October 11, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Dollar, Thank goodness I'd found you.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Why what's up? You've got to leave for New York.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Dollar immediately a policyholder. He's afraid for his life.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
There we go again. Who's he afraid of?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, he wouldn't say over the telephone. All I know
is to us he's worth one hundred thousand dollars alive.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, that makes it simple.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
He must be afraid of somebody to whom he's worth
one hundred thousand dollars dead.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Edmund O'Brien in the Transcribed Adventure of a Man with
the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to
Home Up American Continental Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of my expenditures fulfilling your assignment
as a well as a bodyguard, the body being that
of your late policy holder, Robert W.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Perry.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Expense account Item one fair on night train Hartford.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
To New York three sixty five.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Expense account Item two A dollar ady taxi to Lower
Manhattan following morning to Officers Perry and Van Bruton, importers,
arriving as promised at exactly nine am.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Oh, good morning. May I help you?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yes, you certainly can. My name is Johnny Dollar. I
have an appointment with mister Perry at nine o'clock.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Oh, yes, from the insurance company. Well you're right on time.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yes, they told me i'd better be, and I'm glad
that I am.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Mister Perry just came in. He's alone and waiting for you.
I'll buzz him that you're here.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Thanks. What was left of your policy holder?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Mister Perry was just sliding out of a swivel chair
as I hit the room. The top of his desk
had erupted, and splinters of mahogany he pointed their sharp
fingers upward through lazy circles of smoke, swirling towards the ceiling.
The buzzer from his secretary's desk had been rigged to
a booby trap.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
No, oh, no, mister Perry.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Stay away from him. Come on, there's nothing you can do.
He's dead. What happened? What happened?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Whatever happened.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Let's go, let's go work at him here.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Anyway, shut out I'll get you a drink of water.
Come on, drink this.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
There's a doctor in the fair floor.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Should I call him?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Never mind the doctor, go call the police. Nobody gets
in hell they arrived.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
How the rest of you go on run along, beat
it will and have the building two priintend a trail
off arms. Huh okay, miss, take it easy.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
It was also sudden.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
What happened? Well, that's not hard to figure out.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Somebody wanted to give you a boss, mister Perry, a
short cut through life. So whoever, it was figured out
that a secretary would never buzz a boss unless he
was at his desk. They rigged up a bomb somewhere
in his desk that would go off when you buzzed him.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Who like killing him?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Not? Wait a minute? Will you wait?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
And then do go hysterical army excitement enough and there'll
be more when the police get here.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So you keep cool.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
But I did it you so me.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Look, Hannie, the way you put it, I killed him
by coming in here and giving you my name so
you would buzz him, and I was here to protect him.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So drop it, will you?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Tell me what about yesterday? Was Perry here?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yes all day?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What time was it when you last used the buzzer?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Way right up to the last minute, about five thirty.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Who left the office first, Oh.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Mister Perry, who always leaves first?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I lock up, mu, and the looks of things, you
should have used more locks last night. Somebody got in
here to do some wiring. Oh I forgot that fire Alarne.
Look before the police arrived. Do you know why I
was sent here?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh? Yes, m mister Perry felt that his life was
in danger. He thought that well, with a hundred thousand.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Dollar policy, the insurance company would do everything they could
to help keep him a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh, he didn't have much of a chance, did we.
What was he afraid of?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Okay, tell me what were his other appointments for today?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Why he only had two his pardner, mister van Bruton
at eleven and later?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
He knows one at a time, please Van Bruton. Anything
special about bear meeting?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Oh yes, mister van Bruton arrived just yesterday from Holland.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh you mean there was a branch of this firm
in Holland.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Yes, mister Perry was buying out Van Bruton's interest. They
had the final meeting at Van Bruton's hotel last night.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
I see Van Bruton was coming by this morning to
pick up his money cash No, a cashier's check. The
bank is to deliver it here at ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Perry's other appointment. Who is that Christine? His wife? Ah?
Now she tells me Christine the beneficiary.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Yes, she wouldn't have been the beneficiary in another two
weeks they were getting a divorce.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Thanks for the motive. You don't like her?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Hold, I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
How about Perry?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Did you like him? Okay, here's an easier one.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
What's your name, Susan, Susan Gates? That wasn't that about him?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Though?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Okay, Susan, you'd better save your voice. During the next
few hours. You're gonna have to do a lot of talking.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I have been everywhere else. Here is the fire in here?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, you'll have to stick around when the cops get here.
Somebody will get burned. The fireman should have stuck around,
because the cops arrived in a blaze of glory. It
was a very high class investigation to lieutenants. Finally, after
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about an hour, the police photographer ran out of flashbulbs.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The office of the Diseased.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Ran out of fingerprints, and the lieutenants ran out of questions,
so the on the scene phase of the investigation was closed.
At about five minutes of eleven. I left the police,
packing up their notebooks, their clues, and the body, and
went into the outer office. Susan looked like she could
use a big broad shoulder to weep on, but unfortunately
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I was wearing my light gray suit. About then a
dark blue suit and a deep green voice entered the
room from the car.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Here there, there's a fellow out here, says he belongs here.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
His name is Van Bruk.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What do you think his name is on the door
he just opened.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
Oh well, now my name happens to be Murphy, and
he's sent bigs all over the country.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
But that don't mean names stuff with feathers, does it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Oh, never cross tongues with the irishman. All right, centiment officer,
all right.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Chicken coins. There's a policeman.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I was there. I was travel here.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
I am braying up and bruden. There's mister Pelly. What
he is waiting for me? No?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
No, but my point, he's not keeping any He's dead dead,
It's not possible.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Last night I saw him. He was well, what's happened?
He was hit by a buzzbum postbomb?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh please?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Who means there was foul playing?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, yes, it was very foul. Oh please, I.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
May sit down.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
I first visited as these years since before the war.
It was to be so happy, but no tragedy like this.
He was a good man, a good partner.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I understand that as of last night you were no
longer partners.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
Yeah job, I am glad you mentioned that. I realized,
of course, that it is indelicate to speak of such
things as money at the times like this, But that
is why I am here to receive my attainment.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Just because Perry got his, there's no reason for you
not getting yours.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Euh oh, but you misunderstand me. I am deeply grieved,
but well, since the transaction was consummated, what is there
to do. Delay would be a needless waste of money.
I have already paid for passage back to Antwerp tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Your check is here, mister Tamboo. Here you are.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Thank you all of my years of business. This is
indeed the saddest moment.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah. Well, if I didn't have some work to do,
I had sit.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Down with you and we'd all have a good cry.
Ye expense a count item three ninety cents phone call
to the whole office, mister Gordon's office. Look, Connie, this
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is Johnny Dollar. I want to speak to mister Gordon.
Uh while I'm telling him what I've got to tell him,
And maybe you'd better sit there in his lap with
some smelling sauce.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
I'm not that type of a secretary. Besides, he doesn't
have a laugh.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Hello, Dollar, how are you making out out about one
hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
What's that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
You know you should have sent me earlier. Somebody tell
you mister Perryan or a firecracker. Just after I got here,
he's dead.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Oh oh, oh, that's bad news, big policy.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah. What I want to know is shall I stay
on the case.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, certainly do it by all means?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh, is there.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
A chance of proving suicide? There's a non payment clause.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, to make this one a suicide, that'd have to
be Santa Claus. Nobody could hate himself enough to do
it this way.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, what are the possibilities?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Fair? There's an a strange wife.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
She's the beneficiary, but she wouldn't have been in a
couple of weeks divorce coming up.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I'll start with her, all.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Right, dolla, good luck, but watch those expenses, my Gordon.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I think an insurance man would be the first to
want to see a fellow live a little. Christine Perry's
apartment was on Sutton Place, overlooking the East River.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I took the elevator up to.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
The twenty fourth floor, and there I discovered that our
garden fresh widow was living high in more ways than one.
Everything about the place was French. The maid who led
me into the living room through a long foyer, the decorps,
and the perfume, which reminded you that breathing can be fun.
I looked up from enjoying my nose to see Missus
Perry looking down Hers Perry.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
I believe we can dispense with the social amenities. You're
an insurance investigator interested in the death of my husband,
so naturally you're here because you've jumped to the conclusion
that I killed him.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
H you're the one that's jumping to conclusions, lady, and
carefully you don't break your leg.
Speaker 10 (12:19):
What do you want the policies in order premiums are
fully paid.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You know I'm not quite sure what I want.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I know that you've got a great motive so far,
the only motive I've found.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
You haven't had much time to look.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Have you check? This is my first stop. Maybe you
can help me.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Do you know anyone who would be happier with your
husband out of the way?
Speaker 10 (12:44):
I know very little about my husband's friends. For that matter,
is activities for the past six months.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
That's when I left him.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Well, that's not much help for either of us, you know,
without someone else to suspect, I may just have to
constant trade on you.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Mister Dollar.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
I picked the men I want to concentrate on me.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I hope you're as long on alibis as you are
short on temper Where were your last night with a.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Friend, al Donovan?
Speaker 10 (13:15):
While the same place my husband was. I have witnesses
to prove who was with him.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Anybody at the Clover Club can tell you?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Save me a trip. I can't afford the prices they
get over there.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Certainly a pleasure.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
My husband was with his beautiful little secretary, Susan Gates.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Well, I wouldn't be more surprised if your late husband
walked through that door.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And said, all right, mister, that's enough. Hell yeah, how
much did you hear?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
I'm a big guy, baby, six foot four, I've got
big ears to mass.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Will this be, mister Donovan, your companion of last evening?
I'm getting you out of here.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Christians, you don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You lie to me. How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
If you're lie me, you call me stupid.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
The way you're playing is you'll alibi yourself right into
a cell.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
She's right, you are stupid, Donovan. She was doing just
fine until you dropped in. Mister You've been asking a
lot of questions.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Now I'm gonna give you one answer.
Speaker 11 (14:24):
All right, Christine, so much for the wise guy. Now
about you and your alibi. It wasn't with me at
the Clover Club last night. And if it's so easy
to prove that your husband.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Was there with his secretary, who were you there with? Remember?
Speaker 11 (14:45):
Baby, you told me you were gonna be with your husband.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
When I measured me for that swing, I measured my
chances with him. To me, he looked like one of
those corporate assets of Murder Incorporate. So I rolled with
the punch and kept my eyes closed and ears open.
What I heard was Christine's alibi, flying out the window,
mister Donovan giving her a few loving cuts, and finally
the pair of them flying out the door. Just then
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the noon whistle blew somewhere in New York, and I
decided to allow myself the luxury of one full minute for.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Lunch, the moment where we turn to the second act
of Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
But first.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And now we returned to the second act of Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I spent the minute I took out for lunch eating
a handful of missus Perry's bonbuds. On the run, I
hit the street just in time to see Donovan pushing
Christine Perry into a cream colored convertible. When they got rolling,
I piled into an even yellower vehicle with a meter
on it and started off Crosstown, playing tag through traffic.
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At fifty seventh in Broadway, things got complicated. My cab
was three cars behind them when a red light flashed
them to a stop.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Then the door of their car flew open.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Christine dashed out across the street and melted into the
river of humanity, flowing down into the subway. Since al
Donovan didn't follow her. I followed him. When he finally
pulled to a stop, he took two chances. He parked
in a no parking zone and walked straight into the
building beside it a police station.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
This is mister Dolan, Lieutenant. He's been waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Well, my name is Johnny Dollar, Lieutenant. Here are my credentials.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Insurance? Huh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The Perry murder in particular.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
You come to the right place door. A man named
Donovan just walked in here and made a full confession.
He what that's right? My clerk's just typing it up.
In the meantime, the gentleman is down in the tank
having a bite of lunch on the city.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
He confessed, Well, does this story add up.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
As far as I know, I haven't heard too much
about the keys myself. Not my precinct.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, but what did he use for a motive? Jealous?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
He says he's in love, wanted to marry Perry's wife.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Did he say how he managed it?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
He stole a key to the office from the wife's apartment,
entered the building last night and wired the bomb to.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
The buzzer system. Guys do a lot of strange things
in the name of love.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
He looks like Donovan did.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Eh.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
He either killed the man or he's trying to cover
up for someone who did. Say, Lieutenant, don't execute him.
For a couple of days, I spent the rest of
the afternoon downtown and the offices of Perry and Van Bruton, importers.
The partner's correspondence told me two things. They had been
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extremely friendly and Van Bruton was extremely bold. Perry had
been sending him two pays from a famous Hollywood makeup
for At four point thirty, I got to the employment files,
which rocked me with two minor explosions of their own. First,
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I learned that al Donovan had been employed over a
period of years as Perry's bodyguard, and that he had
been canned the day before the murder. That confession of his,
which had been a little hard to swallow, was suddenly
more digestible.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
On top of this came last number two, the employment.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Application of Perry's secretary, and Miss Susan Gates informed me
that during the war.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
She had worked in a munition's plant, her specialty wiring bombfuses.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
When Thessusan Gates reached home at eight thirty, she found
a visitor me, what did you get in here?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Professional secret?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Oh? It scared me. What do you want? Why did
you come here this way?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I want to bring in a good news.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I heard on the radio that Al Donovan contested to
Perry's murder.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Oh I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Why not? Who do you like for the spot?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Why Christine? Al's covering up for her?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Well, I'd like to agree with you if it turns
out that Christine wound up her husband's life with a
bang company that hired me saves one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
But I don't know. She claims she has all kinds
of alibies. One of them is you me. Yeah, did
you see her at the Clover Club last night? Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, well yes, sire, yeah, I know who you were
with your boss.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
No, no, no, I'm not preaching a sermon. I want
to know who she was with.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I don't know a man i'd never seen before. Mister
Perry knew him, but he wouldn't tell me who he was.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
He said, I might get the wrong idea, but what
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
We didn't sit there and talk about it all night,
so why should we sit here and talk about it
all night?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
All right, all right? Good to heavens.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
When a census taker shows up and asks a lot
of questions, people answered him.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
When an investigator tries.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
To do his job, they make the proverbial claim look
like a blab amount.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Look look, mister Doner, believe me. This has been a
greater shock to me than to anyone else.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yes, excepting, of course you're late employer, mister Perry.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Long you worked for him four years? Where'd you worked before? Then?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Let me help you. Bombs huh, wiring fuses? Remember, hi,
I remember, Maybe you'll remember a little more.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Let's go back to last night. The guy with Christine Perry?
Who is he? I don't know, Van Brut, I don't know. No, No,
I'll get that. Just make sure you don't keep going, Susan.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
When Susan snapped the spring lock to open the door,
the gun outside opened up. The first slug Carter in
the left shoulder, spinning her out of the way of
the rest of them. It was getting monopolous. Every time
a buzzer went off, things started booming. Susan was sprawled
out on the floor in front of the door and
open it. I had him over. By the time I did,
the hallway outside was empty. Huh, okay, okay, now take
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it easy. Come on, I won't start hurting for a
couple of minutes. We'll have a doctor here by then.
He'll give you something. Please, please try and keep coming.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah what? Throw my coat over? No, try not to move.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Oh, you gonna ruin this rug?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Never mind a rug. What we wanna worry about is
we try to ruin you?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
What'll they do to me?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
What? Don't who do the you?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
They'll arrest me.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
They don't arrest people for getting shot. You have any
idea who it was?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
The man in the office this morning, the one who picked.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Up the check and bruten No, No, he wasn't then
bruten he was a phony.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, and you still gave him that check.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yet, Well, I won't ask you why you gave him
that check and then tried to blackmail him?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I wouldn't be surprised. Who is this guy? Where can
I find him out?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Come on? Don't pass out on me now? His name? Quick?
Come on? Where does he live?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Marsden Hotel?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Under his own name? No? I don't, I don't blame you.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I could use a few moments of unconsciousness myself. The
Larza Hotel didn't have a Dutch name on the register,
so I got ahold of the housekeeper and found out
how many rooms her staff hadn't been able to make
up all day because of no disturbed signs on their doors.
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And then I went a calling at those particular rooms.
On the ninth floor, I wakened one old maid. On
the seventh I startled a bunch of poker players who
thought they were being raided. And on the fourth I
struck the door of four twenty seven and the jackpot.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
He don't just be a side. I do not miss
to be disturbed. Sorry, I letus have the wrong room.
I started up the hall after the fire axe. When
I got to it, I changed my mind.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Out of the few things I learned about this guy
van Sand was that he loved to shoot people through doors,
so I decided against trying to chop his down. Then
I remembered the way those people came pouring out of
those offices earlier in the day when they heard that
fire alarm. So I picked up the little red hammer
next to the big red fire axe, broke the little
glass window, pulled a little brass hook and set off
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a big brassy noise, and then I rushed back to
four twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Fire fire, fire, wire, hell, hell's a fire right? Hear
in my eyes, sweetheart, to find you? Come here? You
wish you down? Never mind a dresser, You're through shooting gun?
How do you think you want to try some more?
Speaker 9 (25:00):
If you cannot make me stay here, it's a fire
with you'll all die.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
You'll look good barbecue. Then I'll make a deal with you.
You talk and I like what I hear.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I'll show you how to get out of here alive.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
How I know?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Just you don't think I'm gonna stay here and fry,
do you? And if you don't stop flapping that tongue
and a hurry.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I'll probably just tie you to a chair and run. Now. First,
where is the real man Bruton? You will find him
in a bedroom. Eh, He's better be alive.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
He's out cold. What's the matter with him? He will
be all right, he's indecentatives where.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Did this identity? S wwhich? Come on, hurry up?
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Talk?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I smell smoke.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
I knew Van Bruton from an I know about the
sale of his infants. I knows a girl in's office here,
never seen Vrom Bruton.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Look be going now, I don't get up. Come on,
keep talking. I can feel it getting warm in here.
Oh so firefighters be will to say, don't be too shure.
They always started the top floor and work their way down.
Come on, I can hear those flames cracklings, you know arrest.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Last night when the transaction was all finished with Parry,
I gave to the Bruton some sedative in this coco.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
So you set up that bomb so period had get
it before you showed up to pick.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Up the check here.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
I told you that hows a girl knows I am
an impostor. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Let me tell you she's been sending old Van Bruton
two pays for the last four years.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Gray ones, my redheaded friend. I can stand up.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Now we go out from here? No, we go out
from here?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
No? Yes?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
How expense account item four A dollar forty night better
informing you that American Continental would have to meet payment
of claim to missus.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Christine Perr, a innocent widow of the insurer.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
The only thing she was guilty of was trying to
stay on the right side of a hot tempered boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
She lied about.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Who she was with at the Clover Club, not to
fix herself an alibi, but to keep al Donovan from
learning that she'd been out with another man, that man
being the real mister Van Bruton, who had only taken
her out to try to talk her into reconciling with
his friend her husband. Expense account adam five one hundred
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dollars fine for turning in a forse alarm, which, since
you're paying it with me, is just fine. Expense acount
total four hundred and sixty three dollars Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars Edmund O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gildaud, with
music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Featured in allcast
were Walter Burke, Gene Bates, Joe Duval, Ted de Corsia,
Joyce McCluskey, and Raymond Burr. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is
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produced and directed by him Delvai. Beginning next week, we
are moving to a new time and day, and we
hope you'll join us on Tuesday evenings when Edmund O'Brien
returns in another transcribed adventure of Yours truly, Johnny Dollars
(28:51):
You who missus bloom Molly Goldberg's famous invitation of fun
in the Bronx. Now it goes across the country each
Saturday night on CBS. It's the same fine brand of
comedy mixed with a tear now and then that's made
Molly and her whole family, Jake, Sammy, Rosalie and the
others favorite for many years. CBS invite you to hear
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the Goldbergs on most of these same CBS stations this
Saturday and every Saturday. This is Roy rowan speaking. Disaster
is no respector of persons, and it can strike any time.
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But your Red Cross never sleeps. It has to be
ready constantly in case of an emergency. This is your protection.
Keep it strong. Now's the time to support Red Cross
for your sake. Remember, for every dollar you gave before
this year, at a quarter more. If you gave Red
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Cross ten dollars last year, this year, give it twelve
dollars in a half. Give gladly Joe on Red Cross.
This is CBS where yours truly Johnny Dollar meets adventure
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next Tuesday night, as the Columbia Broadcasting System
Time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Dollar, Thank goodness I'd found you.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Why what's up? You've got to leave for New York.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Dollar immediately a policyholder. He's afraid for his life.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
There we go again. Who's he afraid of?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, he wouldn't say over the telephone. All I know
is to us he's worth one hundred thousand dollars alive.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, that makes it simple.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
He must be afraid of somebody to whom he's worth
one hundred thousand dollars dead.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Edmund O'Brien in the Transcribed Adventure of a Man with
the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to
Home Up American Continental Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of my expenditures fulfilling your assignment
as a well as a bodyguard, the body being that
of your late policy holder, Robert W.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Perry.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Expense account Item one fair on night train Hartford.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
To New York three sixty five.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Expense account Item two A dollar ady taxi to Lower
Manhattan following morning to Officers Perry and Van Bruton, importers,
arriving as promised at exactly nine am.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Oh, good morning. May I help you?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yes, you certainly can. My name is Johnny Dollar. I
have an appointment with mister Perry at nine o'clock.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Oh, yes, from the insurance company. Well you're right on time.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yes, they told me i'd better be, and I'm glad
that I am.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Mister Perry just came in. He's alone and waiting for you.
I'll buzz him that you're here.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Thanks. What was left of your policy holder?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Mister Perry was just sliding out of a swivel chair
as I hit the room. The top of his desk
had erupted, and splinters of mahogany he pointed their sharp
fingers upward through lazy circles of smoke, swirling towards the ceiling.
The buzzer from his secretary's desk had been rigged to
a booby trap.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
No, oh, no, mister Perry.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Stay away from him. Come on, there's nothing you can do.
He's dead. What happened? What happened?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Whatever happened.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Let's go, let's go work at him here.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Anyway, shut out I'll get you a drink of water.
Come on, drink this.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
There's a doctor in the fair floor.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Should I call him?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Never mind the doctor, go call the police. Nobody gets
in hell they arrived.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
How the rest of you go on run along, beat
it will and have the building two priintend a trail
off arms. Huh okay, miss, take it easy.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
It was also sudden.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
What happened? Well, that's not hard to figure out.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Somebody wanted to give you a boss, mister Perry, a
short cut through life. So whoever, it was figured out
that a secretary would never buzz a boss unless he
was at his desk. They rigged up a bomb somewhere
in his desk that would go off when you buzzed him.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Who like killing him?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Not? Wait a minute? Will you wait?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
And then do go hysterical army excitement enough and there'll
be more when the police get here.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So you keep cool.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
But I did it you so me.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Look, Hannie, the way you put it, I killed him
by coming in here and giving you my name so
you would buzz him, and I was here to protect him.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So drop it, will you?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Tell me what about yesterday? Was Perry here?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yes all day?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What time was it when you last used the buzzer?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Way right up to the last minute, about five thirty.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Who left the office first, Oh.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Mister Perry, who always leaves first?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I lock up, mu, and the looks of things, you
should have used more locks last night. Somebody got in
here to do some wiring. Oh I forgot that fire Alarne.
Look before the police arrived. Do you know why I
was sent here?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh? Yes, m mister Perry felt that his life was
in danger. He thought that well, with a hundred thousand.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Dollar policy, the insurance company would do everything they could
to help keep him a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh, he didn't have much of a chance, did we.
What was he afraid of?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Okay, tell me what were his other appointments for today?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Why he only had two his pardner, mister van Bruton
at eleven and later?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
He knows one at a time, please Van Bruton. Anything
special about bear meeting?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Oh yes, mister van Bruton arrived just yesterday from Holland.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh you mean there was a branch of this firm
in Holland.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Yes, mister Perry was buying out Van Bruton's interest. They
had the final meeting at Van Bruton's hotel last night.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
I see Van Bruton was coming by this morning to
pick up his money cash No, a cashier's check. The
bank is to deliver it here at ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Perry's other appointment. Who is that Christine? His wife? Ah?
Now she tells me Christine the beneficiary.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Yes, she wouldn't have been the beneficiary in another two
weeks they were getting a divorce.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Thanks for the motive. You don't like her?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Hold, I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
How about Perry?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Did you like him? Okay, here's an easier one.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
What's your name, Susan, Susan Gates? That wasn't that about him?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Though?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Okay, Susan, you'd better save your voice. During the next
few hours. You're gonna have to do a lot of talking.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I have been everywhere else. Here is the fire in here?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, you'll have to stick around when the cops get here.
Somebody will get burned. The fireman should have stuck around,
because the cops arrived in a blaze of glory. It
was a very high class investigation to lieutenants. Finally, after
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about an hour, the police photographer ran out of flashbulbs.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The office of the Diseased.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Ran out of fingerprints, and the lieutenants ran out of questions,
so the on the scene phase of the investigation was closed.
At about five minutes of eleven. I left the police,
packing up their notebooks, their clues, and the body, and
went into the outer office. Susan looked like she could
use a big broad shoulder to weep on, but unfortunately
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I was wearing my light gray suit. About then a
dark blue suit and a deep green voice entered the
room from the car.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Here there, there's a fellow out here, says he belongs here.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
His name is Van Bruk.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What do you think his name is on the door
he just opened.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
Oh well, now my name happens to be Murphy, and
he's sent bigs all over the country.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
But that don't mean names stuff with feathers, does it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Oh, never cross tongues with the irishman. All right, centiment officer,
all right.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Chicken coins. There's a policeman.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I was there. I was travel here.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
I am braying up and bruden. There's mister Pelly. What
he is waiting for me? No?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
No, but my point, he's not keeping any He's dead dead,
It's not possible.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Last night I saw him. He was well, what's happened?
He was hit by a buzzbum postbomb?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh please?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Who means there was foul playing?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, yes, it was very foul. Oh please, I.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
May sit down.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
I first visited as these years since before the war.
It was to be so happy, but no tragedy like this.
He was a good man, a good partner.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I understand that as of last night you were no
longer partners.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
Yeah job, I am glad you mentioned that. I realized,
of course, that it is indelicate to speak of such
things as money at the times like this, But that
is why I am here to receive my attainment.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Just because Perry got his, there's no reason for you
not getting yours.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Euh oh, but you misunderstand me. I am deeply grieved,
but well, since the transaction was consummated, what is there
to do. Delay would be a needless waste of money.
I have already paid for passage back to Antwerp tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Your check is here, mister Tamboo. Here you are.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Thank you all of my years of business. This is
indeed the saddest moment.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah. Well, if I didn't have some work to do,
I had sit.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Down with you and we'd all have a good cry.
Ye expense a count item three ninety cents phone call
to the whole office, mister Gordon's office. Look, Connie, this
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is Johnny Dollar. I want to speak to mister Gordon.
Uh while I'm telling him what I've got to tell him,
And maybe you'd better sit there in his lap with
some smelling sauce.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
I'm not that type of a secretary. Besides, he doesn't
have a laugh.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Hello, Dollar, how are you making out out about one
hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
What's that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
You know you should have sent me earlier. Somebody tell
you mister Perryan or a firecracker. Just after I got here,
he's dead.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Oh oh, oh, that's bad news, big policy.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah. What I want to know is shall I stay
on the case.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, certainly do it by all means?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh, is there.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
A chance of proving suicide? There's a non payment clause.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, to make this one a suicide, that'd have to
be Santa Claus. Nobody could hate himself enough to do
it this way.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, what are the possibilities?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Fair? There's an a strange wife.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
She's the beneficiary, but she wouldn't have been in a
couple of weeks divorce coming up.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I'll start with her, all.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Right, dolla, good luck, but watch those expenses, my Gordon.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I think an insurance man would be the first to
want to see a fellow live a little. Christine Perry's
apartment was on Sutton Place, overlooking the East River.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I took the elevator up to.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
The twenty fourth floor, and there I discovered that our
garden fresh widow was living high in more ways than one.
Everything about the place was French. The maid who led
me into the living room through a long foyer, the decorps,
and the perfume, which reminded you that breathing can be fun.
I looked up from enjoying my nose to see Missus
Perry looking down Hers Perry.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
I believe we can dispense with the social amenities. You're
an insurance investigator interested in the death of my husband,
so naturally you're here because you've jumped to the conclusion
that I killed him.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
H you're the one that's jumping to conclusions, lady, and
carefully you don't break your leg.
Speaker 10 (12:19):
What do you want the policies in order premiums are
fully paid.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You know I'm not quite sure what I want.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I know that you've got a great motive so far,
the only motive I've found.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
You haven't had much time to look.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Have you check? This is my first stop. Maybe you
can help me.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Do you know anyone who would be happier with your
husband out of the way?
Speaker 10 (12:44):
I know very little about my husband's friends. For that matter,
is activities for the past six months.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
That's when I left him.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Well, that's not much help for either of us, you know,
without someone else to suspect, I may just have to
constant trade on you.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Mister Dollar.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
I picked the men I want to concentrate on me.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I hope you're as long on alibis as you are
short on temper Where were your last night with a.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Friend, al Donovan?
Speaker 10 (13:15):
While the same place my husband was. I have witnesses
to prove who was with him.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Anybody at the Clover Club can tell you?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Save me a trip. I can't afford the prices they
get over there.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Certainly a pleasure.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
My husband was with his beautiful little secretary, Susan Gates.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Well, I wouldn't be more surprised if your late husband
walked through that door.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And said, all right, mister, that's enough. Hell yeah, how
much did you hear?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
I'm a big guy, baby, six foot four, I've got
big ears to mass.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Will this be, mister Donovan, your companion of last evening?
I'm getting you out of here.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Christians, you don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You lie to me. How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
If you're lie me, you call me stupid.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
The way you're playing is you'll alibi yourself right into
a cell.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
She's right, you are stupid, Donovan. She was doing just
fine until you dropped in. Mister You've been asking a
lot of questions.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Now I'm gonna give you one answer.
Speaker 11 (14:24):
All right, Christine, so much for the wise guy. Now
about you and your alibi. It wasn't with me at
the Clover Club last night. And if it's so easy
to prove that your husband.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Was there with his secretary, who were you there with? Remember?
Speaker 11 (14:45):
Baby, you told me you were gonna be with your husband.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
When I measured me for that swing, I measured my
chances with him. To me, he looked like one of
those corporate assets of Murder Incorporate. So I rolled with
the punch and kept my eyes closed and ears open.
What I heard was Christine's alibi, flying out the window,
mister Donovan giving her a few loving cuts, and finally
the pair of them flying out the door. Just then
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the noon whistle blew somewhere in New York, and I
decided to allow myself the luxury of one full minute for.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Lunch, the moment where we turn to the second act
of Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
But first.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And now we returned to the second act of Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I spent the minute I took out for lunch eating
a handful of missus Perry's bonbuds. On the run, I
hit the street just in time to see Donovan pushing
Christine Perry into a cream colored convertible. When they got rolling,
I piled into an even yellower vehicle with a meter
on it and started off Crosstown, playing tag through traffic.
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At fifty seventh in Broadway, things got complicated. My cab
was three cars behind them when a red light flashed
them to a stop.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Then the door of their car flew open.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Christine dashed out across the street and melted into the
river of humanity, flowing down into the subway. Since al
Donovan didn't follow her. I followed him. When he finally
pulled to a stop, he took two chances. He parked
in a no parking zone and walked straight into the
building beside it a police station.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
This is mister Dolan, Lieutenant. He's been waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Well, my name is Johnny Dollar, Lieutenant. Here are my credentials.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Insurance? Huh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The Perry murder in particular.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
You come to the right place door. A man named
Donovan just walked in here and made a full confession.
He what that's right? My clerk's just typing it up.
In the meantime, the gentleman is down in the tank
having a bite of lunch on the city.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
He confessed, Well, does this story add up.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
As far as I know, I haven't heard too much
about the keys myself. Not my precinct.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, but what did he use for a motive? Jealous?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
He says he's in love, wanted to marry Perry's wife.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Did he say how he managed it?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
He stole a key to the office from the wife's apartment,
entered the building last night and wired the bomb to.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
The buzzer system. Guys do a lot of strange things
in the name of love.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
He looks like Donovan did.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Eh.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
He either killed the man or he's trying to cover
up for someone who did. Say, Lieutenant, don't execute him.
For a couple of days, I spent the rest of
the afternoon downtown and the offices of Perry and Van Bruton, importers.
The partner's correspondence told me two things. They had been
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extremely friendly and Van Bruton was extremely bold. Perry had
been sending him two pays from a famous Hollywood makeup
for At four point thirty, I got to the employment files,
which rocked me with two minor explosions of their own. First,
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I learned that al Donovan had been employed over a
period of years as Perry's bodyguard, and that he had
been canned the day before the murder. That confession of his,
which had been a little hard to swallow, was suddenly
more digestible.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
On top of this came last number two, the employment.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Application of Perry's secretary, and Miss Susan Gates informed me
that during the war.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
She had worked in a munition's plant, her specialty wiring bombfuses.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
When Thessusan Gates reached home at eight thirty, she found
a visitor me, what did you get in here?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Professional secret?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Oh? It scared me. What do you want? Why did
you come here this way?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I want to bring in a good news.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I heard on the radio that Al Donovan contested to
Perry's murder.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Oh I can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Why not? Who do you like for the spot?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Why Christine? Al's covering up for her?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Well, I'd like to agree with you if it turns
out that Christine wound up her husband's life with a
bang company that hired me saves one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
But I don't know. She claims she has all kinds
of alibies. One of them is you me. Yeah, did
you see her at the Clover Club last night? Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, well yes, sire, yeah, I know who you were
with your boss.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
No, no, no, I'm not preaching a sermon. I want
to know who she was with.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I don't know a man i'd never seen before. Mister
Perry knew him, but he wouldn't tell me who he was.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
He said, I might get the wrong idea, but what
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
We didn't sit there and talk about it all night,
so why should we sit here and talk about it
all night?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
All right, all right? Good to heavens.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
When a census taker shows up and asks a lot
of questions, people answered him.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
When an investigator tries.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
To do his job, they make the proverbial claim look
like a blab amount.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Look look, mister Doner, believe me. This has been a
greater shock to me than to anyone else.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yes, excepting, of course you're late employer, mister Perry.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Long you worked for him four years? Where'd you worked before? Then?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Let me help you. Bombs huh, wiring fuses? Remember, hi,
I remember, Maybe you'll remember a little more.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Let's go back to last night. The guy with Christine Perry?
Who is he? I don't know, Van Brut, I don't know. No, No,
I'll get that. Just make sure you don't keep going, Susan.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
When Susan snapped the spring lock to open the door,
the gun outside opened up. The first slug Carter in
the left shoulder, spinning her out of the way of
the rest of them. It was getting monopolous. Every time
a buzzer went off, things started booming. Susan was sprawled
out on the floor in front of the door and
open it. I had him over. By the time I did,
the hallway outside was empty. Huh, okay, okay, now take
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it easy. Come on, I won't start hurting for a
couple of minutes. We'll have a doctor here by then.
He'll give you something. Please, please try and keep coming.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah what? Throw my coat over? No, try not to move.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Oh, you gonna ruin this rug?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Never mind a rug. What we wanna worry about is
we try to ruin you?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
What'll they do to me?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
What? Don't who do the you?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
They'll arrest me.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
They don't arrest people for getting shot. You have any
idea who it was?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
The man in the office this morning, the one who picked.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Up the check and bruten No, No, he wasn't then
bruten he was a phony.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, and you still gave him that check.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yet, Well, I won't ask you why you gave him
that check and then tried to blackmail him?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I wouldn't be surprised. Who is this guy? Where can
I find him out?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Come on? Don't pass out on me now? His name? Quick?
Come on? Where does he live?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Marsden Hotel?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Under his own name? No? I don't, I don't blame you.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I could use a few moments of unconsciousness myself. The
Larza Hotel didn't have a Dutch name on the register,
so I got ahold of the housekeeper and found out
how many rooms her staff hadn't been able to make
up all day because of no disturbed signs on their doors.
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And then I went a calling at those particular rooms.
On the ninth floor, I wakened one old maid. On
the seventh I startled a bunch of poker players who
thought they were being raided. And on the fourth I
struck the door of four twenty seven and the jackpot.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
He don't just be a side. I do not miss
to be disturbed. Sorry, I letus have the wrong room.
I started up the hall after the fire axe. When
I got to it, I changed my mind.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Out of the few things I learned about this guy
van Sand was that he loved to shoot people through doors,
so I decided against trying to chop his down. Then
I remembered the way those people came pouring out of
those offices earlier in the day when they heard that
fire alarm. So I picked up the little red hammer
next to the big red fire axe, broke the little
glass window, pulled a little brass hook and set off
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a big brassy noise, and then I rushed back to
four twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Fire fire, fire, wire, hell, hell's a fire right? Hear
in my eyes, sweetheart, to find you? Come here? You
wish you down? Never mind a dresser, You're through shooting gun?
How do you think you want to try some more?
Speaker 9 (25:00):
If you cannot make me stay here, it's a fire
with you'll all die.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
You'll look good barbecue. Then I'll make a deal with you.
You talk and I like what I hear.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I'll show you how to get out of here alive.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
How I know?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Just you don't think I'm gonna stay here and fry,
do you? And if you don't stop flapping that tongue
and a hurry.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I'll probably just tie you to a chair and run. Now. First,
where is the real man Bruton? You will find him
in a bedroom. Eh, He's better be alive.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
He's out cold. What's the matter with him? He will
be all right, he's indecentatives where.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Did this identity? S wwhich? Come on, hurry up?
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Talk?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I smell smoke.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
I knew Van Bruton from an I know about the
sale of his infants. I knows a girl in's office here,
never seen Vrom Bruton.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Look be going now, I don't get up. Come on,
keep talking. I can feel it getting warm in here.
Oh so firefighters be will to say, don't be too shure.
They always started the top floor and work their way down.
Come on, I can hear those flames cracklings, you know arrest.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Last night when the transaction was all finished with Parry,
I gave to the Bruton some sedative in this coco.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
So you set up that bomb so period had get
it before you showed up to pick.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Up the check here.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
I told you that hows a girl knows I am
an impostor. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Let me tell you she's been sending old Van Bruton
two pays for the last four years.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Gray ones, my redheaded friend. I can stand up.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Now we go out from here? No, we go out
from here?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
No? Yes?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
How expense account item four A dollar forty night better
informing you that American Continental would have to meet payment
of claim to missus.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Christine Perr, a innocent widow of the insurer.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
The only thing she was guilty of was trying to
stay on the right side of a hot tempered boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
She lied about.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Who she was with at the Clover Club, not to
fix herself an alibi, but to keep al Donovan from
learning that she'd been out with another man, that man
being the real mister Van Bruton, who had only taken
her out to try to talk her into reconciling with
his friend her husband. Expense account adam five one hundred
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dollars fine for turning in a forse alarm, which, since
you're paying it with me, is just fine. Expense acount
total four hundred and sixty three dollars Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars Edmund O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gildaud, with
music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Featured in allcast
were Walter Burke, Gene Bates, Joe Duval, Ted de Corsia,
Joyce McCluskey, and Raymond Burr. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is
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produced and directed by him Delvai. Beginning next week, we
are moving to a new time and day, and we
hope you'll join us on Tuesday evenings when Edmund O'Brien
returns in another transcribed adventure of Yours truly, Johnny Dollars
(28:51):
You who missus bloom Molly Goldberg's famous invitation of fun
in the Bronx. Now it goes across the country each
Saturday night on CBS. It's the same fine brand of
comedy mixed with a tear now and then that's made
Molly and her whole family, Jake, Sammy, Rosalie and the
others favorite for many years. CBS invite you to hear
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the Goldbergs on most of these same CBS stations this
Saturday and every Saturday. This is Roy rowan speaking. Disaster
is no respector of persons, and it can strike any time.
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But your Red Cross never sleeps. It has to be
ready constantly in case of an emergency. This is your protection.
Keep it strong. Now's the time to support Red Cross
for your sake. Remember, for every dollar you gave before
this year, at a quarter more. If you gave Red
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