. I thought nothing did.
But Byron's death.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You knew about this carb, didn't you, miss Cobb?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Yes, I knew about that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why didn't you tell us?
Speaker 7 (19:54):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And you knew about the blackmail?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Yes? Oh, I know why I I didn't tell you.
I I've been trying to spare myself, as you said,
but for far worse reasons. I'm responsible for Byron's.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Death, how missus as because.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
I was a righteous wife. It wasn't enough that I
found out about her and her blackmail. But I wasn't
big enough to forgive him or even think calmly. If
I had been, it would have ended.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Then there would have been no reason to consent a blackmail.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You learned just recently.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Then, Yes, I made.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Him go to this woman. I made him going tell
her that he was through and that he was going
to report her to the police. That's why he was killed.
I sent him, and I was afraid to admit my responsibility.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
He was killed night before last. You must have learned
that day.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
A man came here. He said, Byron knew that woman.
I didn't believe him. But when I faced Byron, im
you this man?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Did he give you his name?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What did he look like? Was he dark? Quite as
tall as I am?
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Yes, at least go.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I've told you.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I've told you. No, I want you to go. I
and took with me one more piece of the puzzle
that looked like it was ready to fall into place.
The man I had described to her was my original informant,
Roy Corona, and now.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's a serious dollar.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
You shouldn't have met with Roy Corona without telling us
about it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I don't think your best squad car could have telled
the guy that drove me sergeant. After I met him
me he moved someplace else, So it probably doesn't make
any difference. And when do you think his game the
way I said he was in love with Rita Cobb.
Two years in prison, he comes out and finds her
involved with these men. He did enough listening at doors
to satisfy himself that she was blackmailing Hades.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
As far as I can go, he's hoping to frame
her for it or whether he talking.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Well, you shouldn't have met him.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
My door was coming up.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Yeah, did you bring me down here for your witness?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
But it looks like you and what's downstairs?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It's some fast explaining reader And Hayes, I told you
for blackmailing hay I found that out.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
If it wasn't blackmail, I borrowed some money from Byron
once in a while.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
That isn't what Roy Corona told missus.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Hayes, Oh, I should have known. Well, I don't care
what he told her.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Go through.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Just what happened the other night again it's the same
as before.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Byron left.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I heard some shots and ran out. Byron was lying there.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
You ran right out, didn't say anybody.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You're sure you didn't see anybody.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
If I had. Don't you think I'd say so?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You didn't see Roy Corona.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
I wish I had, But I don't care what you've
got on you. I'm not changing my story. I heard
the shots, ran out and Byron was lying there.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Have you seen a lawyer?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Is there a long inser?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Are you sure you didn't run out first, then hear
the shots and then see him lying there?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Are you asking me if I killed him?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
If you didn't, who did.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
I heard the shots, ran out and he was lying there.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
We figured how to motive for you. Now.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Byron's wife got after him, made him come down and
tell you he was going to turn you in.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Didn't he say that? Turn me for what?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Byron and I are good friend. He dropped in, So
you proved that's.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
What he said.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
We've got pretty good proof that you were blackmailing five
men at least.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Oh, I don't think you'll find anybody who'll say that's
what it was.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, you had enough dollar. I had had a note.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I am gonna see her charge with murder tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He was certainly got it here.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's the way things stood that night and until my
hotel room phone rang in the morning. Ah, Johnny Dollar Dollar,
this is Roy Corona.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, what are your warring?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I read in the morning paper they're charging reader with murder.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
She didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I did. Why are you talking? Ile's the matter with it?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Nothing's the matter with me.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Only she didn't kill him. I did.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I shouldn't have it.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
When I found out she was seeing him and she
wouldn't see me, I went crazy. I saw him come
out of her apartment and I killed him. I want
you to come in.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Nobody has to come and get you, Roy, nobody's interested
in you. If you want to make a statement, look
up Sergeant Middleton and make one.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I can't do it that way. Look I'm where you
first met me. Bring the sergeant and come out after me,
and do it fast before I change my mind.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Hello. Hello.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
After working half a night, that Sergeant Middleton even more
than it did me, But it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Was something that we thought we should look into.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
About forty five minutes later, we were knocking on the
door of the dingy.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Room next to the poetry shop. Who's that dollar? That's right, Roy,
it came too late.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I told you I might change my mind.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Well I have. Oh come on, Roy, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh I kill him if there's no chance of working
out my life with Rita.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You might just look, Roy, everything is okay. I'll let
him happ.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Roy Corona made a good try as well. He might have,
since he went to missus Hayes and started the whole thing.
But his shots went wild, and the sergeant's mind it too.
When we dragged him out, he was still telling the
same story. He didn't stop trying to save her until
he heard about the confession made by Rita Cobb after
I'd left her, about her motive, and about the murder
(26:30):
gun that turned up in her apartment find and closed.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
His reaction to that.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I'm sorry I started it. I wanted to get her
away from these men. Thought I could scare her away
from the things she was doing. That's why I went
to Hayes's wife.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I never thought it would lead to this, and I'd
take the rap.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
For Rita if I could. I wanted to get her
to come back to me.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Now, look, expense account Item two one hundred and forty
dollars miscellaneous expenses in New York item free same as
Item one. Transportation back to Hartford expense account total one
(27:20):
hundred eighty dollars and eighty cents. Remarks Earl Fisher, the
man suspected of shooting at me, was brought in for
questioning because there was no.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Proof he survived at but I felt sorry for him.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I saw his wife, and what lay ahead for him
at her hands was obvious. He was a condemned man.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yours Julie Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
It stars Admiral O'Brien in the title role and is
written by Gildad with music by Wilbur Hatch. Edmitd O'Brien's
latest picture is the Paramount Pictures production The.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Redhead and the Cowboy.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Featured in tonight's cast were Jim Knusser, Lee Patrick gene Bates,
Ed Begley and Jack Moyles. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is
produced and directed by him del Vaie. This is Dick
cutting and finding you to join us next week at
this time when edmitd O'Brien returns as Yours Truly Johnny Dalla.
(28:43):
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