August 22, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien, Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Jim Madison at Try State.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
How are you well, Jem? I'm fine? But what's this
irate about you people?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
You mean the tol hers, theft?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I suppose, Yeah, no progress yet.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
As a matter of fact, that's why I'm phoning. We
tried to get you right after the robbery, but you
weren't in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I was on a case most of last week.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well, we had a call this morning. It was a
woman who said she knew something about the case. Of
course it doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What did she say? She wanted me to swear that.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We wouldn't call the police, and then she said she'd
give us time to decide and call back about three.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You want me to talk to her if she calls bang.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yes, I don't know anything about these things.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Are you willing to work without the police.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We stand to lose almost fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We'll cut some corners if you will. Edmond O'Brien, I'm
gonna transcribe the durable man of the action packed expenser
car America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly Johnny Dollar
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expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dolla to
home office Tri State Insurance Group, Hortford Kinetic. The following
is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the
Tollhurst theft matter. I note here the accepted report of
the robbery because it will be seen both the police
and the press missed a number of details. The Tollhurst
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First Shop was entered at closing time Saturday evening by
three disguised men who at gunpoint relieved mister Tolhurst of
almost fifty thousand dollars answering a radio alarm. The police
spotted the getaway cars at left Hartford and later south
of town. After a running gunfight with another squad car,
it was abandoned by the four men who were seen
split up and who escaped into some wooded terrain. That's
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where it stood. He spends a count out of one
a dollar and a half calf fare from my apartment
to the Tri State officers, where your mister Madison was
waiting for me a little before three pm. The second
call from his alleged informer came at two minutes after.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, Yes, put her on.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Hello Well I'm glad you did.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I have someone here.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That I want you to talk to. No, no, no,
he's not from the police. He's a representative of the company.
Just a second, Yes he is dollar.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, Hello, I don't like this.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
How do I know you're not from the police.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh, I guess you can't be sure. All I can
do is give you our word, and if you do
want to talk to us, you'll have to take it.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
The other man didn't say he is going to have
somebody else.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
He decided he'd rather do it this way. Now, listen
for a second. To us, the recovery of the money
is more important than having anybody arrest. If we can
recover it more easily without going to the police, we're
willing to do it. Doesn't that make sense. Maybe the police.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Will have to come into it sometime.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I know that.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But also I know I'm right. I've got my own
reasons for calling like this, and I know I'm right.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'll take your word for it and we'll keep it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now. What is it that you know?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I know where one of the men is hiding.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh, which one?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
He's in a hotel in Boston. He's not using his
real name, and I can't tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You mean, you know what it is and can't tell us.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm a friend of his.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
That's why I'm calling. He's got to give himself up
and get clear of it. That's what you've got to
make you can do.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I will if I can. What name is he using?
And what's the hotel?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I know?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm right, I know it, But you can't tell him
how you found out where he is? You can't say
anything about this call.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I'm su promised too, I won't.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
The name he's using is tast He's in the Standing hotel?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The Standing okay? Anything else?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
How do I get in touch with you again?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
There's nothing more I can do. Just be careful of me.
He's awful, desperate.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Goodbye, She's gone.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
What do you make of it?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's hard to tell. She says, one of them is
in an hotel in Boston, that I have to make
him give himself up and be careful because he's desperate.
She could be sincere if she was just fingering this guy.
It seems to me she would have called the police.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Then you think it's worth looking into.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
There's only one way to find out follow it up.
See what's there? Spence got out him two thirty two
to fifty car rental a mile edge between Hunted and Boston.
On the way, I tried to figure ways and means
of making an appointment with a Hunted armed thug, if
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that's what he was going to turn out to be.
I found the standing hotel on the fringe of the
commercial and waterfront section, and a man named Walter Tap
was registered there. I staked out his corridor and saw
him leave his room at about seven point thirty that evening.
He came back an hour later when he put his
key into the lock. I was throlling toward him, and
when he opened the dog I was behind him. Can
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you hold it a second? What do you want? I
want to toe you.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I don't know, you haven't got time.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I'm interested in the man who's registered here under a
phony name. Taff that's my name. Is anything wrong with it?
It's your real name that I'm wrong? Have you got
anything that says it is? Well? I don't see how
it's any of your business, but sure, go on in.
THANKSI And what do you want? I guess the automatic
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tells me. When I came to find out I'm a
private detective. Insurance company that stands to lose on the
Toller's job hired me. That's a lie, you know, brought
the cops if you were, I've got a wallet in
my hip pocket. There's a license. I'll reach for it.
Just turn around. Sure you're really jumpy, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Hey, catch, don't expect me to swallow this.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Dude, you were hired by Alan Less, so you're following. Now,
what do you think you're going to do with me?
You having trouble with your friends?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I said, what do you think you're going to do
with me?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's going to help if you can convince yourself I'm
telling the truth. We want to recover the money in
If you'll help us to do it, we'll try to
see that you get a break. Laugh. I would an
insurance company find out where I was. Sometimes they get
a tip and the police don't. They can pay for information.
The police can no Where would they get a tip?
Somebody here in the hotel. I figured something was wrong
with you. There are fair descriptions out on you and
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your buddies, the size and color and clothes. Somebody could
have spotted you. I can't buy it. It happened, and
the tip was right. You might do yourself a lot
of good going to the police by yourself. Either you're
off your nutt you think I am. Come on, start
packing up? What for?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Because I'm leaving? Go on, get started.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
If you were thinking straight, you'd talk it over. You
are mixed up in a double cross, so you can't
believe anything. That's who told you about a double cross?
You didn't You said you thought I was tied by
an unless they were in the job where they weren't
they all right?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Turn around, open the closet door. Turn around.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
By the time I was on my feet again, he'd
had at least twenty minutes start. After I cleaned up
some in the crummy bathroom and stopped the bleeding, I
looked the place over. There was nothing in it. He'd
obviously checked in without anything but the clothes he'd been
wearing and the automatic. That was all at the standing hotel.
I drove back to Hartford and calm mister Madison at home.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'm sorry, Johnny, Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, I'm not complaining, just telling you what happened. I
guess I asked for it, pulling in like that, but
I couldn't think of another way to get to him
alone and get to the point in the hurry.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well do you think you should have called the police?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I didn't for two reasons. They just be sare at
us for not reporting the girl's call to them earlier,
and I hated to cross her at this point in
case you might come back to us with more information.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I guess we aren't any worse off than we were
before she called, are we?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, we made a little progress. We know there's trouble
between the men. We're fairly sure they're all still in
this part of the country, and we have a couple
of first names. And if you want me to stay
on the case, there's another angle I'd like to look into.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
What's Johnny.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
From the beginning, it's bothered me that a furrier would
have that much money in his store, And no matter
how fancy well.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
He said he hadn't banked for four.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Days, it's still too much money. I suppose the police
have covered it, but a thing like that could develop
into a lead. All right, good, I'll go see Tollhurst
in the morning. Maybe I can handle him without getting
myself slugged.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Of course, of course, I'm at your service.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Thanks, mister Tollhurst. I know you've answered a lot of
questions already. Yes I have, so I won't drag you
through the details of the actual theft again.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Thank you, and the amount of money you lost almost
fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
That question again, why I have that much in my shop?
I have answered that question every possible way without smearing
my own good name.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The police have driven me mad.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'd like to have the answers too, very well. Don't
most of your customers purchase with checks, mister Tolhurst are
on credit?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
No, they do not. I'd think that they would, because
you don't understand the fur business, even more than the
jewelry business, is concerned with making beautiful women more beautiful?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Don't you agree?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Sure? I do. Well.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I hope this doesn't come as a shock to you
that there are many, many more wealthy husbands than there
are beautiful wives as opposed to women. That is, so,
who would you expect these wealthy husbands to buy the
first fall?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah? I see what you mean. Cash purchases too.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Precisely, if wifey doesn't get the coat, she better not
run across a check paying for one.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The fur would fly, you might.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Say, But almost fifty thousand in one week. That's a
lot of intrigue.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
One sable was worth thirty five, and if the name
of the purchaser became known, it could literally in danger
the national security. I really mean that it would be
discussed from the floor of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
What can I do?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
There's no record at all of these.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Things, barely enough to keep my books legal. I'd rather
specialized in this cash and carry trade. If I were
strapped to the rack, I couldn't name these men.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm helpless.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I think the insurance company might be able to fight
your claim because of the stand you're taking. Had you
thought of that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh no, I hadn't. Well, it makes no difference.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I'm completely helpless unless a member of the board or
somebody is an old customer of mine, and that is possible,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I tried a few more approaches on Tolehurst without getting
any place. I didn't fully believe him that I did
have to admit that business dealings like that were possible.
I'd left to shop a little after eleven. I went
to my apartment to call in a report on this
phase of the deadlock. My phone was ringing when I
got there. Ah, oh, hello, help me? What I can't
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hear you? Who is it?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yesterday?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You are the woman I talked to yesterday?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yes, just help.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well, what's the matter with you? What happened?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
May work here?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Where are you? Where are you? Stoddard Stoddard Street? What
number fifty eight sixty fifty eight sixty an apartment number
number twelve? All right, I'll be there in ten minutes. Starala,
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I'm coming in.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
They're gonna have to Fred. You gotta go help him.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
No, wait a minute, Wait a minute. Who are you
talking about? The man called Alim?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I don't know them. First they said I had the
bunny and they beat me. One of them held my
mouth I couldn't scream, and the other one hit me.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Do you know where the money is?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
No? No, they wouldn't believe me. Then they made me
tell him where Fredd is.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Fred is the man I saw last night at the
Standing hotel.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I can't keep quiet for him anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
His name is Fred Drell and he's holding out the money.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
That's what they said. They said they kill him if
they had too.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
They looked for him at the Standing. They won't find him.
He left there last night.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I know he called. I tried to lie that he
was still there, but they phoned and found out he wasn't,
and they started in again until I told him. He
moved to an auto court and that's where they're going.
Where is it I'm not sure between here and Boston,
but I think it's in the steeps. It's called the
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Oak Springs Motel. I tried to warn him, but whoever
answered hung up because they could hear what I was saying.
I couldn't talk. What's your name, Virginia Cowie?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
How do you fit into this? How much do you
know about the robbery?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I didn't know about until afterwards. Rid's car was here.
He came to get it, and everything had gotten wrong.
He was in bad, in trouble, Leona.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You should have told the police, and I should have
promise and no. I'm going to call him now and
hope I can fight my way clearer of this mess.
That's the telephone.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
We will return you to yours, Julie Johnny Donner in
just a moment. Americans now have a double job to do.
We must produce enough goods to supply our armed forces,
and we must also see that civilian needs are met
so that we can prevent further inflation. Better production means
greater strength and greater insurance that our pre American way
will continue.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do you're a part.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Now with our star Edmond O'Brien, we bring you the
second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
In an attempt to help what was left in my
position with the police, the first thing I told them
about was the possibility of nailing the three hundred men
together for that backfire too. It took me twenty minutes
to learn that the Oak Springs motel was about twelve
miles south of town, and it took me another fifteen
minutes to get there. Two squad cars were in the driveway,
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and that looked all right. But when I got to
the cottage where Lieutenant Crockett and the other offices, where
things looked all wrong. The bodies of two men lay
on the floor. Neither one was Fred Serrell. Oh you
I am is Dollar? Lieutenant Oh yeah, so well? Did
this seems to be some confusion about the name. The
cottage was rented by an AJ White. Sorell was hiding
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out under a couple of aliases. Too bad, we didn't
have that information I didn't know who he was until
a half hour ago, and I called you. They were
already dead a half hour ago. Is there some reason
you couldn't have found out twenty minutes before that? Yeah,
it didn't happen to be any place this callie woman
could get a hold of me. She's the one you
just got around a turning in. It's right, first time
i'd even seen her, first time, I knew where she lived,
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first time I knew anything about her. I've done the
same thing before, and it's worked out. This time it didn't.
What do you mean an anonymous call? She said she
had information about the told her st robbery that she
couldn't give to you. She gave it to me in confidence,
and I played it that way.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You're still playing it that way.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No, I'll give you everything i've got, which which still
isn't much. Let's go back to town and we can get
a real statement. Henderson take over here, will you. I'm
going back to the office. Okay. I didn't store very
heavily with the lieutenant. He listened to my story point
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by point, but as he mentioned, actually the only useful
thing I gave him was a slightly better description of
surreal than he'd gotten from the manager of the auto court.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I don't know what to think about it, Doll.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I know you guys figure you can operate that way,
and maybe at work sometimes sure people will talk to
you and they won't talk to us. But you're always
taking a chance that he'll get out of hand like
this did. This one was out of hand from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And it's turned into murder.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now. You aren't blaming me for that, I know, but
I want you to leave the case alone from here on.
Stay away from a cowli woman, stay away from everything.
Does that mean I can go now? Yeah, it might
be a good idea if you went home and brushed
up on a little police work. You're really digging it
in ante, Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
You've got it coming. Go on now, I got to
get back on this thing.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I knew my license was probably at stake, but Crockett's attitude,
right or wrong, was more than I could take. Virginia
Cali had been put in the police hospital, suffering from
internal injuries caused by the beating. I went back to
her address, lie my way, past the landlady and into
the apartment. From a notebook on the telephone stand, I
learned that Sorell lived in Princeton. That is my next stime,
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rereb Creel.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, he still lives here.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I haven't seen him sometime now. Seems to me he's
out of town.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I came all the way up from New York just
to see him. You suppose I could get into his place,
leave an ode or something.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well, why don't you just go up and see if
the other fellow's there?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Name a hacker our roommate.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah, you could leave an ode with him?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh good? How do I get the second.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Floor rear numbers two?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Ten? H? Yeah? Who is friend of Surrel's? I got
to see it is the sleeping this joy?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So matter with that jerk anyway?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Friend, When did you hear from him last.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Couple of days ago? In some kind of trouble? He
sure is want to borrow some money from me? The
lazy jerk told him to go take a jump or
get a job one or both.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He wanted to borrow money.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, want me to mail him fifty bucks. It's the
matter with him anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You know? Yeah, man, he's done it that pretty good.
Have you heard about the tollhurse robbery? What are you
handing me? You know a couple of his friends called
Al Unless somebody. Who are you anyway? Yeah? Take it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We're telling me frets mixed up enoughing as big as
a toll Hurst thing.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He ain't got the brains, he hasn't live. He has
to write you for fifty bucks after he pulled it.
What about Alan Less? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Lets Bernie can all hunt. I met him, but that's all.
That's him out of town. Thearing it too. Huh. Hey,
you ain't pull my leg, are you?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No? Did he write it from Boston by any chance?
The standing hotel using the name Walter Taft.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
That's right. Those guys are no good And I told
him so. He was always talking big money there. I
never thought he had the guts for anything like that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Don't congratulate him. He built it up to murder today
I quit it. It must have been all unless you'll
read about it. But to now take my word for it.
There was a double cross, so they figured there was.
They were both shot and Sorella still on the loose.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
This is straighty. He wouldn't come here, would he.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I don't know what he'd do. It must be half
crazy by now. Can you think of any place else
he might go.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
He's got a girl he mooches off all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, I know about it. He wouldn't go there and
want a place to hide out. He was driving his
car so he could travel for some distance, but not far.
He's thinking at all, he'll know he has to get
rid of it.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
No, I'm not holding nothing back. A guy does anything
like this, he doesn't deserve help from anybody.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
By this time, he probably thinks he does.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You don't think it. Pull his old lady into the
mess to here.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You know where is she?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
She's got a farm. I never saw it, but he
talked about it once in a while, little place she
runs with an old guy helping her. It ain't far
from here.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You know where it is?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Somewhere west Hey. That's her picture. I think the name
of the town is on it. Down here in the corner.
I just remember that. I noticed it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tarrington. Sure, I know where that is, about twenty five miles.
I'd like to look at some of the rest of
this stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know, man, go ahead, this is as bad as
you say it is. You can do anything you want.
You don't mind. I'm gonna move out until this is
cleared up. I don't want that crazy jerk to be
coming back here while I'm around.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Nothing in Cerell's things get a hint as the way
he'd be likely to go. But to stay on the move,
more than for any other reason, I decided to cover
the farm and to stay on the safe side. I
stopped by my apartment to pick up a pocket. You've
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got business here, Well, it's a sort of a social call.
Missus arel here.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
She went to town with her.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I was passing through. I know a son. I thought
i'd stop by. Oh you're a policeman man.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What makes you say that we heard about Frederick Lee
Somers did? We kept her from Missus Serrel. That's why
we send him town, and we don't want that poor
soul learned about him till it's all finished. Did you
think he'd come here?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
How much do you know about it?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Somebody heard on the radio about the murders. Do you
think he'd be hidden here?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Not exactly, but every possibility has to be covered. He'd
never come here.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He wouldn't be turned out by his mother, but the
rest of us make sure with him. Welcome to search
the place if you choose to.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Has he been in touch with Missus Luel through this thing.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Nobody's been in touch with missus Curel. She don't read
her own mail or papers either, because she's blind. She
don't listen to the radio, talking to telephone because she's.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
She's nearly dead.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Frederick is a rotten apple that hasn't been allowed back
here for three years. She doesn't know about him, not
for almost that whole time.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh yeah, she thinks.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
He's a big success in the hardware business. And we've
talked about it already. We think he's gonna start a
business in Australia, and his mother will think he's there
until she dies.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And you ain't gonna turn any different. I don't see
why I should.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, I want to search Prince.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
No, I don't want to as long as I'm here.
Sorell wasn't fair, and by the time I left, I
was made up like a criminal myself for looking the
place over. By the time I got back to Hartford,
the extras were out saying widespread search fails to uncover killer.
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And something that had been bothering me came to mind again.
Why with a fifty thousand dollars hole hadn't Serel gotten
out of New England. A few more questions fell into
line too. How could an amateur like Sorel escape a
full fledged police search, and why would he even think
of a double cross on his first job? And finally, why,
after running out of Boston would he had come back
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to an auto court twelve miles south of Hartford. I
covered the final point and learned that the Oak Springs
Motel was within a few miles of the point where
he and the other two men had abandoned their car
and taken off on foot. I thought, I told you
to stay away from this case. You can't take away
my right to make a living, Lieutenant. I found his
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car is not worth anything. How do I know what?
It's something you haven't done with all your roadblocks. I'm
five minutes away from his car, and I think you'll
come back to it as soon as it starts to
get dark. Can't you take a chance on it and
have a few men out there? Oh? My men?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Up, baby, I'll see what I could do.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's less than an hour till dark. I hope you
make it. I'd come back to the auto court and
then found the approximate spot where Crrell and his friends
had left their car. I'd found a pair of ruts
winding through the trees, and where they'd stopped. I'd found
his car when I got back to it after talking
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with Lieutenant Crockett, and I had put my car under
as much cover as I could find and waited. I
was still there alone when the sun started to set,
and then I heard him before I saw him, Yo,
what are you doing here? Don't dry with the gun, Surrell.
I've got one too this time. What are you doing here?
I've but almost every place else doesn't make any difference
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to you that I'm here. There's no place for you
to go anyway. You've been safe here in the trees,
but you couldn't get anyplace else. I couldn't make it
if I wanted to know, you couldn't. You missed when
you didn't make it before everybody knew who you were. Right,
Do you pulled the job? Yes? But not now. You
must have realized that I can make it. Not now?
Why didn't you go any farther than Boston? Why did
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you come back to Hartford? I had my reasons, you
still got them. What do you mean you killed Les
Verneck and al Hudson and then came right back here
to the trees. I don't think you double crossed them.
I don't think you even got the money beyond this grove.
You know where it is? No, I don't, sir. That's
only what I think. And you had to kill them
because all they could figure was that you double crossed.
Do you want to help me? You want to it's here,
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all of it. It's too late to help you kill them,
but it's all here, fifty thousand dollars. I came down
the road and then I turned that way. That's when
they were shooting at us. I was carrying the money,
but I was excited. Alan Alan Leshman that way, and
I came this way. I'm sure it was here. Yeah,
I remember that big tree. I went past that. I'm
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sure you could find two hundred thousand dollars and wouldn't
do anything. It would you could buy anything with money,
and it's all here. I know it was here because
I ran on this road and this is where. This
is where the road aims, and I went past that tree.
I can just remember how far I went because I
put it down and I covered it over with some leaves.
I just saw them. I'm sure I'll remember, Sorell. I
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know where it is. But hey, what are your I
want your guns?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Get away from it, get away, quit it.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
No, it's all here, It's all here, and I'm gonna
get it. I get away from me. Get away you
all right? Get all right? All right. Expense account ADAM
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three extra mileage, et cetera forty three dollars and sixty cents.
Expense account total seventy seven dollars and sixty cents. Remarks.
A police searching party finally found the satchel of missing money,
so the company is not out. So Tenant Crockett and
I finally got together, so I'm not out. The girl
is nothing. So it leaves Sorel, who really lost his
mind nova money, and the farrier Tollhurst, who didn't lose anything,
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not even that universal customer, the wealthy American husband. Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Gil Dowd with music by
Wilbur Hatch. Edmond O'Brien can soon be seen starring in
the Paramount Pictures Technical or production Silver City. Featured in
tonight's cast for Parley Bear Virginia, Greg Stacy Harris Bob Swinney,
Herb Butterfield, Clayton Post, and Howard mcneer. Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar,
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is transcribed in Hollywood by him dol Vai
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien, Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Jim Madison at Try State.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
How are you well, Jem? I'm fine? But what's this
irate about you people?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
You mean the tol hers, theft?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I suppose, Yeah, no progress yet.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
As a matter of fact, that's why I'm phoning. We
tried to get you right after the robbery, but you
weren't in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I was on a case most of last week.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Well, we had a call this morning. It was a
woman who said she knew something about the case. Of
course it doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What did she say? She wanted me to swear that.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We wouldn't call the police, and then she said she'd
give us time to decide and call back about three.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You want me to talk to her if she calls bang.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yes, I don't know anything about these things.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Are you willing to work without the police.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We stand to lose almost fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We'll cut some corners if you will. Edmond O'Brien, I'm
gonna transcribe the durable man of the action packed expenser
car America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly Johnny Dollar
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expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dolla to
home office Tri State Insurance Group, Hortford Kinetic. The following
is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the
Tollhurst theft matter. I note here the accepted report of
the robbery because it will be seen both the police
and the press missed a number of details. The Tollhurst
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First Shop was entered at closing time Saturday evening by
three disguised men who at gunpoint relieved mister Tolhurst of
almost fifty thousand dollars answering a radio alarm. The police
spotted the getaway cars at left Hartford and later south
of town. After a running gunfight with another squad car,
it was abandoned by the four men who were seen
split up and who escaped into some wooded terrain. That's
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where it stood. He spends a count out of one
a dollar and a half calf fare from my apartment
to the Tri State officers, where your mister Madison was
waiting for me a little before three pm. The second
call from his alleged informer came at two minutes after.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, Yes, put her on.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Hello Well I'm glad you did.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I have someone here.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That I want you to talk to. No, no, no,
he's not from the police. He's a representative of the company.
Just a second, Yes he is dollar.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, Hello, I don't like this.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
How do I know you're not from the police.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh, I guess you can't be sure. All I can
do is give you our word, and if you do
want to talk to us, you'll have to take it.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
The other man didn't say he is going to have
somebody else.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
He decided he'd rather do it this way. Now, listen
for a second. To us, the recovery of the money
is more important than having anybody arrest. If we can
recover it more easily without going to the police, we're
willing to do it. Doesn't that make sense. Maybe the police.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Will have to come into it sometime.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I know that.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But also I know I'm right. I've got my own
reasons for calling like this, and I know I'm right.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'll take your word for it and we'll keep it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now. What is it that you know?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I know where one of the men is hiding.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh, which one?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
He's in a hotel in Boston. He's not using his
real name, and I can't tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You mean, you know what it is and can't tell us.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm a friend of his.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
That's why I'm calling. He's got to give himself up
and get clear of it. That's what you've got to
make you can do.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I will if I can. What name is he using?
And what's the hotel?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I know?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm right, I know it, But you can't tell him
how you found out where he is? You can't say
anything about this call.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I'm su promised too, I won't.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
The name he's using is tast He's in the Standing hotel?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The Standing okay? Anything else?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
How do I get in touch with you again?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
There's nothing more I can do. Just be careful of me.
He's awful, desperate.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Goodbye, She's gone.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
What do you make of it?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's hard to tell. She says, one of them is
in an hotel in Boston, that I have to make
him give himself up and be careful because he's desperate.
She could be sincere if she was just fingering this guy.
It seems to me she would have called the police.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Then you think it's worth looking into.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
There's only one way to find out follow it up.
See what's there? Spence got out him two thirty two
to fifty car rental a mile edge between Hunted and Boston.
On the way, I tried to figure ways and means
of making an appointment with a Hunted armed thug, if
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that's what he was going to turn out to be.
I found the standing hotel on the fringe of the
commercial and waterfront section, and a man named Walter Tap
was registered there. I staked out his corridor and saw
him leave his room at about seven point thirty that evening.
He came back an hour later when he put his
key into the lock. I was throlling toward him, and
when he opened the dog I was behind him. Can
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you hold it a second? What do you want? I
want to toe you.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I don't know, you haven't got time.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I'm interested in the man who's registered here under a
phony name. Taff that's my name. Is anything wrong with it?
It's your real name that I'm wrong? Have you got
anything that says it is? Well? I don't see how
it's any of your business, but sure, go on in.
THANKSI And what do you want? I guess the automatic
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tells me. When I came to find out I'm a
private detective. Insurance company that stands to lose on the
Toller's job hired me. That's a lie, you know, brought
the cops if you were, I've got a wallet in
my hip pocket. There's a license. I'll reach for it.
Just turn around. Sure you're really jumpy, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Hey, catch, don't expect me to swallow this.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Dude, you were hired by Alan Less, so you're following. Now,
what do you think you're going to do with me?
You having trouble with your friends?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I said, what do you think you're going to do
with me?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's going to help if you can convince yourself I'm
telling the truth. We want to recover the money in
If you'll help us to do it, we'll try to
see that you get a break. Laugh. I would an
insurance company find out where I was. Sometimes they get
a tip and the police don't. They can pay for information.
The police can no Where would they get a tip?
Somebody here in the hotel. I figured something was wrong
with you. There are fair descriptions out on you and
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your buddies, the size and color and clothes. Somebody could
have spotted you. I can't buy it. It happened, and
the tip was right. You might do yourself a lot
of good going to the police by yourself. Either you're
off your nutt you think I am. Come on, start
packing up? What for?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Because I'm leaving? Go on, get started.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
If you were thinking straight, you'd talk it over. You
are mixed up in a double cross, so you can't
believe anything. That's who told you about a double cross?
You didn't You said you thought I was tied by
an unless they were in the job where they weren't
they all right?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Turn around, open the closet door. Turn around.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
By the time I was on my feet again, he'd
had at least twenty minutes start. After I cleaned up
some in the crummy bathroom and stopped the bleeding, I
looked the place over. There was nothing in it. He'd
obviously checked in without anything but the clothes he'd been
wearing and the automatic. That was all at the standing hotel.
I drove back to Hartford and calm mister Madison at home.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'm sorry, Johnny, Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, I'm not complaining, just telling you what happened. I
guess I asked for it, pulling in like that, but
I couldn't think of another way to get to him
alone and get to the point in the hurry.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well do you think you should have called the police?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I didn't for two reasons. They just be sare at
us for not reporting the girl's call to them earlier,
and I hated to cross her at this point in
case you might come back to us with more information.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I guess we aren't any worse off than we were
before she called, are we?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, we made a little progress. We know there's trouble
between the men. We're fairly sure they're all still in
this part of the country, and we have a couple
of first names. And if you want me to stay
on the case, there's another angle I'd like to look into.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
What's Johnny.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
From the beginning, it's bothered me that a furrier would
have that much money in his store, And no matter
how fancy well.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
He said he hadn't banked for four.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Days, it's still too much money. I suppose the police
have covered it, but a thing like that could develop
into a lead. All right, good, I'll go see Tollhurst
in the morning. Maybe I can handle him without getting
myself slugged.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Of course, of course, I'm at your service.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Thanks, mister Tollhurst. I know you've answered a lot of
questions already. Yes I have, so I won't drag you
through the details of the actual theft again.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Thank you, and the amount of money you lost almost
fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
That question again, why I have that much in my shop?
I have answered that question every possible way without smearing
my own good name.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The police have driven me mad.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'd like to have the answers too, very well. Don't
most of your customers purchase with checks, mister Tolhurst are
on credit?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
No, they do not. I'd think that they would, because
you don't understand the fur business, even more than the
jewelry business, is concerned with making beautiful women more beautiful?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Don't you agree?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Sure? I do. Well.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I hope this doesn't come as a shock to you
that there are many, many more wealthy husbands than there
are beautiful wives as opposed to women. That is, so,
who would you expect these wealthy husbands to buy the
first fall?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah? I see what you mean. Cash purchases too.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Precisely, if wifey doesn't get the coat, she better not
run across a check paying for one.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The fur would fly, you might.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Say, But almost fifty thousand in one week. That's a
lot of intrigue.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
One sable was worth thirty five, and if the name
of the purchaser became known, it could literally in danger
the national security. I really mean that it would be
discussed from the floor of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
What can I do?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
There's no record at all of these.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Things, barely enough to keep my books legal. I'd rather
specialized in this cash and carry trade. If I were
strapped to the rack, I couldn't name these men.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm helpless.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I think the insurance company might be able to fight
your claim because of the stand you're taking. Had you
thought of that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh no, I hadn't. Well, it makes no difference.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I'm completely helpless unless a member of the board or
somebody is an old customer of mine, and that is possible,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I tried a few more approaches on Tolehurst without getting
any place. I didn't fully believe him that I did
have to admit that business dealings like that were possible.
I'd left to shop a little after eleven. I went
to my apartment to call in a report on this
phase of the deadlock. My phone was ringing when I
got there. Ah, oh, hello, help me? What I can't
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hear you? Who is it?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yesterday?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You are the woman I talked to yesterday?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yes, just help.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well, what's the matter with you? What happened?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
May work here?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Where are you? Where are you? Stoddard Stoddard Street? What
number fifty eight sixty fifty eight sixty an apartment number
number twelve? All right, I'll be there in ten minutes. Starala,
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I'm coming in.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
They're gonna have to Fred. You gotta go help him.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
No, wait a minute, Wait a minute. Who are you
talking about? The man called Alim?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I don't know them. First they said I had the
bunny and they beat me. One of them held my
mouth I couldn't scream, and the other one hit me.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Do you know where the money is?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
No? No, they wouldn't believe me. Then they made me
tell him where Fredd is.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Fred is the man I saw last night at the
Standing hotel.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I can't keep quiet for him anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
His name is Fred Drell and he's holding out the money.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
That's what they said. They said they kill him if
they had too.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
They looked for him at the Standing. They won't find him.
He left there last night.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I know he called. I tried to lie that he
was still there, but they phoned and found out he wasn't,
and they started in again until I told him. He
moved to an auto court and that's where they're going.
Where is it I'm not sure between here and Boston,
but I think it's in the steeps. It's called the
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Oak Springs Motel. I tried to warn him, but whoever
answered hung up because they could hear what I was saying.
I couldn't talk. What's your name, Virginia Cowie?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
How do you fit into this? How much do you
know about the robbery?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I didn't know about until afterwards. Rid's car was here.
He came to get it, and everything had gotten wrong.
He was in bad, in trouble, Leona.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You should have told the police, and I should have
promise and no. I'm going to call him now and
hope I can fight my way clearer of this mess.
That's the telephone.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
We will return you to yours, Julie Johnny Donner in
just a moment. Americans now have a double job to do.
We must produce enough goods to supply our armed forces,
and we must also see that civilian needs are met
so that we can prevent further inflation. Better production means
greater strength and greater insurance that our pre American way
will continue.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do you're a part.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Now with our star Edmond O'Brien, we bring you the
second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
In an attempt to help what was left in my
position with the police, the first thing I told them
about was the possibility of nailing the three hundred men
together for that backfire too. It took me twenty minutes
to learn that the Oak Springs motel was about twelve
miles south of town, and it took me another fifteen
minutes to get there. Two squad cars were in the driveway,
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and that looked all right. But when I got to
the cottage where Lieutenant Crockett and the other offices, where
things looked all wrong. The bodies of two men lay
on the floor. Neither one was Fred Serrell. Oh you
I am is Dollar? Lieutenant Oh yeah, so well? Did
this seems to be some confusion about the name. The
cottage was rented by an AJ White. Sorell was hiding
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out under a couple of aliases. Too bad, we didn't
have that information I didn't know who he was until
a half hour ago, and I called you. They were
already dead a half hour ago. Is there some reason
you couldn't have found out twenty minutes before that? Yeah,
it didn't happen to be any place this callie woman
could get a hold of me. She's the one you
just got around a turning in. It's right, first time
i'd even seen her, first time, I knew where she lived,
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first time I knew anything about her. I've done the
same thing before, and it's worked out. This time it didn't.
What do you mean an anonymous call? She said she
had information about the told her st robbery that she
couldn't give to you. She gave it to me in confidence,
and I played it that way.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You're still playing it that way.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No, I'll give you everything i've got, which which still
isn't much. Let's go back to town and we can get
a real statement. Henderson take over here, will you. I'm
going back to the office. Okay. I didn't store very
heavily with the lieutenant. He listened to my story point
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by point, but as he mentioned, actually the only useful
thing I gave him was a slightly better description of
surreal than he'd gotten from the manager of the auto court.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I don't know what to think about it, Doll.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I know you guys figure you can operate that way,
and maybe at work sometimes sure people will talk to
you and they won't talk to us. But you're always
taking a chance that he'll get out of hand like
this did. This one was out of hand from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And it's turned into murder.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now. You aren't blaming me for that, I know, but
I want you to leave the case alone from here on.
Stay away from a cowli woman, stay away from everything.
Does that mean I can go now? Yeah, it might
be a good idea if you went home and brushed
up on a little police work. You're really digging it
in ante, Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
You've got it coming. Go on now, I got to
get back on this thing.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I knew my license was probably at stake, but Crockett's attitude,
right or wrong, was more than I could take. Virginia
Cali had been put in the police hospital, suffering from
internal injuries caused by the beating. I went back to
her address, lie my way, past the landlady and into
the apartment. From a notebook on the telephone stand, I
learned that Sorell lived in Princeton. That is my next stime,
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rereb Creel.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, he still lives here.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I haven't seen him sometime now. Seems to me he's
out of town.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I came all the way up from New York just
to see him. You suppose I could get into his place,
leave an ode or something.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well, why don't you just go up and see if
the other fellow's there?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Name a hacker our roommate.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah, you could leave an ode with him?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh good? How do I get the second.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Floor rear numbers two?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Ten? H? Yeah? Who is friend of Surrel's? I got
to see it is the sleeping this joy?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So matter with that jerk anyway?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Friend, When did you hear from him last.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Couple of days ago? In some kind of trouble? He
sure is want to borrow some money from me? The
lazy jerk told him to go take a jump or
get a job one or both.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He wanted to borrow money.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, want me to mail him fifty bucks. It's the
matter with him anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You know? Yeah, man, he's done it that pretty good.
Have you heard about the tollhurse robbery? What are you
handing me? You know a couple of his friends called
Al Unless somebody. Who are you anyway? Yeah? Take it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We're telling me frets mixed up enoughing as big as
a toll Hurst thing.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
He ain't got the brains, he hasn't live. He has
to write you for fifty bucks after he pulled it.
What about Alan Less? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Lets Bernie can all hunt. I met him, but that's all.
That's him out of town. Thearing it too. Huh. Hey,
you ain't pull my leg, are you?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No? Did he write it from Boston by any chance?
The standing hotel using the name Walter Taft.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
That's right. Those guys are no good And I told
him so. He was always talking big money there. I
never thought he had the guts for anything like that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Don't congratulate him. He built it up to murder today
I quit it. It must have been all unless you'll
read about it. But to now take my word for it.
There was a double cross, so they figured there was.
They were both shot and Sorella still on the loose.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
This is straighty. He wouldn't come here, would he.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I don't know what he'd do. It must be half
crazy by now. Can you think of any place else
he might go.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
He's got a girl he mooches off all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, I know about it. He wouldn't go there and
want a place to hide out. He was driving his
car so he could travel for some distance, but not far.
He's thinking at all, he'll know he has to get
rid of it.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
No, I'm not holding nothing back. A guy does anything
like this, he doesn't deserve help from anybody.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
By this time, he probably thinks he does.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You don't think it. Pull his old lady into the
mess to here.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You know where is she?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
She's got a farm. I never saw it, but he
talked about it once in a while, little place she
runs with an old guy helping her. It ain't far
from here.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You know where it is?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Somewhere west Hey. That's her picture. I think the name
of the town is on it. Down here in the corner.
I just remember that. I noticed it.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tarrington. Sure, I know where that is, about twenty five miles.
I'd like to look at some of the rest of
this stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You know, man, go ahead, this is as bad as
you say it is. You can do anything you want.
You don't mind. I'm gonna move out until this is
cleared up. I don't want that crazy jerk to be
coming back here while I'm around.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Nothing in Cerell's things get a hint as the way
he'd be likely to go. But to stay on the move,
more than for any other reason, I decided to cover
the farm and to stay on the safe side. I
stopped by my apartment to pick up a pocket. You've
(21:15):
got business here, Well, it's a sort of a social call.
Missus arel here.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
She went to town with her.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I was passing through. I know a son. I thought
i'd stop by. Oh you're a policeman man.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What makes you say that we heard about Frederick Lee
Somers did? We kept her from Missus Serrel. That's why
we send him town, and we don't want that poor
soul learned about him till it's all finished. Did you
think he'd come here?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
How much do you know about it?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Somebody heard on the radio about the murders. Do you
think he'd be hidden here?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Not exactly, but every possibility has to be covered. He'd
never come here.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He wouldn't be turned out by his mother, but the
rest of us make sure with him. Welcome to search
the place if you choose to.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Has he been in touch with Missus Luel through this thing.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Nobody's been in touch with missus Curel. She don't read
her own mail or papers either, because she's blind. She
don't listen to the radio, talking to telephone because she's.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
She's nearly dead.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Frederick is a rotten apple that hasn't been allowed back
here for three years. She doesn't know about him, not
for almost that whole time.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh yeah, she thinks.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
He's a big success in the hardware business. And we've
talked about it already. We think he's gonna start a
business in Australia, and his mother will think he's there
until she dies.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And you ain't gonna turn any different. I don't see
why I should.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, I want to search Prince.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
No, I don't want to as long as I'm here.
Sorell wasn't fair, and by the time I left, I
was made up like a criminal myself for looking the
place over. By the time I got back to Hartford,
the extras were out saying widespread search fails to uncover killer.
(23:09):
And something that had been bothering me came to mind again.
Why with a fifty thousand dollars hole hadn't Serel gotten
out of New England. A few more questions fell into
line too. How could an amateur like Sorel escape a
full fledged police search, and why would he even think
of a double cross on his first job? And finally, why,
after running out of Boston would he had come back
(23:30):
to an auto court twelve miles south of Hartford. I
covered the final point and learned that the Oak Springs
Motel was within a few miles of the point where
he and the other two men had abandoned their car
and taken off on foot. I thought, I told you
to stay away from this case. You can't take away
my right to make a living, Lieutenant. I found his
(23:50):
car is not worth anything. How do I know what?
It's something you haven't done with all your roadblocks. I'm
five minutes away from his car, and I think you'll
come back to it as soon as it starts to
get dark. Can't you take a chance on it and
have a few men out there? Oh? My men?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Up, baby, I'll see what I could do.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's less than an hour till dark. I hope you
make it. I'd come back to the auto court and
then found the approximate spot where Crrell and his friends
had left their car. I'd found a pair of ruts
winding through the trees, and where they'd stopped. I'd found
his car when I got back to it after talking
(24:26):
with Lieutenant Crockett, and I had put my car under
as much cover as I could find and waited. I
was still there alone when the sun started to set,
and then I heard him before I saw him, Yo,
what are you doing here? Don't dry with the gun, Surrell.
I've got one too this time. What are you doing here?
I've but almost every place else doesn't make any difference
(24:47):
to you that I'm here. There's no place for you
to go anyway. You've been safe here in the trees,
but you couldn't get anyplace else. I couldn't make it
if I wanted to know, you couldn't. You missed when
you didn't make it before everybody knew who you were. Right,
Do you pulled the job? Yes? But not now. You
must have realized that I can make it. Not now?
Why didn't you go any farther than Boston? Why did
(25:08):
you come back to Hartford? I had my reasons, you
still got them. What do you mean you killed Les
Verneck and al Hudson and then came right back here
to the trees. I don't think you double crossed them.
I don't think you even got the money beyond this grove.
You know where it is? No, I don't, sir. That's
only what I think. And you had to kill them
because all they could figure was that you double crossed.
Do you want to help me? You want to it's here,
(25:29):
all of it. It's too late to help you kill them,
but it's all here, fifty thousand dollars. I came down
the road and then I turned that way. That's when
they were shooting at us. I was carrying the money,
but I was excited. Alan Alan Leshman that way, and
I came this way. I'm sure it was here. Yeah,
I remember that big tree. I went past that. I'm
(25:50):
sure you could find two hundred thousand dollars and wouldn't
do anything. It would you could buy anything with money,
and it's all here. I know it was here because
I ran on this road and this is where. This
is where the road aims, and I went past that tree.
I can just remember how far I went because I
put it down and I covered it over with some leaves.
I just saw them. I'm sure I'll remember, Sorell. I
(26:13):
know where it is. But hey, what are your I
want your guns?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Get away from it, get away, quit it.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
No, it's all here, It's all here, and I'm gonna
get it. I get away from me. Get away you
all right? Get all right? All right. Expense account ADAM
(26:40):
three extra mileage, et cetera forty three dollars and sixty cents.
Expense account total seventy seven dollars and sixty cents. Remarks.
A police searching party finally found the satchel of missing money,
so the company is not out. So Tenant Crockett and
I finally got together, so I'm not out. The girl
is nothing. So it leaves Sorel, who really lost his
mind nova money, and the farrier Tollhurst, who didn't lose anything,
(27:04):
not even that universal customer, the wealthy American husband. Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Gil Dowd with music by
Wilbur Hatch. Edmond O'Brien can soon be seen starring in
the Paramount Pictures Technical or production Silver City. Featured in
tonight's cast for Parley Bear Virginia, Greg Stacy Harris Bob Swinney,
Herb Butterfield, Clayton Post, and Howard mcneer. Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar,
(27:43):
is transcribed in Hollywood by him dol Vai
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