July 28, 2025 • 26 mins
Follows the investigations of an insurance detective whose cases often involve intrigue and deception, blending elements of mystery and drama.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tom Hollywood, it's time to hold for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Johnny Donna Martin.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Johnny, I've got a job for it.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Fine, what is it?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mister Carl Basketville is insured with us.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I've heard the name retired welcome. That's the best way.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
His brother is the beneficiary.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Basketball called us a little while ago and said he
wanted the money to go to a charity in case.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Of his dead What made him change his mind?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
He thinks his brother's out to kill him.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's Johnny, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
He's insured for a half a million. Johnny, you just
made me a body guy, at least until we found
out how true basketball story is. We did some chicking.
Six years ago. He sent his brother, William to prison
for absconding with company funds. William was released from state
prison a week ago.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh yeah, that's where I've heard the name. I remember
the case.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh it's a strange setup.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Sends his brother to jail, names him as beneficiary. Wants
to change because he says his brother is going to
kill him.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Canaan Abel really started something, didn't.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
He admim O'Brien and the transcribed Adventure of the man
of the action packed expense a con America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator, Yours truly Johnny.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dolla to
a home office Columbia Risk Insurance.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The following is in a county of expenditure during my
investigation of the Basketville matter.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Expends account out of one thirty.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Eight eighty seven trained there and incidentals between Hartford and
New York. After receiving from you the necessary information concerning
mister Kyle Baskerville, expends coun out of two seven to
fifty cab there between Grand Center Run.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Basketball's home on Long Island. The house was set back
from the road, hidden by tall trees, and.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Surrounded by several acres of well kept loans and gardens.
I walked up the long gravel paths into the front
door and knock. I let a cigarette and waited the afternoon.
The sun was warm on the back of my neck,
and he asked, noll the wet grass and bright flowers.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I turned around to see the biggest man, says Goliath.
He was close to seven feet and must have waked
in at about two to eighty. He was nice looking
and wearing a well cut blue suit, probably made from
the best part of a tenth Can I do something
for you? Then over, I'm getting a stiff neck. I'm
Johnny Dowler. I'm here representing Yes, Columbia all Risk.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
They called and said you were on your way, and
mister Basketball's personal secretary, the Basketball is expecting it.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
The big man led the way through the big house
with a big punch door but open on the big guarden.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Cal Basketball was sitting in a chair feeding the birds.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
He was reaching his late fifties with a sour look
at the man that didn't want to as he tossed
the bread crumbs out on the gravel walk a big
diamond on his little finger, last in the sun, mister.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Best, oh Collens, Oh, who's that will do?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The man from the insurance.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Company pull up a chains down your name?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
What you mean Dollar and Johnny?
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Yeah, it's your company called and just feeding the little birds.
You're better better sometimes well, well they're standing around for
Collins and I want to talk to me to Dollar
tiget for it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
If you need me, I'll be in the study. Yes,
how tall is he?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Six feet nine he's been looking at for some time.
I've been retired for five years. I always wanting to
spend my afternoons in guard and feeding the birds. I
used to get up at six and go to work
and have breakfasts and look out of that window. I
used to see the little bird. I always someday I'd
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spend my afternoons out here feeding a little hut.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's graduated.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Mm hmm. And mister basket, I was sent here, you
know what you were saying, Siddan, mister, and I spent
most of that making money, making a success of success
in terms of what you consider.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That's an interesting statement. How do you know what I considered?
The normous?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Is money important to you?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
How important?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Very? Not all important?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
What else is important here?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Mister? A lot of things?
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Don't be basically telling.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Me a philosophy? What kind of a not taking people
for granted?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Here you feed the bird for God, which you feel
real good here?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Bertie, Bertie, that's fine, Get a load of that one.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, he's agree when he does that A lot like
people aren't saying.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I suppose you know about my brother.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
And this dollar win in basketball worked for you six
years ago supposedly took some company from.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Who definitely took one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Sent to state prison for ten years. It was pro
last week after serving six. You're Insuredre's Columbia Old Risk
for a half million, and your brother is the beneficiary.
Now you want to change. Tell me some more about
your brother.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Your company's worried?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Is that it half million dollars worth?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I suppose you considered it strange I send my brother
to prison then making.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
My abandon I guess strange is a good word.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I don't particularly care if you believe this or not,
but I hated to prosecute my brother, but he was
guilty and it became more than just a family matter.
There the stockholders to be considered, and his guilt was
discovered it before I could do anything.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You're not to I'm out of crime.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Oh well he he if he got them anything. Ah,
here's the timid. He doesn't get as much as young.
You know you're right about them being like people who
timid wims negate enough generally, Paul, by the way.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
From you made your brother. You're beneficiary, and now you
want to change.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Not only as a pacaussion with my money, I've ray
Perhaps William will treat twice before he changed. He felish,
I'm having my will change too.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Is here?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
I originally left my entire estate to me.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
What makes you think he might try this mess mass?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Which really.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I spent five years hearing you, but I learned to trade.
I used a drawing blueprints for your shrouds.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Pull him always did go for the dramatic.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
When'd you get this?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
I got a jesterday, the first I've heard from Williams
in too much prison?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, get a pill to one and you know who?
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Did you end Ford? Since boyhood? He's in did my
get up and go? We never got along. It wasn't
me too much for my poor mother.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
She died very young, probably overworked committing a straight.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Jacket, don't they flipper, young man?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That was uncalled forrr Yeah, I guess it was.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I had a strange habit of getting flipping when I
get confused, I'm confused, mister basketball.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Well, William was the last of the basket of world's
hot head. Childish, weak and insecure, but he's a basketball.
If he kills me with the car, if he doesn't
gain by my untimely death, he may reconsider that I
still have hopes of a leaking version.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The regeneration of the basketball.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
If you will, perhaps when he calms down forgets his
last six years, we'll talk and then I plan on
renaming him as my schooler.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are you steered you haven't contacted him?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I told you didn't know where it was somebody out
looking for him, because I think somebody should be. You're
going to remove the temptation. That might be a good
idea to inform William.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
How's he going to know he's been momentarily disinherited. Man,
If you don't want to call the police, I'd suggest
a private protective.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
I'm telling you how much time.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Better than feeding the birds? You think of anyone who
might know where your brother is.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
The girl before William went to prison, I think be
sure she's still in the Yark.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
What's her name?
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Catta, Virginia Cotton, look some persons village. I only met
her once.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Use him high yourself a good private detective in a
hurry and tell him about this Virginia Catter.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
She might know where William is. In the meantime, I
recommend that the change of beneficiary be hurried up.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Oh, I'm getting tired, tired feeding my bird.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Game. He's got hya and a few crumbs left over there.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I left him sitting with his friend. He had one
good deed to taken on with him. I went back
through the French doors and started back to the house.
I got a start at the hallway. Basketbab oh Swell.
He was sitting in a chair with a pillow hold
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just over his heart. His head was resting on his chest,
and he still held the bread crumbs in his hand.
He seemed to be smiling like he knew he was
going to be able to feed the birds for a
long time with.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Glory. Where were you? Where were you? In the library
the shop? Saw William ware over there at the farm
of the garden. He had a gun. He turned a right.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I saw homicide lieutenants Johnny Donna.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Hello from you.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I've got a killing for you. I'm out at the
basketball estate.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The Basketville.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
He used to be Carl Baskerville. He was shot a
few minutes ago in his garden.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
William did it. I saw William with a gun.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Basketball secretary says he saw William Basketville with a gun. Brother,
that's right. I'm here because Carl thought William was going
to kill him. He showed me a letter, Holy letter,
get out here. I think I just made the mistake
of my career. He shot Collins aside ran back out
of my garden. Basketball was still smiling, and things looked
about the same. I went through his coat pockets and
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found what I was looking for. Nothing a threatening letter
from William's God. I went back in the library faster
than I'd come out. I remembered what Basketball had said
about a girl named Cotta.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I grabbed a phone.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Book in a while hunch and started looking up the
cottas in Greenwich. Only one Virginia in that part of town.
So I said a quiet prayer, and the gods that
the vision of my employer's reaction when they found out
their investigator had been on hand when they goes to
cool half million and called a cab, and the hopes
that I might at least save half the place.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I told Colins not to touch anything and to wait.
The Lieutenant Brenners.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Spen's got Adam freed eight and seventy five cents cab
at a Greenwich village.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It was a long shot, but it could be the
same girl that known market I went.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Up the stairs with an old brownstone and knocked on
the door. When it finally opened, I got the suckest
scolding in history. She was wearing something tin enough to
make a silkworm hang himself. Yeh, I bet you had
a hard time finding something to wear in July.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
I'm not cold bloody a kind of man.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I can know that we didn't basket of them.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
That I haven't seen him in years.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Maybe you've got a picture of him.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
I've got lots of pictures. You might be one of
moon somewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Let's look through the whole flock. I've got lots of time.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Well, I like the room. You got to tell me
your name. I don't want you to steal anything.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
From me, Honey.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
If anybody stole anything from you, they'd get their fingers
burned off at the elbows. She opened the door and
let me into loving When you sat down and the
shades were drawn, and I had a hard time finding
the couch, od man flying blind not to study Braill.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
How do you look at the pictures with the magic landing?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
I thought maybe you wanted to relax a.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Minute, put something in a glass. I'll cool that.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
I don't think never keep the stuffing out.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Doesn't leave you much of a field. What are you
majoring to have one? Yeah, I haven't got a match
light up.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
I think i'd better get the pictures.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'll do like that. I got lonesome in the dark.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
I'll be a second on the radio.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Well is it blown?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Figur it out myself that.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
With me, this pilot that lasts more. They none of
it looks night one unto overtime.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
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Speaker 5 (14:18):
Virginia Cotta wasn't worried about working late. There was only
one trouble with a job. It was tough keeping my
mind on two.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Things at once.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It was like trying to read a man on a
catalog in front of a last furnace. She sat close
to me and handed me one picture of the kind,
describing each guy in the photographs. I've seen draft boards
with smaller client he several times she stopped and looked
at one of the.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Pictures, smiled, and passed the guy to me.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
I was going to mention an old snapshot I had
of myself when she tapped one of the collection with
a polished fingernails.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Will you.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Figured to be easting or later? How long has this taken?
Speaker 7 (14:57):
I guess that six years.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I should keep it fie.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Him was a nice guy.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I had money, showed me a good time.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What else do you know about him?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
He has a brother with a check in you count
brought rocks.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
William have any unusual habits? A few?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
They wouldn't help you find him?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well?
Speaker 7 (15:13):
I remember something.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
He used to play the saxophoneby no, not exactly.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
He played around town, said a small band. He used
to pick me up after work and we'd go to
a dive at some place you used to be in.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
He loved it.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
He was a nut on jazz.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You make money at it, I guess before.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
He went to work with his brother.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
I don't think he's.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Better liked him find himself.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Okay, I mean thanks. I'll slap around again sometime.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Take a look at your caller'st been a nice soft web.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And why have I take William with me? Not?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
If you're bringing picture back?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Maybe I'll just bring a camera. You can take it yourself.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Good.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
That's why I keep the room so dark.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I hated to leave, but my hand was already curly enough.
She had given me one lead. Will was a musician
of sorts, and sometimes he made money at it. I
started across the street to catch.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Another cab, and I was halfway there when I heard
the car. It was an old trick.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
You drive by fants, open your door and if anyone
is in the way, he winds up with a pace
full of order.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But be like ducks, gonna hurry.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I picked myself up and thought about chasing him, but
he was so far down the street I couldn't even
get the license Up's gone out of four three dollars
and thirty five cents. Another cat to Local eight oh
two of the musicians you know, I went in and
a little short guy with a twitch looked up at
me from behind a big desk. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Should I do for your pops that twitch? Yeah? Too
much pop? You know? William Basketball plays Saxo.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Has you got a car?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
He makes money? You better have see if he does.
I have an old friend. I'd like to get in
touch with him.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Between twitches, he found what I was looking for. William
had just knew his car. I didn't show a home address,
but his mail is being sent to one of the
swing joints on fifty second Street. I said, bangs and
left the little man in the middle of the twitch.
Spen's count adaim five three dollars and eighty five cents.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Still, I'm not a cab to the address on fifty
second Street on a table. I'm looking for William Basketball
Basketball plays the Sacks. Yeah, he left as one of
the musicians. I don't pay no attention to the loser,
told the thanks. Can I bother you for a minute now,
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but you can talk to me, move and lean on
the piano. No, William Basketville, Sure he blows here. Where
is he? He's awesome?
Speaker 7 (17:44):
And he got a phone call and took off live.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I want to find him.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He took off that rehearsal and just took off.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Because he headed someplace. Sure, sure everybody's headed someplace. You
can't go nowhere, but I headed. Never quite looked at it.
But then they leave.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
About four point thirty.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
What do you want Willie for it? I got a
message for him? You cop? What make should think? So?
I don't think so I'll just ask him. I just thought,
maybe not for sure. Why what do you mean? What
how do you feel? Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Yeah, sometime when I got the patience, I'll tell you
all about it.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
But don't bug me now. He is fine. Come down
and tell me where William Basketball.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Is and take the fire.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But I'm standing right for I like you. I may cry.
You're putting me on Now you've got my fine five?
Oh yeah, what it? Advice and address grave. I want
William Basketball.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Okay, I can't make this much longer anyway. Sixty nine
East Twelfth.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Street, Thanks Folid.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Expends a gun out of six cabin on the floor
seventy nine cents to the home of brother Basket. I
climbed the stairs of a beat up building and stopped
at a door on the third floor. According to the landlord,
brother Basketball's rooms on the other side. I had tried
my knuckles again and put my ear to the door.
I couldn't figure it out at first.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
There was a strange sound, the lights scraping like a
rope over wood. I tried the door. I had been
right on both counts. It was rope and it was.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Rubbing on wood because Brother Basketball was making the sound effects.
But he was doing it the hard way. He was
on one end of the rope, hanging by his neck.
He was turning slowly like a weather vane and a
soft breeze. A chair was tipped over at his feet,
and there was a phone on the table.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I crossed to it.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
It was about to call Lieutenant Brennas when I looked
at the dead man again and my stomach jumped up
and kicked my mind into high gear. I walked back
to him and picked up the chair. What I saw
through the suicide they right out of the window. If
he had used the chair to stand on, he would
have still needed the ladder just to tie the rope
to the rafters. I've seen a couple of guys that
hang themselves, but never one that jumped four feet in
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the air to do it.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I shoved the chair on him, just to make sure
he cleared it by a good foot. Hello William, he's
tied up right now.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Who is this?
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It? Sometimes you get lucky.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
A guy would have to be congenitally death to this
Virginia Carter's lovely voice.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
She had been lying when she told me she didn't
know where William lived, and I just had a natural
aversion to lying women, especially when they're mixed up in
a murder.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
You get Spencer can item seven cab one dollar and
fifty five cents Back to Greenwich.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And Virginia Cotter's dock room.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Well did you bring your camera?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
We were placed in the bottle some other time. How
do you know my name? Why you gave it to me?
The septoon A bad liar? I'm coming in.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Oh no, wait a minute, I'm expecting someone.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
If that's where I think it is, you better hide
all the rope in the house, now move it. I
heard from Colin.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Only two people have lied to me today, you and Collins.
You told me you didn't know where William lived, and
you called them ten minutes ago. Colin said he saw
William standing in the garden with a gun, and a
musician told me William didn't leave rehearsal until four point thirty.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I didn't leave the basketball at home until fourth out
of here.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I don't know anybody named Colin.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Okay, but Colin's just killed William basketball. Oh yes. He
strangled them first and then stood on a chair and
hung the body to a raft.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
How do you know it was Colin because he forgot
he's a foot taller than most guys. He gave William
a boost, but he left them hanging too high. He
just left William waiting for ros.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
He didn't say anything about killing William.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
I'm going to get out of this.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Men, slow down and tell me everything. You know.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Well, I met him with William.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
William introduced me to him mon writer. After William went
to prison, I started seeing Colins told me that he's
been in some kind of a deal to see He's
stolen some money and that was why Willie went to prison.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
See what happens to was to slip with Colins when
he got out.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So William came back in one of his share and
Collins killed him.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
I didn't know he was going to be killing he
poured some kind of a letter so that it would
look like it came from Martin.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's where the letter.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
He was going to kill Carl Basketball and blame it
on William, killing anybody.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
He killed him and stole the letter. Looked like William
had killed him and taken the letter to hide them.
Motor listen. Colins must have come in through the kitchen
and started shooting. She went down like a dialer with
her bends and died on her face. He was trying
for me when I jumped to one side and knocked
over the only light burning in the room.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Came close, but the mash of his gun gave him away,
and I threw enough lead to kill us. Singer Colin
stumbled back into the kitchen, but he was dragging. I
heard him, and I moved in after the moonlight slanted
down through one of the windows and splashed out on
a hot floor. He was lying and on his back,
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like he wanted to get that far anyway. You better
give it up, call and forget it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Forget it.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
No reason to kill you now before you close your eyes.
Tell me something, all right, but it will take too long.
Why didn't you go out and get with him yourself.
Why wait until I found it and couldn't take the change.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I knew the old man. I'd have somebody start consumer later.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I killed him in the garden because I knew you'd
make a good whip. Probably go looking for Virginia. Have
to he told your daughter you called her and so
that he'll tell me everything you knew.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's right. I wanted you to find himself like a suicide.
You nearly got away with it. You just forgot how
tall you were when you're hanging with him. You try
to run me down. No, that's one I just gar
you make you think it was. I'll call I got
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three of them. Should be right enough, too nice to
night to die.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Eh, not a cloud in the sky. It's a beautiful man.
I can't use it, but I'll give it to you.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I called Brenner's and he came over with his boys
and cleaned it up. Virginia, the girl with the rogues gallery,
was dead, and Collins wasn't long catching up.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
It was pretty simple, Collins and young Basket. I had
taken a hundred thousand from the brother's company, and William
was caught. He did six years, knowing that when he
got out there would be fifty thousand waiting. In the meantime,
Collins had his girl and enough time to think that
one hundred thousand was better if it wasn't split in
the middle. Colin's framed William with the letter and then
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started killing. He spends count OUTAM eight twenty three dollars
and forty five cents, dinner and incidentals covering the rest
of the night.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Up to Levar's close.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Spends count OUTEM nine ten dollars, A massage of steam
van itdem ten another cab, the Grand Central, sixty five cents,
item eleven thirty eight dollars and fifty five cents train
van incidentals back to Hartford. Spends account total one hundred
and thirty seven dollars and twenty seven cents.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Comments murder isn't so bad?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
A ride in any New York cab makes a killing
look like a Sunday school tamp people, Yours truly, Johnny dollar.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollars stars Edmond O'Brien on the title
role and was written by Blake.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Edwards with music by Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Edmund O'Brien can soon be seen starring in the Paramount
Pictures Technicolor production Silver City. Featured in tonight's cast were
Stacey Harris, Bill Bouchet, Howard mcneer, Sidney Miller, and Virginia Gray.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, is transcribed in Hollywood by i'm
a del Viie.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
This is Dan Cumberly inviting into join us next week
at this time when Edmund O'Brien returns, and Yours Truly
Johnny Dalla
Tom Hollywood, it's time to hold for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Johnny Donna Martin.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Johnny, I've got a job for it.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Fine, what is it?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Mister Carl Basketville is insured with us.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I've heard the name retired welcome. That's the best way.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
His brother is the beneficiary.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Basketball called us a little while ago and said he
wanted the money to go to a charity in case.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Of his dead What made him change his mind?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
He thinks his brother's out to kill him.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's Johnny, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
He's insured for a half a million. Johnny, you just
made me a body guy, at least until we found
out how true basketball story is. We did some chicking.
Six years ago. He sent his brother, William to prison
for absconding with company funds. William was released from state
prison a week ago.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh yeah, that's where I've heard the name. I remember
the case.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh it's a strange setup.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Sends his brother to jail, names him as beneficiary. Wants
to change because he says his brother is going to
kill him.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Canaan Abel really started something, didn't.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
He admim O'Brien and the transcribed Adventure of the man
of the action packed expense a con America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator, Yours truly Johnny.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dolla to
a home office Columbia Risk Insurance.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The following is in a county of expenditure during my
investigation of the Basketville matter.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Expends account out of one thirty.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Eight eighty seven trained there and incidentals between Hartford and
New York. After receiving from you the necessary information concerning
mister Kyle Baskerville, expends coun out of two seven to
fifty cab there between Grand Center Run.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Basketball's home on Long Island. The house was set back
from the road, hidden by tall trees, and.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Surrounded by several acres of well kept loans and gardens.
I walked up the long gravel paths into the front
door and knock. I let a cigarette and waited the afternoon.
The sun was warm on the back of my neck,
and he asked, noll the wet grass and bright flowers.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I turned around to see the biggest man, says Goliath.
He was close to seven feet and must have waked
in at about two to eighty. He was nice looking
and wearing a well cut blue suit, probably made from
the best part of a tenth Can I do something
for you? Then over, I'm getting a stiff neck. I'm
Johnny Dowler. I'm here representing Yes, Columbia all Risk.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
They called and said you were on your way, and
mister Basketball's personal secretary, the Basketball is expecting it.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
The big man led the way through the big house
with a big punch door but open on the big guarden.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Cal Basketball was sitting in a chair feeding the birds.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
He was reaching his late fifties with a sour look
at the man that didn't want to as he tossed
the bread crumbs out on the gravel walk a big
diamond on his little finger, last in the sun, mister.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Best, oh Collens, Oh, who's that will do?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The man from the insurance.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Company pull up a chains down your name?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
What you mean Dollar and Johnny?
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Yeah, it's your company called and just feeding the little birds.
You're better better sometimes well, well they're standing around for
Collins and I want to talk to me to Dollar
tiget for it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
If you need me, I'll be in the study. Yes,
how tall is he?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Six feet nine he's been looking at for some time.
I've been retired for five years. I always wanting to
spend my afternoons in guard and feeding the birds. I
used to get up at six and go to work
and have breakfasts and look out of that window. I
used to see the little bird. I always someday I'd
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spend my afternoons out here feeding a little hut.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He's graduated.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Mm hmm. And mister basket, I was sent here, you
know what you were saying, Siddan, mister, and I spent
most of that making money, making a success of success
in terms of what you consider.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That's an interesting statement. How do you know what I considered?
The normous?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Is money important to you?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
How important?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Very? Not all important?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
What else is important here?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Mister? A lot of things?
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Don't be basically telling.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Me a philosophy? What kind of a not taking people
for granted?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Here you feed the bird for God, which you feel
real good here?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Bertie, Bertie, that's fine, Get a load of that one.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, he's agree when he does that A lot like
people aren't saying.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I suppose you know about my brother.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
And this dollar win in basketball worked for you six
years ago supposedly took some company from.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Who definitely took one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Sent to state prison for ten years. It was pro
last week after serving six. You're Insuredre's Columbia Old Risk
for a half million, and your brother is the beneficiary.
Now you want to change. Tell me some more about
your brother.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Your company's worried?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Is that it half million dollars worth?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I suppose you considered it strange I send my brother
to prison then making.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
My abandon I guess strange is a good word.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I don't particularly care if you believe this or not,
but I hated to prosecute my brother, but he was
guilty and it became more than just a family matter.
There the stockholders to be considered, and his guilt was
discovered it before I could do anything.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You're not to I'm out of crime.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Oh well he he if he got them anything. Ah,
here's the timid. He doesn't get as much as young.
You know you're right about them being like people who
timid wims negate enough generally, Paul, by the way.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
From you made your brother. You're beneficiary, and now you
want to change.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Not only as a pacaussion with my money, I've ray
Perhaps William will treat twice before he changed. He felish,
I'm having my will change too.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Is here?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
I originally left my entire estate to me.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
What makes you think he might try this mess mass?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Which really.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I spent five years hearing you, but I learned to trade.
I used a drawing blueprints for your shrouds.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Pull him always did go for the dramatic.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
When'd you get this?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
I got a jesterday, the first I've heard from Williams
in too much prison?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, get a pill to one and you know who?
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Did you end Ford? Since boyhood? He's in did my
get up and go? We never got along. It wasn't
me too much for my poor mother.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
She died very young, probably overworked committing a straight.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Jacket, don't they flipper, young man?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That was uncalled forrr Yeah, I guess it was.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I had a strange habit of getting flipping when I
get confused, I'm confused, mister basketball.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Well, William was the last of the basket of world's
hot head. Childish, weak and insecure, but he's a basketball.
If he kills me with the car, if he doesn't
gain by my untimely death, he may reconsider that I
still have hopes of a leaking version.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The regeneration of the basketball.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
If you will, perhaps when he calms down forgets his
last six years, we'll talk and then I plan on
renaming him as my schooler.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are you steered you haven't contacted him?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I told you didn't know where it was somebody out
looking for him, because I think somebody should be. You're
going to remove the temptation. That might be a good
idea to inform William.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
How's he going to know he's been momentarily disinherited. Man,
If you don't want to call the police, I'd suggest
a private protective.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
I'm telling you how much time.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Better than feeding the birds? You think of anyone who
might know where your brother is.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
The girl before William went to prison, I think be
sure she's still in the Yark.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
What's her name?
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Catta, Virginia Cotton, look some persons village. I only met
her once.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Use him high yourself a good private detective in a
hurry and tell him about this Virginia Catter.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
She might know where William is. In the meantime, I
recommend that the change of beneficiary be hurried up.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Oh, I'm getting tired, tired feeding my bird.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Game. He's got hya and a few crumbs left over there.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I left him sitting with his friend. He had one
good deed to taken on with him. I went back
through the French doors and started back to the house.
I got a start at the hallway. Basketbab oh Swell.
He was sitting in a chair with a pillow hold
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just over his heart. His head was resting on his chest,
and he still held the bread crumbs in his hand.
He seemed to be smiling like he knew he was
going to be able to feed the birds for a
long time with.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Glory. Where were you? Where were you? In the library
the shop? Saw William ware over there at the farm
of the garden. He had a gun. He turned a right.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I saw homicide lieutenants Johnny Donna.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Hello from you.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I've got a killing for you. I'm out at the
basketball estate.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The Basketville.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
He used to be Carl Baskerville. He was shot a
few minutes ago in his garden.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
William did it. I saw William with a gun.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Basketball secretary says he saw William Basketville with a gun. Brother,
that's right. I'm here because Carl thought William was going
to kill him. He showed me a letter, Holy letter,
get out here. I think I just made the mistake
of my career. He shot Collins aside ran back out
of my garden. Basketball was still smiling, and things looked
about the same. I went through his coat pockets and
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found what I was looking for. Nothing a threatening letter
from William's God. I went back in the library faster
than I'd come out. I remembered what Basketball had said
about a girl named Cotta.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I grabbed a phone.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Book in a while hunch and started looking up the
cottas in Greenwich. Only one Virginia in that part of town.
So I said a quiet prayer, and the gods that
the vision of my employer's reaction when they found out
their investigator had been on hand when they goes to
cool half million and called a cab, and the hopes
that I might at least save half the place.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I told Colins not to touch anything and to wait.
The Lieutenant Brenners.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Spen's got Adam freed eight and seventy five cents cab
at a Greenwich village.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It was a long shot, but it could be the
same girl that known market I went.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Up the stairs with an old brownstone and knocked on
the door. When it finally opened, I got the suckest
scolding in history. She was wearing something tin enough to
make a silkworm hang himself. Yeh, I bet you had
a hard time finding something to wear in July.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
I'm not cold bloody a kind of man.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I can know that we didn't basket of them.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
That I haven't seen him in years.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Maybe you've got a picture of him.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
I've got lots of pictures. You might be one of
moon somewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Let's look through the whole flock. I've got lots of time.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Well, I like the room. You got to tell me
your name. I don't want you to steal anything.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
From me, Honey.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
If anybody stole anything from you, they'd get their fingers
burned off at the elbows. She opened the door and
let me into loving When you sat down and the
shades were drawn, and I had a hard time finding
the couch, od man flying blind not to study Braill.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
How do you look at the pictures with the magic landing?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
I thought maybe you wanted to relax a.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Minute, put something in a glass. I'll cool that.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
I don't think never keep the stuffing out.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Doesn't leave you much of a field. What are you
majoring to have one? Yeah, I haven't got a match
light up.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
I think i'd better get the pictures.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'll do like that. I got lonesome in the dark.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
I'll be a second on the radio.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Well is it blown?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Figur it out myself that.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
With me, this pilot that lasts more. They none of
it looks night one unto overtime.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
We will return you yours truly, Johnny, Donnar and Dust
the moment, battle up the sofa and right off to
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Speaker 2 (13:44):
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Speaker 9 (13:50):
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we bring you the second act of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Virginia Cotta wasn't worried about working late. There was only
one trouble with a job. It was tough keeping my
mind on two.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Things at once.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It was like trying to read a man on a
catalog in front of a last furnace. She sat close
to me and handed me one picture of the kind,
describing each guy in the photographs. I've seen draft boards
with smaller client he several times she stopped and looked
at one of the.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Pictures, smiled, and passed the guy to me.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
I was going to mention an old snapshot I had
of myself when she tapped one of the collection with
a polished fingernails.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Will you.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Figured to be easting or later? How long has this taken?
Speaker 7 (14:57):
I guess that six years.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I should keep it fie.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Him was a nice guy.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I had money, showed me a good time.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What else do you know about him?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
He has a brother with a check in you count
brought rocks.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
William have any unusual habits? A few?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
They wouldn't help you find him?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well?
Speaker 7 (15:13):
I remember something.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
He used to play the saxophoneby no, not exactly.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
He played around town, said a small band. He used
to pick me up after work and we'd go to
a dive at some place you used to be in.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
He loved it.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
He was a nut on jazz.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You make money at it, I guess before.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
He went to work with his brother.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
I don't think he's.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Better liked him find himself.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Okay, I mean thanks. I'll slap around again sometime.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Take a look at your caller'st been a nice soft web.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And why have I take William with me? Not?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
If you're bringing picture back?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Maybe I'll just bring a camera. You can take it yourself.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Good.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
That's why I keep the room so dark.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I hated to leave, but my hand was already curly enough.
She had given me one lead. Will was a musician
of sorts, and sometimes he made money at it. I
started across the street to catch.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Another cab, and I was halfway there when I heard
the car. It was an old trick.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
You drive by fants, open your door and if anyone
is in the way, he winds up with a pace
full of order.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But be like ducks, gonna hurry.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I picked myself up and thought about chasing him, but
he was so far down the street I couldn't even
get the license Up's gone out of four three dollars
and thirty five cents. Another cat to Local eight oh
two of the musicians you know, I went in and
a little short guy with a twitch looked up at
me from behind a big desk. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Should I do for your pops that twitch? Yeah? Too
much pop? You know? William Basketball plays Saxo.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Has you got a car?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
He makes money? You better have see if he does.
I have an old friend. I'd like to get in
touch with him.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Between twitches, he found what I was looking for. William
had just knew his car. I didn't show a home address,
but his mail is being sent to one of the
swing joints on fifty second Street. I said, bangs and
left the little man in the middle of the twitch.
Spen's count adaim five three dollars and eighty five cents.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Still, I'm not a cab to the address on fifty
second Street on a table. I'm looking for William Basketball
Basketball plays the Sacks. Yeah, he left as one of
the musicians. I don't pay no attention to the loser,
told the thanks. Can I bother you for a minute now,
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but you can talk to me, move and lean on
the piano. No, William Basketville, Sure he blows here. Where
is he? He's awesome?
Speaker 7 (17:44):
And he got a phone call and took off live.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I want to find him.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He took off that rehearsal and just took off.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Because he headed someplace. Sure, sure everybody's headed someplace. You
can't go nowhere, but I headed. Never quite looked at it.
But then they leave.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
About four point thirty.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
What do you want Willie for it? I got a
message for him? You cop? What make should think? So?
I don't think so I'll just ask him. I just thought,
maybe not for sure. Why what do you mean? What
how do you feel? Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Yeah, sometime when I got the patience, I'll tell you
all about it.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
But don't bug me now. He is fine. Come down
and tell me where William Basketball.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Is and take the fire.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But I'm standing right for I like you. I may cry.
You're putting me on Now you've got my fine five?
Oh yeah, what it? Advice and address grave. I want
William Basketball.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Okay, I can't make this much longer anyway. Sixty nine
East Twelfth.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Street, Thanks Folid.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Expends a gun out of six cabin on the floor
seventy nine cents to the home of brother Basket. I
climbed the stairs of a beat up building and stopped
at a door on the third floor. According to the landlord,
brother Basketball's rooms on the other side. I had tried
my knuckles again and put my ear to the door.
I couldn't figure it out at first.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
There was a strange sound, the lights scraping like a
rope over wood. I tried the door. I had been
right on both counts. It was rope and it was.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Rubbing on wood because Brother Basketball was making the sound effects.
But he was doing it the hard way. He was
on one end of the rope, hanging by his neck.
He was turning slowly like a weather vane and a
soft breeze. A chair was tipped over at his feet,
and there was a phone on the table.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I crossed to it.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
It was about to call Lieutenant Brennas when I looked
at the dead man again and my stomach jumped up
and kicked my mind into high gear. I walked back
to him and picked up the chair. What I saw
through the suicide they right out of the window. If
he had used the chair to stand on, he would
have still needed the ladder just to tie the rope
to the rafters. I've seen a couple of guys that
hang themselves, but never one that jumped four feet in
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the air to do it.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I shoved the chair on him, just to make sure
he cleared it by a good foot. Hello William, he's
tied up right now.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Who is this?
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It? Sometimes you get lucky.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
A guy would have to be congenitally death to this
Virginia Carter's lovely voice.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
She had been lying when she told me she didn't
know where William lived, and I just had a natural
aversion to lying women, especially when they're mixed up in
a murder.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
You get Spencer can item seven cab one dollar and
fifty five cents Back to Greenwich.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And Virginia Cotter's dock room.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Well did you bring your camera?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
We were placed in the bottle some other time. How
do you know my name? Why you gave it to me?
The septoon A bad liar? I'm coming in.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Oh no, wait a minute, I'm expecting someone.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
If that's where I think it is, you better hide
all the rope in the house, now move it. I
heard from Colin.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Only two people have lied to me today, you and Collins.
You told me you didn't know where William lived, and
you called them ten minutes ago. Colin said he saw
William standing in the garden with a gun, and a
musician told me William didn't leave rehearsal until four point thirty.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I didn't leave the basketball at home until fourth out
of here.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I don't know anybody named Colin.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Okay, but Colin's just killed William basketball. Oh yes. He
strangled them first and then stood on a chair and
hung the body to a raft.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
How do you know it was Colin because he forgot
he's a foot taller than most guys. He gave William
a boost, but he left them hanging too high. He
just left William waiting for ros.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
He didn't say anything about killing William.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
I'm going to get out of this.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Men, slow down and tell me everything. You know.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Well, I met him with William.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
William introduced me to him mon writer. After William went
to prison, I started seeing Colins told me that he's
been in some kind of a deal to see He's
stolen some money and that was why Willie went to prison.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
See what happens to was to slip with Colins when
he got out.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So William came back in one of his share and
Collins killed him.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
I didn't know he was going to be killing he
poured some kind of a letter so that it would
look like it came from Martin.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's where the letter.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
He was going to kill Carl Basketball and blame it
on William, killing anybody.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
He killed him and stole the letter. Looked like William
had killed him and taken the letter to hide them.
Motor listen. Colins must have come in through the kitchen
and started shooting. She went down like a dialer with
her bends and died on her face. He was trying
for me when I jumped to one side and knocked
over the only light burning in the room.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Came close, but the mash of his gun gave him away,
and I threw enough lead to kill us. Singer Colin
stumbled back into the kitchen, but he was dragging. I
heard him, and I moved in after the moonlight slanted
down through one of the windows and splashed out on
a hot floor. He was lying and on his back,
(23:07):
like he wanted to get that far anyway. You better
give it up, call and forget it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Forget it.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
No reason to kill you now before you close your eyes.
Tell me something, all right, but it will take too long.
Why didn't you go out and get with him yourself.
Why wait until I found it and couldn't take the change.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I knew the old man. I'd have somebody start consumer later.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I killed him in the garden because I knew you'd
make a good whip. Probably go looking for Virginia. Have
to he told your daughter you called her and so
that he'll tell me everything you knew.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's right. I wanted you to find himself like a suicide.
You nearly got away with it. You just forgot how
tall you were when you're hanging with him. You try
to run me down. No, that's one I just gar
you make you think it was. I'll call I got
(24:00):
three of them. Should be right enough, too nice to
night to die.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Eh, not a cloud in the sky. It's a beautiful man.
I can't use it, but I'll give it to you.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I called Brenner's and he came over with his boys
and cleaned it up. Virginia, the girl with the rogues gallery,
was dead, and Collins wasn't long catching up.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
It was pretty simple, Collins and young Basket. I had
taken a hundred thousand from the brother's company, and William
was caught. He did six years, knowing that when he
got out there would be fifty thousand waiting. In the meantime,
Collins had his girl and enough time to think that
one hundred thousand was better if it wasn't split in
the middle. Colin's framed William with the letter and then
(24:55):
started killing. He spends count OUTAM eight twenty three dollars
and forty five cents, dinner and incidentals covering the rest
of the night.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Up to Levar's close.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Spends count OUTEM nine ten dollars, A massage of steam
van itdem ten another cab, the Grand Central, sixty five cents,
item eleven thirty eight dollars and fifty five cents train
van incidentals back to Hartford. Spends account total one hundred
and thirty seven dollars and twenty seven cents.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Comments murder isn't so bad?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
A ride in any New York cab makes a killing
look like a Sunday school tamp people, Yours truly, Johnny dollar.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollars stars Edmond O'Brien on the title
role and was written by Blake.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Edwards with music by Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Edmund O'Brien can soon be seen starring in the Paramount
Pictures Technicolor production Silver City. Featured in tonight's cast were
Stacey Harris, Bill Bouchet, Howard mcneer, Sidney Miller, and Virginia Gray.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, is transcribed in Hollywood by i'm
a del Viie.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
This is Dan Cumberly inviting into join us next week
at this time when Edmund O'Brien returns, and Yours Truly
Johnny Dalla
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