August 17, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's time now for John Lund as Johnny Dollar. My
name's Elgin. Mister Dollar claims the vision Delaware Mutual Light.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Mister Housen, Would you be free to work on a
case for us?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh? That might be What kind of a case is it?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It involves a man named Pattison and a claim we've
paid off to the tune of forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You see, Patterson died in nineteen forty seven. All the
routine procedures were followed. There was no reason for not
honoring the policy at the.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Time, and there's reason now, mister Elsin. That's for you
to find out.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Mister Dollar, a lifelong friend of the deceased, swears he's
still alive and kicking.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'll take the case, mister Elsen.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
John Lund Then a transcribed adventure of the Man with
the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Hartford, Connecticut.
Two Controller's Office, Delaware Mutual Life Insurance Company, Wilmington, Delaware.
The following is an accounting of expenitures during my investigation
of the Walter Patterson matter. Expense account out of one
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seventy eight dollars and fourteen cents fair and incidentals between
Hartford and Wilmington. Arrived at two thirty in the afternoon,
found a room at the Chesapeake Hotel, stowed my luggage
and went directly to your headquarters, mister Elgin.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Course, reports like.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This crossed my desk ever so often. If I ran
them all down, I'd get nothing else done. And ten
times out of ten the report's wrong. Yes, I know that,
but this report bears investigation. I can remember three years
after my father's death, I saw him on a subway
train in New York. Who Well, he looked exactly as
I remember my dad. I finally walked up and asked
him his name. The minute he spoke, I lost the
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impression altogether. I think a lot of people have had
that same kind of experience one time or another, don't you. Yes,
I suppose so we all have a double somewhere, they say,
and old friends saw this man Patterson. Yes, in Tucson, Arizona.
Her name is Virginia Collier. I'd ever hear how to
talk to you but unfortunately she's unroped to Europe. I
see two weeks ago, Missus Collier stopped off in Tucson
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on her way back to Los Angeles. She claims that
she saw Walter Patterson as big as life, sitting in
a bar at the Elkinquistador Hotel.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Is that all?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
No, she managed to talk to him. He told her
his name was Yoler William Mueller. Missus Collier says he
pretended not to know her at all. Now here's the
first point.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Dollar.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I wired authorities in Tucson to run a check on
William Muehler. In their conversation, Yoler told Missus Collier that
he'd been born and raised in Tucson, but from all
we could gather, he'd never bought property or made a
financial negotiation there until June of nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh wait, Missus Collier, do you consider her reliable?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's another point. But it had been anybody else, I
don't think I'd have bothered to make even a cursory check.
But Missus Collier practiced law here for a number of
years and sat on the circuit bench for two terms.
She's most reliable, and she knew Waler Patterson all of
his life.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, go on.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The next thing is that missus Collier distinctly remembered Patterson's limp.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
He was a pilot in the war.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
One leg was about half an inch shorter than the
other from injuries he received a crish. Missus Collier said
this Manuoler had an identical limp. While with a similarity
of features, it'd be easy for her to imagine that
part as you think, Ah, yes, yes, I know what
you're driving at. But there are some other things too.
Missus Collier asked Yoler if he'd ever gone to Amherst
that's where Patterson went to college. Yoler denied it, said
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he was a Notre Dame graduate that didn't check out either.
Now we can assume that William Muehler Melly looked a
great deal like the late Walter Patterson and told some
inaccurate he is in a conversation at the bar. Or
we can assume the tea's really Walder Patterson, covering rather
badly in the face of an old acquaintance who recognized him.
At any rate, this is missus Collier's entire statement, duly notarized.
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All right, now, this is a copy of the original
policy on Pattison, How long with this coverany since nineteen
thirty six? Started with two five thousand dollars policies and
built up to a master over a period of years.
I see here twenty thousand dollars. Patterson was killed in
a plane crash, and we paid indemnity on the accident clause. Oh,
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it happened in April of nineteen forty seven. Pattison took
off on a rented plane one day and crashed off
shore down the coast. Part of the plane wreckage was recovered,
but his body was never found. The fellow court declared
him I legally dead after the usual three year waiting
period April fifth, nineteen fifty. Pattison's lawyer filed flame for
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the widow April seventeenth.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Can we issued a full check April thirtieth of that year.
Investigator's reports right in this fold.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Now this is the last picture ever taken of Patterson,
and these are his vital statistics. I didn't know exactly
what you'd want to do first, so I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
They might prove helpful.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
If we had a body to exume, it could all
be handled rather simply.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Is Patterson's widow the beneficiary.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, Gloria and Patterson. Incidentally, she knows nothing about this
report yet. Oh, or where'd these things come from? Pictures
and fingerprints? Aren't stock material and insurance wild? Mister Brennan,
Patterson's lawyer, gathered them for me. He's been very helpful.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh. Has Patterson's widow have been checked?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
As far as the money goes, she simply banked it
in the savings account.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Hasn't been touched at all.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
On the face of it, that would eliminate the probability
of any fraud on her part.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You have a woman. Well, I want to look this
all over. Shure you'll keep in touch with me, won't you?
You bet?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I spent the remainder of my day in and about
Wilmington talking to the principles connected with the plane crash
death of Waller Patterson. Number one was the radio operator
who'd spoken to him last, Number two mechanic at the
flying field, and number three, Lieutenant James Craigson, Coastguard, who
had conducted the search in the Bay Sea attached statement.
We both agreed that an unreported rescue was possible but
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highly improbable, and when I left for Tucson that night,
I was more or less convinced that all I'd find
there would be a lot of desert sunshine expenser cant
atom two two hundred and two dollars and twenty five
cents plain fair and incidental expenses.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
From Wilmington to Tucson.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I settled for a motel room out by the Veteran's Hospital,
slept six hours, then looked up Sergeant Tyler at the
police station.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, sure, mister Dollar, What can I do for?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Mister Elgin said? You sent him a little information, William Moler,
I wonder if you have anything to add to that size. No,
not much, of course, I don't know what you folks
are driving at exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I just checked up on him a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, he resembles a man who's supposed to be dead,
and that's why I'm here, I see, will is nothing
much I can add to what I sent mister Elgin.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Dollar. Yola has never been in any trouble around here.
Gets long. Fine, You were.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The one who checked out the residency business. Yeah, according
to vitals, Yola wasn't born in this state. And I,
like I said, no one knew him around here until
five years ago.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What does he do? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Always seems to have plenty of money, bought a nice
little house out and sere a vista. Paid forty two
thousand dollars for him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Is he married? No?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Lives alone there, putters around with clay and painting. You
know if he flies, I couldn't tell you that he might.
How about his friends? Lots of them, mister Dollar, Little
time like this year, get to know people fast. Really,
you folks might be spending a lot of money for nothing.
Will Yola don't seem like the kind of fella who's
hiding out from anybody?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah? I agree, but I'll have to talk to him anyhow.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, here's his address. Sure pretty day, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Mm? Sure is? Mister Yoler? Yo? Who you? My name's Dollar.
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I'm an insurance investigator.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
H Well, come on in, Well thanks, take a share anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, what's what's on your mind? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I'm just making a routine check, mister Yoler. I thought
perhaps you could help me. No, what about I'm running
down a report in the home office. Now tell me
you happen to remember a few days ago when you
were out at the El Conquistador.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hotel out there all the time? What about it? I
steal something.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
No. Uh, you met a woman named Carlier, did I? Yes,
it was at the bar. You had a drink with her?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I might have. I still don't understand.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh, I know it seems confusing, and maybe this will help.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Take a look at this. Well, you'll admit you look
a great deed like the man in the picture. Yeah,
I suppose I'm doing. I'll be darned I I i'd
do it. Then. Well that's why i'm here.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You see, the company I represent insured the man in
this picture for quite an amount of money. He was
lost in a plane crash five years ago. The missus
Collier who saw you here, thought you were him. Mm,
well I'm not. Oh I wasn't in the army.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You want to smoke. Oh thanks.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
She was a lifelong friend of the man, mister Yoler.
I have her sworn statement about the identity. Well what
years did you go to Notre Dame? I didn't go
to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What is this? Well that's what you told Missus Collier.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh oh, now I remember that woman.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well that was on Sunday. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I might have told her anything, mister Dolley. You know,
she was one of those inquisitive kind I never could
make out what was on her mind.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh, now I get it. You were she thought that
I was this man? Yeah, that's funny. Did you go
to college?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, Tulane. I got out in thirty six. You haven't
lived in Arizona all your life?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Where else have you lived? So?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I don't want to be unpleasant, But do you have
any right to ask me questions like this?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, I don't, but you'll help me a lot if
you'll answer them. Mister Oler, All right, why not? I've
lived in Cincinnati, Buffalo, around the country. I came here
a few years ago for my health.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I got little ladsman that bothered me. Ever been married?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, once, nineteen forty four. It didn't last very long.
Anything else you want to know? Oh, you're in a hurry.
I can come back. No, no, not exactly. I've got
to go down town today.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's so.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Look, you seem like a nice enough guy, but it
makes me uncomfortable answering these questions. He gos well, and
I appreciate the time you've given me already, mister Yoler.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Please understand, it's just a matter of identity.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You know who I am. I just told you that's true.
I don't like this business much. Is there any way
that we can eliminate it? I have a birth certificate,
some other papers you can have then make photostats if
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's very kind of you, mister Yoler.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
They're in my safety depotit box on the bank. I'll
get them for you this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, my job is to check them.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Sure, sure, it's okay by me. Oh I do you
like Tucson. Oh, it's a lot different from connect Yeah.
The birth certificate and whatever else you have will help
a lot. But wonder if I could ask another favorite?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Sure, what is it?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The most positive identification would be fingerprints, ste Owler, I'm
not so much interested in who you are, but simply
improving that you're not Walterer Patterson. If you volunteered the
set of prints that had saved me a great deal
of digging around, could you drop in.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
At the police station. Certainly, mister Dollard, why not? That'll
be fine? Nice meeting you. Same here.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
If he was trying to cover something, it certainly wasn't
apparent from his conversation or his actions. He was almost
too anxious to help me. By five o'clock I had
made reservations. To return to Wilmington because the set of
fingerprints he attached, which mister Yoler made at the Tucson
police station later that day, in no way matched the
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right pace come an index, Prince recorded in your file
for Walder Patterson. In short, the report seemed erroneous. William
Yoler might not have been William Yoeler, but he certainly
was not Walder Patterson. Johnny Dallar with Yoler, mister Dollar,
Oh yeah, thanks for the Prince, Dollar.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I've got to talk to you. Something wrong, funny.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Do you know how to get to the Arizona in
oh I can find it. I'll be there in twenty minutes.
The tone of his voice, I felt compelled to get
there in half that time. I sat down at the
bar in order to drink and waited for him to
show up. An hour later, I was still waiting. I
called his house three times and received no answer. I
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began to get worried. Finally I left word with the
bartender and took a cab out to his house. I
arrived there at eight thirty five. There were no lights
on and apparently no one around. I walked up to
the front door and found it partly open.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yo, YoY with the yeller h h open, lady, give me.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
The police please, one moment, Tallas Pak Johnny Dowler, Sergeant, Hi,
how's it going, don't you a lady?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's for a while, Sergeant, I'm at will Yowler's house.
He's been murdered.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We'll return to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in just a moment.
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we bring you the second act of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollary.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Turned out to be a long night.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Sergeant Tyler and several homicide offices arrived at the murder
scene within a matter of minutes and got right down
to the matter at hand.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He Aller had been beaten to death.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
There were signs of a violent struggle having taken place
all over the house, kitchen, bathroom, living room. As far
as the police could determine, nothing was missing. The motive,
the name of the killer, and any probable suspects were
all up in the air as Large and Tyler.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Drove me back to my motel room.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Old Thing's mass dollar. You sure he didn't say anything
else to you on the phone.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Just ask to meet me.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I'll admit he sounded frightened, worried about something. I don't
get it. Our business was all finished. He wasn't the
man I was looking for.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You're going to be around for a while. I don't
know if I can help you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'll stick around, sure, Otherwise, I'll get back to Wilmington
as soon as I can.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I like to have you around for a day or two.
You have a particular reasons, yes I do.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But I want to find me a killer, and I
think you can help. Nobody walks into a man's house,
fights with him, breaks up furniture and lamps, beats into
death without making loud noise about it. While the wind
was pretty strong, I don't careful a hurricane was born.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
People fight like that. There's always noise.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Somebody heard something, somebody saw something, somebody saw someone My men.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Who cover every house in Sierra visit.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
They have to turn up a witness bound to be
somebody somewhere.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
A dog in Sergeant Tyler turned out to be one hundred.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Percent correct, in fact, three hundred percent correct. For by
eleven o'clock the following morning, his men had located three
different people who had information about the brutal murder of
William Yohler. One of them, Missus Lucas, gave us what
turned out to be our best lead.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I take a walk every evening after dinner. It's the
nicest part of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And you were out walking last night, Missus Lucas.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yes, I told the officers everything.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Would you tell us please, Missus Lucas.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I walked past mister Yoler's house on my way down
the arroyo.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
What time was that, Missus Lucas.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Between seven thirty and eight, and I saw mister Yeuler
standing in front of the house talking to this man.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I spoke to him, and he spoke to me.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Can you describe the man he was talking to?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, I saw him very well. He was a very
large man, bigger than mister Yoler. And mister Yoler always
struck me. He as a big man, ah, go on, Well,
this man was a good two inches taller. He had
on a top coat, a tweed one, and he had
his hat in his hand. His hair was red.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
How old would you say?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Not over forty?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Have you ever seen him before?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I noticed him when I walked by on my way
down the Arroyals, I said. And then when I was
coming back, I could see through the window and he
was still there with.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
The lights on in the huh oh.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Yes, in the living room, and the porch light was
still on too.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Would you know this man if you saw him again,
missus Lucas well.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yes I would, I'm sure I would. He was so big.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Was there a car in front of me theoler.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I didn't notice one. There could have been.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Was there a bus service a round?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
No, everyone who lives near oyl has to have a car.
No buses up there at all.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Sargeant Tyler issued in all points more than according to
the description given by the witnesses. In the meantime, his
men checked the local cab companies and found out that
one of the drivers had carried a fair to William
Yowler's house at six thirty the previous evening.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
The cab driver verified missus Lucas's.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Description of the suspect and the important information that he
had picked up the suspect at the airport. When that
was checked, it was found a man had arrived on
a plane from the East at five point forty five
in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
He had used the name Roger Bales.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
But except for a strong case against him, the whole
thing was still very confusing from our point of view.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Expense account item.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Three six dollars and fifty cents long distance telephone charges
your office. We'll all be done.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You have to stay there. Oh, they've asked me to
mister Elgin.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, as far as the insurance company is concerned, it's
really none.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Of our business, is it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That's right, mister Elton. I'm going to Dollar. Oh hold on, yeah,
answer from Washington on your wire. Oh yeah, here, let
me see, mister Elgin. Yes, it is our business after all. Huh.
The War Department has a better sample of Waller Patterson's
prince than you gave me.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Please check out.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Slow down. I still don't understand. I wired a sample
of Yowler's prince to the War Department this morning for
a positive identification. They just answered me Yoler was Waller Patterson. Uh, oh,
where did.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You get those prints that were in the fire? He
gave me?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Uh, mister Brennan, Patterson's lawyer, got them for me from
a pilot's license.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Uh huh, I better call mister Brennan. Oh, don't you dare? Well?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
What can I do to help you?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Dollar? Don't open your mouth. I'll handle it when I
get there.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Expense account Item four forty two dollars and eighty five
cents expenses while in Tucson an item five same as
item two traveling expenses from Tucson to Wilmington. I arrived
at ten fifteen in the evening, called you, obtained lawyer
Brennan's home address, and went directly there. The house was English, conservative, expensive,
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and the fire in the living room looked cheerful when
the door opened.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yes, good evening. I'd like to see mister Brennan. Please.
It's rather important. My name is Dollar.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Bob's been ill for the last two or three days.
Mister Dollar, he's up in his room reading now. If
you're sure it's important, i'll disturb it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
It is missus Brennan, very important.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I'm not missus Brennan. I'm missus Patterson. What is this
something wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh no, no, missus Patterson.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Come here, mister Dollar, you excuse me, please, I'll see
if he can see you.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I watched Waller Patterson's widow disappear up a column stairway.
I hadn't been ready to meet this attractive, well groomed woman,
But after I had met her and seen her for
that brief moment, I was partially prepared to meet Robert Brennan,
attorney at law. Mister Dollar, Bob, Hello, Dollar, you're a
late caller.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yes, I'm sorry about that. Mom.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I'll run along.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
It's almost seven, all right, dear, good night, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Good night, missus Patterson. Brennan.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I just flew in from Tucson, Arizona. I'm an insurance investigator.
Oh well, good night, Gloria. You'll be interested in what
mister Dollar has to say.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
What I don't understand, bon Let's go.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Into the living room, Mona, Are you sure you want
missus Patterson here? Yeah, Gloria, I didn't get these bruises
falling down a flight of stairs.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I got them in a fight.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
What.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I flew to Tucson the day before yesterday to see Walter.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yes, Walter has been alive all this time, Bob, This
is only for her benefit. Dollar.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'll tell it just once. When you get me in court,
it'll be different. How did it happen, Beren, Gloria, Walt
didn't die in that crash. He was picked up in
the bay by a fishing boat and sway to Florida.
The first port they came into was Charleston. He phoned
me a long distance from there and told me all
about it. This was ten days after we all thought
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he was dead.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Gloria. It was his idea. You got to believe that.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
What was his idea?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
He hated you? You know how often he asked you
for a divorce? Was the idea he had when he
phoned me from Charleston. He said it was his chance
to get away from you. He knew how I always
felt about you, and he said I could have you
for a price.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You've been supporting him wherever he's been since then. Twenty
five thousand a year, regular monthly payments. I could afford it.
I could afford anything for you, Gloria.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Did he tell you he hated me?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Did he?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
He just wanted to be away from you, from everything.
The war changed him that way. About the day before yesterday,
the man at the insurance company called up making inquiries.
I didn't know if he'd sent an investigator out there
or not, but I gave him a lot of information
and material that well, it should have helped throw you off.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
It threw me off, all right, especially the fingerprints.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Mister Doller can tell you, Gloria, how Walt didn't want
to be here with you, isn't that right?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Dollar? Then he knew everything he could to make you think.
His name was Yoler. You see, Gloria, where is he now?
He's dead, Missus Patterson, truly dead now.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh that's all I had to say, Dollar, You've fought
with Walter.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You killed him.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It was humor me, Gloria.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I he phoned me two days ago and said that
the police had been.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Checking on me.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I told him what it was all about, not to
get scared, but he was scared, and I got a
plane the first chance I had.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
What did you argue about terribly? You'd been there that morning?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
He was going to tell you the truth and claim
he had amnesia. He said he had a date to
meet you. He didn't answer my question, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I didn't answer this.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I just told you he was going to blow the
whole thing. All I wanted out of this was you, Gloria.
He didn't want you. I did last week you said
you'd decided to marry me. It took you five years
to decide that, and it took him one lousy afternoon
to decide he was going to come back to you.
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I realized that the confusion is set down on this
report is worthless as evidence both of the police and
your insurance company. The proof that Brennan killed Patterson will
be a matter for the courts to decide. The proof
that Gloria Anne Patterson is guilty or not guilty of
her fraudulent claim is a matter for you to decide.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
At any rate.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
She is a widow now, and I personally am convinced
that she had no complicity in the matter of claims.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Murderer collusion.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Expense account Item six same as item one. Expenses from
Wilmington to Hartford. Expense account total six hundred and ten
dollars and thirteen cents yours try Johnny dollars
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's time now for John Lund as Johnny Dollar. My
name's Elgin. Mister Dollar claims the vision Delaware Mutual Light.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Mister Housen, Would you be free to work on a
case for us?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh? That might be What kind of a case is it?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It involves a man named Pattison and a claim we've
paid off to the tune of forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You see, Patterson died in nineteen forty seven. All the
routine procedures were followed. There was no reason for not
honoring the policy at the.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Time, and there's reason now, mister Elsin. That's for you
to find out.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Mister Dollar, a lifelong friend of the deceased, swears he's
still alive and kicking.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'll take the case, mister Elsen.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
John Lund Then a transcribed adventure of the Man with
the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Hartford, Connecticut.
Two Controller's Office, Delaware Mutual Life Insurance Company, Wilmington, Delaware.
The following is an accounting of expenitures during my investigation
of the Walter Patterson matter. Expense account out of one
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seventy eight dollars and fourteen cents fair and incidentals between
Hartford and Wilmington. Arrived at two thirty in the afternoon,
found a room at the Chesapeake Hotel, stowed my luggage
and went directly to your headquarters, mister Elgin.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Course, reports like.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This crossed my desk ever so often. If I ran
them all down, I'd get nothing else done. And ten
times out of ten the report's wrong. Yes, I know that,
but this report bears investigation. I can remember three years
after my father's death, I saw him on a subway
train in New York. Who Well, he looked exactly as
I remember my dad. I finally walked up and asked
him his name. The minute he spoke, I lost the
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impression altogether. I think a lot of people have had
that same kind of experience one time or another, don't you. Yes,
I suppose so we all have a double somewhere, they say,
and old friends saw this man Patterson. Yes, in Tucson, Arizona.
Her name is Virginia Collier. I'd ever hear how to
talk to you but unfortunately she's unroped to Europe. I
see two weeks ago, Missus Collier stopped off in Tucson
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on her way back to Los Angeles. She claims that
she saw Walter Patterson as big as life, sitting in
a bar at the Elkinquistador Hotel.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Is that all?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
No, she managed to talk to him. He told her
his name was Yoler William Mueller. Missus Collier says he
pretended not to know her at all. Now here's the
first point.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Dollar.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I wired authorities in Tucson to run a check on
William Muehler. In their conversation, Yoler told Missus Collier that
he'd been born and raised in Tucson, but from all
we could gather, he'd never bought property or made a
financial negotiation there until June of nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh wait, Missus Collier, do you consider her reliable?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's another point. But it had been anybody else, I
don't think I'd have bothered to make even a cursory check.
But Missus Collier practiced law here for a number of
years and sat on the circuit bench for two terms.
She's most reliable, and she knew Waler Patterson all of
his life.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, go on.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The next thing is that missus Collier distinctly remembered Patterson's limp.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
He was a pilot in the war.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
One leg was about half an inch shorter than the
other from injuries he received a crish. Missus Collier said
this Manuoler had an identical limp. While with a similarity
of features, it'd be easy for her to imagine that
part as you think, Ah, yes, yes, I know what
you're driving at. But there are some other things too.
Missus Collier asked Yoler if he'd ever gone to Amherst
that's where Patterson went to college. Yoler denied it, said
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he was a Notre Dame graduate that didn't check out either.
Now we can assume that William Muehler Melly looked a
great deal like the late Walter Patterson and told some
inaccurate he is in a conversation at the bar. Or
we can assume the tea's really Walder Patterson, covering rather
badly in the face of an old acquaintance who recognized him.
At any rate, this is missus Collier's entire statement, duly notarized.
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All right, now, this is a copy of the original
policy on Pattison, How long with this coverany since nineteen
thirty six? Started with two five thousand dollars policies and
built up to a master over a period of years.
I see here twenty thousand dollars. Patterson was killed in
a plane crash, and we paid indemnity on the accident clause. Oh,
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it happened in April of nineteen forty seven. Pattison took
off on a rented plane one day and crashed off
shore down the coast. Part of the plane wreckage was recovered,
but his body was never found. The fellow court declared
him I legally dead after the usual three year waiting
period April fifth, nineteen fifty. Pattison's lawyer filed flame for
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the widow April seventeenth.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Can we issued a full check April thirtieth of that year.
Investigator's reports right in this fold.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Now this is the last picture ever taken of Patterson,
and these are his vital statistics. I didn't know exactly
what you'd want to do first, so I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
They might prove helpful.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
If we had a body to exume, it could all
be handled rather simply.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Is Patterson's widow the beneficiary.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, Gloria and Patterson. Incidentally, she knows nothing about this
report yet. Oh, or where'd these things come from? Pictures
and fingerprints? Aren't stock material and insurance wild? Mister Brennan,
Patterson's lawyer, gathered them for me. He's been very helpful.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh. Has Patterson's widow have been checked?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
As far as the money goes, she simply banked it
in the savings account.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Hasn't been touched at all.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
On the face of it, that would eliminate the probability
of any fraud on her part.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You have a woman. Well, I want to look this
all over. Shure you'll keep in touch with me, won't you?
You bet?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I spent the remainder of my day in and about
Wilmington talking to the principles connected with the plane crash
death of Waller Patterson. Number one was the radio operator
who'd spoken to him last, Number two mechanic at the
flying field, and number three, Lieutenant James Craigson, Coastguard, who
had conducted the search in the Bay Sea attached statement.
We both agreed that an unreported rescue was possible but
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highly improbable, and when I left for Tucson that night,
I was more or less convinced that all I'd find
there would be a lot of desert sunshine expenser cant
atom two two hundred and two dollars and twenty five
cents plain fair and incidental expenses.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
From Wilmington to Tucson.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I settled for a motel room out by the Veteran's Hospital,
slept six hours, then looked up Sergeant Tyler at the
police station.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, sure, mister Dollar, What can I do for?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Mister Elgin said? You sent him a little information, William Moler,
I wonder if you have anything to add to that size. No,
not much, of course, I don't know what you folks
are driving at exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I just checked up on him a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, he resembles a man who's supposed to be dead,
and that's why I'm here, I see, will is nothing
much I can add to what I sent mister Elgin.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Dollar. Yola has never been in any trouble around here.
Gets long. Fine, You were.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The one who checked out the residency business. Yeah, according
to vitals, Yola wasn't born in this state. And I,
like I said, no one knew him around here until
five years ago.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What does he do? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Always seems to have plenty of money, bought a nice
little house out and sere a vista. Paid forty two
thousand dollars for him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Is he married? No?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Lives alone there, putters around with clay and painting. You
know if he flies, I couldn't tell you that he might.
How about his friends? Lots of them, mister Dollar, Little
time like this year, get to know people fast. Really,
you folks might be spending a lot of money for nothing.
Will Yola don't seem like the kind of fella who's
hiding out from anybody?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah? I agree, but I'll have to talk to him anyhow.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, here's his address. Sure pretty day, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Mm? Sure is? Mister Yoler? Yo? Who you? My name's Dollar.
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I'm an insurance investigator.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
H Well, come on in, Well thanks, take a share anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, what's what's on your mind? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I'm just making a routine check, mister Yoler. I thought
perhaps you could help me. No, what about I'm running
down a report in the home office. Now tell me
you happen to remember a few days ago when you
were out at the El Conquistador.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hotel out there all the time? What about it? I
steal something.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
No. Uh, you met a woman named Carlier, did I? Yes,
it was at the bar. You had a drink with her?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I might have. I still don't understand.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh, I know it seems confusing, and maybe this will help.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Take a look at this. Well, you'll admit you look
a great deed like the man in the picture. Yeah,
I suppose I'm doing. I'll be darned I I i'd
do it. Then. Well that's why i'm here.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You see, the company I represent insured the man in
this picture for quite an amount of money. He was
lost in a plane crash five years ago. The missus
Collier who saw you here, thought you were him. Mm,
well I'm not. Oh I wasn't in the army.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You want to smoke. Oh thanks.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
She was a lifelong friend of the man, mister Yoler.
I have her sworn statement about the identity. Well what
years did you go to Notre Dame? I didn't go
to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What is this? Well that's what you told Missus Collier.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh oh, now I remember that woman.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well that was on Sunday. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I might have told her anything, mister Dolley. You know,
she was one of those inquisitive kind I never could
make out what was on her mind.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh, now I get it. You were she thought that
I was this man? Yeah, that's funny. Did you go
to college?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, Tulane. I got out in thirty six. You haven't
lived in Arizona all your life?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Where else have you lived? So?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I don't want to be unpleasant, But do you have
any right to ask me questions like this?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, I don't, but you'll help me a lot if
you'll answer them. Mister Oler, All right, why not? I've
lived in Cincinnati, Buffalo, around the country. I came here
a few years ago for my health.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I got little ladsman that bothered me. Ever been married?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, once, nineteen forty four. It didn't last very long.
Anything else you want to know? Oh, you're in a hurry.
I can come back. No, no, not exactly. I've got
to go down town today.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's so.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Look, you seem like a nice enough guy, but it
makes me uncomfortable answering these questions. He gos well, and
I appreciate the time you've given me already, mister Yoler.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Please understand, it's just a matter of identity.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You know who I am. I just told you that's true.
I don't like this business much. Is there any way
that we can eliminate it? I have a birth certificate,
some other papers you can have then make photostats if
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's very kind of you, mister Yoler.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
They're in my safety depotit box on the bank. I'll
get them for you this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, my job is to check them.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Sure, sure, it's okay by me. Oh I do you
like Tucson. Oh, it's a lot different from connect Yeah.
The birth certificate and whatever else you have will help
a lot. But wonder if I could ask another favorite?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Sure, what is it?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The most positive identification would be fingerprints, ste Owler, I'm
not so much interested in who you are, but simply
improving that you're not Walterer Patterson. If you volunteered the
set of prints that had saved me a great deal
of digging around, could you drop in.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
At the police station. Certainly, mister Dollard, why not? That'll
be fine? Nice meeting you. Same here.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
If he was trying to cover something, it certainly wasn't
apparent from his conversation or his actions. He was almost
too anxious to help me. By five o'clock I had
made reservations. To return to Wilmington because the set of
fingerprints he attached, which mister Yoler made at the Tucson
police station later that day, in no way matched the
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right pace come an index, Prince recorded in your file
for Walder Patterson. In short, the report seemed erroneous. William
Yoler might not have been William Yoeler, but he certainly
was not Walder Patterson. Johnny Dallar with Yoler, mister Dollar,
Oh yeah, thanks for the Prince, Dollar.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I've got to talk to you. Something wrong, funny.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Do you know how to get to the Arizona in
oh I can find it. I'll be there in twenty minutes.
The tone of his voice, I felt compelled to get
there in half that time. I sat down at the
bar in order to drink and waited for him to
show up. An hour later, I was still waiting. I
called his house three times and received no answer. I
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began to get worried. Finally I left word with the
bartender and took a cab out to his house. I
arrived there at eight thirty five. There were no lights
on and apparently no one around. I walked up to
the front door and found it partly open.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yo, YoY with the yeller h h open, lady, give me.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
The police please, one moment, Tallas Pak Johnny Dowler, Sergeant, Hi,
how's it going, don't you a lady?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's for a while, Sergeant, I'm at will Yowler's house.
He's been murdered.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We'll return to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in just a moment.
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we bring you the second act of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollary.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Turned out to be a long night.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Sergeant Tyler and several homicide offices arrived at the murder
scene within a matter of minutes and got right down
to the matter at hand.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He Aller had been beaten to death.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
There were signs of a violent struggle having taken place
all over the house, kitchen, bathroom, living room. As far
as the police could determine, nothing was missing. The motive,
the name of the killer, and any probable suspects were
all up in the air as Large and Tyler.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Drove me back to my motel room.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Old Thing's mass dollar. You sure he didn't say anything
else to you on the phone.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Just ask to meet me.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I'll admit he sounded frightened, worried about something. I don't
get it. Our business was all finished. He wasn't the
man I was looking for.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You're going to be around for a while. I don't
know if I can help you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'll stick around, sure, Otherwise, I'll get back to Wilmington
as soon as I can.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I like to have you around for a day or two.
You have a particular reasons, yes I do.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But I want to find me a killer, and I
think you can help. Nobody walks into a man's house,
fights with him, breaks up furniture and lamps, beats into
death without making loud noise about it. While the wind
was pretty strong, I don't careful a hurricane was born.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
People fight like that. There's always noise.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Somebody heard something, somebody saw something, somebody saw someone My men.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Who cover every house in Sierra visit.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
They have to turn up a witness bound to be
somebody somewhere.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
A dog in Sergeant Tyler turned out to be one hundred.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Percent correct, in fact, three hundred percent correct. For by
eleven o'clock the following morning, his men had located three
different people who had information about the brutal murder of
William Yohler. One of them, Missus Lucas, gave us what
turned out to be our best lead.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I take a walk every evening after dinner. It's the
nicest part of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And you were out walking last night, Missus Lucas.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yes, I told the officers everything.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Would you tell us please, Missus Lucas.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I walked past mister Yoler's house on my way down
the arroyo.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
What time was that, Missus Lucas.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Between seven thirty and eight, and I saw mister Yeuler
standing in front of the house talking to this man.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I spoke to him, and he spoke to me.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Can you describe the man he was talking to?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, I saw him very well. He was a very
large man, bigger than mister Yoler. And mister Yoler always
struck me. He as a big man, ah, go on, Well,
this man was a good two inches taller. He had
on a top coat, a tweed one, and he had
his hat in his hand. His hair was red.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
How old would you say?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Not over forty?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Have you ever seen him before?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I noticed him when I walked by on my way
down the Arroyals, I said. And then when I was
coming back, I could see through the window and he
was still there with.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
The lights on in the huh oh.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Yes, in the living room, and the porch light was
still on too.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Would you know this man if you saw him again,
missus Lucas well.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yes I would, I'm sure I would. He was so big.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Was there a car in front of me theoler.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I didn't notice one. There could have been.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Was there a bus service a round?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
No, everyone who lives near oyl has to have a car.
No buses up there at all.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Sargeant Tyler issued in all points more than according to
the description given by the witnesses. In the meantime, his
men checked the local cab companies and found out that
one of the drivers had carried a fair to William
Yowler's house at six thirty the previous evening.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
The cab driver verified missus Lucas's.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Description of the suspect and the important information that he
had picked up the suspect at the airport. When that
was checked, it was found a man had arrived on
a plane from the East at five point forty five
in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
He had used the name Roger Bales.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
But except for a strong case against him, the whole
thing was still very confusing from our point of view.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Expense account item.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Three six dollars and fifty cents long distance telephone charges
your office. We'll all be done.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You have to stay there. Oh, they've asked me to
mister Elgin.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, as far as the insurance company is concerned, it's
really none.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Of our business, is it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That's right, mister Elton. I'm going to Dollar. Oh hold on, yeah,
answer from Washington on your wire. Oh yeah, here, let
me see, mister Elgin. Yes, it is our business after all. Huh.
The War Department has a better sample of Waller Patterson's
prince than you gave me.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Please check out.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Slow down. I still don't understand. I wired a sample
of Yowler's prince to the War Department this morning for
a positive identification. They just answered me Yoler was Waller Patterson. Uh, oh,
where did.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You get those prints that were in the fire? He
gave me?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Uh, mister Brennan, Patterson's lawyer, got them for me from
a pilot's license.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Uh huh, I better call mister Brennan. Oh, don't you dare? Well?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
What can I do to help you?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Dollar? Don't open your mouth. I'll handle it when I
get there.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Expense account Item four forty two dollars and eighty five
cents expenses while in Tucson an item five same as
item two traveling expenses from Tucson to Wilmington. I arrived
at ten fifteen in the evening, called you, obtained lawyer
Brennan's home address, and went directly there. The house was English, conservative, expensive,
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and the fire in the living room looked cheerful when
the door opened.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yes, good evening. I'd like to see mister Brennan. Please.
It's rather important. My name is Dollar.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Bob's been ill for the last two or three days.
Mister Dollar, he's up in his room reading now. If
you're sure it's important, i'll disturb it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
It is missus Brennan, very important.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I'm not missus Brennan. I'm missus Patterson. What is this
something wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh no, no, missus Patterson.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Come here, mister Dollar, you excuse me, please, I'll see
if he can see you.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I watched Waller Patterson's widow disappear up a column stairway.
I hadn't been ready to meet this attractive, well groomed woman,
But after I had met her and seen her for
that brief moment, I was partially prepared to meet Robert Brennan,
attorney at law. Mister Dollar, Bob, Hello, Dollar, you're a
late caller.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yes, I'm sorry about that. Mom.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I'll run along.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
It's almost seven, all right, dear, good night, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Good night, missus Patterson. Brennan.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I just flew in from Tucson, Arizona. I'm an insurance investigator.
Oh well, good night, Gloria. You'll be interested in what
mister Dollar has to say.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
What I don't understand, bon Let's go.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Into the living room, Mona, Are you sure you want
missus Patterson here? Yeah, Gloria, I didn't get these bruises
falling down a flight of stairs.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I got them in a fight.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
What.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I flew to Tucson the day before yesterday to see Walter.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yes, Walter has been alive all this time, Bob, This
is only for her benefit. Dollar.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'll tell it just once. When you get me in court,
it'll be different. How did it happen, Beren, Gloria, Walt
didn't die in that crash. He was picked up in
the bay by a fishing boat and sway to Florida.
The first port they came into was Charleston. He phoned
me a long distance from there and told me all
about it. This was ten days after we all thought
(23:47):
he was dead.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Gloria. It was his idea. You got to believe that.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
What was his idea?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
He hated you? You know how often he asked you
for a divorce? Was the idea he had when he
phoned me from Charleston. He said it was his chance
to get away from you. He knew how I always
felt about you, and he said I could have you
for a price.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You've been supporting him wherever he's been since then. Twenty
five thousand a year, regular monthly payments. I could afford it.
I could afford anything for you, Gloria.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Did he tell you he hated me?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Did he?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
He just wanted to be away from you, from everything.
The war changed him that way. About the day before yesterday,
the man at the insurance company called up making inquiries.
I didn't know if he'd sent an investigator out there
or not, but I gave him a lot of information
and material that well, it should have helped throw you off.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
It threw me off, all right, especially the fingerprints.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Mister Doller can tell you, Gloria, how Walt didn't want
to be here with you, isn't that right?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Dollar? Then he knew everything he could to make you think.
His name was Yoler. You see, Gloria, where is he now?
He's dead, Missus Patterson, truly dead now.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh that's all I had to say, Dollar, You've fought
with Walter.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You killed him.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It was humor me, Gloria.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I he phoned me two days ago and said that
the police had been.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Checking on me.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I told him what it was all about, not to
get scared, but he was scared, and I got a
plane the first chance I had.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
What did you argue about terribly? You'd been there that morning?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
He was going to tell you the truth and claim
he had amnesia. He said he had a date to
meet you. He didn't answer my question, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I didn't answer this.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I just told you he was going to blow the
whole thing. All I wanted out of this was you, Gloria.
He didn't want you. I did last week you said
you'd decided to marry me. It took you five years
to decide that, and it took him one lousy afternoon
to decide he was going to come back to you.
(26:22):
I realized that the confusion is set down on this
report is worthless as evidence both of the police and
your insurance company. The proof that Brennan killed Patterson will
be a matter for the courts to decide. The proof
that Gloria Anne Patterson is guilty or not guilty of
her fraudulent claim is a matter for you to decide.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
At any rate.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
She is a widow now, and I personally am convinced
that she had no complicity in the matter of claims.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Murderer collusion.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Expense account Item six same as item one. Expenses from
Wilmington to Hartford. Expense account total six hundred and ten
dollars and thirteen cents yours try Johnny dollars
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