August 12, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Johnny Dolla, Johnny Bob Hall at Plymouth. We've got a
bad thing down here.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Oh what's that?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
One of our company investigators has been killed. I think
you knew him. Jeen Rymer.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Jean Rymer is dead.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, shot to death. We learned of it this morning.
Sent him down to Charston to look into a murder.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Is his wife No yet, she was with him.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I mean she went to Charston with him. We want
to put somebody right on it, Johnny, That's what I called.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Oh sure, I'll come right over and get the rest
of the story from you. Edmund O'Brien and another adventure
of the man Will the action Packed expense accounts America's
fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dalla. Expense account
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submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dalla to home office, Plymouth
Insurance Company, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of
expenditures during my investigation of the Leland Blackburn matter. Expense
count adam one two fifty cab fare from my apartment
to the Plymouth building. Hi Johnny, Yeah, Oh, Hi Maryle,
(01:20):
What is going on here? Geen rymer shooting? I wondered
if it heard. He talked a lot about you.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You were good friends.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
We earned the business together in the pig of an agency,
almost opened our own avas it didn't pan out. I
wish it had.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
We're gonna miss him around here.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He was a great guy. Yeah, and Bob Hole was
waiting for me, Marl, I'd better get in there.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Sure, good luck, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
He's waiting for you to go right here.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Hi, boss, Thanks for coming right over, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I wouldn't have blamed you if you turn it down,
I get it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I feel pretty awful about him.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I gave the case to Jean myself.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
He wasn't up for one, but there would have been
some extra money for him.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I knew he needed. He didn't have to take the case.
He didn't have to earn a living this way. It's
a funny thing for you to say, Well, there's no
other way to look at it. You can't hunt trouble
forever without finally running into some I got the idea
that you were his friend. I was. But you aren't
hiring a friend, Bob, You're hiring an investigator. If you
want me to go to work on this, I'd better
get some facts. I don't understand you. What about the
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case he was on? You said it was murder?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
A policy holder named Leland Blackburn was bludging to death
in his home.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
How long had Jeene been on it? Less than a week?
Five days? Had he sent in any report and what
he learned? No, he hadn't. Is that all? That's all
I know. He was staying at the Hotel Lee.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
His wife is still.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
There, as I said, she'd been with him. I suggest
you talk to her first.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I will.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I'll leave as soon as I can get plane space.
All right, cont good luck Spence count item two eighty
five dollars transportation between Hartford and the Hotel Lee and Charleston.
It was eight thirty pm by the time I checked in,
and my first move was to the phone. Yes it
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was Johnny, Barbara, Johnny, where are.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You above you?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
The Plymouth Company sent me down. I look into Jean's dead.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh, I'm glad you're here, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
When will I see you as soon as possible? Give
me just fifteen minutes to put a face on it.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Come on down, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Hello, it's been a long time. I can't tell you
what a shock it was to hear your voice on
the phone.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I've been thinking about you. Oh it was natural too.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
You've been the only one I'd turned to when it
was trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
How did the company happen to send you? Because I
know Gene, I guess anything said about us, There was
no reason for that. Everything between you and me stopped
when you got married. We'd better keep it that way now.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Sure it was a beautiful marriage all.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The way around. I told it would be. You remember that. Yes,
there was a sight of Geene Rymer that hardly anybody knew.
He didn't believe me. I learned to, and you made
some pretty serious statements to me after you did. I
want to get that off my chest before we go
any farther. I don't know how many times you told
me that you were afraid you were going to kill
him for what he'd done to you, And you meant it,
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didn't you, Johnny? The last time was less than a
month ago.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You don't think I killed him?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I remember what you said. Don't. Why did you come
to Charleston with him?
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Because he made me call?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Why?
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Because I don't want to tell you?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (04:46):
It doesn't have anything to do with what.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Happened, then you shouldn't mind telling me.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
He found out about somebody had been seeing in Hartford.
I know it sounds cheap, but you must really.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Never mind that Jean brought you down here to keep
you away from this guy.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Yes, Johnny, you can't think I killed.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I hope you didn't for old times sake. I'd hate
to learn that you did. The good times, Johnny, what
do you know about the case. Jean was working on nothing.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
He never talked about any of them.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And I'll start on it tomorrow. Good night, Barbara SENSCN
I had him three two dollars camp there the next
morning the police headquarters where I met Lieutenant Simms, the
officer in charge of both killings.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Looks to me like you filed a load of work
on your shoulders. Dollar you signed them both murders.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Chances out that they go together, don't you think?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Hard to figure that far? Yet?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
What have you got on is Leland Blackburn?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
The file isn't complete on him. The widow and son
refused to authorize an autopsy. Took a few days to
force it through, so we got no report.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Who was he?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
An old carder? Pillar the Old South, so to speak.
He was a broker and his son Rolin pretty wealthy fool.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
What do you think was the mod Well, we're thinking
it was robbery.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Nobody knows how much, but Old Leland's wallet was empty
when they found it. He just told the phone operator
he wanted the police. When he was hit, the phone
was still in his hand. Well, I'll have to go
on sort of the family if youself and this other
Hartford man, likable kind of fellow, you know him?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Ah, I know Jean for quite a few years.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Makes it bad when it's a friend, don't.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It doesn't help. Do you have anything on his death?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, absolutely nothing. He was shot three times a close
range with a thirty two caliber gun. All three slugs
went through him and smashed up on a brick wall
behind him, spoiled him for ballistics. Why that happen in
an alley off Magazine Street, and that's why we can't
figure any connection between that shooting and the Blackburn killing.
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You know this town, well, why I know Blackburn set
foot in that Magazine Street section. They live at the
other end of the town, south of Broad Streets are
closer to Heaven. I can tell you that.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, thanks a lot, Lieutenant. Looks like I've got a
lot of coal trail to follow, so i'd better get moving.
Later that day, after checking my phone to learn when
the sun would be home, I went to the Blackburn residence.
It was a warm, friendly estate, glowing with Southern tradition.
(07:26):
The same thing could have been said about the widow,
missus Blackburn, but son Raleinn must have taken after his father.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
What I resent most of all is that you are
here simply because you suspect you, the mother, and me,
are both of us of nefarious plum.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Isn't that right? Murder is a hard thing to ignore,
mister Blackburn.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
I am not ignoring it, but I believe our local
police are quite able to do what must be done.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I just think you'd be interested in having as many
people as possible working to clear it up.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Naturally, I want to see my father's killers brought to justice,
but I don't think father would appreciate the importation of
investigators from Hartford Raleigh.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Please. I came here primarily to investigate the death of
the first hearted man. I'm afraid you'll have to put
up with me until I satisfy myself that there's no
connection between your father and that possible connection. Could there be,
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
There isn't any. If I hear of you dragging the
Blackburn name into a sword and murder in that part
of town, I will personally thrash you within an inch
of your life.
Speaker 10 (08:20):
Rollin, I must insist. I think perhaps that if you left,
mister Doner and I could conclude this meeting much more rapidly.
Don't you have an appointment someplace?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Don't you forget what I said? Dollar? I won't.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Oh, I must apologize, mister Dowler.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You're on healthy.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
The loss of his father has been a great shock
to him. And I must say that other young man
who was here, as pleasant as it tried to be,
did leave us for the impression that he suspected us.
One doesn't say things like that about the Blackburns. It
is an extremely proud and moral family.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I understand. I don't want you to think that.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
I now, mister Dalla, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Well? I think you've probably been asked these questions by
mister Rymer. But if you'll bear with me, of course, Ah,
were you here the night your husband died?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Yes, I was in the other wing where our bedrooms are.
Rollin was there too, But he came down to the
kitchen that's through there and found poor Leland.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Neither have you heard anything?
Speaker 10 (09:29):
No, I had my radio on, I remember, But even so,
it is quite a big house.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's a beautiful house, this Blackburn. Do you have any
idea who could have done this thing? Any enemies of
your husband's I.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Knew of nobody who disliked Leland. He was a charitable,
honest man, and a pious one.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm sorry, miss Blackburn.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I don't bother you any longer.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
My only hope is that I I'd join him soon.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Lieutenant, see him is dollar? Lieutenant?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Oh yeah, what have you been up to?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I went out to see the Blackburns. How did you
reconstruct the killing out there?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, like I said, he still had the phone in
his hand. Been hit a number of times with some
blood instrument.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Anything to make you think there was more than one killer.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
No, wombs were all on the right side of the head,
struck from behind by a right handed man.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Why the son? He was a little agitated at my
being there, he said, killers. He said he wanted to
see his father's killers brought to justice. Floral. What would
make him say a thing like that. I don't know,
and as it stands, it's not worth anything is evidence.
But I thought i'd tell you to me. At that moment,
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it meant there was a possibility that Robin Blackburn knew
more than he was saying. I spent another two hours
trying to find something to strengthen that possibility, the financial
condition of both the family and their brokerage firm. I
got no place with it, but I returned to my
hotel with the feeling that that one slip was going
to develop into the link to connect Jean's death with
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the Blackburn investigation. The feeling lasted only a few seconds
after I met the man who was waiting for me
outside my room.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Dom Hell, brain, h I'm the hotel detective here. I
think i'd better talk to you. What about wound down
four thirteen? Missus Rymer, as you find out about me,
I've been keep my eye on her, so you'd go
to see you and checked on you. I have an
idea that insurance company would send somebody else.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Why have you been watching her?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Her husband paid me to I guess there was something
wrong between him. Yeah, A man showed up to see
her the day the husband was killed. I didn't get
a chance to tell him, but I thought I ought
to tell you who is he? Which is his name?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
George?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
He's in the Clemens Hotel up the street. He checked
in from Heart for two.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Go out in the room, Brian. I want to hit
the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Oh, there is much more this. Richard showed up at
the rhyme of room about one the afternoon. Rhyme over
was out, so I didn't get to him, and then
he was shot that night about ten.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Maybe it don't need anything.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You know where Richards is now?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
He checked out this afternoon, took the five forty plane
in the oar.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I mean for your drink brand?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Sure, you know a man's a fool to marry a
woman as beautiful as that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It always means trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
That's my personal opinion.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
My wife is ugliest and that's as far as it goes. Yeah, thanks,
Have you told this to the police? Brand? Not here?
Why not? Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I figured a couple of pages won't make any difference
if the police don't come up with something else. But
then I'll tell him you talked to her.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
What do you think I don't know, but I'm going down.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
To see her.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Wouldn't be very smart with her? Maybe not. That's the
way I have to play it. Help yourself to another
drink brand, and thanks. I've got to see her.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Sure, Johnny, come in.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
What's the matter. Why did you lie to me last night?
I didn't. I don't understand, George Richards. Why didn't you
tell me he was here? How did you find out
he was seen coming into this room? Why didn't you
tell me that?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I believed.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I put myself out on a limb for you today
because I thought there was a chance you wouldn't lie
to me. I withheld information. They want to motor for
Jean's murder, and I didn't mention you.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
I didn't kill him.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
That doesn't mean anything now that there's Richards.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I didn't know he was here until I opened that door.
He stayed here ten minutes.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I made him leave.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
I told him to go back home and there'd be
real trouble.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
He didn't leave until this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
I didn't know that, Johnny. I know I should have
told you last night. I've always trusted you, but I
knew how bad the situation would look, and I just
prayed that nobody would know George was here.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
You weren't covering up for him.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
No, I didn't know, Johnny, I didn't know he was
still here.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Quit it, quit it, Come on, I said, down and
get a hold of itself, Louck. I want to believe you, Barbara.
You know that, But it doesn't make any difference now
whether I do or not. The police are going to
learn about Richard's.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Are you going to tell them?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I imagine they'll tell me. But I can't hold back anymore.
And were the answers I'll have to give them. They
can probably indict you for murder or at least accessory
with Richards.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
I didn't kill him.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Let's stop it. I don't need hysterics. I need proof.
How can you approve to me that you knew nothing
about it?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Would Richards have done it alone? No? How can you
approve that?
Speaker 7 (15:06):
It's the thing I know.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I can't use things, you know. I need people and statements.
People who will swear that they saw you at the
time Jean Raymer was killed. People who will swear they
saw Richard.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
It was nine o'clock.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
I was here.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I can check that.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
That's all I know, Johnny, stop, please stop.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
All right, angel I tried to find an alibi for
George Richards that night, but a stranger in a city
the size of Charleston is hard to nail down. I
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went to the Clements hotel and questioned bell boys, clerk's maids,
and bartenders, but those who remembered him hadn't seen him
during the evening in question, and I tried cab drivers
with no better success. It was after midnight when I
went to bed, and nine the next morning when I
was awakened by a summons from the police company by
official transportation. Here he is, Lieutenant, Hey, chargeant, you can
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wait outside?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yes, sit down, Dolly, and an interesting chat with the hotel
detective where you're stopping.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Oh, I'm not surprised, lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
What's the matter with you? Son? You put yourself and
put it on serious position by holding back information from me.
Why'd you do it? I'm not sure you admitted knowing
that Gene Raymer. Why didn't you tell me then that
you knew about trouble between him and his wife?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And I wanted to check the other anglish first, The
black part investigation.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
How bad was his trouble?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Pretty bad? Ryan had anan strict that didn't show except
to his closest friends and intermates.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You'd say he did a bodily harm Yep, lots of it.
How'd you find out? Huh? Well you knew her.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I knew her. I thought they were married, love with her.
By any chance I had been, I would have married her.
I know what you're driving on, Lieutenant. The possibility that
I came down here to protect her from the murder
of charge, Well, that's half true. She's been my friend.
I didn't want to see her pulled in it. She
wasn't mixed up in it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You don't think she would. I'll have to leave that
for you.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I know she had a motor than to make it better,
a possible accomplice turns up, But so far it's all circumstantial.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
And we put a searcher out on this man, Richard's
that's how good them circumstances look to us.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Sure, and I'll bet I can reconstruct your reconstruction. A
phony tipped to ryme on how to crack the Blackburn thing,
an appointment on magazine Street and the payoff.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You break it down? Oh, I tried. Barbara has an alibi,
but Richards hasn't. And I got to have somebody for
that killing daughter. I'm going to bring her in.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I'm surprised you haven't already.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I want to talk to you first. I want you
to stay here when I talk to her.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Why why you think she'll break down because of me?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Matter with that board.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I'll be right back. I gotta go get a man
to pick her up. What are you doing, colum? Planning suicide?
Where's lieutenant? Seems just right out the other door.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Hey, you finally got the autopsy report and no man Blackburn.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
You say, as if you really didn't believe he was dead. No,
he's dead, all right?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
What is the sergeant?
Speaker 9 (18:31):
The Blackburn autopsy report?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah? Look here, I'll be narcotics. Usual price has been
waiting for this lieutenant, and they've got a ride to it.
No wait, don't give it to him yet. This has
been pretty hard on that family. Hold on to it.
No use dragging him through any more mud, at least
to the federal men. Go to work on it, all right, sir,
If you'll be here in a few minutes, dollar so relax,
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I got to run through a few reports while we wait.
It was hardly the time for relaxation, but I tried.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
We sat through an hour of questions to which there
was no probable answers, and at the end of it,
Barbara Rymer was booked on suspicion of murder and I
was released on bail, charged with suspicion of being accessory
after the fact, I had only one place to go now,
Miss Blackburn, good after me. I'm mister Dollar. You remember me,
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of course I do.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
I've wasn't expected.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I'm sorry. I didn't have time to phone Ma. Come in?
Yeses he sull at home.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
No, he's at the office.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
What is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
A girl has been arrested because the police thinks she
killed mister Rhymer, the other man from Hartford.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't think she did it.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
I don't think I understand, mister Dollar.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Why have you come here because I think you know
she didn't do it, missus Blackburn, mister Dollar, could we
sit down someplace.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Yes, in the drawing room now, if you.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Please, sir? What is the meaning of me?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Why did you refuse to allow an autopsy to be
performed than your husband.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
Because I believe it to be a revolting and savage practice,
a mental torture that no one has the right to
ask the survivors to experience. I will not condone it.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Usually laws are stronger than human feelings. You know that
one had been performed.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
I refused.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Ronin told me there was nothing to fear.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
He was wrong.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
I will not condone it.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
It's a matter of official record. Now, Missus Blackburn, the
report says your husband was an arcotics user.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
He was not.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
He was.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Your son knew it, and I think you did.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I shall have to ask you to leave.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Mister Doller, please, Missus Blackburn, that wouldn't do any good.
When I was here before, maybe you remember your son
said something he didn't intend to say. He told me
that more than one man killed your husband. He said killers.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
He was upsets.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Both murders had something to do with the narcotics your
husband used, didn't they. The police haven't been able to
find a link between a Blackbird name and the magazine
Street Section and narcotics made that link. Isn't that right? No,
Jean Rymer must have found out he was killed. Now
a woman has charged with a murder. She had nothing
to do with. What else do you want?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Oh, we thought we were doing the right thing.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Why did you think that we hope to save Leland?
Speaker 8 (21:33):
That shame and Roland, his son and his widow, Jean.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Raymer must have learned from you.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
No, no one was to be told.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Mister Rhymer discovered it himself when he faced us. We
begged him to say nothing, but when he threatened us, we.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Told him their names, the names of the people who
supplied your husband.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Yes, and made a hell of our lives.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
They started money from us for almost ten years.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
We of the Vilate family. They killed your husband.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
They came that night to force him to buy more,
and when he refused and try to telephone the police,
they killed him.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I want you to tell me who these people.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Are, we told mister Ramah and and he.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I won't go alone.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
It will be finished. Then this farce we live.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
It finished anyway?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yes, we go no further. There are two.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
One is named Mila, the other stone Where do I
find it?
Speaker 8 (22:51):
You won't go alone, We've caused one day.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I'll be all right, I'll.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Tell you where to find them.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I hadn't planned to go alone, but on the way
I began to wonder if the time I spent interesting
the police wouldn't be used by missus Blackburn to warn
the two men whose capture would put the finish to
the family reputation. So I didn't contact Lieutenant Simms. Instead,
I stopped by my hotel to pick up an automatic
and cap to the magazine street addressed by myself.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I take it easy up there, if I would you?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Thanks?
Speaker 11 (23:29):
I will, Hey, uh yeah, Oh are you Miller, Stone?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
What's the deaf? None, Miller, what's that they're pushing in?
I just came from the Blackburn place, where the old
lady is tired of trying to save the family pride.
She talked again? What what other reason? What I have
for being here? He's ready to talk to the police
about her husband. I'm ready to talk to you about
Geen Raymer. I don't get you'd better start. Come on, boy,
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out that door. We'll find our way. Now. Listen to me.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
You can't pull a man around like this.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I'll saying why I haven't done nothing, and why argue?
All right, I'll go Smeller, get away from me.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Fine, Stone, Right, I gotta talk to Stone.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
He did get a chance to talk to Stone, but
not before Lieutenant sim has heard him out and added
his statement and added the surviving Blackburns, which cleared Barbara
Raymer and yours truly. Expense account. I had him free one
hundred and ten dollars miscellaneous expenses in Charleston, had him
four same as Item two. Transportation back to Hartford expense
a count total. Oh excuse me, yeah, hello Johnny. Oh hi, Barbara,
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I thought you were coming over. It's after four well
as a as a matter of fact, I was just
going to phone. I can't make it. What's the matter, Johnny,
I've got another case. What's the matter of Johnny? I
have to earn a living, all right?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Do you know where to find me if you want to?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah, yeah, I'll try to call you when I get
back to town. Okay, goodbye. Expense count total three hundred
and forty five dollars and seventy five cents. Remarks. This
was a fairly personal assignment, and it brings to mind
a fairly personal observation. Cops, private or otherwise should never
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marry their lousy husbands because they're away from home so much.
But more important, they leave too many widows. Yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Dollar, yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the
title role and is written by Gil Dodd with music
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Speaker 9 (26:43):
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From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Johnny Dolla, Johnny Bob Hall at Plymouth. We've got a
bad thing down here.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Oh what's that?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
One of our company investigators has been killed. I think
you knew him. Jeen Rymer.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Jean Rymer is dead.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, shot to death. We learned of it this morning.
Sent him down to Charston to look into a murder.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Is his wife No yet, she was with him.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I mean she went to Charston with him. We want
to put somebody right on it, Johnny, That's what I called.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Oh sure, I'll come right over and get the rest
of the story from you. Edmund O'Brien and another adventure
of the man Will the action Packed expense accounts America's
fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dalla. Expense account
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submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dalla to home office, Plymouth
Insurance Company, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of
expenditures during my investigation of the Leland Blackburn matter. Expense
count adam one two fifty cab fare from my apartment
to the Plymouth building. Hi Johnny, Yeah, Oh, Hi Maryle,
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What is going on here? Geen rymer shooting? I wondered
if it heard. He talked a lot about you.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You were good friends.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
We earned the business together in the pig of an agency,
almost opened our own avas it didn't pan out. I
wish it had.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
We're gonna miss him around here.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He was a great guy. Yeah, and Bob Hole was
waiting for me, Marl, I'd better get in there.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Sure, good luck, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
He's waiting for you to go right here.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Hi, boss, Thanks for coming right over, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I wouldn't have blamed you if you turn it down,
I get it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I feel pretty awful about him.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I gave the case to Jean myself.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
He wasn't up for one, but there would have been
some extra money for him.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I knew he needed. He didn't have to take the case.
He didn't have to earn a living this way. It's
a funny thing for you to say, Well, there's no
other way to look at it. You can't hunt trouble
forever without finally running into some I got the idea
that you were his friend. I was. But you aren't
hiring a friend, Bob, You're hiring an investigator. If you
want me to go to work on this, I'd better
get some facts. I don't understand you. What about the
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case he was on? You said it was murder?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
A policy holder named Leland Blackburn was bludging to death
in his home.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
How long had Jeene been on it? Less than a week?
Five days? Had he sent in any report and what
he learned? No, he hadn't. Is that all? That's all
I know. He was staying at the Hotel Lee.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
His wife is still.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
There, as I said, she'd been with him. I suggest
you talk to her first.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I will.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I'll leave as soon as I can get plane space.
All right, cont good luck Spence count item two eighty
five dollars transportation between Hartford and the Hotel Lee and Charleston.
It was eight thirty pm by the time I checked in,
and my first move was to the phone. Yes it
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was Johnny, Barbara, Johnny, where are.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You above you?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
The Plymouth Company sent me down. I look into Jean's dead.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh, I'm glad you're here, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
When will I see you as soon as possible? Give
me just fifteen minutes to put a face on it.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Come on down, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Hello, it's been a long time. I can't tell you
what a shock it was to hear your voice on
the phone.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I've been thinking about you. Oh it was natural too.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
You've been the only one I'd turned to when it
was trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
How did the company happen to send you? Because I
know Gene, I guess anything said about us, There was
no reason for that. Everything between you and me stopped
when you got married. We'd better keep it that way now.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Sure it was a beautiful marriage all.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The way around. I told it would be. You remember that. Yes,
there was a sight of Geene Rymer that hardly anybody knew.
He didn't believe me. I learned to, and you made
some pretty serious statements to me after you did. I
want to get that off my chest before we go
any farther. I don't know how many times you told
me that you were afraid you were going to kill
him for what he'd done to you, And you meant it,
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didn't you, Johnny? The last time was less than a
month ago.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You don't think I killed him?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I remember what you said. Don't. Why did you come
to Charleston with him?
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Because he made me call?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Why?
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Because I don't want to tell you?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (04:46):
It doesn't have anything to do with what.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Happened, then you shouldn't mind telling me.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
He found out about somebody had been seeing in Hartford.
I know it sounds cheap, but you must really.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Never mind that Jean brought you down here to keep
you away from this guy.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Yes, Johnny, you can't think I killed.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I hope you didn't for old times sake. I'd hate
to learn that you did. The good times, Johnny, what
do you know about the case. Jean was working on nothing.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
He never talked about any of them.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And I'll start on it tomorrow. Good night, Barbara SENSCN
I had him three two dollars camp there the next
morning the police headquarters where I met Lieutenant Simms, the
officer in charge of both killings.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Looks to me like you filed a load of work
on your shoulders. Dollar you signed them both murders.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Chances out that they go together, don't you think?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Hard to figure that far? Yet?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
What have you got on is Leland Blackburn?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
The file isn't complete on him. The widow and son
refused to authorize an autopsy. Took a few days to
force it through, so we got no report.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Who was he?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
An old carder? Pillar the Old South, so to speak.
He was a broker and his son Rolin pretty wealthy fool.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
What do you think was the mod Well, we're thinking
it was robbery.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Nobody knows how much, but Old Leland's wallet was empty
when they found it. He just told the phone operator
he wanted the police. When he was hit, the phone
was still in his hand. Well, I'll have to go
on sort of the family if youself and this other
Hartford man, likable kind of fellow, you know him?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Ah, I know Jean for quite a few years.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Makes it bad when it's a friend, don't.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It doesn't help. Do you have anything on his death?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, absolutely nothing. He was shot three times a close
range with a thirty two caliber gun. All three slugs
went through him and smashed up on a brick wall
behind him, spoiled him for ballistics. Why that happen in
an alley off Magazine Street, and that's why we can't
figure any connection between that shooting and the Blackburn killing.
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You know this town, well, why I know Blackburn set
foot in that Magazine Street section. They live at the
other end of the town, south of Broad Streets are
closer to Heaven. I can tell you that.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, thanks a lot, Lieutenant. Looks like I've got a
lot of coal trail to follow, so i'd better get moving.
Later that day, after checking my phone to learn when
the sun would be home, I went to the Blackburn residence.
It was a warm, friendly estate, glowing with Southern tradition.
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The same thing could have been said about the widow,
missus Blackburn, but son Raleinn must have taken after his father.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
What I resent most of all is that you are
here simply because you suspect you, the mother, and me,
are both of us of nefarious plum.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Isn't that right? Murder is a hard thing to ignore,
mister Blackburn.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
I am not ignoring it, but I believe our local
police are quite able to do what must be done.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I just think you'd be interested in having as many
people as possible working to clear it up.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Naturally, I want to see my father's killers brought to justice,
but I don't think father would appreciate the importation of
investigators from Hartford Raleigh.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Please. I came here primarily to investigate the death of
the first hearted man. I'm afraid you'll have to put
up with me until I satisfy myself that there's no
connection between your father and that possible connection. Could there be,
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
There isn't any. If I hear of you dragging the
Blackburn name into a sword and murder in that part
of town, I will personally thrash you within an inch
of your life.
Speaker 10 (08:20):
Rollin, I must insist. I think perhaps that if you left,
mister Doner and I could conclude this meeting much more rapidly.
Don't you have an appointment someplace?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Don't you forget what I said? Dollar? I won't.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Oh, I must apologize, mister Dowler.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You're on healthy.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
The loss of his father has been a great shock
to him. And I must say that other young man
who was here, as pleasant as it tried to be,
did leave us for the impression that he suspected us.
One doesn't say things like that about the Blackburns. It
is an extremely proud and moral family.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I understand. I don't want you to think that.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
I now, mister Dalla, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Well? I think you've probably been asked these questions by
mister Rymer. But if you'll bear with me, of course, Ah,
were you here the night your husband died?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Yes, I was in the other wing where our bedrooms are.
Rollin was there too, But he came down to the
kitchen that's through there and found poor Leland.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Neither have you heard anything?
Speaker 10 (09:29):
No, I had my radio on, I remember, But even so,
it is quite a big house.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's a beautiful house, this Blackburn. Do you have any
idea who could have done this thing? Any enemies of
your husband's I.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Knew of nobody who disliked Leland. He was a charitable,
honest man, and a pious one.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm sorry, miss Blackburn.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I don't bother you any longer.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
My only hope is that I I'd join him soon.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Lieutenant, see him is dollar? Lieutenant?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Oh yeah, what have you been up to?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I went out to see the Blackburns. How did you
reconstruct the killing out there?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, like I said, he still had the phone in
his hand. Been hit a number of times with some
blood instrument.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Anything to make you think there was more than one killer.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
No, wombs were all on the right side of the head,
struck from behind by a right handed man.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Why the son? He was a little agitated at my
being there, he said, killers. He said he wanted to
see his father's killers brought to justice. Floral. What would
make him say a thing like that. I don't know,
and as it stands, it's not worth anything is evidence.
But I thought i'd tell you to me. At that moment,
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it meant there was a possibility that Robin Blackburn knew
more than he was saying. I spent another two hours
trying to find something to strengthen that possibility, the financial
condition of both the family and their brokerage firm. I
got no place with it, but I returned to my
hotel with the feeling that that one slip was going
to develop into the link to connect Jean's death with
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the Blackburn investigation. The feeling lasted only a few seconds
after I met the man who was waiting for me
outside my room.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Dom Hell, brain, h I'm the hotel detective here. I
think i'd better talk to you. What about wound down
four thirteen? Missus Rymer, as you find out about me,
I've been keep my eye on her, so you'd go
to see you and checked on you. I have an
idea that insurance company would send somebody else.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Why have you been watching her?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Her husband paid me to I guess there was something
wrong between him. Yeah, A man showed up to see
her the day the husband was killed. I didn't get
a chance to tell him, but I thought I ought
to tell you who is he? Which is his name?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
George?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
He's in the Clemens Hotel up the street. He checked
in from Heart for two.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Go out in the room, Brian. I want to hit
the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Oh, there is much more this. Richard showed up at
the rhyme of room about one the afternoon. Rhyme over
was out, so I didn't get to him, and then
he was shot that night about ten.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Maybe it don't need anything.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You know where Richards is now?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
He checked out this afternoon, took the five forty plane
in the oar.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I mean for your drink brand?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Sure, you know a man's a fool to marry a
woman as beautiful as that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It always means trouble.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
That's my personal opinion.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
My wife is ugliest and that's as far as it goes. Yeah, thanks,
Have you told this to the police? Brand? Not here?
Why not? Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I figured a couple of pages won't make any difference
if the police don't come up with something else. But
then I'll tell him you talked to her.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
What do you think I don't know, but I'm going down.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
To see her.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Wouldn't be very smart with her? Maybe not. That's the
way I have to play it. Help yourself to another
drink brand, and thanks. I've got to see her.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Sure, Johnny, come in.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
What's the matter. Why did you lie to me last night?
I didn't. I don't understand, George Richards. Why didn't you
tell me he was here? How did you find out
he was seen coming into this room? Why didn't you
tell me that?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I believed.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I put myself out on a limb for you today
because I thought there was a chance you wouldn't lie
to me. I withheld information. They want to motor for
Jean's murder, and I didn't mention you.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
I didn't kill him.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
That doesn't mean anything now that there's Richards.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I didn't know he was here until I opened that door.
He stayed here ten minutes.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I made him leave.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
I told him to go back home and there'd be
real trouble.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
He didn't leave until this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
I didn't know that, Johnny. I know I should have
told you last night. I've always trusted you, but I
knew how bad the situation would look, and I just
prayed that nobody would know George was here.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
You weren't covering up for him.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
No, I didn't know, Johnny, I didn't know he was
still here.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Quit it, quit it, Come on, I said, down and
get a hold of itself, Louck. I want to believe you, Barbara.
You know that, But it doesn't make any difference now
whether I do or not. The police are going to
learn about Richard's.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Are you going to tell them?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I imagine they'll tell me. But I can't hold back anymore.
And were the answers I'll have to give them. They
can probably indict you for murder or at least accessory
with Richards.
Speaker 10 (14:54):
I didn't kill him.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Let's stop it. I don't need hysterics. I need proof.
How can you approve to me that you knew nothing
about it?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Would Richards have done it alone? No? How can you
approve that?
Speaker 7 (15:06):
It's the thing I know.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I can't use things, you know. I need people and statements.
People who will swear that they saw you at the
time Jean Raymer was killed. People who will swear they
saw Richard.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
It was nine o'clock.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
I was here.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I can check that.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
That's all I know, Johnny, stop, please stop.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
All right, angel I tried to find an alibi for
George Richards that night, but a stranger in a city
the size of Charleston is hard to nail down. I
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went to the Clements hotel and questioned bell boys, clerk's maids,
and bartenders, but those who remembered him hadn't seen him
during the evening in question, and I tried cab drivers
with no better success. It was after midnight when I
went to bed, and nine the next morning when I
was awakened by a summons from the police company by
official transportation. Here he is, Lieutenant, Hey, chargeant, you can
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wait outside?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yes, sit down, Dolly, and an interesting chat with the hotel
detective where you're stopping.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Oh, I'm not surprised, lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
What's the matter with you? Son? You put yourself and
put it on serious position by holding back information from me.
Why'd you do it? I'm not sure you admitted knowing
that Gene Raymer. Why didn't you tell me then that
you knew about trouble between him and his wife?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And I wanted to check the other anglish first, The
black part investigation.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
How bad was his trouble?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Pretty bad? Ryan had anan strict that didn't show except
to his closest friends and intermates.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You'd say he did a bodily harm Yep, lots of it.
How'd you find out? Huh? Well you knew her.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I knew her. I thought they were married, love with her.
By any chance I had been, I would have married her.
I know what you're driving on, Lieutenant. The possibility that
I came down here to protect her from the murder
of charge, Well, that's half true. She's been my friend.
I didn't want to see her pulled in it. She
wasn't mixed up in it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You don't think she would. I'll have to leave that
for you.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I know she had a motor than to make it better,
a possible accomplice turns up, But so far it's all circumstantial.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
And we put a searcher out on this man, Richard's
that's how good them circumstances look to us.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Sure, and I'll bet I can reconstruct your reconstruction. A
phony tipped to ryme on how to crack the Blackburn thing,
an appointment on magazine Street and the payoff.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You break it down? Oh, I tried. Barbara has an alibi,
but Richards hasn't. And I got to have somebody for
that killing daughter. I'm going to bring her in.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I'm surprised you haven't already.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I want to talk to you first. I want you
to stay here when I talk to her.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Why why you think she'll break down because of me?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Matter with that board.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I'll be right back. I gotta go get a man
to pick her up. What are you doing, colum? Planning suicide?
Where's lieutenant? Seems just right out the other door.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Hey, you finally got the autopsy report and no man Blackburn.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
You say, as if you really didn't believe he was dead. No,
he's dead, all right?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
What is the sergeant?
Speaker 9 (18:31):
The Blackburn autopsy report?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah? Look here, I'll be narcotics. Usual price has been
waiting for this lieutenant, and they've got a ride to it.
No wait, don't give it to him yet. This has
been pretty hard on that family. Hold on to it.
No use dragging him through any more mud, at least
to the federal men. Go to work on it, all right, sir,
If you'll be here in a few minutes, dollar so relax,
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I got to run through a few reports while we wait.
It was hardly the time for relaxation, but I tried.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
We sat through an hour of questions to which there
was no probable answers, and at the end of it,
Barbara Rymer was booked on suspicion of murder and I
was released on bail, charged with suspicion of being accessory
after the fact, I had only one place to go now,
Miss Blackburn, good after me. I'm mister Dollar. You remember me,
(19:28):
of course I do.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
I've wasn't expected.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I'm sorry. I didn't have time to phone Ma. Come in?
Yeses he sull at home.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
No, he's at the office.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
What is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
A girl has been arrested because the police thinks she
killed mister Rhymer, the other man from Hartford.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't think she did it.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
I don't think I understand, mister Dollar.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Why have you come here because I think you know
she didn't do it, missus Blackburn, mister Dollar, could we
sit down someplace.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Yes, in the drawing room now, if you.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Please, sir? What is the meaning of me?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Why did you refuse to allow an autopsy to be
performed than your husband.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
Because I believe it to be a revolting and savage practice,
a mental torture that no one has the right to
ask the survivors to experience. I will not condone it.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Usually laws are stronger than human feelings. You know that
one had been performed.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
I refused.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Ronin told me there was nothing to fear.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
He was wrong.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
I will not condone it.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
It's a matter of official record. Now, Missus Blackburn, the
report says your husband was an arcotics user.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
He was not.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
He was.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Your son knew it, and I think you did.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I shall have to ask you to leave.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Mister Doller, please, Missus Blackburn, that wouldn't do any good.
When I was here before, maybe you remember your son
said something he didn't intend to say. He told me
that more than one man killed your husband. He said killers.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
He was upsets.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Both murders had something to do with the narcotics your
husband used, didn't they. The police haven't been able to
find a link between a Blackbird name and the magazine
Street Section and narcotics made that link. Isn't that right? No,
Jean Rymer must have found out he was killed. Now
a woman has charged with a murder. She had nothing
to do with. What else do you want?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Oh, we thought we were doing the right thing.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Why did you think that we hope to save Leland?
Speaker 8 (21:33):
That shame and Roland, his son and his widow, Jean.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Raymer must have learned from you.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
No, no one was to be told.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Mister Rhymer discovered it himself when he faced us. We
begged him to say nothing, but when he threatened us, we.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Told him their names, the names of the people who
supplied your husband.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Yes, and made a hell of our lives.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
They started money from us for almost ten years.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
We of the Vilate family. They killed your husband.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
They came that night to force him to buy more,
and when he refused and try to telephone the police,
they killed him.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I want you to tell me who these people.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Are, we told mister Ramah and and he.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I won't go alone.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
It will be finished. Then this farce we live.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
It finished anyway?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yes, we go no further. There are two.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
One is named Mila, the other stone Where do I
find it?
Speaker 8 (22:51):
You won't go alone, We've caused one day.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I'll be all right, I'll.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Tell you where to find them.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I hadn't planned to go alone, but on the way
I began to wonder if the time I spent interesting
the police wouldn't be used by missus Blackburn to warn
the two men whose capture would put the finish to
the family reputation. So I didn't contact Lieutenant Simms. Instead,
I stopped by my hotel to pick up an automatic
and cap to the magazine street addressed by myself.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I take it easy up there, if I would you?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Thanks?
Speaker 11 (23:29):
I will, Hey, uh yeah, Oh are you Miller, Stone?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
What's the deaf? None, Miller, what's that they're pushing in?
I just came from the Blackburn place, where the old
lady is tired of trying to save the family pride.
She talked again? What what other reason? What I have
for being here? He's ready to talk to the police
about her husband. I'm ready to talk to you about
Geen Raymer. I don't get you'd better start. Come on, boy,
(24:14):
out that door. We'll find our way. Now. Listen to me.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
You can't pull a man around like this.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I'll saying why I haven't done nothing, and why argue?
All right, I'll go Smeller, get away from me.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Fine, Stone, Right, I gotta talk to Stone.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
He did get a chance to talk to Stone, but
not before Lieutenant sim has heard him out and added
his statement and added the surviving Blackburns, which cleared Barbara
Raymer and yours truly. Expense account. I had him free one
hundred and ten dollars miscellaneous expenses in Charleston, had him
four same as Item two. Transportation back to Hartford expense
a count total. Oh excuse me, yeah, hello Johnny. Oh hi, Barbara,
(25:09):
I thought you were coming over. It's after four well
as a as a matter of fact, I was just
going to phone. I can't make it. What's the matter, Johnny,
I've got another case. What's the matter of Johnny? I
have to earn a living, all right?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Do you know where to find me if you want to?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah, yeah, I'll try to call you when I get
back to town. Okay, goodbye. Expense count total three hundred
and forty five dollars and seventy five cents. Remarks. This
was a fairly personal assignment, and it brings to mind
a fairly personal observation. Cops, private or otherwise should never
(25:52):
marry their lousy husbands because they're away from home so much.
But more important, they leave too many widows. Yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Dollar, yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the
title role and is written by Gil Dodd with music
by wilbra Hatch Edmond O'Brien's latest picture of the Paramount
(26:22):
Pictures production Warpad. Featured in tonight's cast were John Dayner,
Jim Knusser, Jeannette Nolan, Georgia Ellis, John McIntyre and Larry Dobkin.
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
himI do Vaier.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
This is Dan coberly inviting you to join us next
week at this.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
Time when Edmund O'Brien returns as Yours Truly Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You can sing it again on CBS tonight for a
full hour of fun, pack music packed entertainment, and maybe
Dan Seymour will be calling you to saw one of
the tuneful little riddle songs that lead to a chance
at radio's largest cash jackpie five thousand dollars plus ten
thousand more in wonderful prices. Allandale, Judy Lynn, Bob Hard,
(27:20):
the Riddlers and Ray Blocks Orchestra are on hand to
sing and play the riddle tunes leading up to Dan
Seymour's coast to coast calls be listening again later tonight
when singing Again comes along on most of these same
CBS stations. Now stay tuned forro Bond Monrose Caravan, which
follows immediately on most of these same CBS stations. This
(27:55):
is CBS where you laugh with Lucille Ball and my
favorite husband on Saturday nights. The Columbia Broadcasting System mm
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