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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Or your enjoyment.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Johnny Doarrah, Good evening.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
This is mister Snell's secretary.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh sure, hi.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I was unable to reach mister Snell before he left
for the West Coast, but he asked me to outline
the case to you and hoped you'd follow him out there.
It's quite serious.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Huh what is it?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Our company has been carrying the policies on a line
of pleasure boats for a West Coast sales agency, the
aerocraft cruisers, but in the past two weeks three of
them have sunk with no survivors.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Bad risks.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes, there's a liability clause. Next of kin in each
case is bringing suit for nearly a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
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expense account, America's populous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yours truly, Johnny Dallah.
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account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dalla to home office,
Grand East Life and Liability Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of my expenditures during a assignment
to Millard Snell of your legal department on the investigation
of the arrowcraft matter. Expense account Item one two hundred and.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Seventy five dollars air travel hoted to Los Angeles and
rented car travel from Los Angeles to Newport Beach and
the heart of the trouble Snell, Millet Snell. Who is it? It's
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dollar dollar?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Hurry up, get about I watch it. She's what tonight?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Hey, give me your on come on. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Didn't think you were going to make it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You talked to your secretary as that was yesterday from Chicago. Well,
I didn't know where you were until I called her
from the Los Angeles airport A couple of hours ago,
And when I got here your hotel told me you
just left charter a boat. What's up, myers? How long
would it be Robert here? Any mine of mister Snell.
Couldn't leave without him?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Uh? If you can hurry him up anyway? Do it?
Come on in the cabin dollar out of this foul Nightea,
this fog.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I thought it was bad sometimes in the Hartford. Another
cruiser's been reported dalam An arrowcraft. Yes, reported by a
private plane between here and Cataline Island.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's thirty miles off shore.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
The coast Guard been notified, Yes, but candidly, I hope
we see it before they do, find out what we ensured.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
If we can find it in this fog and find it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Mean this one is still afloat before dark? Yes, barely
afloat all right, hurry get aboard. Ah, there is the
navigator we've been waiting for. I hope he's sober. Tell
me what have you learned so far? What makes them sink?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The sales agent, Fred Crocker, you will meet him, swears
by Aerowcraft, says they're one of the best poles afloat.
But the fact remains they've been sinking.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Uh hum, a tragic fact too. Loss of life so
far has been hollered.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Three twenty eight ft boats, eleven fatalities, no trace of
the cruisers even but a life ring here. Two must
have been deep water. Then what about bodies?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Seven have been recovered, four still missing. Ah, we're getting started.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It was ten pm when we left the Quiet Resort village,
and it was dawn when we saw in the fog
what we had been unable to find during a whole
night of searching. The arrow craft without sign of life,
was almost entirely awash, bow down, and the channels swell.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That's close enough, myers, right, we don't want to nudge.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
She's allowed to roll over.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Oh, here we are.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There's nothing we can do about her. How she stays
up is beyond me. Any chance of turning it in
not in that shape. Get her any weight. Should just
take the water and go down, and you put me aboard.
If you want to go, I can put you there,
but I don't know what your weight is going to do.
She's ready to roll. What do you think, Roberts, Oh,
put him over the stern. That shouldn't upset her.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
You better get some of those clothes off fellow while
we swinging around.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
All right, you think it's worth it, you're going aboard
worth it. I'm not going for it like that without
having a look at it gives me the creeps. The
thing of washed like that looks dead? Yeah, too dead.
Why isn't there anyone aboard? Why isn't somebody hanging on
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to the side. Okay, we'll move into it now, I'm ready.
They get back down on the transm. That's it, right
their house, Swing you right into it right here, I
go ahead. Okay, they come off and go.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
And stay them in chips. Look at either side, yooa,
I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Anything there, yeah, yeah, that's something here. There's a girl
in a cabin. Her body floated face down in the
flooded cabin, held in there by the narrowness of the passageway.
After an unpleasant and ticklish fifteen minutes, she was lifted
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aboard the other both by three suddenly silent men. There
was little else I could do on the derelict, but
memorized the name and address on the certificate of ownership,
so I left it and followed the girl. I didn't
bargain for this dollar. It doesn't bother me to read
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about eleven of them.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But like this girl, why she can't be over eighteen?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah? I noticed, you know, I if it was a guy,
it wouldn't hit so hard. I can't like this beautiful myers. Yes, sir,
have you radioed in about this? I waited to find
out whether you wanted to stand by the boat or not. No,
we'll start right back. Get word of the police, ask
them to meet us. I think it's a case for them.
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The boat's registered to a chest to McNeil, Newport Beach
address nail, Newport Beach, dress McNeil.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh, yes, all right, do you wanna get us started?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Rob us right?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
What's you find?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Dollar? Yeah? Look at this? See behind her ear? You
see the bruise. Yeah, and I noticed it when I
was getting her out of the cabin. She'd been slugged.
She could have been his long black hair. You see here.
The water's ruined most of it, but there's still part
of a braid. It could have been a hard blow,
one that might've killed a man, but herb braid might
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have softened it. I am looking for answer that she
was on that boat, oh and dead. It was an
answer I never did actually find and proved because in
the final analysis, the death of this beautiful, dark haired
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girl was no more important than any of the rest
of them. She was taken to the county morgue and
to making my formal statement to the police and giving
them my informal theories. I followed her there. I take
it that the deceased is not a personal friend of me.
That's right, doctor, saying, I'm an insurance investigator. I'm in
southern California because a number of people have died and
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the sinkings of some insured pleasure boats. Oh yes, the aerocraft, yes,
and the death of this girl has become important to me.
What's her name? Carusho? Antonia Caruso. She was identified by
her mother, Antonia. Are you planning an autopsy? Why do
you ask? I wonder if you had noticed a bruise
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behind her right ear. Yes, I reported it. You're an observant, fellow, doctor,
saying you must have examined some of the other bodies
from these sinkings. Were there any indications of violence on them?
If there were, I was unable to discover them. The
period of immersion in other cases, you must understand, was
much longer than in the crucial case. Water makes it difficult.
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Why do you act on the rest of the sinkings?
The moats themselves have been blamed, but after today, it
seems to me there's a possibility that something else has
caused them, at least this one. The contusions. Yes, there
were two other people on that boat, the owner, Chester
McNeil and his father, but the girl's body was the
only one aboard. Why I didn't know the particulars. I
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think the girl wore braids? Doctor. If she did, could
she have survived a blow that would have killed the
two men? Protection location of the wound would bury you
out behind the ear? Could she have been not been conscious,
been thrown overboard and then recovered enough to get back on?
Could this have happened to the girl? Are you suggesting
homus Dollar? I'm not sure. Then, I'm not sure why
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perfectly good boat start sinking without surivors. Either. They have
to make automacy examination to determine the degree of concussion.
And that's why I asked, are you going to perform on?
In the state of California, mister Dollar, except in cases
of unquestionable criminal acts, automacy is allowed upon the only
permission of the next of kid. This contusion, well, it
could have been sustainable so many ways, as I know.
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I know, matter of fact, arrangements have already been made
to move the body to a private establishment. Oh could
you give me a mother's address? Why? Yes, I suppose so,
But I'd be doing no more than saving you a
search of the phone book. What is it you want,
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missus Crusoe and the man that found your daughter? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Then why have you come here? You shouldn't know my grief.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I do, missus Crusoe, but I'd like to talk with
you if I could.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
What is it there to say?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I don't wanna see you.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
There is no room for sympathy.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I didn't know anything about your daughter, but i'd like
to I I'd like to hear about why do you
do this? Because because I don't think her death was accidental?
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Oh go away?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Why do you say this? My girl?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
She never didn't know wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I didn't mean that, Missus Crusoe. Please may I come in?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So my house?
Speaker 7 (11:47):
I'm sorry, so not care for there have been so
many things today.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I won't stay long. She was a good girl.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
She was gonna married Chester.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
His father was wisdom.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
She was gonna marry Chester. Oh, we hope it is
so much Antonia and me that it would be good
to marriage Missus. We always a dream. We were good people,
only poor. We give everything, so Antonio, will it be better?
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She was so beautiful, she was gonna marry Chester.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm sorry to bother you at a time like this.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I am now.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
She's gone.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I saw her.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I saw her too, and I want to learn why
she's gone. And missus Carusoe, is there any reason that
you can think of why they should have been trouble
on this trip in the McNeil boat.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Oh no, they go many times.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
They love the boat.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
They go many times, always with his father to take
care of them.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
He love her too, my daughter, he called her.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
She was gonna marry his chest.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Be so happy.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Please, oh my aunt Tonia, than TONI please let's go,
you know my grief, and leave my house, leave for
my house.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I left her house and drove back to another of
Snells hotel. It was seven pm, and I hope we
could get the crack of the West Coast Agent for
Arrowcraft before the night was out. But I found Snell
white faced when I opened the door, and too anxious
to show me the front page of the evening paper.
I didn't know where to find your dollar or what.
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And you haven't heard Fred Crocker, the aerocraft agent. He
was killed this afternoon. Ah it says traffic hit and
run victim, But I don't believe it. Look at this
violence in another form preceded the tragedy. The story said
Crocker's sales office was entered earlier today in a bold
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daylight strike. The interior was wrecked, but whether or not
the entry was for purposes of theft has not been ascertained.
The writer didn't make any definite statements, but reading between
the lines, you knew that he was exploring the possibility
that revenge was at the bottom of both the violence
and the tragedy, that those who had lost family or
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friends in the Arrowcraft sinkings had wrecked Crocker's office and
then killed it. But remembering the bruise behind the Crusoe girls, E, yeah,
I didn't believe that either.
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Johnny Dollan Snell and I drove.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Out to what had been Crocker's sales office. A sheriff's
deputy met us outside and took us in. If there's
some light for oh, there's a switch.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
No, not as bad as it could be. Least the
drawers aren't jumped.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
These are from a file cabinet. We'll start here.
Speaker 10 (16:27):
What are you're looking for?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Crockers sales records, sales records, the names and addresses of
all the people who bought arrowcrafts from him. I don't
think we'll find it. I don't get you. We've got
a theory that those boats didn't just think that they
were boarded, That the people who've been lost for slug
before they were drowned, and that the boats were scuttled.
What do you think of it?
Speaker 10 (16:46):
Why would anybody st out to wreck aerocraft now that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't know, Probably because they're linked to something important,
maybe something or somebody is on an arrowcraft and somebody
else doesn't know which one.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Here's a sales could a dollar it's empty r right.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Sure it is. That gives them the location of every
arrowcraft between here and San Diego Jariff. Nobody has said
where Crocker was when this place was entered. I don't
know yet. You've got a theory, yeah, that he was here, Yeah,
that after the list of names and addresses was taken,
he was dragged out of here and killed with a
car for the same reason the others have been killed,
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because alive, they might have been identifying witnesses.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
They say, everybody's got to write to his own opinion.
But that's too crazy for me, and I don't blame it.
It's too crazy for anybody. Maybe so crazy it'll never
be clear.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Of expense account Item two, one hundred and twelve dollars
cost of entertainment that same night for as many members
of the press as I could get hold of. They
listened to my theory, agreed that it was unbelievable but
worth printing on the grounds of sensationalism. The story made
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the morning editions most of the papers, slanting it towards
warning the arrowcraft owners listed in Crocker's stolen records. But
it didn't look so unbelievable because it had a companion piece.
A night watchman at one of the yacht clubs lay
near death from gunshot wounds after apprehending a prowler aboard
an arrowcraft. The prowler was being held at the county jail.
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Who is this sky Sergeant.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Jerry la Barber is the name he uses. We put
a search on him last night.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
He's one of those.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Things you call a known hoodlum because nobody's been able
to pin much on him. Known to the police in
Las Vegas, La and San Diego. The name a few
here he is. I hope you had better luck with
him than we did.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
If you meant that you leave me alone with him
for the rest of the day.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Sorry, off the bunk, La Barber, You got a visit
him on your feet?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Stand up, okay, hero, you gutman up? What's the matter?
With you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
What's missing? La Barber? What what's lost? What were you
looking for on the arrow craft? Come on? Who you're
working for? I am out of work?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Why don't you save your breath?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
How many of the other killings were you mixed up in?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
What are the killings?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I get a little scrape with an eager knight watchman
and now you talk about in another.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Killings on me?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
What is this? Oh you're working for?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I'm out of work.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You could do yourself some good, you know?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Why not complaining?
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Am I?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You're off to a pretty good start. Even if that
watchman lives, You're going to be tried for assault with
an intent to kill. That's a long rap. You might
make it short about using your head?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Is that a promise?
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Don't make me later?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You're a suckle a baber, but this is a promise.
I'm gonna see you charge for Crocker's murder? Who's Crocker?
And I'm going into the business of searching arrowcrafts myself.
Don't be stupid. Why not put the blame where it belonged?
Blame for what? Okay? Sojan I don't know sure why?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I wonder how long it takes to get that way
for what I by and show you a cheap tin star.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh what do you think he's covering for somebody, isn't he?
Thank You're right.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
You shouldn't have tipped your hands so much about searching
the boats.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Word's going to get out out of a jail cell.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
He called for a lawyer, one of the hot men
from LA. We can refuse him visitors, but not a
private session with a criminal who.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Happens to be his lawyer. Oh, I'd like to hear
that one. You should.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
It's going to put a bigger bull's eye on your
back in that newspaper story did.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
There was no trouble that day and no progress. We
had time to contact two arrowcraft owners that afternoon and
went aboard their boats. Nothing came of it but a
feeling of frustration because we didn't know what we were
looking for, how large a small it was, whether it
went the fire extinguishers or open batteries. That night, the
news broke that the night watchman had died of his wounds.
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Snell and I and made an attempt at eating dinner
and took a bottle of cognac to my room to
see what it could do. The phone call came at
nine point thirty. Hello, Hello, Well, this is Dollar speaking.
Who's this.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I'm in a phone booth, so don't bother trying to
trace his call. It's about the boat trouble, all right?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Not over the phone? You have to come up here?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Where do I meet you?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I've got to be careful. You'll know why when I
talk to you. You have to come alone.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
What else?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
There's a place called Leads Bar. It's on Long Beach, Bulevard,
three blocks up.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
From the beach.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You'll see the sign.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'll find it.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
You can make it in an hour, but you've got
to be alone.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I will be all right.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Quarter of eleven. What was that?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Some girl says he wants to talk about the arrow
crafts wants me to meet her in Long be DoD
be ridiculed. If you're not going, somebody has to do something.
And I think it's fool hearty as this. You've been
expecting them to make a move here it is you
do it for a minute, think she's telling me? True,
I won't find out sitting here swilling brandy with you.
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I wasted ten minutes in Newport, circling through alleys and
side streets. To shake any tail that might have been
put on me, and then I headed up the coast Highway.
At exactly ten forty five. I was ordering a drink
and leads bar. It arrived simultaneously with a metallic nudge
in the ribs from a man who had taken the
stool on my right. Drinker, dollar, We've got to go.
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I was supposed to get a message from a girl.
You've had it? Come on, drinker, all right, noll leve,
I'll meet you outside the door. Do I get to
talk with this girl? She's outside? Okay, this way, here's
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a car. No, you get him in front of her.
I'll get him back way or two now, just a
little way.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
You weren't followed.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I made it a point not to be. He wanted
to talk, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
I don't know what's gonna happen to me, but I
don't think I care anymore. It's been like I killed
all those people who've died.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You mean that that's a your fault sort of?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah? I mean I could have stopped it.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
But I was afraid too, because one of his men
would have.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Killed me, and I thought he'd stop before this.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He who do you mean? Hey, WA's what you're doing?
You let us stop for this is good a place
as in it.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Yeah, I didn't go to the post because I have
a record, and he's so powerful. He could have made
it look like black mail and it wouldn't have gone
any farther.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Who is so powerful?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
George Masterson?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
George Masterson? Who's he?
Speaker 8 (24:14):
He seems like a business man. He owns a line
of apprentice stores. I've known him for three years. It
was one of those things where how every once in
a while I'd learned something about him, until I finally
understood what he really was, and he knew I did.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
What kind of payment do you expect for what you're
telling me? Dollar?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I hadn't thought him money, I swear I hadn't.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Masterson's is far Out's hide the large. You can get narcotics,
jewels and furs, aliens, Mexican gold anything. He runs the
West coast for a combination that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Has headquarters in Italy. Who knows this?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I do?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
And I wrote it all down.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
We used to prove it. But the names he uses
for all his bank accounts to evade income to all
of it.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
That's what he's been looking for. I was boats was
rotting down.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Was the only way I could think of to protect myself.
He was afraid of me because I knew so much
about him. He was going to have me killed. We
were in Mexico when I told him hence Anata. When
he didn't believe me, I showed him a copy. I
told him I'd hidden the original on a boat i'd visited,
and that if he killed me, I had a way of.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Letting the police know which one, which one is it.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I was lying to him.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
I didn't put it on a boat.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I was lying.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Arrow Craft was only a name I remembered.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
When he asked me, I said, arrow Craft, you.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Mean there's nothing on those boats, and sixteen people have died.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
I know, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't. But
when you're scared, you only think of yourself.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Don't You'll be all right? This paper you say, I wrote,
where is it? I have it here.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
I want you to do.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I get up. I want to take her home. I
didn't fully believe her until I had finished reading her
denunciation of George Masterson after they'd left me. But by
the end of it, I knew that in my hands
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was the hottest document in California. I knew that hundreds
of rotten lives could be crumbled, and millions of dollars
in criminal traffic could be stopped. And it did away
with the possibility of any suit against Arrowcraft or your company.
But it wasn't enough. I should have gone to the
authorities with it then. Instead I took her room for
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the night and mailed it to the FBI in the morning.
Then I went after Masterson. I found him in a
prush office in one of his furniture stores.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Here, just a moment store.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
You can't Queen's the meaning of it?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
On and out before you get in here this morning, Masterson.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I'm sorry, sir, Get somebody to just proll this man out.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
What's the matter with you? Who are Johnny Dalla working
on the Arrowcraft sinkings? Gwen Thomas, I've read her statement.
I don't know what you're talking about about sixteen debts.
The FBI can have it for the rest, but I
want you for those sixteen debts. Get away from me.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Get away from you. He wait from me, Get up,
exkuse me, come on, get up.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
As far as I was concerned, that was it. The
girl was placed under protective custody by the FBI and
the district attorney who had worked out seventy five counts
on Masterson's indictment before I left. It's too bad that
all of the next of kin of the sixteen dead
can sit in the jury box. Expense account Item three
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forty dollars and twenty cents. Yours, truly, Johnny Dolla.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Johnny Doarrah, Good evening.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
This is mister Snell's secretary.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh sure, hi.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I was unable to reach mister Snell before he left
for the West Coast, but he asked me to outline
the case to you and hoped you'd follow him out there.
It's quite serious.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Huh what is it?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Our company has been carrying the policies on a line
of pleasure boats for a West Coast sales agency, the
aerocraft cruisers, but in the past two weeks three of
them have sunk with no survivors.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Bad risks.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes, there's a liability clause. Next of kin in each
case is bringing suit for nearly a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
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expense account, America's populous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yours truly, Johnny Dallah.
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account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dalla to home office,
Grand East Life and Liability Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of my expenditures during a assignment
to Millard Snell of your legal department on the investigation
of the arrowcraft matter. Expense account Item one two hundred and.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Seventy five dollars air travel hoted to Los Angeles and
rented car travel from Los Angeles to Newport Beach and
the heart of the trouble Snell, Millet Snell. Who is it? It's
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dollar dollar?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Hurry up, get about I watch it. She's what tonight?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Hey, give me your on come on. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Didn't think you were going to make it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You talked to your secretary as that was yesterday from Chicago. Well,
I didn't know where you were until I called her
from the Los Angeles airport A couple of hours ago,
And when I got here your hotel told me you
just left charter a boat. What's up, myers? How long
would it be Robert here? Any mine of mister Snell.
Couldn't leave without him?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Uh? If you can hurry him up anyway? Do it?
Come on in the cabin dollar out of this foul Nightea,
this fog.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I thought it was bad sometimes in the Hartford. Another
cruiser's been reported dalam An arrowcraft. Yes, reported by a
private plane between here and Cataline Island.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's thirty miles off shore.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
The coast Guard been notified, Yes, but candidly, I hope
we see it before they do, find out what we ensured.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
If we can find it in this fog and find it.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Mean this one is still afloat before dark? Yes, barely
afloat all right, hurry get aboard. Ah, there is the
navigator we've been waiting for. I hope he's sober. Tell
me what have you learned so far? What makes them sink?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The sales agent, Fred Crocker, you will meet him, swears
by Aerowcraft, says they're one of the best poles afloat.
But the fact remains they've been sinking.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Uh hum, a tragic fact too. Loss of life so
far has been hollered.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Three twenty eight ft boats, eleven fatalities, no trace of
the cruisers even but a life ring here. Two must
have been deep water. Then what about bodies?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Seven have been recovered, four still missing. Ah, we're getting started.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It was ten pm when we left the Quiet Resort village,
and it was dawn when we saw in the fog
what we had been unable to find during a whole
night of searching. The arrow craft without sign of life,
was almost entirely awash, bow down, and the channels swell.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That's close enough, myers, right, we don't want to nudge.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
She's allowed to roll over.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Oh, here we are.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There's nothing we can do about her. How she stays
up is beyond me. Any chance of turning it in
not in that shape. Get her any weight. Should just
take the water and go down, and you put me aboard.
If you want to go, I can put you there,
but I don't know what your weight is going to do.
She's ready to roll. What do you think, Roberts, Oh,
put him over the stern. That shouldn't upset her.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
You better get some of those clothes off fellow while
we swinging around.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
All right, you think it's worth it, you're going aboard
worth it. I'm not going for it like that without
having a look at it gives me the creeps. The
thing of washed like that looks dead? Yeah, too dead.
Why isn't there anyone aboard? Why isn't somebody hanging on
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to the side. Okay, we'll move into it now, I'm ready.
They get back down on the transm. That's it, right
their house, Swing you right into it right here, I
go ahead. Okay, they come off and go.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
And stay them in chips. Look at either side, yooa,
I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Anything there, yeah, yeah, that's something here. There's a girl
in a cabin. Her body floated face down in the
flooded cabin, held in there by the narrowness of the passageway.
After an unpleasant and ticklish fifteen minutes, she was lifted
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aboard the other both by three suddenly silent men. There
was little else I could do on the derelict, but
memorized the name and address on the certificate of ownership,
so I left it and followed the girl. I didn't
bargain for this dollar. It doesn't bother me to read
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about eleven of them.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But like this girl, why she can't be over eighteen?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah? I noticed, you know, I if it was a guy,
it wouldn't hit so hard. I can't like this beautiful myers. Yes, sir,
have you radioed in about this? I waited to find
out whether you wanted to stand by the boat or not. No,
we'll start right back. Get word of the police, ask
them to meet us. I think it's a case for them.
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The boat's registered to a chest to McNeil, Newport Beach
address nail, Newport Beach, dress McNeil.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh, yes, all right, do you wanna get us started?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Rob us right?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
What's you find?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Dollar? Yeah? Look at this? See behind her ear? You
see the bruise. Yeah, and I noticed it when I
was getting her out of the cabin. She'd been slugged.
She could have been his long black hair. You see here.
The water's ruined most of it, but there's still part
of a braid. It could have been a hard blow,
one that might've killed a man, but herb braid might
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have softened it. I am looking for answer that she
was on that boat, oh and dead. It was an
answer I never did actually find and proved because in
the final analysis, the death of this beautiful, dark haired
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girl was no more important than any of the rest
of them. She was taken to the county morgue and
to making my formal statement to the police and giving
them my informal theories. I followed her there. I take
it that the deceased is not a personal friend of me.
That's right, doctor, saying, I'm an insurance investigator. I'm in
southern California because a number of people have died and
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the sinkings of some insured pleasure boats. Oh yes, the aerocraft, yes,
and the death of this girl has become important to me.
What's her name? Carusho? Antonia Caruso. She was identified by
her mother, Antonia. Are you planning an autopsy? Why do
you ask? I wonder if you had noticed a bruise
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behind her right ear. Yes, I reported it. You're an observant, fellow, doctor,
saying you must have examined some of the other bodies
from these sinkings. Were there any indications of violence on them?
If there were, I was unable to discover them. The
period of immersion in other cases, you must understand, was
much longer than in the crucial case. Water makes it difficult.
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Why do you act on the rest of the sinkings?
The moats themselves have been blamed, but after today, it
seems to me there's a possibility that something else has
caused them, at least this one. The contusions. Yes, there
were two other people on that boat, the owner, Chester
McNeil and his father, but the girl's body was the
only one aboard. Why I didn't know the particulars. I
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think the girl wore braids? Doctor. If she did, could
she have survived a blow that would have killed the
two men? Protection location of the wound would bury you
out behind the ear? Could she have been not been conscious,
been thrown overboard and then recovered enough to get back on?
Could this have happened to the girl? Are you suggesting
homus Dollar? I'm not sure. Then, I'm not sure why
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perfectly good boat start sinking without surivors. Either. They have
to make automacy examination to determine the degree of concussion.
And that's why I asked, are you going to perform on?
In the state of California, mister Dollar, except in cases
of unquestionable criminal acts, automacy is allowed upon the only
permission of the next of kid. This contusion, well, it
could have been sustainable so many ways, as I know.
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I know, matter of fact, arrangements have already been made
to move the body to a private establishment. Oh could
you give me a mother's address? Why? Yes, I suppose so,
But I'd be doing no more than saving you a
search of the phone book. What is it you want,
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missus Crusoe and the man that found your daughter? Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Then why have you come here? You shouldn't know my grief.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I do, missus Crusoe, but I'd like to talk with
you if I could.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
What is it there to say?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I don't wanna see you.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
There is no room for sympathy.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I didn't know anything about your daughter, but i'd like
to I I'd like to hear about why do you
do this? Because because I don't think her death was accidental?
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Oh go away?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Why do you say this? My girl?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
She never didn't know wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I didn't mean that, Missus Crusoe. Please may I come in?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
So my house?
Speaker 7 (11:47):
I'm sorry, so not care for there have been so
many things today.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I won't stay long. She was a good girl.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
She was gonna married Chester.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
His father was wisdom.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
She was gonna marry Chester. Oh, we hope it is
so much Antonia and me that it would be good
to marriage Missus. We always a dream. We were good people,
only poor. We give everything, so Antonio, will it be better?
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She was so beautiful, she was gonna marry Chester.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm sorry to bother you at a time like this.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I am now.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
She's gone.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I saw her.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I saw her too, and I want to learn why
she's gone. And missus Carusoe, is there any reason that
you can think of why they should have been trouble
on this trip in the McNeil boat.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Oh no, they go many times.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
They love the boat.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
They go many times, always with his father to take
care of them.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
He love her too, my daughter, he called her.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
She was gonna marry his chest.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Be so happy.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Please, oh my aunt Tonia, than TONI please let's go,
you know my grief, and leave my house, leave for
my house.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I left her house and drove back to another of
Snells hotel. It was seven pm, and I hope we
could get the crack of the West Coast Agent for
Arrowcraft before the night was out. But I found Snell
white faced when I opened the door, and too anxious
to show me the front page of the evening paper.
I didn't know where to find your dollar or what.
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And you haven't heard Fred Crocker, the aerocraft agent. He
was killed this afternoon. Ah it says traffic hit and
run victim, But I don't believe it. Look at this
violence in another form preceded the tragedy. The story said
Crocker's sales office was entered earlier today in a bold
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daylight strike. The interior was wrecked, but whether or not
the entry was for purposes of theft has not been ascertained.
The writer didn't make any definite statements, but reading between
the lines, you knew that he was exploring the possibility
that revenge was at the bottom of both the violence
and the tragedy, that those who had lost family or
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friends in the Arrowcraft sinkings had wrecked Crocker's office and
then killed it. But remembering the bruise behind the Crusoe girls, E, yeah,
I didn't believe that either.
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Johnny Dollan Snell and I drove.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Out to what had been Crocker's sales office. A sheriff's
deputy met us outside and took us in. If there's
some light for oh, there's a switch.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
No, not as bad as it could be. Least the
drawers aren't jumped.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
These are from a file cabinet. We'll start here.
Speaker 10 (16:27):
What are you're looking for?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Crockers sales records, sales records, the names and addresses of
all the people who bought arrowcrafts from him. I don't
think we'll find it. I don't get you. We've got
a theory that those boats didn't just think that they
were boarded, That the people who've been lost for slug
before they were drowned, and that the boats were scuttled.
What do you think of it?
Speaker 10 (16:46):
Why would anybody st out to wreck aerocraft now that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't know, Probably because they're linked to something important,
maybe something or somebody is on an arrowcraft and somebody
else doesn't know which one.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Here's a sales could a dollar it's empty r right.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Sure it is. That gives them the location of every
arrowcraft between here and San Diego Jariff. Nobody has said
where Crocker was when this place was entered. I don't
know yet. You've got a theory, yeah, that he was here, Yeah,
that after the list of names and addresses was taken,
he was dragged out of here and killed with a
car for the same reason the others have been killed,
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because alive, they might have been identifying witnesses.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
They say, everybody's got to write to his own opinion.
But that's too crazy for me, and I don't blame it.
It's too crazy for anybody. Maybe so crazy it'll never
be clear.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Of expense account Item two, one hundred and twelve dollars
cost of entertainment that same night for as many members
of the press as I could get hold of. They
listened to my theory, agreed that it was unbelievable but
worth printing on the grounds of sensationalism. The story made
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the morning editions most of the papers, slanting it towards
warning the arrowcraft owners listed in Crocker's stolen records. But
it didn't look so unbelievable because it had a companion piece.
A night watchman at one of the yacht clubs lay
near death from gunshot wounds after apprehending a prowler aboard
an arrowcraft. The prowler was being held at the county jail.
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Who is this sky Sergeant.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Jerry la Barber is the name he uses. We put
a search on him last night.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
He's one of those.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Things you call a known hoodlum because nobody's been able
to pin much on him. Known to the police in
Las Vegas, La and San Diego. The name a few
here he is. I hope you had better luck with
him than we did.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
If you meant that you leave me alone with him
for the rest of the day.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Sorry, off the bunk, La Barber, You got a visit
him on your feet?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Stand up, okay, hero, you gutman up? What's the matter?
With you.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
What's missing? La Barber? What what's lost? What were you
looking for on the arrow craft? Come on? Who you're
working for? I am out of work?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Why don't you save your breath?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
How many of the other killings were you mixed up in?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
What are the killings?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I get a little scrape with an eager knight watchman
and now you talk about in another.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Killings on me?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
What is this? Oh you're working for?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I'm out of work.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You could do yourself some good, you know?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Why not complaining?
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Am I?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You're off to a pretty good start. Even if that
watchman lives, You're going to be tried for assault with
an intent to kill. That's a long rap. You might
make it short about using your head?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Is that a promise?
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Don't make me later?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You're a suckle a baber, but this is a promise.
I'm gonna see you charge for Crocker's murder? Who's Crocker?
And I'm going into the business of searching arrowcrafts myself.
Don't be stupid. Why not put the blame where it belonged?
Blame for what? Okay? Sojan I don't know sure why?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I wonder how long it takes to get that way
for what I by and show you a cheap tin star.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh what do you think he's covering for somebody, isn't he?
Thank You're right.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
You shouldn't have tipped your hands so much about searching
the boats.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Word's going to get out out of a jail cell.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
He called for a lawyer, one of the hot men
from LA. We can refuse him visitors, but not a
private session with a criminal who.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Happens to be his lawyer. Oh, I'd like to hear
that one. You should.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
It's going to put a bigger bull's eye on your
back in that newspaper story did.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
There was no trouble that day and no progress. We
had time to contact two arrowcraft owners that afternoon and
went aboard their boats. Nothing came of it but a
feeling of frustration because we didn't know what we were
looking for, how large a small it was, whether it
went the fire extinguishers or open batteries. That night, the
news broke that the night watchman had died of his wounds.
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Snell and I and made an attempt at eating dinner
and took a bottle of cognac to my room to
see what it could do. The phone call came at
nine point thirty. Hello, Hello, Well, this is Dollar speaking.
Who's this.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I'm in a phone booth, so don't bother trying to
trace his call. It's about the boat trouble, all right?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Not over the phone? You have to come up here?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Where do I meet you?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I've got to be careful. You'll know why when I
talk to you. You have to come alone.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
What else?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
There's a place called Leads Bar. It's on Long Beach, Bulevard,
three blocks up.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
From the beach.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You'll see the sign.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'll find it.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
You can make it in an hour, but you've got
to be alone.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I will be all right.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Quarter of eleven. What was that?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Some girl says he wants to talk about the arrow
crafts wants me to meet her in Long be DoD
be ridiculed. If you're not going, somebody has to do something.
And I think it's fool hearty as this. You've been
expecting them to make a move here it is you
do it for a minute, think she's telling me? True,
I won't find out sitting here swilling brandy with you.
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I wasted ten minutes in Newport, circling through alleys and
side streets. To shake any tail that might have been
put on me, and then I headed up the coast Highway.
At exactly ten forty five. I was ordering a drink
and leads bar. It arrived simultaneously with a metallic nudge
in the ribs from a man who had taken the
stool on my right. Drinker, dollar, We've got to go.
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I was supposed to get a message from a girl.
You've had it? Come on, drinker, all right, noll leve,
I'll meet you outside the door. Do I get to
talk with this girl? She's outside? Okay, this way, here's
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a car. No, you get him in front of her.
I'll get him back way or two now, just a
little way.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
You weren't followed.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I made it a point not to be. He wanted
to talk, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
I don't know what's gonna happen to me, but I
don't think I care anymore. It's been like I killed
all those people who've died.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You mean that that's a your fault sort of?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah? I mean I could have stopped it.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
But I was afraid too, because one of his men
would have.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Killed me, and I thought he'd stop before this.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He who do you mean? Hey, WA's what you're doing?
You let us stop for this is good a place
as in it.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Yeah, I didn't go to the post because I have
a record, and he's so powerful. He could have made
it look like black mail and it wouldn't have gone
any farther.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Who is so powerful?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
George Masterson?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
George Masterson? Who's he?
Speaker 8 (24:14):
He seems like a business man. He owns a line
of apprentice stores. I've known him for three years. It
was one of those things where how every once in
a while I'd learned something about him, until I finally
understood what he really was, and he knew I did.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
What kind of payment do you expect for what you're
telling me? Dollar?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I hadn't thought him money, I swear I hadn't.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Masterson's is far Out's hide the large. You can get narcotics,
jewels and furs, aliens, Mexican gold anything. He runs the
West coast for a combination that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Has headquarters in Italy. Who knows this?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I do?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
And I wrote it all down.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
We used to prove it. But the names he uses
for all his bank accounts to evade income to all
of it.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
That's what he's been looking for. I was boats was
rotting down.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Was the only way I could think of to protect myself.
He was afraid of me because I knew so much
about him. He was going to have me killed. We
were in Mexico when I told him hence Anata. When
he didn't believe me, I showed him a copy. I
told him I'd hidden the original on a boat i'd visited,
and that if he killed me, I had a way of.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Letting the police know which one, which one is it.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I was lying to him.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
I didn't put it on a boat.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I was lying.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Arrow Craft was only a name I remembered.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
When he asked me, I said, arrow Craft, you.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Mean there's nothing on those boats, and sixteen people have died.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
I know, I know I was wrong. I shouldn't. But
when you're scared, you only think of yourself.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Don't You'll be all right? This paper you say, I wrote,
where is it? I have it here.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
I want you to do.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I get up. I want to take her home. I
didn't fully believe her until I had finished reading her
denunciation of George Masterson after they'd left me. But by
the end of it, I knew that in my hands
(26:23):
was the hottest document in California. I knew that hundreds
of rotten lives could be crumbled, and millions of dollars
in criminal traffic could be stopped. And it did away
with the possibility of any suit against Arrowcraft or your company.
But it wasn't enough. I should have gone to the
authorities with it then. Instead I took her room for
(26:44):
the night and mailed it to the FBI in the morning.
Then I went after Masterson. I found him in a
prush office in one of his furniture stores.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Here, just a moment store.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
You can't Queen's the meaning of it?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
On and out before you get in here this morning, Masterson.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I'm sorry, sir, Get somebody to just proll this man out.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
What's the matter with you? Who are Johnny Dalla working
on the Arrowcraft sinkings? Gwen Thomas, I've read her statement.
I don't know what you're talking about about sixteen debts.
The FBI can have it for the rest, but I
want you for those sixteen debts. Get away from me.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Get away from you. He wait from me, Get up,
exkuse me, come on, get up.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
As far as I was concerned, that was it. The
girl was placed under protective custody by the FBI and
the district attorney who had worked out seventy five counts
on Masterson's indictment before I left. It's too bad that
all of the next of kin of the sixteen dead
can sit in the jury box. Expense account Item three
(28:13):
same as Item one. Expense account total nine hundred and
forty dollars and twenty cents. Yours, truly, Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
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often to refreshing, delicious wriggly spearmint chewing gum. There's lots
of cooling real mint flavor in every stick, and chewing
wrigley spearmint helps keep your feeling fresh and alert. You
feel better, work better, get more fun out of doing things.
So indoors, outdoors, wherever you go, keep some healthful, refreshing
(28:59):
brigs set chewing gum handed. To make every day more enjoyable,
treat yourself often to delicious wrigley spearmint chewing gum.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yours believe.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Johnny Dowler stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and
is written by Gil Dowd and David Ellis, with music
composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Edmund O'Brien can soon
be seen starring in the Columbia Pictures production Seven to
eleven Ocean Group. Featured in tonight's cast were Gene Bates,
Howard mcneer, Clayton Post, Harry Bartel, Hi Aberback, John McIntyre,
(29:45):
and Janette Nolan. Yours Truly, Johnny Dower is produced and
directed by him Delvile. The makers of Brigley Spearmint Chewing
Gum invite you to join us next week at the
(30:05):
same time when from Hollywood, Edmund O'Brien returns in another
adventure of Yours Truly, JOHNNYDA Bob Stevenson speaking. This is CBS,
(30:26):
the Columbia Broadcasting System
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