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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bing Crosby has been on his summer holiday, but beginning
October third, being on his crew will return to this
their regular time. So joining the fun with bing Crosby
at this time on Wednesday, October third, from Hollywood. It's
time now for Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
As Johnny Dalla Roger Stern. Hello, missus Sterne, what can
I do for you? Job?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Be in my office at eight tomorrow morning and bring
a pactucation. Sure just like those You're going to Cuba.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh hot this time of year. Very See you at eight,
Missus Stern.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Edmund O'Brien and the transcribed adventurer of the Man with
the Action packed expenser.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Can America is fabulous.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yours truly, Johnny Dalla expenc account submitted by special Investigator
Johnny to a home office Intercontinental Indemnity and Bonding Company,
New York City. The following is an accounting of expenditures
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during my investigation of the Cuban Jewel matter. Expencer count
item one seven dollars and fifteen cents, mileage and incidentals
between Hartford and New York City. Good morning, nice here it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Is this company holds an insurance policy with a Missus
Lenore Carter eight hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Thousand on her jewels.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Uh huh, jewels stolen from Missus Carter safe months ago.
Please haven't been able to turn up a think, and
you've got to pay off by Monday. What's in Cuba?
We've got a tip. A man in Cuba knows where
the jewels are. He was supposed to have been in
on the robbery.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Okay, what's his name and where do I find him?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
William Carnes, He's in jail, in Nevana, in jail, Yes,
a waiting extradition this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
We love he's being brought back, not for the jewel tip.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
He's wanted in this state on a federal rep. Please
don't even know he was mixed up in the Carter
job and we're not telling him. Oh, when he gets back,
he's bound together at least ten years with.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
The Federal rep. And you want to know where he
snatched the jewels before they put him away exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He's lived in Cuba on North over a period of years,
and I believe it's reasonable to assume that the jewels
are somewhere in Avenna.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
He does a stretch and when he gets down he
picks up eight hundred thousand jewels. Might be worth ten years.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
If we tell the police now and they question him,
he'll never open his mouth. He's got to do the
ten years anyway. It's your job to find out whether
the Drews are before.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
He's at the idea. When are they're sending an officer
down to pick him up to day or tomorrow. You've
got to beat them there. I'll try.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
There'll be a bonus if you succeed. Like I said,
I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Spence Count had him two eight dollars and ninety cents
afair between New York and Havana, Cuba. When I arrived,
I checked through customs and got a tip hungry caddy
to take me to one of the better hotels where
I checked in, put on something cool, drank a tall
grass of something cooler, and headed to the local bassteal
where Stern had told me William Carnes was interned. Someone
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to see us in your cards.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Well, I'm just making a pot of tea.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Just call when you're finishing your thanks. Hello, cons you
bunk a fugitive. No, I'm not a cap I don't
think they'll be here to extradite gentil late this afternoon
or tomorrow morning. Okay, who are you? I'm a reporter, yeah,
names Dollar sent down here to get a story? You
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were I understand they want you on that mail jib.
You do, no story, no story? Move I stick you again,
I move on. What's uh? I don't know? That is
Senor cars we open the door. Peak, Hey, what is this?
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What do you want you? I want you. What's the
idea of the knife?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
The idea, Senor, is to slip this pig's throat if
you should try to stop.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Us held the knight of the police chief's throat while
he motioned for cons to step out. He was dressed
in what used to be a white linen suit, and
he stood about five feet four, weighing in at around
two hundred. On top of his head, covering his shaggy
black hair, was a straw hat, and stuck in his
fat lips was a long black shirt. Between the smell
of garlic and cigar smoke, I began to feel what
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it might be like to come face to face with
a bilious dragon who sent you a friend. He will
go now, Senor ready, okay, thanks? What other? Now? Get
in his cell.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Big you eh see you ten your dollar, you will
go too.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
No. I took a look at his knife, thought about
the gun under my arm. Then I took a look
at his eyes. They made a panther look like the
Mona Liza.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I went besides, I didn't want to lose Carns. As
we passed through the squad room, I saw the two
guards lying off to the side on the floor.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
One is only unconscious. The other one tried to make
noise sleepy throat.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah. He followed me out on the street and climbed
into a car. As he drove away, he smiled a
mouthful of yellow teeth and waved one of his stubby arms.
I looked around for some help, but the street was
nearly deserted. I was about to go back into jail
and release the police chief when I looked down the
block and spotted Carnes ducking into a building. I went
after him. The sign over the door read Cantina el gaio,
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so I slowed down to a sprint went in. The
barroom was small and dark. Posters all over the wall
advertised everything from the government lottery, the both fights in highlight.
Cons was nowhere in sight. So I walked over to
a long bar and a lazy bartend and moved a
wet bar rack slowly up the counter to me some
for you, Mac. You're American, Yeah, but I got sold
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on Cist. Well, the guy go came in here just
before I did. I didn't see nobody. Look, I'm gonna
make this as painless as possible. A guy named Carnes
just ramped in here. Whether you know or not, you
couldn't have missed him. He didn't go back out the front.
I don't think i'll like you. I affect some people
that way. Where'll we go? I don't know what you're
talking about, the guy who just came in here. You know,
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I think you're going to take your siesta early today,
a long one, but it's going to be uncomfortable. I
told you to beat it. When you tell me where
I can find Carns. He's got a lot of bottles
back here up, Well, line them up. I'll see if
I can shoot the corks out. Oh huh. Carnes went
up to see Maria door at the top of the stairs,
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right up the stairs, three at a time, and forgot
the knock. And they're standing in the middle of the
room was the best reason I could think of upholding
the good neighbor policy. South of the border, north of
the border, anywhere you looked at the geography was lovely.
See see where's Carnes?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Don't you think it would have been more polite than not?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I forget my manners when I'm in a hurry. Where's Carnes?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I don't know anybody named Carnes.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That isn't what the bartender said.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Whatever he said, I don't know anybody named Carnes.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
The bartender also said that Carnes came up here just
a little while ago.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Senor, you don't look like a man who believes everything
he hears.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I don't, generally, But I saw Corns come into the bar.
He didn't come out. Now where is he?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I think you're lying.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Please live, Senor.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Sure, where's your back door?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The way you came in?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Bad luck? Where is it behind the curtains?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Goodbye, Senor, I said, good bye, Senor.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I had trouble convincing the bartender. He said, Carns came
up here. Okay, I still need Carns. Do I convince
you to?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
How do you propose to convince.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Right now, times important one hundred dollars worth. I'm sorry, Senor,
I could be a bully. You might twist my arm.
I'm quite stubborn. Good, you're not twisting very hard. My
mind was on something else. My leap A bonus for
bringing in Carns two hundred interesting but not completely No. Three,
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that's all my company can afford.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Very generous.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
How a leono Carnes, he.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Was the best one around?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Uh huh? What where can I find him? Three hundred
dollars one hundred and fifty Now, just to make sure
you give me the right address?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Do you have anyther Portfelio in a trace?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Thanks. I checked to see if my hair was on
fire and left the room filled with smoke. Downstairs, I
found out where to find they Haven't Eat a Portfyrio
and left. I Haven't eat a Portfyrio is about eight
blocks away and a dead end street. I found number three,
a tired buildings, slumped down in the middle of a
lot of other tired buildings. I tried the door and
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found it locked. So I braced myself against it and
as quietly as possible, tore it over. It seemed I
sprawled in just in times. See Carnes dive for address
a drawer. He stopped cold when he saw the thirty
eight in my hairy Okay, don't shoot, not unless you
make trouble. I've got funny riding habits. I even collect
stolen property. Oh oh, eight hundred thousand dollars in jewels?
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Where is it? We could make a deal, we could,
but we won't. Come on, get it. I'm in a
nasty mood. You get at least five hundred grand a
defense stuff? Seazy to break up. They'll never trace it.
Do I have to get rough? Now? It's in a bedpost.
Running out of patience?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Okay, yeah you senor, huh, I will take those.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Remain facing the window. Mister Dollar, the guy who let
me out of jail.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
See how could I find what I want? If you
are locked in that field p jail? You had better
drop your revolver, mister Dollar. Well, now you can kick
it over to me. Eh yas, yes, no, you the Jews.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I don't get it, of course, not I do. No
bronto okay, goods, Yes, but you said a friend sent
you to get me out of jail.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
See a friend, of course, not my I think he
had good reason for wanting you out, So I follow
pretty good reason.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I think now i'd be rich. Why don't you let
me out?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I was supposed to let you out too. No, I
do not think you should come after me for a while.
I shoot pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Are the horse and once more glassy? Cons and I
both went for the time address it draw and it
was like barking day Inclines basement until Cons decided to
pick the bed post and start me on the siesta happen.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We'll return you to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in just
a moment Tomorrow night on most of these same CBS
radio stations, the FBI, in Peace and War goes to
work on the inside Story, an exciting bot between makers
and breakers of the law. You'll enjoy g Man Shepherd's
latest case, in which the inside story is one of
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slick swindlers come to grips with the nation's number one
law enforcement agency. Tomorrow night on CBS Radio at the
Star's Address. Now with our Star, Edmund O'Brien will bring
you the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The hunk of metal bedposts had put me down and out.
When I finally came around the room was dark and cold.
I pulled myself up in my elbows and tried to
focus my eyes. My headache from the scalp wound over
my right ear, and through a window I could see
the moon pushing its way over the tops of the
buildings across the street. I felt awful. I'd lost the
eight hundred thousand jewels, William Khnes and enough blood to
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make a vampire do a shottage. I finally got to
my feet, stumbled out of the building, and managed to
find my way back to my hotel, where I washed
up and put in a cold to Roger Stern at
the Office of Intercontinental Indemnity and Bonding, here's dell m.
Have you located the item? I was in touch with
the party who sent me to sea. He led me
to it. Good now, a big bundle of garlic that
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spoke broken English and carried a large gun. As down
in possession of the item. Yeah, I'm sorry, but I'll
do my best to locate it. You mean he was
taken away from you all the point of a skull fracture.
Where's God? There's a slight jail break. He's loosen, probably
trying to find the little guy who helped him escape.
The little guy's got the item. I'd like to know
who gave you the tip on Carns. I think it's necessary.
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Either this little guy knew Khns at the item or
he knew he was going to lead him to it.
He busted him out of jail and then followed him.
He even knew my name, and when Conns questioned him,
he said that he was paid the releases. What did
this little man look like? Oh? Five feet four or five?
About two hundred used a knife on the break cut
of jailer's throat. Now look you bet it's up. Wait
a minute, why is it? Dollar? Open the door? What
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is it? Police? I'll call you back, all right, walkers intended? Okay, okay,
hello chief. Yeah, this is Sergeant Evans from the New
York Police.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh yeah, not too happy. I came down here with
the extradition papers for William Kahnes.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I had con until he split my head. I can't
help you now. Who is the guy who helped Conns escape?
I have no idea. I think that he's a lie
signor I think not. He knew your name. He called
you say your dollar. I still don't know who he is.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
If you got into the jail represent himself as a
newspaper man.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm an insurance investigator for what company? Free lance? Right now,
I'm working for Intercontinental Indemnity and Bonding. What did you want?
Must he cons for him? Old claimed? Tell me about it?
Call into Continental. They'll tell you that. I want you
to tell me about a dollar.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This is a confidential assign And William Kahnes has escaped.
You think I helped him?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I don't know. Oh shoot, they hired me and said
go down to Cuban Spring. William Kahn's out of jail.
Guy with a knife. What about him? He knew my name,
they're splitting his I have to I'm confused. The pick
with a knife killed one of my guards, Then go
get him. You're supposed to be a policeman.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Look, I think you'd better tell me everything.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's seven sure, sit down. I told Evans everything that
had happened from the time that I left the jail,
leaving out two details Maria the girl, and the Elgaio
and the jewels. I simply told Evans that I tailed
Conness who his apartment, and there we had a fight.
What did you fight about? I don't think he wanted
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to go back to jail. He's lying, scond. He knows
more than he's telling. And while you're sitting around with
your big fat mouth open, William Kahan's and the guy
who killed your jail are running around the loose. Do
not like the insults on your look? I got my
head caved in trying to catch cons for you. The
insult goes with the way I feel like.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You don't like to haul it. I'll take it easy.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, it's a little tough, you don't think, so I'll
try bleeding for an hour.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, okay, I'm gonna check with New York. You stick
around dollar. If you try to leave Cuba, that headache
is gonna get worse.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The Cuban police chief followed Sergeant Evan's out of the door,
and I gave them ten minutes head start before I
left the hotel and headed for the Elgaio. The bartender
gave me a dirty look that was writing character with
its surroundings, and I pulled myself up in a bar stool.
Maria was on the other side of the room, being
between the crowded tables and singing something in Spanish about
how they put the blame on Maine. She worked away
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over to the bar, and when she spotted me, she
smiled and used her beautiful brown eyes to point the
way after a room. I smiled back, split off the
bar stool, and went up the stairs at the rear
of the cafe. In a few minutes, I heard the
applause about the footsteps. Hello, Hello, I made myself comfortable.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Why no, and now, if you'll excuse me, I will
do the same.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
That's a pretty dress, but very uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I'll change. I'll be out in a moment.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
There's something to drink on the shelf by the window.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Do you find it?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah? How about you?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Please?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm sorry there's no light, just a formality. Ah makes
it more comfortable, but in the long run, you get
comfortable anyway. Well, I feel better, I'm sure you do.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yeah, crisis, and how do you feel?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm with you?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Did you find some of your cards?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes? Yes, I owe you a hundred and fifty dollar lady.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Okay, I still do not know your name.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Dollar, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
You make a good drink, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Just straight whiskey and straw.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
And you made it and that makes it a good drink.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Have you seen Carns since I left you.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
No, why do you want him? Johnny? Are you a policeman,
not a bit?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I'm an insurance investigator. What do you know about Carns? Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Very little. He came to Ivan about three months ago.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I met him one night downstairs, and I saw him
quite frequently after that. As I told you this afternoon,
he it was the best one around.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
He ever told you anything about himself, about his business,
how he lived, No.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Very little. He seemed to have money, not a great deal,
but enough.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You have any friends, No, I never saw him with any.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
He seemed always to be alone. He liked it that way.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
What about you, master, I explained you have.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I was the only person who spent any time with
and he was arrested. I believe it was for something
he did up in the United States, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
At any time? Do you remember seeing him with a
short cuban? Waited about two hundred times.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
No, Johnny, must we talk about Carnes.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It will bother me if I don't get it off
my mind.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
More then by all means, dog, I don't want you
to be bothered. All leavening Johnny.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Alright, but have you ever seen a man that fits
that description. If I have, I don't remember, dirty white suit,
straw hat, mean eyes, carries a long knife.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
No, Johnny, a man like that, I would forget anywhere. Okay, Johnny,
you look discouraged.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It happens when you run into a wall.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I should take it literally.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
No, No, but you have hurt your head, not a
walk a bedpost.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Oh your friend Carnes, he was swinging it.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Let me see sure, Oh Johnny, Poor Johnny, Yeah, poor Johnny.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It hurts. I always forgotten about it.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Did I help you to forget about it?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Immeasurably? But it still hurts a little.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Then you shouldn't think about it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I'll need some help, of course, huh. I'd figure it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
We don't have to answer.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I think we do. If you don't want to broken down,
only a policeman sounds like that, Oh Johnny, honey, do
I look happening alight?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah? I want to talk. You can tell me Stalin
and MacArthur. I just got married and i'd only look bored.
All right, let's go. How'd you find me? You would
tail from the hotel. I'll be back. I'll make book
on it only when I've got a winner.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I checked with New York and Color Middle Indemnity has
no record of having hired you what I said. They
have no record on Parlot having hired one Johnny Dolla
to do anything bore.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Roger Stern hired me. I've done a couple of jobs
for him in the pants. What company thought that might
have happened? Why didn't ask Stern? And I talked with
him just before you came over to the hotel. We checked.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
He told his company he was leaving town for a
couple of days.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Runner arrest until we do talk to Stern? Do you
know where he went?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We're checking. He didn't say, Oh, well, let's go. I
want to know all about this job. Were in a condilet.
Wait a minute, it's some other Carnes where he passed
by the front door.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Come on, you're pulling something got stupid? All right? Where there?
Look out? What heavens go get him? Heavns go. I
went after Carnes for three reasons. I went after him.
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I was confused, scared, and sore about a good cop
named Evans dying in a gun. Carnes was a blockhead
of me when I spotted him again, running fast and
looking back over his shoulder. I slammed myself against the building.
As he tried again, I gave it back to him.
He was still going, but he was dragging it. I'd
caught him with one, and he stumbled his way into
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an alley. I forgot about being cautious and went in
after him. The alley was too dark to see him,
so I put my back against the alley wall and
started edging my way forward. Give it up, conj your
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throw oh me, I'm in. Get me some help, practically
cut me in the half. Get me to a doctor.
He just killed somebody. I'm dying. Doctor. When you tell
me a few things, what please? Get a doctor. I'll
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tell you why were you busted out of jail? Who
wanted you out? The guy I was in on the
carter job with he put me up to it, gave
me the combination of the safe. He got the jewels
and the head of the Cuba. He didn't split with him. No,
I found out he wasn't after me, so I turned
myself into the law on an old wrap. He had
me busted out, so I led him to the jewels.
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It wasn't the little guy with the knighte. No. He
hired him too. Who is he Stern? Roger Stern works
for an insurance company.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, I know, he's Oh look, okay, okay, you get
your duck.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You stand up carns No, I guess you can. You're
not ever going to stand up again. Well, lard was Rogerstern.
The man who had hired me was the man I
was after. So I got to a phone and I
called it Havana Airport. The next plane from New York
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was doing in an hour, and because of my phone
called to Stern it was a good bet he would
be on it. To protect interests, I grabbed a cabin.
In fifteen minutes, I was sitting at it across the
street from the airport. The place was alive with Cuban police,
but they weren't looking for Stern. They were waiting for
Johnny Donna to try to leave Havanah. An hour and
five and later, my patients paid off when rogerster And
walked through the front doors and climbed into a cab
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and headed south with my cab right behind him. We
drove like that for about forty minutes until we reached
the outskirts of town and stopped on a dirt street
fronted by an Adobe building. My cab pulled up at
a safe distance behind, and I got out. Watch Stern
walk up to one of the buildings and knock on
the door. Someone rt them in, and I went around
back to see if I could find an unlocked window.
I did. I can hear voices coming from the front
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of the place, so I crawled in and picked my
way through the darkness. My spurs. I do not know
what talking. I know what I'm talking about. Eight hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
In joan eight hundred. Where would I get right at
that table? You don't have good point, no gun at me.
I did what you paid me for. I got seen
your contract. The jail for that dollar could follow me.
Dollar follow me?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Last night? He said you took those jews. Oh, I
think maybe this dollar was lying. I think I want
those drawls. I do not have them, saying I.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Warn you you do not want me, senor, I do
not scare of you. You better scare you wanted the murder, see,
and what are you wanted for? I cut a man's
throats you and can't steal the jewels.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It seems to me we are both wanted. I'm going
to get their jewels. No, then you do have them.
See I have them, but you're not going to have them.
I'm going to give you. Ten.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I told you I do not scare by you. I
do not scare by nobody. One You do not kill me. True,
you kill me, you go to jail.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You wanted the murder. I'll be helping a place straight,
whether about.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Khan senor what he said before, if it does have
been in South America.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Four without the jew No. Five by Senor.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You need money, you are trying to give it to me.
Six You do not have the insights to kill me.
Seven Senor, why do we not be practical?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Eight?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Half for you? For me?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Nine I should get shown to I got them for you?
Tamp okay, okay, where are it you might have?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Hey, you look surprised a little take it off, throwing
the middle of the form.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Dan, yourek. Don't anybody move here? It happened fast. Stern
spun around to face me, and One kept breaching for
his hat. Stern pointed his gun, and I thought I
was gonna have to shoot him, but One took care
of it as his stubby little arms when past his
collar had came up with that long knife. He'd thrown it,
bearing it to the hilt between Stern's shoulder blades. Then
he went for the gun, and the little fat man
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was lying on his back where two of my shots
had knocked him.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
He was as dead as he could get, and his
eyes were staring up at the ceiling, with the last
of his cigar smoke still clung through the dusty beams.
His straw hat was pushed back, and eight hundred thousand
and jewels had spilled out of his leather bag inside
and was spread on and around his fat face.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And the authorities finally straightened it out. That went something
like this. Stern needed money. He contacted Carnes and gave
him the combination to missus Carter's safe. Carnes got the
jewels all right, but he didn't split. He headed for Cuba,
but Stern found him and contacted the little killer, who
turned out to be one Juan Guillado. Stern then contacted me,
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and you know the rest. Juan got greedy like cons
and everybody got dead for it. Spencer count item three
three hundred dollars and payment for services rendered by one
Maria uh I forget the last name, but she was
very help Item four two hundred and sixteen dollars and
seventy three cents. Hotel bill and miscellanius Item five the
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same as Item two. Plain fairback to New York Item sis,
same as Item one, mileage to Hartford Spencer count total
seven hundred eight dollars and eighty three cents. Remarks I
have saved Intercontinental indemnity eight hundred thousand and mister Stern
was still an employee when he promised me that bonus.
If you think I've earned it, please forward it to
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my address in heartmon. If it takes more than two
weeks to clear, I am returning to Cuba for a vacation,
so you may send it to the Cantina Elgile, Yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Dollar, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Stars Edmund O'Brien in the
title role and was written by Blake Edwards with me
by Eddie Dunnstetter. Edmund O'Brien can now be seen starring
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in the Paramount Pictures production Warpath. Featured in the Night's
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Lillian Baia, and Stacey Herris, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, is
transcribed in Hollywood by him Davaier. This is Dan Coverley
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inviting him to join us next week at this time
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Speaker 2 (29:44):
Why we'll sing it CBS B for the best, Yes, yes, yes.
Besides that dress is CBS.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And remember raybel and Finched tire a string around your
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Bing Crosby has been on his summer holiday, but beginning
October third, being on his crew will return to this
their regular time. So joining the fun with bing Crosby
at this time on Wednesday, October third, from Hollywood. It's
time now for Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
As Johnny Dalla Roger Stern. Hello, missus Sterne, what can
I do for you? Job?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Be in my office at eight tomorrow morning and bring
a pactucation. Sure just like those You're going to Cuba.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh hot this time of year. Very See you at eight,
Missus Stern.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Edmund O'Brien and the transcribed adventurer of the Man with
the Action packed expenser.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Can America is fabulous.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yours truly, Johnny Dalla expenc account submitted by special Investigator
Johnny to a home office Intercontinental Indemnity and Bonding Company,
New York City. The following is an accounting of expenditures
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during my investigation of the Cuban Jewel matter. Expencer count
item one seven dollars and fifteen cents, mileage and incidentals
between Hartford and New York City. Good morning, nice here it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Is this company holds an insurance policy with a Missus
Lenore Carter eight hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Thousand on her jewels.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Uh huh, jewels stolen from Missus Carter safe months ago.
Please haven't been able to turn up a think, and
you've got to pay off by Monday. What's in Cuba?
We've got a tip. A man in Cuba knows where
the jewels are. He was supposed to have been in
on the robbery.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Okay, what's his name and where do I find him?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
William Carnes, He's in jail, in Nevana, in jail, Yes,
a waiting extradition this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
We love he's being brought back, not for the jewel tip.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
He's wanted in this state on a federal rep. Please
don't even know he was mixed up in the Carter
job and we're not telling him. Oh, when he gets back,
he's bound together at least ten years with.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
The Federal rep. And you want to know where he
snatched the jewels before they put him away exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He's lived in Cuba on North over a period of years,
and I believe it's reasonable to assume that the jewels
are somewhere in Avenna.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
He does a stretch and when he gets down he
picks up eight hundred thousand jewels. Might be worth ten years.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
If we tell the police now and they question him,
he'll never open his mouth. He's got to do the
ten years anyway. It's your job to find out whether
the Drews are before.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
He's at the idea. When are they're sending an officer
down to pick him up to day or tomorrow. You've
got to beat them there. I'll try.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
There'll be a bonus if you succeed. Like I said,
I'll try it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Spence Count had him two eight dollars and ninety cents
afair between New York and Havana, Cuba. When I arrived,
I checked through customs and got a tip hungry caddy
to take me to one of the better hotels where
I checked in, put on something cool, drank a tall
grass of something cooler, and headed to the local bassteal
where Stern had told me William Carnes was interned. Someone
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to see us in your cards.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Well, I'm just making a pot of tea.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Just call when you're finishing your thanks. Hello, cons you
bunk a fugitive. No, I'm not a cap I don't
think they'll be here to extradite gentil late this afternoon
or tomorrow morning. Okay, who are you? I'm a reporter, yeah,
names Dollar sent down here to get a story? You
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were I understand they want you on that mail jib.
You do, no story, no story? Move I stick you again,
I move on. What's uh? I don't know? That is
Senor cars we open the door. Peak, Hey, what is this?
(03:47):
What do you want you? I want you. What's the
idea of the knife?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
The idea, Senor, is to slip this pig's throat if
you should try to stop.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Us held the knight of the police chief's throat while
he motioned for cons to step out. He was dressed
in what used to be a white linen suit, and
he stood about five feet four, weighing in at around
two hundred. On top of his head, covering his shaggy
black hair, was a straw hat, and stuck in his
fat lips was a long black shirt. Between the smell
of garlic and cigar smoke, I began to feel what
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it might be like to come face to face with
a bilious dragon who sent you a friend. He will
go now, Senor ready, okay, thanks? What other? Now? Get
in his cell.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Big you eh see you ten your dollar, you will
go too.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
No. I took a look at his knife, thought about
the gun under my arm. Then I took a look
at his eyes. They made a panther look like the
Mona Liza.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I went besides, I didn't want to lose Carns. As
we passed through the squad room, I saw the two
guards lying off to the side on the floor.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
One is only unconscious. The other one tried to make
noise sleepy throat.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah. He followed me out on the street and climbed
into a car. As he drove away, he smiled a
mouthful of yellow teeth and waved one of his stubby arms.
I looked around for some help, but the street was
nearly deserted. I was about to go back into jail
and release the police chief when I looked down the
block and spotted Carnes ducking into a building. I went
after him. The sign over the door read Cantina el gaio,
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so I slowed down to a sprint went in. The
barroom was small and dark. Posters all over the wall
advertised everything from the government lottery, the both fights in highlight.
Cons was nowhere in sight. So I walked over to
a long bar and a lazy bartend and moved a
wet bar rack slowly up the counter to me some
for you, Mac. You're American, Yeah, but I got sold
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on Cist. Well, the guy go came in here just
before I did. I didn't see nobody. Look, I'm gonna
make this as painless as possible. A guy named Carnes
just ramped in here. Whether you know or not, you
couldn't have missed him. He didn't go back out the front.
I don't think i'll like you. I affect some people
that way. Where'll we go? I don't know what you're
talking about, the guy who just came in here. You know,
(06:09):
I think you're going to take your siesta early today,
a long one, but it's going to be uncomfortable. I
told you to beat it. When you tell me where
I can find Carns. He's got a lot of bottles
back here up, Well, line them up. I'll see if
I can shoot the corks out. Oh huh. Carnes went
up to see Maria door at the top of the stairs,
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right up the stairs, three at a time, and forgot
the knock. And they're standing in the middle of the
room was the best reason I could think of upholding
the good neighbor policy. South of the border, north of
the border, anywhere you looked at the geography was lovely.
See see where's Carnes?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Don't you think it would have been more polite than not?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I forget my manners when I'm in a hurry. Where's Carnes?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I don't know anybody named Carnes.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That isn't what the bartender said.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Whatever he said, I don't know anybody named Carnes.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
The bartender also said that Carnes came up here just
a little while ago.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Senor, you don't look like a man who believes everything
he hears.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I don't, generally, But I saw Corns come into the bar.
He didn't come out. Now where is he?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I think you're lying.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Please live, Senor.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Sure, where's your back door?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The way you came in?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Bad luck? Where is it behind the curtains?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Goodbye, Senor, I said, good bye, Senor.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I had trouble convincing the bartender. He said, Carns came
up here. Okay, I still need Carns. Do I convince
you to?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
How do you propose to convince.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Right now, times important one hundred dollars worth. I'm sorry, Senor,
I could be a bully. You might twist my arm.
I'm quite stubborn. Good, you're not twisting very hard. My
mind was on something else. My leap A bonus for
bringing in Carns two hundred interesting but not completely No. Three,
(08:05):
that's all my company can afford.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Very generous.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
How a leono Carnes, he.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Was the best one around?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Uh huh? What where can I find him? Three hundred
dollars one hundred and fifty Now, just to make sure
you give me the right address?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Do you have anyther Portfelio in a trace?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Thanks. I checked to see if my hair was on
fire and left the room filled with smoke. Downstairs, I
found out where to find they Haven't Eat a Portfyrio
and left. I Haven't eat a Portfyrio is about eight
blocks away and a dead end street. I found number three,
a tired buildings, slumped down in the middle of a
lot of other tired buildings. I tried the door and
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found it locked. So I braced myself against it and
as quietly as possible, tore it over. It seemed I
sprawled in just in times. See Carnes dive for address
a drawer. He stopped cold when he saw the thirty
eight in my hairy Okay, don't shoot, not unless you
make trouble. I've got funny riding habits. I even collect
stolen property. Oh oh, eight hundred thousand dollars in jewels?
(09:09):
Where is it? We could make a deal, we could,
but we won't. Come on, get it. I'm in a
nasty mood. You get at least five hundred grand a
defense stuff? Seazy to break up. They'll never trace it.
Do I have to get rough? Now? It's in a bedpost.
Running out of patience?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Okay, yeah you senor, huh, I will take those.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Remain facing the window. Mister Dollar, the guy who let
me out of jail.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
See how could I find what I want? If you
are locked in that field p jail? You had better
drop your revolver, mister Dollar. Well, now you can kick
it over to me. Eh yas, yes, no, you the Jews.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I don't get it, of course, not I do. No
bronto okay, goods, Yes, but you said a friend sent
you to get me out of jail.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
See a friend, of course, not my I think he
had good reason for wanting you out, So I follow
pretty good reason.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I think now i'd be rich. Why don't you let
me out?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I was supposed to let you out too. No, I
do not think you should come after me for a while.
I shoot pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Are the horse and once more glassy? Cons and I
both went for the time address it draw and it
was like barking day Inclines basement until Cons decided to
pick the bed post and start me on the siesta happen.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We'll return you to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in just
a moment Tomorrow night on most of these same CBS
radio stations, the FBI, in Peace and War goes to
work on the inside Story, an exciting bot between makers
and breakers of the law. You'll enjoy g Man Shepherd's
latest case, in which the inside story is one of
(11:15):
slick swindlers come to grips with the nation's number one
law enforcement agency. Tomorrow night on CBS Radio at the
Star's Address. Now with our Star, Edmund O'Brien will bring
you the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The hunk of metal bedposts had put me down and out.
When I finally came around the room was dark and cold.
I pulled myself up in my elbows and tried to
focus my eyes. My headache from the scalp wound over
my right ear, and through a window I could see
the moon pushing its way over the tops of the
buildings across the street. I felt awful. I'd lost the
eight hundred thousand jewels, William Khnes and enough blood to
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make a vampire do a shottage. I finally got to
my feet, stumbled out of the building, and managed to
find my way back to my hotel, where I washed
up and put in a cold to Roger Stern at
the Office of Intercontinental Indemnity and Bonding, here's dell m.
Have you located the item? I was in touch with
the party who sent me to sea. He led me
to it. Good now, a big bundle of garlic that
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spoke broken English and carried a large gun. As down
in possession of the item. Yeah, I'm sorry, but I'll
do my best to locate it. You mean he was
taken away from you all the point of a skull fracture.
Where's God? There's a slight jail break. He's loosen, probably
trying to find the little guy who helped him escape.
The little guy's got the item. I'd like to know
who gave you the tip on Carns. I think it's necessary.
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Either this little guy knew Khns at the item or
he knew he was going to lead him to it.
He busted him out of jail and then followed him.
He even knew my name, and when Conns questioned him,
he said that he was paid the releases. What did
this little man look like? Oh? Five feet four or five?
About two hundred used a knife on the break cut
of jailer's throat. Now look you bet it's up. Wait
a minute, why is it? Dollar? Open the door? What
(13:17):
is it? Police? I'll call you back, all right, walkers intended? Okay, okay,
hello chief. Yeah, this is Sergeant Evans from the New
York Police.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh yeah, not too happy. I came down here with
the extradition papers for William Kahnes.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I had con until he split my head. I can't
help you now. Who is the guy who helped Conns escape?
I have no idea. I think that he's a lie
signor I think not. He knew your name. He called
you say your dollar. I still don't know who he is.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
If you got into the jail represent himself as a
newspaper man.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm an insurance investigator for what company? Free lance? Right now,
I'm working for Intercontinental Indemnity and Bonding. What did you want?
Must he cons for him? Old claimed? Tell me about it?
Call into Continental. They'll tell you that. I want you
to tell me about a dollar.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This is a confidential assign And William Kahnes has escaped.
You think I helped him?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I don't know. Oh shoot, they hired me and said
go down to Cuban Spring. William Kahn's out of jail.
Guy with a knife. What about him? He knew my name,
they're splitting his I have to I'm confused. The pick
with a knife killed one of my guards, Then go
get him. You're supposed to be a policeman.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Look, I think you'd better tell me everything.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's seven sure, sit down. I told Evans everything that
had happened from the time that I left the jail,
leaving out two details Maria the girl, and the Elgaio
and the jewels. I simply told Evans that I tailed
Conness who his apartment, and there we had a fight.
What did you fight about? I don't think he wanted
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to go back to jail. He's lying, scond. He knows
more than he's telling. And while you're sitting around with
your big fat mouth open, William Kahan's and the guy
who killed your jail are running around the loose. Do
not like the insults on your look? I got my
head caved in trying to catch cons for you. The
insult goes with the way I feel like.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You don't like to haul it. I'll take it easy.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, it's a little tough, you don't think, so I'll
try bleeding for an hour.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, okay, I'm gonna check with New York. You stick
around dollar. If you try to leave Cuba, that headache
is gonna get worse.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The Cuban police chief followed Sergeant Evan's out of the door,
and I gave them ten minutes head start before I
left the hotel and headed for the Elgaio. The bartender
gave me a dirty look that was writing character with
its surroundings, and I pulled myself up in a bar stool.
Maria was on the other side of the room, being
between the crowded tables and singing something in Spanish about
how they put the blame on Maine. She worked away
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over to the bar, and when she spotted me, she
smiled and used her beautiful brown eyes to point the
way after a room. I smiled back, split off the
bar stool, and went up the stairs at the rear
of the cafe. In a few minutes, I heard the
applause about the footsteps. Hello, Hello, I made myself comfortable.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Why no, and now, if you'll excuse me, I will
do the same.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
That's a pretty dress, but very uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I'll change. I'll be out in a moment.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
There's something to drink on the shelf by the window.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Do you find it?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah? How about you?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Please?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm sorry there's no light, just a formality. Ah makes
it more comfortable, but in the long run, you get
comfortable anyway. Well, I feel better, I'm sure you do.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yeah, crisis, and how do you feel?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm with you?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Did you find some of your cards?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes? Yes, I owe you a hundred and fifty dollar lady.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Okay, I still do not know your name.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Dollar, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
You make a good drink, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Just straight whiskey and straw.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
And you made it and that makes it a good drink.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Have you seen Carns since I left you.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
No, why do you want him? Johnny? Are you a policeman,
not a bit?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I'm an insurance investigator. What do you know about Carns? Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Very little. He came to Ivan about three months ago.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I met him one night downstairs, and I saw him
quite frequently after that. As I told you this afternoon,
he it was the best one around.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
He ever told you anything about himself, about his business,
how he lived, No.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Very little. He seemed to have money, not a great deal,
but enough.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You have any friends, No, I never saw him with any.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
He seemed always to be alone. He liked it that way.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
What about you, master, I explained you have.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I was the only person who spent any time with
and he was arrested. I believe it was for something
he did up in the United States, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
At any time? Do you remember seeing him with a
short cuban? Waited about two hundred times.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
No, Johnny, must we talk about Carnes.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It will bother me if I don't get it off
my mind.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
More then by all means, dog, I don't want you
to be bothered. All leavening Johnny.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Alright, but have you ever seen a man that fits
that description. If I have, I don't remember, dirty white suit,
straw hat, mean eyes, carries a long knife.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
No, Johnny, a man like that, I would forget anywhere. Okay, Johnny,
you look discouraged.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
It happens when you run into a wall.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I should take it literally.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
No, No, but you have hurt your head, not a
walk a bedpost.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Oh your friend Carnes, he was swinging it.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Let me see sure, Oh Johnny, Poor Johnny, Yeah, poor Johnny.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It hurts. I always forgotten about it.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Did I help you to forget about it?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Immeasurably? But it still hurts a little.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Then you shouldn't think about it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I'll need some help, of course, huh. I'd figure it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
We don't have to answer.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I think we do. If you don't want to broken down,
only a policeman sounds like that, Oh Johnny, honey, do
I look happening alight?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah? I want to talk. You can tell me Stalin
and MacArthur. I just got married and i'd only look bored.
All right, let's go. How'd you find me? You would
tail from the hotel. I'll be back. I'll make book
on it only when I've got a winner.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I checked with New York and Color Middle Indemnity has
no record of having hired you what I said. They
have no record on Parlot having hired one Johnny Dolla
to do anything bore.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Roger Stern hired me. I've done a couple of jobs
for him in the pants. What company thought that might
have happened? Why didn't ask Stern? And I talked with
him just before you came over to the hotel. We checked.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
He told his company he was leaving town for a
couple of days.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Runner arrest until we do talk to Stern? Do you
know where he went?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We're checking. He didn't say, Oh, well, let's go. I
want to know all about this job. Were in a condilet.
Wait a minute, it's some other Carnes where he passed
by the front door.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Come on, you're pulling something got stupid? All right? Where there?
Look out? What heavens go get him? Heavns go. I
went after Carnes for three reasons. I went after him.
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I was confused, scared, and sore about a good cop
named Evans dying in a gun. Carnes was a blockhead
of me when I spotted him again, running fast and
looking back over his shoulder. I slammed myself against the building.
As he tried again, I gave it back to him.
He was still going, but he was dragging it. I'd
caught him with one, and he stumbled his way into
(20:50):
an alley. I forgot about being cautious and went in
after him. The alley was too dark to see him,
so I put my back against the alley wall and
started edging my way forward. Give it up, conj your
(21:14):
throw oh me, I'm in. Get me some help, practically
cut me in the half. Get me to a doctor.
He just killed somebody. I'm dying. Doctor. When you tell
me a few things, what please? Get a doctor. I'll
(21:38):
tell you why were you busted out of jail? Who
wanted you out? The guy I was in on the
carter job with he put me up to it, gave
me the combination of the safe. He got the jewels
and the head of the Cuba. He didn't split with him. No,
I found out he wasn't after me, so I turned
myself into the law on an old wrap. He had
me busted out, so I led him to the jewels.
(22:00):
It wasn't the little guy with the knighte. No. He
hired him too. Who is he Stern? Roger Stern works
for an insurance company.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, I know, he's Oh look, okay, okay, you get
your duck.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You stand up carns No, I guess you can. You're
not ever going to stand up again. Well, lard was Rogerstern.
The man who had hired me was the man I
was after. So I got to a phone and I
called it Havana Airport. The next plane from New York
(22:42):
was doing in an hour, and because of my phone
called to Stern it was a good bet he would
be on it. To protect interests, I grabbed a cabin.
In fifteen minutes, I was sitting at it across the
street from the airport. The place was alive with Cuban police,
but they weren't looking for Stern. They were waiting for
Johnny Donna to try to leave Havanah. An hour and
five and later, my patients paid off when rogerster And
walked through the front doors and climbed into a cab
(23:04):
and headed south with my cab right behind him. We
drove like that for about forty minutes until we reached
the outskirts of town and stopped on a dirt street
fronted by an Adobe building. My cab pulled up at
a safe distance behind, and I got out. Watch Stern
walk up to one of the buildings and knock on
the door. Someone rt them in, and I went around
back to see if I could find an unlocked window.
I did. I can hear voices coming from the front
(23:28):
of the place, so I crawled in and picked my
way through the darkness. My spurs. I do not know
what talking. I know what I'm talking about. Eight hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
In joan eight hundred. Where would I get right at
that table? You don't have good point, no gun at me.
I did what you paid me for. I got seen
your contract. The jail for that dollar could follow me.
Dollar follow me?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Last night? He said you took those jews. Oh, I
think maybe this dollar was lying. I think I want
those drawls. I do not have them, saying I.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Warn you you do not want me, senor, I do
not scare of you. You better scare you wanted the murder, see,
and what are you wanted for? I cut a man's
throats you and can't steal the jewels.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It seems to me we are both wanted. I'm going
to get their jewels. No, then you do have them.
See I have them, but you're not going to have them.
I'm going to give you. Ten.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I told you I do not scare by you. I
do not scare by nobody. One You do not kill me. True,
you kill me, you go to jail.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You wanted the murder. I'll be helping a place straight,
whether about.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Khan senor what he said before, if it does have
been in South America.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Four without the jew No. Five by Senor.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You need money, you are trying to give it to me.
Six You do not have the insights to kill me.
Seven Senor, why do we not be practical?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Eight?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Half for you? For me?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Nine I should get shown to I got them for you?
Tamp okay, okay, where are it you might have?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Hey, you look surprised a little take it off, throwing
the middle of the form.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Dan, yourek. Don't anybody move here? It happened fast. Stern
spun around to face me, and One kept breaching for
his hat. Stern pointed his gun, and I thought I
was gonna have to shoot him, but One took care
of it as his stubby little arms when past his
collar had came up with that long knife. He'd thrown it,
bearing it to the hilt between Stern's shoulder blades. Then
he went for the gun, and the little fat man
(25:39):
was lying on his back where two of my shots
had knocked him.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
He was as dead as he could get, and his
eyes were staring up at the ceiling, with the last
of his cigar smoke still clung through the dusty beams.
His straw hat was pushed back, and eight hundred thousand
and jewels had spilled out of his leather bag inside
and was spread on and around his fat face.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And the authorities finally straightened it out. That went something
like this. Stern needed money. He contacted Carnes and gave
him the combination to missus Carter's safe. Carnes got the
jewels all right, but he didn't split. He headed for Cuba,
but Stern found him and contacted the little killer, who
turned out to be one Juan Guillado. Stern then contacted me,
(26:32):
and you know the rest. Juan got greedy like cons
and everybody got dead for it. Spencer count item three
three hundred dollars and payment for services rendered by one
Maria uh I forget the last name, but she was
very help Item four two hundred and sixteen dollars and
seventy three cents. Hotel bill and miscellanius Item five the
(26:52):
same as Item two. Plain fairback to New York Item sis,
same as Item one, mileage to Hartford Spencer count total
seven hundred eight dollars and eighty three cents. Remarks I
have saved Intercontinental indemnity eight hundred thousand and mister Stern
was still an employee when he promised me that bonus.
If you think I've earned it, please forward it to
(27:13):
my address in heartmon. If it takes more than two
weeks to clear, I am returning to Cuba for a vacation,
so you may send it to the Cantina Elgile, Yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Dollar, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Stars Edmund O'Brien in the
title role and was written by Blake Edwards with me
by Eddie Dunnstetter. Edmund O'Brien can now be seen starring
(27:46):
in the Paramount Pictures production Warpath. Featured in the Night's
cast were Ted Osborne, Jack Khrushian, Barney Phillips, Nester, Piper,
Lillian Baia, and Stacey Herris, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, is
transcribed in Hollywood by him Davaier. This is Dan Coverley
(28:08):
inviting him to join us next week at this time
when Edmund O'Brien returns as yours truly, Johnny Dalla Defense
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