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Speaker 1 (00:03):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's time now for John Lund as.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
My name is DeFranco. Mister Dollar. I'm with the Claims
Division of Eastern Life and Trust.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
What can I do for you, mister de Franco?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Help me pay off a clam I?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Oh, well that's a new wrinkle.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah. One of my new policyholders passed away last month.
We can't see him to locate his beneficiary.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well maybe he doesn't want the money.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
So she Everybody wants money, especially insures money. Would you
like to take awak at it?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
What floor are you on, mister DeFranco, fourth four eighteen.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Just have to get off the elevator, turn to your left.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Be there in an hour.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
John Lund in the transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expenser, cop America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Here's surely Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollars two Claims Office,
Eastern Life and Trust Company, this City. The following is
an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
The Thelma Ibsen matter.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Expense account item won fifteen cents bus fare from my
apartment to Milton to Franco's office, where we got right
down the bit.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He deceased was a man named John Linnon. He made
his living selling papers in front of the Metropolitan buildings
all on Third Street.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yes, did you ever say, Yeah, I guess I have somehow.
You never think of someone like that leaving insurance money. No,
he don't.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
But he took out two policies November the fifth, nineteen forty,
both of them five hundred dollars life. So he has
an estate of one thousand dollars that we have to
give to a person named Thelma Ibsen, his daughter or something,
or just someone who stopped and talked to him one day.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
She must have had quite a line.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, he thinks so, but I doubt it. He was
only ten years old at the time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I got all this from the agent who wrote up
the Promisy used to buy his papers from Old John.
One day he told the agent he wanted to take
out some life insurance so he could do something nice
for a little girl he'd met that afternoon.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And I said, quite a profitable meeting for her. Huh. Yeah,
of course.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
A thousand dollars in a lot of money these days,
But from him it's a lot. Yeah, Ibsen must be
twenty three or four.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But now I'd like to see her face when she.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Gets that insurance check and finds out who it's from
and why might prove something about something?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah I could. Or maybe she isn't doing nice things
for people anymore. Well, let's hope she is.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I keep thinking that old man out there hustling papers
every day to make his dollar fifty two in premiums
every week. He gets me somehow.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
He only saw it that one day in his life.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The local address for Thoma Ebsen was two hundred and
thirteen brain Bridge. From neighbors, I learned that Thomas's parents
had been killed in an automobile accident in nineteen forty five.
She'd moved Crosstown to live with an ant or, missus
Mary Seely. Missus Ceely died in nineteen fifty. Again, Thoma
had moved where nobody seemed to know, but they didn't
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know where she'd been working at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
One of the girls there.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Was brought into the manager's office.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Yet she quit without notice a couple of years ago.
She just didn't come back.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Were you a friend of hers?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yes, we were good friends. Used to have lunch.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Together every day.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
We started here together too.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I see have you heard from her now? Any idea
where she might have gone in New York?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I think it's the closest place to go.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Isn't it funny? She didn't write anybody or say anything
when she left. Don't you think?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But Elna was like that, like what, Well.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Don't misunderstand me.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
She was a real sweet girl.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
But there was something you could tell about her. R
right away when you met her. She had plans of Roman.
She just kept him to herself. You don't suppose anything's
happened to her.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I'm just trying to locate her. Did uh she ever
talk about going to the ark?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh? What did she talk about?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Oh about meeting someone and getting married?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Was she going with anyone when she disappeared? Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Couple people around the office.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Are they still around?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
She think so?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Was she going to talk to them?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'd like her.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
They haven't heard from her either, No one had. She
just planed that bag.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And package at the apartment hotel where she'd been living
since her aunt's death.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I learned that Thelma Ibsen had suddenly checked out with
all of her belongings around.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Christmas of nineteen fifty no forwarding address. The hospital, jail
and Morgue records for the previous two years were covered.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Nothing came up.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
A high school annual provided a fairly good picture of
a tall, smiling girl with a pleasant face looking out.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
From under a minor cap.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
A motor vehicle bureau recorded a driver's license issued in
her name. A right thumb and forefinger print came with it.
The picture, the prints, and all available information went into
a file.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Thelma Ibsen became a missing person two days later.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
The people at her office were re questioned, and then
one of them recall a man that she had been
seen with just before her disappearance. Spencer carn Adam two
fifteen dollars Transportation and Incidental's Hartford and New York for
the purpose of locating a mister Floyd Turnbull for possible
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information concerning Thomoy Ibsen s whereabouts. I made a list
of the Floyd Turnbull's in the city directory and set
out to interview each one. The right man happened to
be number five on my list. Yes, of course I know.
Tell my Ibsen, mister dollar, if you say you're from
an insurance company, that's right, mister Turnbull.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Can you tell me where she is right now?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm afraid I can't. Uh, the shut down, mister Dollar
should down.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Understand you knew her in Hertford, That's right, I didn't.
She came here to New York with me. Oh, let
me assure you there was nothing improper about it. When
I met Thelma when she was working in one of
the officers I do business with there. And uh, when
I suggested that she drived in New York with me,
I did it with the understanding that we were to
be married here.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I see.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No one could've been more surprised than I when she disappeared.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You mean here in New York? Yes? But when was this?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It was Christmas Eve of nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thelma was staying with my sister Edna in Westchester.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I picked her up.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
About six in the evening to go to a party,
and we stopped for gasoline somewhere between here and Long Island.
I left the car for a moment. When I came back,
she was gone.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And you haven't seen her since.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You know, I haven't seen her since.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well. Did she leave a note in the car message
of some kind? Nothing? Not a word, and she hasn't
gotten in touch with it at all. No, she's never written.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I can't quite get with this.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You were going to be married and she disappeared in
a filling stateation on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Did you argue or something? No?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I don't think I would ever have argued with Helma.
She was kind and sweet and gentle in all things.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
To me.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Your appearance here and these questions bringing back the memory
very strongly.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
How long had you known her before you decided to
get married?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
About three weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Do you have any idea why she walked away?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, but I doubt if it's of any practical value
to you. Well, any information I can get would be
very helpful in locating her, mister Turmbull, alright, then, I
think she was frightened of what of life, mister Dollar.
Not people or circumstance.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
But life. You say that with a lot of convictions.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yes, Thelma had always been well, a poor girl. She
worked instead of going to college. She lived with a
rather dowdy Anne, who died just before I met her.
Her parents had been killed in an accident a few
years before. I think I offered her happiness that she
always longed for but she simply wasn't mature enough or
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adjusted well enough to accept it. But this is a
new value, isn't.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well? It might be.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Did you know of any ambitions she had? Maybe she
wanted to go on the stage. She simply wanted to
be my wife and live here. Oh, I can see
what you're thinking. I'm old enough to be her father,
But that's not the reason she walked away from that car.
Believe me, mister Dollar. Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that girl
was very much in love with me and wanted to
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marry me.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Tell me, have you tried to find her?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No? I have not. I waited around the filling station
that night hoping she'd return, but I didn't report the
matter to the police, and intended to hire private detectives
to locate her.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But I gave that up too.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, I don't understand if you loved her, well, would
this make it understandable? Dollar, Thelma was a rational, normal
human being when I left her in that car. No
one forced her away from it or me. The man
at the station said, she merely stepped out and disappeared
down the street. She left of her own free will
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for her own reasons.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, I think I can see your point.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Thank you, mister dollar. I hoped that one day she'd
appear at my door, contact me, come to me, but
she hasn't. Is there any way I can help you
more concretely? Well, if you could tell me the exact
location of that filling station, I if I can do that.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But why last place she was seen alive?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh? That word alive?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Just a word, mister Turnler. Tell me. Do you suppose
she had any money when she left?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Why do you ask? Well, she'd have had to go
to work if she didn't. Maybe she'll see. Yes, she
had money quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
How much?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Twenty three hundred dollars? Oh? She stole it from me,
mister dollar. I left my wallet in my overcoat. She
took it while I was gone. I would have given
her all this, everything, but she had to steal it
from me. She had to steal it like a common
little thief. Hm. It's truly no fool, like an old fool,
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is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
When I left Turnbull, it struck me.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Here was the second elderly man in fell me Ibsen's life.
One had given her money which she wasn't around to receive.
And from this one she'd taken money and didn't wait
around to say thanks. Spencer, can Adam three fifty dollars
and fifty cents car Rattle and incidentals involved in checking
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Floyd Turnbull's story A your oil company owned and operated
at the filling station where the Ibsen had been seen last.
Their payroll records named three attendants on duty Christmas Eve
nineteen fifty. I located and interviewed all three and closed
fine statement of Earl Camden.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Sure sure I remember that chick better look in this picture.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I'll tell you that. Well. Anyway, she drove in with
the old guy.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
See he hadn't.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Been away from the car more in twenty seconds before,
For she was out and walking down the street as
fast she could go. When he came back and as
what happened to her, I told him well, and he
went back and sat in each car for maybe a
couple hours, just waiting for her. I knew she was
gone for good. I felt sorry for the old geezer.
She shouldn't have run. I like that Christmas Eve and all.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Edna Turnbulle Spencer, Westchester, verified her brother's story. Thelma Ibsen
had left all of her clothes at the house. Missus
Spencer had not heard a word from her since Christmas
Eve of nineteen fifty. The matter went to the New
York Police Missing Persons Bureau. A check on the Morgan
Hospital records was unsuccessful. However, the police fingerprint files turned
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up an interesting lead.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Mister minor drunk, disturbing the peace. She was fined twenty
five bucks a night court April twenty fifth, nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
What's the address?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Twelve twelve Yardly.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Twelve twelve Yardly? Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
At the address on Yardly, I learned to fel my
absinent move eight months before. Again, there was no forwarding address.
The landlady turned out to be quite talkative.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
However, I'm glad she moved from here, mister badder, I'd
like to hear this kind of it. I'm offullet glad
she moved from here.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Why do you say that, Missus brettan Oh.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Noisy parties all the time. I read a quiet games
for quietly?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What do you know? Yes, yes, I'm sure, but I
thought she was.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
The quiet time when she took the apartment, or I'd
never given it to her. She told me she was secretary,
that she worked down.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The town did she say where?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh no, and she didn't work.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
How could she? She was out every night and slept
most of the day. And then we used to come
to see her.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Honesty. Do you know any of them, missus preterce, Oh.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
No, just men, all kinds, all sorts.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You see. Was she friendly with anybody in the building.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Did she go with any particular man. I couldn't see.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
All I can tell you say, I'm glad she doesn't
give you anymore. I'm awfully glad.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
The more people I talked to, the more I learned
about Thoma Ebsen, and the less I liked what I heard.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I went back to this.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It had occurred to me that hardly anyone has ever
arrested for being drunk and disturbing the peace alone.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I was right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
The night court files revealed that Thelma Ibsen had been
arrested with eight other people. I took down their names
and began to check them out. Number six down the
line was a man named Unger who was in the
hosiery business. Yes, he remembered tell me Ibsen very well. No,
he hadn't seen her for six months, but he could
tell me where she lived. He did, and I went there.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yes, sir, may I help you? I'm looking for mistellma Ibsen. Oh,
I'll ring a room. Is she expecting you? No? My
name is Dollar. It's a business matter, mister Dollar.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That's right, just a moment, I'm ringing.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Well, I don't understand that what she came in about
a half hour ago. I know she's up there, or
maybe she came out again. Who i'd have seen her.
I've been at the desk all the time. Well, if
that is the strangest.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Thing, maybe she's visiting one of the other apartments, fabs.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Would you like to leave a message?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Mister Dollar, would be okay if I go up and
camp on her doorstep.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I've been looking for her for a long time, of course.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I took the elevator up to the fifteenth floor and
walked down the hall to Thelma Ibsen's apartment. The door
was standing partially open. All the lights seemed to be on.
Miss Ibsen. Miss Ibsen, miss Ibsen.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Go back, get away from this room?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
What get away? All, Joe?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I'd found Thelma Ibsen. Only she was standing on a
ledge outside the window, already for a leap into eternity.
We'll return to yours truly Johnny Dollar. In just a moment. Now,
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with our star John Lunn, we'll bring you the second
act of yours truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Don't come any Tosa.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I won't.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Telma what you better? Come in now.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You don't want to do this, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's cold out there. Don't you think you should come inside?
You're going to jump?
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Stay away now, don't try to grab me.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I'll do anything you say. Toma. Okay, I never saw
you before. How do you know my name? I've seen you?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I remember people watch. Just gonna light a cigarette? Do
you want me? No? Can I have one?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Alright?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Where did you see.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Me in a picture in your high school annual? You
went to high school in Hartford?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You know you?
Speaker 7 (18:46):
What's your name?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Johnny Dollar? Are you from Hartford? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Step over there, let me see your face in the light.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
No, you aren't from Hartford?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Lying to me?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Mr?
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Jump, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Go ahead, call the police, yes, of course, of course.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Why did your time to call the police. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
They can't stop me.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Nobody can stop me.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Maybe they won't even try somebe oh, I know they will.
They'll talk to me. Just the way you're talking.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
They try to get close enough to grab me. I
wanted somebody to call the police. I want them all
down there waiting for me to jump, and the crowd's
big enough, I'll jump right down there. I'm not afraid
to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Why do you want to jump, Thumber? I have my reasons.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Look, it's a couple of people down there who see me.
They'd like to see me jump.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't think they'd like to see that at all, Tumber.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Oh, yes they would. They might say they wouldn't, but
they'll hang around. If I don't jump, they'll be disappointed.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Nobody wants you to jump, Thelma, Sure they do.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Those people down there would love to see it happen.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You'd like it too. If I wanted to see you jump,
I'd be waiting on the street with those people. But
I don't wanna see you do that. I neither do they.
I want you to live with THEMBA.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
That's more people down there now. Oh, getting the big
lights up your gun.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Tell'm a look if you're broke, If you need money.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Now, come to be closer. I told you before I.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Wanna help you, Talma.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Nobody wants to help me nobody's ever wanted to help me.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You're wrong about that. Floyd Turnbull wanted to help you.
Floyd Turnbull you met.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Him, yes, and he's still very much in love with you.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
After I stole money from him and walked out on him.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
The money meant nothing. He still loves your thema.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Thema, I don't love him. I never loved him.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
He thought so. He was just nice. Why did you
leave him that way?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
I'm no good, never have been. You know, I've never
been any good to anybody.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Would you like to talk to Floyd?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
No, I don't wanna talk to him or anybody I know.
But after I jump, I want you to tell Floyd something. Sure,
Tell him I meant to send the money back to him.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I didn't think it was that much.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Tell him I never was any good at all, but
I loved him because of that.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Alright, you can tell him I loved him.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
He feel good, I think.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Alright, go back, don't kill you.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I go back, jump right now?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Wait close that hall door. Do you want to see
me jump?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You'll have to watch them the street down there with
the others.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Hold it.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Is he a policeman, I suppose so, I don't know
he looked foolish.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We all look foolish at one time or another. It passes.
Do I look foolish? Yes, Toma, you do. You're not
going through with this.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
In the end, You'll come back into this room and
everybody down there will go home.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
That isn't true.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You know the For the first time in.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
My life, I know exactly what I want to do,
how I want to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I'm gonna jump from.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
What I know about you. I thought you always knew
pretty much what you wanted out of life.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
I never knew anything, and it's all botched up. I'd
be happy one minute and crying the next. Things kept
happening all the time, got took tires. My mom and
Daddy died.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I shoulda died too. Then I wouldn't be here making
all those.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
People down there had bad.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Dreams for weeks to come. I should have been with
him when they were killed in that car.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Well won't be long.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I won't be tired anymore.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Tell him I waited.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Wait for what.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You say. You've talked to people who've known.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Me, who know what I was.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
And what I am. I didn't turn out the way
they wanted me to do.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Good I didn't.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Even turn out the way I.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Why should I wait?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
One man I didn't talk too had more faith in
you than anybody else. He was an old man who
sold newspapers in front of the Metropolitan Building. His name
was John Lyndon, Old John Bema, Old John, Old John.
You met him one day when you were a little girl.
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It meant a lot in his life, an awful lot.
Do you remember, Old John?
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Yes, we downtown after school, look in the windows, had
a nick on.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I bought a paper from this old man.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I talked to him. He said I was a very
nice girl.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
And he asked me my name and where I lived.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
What did you talk about, Tomma, about.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
School and abob growing up? He told me I'd grow
up someday be a lovely woman.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He sit a lovely woman. He was very nice.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
What else did you talk about school? He asked me
what grade I was in.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Let's see, I guess I was in the.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Fifth grade, or maybe the sixth. It was such a
long time ago, but you remember it, of course I
remember it.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Now.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Where's John now?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
He died a month ago that he left you all
his money? What money? What money?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Would that poor old man have insurance money comes to
a thousand dollars lying, No, I'm not the man. That's
why I've been looking for you. It's my job to
see that you get the money that he left for you.
He wanted you to have it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Why, I didn't know him, only that afternoon, but he
wanted to help you. You're making all this up.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
It's all a lie.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
No, no, look what he's proved from the insurance company
here dug him over all, right, You see, he wanted
you to have something.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
It old man, that cool man.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I want to stop to talk to it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Expense account Item four, three fifty martinis. I needed them.
It was my first, and I hope my last, experience
with an intended suicide. The psychiatrists who examined and treated
Thelma Ibsen believed that she would make a complete recovery
in time. They say it'll take months to determine the
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exact cause of her breakdown, But as far as we're concerned,
the case is closed.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Claim filed.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Expense account item five, same as item two. Transportation back
to Hartford. Total eighty four dollars and fifteen sense yours, truly,
Johnny Dallen Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars John lundon the
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title role and is written by E. Jack Newman with
music by Eddie Dunsteader. John Lunn can currently be seen
in the Universal International Picture Just Across the Street. Featured
in tonight's cast were Tom Tully, Jennette Nolan, John McIntyre,
Joe Kerns and Virginia Greg Yours Truly, Johnny Dollars. Transcribed
in Hollywood by him Davayer. This is Dan cubberly inviting
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you to join us next week at this time when
John Lunn returns as Yours Truly, Johnny Dallen
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's time now for John Lund as.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
My name is DeFranco. Mister Dollar. I'm with the Claims
Division of Eastern Life and Trust.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
What can I do for you, mister de Franco?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Help me pay off a clam I?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Oh, well that's a new wrinkle.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah. One of my new policyholders passed away last month.
We can't see him to locate his beneficiary.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well maybe he doesn't want the money.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
So she Everybody wants money, especially insures money. Would you
like to take awak at it?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
What floor are you on, mister DeFranco, fourth four eighteen.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Just have to get off the elevator, turn to your left.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Be there in an hour.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
John Lund in the transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expenser, cop America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Here's surely Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollars two Claims Office,
Eastern Life and Trust Company, this City. The following is
an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
The Thelma Ibsen matter.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Expense account item won fifteen cents bus fare from my
apartment to Milton to Franco's office, where we got right
down the bit.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He deceased was a man named John Linnon. He made
his living selling papers in front of the Metropolitan buildings
all on Third Street.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yes, did you ever say, Yeah, I guess I have somehow.
You never think of someone like that leaving insurance money. No,
he don't.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
But he took out two policies November the fifth, nineteen forty,
both of them five hundred dollars life. So he has
an estate of one thousand dollars that we have to
give to a person named Thelma Ibsen, his daughter or something,
or just someone who stopped and talked to him one day.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
She must have had quite a line.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, he thinks so, but I doubt it. He was
only ten years old at the time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I got all this from the agent who wrote up
the Promisy used to buy his papers from Old John.
One day he told the agent he wanted to take
out some life insurance so he could do something nice
for a little girl he'd met that afternoon.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And I said, quite a profitable meeting for her. Huh. Yeah,
of course.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
A thousand dollars in a lot of money these days,
But from him it's a lot. Yeah, Ibsen must be
twenty three or four.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But now I'd like to see her face when she.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Gets that insurance check and finds out who it's from
and why might prove something about something?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah I could. Or maybe she isn't doing nice things
for people anymore. Well, let's hope she is.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I keep thinking that old man out there hustling papers
every day to make his dollar fifty two in premiums
every week. He gets me somehow.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
He only saw it that one day in his life.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The local address for Thoma Ebsen was two hundred and
thirteen brain Bridge. From neighbors, I learned that Thomas's parents
had been killed in an automobile accident in nineteen forty five.
She'd moved Crosstown to live with an ant or, missus
Mary Seely. Missus Ceely died in nineteen fifty. Again, Thoma
had moved where nobody seemed to know, but they didn't
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know where she'd been working at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
One of the girls there.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Was brought into the manager's office.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Yet she quit without notice a couple of years ago.
She just didn't come back.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Were you a friend of hers?
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yes, we were good friends. Used to have lunch.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Together every day.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
We started here together too.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I see have you heard from her now? Any idea
where she might have gone in New York?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I think it's the closest place to go.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Isn't it funny? She didn't write anybody or say anything
when she left. Don't you think?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But Elna was like that, like what, Well.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Don't misunderstand me.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
She was a real sweet girl.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
But there was something you could tell about her. R
right away when you met her. She had plans of Roman.
She just kept him to herself. You don't suppose anything's
happened to her.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I'm just trying to locate her. Did uh she ever
talk about going to the ark?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh? What did she talk about?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Oh about meeting someone and getting married?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Was she going with anyone when she disappeared? Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Couple people around the office.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Are they still around?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
She think so?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Was she going to talk to them?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'd like her.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
They haven't heard from her either, No one had. She
just planed that bag.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
And package at the apartment hotel where she'd been living
since her aunt's death.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I learned that Thelma Ibsen had suddenly checked out with
all of her belongings around.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Christmas of nineteen fifty no forwarding address. The hospital, jail
and Morgue records for the previous two years were covered.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Nothing came up.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
A high school annual provided a fairly good picture of
a tall, smiling girl with a pleasant face looking out.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
From under a minor cap.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
A motor vehicle bureau recorded a driver's license issued in
her name. A right thumb and forefinger print came with it.
The picture, the prints, and all available information went into
a file.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Thelma Ibsen became a missing person two days later.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
The people at her office were re questioned, and then
one of them recall a man that she had been
seen with just before her disappearance. Spencer carn Adam two
fifteen dollars Transportation and Incidental's Hartford and New York for
the purpose of locating a mister Floyd Turnbull for possible
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information concerning Thomoy Ibsen s whereabouts. I made a list
of the Floyd Turnbull's in the city directory and set
out to interview each one. The right man happened to
be number five on my list. Yes, of course I know.
Tell my Ibsen, mister dollar, if you say you're from
an insurance company, that's right, mister Turnbull.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Can you tell me where she is right now?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm afraid I can't. Uh, the shut down, mister Dollar
should down.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Understand you knew her in Hertford, That's right, I didn't.
She came here to New York with me. Oh, let
me assure you there was nothing improper about it. When
I met Thelma when she was working in one of
the officers I do business with there. And uh, when
I suggested that she drived in New York with me,
I did it with the understanding that we were to
be married here.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I see.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No one could've been more surprised than I when she disappeared.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You mean here in New York? Yes? But when was this?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It was Christmas Eve of nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thelma was staying with my sister Edna in Westchester.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I picked her up.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
About six in the evening to go to a party,
and we stopped for gasoline somewhere between here and Long Island.
I left the car for a moment. When I came back,
she was gone.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And you haven't seen her since.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You know, I haven't seen her since.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well. Did she leave a note in the car message
of some kind? Nothing? Not a word, and she hasn't
gotten in touch with it at all. No, she's never written.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I can't quite get with this.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You were going to be married and she disappeared in
a filling stateation on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Did you argue or something? No?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I don't think I would ever have argued with Helma.
She was kind and sweet and gentle in all things.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
To me.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Your appearance here and these questions bringing back the memory
very strongly.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
How long had you known her before you decided to
get married?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
About three weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Do you have any idea why she walked away?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, but I doubt if it's of any practical value
to you. Well, any information I can get would be
very helpful in locating her, mister Turmbull, alright, then, I
think she was frightened of what of life, mister Dollar.
Not people or circumstance.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
But life. You say that with a lot of convictions.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yes, Thelma had always been well, a poor girl. She
worked instead of going to college. She lived with a
rather dowdy Anne, who died just before I met her.
Her parents had been killed in an accident a few
years before. I think I offered her happiness that she
always longed for but she simply wasn't mature enough or
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adjusted well enough to accept it. But this is a
new value, isn't.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well? It might be.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Did you know of any ambitions she had? Maybe she
wanted to go on the stage. She simply wanted to
be my wife and live here. Oh, I can see
what you're thinking. I'm old enough to be her father,
But that's not the reason she walked away from that car.
Believe me, mister Dollar. Unless I'm terribly mistaken, that girl
was very much in love with me and wanted to
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marry me.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Tell me, have you tried to find her?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No? I have not. I waited around the filling station
that night hoping she'd return, but I didn't report the
matter to the police, and intended to hire private detectives
to locate her.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But I gave that up too.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, I don't understand if you loved her, well, would
this make it understandable? Dollar, Thelma was a rational, normal
human being when I left her in that car. No
one forced her away from it or me. The man
at the station said, she merely stepped out and disappeared
down the street. She left of her own free will
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for her own reasons.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, I think I can see your point.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Thank you, mister dollar. I hoped that one day she'd
appear at my door, contact me, come to me, but
she hasn't. Is there any way I can help you
more concretely? Well, if you could tell me the exact
location of that filling station, I if I can do that.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But why last place she was seen alive?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh? That word alive?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Just a word, mister Turnler. Tell me. Do you suppose
she had any money when she left?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Why do you ask? Well, she'd have had to go
to work if she didn't. Maybe she'll see. Yes, she
had money quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
How much?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Twenty three hundred dollars? Oh? She stole it from me,
mister dollar. I left my wallet in my overcoat. She
took it while I was gone. I would have given
her all this, everything, but she had to steal it
from me. She had to steal it like a common
little thief. Hm. It's truly no fool, like an old fool,
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is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
When I left Turnbull, it struck me.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Here was the second elderly man in fell me Ibsen's life.
One had given her money which she wasn't around to receive.
And from this one she'd taken money and didn't wait
around to say thanks. Spencer, can Adam three fifty dollars
and fifty cents car Rattle and incidentals involved in checking
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Floyd Turnbull's story A your oil company owned and operated
at the filling station where the Ibsen had been seen last.
Their payroll records named three attendants on duty Christmas Eve
nineteen fifty. I located and interviewed all three and closed
fine statement of Earl Camden.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Sure sure I remember that chick better look in this picture.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I'll tell you that. Well. Anyway, she drove in with
the old guy.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
See he hadn't.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Been away from the car more in twenty seconds before,
For she was out and walking down the street as
fast she could go. When he came back and as
what happened to her, I told him well, and he
went back and sat in each car for maybe a
couple hours, just waiting for her. I knew she was
gone for good. I felt sorry for the old geezer.
She shouldn't have run. I like that Christmas Eve and all.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Edna Turnbulle Spencer, Westchester, verified her brother's story. Thelma Ibsen
had left all of her clothes at the house. Missus
Spencer had not heard a word from her since Christmas
Eve of nineteen fifty. The matter went to the New
York Police Missing Persons Bureau. A check on the Morgan
Hospital records was unsuccessful. However, the police fingerprint files turned
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up an interesting lead.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Mister minor drunk, disturbing the peace. She was fined twenty
five bucks a night court April twenty fifth, nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
What's the address?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Twelve twelve Yardly.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Twelve twelve Yardly? Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
At the address on Yardly, I learned to fel my
absinent move eight months before. Again, there was no forwarding address.
The landlady turned out to be quite talkative.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
However, I'm glad she moved from here, mister badder, I'd
like to hear this kind of it. I'm offullet glad
she moved from here.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Why do you say that, Missus brettan Oh.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Noisy parties all the time. I read a quiet games
for quietly?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What do you know? Yes, yes, I'm sure, but I
thought she was.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
The quiet time when she took the apartment, or I'd
never given it to her. She told me she was secretary,
that she worked down.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The town did she say where?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh no, and she didn't work.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
How could she? She was out every night and slept
most of the day. And then we used to come
to see her.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Honesty. Do you know any of them, missus preterce, Oh.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
No, just men, all kinds, all sorts.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You see. Was she friendly with anybody in the building.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Did she go with any particular man. I couldn't see.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
All I can tell you say, I'm glad she doesn't
give you anymore. I'm awfully glad.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
The more people I talked to, the more I learned
about Thoma Ebsen, and the less I liked what I heard.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I went back to this.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It had occurred to me that hardly anyone has ever
arrested for being drunk and disturbing the peace alone.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I was right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
The night court files revealed that Thelma Ibsen had been
arrested with eight other people. I took down their names
and began to check them out. Number six down the
line was a man named Unger who was in the
hosiery business. Yes, he remembered tell me Ibsen very well. No,
he hadn't seen her for six months, but he could
tell me where she lived. He did, and I went there.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yes, sir, may I help you? I'm looking for mistellma Ibsen. Oh,
I'll ring a room. Is she expecting you? No? My
name is Dollar. It's a business matter, mister Dollar.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That's right, just a moment, I'm ringing.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Well, I don't understand that what she came in about
a half hour ago. I know she's up there, or
maybe she came out again. Who i'd have seen her.
I've been at the desk all the time. Well, if
that is the strangest.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Thing, maybe she's visiting one of the other apartments, fabs.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Would you like to leave a message?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Mister Dollar, would be okay if I go up and
camp on her doorstep.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I've been looking for her for a long time, of course.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I took the elevator up to the fifteenth floor and
walked down the hall to Thelma Ibsen's apartment. The door
was standing partially open. All the lights seemed to be on.
Miss Ibsen. Miss Ibsen, miss Ibsen.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Go back, get away from this room?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
What get away? All, Joe?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I'd found Thelma Ibsen. Only she was standing on a
ledge outside the window, already for a leap into eternity.
We'll return to yours truly Johnny Dollar. In just a moment. Now,
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with our star John Lunn, we'll bring you the second
act of yours truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Don't come any Tosa.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I won't.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Telma what you better? Come in now.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You don't want to do this, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's cold out there. Don't you think you should come inside?
You're going to jump?
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Stay away now, don't try to grab me.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I'll do anything you say. Toma. Okay, I never saw
you before. How do you know my name? I've seen you?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
No, you haven't.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I remember people watch. Just gonna light a cigarette? Do
you want me? No? Can I have one?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Alright?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Where did you see.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Me in a picture in your high school annual? You
went to high school in Hartford?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You know you?
Speaker 7 (18:46):
What's your name?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Johnny Dollar? Are you from Hartford? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Step over there, let me see your face in the light.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
No, you aren't from Hartford?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Lying to me?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Mr?
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Jump, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Go ahead, call the police, yes, of course, of course.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Why did your time to call the police. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
They can't stop me.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Nobody can stop me.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Maybe they won't even try somebe oh, I know they will.
They'll talk to me. Just the way you're talking.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
They try to get close enough to grab me. I
wanted somebody to call the police. I want them all
down there waiting for me to jump, and the crowd's
big enough, I'll jump right down there. I'm not afraid
to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Why do you want to jump, Thumber? I have my reasons.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Look, it's a couple of people down there who see me.
They'd like to see me jump.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't think they'd like to see that at all, Tumber.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Oh, yes they would. They might say they wouldn't, but
they'll hang around. If I don't jump, they'll be disappointed.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Nobody wants you to jump, Thelma, Sure they do.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Those people down there would love to see it happen.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You'd like it too. If I wanted to see you jump,
I'd be waiting on the street with those people. But
I don't wanna see you do that. I neither do they.
I want you to live with THEMBA.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
That's more people down there now. Oh, getting the big
lights up your gun.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Tell'm a look if you're broke, If you need money.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Now, come to be closer. I told you before I.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Wanna help you, Talma.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Nobody wants to help me nobody's ever wanted to help me.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You're wrong about that. Floyd Turnbull wanted to help you.
Floyd Turnbull you met.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Him, yes, and he's still very much in love with you.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
After I stole money from him and walked out on him.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
The money meant nothing. He still loves your thema.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Thema, I don't love him. I never loved him.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
He thought so. He was just nice. Why did you
leave him that way?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
I'm no good, never have been. You know, I've never
been any good to anybody.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Would you like to talk to Floyd?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
No, I don't wanna talk to him or anybody I know.
But after I jump, I want you to tell Floyd something. Sure,
Tell him I meant to send the money back to him.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I didn't think it was that much.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Tell him I never was any good at all, but
I loved him because of that.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Alright, you can tell him I loved him.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
He feel good, I think.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Alright, go back, don't kill you.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I go back, jump right now?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Wait close that hall door. Do you want to see
me jump?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You'll have to watch them the street down there with
the others.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Hold it.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Is he a policeman, I suppose so, I don't know
he looked foolish.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We all look foolish at one time or another. It passes.
Do I look foolish? Yes, Toma, you do. You're not
going through with this.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
In the end, You'll come back into this room and
everybody down there will go home.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
That isn't true.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You know the For the first time in.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
My life, I know exactly what I want to do,
how I want to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I'm gonna jump from.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
What I know about you. I thought you always knew
pretty much what you wanted out of life.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
I never knew anything, and it's all botched up. I'd
be happy one minute and crying the next. Things kept
happening all the time, got took tires. My mom and
Daddy died.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I shoulda died too. Then I wouldn't be here making
all those.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
People down there had bad.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Dreams for weeks to come. I should have been with
him when they were killed in that car.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Well won't be long.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I won't be tired anymore.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Tell him I waited.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Wait for what.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You say. You've talked to people who've known.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Me, who know what I was.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
And what I am. I didn't turn out the way
they wanted me to do.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Good I didn't.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Even turn out the way I.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Why should I wait?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
One man I didn't talk too had more faith in
you than anybody else. He was an old man who
sold newspapers in front of the Metropolitan Building. His name
was John Lyndon, Old John Bema, Old John, Old John.
You met him one day when you were a little girl.
(24:02):
It meant a lot in his life, an awful lot.
Do you remember, Old John?
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Yes, we downtown after school, look in the windows, had
a nick on.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I bought a paper from this old man.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I talked to him. He said I was a very
nice girl.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
And he asked me my name and where I lived.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
What did you talk about, Tomma, about.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
School and abob growing up? He told me I'd grow
up someday be a lovely woman.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He sit a lovely woman. He was very nice.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
What else did you talk about school? He asked me
what grade I was in.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Let's see, I guess I was in the.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Fifth grade, or maybe the sixth. It was such a
long time ago, but you remember it, of course I
remember it.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Now.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Where's John now?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
He died a month ago that he left you all
his money? What money? What money?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Would that poor old man have insurance money comes to
a thousand dollars lying, No, I'm not the man. That's
why I've been looking for you. It's my job to
see that you get the money that he left for you.
He wanted you to have it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Why, I didn't know him, only that afternoon, but he
wanted to help you. You're making all this up.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
It's all a lie.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
No, no, look what he's proved from the insurance company
here dug him over all, right, You see, he wanted
you to have something.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
It old man, that cool man.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I want to stop to talk to it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Expense account Item four, three fifty martinis. I needed them.
It was my first, and I hope my last, experience
with an intended suicide. The psychiatrists who examined and treated
Thelma Ibsen believed that she would make a complete recovery
in time. They say it'll take months to determine the
(26:43):
exact cause of her breakdown, But as far as we're concerned,
the case is closed.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Claim filed.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Expense account item five, same as item two. Transportation back
to Hartford. Total eighty four dollars and fifteen sense yours, truly,
Johnny Dallen Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars John lundon the
(27:24):
title role and is written by E. Jack Newman with
music by Eddie Dunsteader. John Lunn can currently be seen
in the Universal International Picture Just Across the Street. Featured
in tonight's cast were Tom Tully, Jennette Nolan, John McIntyre,
Joe Kerns and Virginia Greg Yours Truly, Johnny Dollars. Transcribed
in Hollywood by him Davayer. This is Dan cubberly inviting
(27:52):
you to join us next week at this time when
John Lunn returns as Yours Truly, Johnny Dallen
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