October 21, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
As Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
You're the man who was sent hit by the body company,
aren't you?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, that's right. Who's this?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
My name is Shae pat Shade. I'm private detective working
on the case for the bank.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I didn't know they'd hired one too.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
They called me every once in a while, tracing phonies mostly.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Is there any chance that you know the missing messaging?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
I know, Lewis.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I hadn't tagged as a clean, honest kid, I still.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Have What do you think happened? Then?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I'm afraid he was either slashed or killed or both.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
But that's just my opinion.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I wondered if you'd make to get together and compare notes.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
I don't have any notes yet, but I'll be glad
to pick up your brain, take up your what I
don't have any notes yet, but I'll be glad to
pick your brain any place you say.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of the Man with the
action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Let's go that.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yeah, you mean, I'm screaming.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They would.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
From Hollywood It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Johnny Dollar, the man who was sent here by the
bonding company.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, that's right. Who's this.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
My name is Shade, Pat Shade. I'm a private detective
working on the cakes for the bank. Fine.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I didn't know they died one too.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
They called me every once in a while, tracing phonies mostly.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Is there any chance that you know the missing messages? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I know Lewis. I had him tagged as a clean,
honest kid, and I.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Still have What do you think happened? Then?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I'm a friend he was either snatch that killed or both.
But that's just my opinion. I wondered if you'd like
to get together and compare notes.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I don't have any notes yet, but I'll be glad
to pick your brain any place, you say.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Edmund O'Brien. In another adventure of the Man with the
action packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Was truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accunts admitted by special Investigator
Johnny Dolla to home of Great Northern Bonding and Surty Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
(02:47):
of the Lillis bond matter expense account AUDAM one sixty
expense account ADAM one sixty two dollars and eighty cents
af air incidentals between Hartford and Chicago. A phone calls
after checking into a hotel bore out the details given
me when I was assigned the case. Henry Lellis, the
messenger led a Golden State Bank at ten thirty am.
(03:09):
He was carrying eighty thousand dollars in cash, and his
destination was only a few blocks north on the Sound Street.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
He never arrived there.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
At five that evening, in a barn in my hotel,
I met the private detective working the case for the bank.
Pat Shade, was a puffy Florid man with past fifty
beginning to show in his watery blue eyes.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I've been in the business for a long time, more
years than I like to think. Left the police force
and opened my own office in nineteen thirty one when
Chicago was still a roorse town of the country. Not
exactly overdone right now is quieter down a lot, Just
as well for me. I'm too old for the rough
work I used to do, and I'm getting older. I'll
end up holding a sign of the school crossing. One
(03:48):
of these years, your younger fellows ought to think about it,
or to get out of the business before it's too late.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
There's no future in it.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I've heard that said before, but never by anybody who
left it for something better.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I wish i'd stayed on the force. I'd be on
pension now, you know. Scotty Dyeer is old man and
I walked a beat together.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Scotty's a good cop. What do he tell you?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Really, I just wanted to check in with him, and
he gave me a free hand. Tell me about this
Henry Lewis.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
No, he must a tell bright kid, a couple of
years out of high school. His father's dead and he's
got a mother to help support. You think you know
him well enough to be sure of the honesty you
mentioned on the phone. Sure, No, I'm not sure of
anything anymore, anything or anybody. But there's nothing in his
background to tell you anything else. He had to have
a pretty good record to be bonded by this company.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's why you think somebody grabbed him.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It's my hunt here, I think, so. Do you know
anything different?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
But it strikes me that a snatch would be pretty
hard to carry off in the street. His disease with
sal at ten thirty in the morning without drawing some attention.
Sergeant Diane tells me none of the people who were
near there at the time, So any trouble, it.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Depends on how it was done. Now I understand this
is only my hunch. I don't have the case solved.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You does anybody talk to his mother? Do you know?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I think the cops went out this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, it'll be all right for me to go out
this evening.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Worrying about her son. She's probably not going to be
in very good shape.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Maybe not.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Sometimes people are in bad shape drop a lot of
information they wouldn't drop otherwise.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Shall we have another round?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
The Lelas house was a small one in a respectable
but not plushy neighborhood. It had been painted recently, and
a yard was well tended. I noted these things because
they made it a peer that, except for widowhood, missus
Lellis and her son were a comfortable and average American family.
She was an attractive woman of some forty years who,
obviously and with good cause, had been crying.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Please sit down, mister Dollar, thank you.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Police have already been here. I suppose you know that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, I knew they'd come.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
They didn't say it in so many words, But after
they left, I realized they suspect that my son is
responsible for this crime.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Don't they.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They aren't sure of anything yet, missus.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Lewis, it's terribly difficult as a mother to be fair
and honest. If Henry did this thing himself, then at
least he may be safe and unharmed, and he may
come back and take his punishment.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Do you understand, of course I do.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Naturally, my first instinct was to defend him against the suspicion.
I couldn't believe it was possible that my son was
a thief. But then I realized if someone else was responsible,
then Henry had been kidnapped and would be in serious danger.
So now, mister Dollar, I'm praying that my son is guilty,
and if he is, I'll do everything I can to
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see him brought to justice.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
That's a bad situation for you, but I'll make my
part of it as easy as I can. Did your
sons say or do anything that would have indicated he
was planning anything like this?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Was he in trouble? Was there anything he wanted to
get away from?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
No, nothing that I noticed. Henry was forced into manhood
quite early. He's been without a father since he was nine.
He became quite independent, and he shared very little of
his outside life with me.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
He may have wanted to get away.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
From me, However, you mean that he didn't like his responsibility.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Yes, he wants me to marry again.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I understood that he wasn't your soul support.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Though my husband left me a small income from his insurance.
I own his house, but Henry's earnings have always helped poor.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
As friends, missus Lellis, I may want to talk to them.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
He sees hardly any of the friends he made in school.
Most of them went on to college. There's one I
know of, Raymond Lockhart. He works in the service station
on North Michigan Avenue.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And you don't know who your son spent the rest
of his time with.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Oh, I was very wise.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I wasn't going to make the same mistake so many
widows do with their sons, with possessiveness and too much
proding in the name of protection. I let Henry work
out his own life, and as very few questions.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was so wise.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
If Henry is guilty, I'm to blame for it, and
he must be guilty and not it.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Thanks missus Spray coming again.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
I'm sorry he caught me in a busy night. I
read about this thing with Hank Lillis and Tonight's paper
first I heard about it.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Do you think he did it?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
It's one possibility, Raymond. As a matter of fact, I
looked you up to ask you the same question.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You mean, do I think he did it? Well, it
turns out that way.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
It'll shore be a surprise to me.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Paper said they were looking into the idea that somebody
could have forced him in to a work car.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, every angler is being covered. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I've known Hank for a pretty long time, and I
trust him with my paycheck any day in the week.
As far as I know. The only trouble he ever
got into it was kind of his temper him.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Into a few brols. When did you see him last? Gosh,
I don't remember.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
You See, we used to get out in the town
together once every two weeks or so, but we have
him for a couple of months. He won't admit it,
but I think that he's pretty thick with this girl
he's going with.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Oh, I didn't know about that.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Yeah, they stopped in here one night to gas up.
It's her car.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
She's pretty all right, blonde, but I don't know. She
kind of struck me as a dish.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
It's been around quite a bit, you know what I mean.
Sometimes you can tell why they can't look at you know.
That's her name, you know?
Speaker 10 (09:31):
All the more I think of it.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
If Hank is in trouble, I'll let you tend to
want it is. It's blond. The devil was her name.
I talked to him about it. Lily, Lily or lilyan?
I think, Oh what was her name?
Speaker 6 (09:45):
His mother doesn't know about her? I take it she
didn't mention any girl. No, no, this one is not
the type to take home to mother.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
He said. He met her at the bank somewhere. I
can check that.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Yeah, I'll be right with here. Ride with here.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Her father is some kind of a guard there or something, garden,
a private detective by any chance.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It was her last name, Shade.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Shade, Shade, that's it, Lilian Shade. How can I forget
a name like that?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Go ahead, pull youself another drink, Shade. I've got an
extra battle in my luggage.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah, did you tell the police about this chad that's
up at the end for me? If she's mixed up
in it, you know where she is. She told me
she was going to spend a couple of days with
a friend.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Why don't you check the friend. Maybe your daughter is there.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
She didn't mention any names. She never does. She's no
good like a mother. Was uh your mind?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Go ahead? Where is he? Mother?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
She ran off with some guy. Lillian was about five.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I shipped her off to my sister in Minneapolis, but
I had to take her back when my sister died.
She started running wild when she was thirteen, and I
never could stop.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
If they pull this together, it's liable as that child's
psychology factually is the son of a mother who really
tried to do the right thing, maybe tried too hard,
and the.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Daughter of a guy who didn't try at all. Did
you make a point of.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Not mentioning her when we were talking about the little
skate earlier.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I was waiting for you to ask that I didn't
know there was anything between them. She met him when
she dropped in at the bank one morning. I guess
I knew they met like that a few more times,
But the rest of it I didn't know anything about.
Did you have a job? It doesn't worked for a
few months. When she does work, it's in some cheap bars,
so that's worse.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It was it your car she drove, you know the
license number?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
No, but that won't be hard to learn.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Sure it was registered in her name, and well I
never noticed the slip.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I supposed it was.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
She said some friend met some racist for her, and
she got it with the money she wanted. I can't
see any reason why it wouldn't be in finished Yeah, dollar, huh,
it's done decent of you to talk to me instead
of going to the police instead. Hope you aren't going
to ask me not to get this to the police.
Oh no, of course not. But I was going to
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ask you to let me tell them. It's gonna look
mighty bad for me if you go in. You know,
with Scotti Dyer in charge of the case and his
old man and I are the force to get it
in the old days. I don't want it to look
like I was holding back information from him.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Were you No?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
But I won't be.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Able to prove it to you until we find Lillian
she'll tell you I didn't know anything about her and Henry.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
All right, Shade, you're going in tonight just as soon as.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I leave here, and you don't have to do this,
but i'd appreciate it if you'd could forget your calling
me down here. Better for me if they didn't know
you had to tell me about Lillian. All I'm interested
in is getting the money back. Doesn't make any difference
what I say or don't say. You go to the
police tonight and we'll play it as it comes.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
After that many dollar sergeant, Oh yes, sergeant, you're on
it early this morning. Anything doing.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Henry Lillis just gave himself up.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
When this morning, yep.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
Hitchhiked in from someplace up the lake. Something about a
fight with one of the men in the deal.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
He's messed up some what about the money.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
They need some medical work before we can get a
decent statement from him. Shocked mostly I put him in
the hospital.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Didn't he say anything, and he kept.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Mumbling something about somebody with a name like Saunders going down.
We've talked to him as soon as we can. I
think he'd be ready to tell his part of the story.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Anyway, I met Sergeant Dyer at ten that morning. It
was after some fifteen minutes of conversation that passed by
without mention of pat Shade, that I learned he hadn't
reported the night before. I brought up the subject myself
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and die I knewhim well, and to automatically reach for
the phone and call the bar at my hotel. Shade
had stayed there until it closed. Three more calls to
his office his home in the bank failed to raise him,
but right then it didn't seem too important to the case.
Since Henry Lillis was in custody. We got in to
see him at eleven thirty. He was a slight, fair
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haired kid. By this time passed the feeling of fear.
His face was pale and blotched with the disinfecting the
doctor had put on some scratches and bruises.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
He was long enough to talk now Lylis, I guess,
so this man is from the company that bonded you.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
You don't look like you had much fun out of
that eighty grand, Lilis, No, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Where is the money?
Speaker 11 (14:43):
I don't know where it is now, but we took
it to a house above Lake Bluff.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Who is we.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
I don't care who it.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
Hurts now, Lilian Shade, she was with you, then she
was with me, or I was with her.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I don't suppose it makes any difference. Together. You mentioned
hurting somebody, You mean I found out.
Speaker 11 (15:03):
Yeah, he talked to me about her once. He told
me she wasn't any good for me. I hated him
then for saying that about his own daughter. But I
sure wish i'd listened to him. I wish i'd believed him.
None of this would have happened if i'd had.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
It did happen to us. We want to know about it,
everything about it.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
I don't know exactly how it started. I met her,
and I was stupid. I'd never known anybody like her before,
and it sort of seemed as if we were in
the same boat.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What do you mean in the same boat.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Well, we'd neither one of us had all the things
we wanted, and it looked like we never would.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
If everybody in that boat turned criminal, there wouldn't be
enough banks to go around.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
I never thought about it before that the way she did.
But the longer I went with her, the more I
began to She'd done other things, never anything like that,
But what kind of things. Well, the way she got
the money for her car, she met this man, learned
something from him. She did it so that it could
never be called black Island.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
She got the money. I don't think I know quite
what that is.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Go on, Well, I don't think I have to go
through all of it.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
But well, one night she kept talking about how I
carried large amounts of money all the time and that
we didn't have I don't I don't think I have
to go through all of it. I don't think I
have to go through all of it. Well, one night
she kept talking about how I carried large amounts of
money all the time, that we didn't have any of
our own. She said she wouldn't marry me unless we
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could be rich. So we planned this thing. She waited
down the street in her car four days in a
row until I knew she was She waited down the
street in her car four days in a row until
I knew I was making.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
A big transfer.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
You knew how much you were carrying, not exactly.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
But well I'd worked there long to know when it
was when it was a big amount, you know, according
to where it was going and things like that. So
yesterday morning, I got into the car, and by the
time I was due back at the bank, we were
out of town.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
This house near Lake Bluff, where you went. Who's it
belonged to?
Speaker 11 (17:04):
She said, a friend who was on a trip someplace.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
She had a key.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
I think it belonged to the Sanders or Saundas or
whatever it was. I didn't know anything about him until
he showed up late last night, and I found out
that Lilian didn't have any idea of going away with me,
like she'd said from the beginning. She knew she wasn't.
She was just using me and this man, she called
him Red. He told me to get out.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
How much money was your share? None of it?
Speaker 11 (17:32):
Not any of it. But I didn't even care about that,
but Lilian had used me. When this Red told me,
I went crazy. I guess there was a fight that
I barely remember. I left the house, but I don't
know where I went. And when it got light, I
on the highway and started hitch hiking. Nobody picked me
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up because I was all bloody and my clothes were torn.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And finally this man did.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
He was a minister.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
We left him after he gave us the best he
could in the way of a description. The only thing
Lila seemed sure of was the route to the house
near Lake Bluff. The three state alarm was put out
on Lilian Shade and the red headed man in a
green club coop. In less than an hour, the sogeant
and I had made out twenty mile trip and were
approaching the place on a dirt hideway that stretched some
fifty yards of the road.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Hey, hold it, it might not be as empty as
it looks.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
A car on each time. I think that might be
the girl's devastation. Attendant described it for me. Means they
both let them one car, don't you think probably did?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Guess with eighty thousand one abandoned car wouldn't mean much.
I think the house is empty, all right. It wouldn't
make sense for it not to be. We Yep, he
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is locked. Looked through here, look at the furniture. That's
why the fight went on. Must have been quite a
rukous friend of his. Lilas packed quite a punch when
he got started. Pretty good temper. Yeah, there by the
wall that lamp was thrown. It ought to carry some prints.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
And we looked through the rest of it, and I dealt.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
With the sergeant Eyah over here in the kitchen, s
Lily in shade. She's dead And so homicide entered the
picture and a new alarm was broadcast. Sanders Or Saunders
and a Green Club coop wanted on suspicion of grand
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theft and murder.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I had a different idea.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I couldn't sell it to the Sun. I couldn't sell
it to Sergeant Dyer, but it was one I couldn't
sell it to Sergeant Dyer, but it was one of
those things that I couldn't drop the police laboratory and
then started combing through.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
The house and I went back into the city.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
It was about two in the afternoon and Pat Shade
was in his office.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Now I can explain if you let me.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Never mind that you know that Henry Lellis surrendered to
the police, don't you.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I didn't handle myself very well last night.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'm not talking about it last night.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I know.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
What I'm trying to tell you is that I didn't
get around until late today and I just read about it.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Where is Lilian?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You know the house she goes to up near Lake Bluff? No,
I never heard of say anything about a house up there?
Is that where you found her.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You were pretty drunk last night. Where'd you go?
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I was pretty drunk last night. It's not every day
you come to the end of your rope. That's where
I got last night. After more than twenty years in
this filthy business.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Where did you go after you left the hotel bar?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I went home the times you got to bed, I
don't remember you remember leaving again after you got home?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Where'd I go?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
The daughter was murdered last night?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
But what are you accusing me of?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Young man? Not accusing you of anything.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I wish I could talk about this later.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I don't seem to be thinking very well.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I'm afraid we have to talk about it. Patty.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah, he asked me if I knew about a house
near Lake Bluff because you think I might have killed
my daughter, that I might have waited until the red
headed man left for some reason, and that I went in.
And you know about the red headed man Henry Lilli's statement,
part of it was in the paper.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Do you think I killed Lily?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I know that last night you hated your daughter.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I have nothing alive for anymore, so I can be truthful.
If I had struck Lillian last night, I wouldn't remember.
It may be quite possible that I killed her. I
don't remember.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
I understand he found Pat Shade dollar.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What do you have to say now?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I'm not sure what he said because I don't know
if his mind was working well or badly.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Here is the on the spot report from the lab man.
There's more you can see before we start back.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Thanks, It's almost enough, isn't it. Waitill you see the
rest of it.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
You have a tough time squeezing out now, don't shill
we go? You don't mind us busting in like this?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Hello? Let us? Hello.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
We wondered if you could help us on a few
details we're confused on all right? Are you sure that
the only cars that came up to Lake Bluff were
Lilian Shades and this Saunders the only ones I knew
about for them more. That's what's confusing is at this fight,
it was in the front room and not in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Is that right? It's hard to remember, I think so.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
And after you.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
And after that you left, and then you caught a
ride into town and gave yourself up.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, why'd you give yourself up? Let us? I don't
know why.
Speaker 11 (23:39):
Just seemed like the only thing.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
I could, because maybe you thought if you gave yourself
up on a grand theft charge and told a sad story,
that we'd never think of you.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
In regard to murder. Murder, that's a dirt driveway.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Letlis, the only car that drove up that driveway was
Lilian shades.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Looks like there wasn't any redheaded man there at all.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Doesn't it like you messed up that room to make
it look like there'd been a fight?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Finger print man?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
All right?
Speaker 11 (24:04):
I didn't mean to kill her. We got out there
and we had the money, and.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
She got scared.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
We looked at all of it. She went to pieces.
She wanted to take it back, and I knew we couldn't.
I lost my temper and hit her because I was excited.
I thought she was faking, but she wasn't.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
She wasn't fake. It didn't mean too.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
We can go, can't we, Samson? Yeah, I'll come back
later for a statement.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Spencer count Item two one hundred and eighty f and
thirty cents miscellaneous. Item three's name is Adam one. Transportation
back to Hartford expense account total three hundred and eight
dollars and ninety cents remarks. In his next statement, Henry
Lellis revealed the hiding place where he'd put the stolen
money so the company won't lose. That's more than you
can say for the two parents involved, either the deserving
(25:20):
or the undeserving.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yours Truly, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Dona, Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars Edmund O'Brien in the
title role and is written by Gil Dowd with music
(25:43):
by Wilbur Hatch. Edmund O'Brien can soon be seen in
the Paramount Pictures production Warpath. Featured in the night's cast
were Herb Butterfield, Jeanette Nolan, Tony Barrett, Tim Graham, and
Gil Stratton Junior. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was transcribed in
high him del Valler. This is Bob Lamont inviting you
(26:07):
to join us next week at this time when Edmund
O'Brien returns as.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yours Truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Why I'm a kids twenty they were falling down?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Why this is?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
And you don't know who your son spent the rest
of it? And you don't know who your son spent
the rest of his time with.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
I'm afraid I don't I let Henry work out his
own life and try to ask very few questions.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I thought I was so wise.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Now, if Henry is guilty, I'm to blame for it,
and he must be guilty and not dead.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
When did you see him last? Gosh?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
I don't remember. See, we used to get out in
the town together. It'd be two weeks or so, but
not say super going with it.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
When did you see him last? Gosh?
Speaker 8 (27:46):
I don't remember. We used to get out on the
top gather. It would be two weeks or so, but
not since he's been going with his new girl.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh, I didn't know about her.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
Yeah, he's pretty all right, a blonde, but kind of
struck me as a dish.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Has been around quite.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
A bit of you know what I mean? What's he name?
You know what? The devil was?
Speaker 10 (28:04):
Lily or Lillian?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I think his mother doesn't know about her. I take
it she didn't mention any girl.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
Well, she's not the type to take home to mother.
Her father some kind of a guard at the bank.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Guard, private detective by any change.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
It was her last name she Shade Shade.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
That's it, lilyan Shade.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
How could I forget a name like that? Go ahead,
where is I mother, she.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Ran off with some guy. Lillian was about five.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I shipped her off to my sister in Minneapolis, but
I had to take her back when my sister died.
She started running wild when she was thirteen, and I
never cut stoppa.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Did you make a point of not mentioning her when
we were talking about the Litlis kid earlier? I met
Sergeant Iyer at ten that morning, and it was after
some fifteen minutes of conversation had passed by without mentioning
Pat Shade that I learned he hadn't reported the night before.
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But right then it didn't seem too important to the case.
Since Henry Lillis was in custody. We got in to
see him at eleven thirty. He was a slight, fair
haired kid by this time past the feeling of fear.
His face was pale and blotched with the disinfectant. The
doctor had put on some scratches and bruises
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Pray
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
As Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
You're the man who was sent hit by the body company,
aren't you?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, that's right. Who's this?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
My name is Shae pat Shade. I'm private detective working
on the case for the bank.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I didn't know they'd hired one too.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
They called me every once in a while, tracing phonies mostly.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Is there any chance that you know the missing messaging?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
I know, Lewis.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I hadn't tagged as a clean, honest kid, I still.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Have What do you think happened? Then?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I'm afraid he was either slashed or killed or both.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
But that's just my opinion.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I wondered if you'd make to get together and compare notes.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
I don't have any notes yet, but I'll be glad
to pick up your brain, take up your what I
don't have any notes yet, but I'll be glad to
pick your brain any place you say.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of the Man with the
action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Let's go that.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yeah, you mean, I'm screaming.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They would.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
From Hollywood It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Johnny Dollar, the man who was sent here by the
bonding company.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, that's right. Who's this.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
My name is Shade, Pat Shade. I'm a private detective
working on the cakes for the bank. Fine.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I didn't know they died one too.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
They called me every once in a while, tracing phonies mostly.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Is there any chance that you know the missing messages? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I know Lewis. I had him tagged as a clean,
honest kid, and I.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Still have What do you think happened? Then?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I'm a friend he was either snatch that killed or both.
But that's just my opinion. I wondered if you'd like
to get together and compare notes.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I don't have any notes yet, but I'll be glad
to pick your brain any place, you say.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Edmund O'Brien. In another adventure of the Man with the
action packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Was truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accunts admitted by special Investigator
Johnny Dolla to home of Great Northern Bonding and Surty Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
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of the Lillis bond matter expense account AUDAM one sixty
expense account ADAM one sixty two dollars and eighty cents
af air incidentals between Hartford and Chicago. A phone calls
after checking into a hotel bore out the details given
me when I was assigned the case. Henry Lellis, the
messenger led a Golden State Bank at ten thirty am.
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He was carrying eighty thousand dollars in cash, and his
destination was only a few blocks north on the Sound Street.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
He never arrived there.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
At five that evening, in a barn in my hotel,
I met the private detective working the case for the bank.
Pat Shade, was a puffy Florid man with past fifty
beginning to show in his watery blue eyes.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I've been in the business for a long time, more
years than I like to think. Left the police force
and opened my own office in nineteen thirty one when
Chicago was still a roorse town of the country. Not
exactly overdone right now is quieter down a lot, Just
as well for me. I'm too old for the rough
work I used to do, and I'm getting older. I'll
end up holding a sign of the school crossing. One
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of these years, your younger fellows ought to think about it,
or to get out of the business before it's too late.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
There's no future in it.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I've heard that said before, but never by anybody who
left it for something better.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I wish i'd stayed on the force. I'd be on
pension now, you know. Scotty Dyeer is old man and
I walked a beat together.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Scotty's a good cop. What do he tell you?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Really, I just wanted to check in with him, and
he gave me a free hand. Tell me about this
Henry Lewis.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
No, he must a tell bright kid, a couple of
years out of high school. His father's dead and he's
got a mother to help support. You think you know
him well enough to be sure of the honesty you
mentioned on the phone. Sure, No, I'm not sure of
anything anymore, anything or anybody. But there's nothing in his
background to tell you anything else. He had to have
a pretty good record to be bonded by this company.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's why you think somebody grabbed him.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It's my hunt here, I think, so. Do you know
anything different?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
But it strikes me that a snatch would be pretty
hard to carry off in the street. His disease with
sal at ten thirty in the morning without drawing some attention.
Sergeant Diane tells me none of the people who were
near there at the time, So any trouble, it.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Depends on how it was done. Now I understand this
is only my hunch. I don't have the case solved.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You does anybody talk to his mother? Do you know?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I think the cops went out this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, it'll be all right for me to go out
this evening.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Worrying about her son. She's probably not going to be
in very good shape.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Maybe not.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Sometimes people are in bad shape drop a lot of
information they wouldn't drop otherwise.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Shall we have another round?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
The Lelas house was a small one in a respectable
but not plushy neighborhood. It had been painted recently, and
a yard was well tended. I noted these things because
they made it a peer that, except for widowhood, missus
Lellis and her son were a comfortable and average American family.
She was an attractive woman of some forty years who,
obviously and with good cause, had been crying.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Please sit down, mister Dollar, thank you.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Police have already been here. I suppose you know that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, I knew they'd come.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
They didn't say it in so many words, But after
they left, I realized they suspect that my son is
responsible for this crime.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Don't they.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They aren't sure of anything yet, missus.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Lewis, it's terribly difficult as a mother to be fair
and honest. If Henry did this thing himself, then at
least he may be safe and unharmed, and he may
come back and take his punishment.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Do you understand, of course I do.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Naturally, my first instinct was to defend him against the suspicion.
I couldn't believe it was possible that my son was
a thief. But then I realized if someone else was responsible,
then Henry had been kidnapped and would be in serious danger.
So now, mister Dollar, I'm praying that my son is guilty,
and if he is, I'll do everything I can to
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see him brought to justice.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
That's a bad situation for you, but I'll make my
part of it as easy as I can. Did your
sons say or do anything that would have indicated he
was planning anything like this?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Was he in trouble? Was there anything he wanted to
get away from?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
No, nothing that I noticed. Henry was forced into manhood
quite early. He's been without a father since he was nine.
He became quite independent, and he shared very little of
his outside life with me.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
He may have wanted to get away.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
From me, However, you mean that he didn't like his responsibility.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Yes, he wants me to marry again.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I understood that he wasn't your soul support.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Though my husband left me a small income from his insurance.
I own his house, but Henry's earnings have always helped poor.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
As friends, missus Lellis, I may want to talk to them.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
He sees hardly any of the friends he made in school.
Most of them went on to college. There's one I
know of, Raymond Lockhart. He works in the service station
on North Michigan Avenue.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And you don't know who your son spent the rest
of his time with.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Oh, I was very wise.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I wasn't going to make the same mistake so many
widows do with their sons, with possessiveness and too much
proding in the name of protection. I let Henry work
out his own life, and as very few questions.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was so wise.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
If Henry is guilty, I'm to blame for it, and
he must be guilty and not it.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Thanks missus Spray coming again.
Speaker 8 (08:21):
I'm sorry he caught me in a busy night. I
read about this thing with Hank Lillis and Tonight's paper
first I heard about it.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Do you think he did it?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
It's one possibility, Raymond. As a matter of fact, I
looked you up to ask you the same question.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You mean, do I think he did it? Well, it
turns out that way.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
It'll shore be a surprise to me.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Paper said they were looking into the idea that somebody
could have forced him in to a work car.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, every angler is being covered. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I've known Hank for a pretty long time, and I
trust him with my paycheck any day in the week.
As far as I know. The only trouble he ever
got into it was kind of his temper him.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Into a few brols. When did you see him last? Gosh,
I don't remember.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
You See, we used to get out in the town
together once every two weeks or so, but we have
him for a couple of months. He won't admit it,
but I think that he's pretty thick with this girl
he's going with.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Oh, I didn't know about that.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
Yeah, they stopped in here one night to gas up.
It's her car.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
She's pretty all right, blonde, but I don't know. She
kind of struck me as a dish.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
It's been around quite a bit, you know what I mean.
Sometimes you can tell why they can't look at you know.
That's her name, you know?
Speaker 10 (09:31):
All the more I think of it.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
If Hank is in trouble, I'll let you tend to
want it is. It's blond. The devil was her name.
I talked to him about it. Lily, Lily or lilyan?
I think, Oh what was her name?
Speaker 6 (09:45):
His mother doesn't know about her? I take it she
didn't mention any girl. No, no, this one is not
the type to take home to mother.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
He said. He met her at the bank somewhere. I
can check that.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Yeah, I'll be right with here. Ride with here.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Her father is some kind of a guard there or something, garden,
a private detective by any chance.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It was her last name, Shade.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Shade, Shade, that's it, Lilian Shade. How can I forget
a name like that?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Go ahead, pull youself another drink, Shade. I've got an
extra battle in my luggage.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah, did you tell the police about this chad that's
up at the end for me? If she's mixed up
in it, you know where she is. She told me
she was going to spend a couple of days with
a friend.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Why don't you check the friend. Maybe your daughter is there.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
She didn't mention any names. She never does. She's no
good like a mother. Was uh your mind?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Go ahead? Where is he? Mother?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
She ran off with some guy. Lillian was about five.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I shipped her off to my sister in Minneapolis, but
I had to take her back when my sister died.
She started running wild when she was thirteen, and I
never could stop.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
If they pull this together, it's liable as that child's
psychology factually is the son of a mother who really
tried to do the right thing, maybe tried too hard,
and the.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Daughter of a guy who didn't try at all. Did
you make a point of.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Not mentioning her when we were talking about the little
skate earlier.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I was waiting for you to ask that I didn't
know there was anything between them. She met him when
she dropped in at the bank one morning. I guess
I knew they met like that a few more times,
But the rest of it I didn't know anything about.
Did you have a job? It doesn't worked for a
few months. When she does work, it's in some cheap bars,
so that's worse.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It was it your car she drove, you know the
license number?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
No, but that won't be hard to learn.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Sure it was registered in her name, and well I
never noticed the slip.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I supposed it was.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
She said some friend met some racist for her, and
she got it with the money she wanted. I can't
see any reason why it wouldn't be in finished Yeah, dollar, huh,
it's done decent of you to talk to me instead
of going to the police instead. Hope you aren't going
to ask me not to get this to the police.
Oh no, of course not. But I was going to
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ask you to let me tell them. It's gonna look
mighty bad for me if you go in. You know,
with Scotti Dyer in charge of the case and his
old man and I are the force to get it
in the old days. I don't want it to look
like I was holding back information from him.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Were you No?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
But I won't be.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Able to prove it to you until we find Lillian
she'll tell you I didn't know anything about her and Henry.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
All right, Shade, you're going in tonight just as soon as.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I leave here, and you don't have to do this,
but i'd appreciate it if you'd could forget your calling
me down here. Better for me if they didn't know
you had to tell me about Lillian. All I'm interested
in is getting the money back. Doesn't make any difference
what I say or don't say. You go to the
police tonight and we'll play it as it comes.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
After that many dollar sergeant, Oh yes, sergeant, you're on
it early this morning. Anything doing.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Henry Lillis just gave himself up.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
When this morning, yep.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
Hitchhiked in from someplace up the lake. Something about a
fight with one of the men in the deal.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
He's messed up some what about the money.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
They need some medical work before we can get a
decent statement from him. Shocked mostly I put him in
the hospital.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Didn't he say anything, and he kept.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Mumbling something about somebody with a name like Saunders going down.
We've talked to him as soon as we can. I
think he'd be ready to tell his part of the story.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Anyway, I met Sergeant Dyer at ten that morning. It
was after some fifteen minutes of conversation that passed by
without mention of pat Shade, that I learned he hadn't
reported the night before. I brought up the subject myself
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and die I knewhim well, and to automatically reach for
the phone and call the bar at my hotel. Shade
had stayed there until it closed. Three more calls to
his office his home in the bank failed to raise him,
but right then it didn't seem too important to the case.
Since Henry Lillis was in custody. We got in to
see him at eleven thirty. He was a slight, fair
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haired kid. By this time passed the feeling of fear.
His face was pale and blotched with the disinfecting the
doctor had put on some scratches and bruises.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
He was long enough to talk now Lylis, I guess,
so this man is from the company that bonded you.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
You don't look like you had much fun out of
that eighty grand, Lilis, No, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Where is the money?
Speaker 11 (14:43):
I don't know where it is now, but we took
it to a house above Lake Bluff.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Who is we.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
I don't care who it.
Speaker 11 (14:51):
Hurts now, Lilian Shade, she was with you, then she
was with me, or I was with her.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I don't suppose it makes any difference. Together. You mentioned
hurting somebody, You mean I found out.
Speaker 11 (15:03):
Yeah, he talked to me about her once. He told
me she wasn't any good for me. I hated him
then for saying that about his own daughter. But I
sure wish i'd listened to him. I wish i'd believed him.
None of this would have happened if i'd had.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
It did happen to us. We want to know about it,
everything about it.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
I don't know exactly how it started. I met her,
and I was stupid. I'd never known anybody like her before,
and it sort of seemed as if we were in
the same boat.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What do you mean in the same boat.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Well, we'd neither one of us had all the things
we wanted, and it looked like we never would.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
If everybody in that boat turned criminal, there wouldn't be
enough banks to go around.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
I never thought about it before that the way she did.
But the longer I went with her, the more I
began to She'd done other things, never anything like that,
But what kind of things. Well, the way she got
the money for her car, she met this man, learned
something from him. She did it so that it could
never be called black Island.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
She got the money. I don't think I know quite
what that is.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Go on, Well, I don't think I have to go
through all of it.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
But well, one night she kept talking about how I
carried large amounts of money all the time and that
we didn't have I don't I don't think I have
to go through all of it. I don't think I
have to go through all of it. Well, one night
she kept talking about how I carried large amounts of
money all the time, that we didn't have any of
our own. She said she wouldn't marry me unless we
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could be rich. So we planned this thing. She waited
down the street in her car four days in a
row until I knew she was She waited down the
street in her car four days in a row until
I knew I was making.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
A big transfer.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
You knew how much you were carrying, not exactly.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
But well I'd worked there long to know when it
was when it was a big amount, you know, according
to where it was going and things like that. So
yesterday morning, I got into the car, and by the
time I was due back at the bank, we were
out of town.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
This house near Lake Bluff, where you went. Who's it
belonged to?
Speaker 11 (17:04):
She said, a friend who was on a trip someplace.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
She had a key.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
I think it belonged to the Sanders or Saundas or
whatever it was. I didn't know anything about him until
he showed up late last night, and I found out
that Lilian didn't have any idea of going away with me,
like she'd said from the beginning. She knew she wasn't.
She was just using me and this man, she called
him Red. He told me to get out.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
How much money was your share? None of it?
Speaker 11 (17:32):
Not any of it. But I didn't even care about that,
but Lilian had used me. When this Red told me,
I went crazy. I guess there was a fight that
I barely remember. I left the house, but I don't
know where I went. And when it got light, I
on the highway and started hitch hiking. Nobody picked me
(17:53):
up because I was all bloody and my clothes were torn.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And finally this man did.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
He was a minister.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
We left him after he gave us the best he
could in the way of a description. The only thing
Lila seemed sure of was the route to the house
near Lake Bluff. The three state alarm was put out
on Lilian Shade and the red headed man in a
green club coop. In less than an hour, the sogeant
and I had made out twenty mile trip and were
approaching the place on a dirt hideway that stretched some
fifty yards of the road.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Hey, hold it, it might not be as empty as
it looks.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
A car on each time. I think that might be
the girl's devastation. Attendant described it for me. Means they
both let them one car, don't you think probably did?
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Guess with eighty thousand one abandoned car wouldn't mean much.
I think the house is empty, all right. It wouldn't
make sense for it not to be. We Yep, he
(19:09):
is locked. Looked through here, look at the furniture. That's
why the fight went on. Must have been quite a
rukous friend of his. Lilas packed quite a punch when
he got started. Pretty good temper. Yeah, there by the
wall that lamp was thrown. It ought to carry some prints.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
And we looked through the rest of it, and I dealt.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
With the sergeant Eyah over here in the kitchen, s
Lily in shade. She's dead And so homicide entered the
picture and a new alarm was broadcast. Sanders Or Saunders
and a Green Club coop wanted on suspicion of grand
(19:53):
theft and murder.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I had a different idea.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I couldn't sell it to the Sun. I couldn't sell
it to Sergeant Dyer, but it was one I couldn't
sell it to Sergeant Dyer, but it was one of
those things that I couldn't drop the police laboratory and
then started combing through.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
The house and I went back into the city.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
It was about two in the afternoon and Pat Shade
was in his office.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Now I can explain if you let me.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Never mind that you know that Henry Lellis surrendered to
the police, don't you.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I didn't handle myself very well last night.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'm not talking about it last night.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I know.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
What I'm trying to tell you is that I didn't
get around until late today and I just read about it.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Where is Lilian?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You know the house she goes to up near Lake Bluff? No,
I never heard of say anything about a house up there?
Is that where you found her.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You were pretty drunk last night. Where'd you go?
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I was pretty drunk last night. It's not every day
you come to the end of your rope. That's where
I got last night. After more than twenty years in
this filthy business.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Where did you go after you left the hotel bar?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I went home the times you got to bed, I
don't remember you remember leaving again after you got home?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Where'd I go?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
The daughter was murdered last night?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
But what are you accusing me of?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Young man? Not accusing you of anything.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I wish I could talk about this later.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I don't seem to be thinking very well.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I'm afraid we have to talk about it. Patty.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah, he asked me if I knew about a house
near Lake Bluff because you think I might have killed
my daughter, that I might have waited until the red
headed man left for some reason, and that I went in.
And you know about the red headed man Henry Lilli's statement,
part of it was in the paper.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Do you think I killed Lily?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I know that last night you hated your daughter.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I have nothing alive for anymore, so I can be truthful.
If I had struck Lillian last night, I wouldn't remember.
It may be quite possible that I killed her. I
don't remember.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
I understand he found Pat Shade dollar.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What do you have to say now?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I'm not sure what he said because I don't know
if his mind was working well or badly.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Here is the on the spot report from the lab man.
There's more you can see before we start back.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Thanks, It's almost enough, isn't it. Waitill you see the
rest of it.
Speaker 9 (22:42):
You have a tough time squeezing out now, don't shill
we go? You don't mind us busting in like this?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Hello? Let us? Hello.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
We wondered if you could help us on a few
details we're confused on all right? Are you sure that
the only cars that came up to Lake Bluff were
Lilian Shades and this Saunders the only ones I knew
about for them more. That's what's confusing is at this fight,
it was in the front room and not in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Is that right? It's hard to remember, I think so.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
And after you.
Speaker 9 (23:31):
And after that you left, and then you caught a
ride into town and gave yourself up.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, why'd you give yourself up? Let us? I don't
know why.
Speaker 11 (23:39):
Just seemed like the only thing.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
I could, because maybe you thought if you gave yourself
up on a grand theft charge and told a sad story,
that we'd never think of you.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
In regard to murder. Murder, that's a dirt driveway.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Letlis, the only car that drove up that driveway was
Lilian shades.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Looks like there wasn't any redheaded man there at all.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Doesn't it like you messed up that room to make
it look like there'd been a fight?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Finger print man?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
All right?
Speaker 11 (24:04):
I didn't mean to kill her. We got out there
and we had the money, and.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
She got scared.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
We looked at all of it. She went to pieces.
She wanted to take it back, and I knew we couldn't.
I lost my temper and hit her because I was excited.
I thought she was faking, but she wasn't.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
She wasn't fake. It didn't mean too.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
We can go, can't we, Samson? Yeah, I'll come back
later for a statement.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Spencer count Item two one hundred and eighty f and
thirty cents miscellaneous. Item three's name is Adam one. Transportation
back to Hartford expense account total three hundred and eight
dollars and ninety cents remarks. In his next statement, Henry
Lellis revealed the hiding place where he'd put the stolen
money so the company won't lose. That's more than you
can say for the two parents involved, either the deserving
(25:20):
or the undeserving.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Yours Truly, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Dona, Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars Edmund O'Brien in the
title role and is written by Gil Dowd with music
(25:43):
by Wilbur Hatch. Edmund O'Brien can soon be seen in
the Paramount Pictures production Warpath. Featured in the night's cast
were Herb Butterfield, Jeanette Nolan, Tony Barrett, Tim Graham, and
Gil Stratton Junior. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was transcribed in
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to join us next week at this time when Edmund
O'Brien returns as.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yours Truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Why I'm a kids twenty they were falling down?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Why this is?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
And you don't know who your son spent the rest
of it? And you don't know who your son spent
the rest of his time with.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
I'm afraid I don't I let Henry work out his
own life and try to ask very few questions.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I thought I was so wise.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Now, if Henry is guilty, I'm to blame for it,
and he must be guilty and not dead.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
When did you see him last? Gosh?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
I don't remember. See, we used to get out in
the town together. It'd be two weeks or so, but
not say super going with it.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
When did you see him last? Gosh?
Speaker 8 (27:46):
I don't remember. We used to get out on the
top gather. It would be two weeks or so, but
not since he's been going with his new girl.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Oh, I didn't know about her.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
Yeah, he's pretty all right, a blonde, but kind of
struck me as a dish.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Has been around quite.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
A bit of you know what I mean? What's he name?
You know what? The devil was?
Speaker 10 (28:04):
Lily or Lillian?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I think his mother doesn't know about her. I take
it she didn't mention any girl.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
Well, she's not the type to take home to mother.
Her father some kind of a guard at the bank.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Guard, private detective by any change.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
It was her last name she Shade Shade.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
That's it, lilyan Shade.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
How could I forget a name like that? Go ahead,
where is I mother, she.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Ran off with some guy. Lillian was about five.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I shipped her off to my sister in Minneapolis, but
I had to take her back when my sister died.
She started running wild when she was thirteen, and I
never cut stoppa.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Did you make a point of not mentioning her when
we were talking about the Litlis kid earlier? I met
Sergeant Iyer at ten that morning, and it was after
some fifteen minutes of conversation had passed by without mentioning
Pat Shade that I learned he hadn't reported the night before.
(29:10):
But right then it didn't seem too important to the case.
Since Henry Lillis was in custody. We got in to
see him at eleven thirty. He was a slight, fair
haired kid by this time past the feeling of fear.
His face was pale and blotched with the disinfectant. The
doctor had put on some scratches and bruises
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Pray
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