August 5, 2025 • 28 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):
From Hollywood. It's time off for Edmond O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Johnny Dalla. This is Lieutenant Reed, Homicide. Oh, good morning, Lieutenant.
Did you hire a private detective named Douglas Taylor?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I did. He was found dead this morning. Dead. Yeah,
shot the dead. I want you to come down and
answer answer a few questions.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Edmittlebriyan is another adventure of the man with the action
packed expense accounts America's Five Dealers freelance insurance investigator Yours truly,
Johnny Dalla. Expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
To home office Great Eastern Insurance Company, Hartford. I don't
know how much responsibility you will want to take for
these expenses, but I hope you realize that a large
share of them were in CUD in an effort to
protect the company. The following is an accounting of expenditures during
my investigation of the Douglas Taylor matter. Expense account Item
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one A dollar twenty cab fare from my apartment to
Hartford Police Headquarters, Homicide Division. Yes, sir, uh, my name
is Dollar. Lieutenant Rees, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, second door, that he's wait, let's go right in.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Thanks Lieutenant rees, Yeah, you Dollar, that's thanks for coming down. Well,
I can't say it's a pleasure, Lieutenant, sorry to hear
about Taylor. What happened? We don't know yet whether it happened.
We aren't sure that either he was found out by
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the freight yards, but chances are we shot someplace else
and dumped there. How did you happen to land on me?
His wife came down to identify him this morning. She
told us he was working for you. Mm. Well, I
might as well get this off my chest now, Lieutenant.
You won't like it any better if I say that
I can't answer any questions about what Taylor and I
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were working not now? Why not? Because it all record
case that could be worth about a half million dollars.
If you start nosing anyone looking for a motive, I
hate to see you turn on cooperative so early in
the game. Dollar, They can't help it. There are usually
plenty of motives around when it's a private detective, got
plenty of other places to start. We like to have
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them all. I don't like this. I don't need a lieutenant,
but I am stuck with some confidences I want to
stand by. I can tell you this. I don't see
how my case could have anything to do with his dying.
There are two men suspected of insurance fraud. I was
following one tailor the other. I don't think they knew
we were tailing, all right, Dolla. I guess I can
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understand the spot you're on. I'll talk it over with
the people that hired me, but I can't open it
up and till they give me. How long had you
known him? Ooh, about two years? I guess not well,
but he was a good, careful worker and I hired
him when I needed somebody. Did he talk to you
about any trouble? Oh? Oh, he never said a word.
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How well do you know his wife? I met her twice,
and so both times she came with Taylor when I
had a check for him. She seemed like that kind
of a wife. That's as well as you knew him. Man,
that's it. I'm sorry. Yeah. It brings us back to
that half million you mentioned, doesn't it. That's enough to
hold you on. You know I knew that when I
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told you it's up to you beat it. If you
ever need some help from us, I hope I'm on
the hand to turn you down. I didn't need to
see him to know that Lieutenant rees had put a
plain clothesment on me as soon as I left the building,
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because I would have done the same in his place.
So I went back to my apartment and told the
new to the company.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I hope you've done the right thing, Johnny, I.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Think you have. Well. I can always change it, mister Nibley,
But I know one thing. If I stay on the
arson case, the police are going to get on it
to mess it up. Yes, I suppose our problem is
nothing to them. Are you positive there's no connection with
Taylor's death? Well, not positive, but fairly sure. Anyway, I
think i'd better drop it for a while. If you'll
put a couple of men on at all we have
to know is if either one contacts a professional fire ug.
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If and when that happens, I have all the rest
of the evidence we'll need, all right, I guess that's.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
The way to happen it.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, what about Taylor's wife?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Did you know anything about the case.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't think so. Lieutenant Reese would have found out
from it. But I don't have to go see her.
I'll find out, all right, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I want to thank you for this.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You can be sure if the company appreciates this. I
feel awful about what happened. Yeah, so do I I
hired him.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
It's all right, mister Dollar. I'm glad you came over
so spoke obviously often sit down.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Thank you. Missus Taylor. Well, there's no way for me
to say what I feel about, course there is. I
do wanna clear your mind and my conscience on one thing.
Though Doug wasn't killed because he was working for me,
I'm sure of that wouldn't have.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Made any difference if he had been. Doug was forty
last month. He was twenty one when I married him
in New York. He was on the force there for
twelve years before we opened his office here. I've been
waiting for this to happen all these years. Can you
understand that?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think so.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
I tried not to think of it, but not a
day passed that I didn't. Now that it's happened. I
it's like so many things it's supposed to be. The
anticip the anticipation was so bad. I well, I I
thought that another detective might understand.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I think I do, Missus Taylor. Did Doug talk his
cases over with you?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
No, not for a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You knew he was working for me.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yes, he mentioned it, but that's all he liked to
agree to you.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He didn't speak of any trouble or the chance of anything. No.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I suppose it's my fault, but he didn't. He knew
I worried too much as it was, and never told
me anything.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Do you know if there would be any specific reason
for his being killed? I mean outside of his work.
What do you mean, Well, it'll sound like a rotten
thing to ask, but was there anyone else in his life?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You mean a woman?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
There was. I didn't know about it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You don't sound quite sure.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I'm not. I did suspect him that. It was one
of the things that kept gnawing at me all those years,
but I never found out anything.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I hope you're telling me everything, Missus Tamman.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I am. That's the way it was, being married. I
was alone so much.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I Oh, I know I thought about.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Things too much, but I couldn't help it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah. Who are some of his friends, Missus Taylor. I
don't remember that he ever mentioned any to me.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Oh, we had a few friends here in the neighborhood,
and there's the man who was his partner for a while,
Henry Varner.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Never heard him? Where is he?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
He's a house detective at the hotel Millart.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
How close were they Well, they were good friends.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
A hundred and station.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh have the policemen here?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
No, i'd do I.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Have to talk to them.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't think it would be wise to try not to.
Do you want me to let him?
Speaker 6 (07:39):
No, No, I'll i'll I'll let him in.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Tell him, Missus Taylor, do you feel up to answering
some questions now?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yes, yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Thanks. I will uh try not to take any more
of it. Lieutenant Race got everything taken care of. But
I does that mean did you get her story rehearsed?
Climb off? Lieutenant, and I don't play that way. What's
this man doing here, Missus Taylor?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
What my husband was working for mister Dollar when he
was killed, so he came to see me.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Has he been asking you questions? Yes? What kind luck
Lieutenant nine Dollar? What kind of questions, Missus.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Taylor about Doug being killed?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Did he tell you how to answer police questions?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
No, that never came up.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Dollar. How much information on this insurance case did Taylor
have in his office, a reason for him to have
any why the office had been torn to pieces. By
the time we got to it this morning, all or
part of the motive was there, and somebody came back
after it. You'd better clear yourself of this mess, dollar,
or I'm going to see to it that you'll put
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right out of business. I had to wait until seven
that evening before I could get to Henry Vonna, the
hotel that Missus Taylor had spoken of him. He was
the slight dark type of a hairline mustache and too
much have to shave powder, the kind of house stick
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that usually causes the feminine gets, the kind of trouble
that paid to stop. Yeah, I had a little deal
cooked up this afternoon, the kind of where you don't
leave a phone of the week can be reached a fitthold,
I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, what a doll?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Hey, uh, what's behind us Doug Taylor? Miss anyway, I
haven't read the evening papers.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Hasn't broken yet. His wife told me you and Doug
were good friends.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, we used to be partners for a while.
We used to get out of town once.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
A while, hunting and fishing. Ye, that was a pitch.
When did you see him last time?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Let's get out of the lobbying, go in the office, John.
It uh seems to me. The last time I saw
Doug was around the middle of last week.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He stopped by here on the way home. Was he
on a case?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I don't remember him saying, you know, it was one
of those things that I asked him how I was going.
He said, the same old stuff. He got killed over
one of his cases.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Looks like it his office was broken into somebody after
one of his reports or something the police say, uh huh.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Seems to me it was offul fed up. The last
few months we got together A couple of times he
mentioned there was gonna be a change, was to go
back to New York or Florida or out with some place,
whether without his wife without I think she's a creep.
You know, I jealous and all that stuff. The poor
guy had to sneak the money to spend a week
get together.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
What about the money for it? Has change? He mentioned, I.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Don't have any idea. Never followed it up because I
thought he was just dreaming. They uh was paying you
for this, not his.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Wife, nobody. I'm tryna claim myself with the police. They
think I'm holding out information on him. Oh how come
he was working with me when he was killed? I
made you think his wife might have hired me. I
was wondering if she hired you before for the tamient
h they just for the four walls and me. Do
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you think she'd be capable of killing him? Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, one of those fit zippers. I really think she's
a little off. Should if she got Wendy was really
leaving if she figured he had some dough hi.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Into the olph. Mm, that's what I meant should call.
But maybe you got something? He owned the car, didn't me?
Please say that Bunny was driven to the freight yard
and yet it was just dawn. You might have some Uh,
I'll go see Thanks for the time, Nie. It was
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dark by the time I got across town again and
back to the Taylor Duplex. I happened to look up
at their second floor apartment, and I saw a light
switch on behind a drawn shade in one of their rooms.
If I hadn't done that a number of things would
not have taken place. Is Taylor, Taylor, It's Johnny Dollar.
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Come on, I know you're in there. Let me.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Hey, hey, what's this?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I'm in here out kill you? Sure don't don't get
close to me. Move right across the room.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Where's missus Taylor in the bedroom?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Maybe she's dead. I don't know. I hit her, she
wouldn't be quiet, and I hit her with a gun.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I'll kill you too if I have to.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I don't care how many anymore?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Why'd you kill Taylor?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Kase?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
He was too filthy to stay alive, to study, rotten
to live? Do try to follow me?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Out?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Kill you too?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And I mean it, nothing means anything anymore?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
What are you fighting? What'd you come here?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Don't you try to follow me?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Hey? Come here, Hey, come here. I have no intention
of stepping out into the hall. Right then, he was
young and obviously out of his head from fear. I
hope the shatzi fired would alert the plainclothesman that I
thought was still sticking to me, But he wasn't there.
If I tried to lose him, it probably would have
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taken a week, But as I learned later, a split
second set of circumstances caused him to miss me when
I left the hotel, and Douglas Taylor's killer simply disappeared end.
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Speaker 2 (14:03):
Missus Taylor had been knock unconscious, but it hadn't been
seriously harmed. I phone Lieutenant Reese higured some tenants into
going back to that dinners, and then did what I
could for it.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
He was crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, that's all right, all right, he came.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I knew he was good to kill me.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I knew it.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I knew that was the last thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Take it easy, Taylor, take it easy. He's gone, and
you're all right. I can explain.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I knew I was dying and I tried to hang
on and I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Can you drink some more of this?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I'll dried.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
M You saw, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah? I Hadn't you ever seen him before?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Never?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
It was crazy, he told me. Did he killed you?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And he killed me too? What else did he say?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I couldn't understand.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Don't think about hot dog ruined two lines?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Wished he could kill him again. Then I screamed and
he gave it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Mean anything to you?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
No? I didn't understand any of them. I wanted to
ask him why he came here.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He was looking for something for the place to pieces.
It must be the same one that broke into Doug's office.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
I don't understand any of you. I'm so scared he
was gonna kill me.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Come on, try to relax, get hold of you. Police
are on their way, and I want to talk to you.
I'll wait for them in the living room. You didn't
think he was going to wait in the hall all night,
did you? Why didn't you go out after him? One
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of your men has been tailing me since morning. I
thought he'd be outside and that the two shots would
wake him up. Where was he? How hard did you
make yourself to follow I didn't give him any trouble.
A boy scout could have stayed on me. Then Parker
is probably following the boy. How long did you have
to study him? Less than a minute? But I think
I can give you a fair description. Let's have it. Well,
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he's about five nine, between seventeen and twenty years old.
I'd say fair complexion, small features, brown wavy hair, brown eyes,
very white teeth and uh, what looked like a mole
above his right eyebrow. No other marks, not that I saw.
He's wearing a ring on his left hand. I couldn't
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see it too well, but it could have been a
class ring. How about clothes? Well, no hat, white shirt
without tie was open. Uh, flannel slacks, brown tweed jacket,
and brown wingtiped shoes. His clothes were well cut, looked expensive.
What kind of gun revolves from? Less than thirty eight?
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With a black brother hand grill? You're sure of all it?
Because I'm sure you think I'm making it up. I
can't forget you're holding out a half million dollar motive
on me. You'll feel better if you do. You talk
to witnesses that heard the shots, didn't you? You could
have fired them with what. I'm not carrying a gun.
You could have got rid of one. Go look for it, lieutenant.
Then you can stop making an ass of yourself. Wren't it. Dollar,
You're doing a pretty good job of needling me. If
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you'll stop riding your badge for a little while, we
can get together and make some sense. Go ahead. Doesn't
it seem obvious that Taylor had something on this kid,
something big enough to be his motive. There must be
a record of it. The kid missed it at the office,
or he wouldn't have come here. And I'm sure he
didn't take anything out of the apartment, so it must
be around someplace. If you're all through, go sit down someplace.
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What's the matter with it? It's nothing, that's all. We've
gone through every file that was in Taylor's office, and
we went through this apartment. There's nothing hot enough for
a killing. Nothing. And why did the kids show up here?
I'll work on that when I'm convinced he did. None
of the witnesses saw him, Oh nobody did nobody but
you and your friend the widow in there. It turned
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out to be a long night. Looking back at it now,
I can see how the lieutenant felt justified and pushing
around somebody who wouldn't cooperate. But that night it was tough,
including a paraffine test that he called inconclusive because I
could have been wearing a glove when I fired the
two shots, and then gotten rid of it. But finally,
at about one fifteen in the morning, he got tired
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of it and he let me go home. I didn't
leave my apartment the next day, except to go out
after the extra additions that called me the private investigator,
whose position and importance in regard to the case is
not clear At the moment. At nine that night, I
was at home again and the door buzzer sounded. I
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thought it was a delivery boy brings some liquor on it. Hey,
your fan?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Oh, get back inside? You want back up for I'll
kill you? You know I will, don't you?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You were crazy enough too, but it it'd be stupid you.
You'd never get out of this apartment building. What's the
matter of you anyway? What do you want? You were
in with Douglas Taylor, won't you? What do you mean he.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Told us about you?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
When did he tell you that he.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Brought somebody else in for protection? He said, we'd never
find out who it was. But I did find out,
didn't I pretty mixed up about something.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I don't lie to me.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
If you'd only stopped when he told us you were
going or none of this would have happened. But you didn't.
He kept coming back. We told him to have to
stop some way.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
We couldn't pay anymore. We've got nothing left.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Wait a minute, Oh you wait.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Now he had a file on me, and I gotta
have it, and if you don't give it to me,
I'll kill you.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
We've got to have it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I haven't got it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Ah, that's what he said, and it didn't do any good.
I killed him anyway. It won't do you any good
to lie now.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I'm not lying as you are, and we'll do any good.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Don't you know that.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You're way wrong? Now? Listen to me. No, I you
told me that you killed Taylor because he lied it,
didn't you? And I believe you. I believe that you'd
kill anybody who you thought was lying to you. I
know you would. Now listen, since I know that, Since
I know that if I had a choice of telling
you the truth and saving my life or lying when
I knew, you'd kill me, wouldn't I tell you the truth? Well, huh?
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If I had your fire or whatever it is, wouldn't
I give it to you to save my life? All right?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Thank you of it.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I don't have it. I don't have anything of yours.
I don't know who you are. I don't know your name.
All I know is that you're wrong. You're mixed up, confused.
You think I'm someone I'm not.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Oh, Taylor told me about you.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
What did he say to make you so sure that
he meant me?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You came to his apartment. You were the only one,
and you were in the paper.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
If I was mixed up in anything with Taylor, I
wouldn't have come to the apartment. I would have stayed
as far away as I could. Don't you see how
wrong you are? You've got everything wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But but you know him.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
A lot of people knew him. I hired him once
in a while. That's so I don't know what you're
talking about. You can believe that, Oh, well, I gotta
go where you don't know where to go.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Oh, I shouldn't have come. If i'd been able to think,
I wouldn't have come. But I don't think anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I just do things my life's all.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Whining up, and it goes faster and faster than I
can't stop it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And uh, Douglas Taylor did all this day? Oh oh,
not all.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Of its hot of it, I did myself.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I don't know anything about it or about you. I
feel sorry for you. You're driving yourself crazy, aren't you.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I did what I had to do.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Why don't you sit down? What's a don't answer? It's
just a boy brings some liquor aside the dog.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Coming in.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
No, it isn't the police. He just put the liquor
down against the door. Now he's gone. I don't believe
Why would the police come here because.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
They're looking for it?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Not in my apartment, you can believe that. See there's
nobody there anymore. The police would be breaking in by now. Yeah,
it was a delivery boy. Sure, you're nothing to be
afraid of.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I don't think anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You're a nervous wreck, you know, I yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know, because you're fighting something you know you can
never beat. I've been doing that all right. Don't you
know you'd be a hundred times better off if you
gave yourself up. The Taylor's killing him?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
No, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I can't. I gotta get away.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
You'll never get away from it.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Then I'll die.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Taylor was black. Why do they haven't? How do you
know that to be a lot of it these days?
Be as bad off as you think of.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
You because it isn't even important any go.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
What is important like this? Huh? A family? What makes
you think I got it? Because it sticks out all
over her father with a fur collar and his overcoat,
and my mother belongs to every civic club in town.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
All right, and a sister engaged to a lawyer. That's
why I can't give myself up and.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Have our name all over the papers.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
That's why I gotta find that Farrell Taylor hadn't get
rid of it, and then get away. I've almost ruined
the family. Now Dad's been bled dry keeping Taylor from
turning my name in. Now now they don't have to
pay anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
What do they think about as being dead?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, he asked me, and I told him I didn't
do it.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I think they believe me.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It's all right anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's better now than it has been for the last
two years.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That long two years.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
It started when Dad got a feeling about what I
was doing. He hired Taylor to find out, and when
he finished.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
His job, that's what he threw at us. Hey, wait
a minute, where you're going now?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We don't want to get a light. If that's okay,
I live here, you know I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I don't know why I've talked like this.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You wanted someone to talk to. I'm not as sorry
for you as I was, because I think you're playing
its stupid.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I don't care what you think. I did what I
had to do, and I know what I gotta do now.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You ought to give yourself up, and you know it now.
I'm through talking sense. If you want to blow it
all up, your way, go ahead. I know what I
have to do. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Oh look, I want you to come down to the
ground floor with me. All right, we'll use the stairway,
and you know that I'll kill.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You if I have to. I've gathered that, Yes, we
anytime you want to leave. There are enough people on
the sidewalk to stop him. But I didn't start anything
because I knew that he would open up with his
thirty eight without thinking about who might get hit. He
had the fear crazed look in his eyes again as
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he left me just outside the entrance and started across
the street. I realized what was going to happen before
he did either. He had been spotted and followed by
my building had been staked out. It didn't make any difference.
When the police officers saw us together, it was old.
They needed hey, you.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Stay where you are?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Who do you want where?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Police?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
We want to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
HOLDI oh, right, stop it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
The family turned out to be the Bardettes, the father
of judge and so on. The son got at least
one wish he didn't live to stand trial for murder,
but as far as protecting his family, he'd done nothing.
The whole story rocked hard for for weeks following. Expens
count had him too miscellaneous one hundred and eighty dollars
expends a count total one hundred and eighty one dollars
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and twenty cents remarks For a number of reasons, I'm
sorry I had to drop the arson case for this interlude.
But somehow a half million dollar loss, which I couldn't
have prevented anyway, doesn't seem as important as the destruction
of an entire family, And I couldn't prevent that either
Yours Truly Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
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 will soon be seen starring in
the paramount picture Silver City. Featured in tonight's cast were
Ray Hartman, Joseph Kerns, Edgar Barrier, Jeanette Nolan and Hi Abberbank.
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Himy
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del Bay.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
This is Nick Cutting inviting you to join.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Us next week at this time when Edmond O'Brien returns.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
As Yours Truly Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Uncle Sam gave thirty six million pounds of US farm
surplus ags and milk to say the Yugoslavs, but somebody
had to pay the freight. Care undertook to raise it
from the American people, and at five dollars and thirty
five cents for three hundred pound package, the people gave
three million. Yugoslav mothers and children have already received the care,
eggs and milk, but with the months to go before
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You can reach one hundred with only five dollars and
thirty five cents. Mail it to your local Care office
or to Care Los Angeles or Care New York. The
Von Monroe Show is back from vacation. Bond, the Moonmaids,
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From Hollywood. It's time off for Edmond O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Johnny Dalla. This is Lieutenant Reed, Homicide. Oh, good morning, Lieutenant.
Did you hire a private detective named Douglas Taylor?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I did. He was found dead this morning. Dead. Yeah,
shot the dead. I want you to come down and
answer answer a few questions.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Edmittlebriyan is another adventure of the man with the action
packed expense accounts America's Five Dealers freelance insurance investigator Yours truly,
Johnny Dalla. Expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
To home office Great Eastern Insurance Company, Hartford. I don't
know how much responsibility you will want to take for
these expenses, but I hope you realize that a large
share of them were in CUD in an effort to
protect the company. The following is an accounting of expenditures during
my investigation of the Douglas Taylor matter. Expense account Item
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one A dollar twenty cab fare from my apartment to
Hartford Police Headquarters, Homicide Division. Yes, sir, uh, my name
is Dollar. Lieutenant Rees, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, second door, that he's wait, let's go right in.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Thanks Lieutenant rees, Yeah, you Dollar, that's thanks for coming down. Well,
I can't say it's a pleasure, Lieutenant, sorry to hear
about Taylor. What happened? We don't know yet whether it happened.
We aren't sure that either he was found out by
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the freight yards, but chances are we shot someplace else
and dumped there. How did you happen to land on me?
His wife came down to identify him this morning. She
told us he was working for you. Mm. Well, I
might as well get this off my chest now, Lieutenant.
You won't like it any better if I say that
I can't answer any questions about what Taylor and I
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were working not now? Why not? Because it all record
case that could be worth about a half million dollars.
If you start nosing anyone looking for a motive, I
hate to see you turn on cooperative so early in
the game. Dollar, They can't help it. There are usually
plenty of motives around when it's a private detective, got
plenty of other places to start. We like to have
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them all. I don't like this. I don't need a lieutenant,
but I am stuck with some confidences I want to
stand by. I can tell you this. I don't see
how my case could have anything to do with his dying.
There are two men suspected of insurance fraud. I was
following one tailor the other. I don't think they knew
we were tailing, all right, Dolla. I guess I can
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understand the spot you're on. I'll talk it over with
the people that hired me, but I can't open it
up and till they give me. How long had you
known him? Ooh, about two years? I guess not well,
but he was a good, careful worker and I hired
him when I needed somebody. Did he talk to you
about any trouble? Oh? Oh, he never said a word.
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How well do you know his wife? I met her twice,
and so both times she came with Taylor when I
had a check for him. She seemed like that kind
of a wife. That's as well as you knew him. Man,
that's it. I'm sorry. Yeah. It brings us back to
that half million you mentioned, doesn't it. That's enough to
hold you on. You know I knew that when I
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told you it's up to you beat it. If you
ever need some help from us, I hope I'm on
the hand to turn you down. I didn't need to
see him to know that Lieutenant rees had put a
plain clothesment on me as soon as I left the building,
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because I would have done the same in his place.
So I went back to my apartment and told the
new to the company.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I hope you've done the right thing, Johnny, I.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Think you have. Well. I can always change it, mister Nibley,
But I know one thing. If I stay on the
arson case, the police are going to get on it
to mess it up. Yes, I suppose our problem is
nothing to them. Are you positive there's no connection with
Taylor's death? Well, not positive, but fairly sure. Anyway, I
think i'd better drop it for a while. If you'll
put a couple of men on at all we have
to know is if either one contacts a professional fire ug.
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If and when that happens, I have all the rest
of the evidence we'll need, all right, I guess that's.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
The way to happen it.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, what about Taylor's wife?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Did you know anything about the case.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't think so. Lieutenant Reese would have found out
from it. But I don't have to go see her.
I'll find out, all right, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I want to thank you for this.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You can be sure if the company appreciates this. I
feel awful about what happened. Yeah, so do I I
hired him.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
It's all right, mister Dollar. I'm glad you came over
so spoke obviously often sit down.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Thank you. Missus Taylor. Well, there's no way for me
to say what I feel about, course there is. I
do wanna clear your mind and my conscience on one thing.
Though Doug wasn't killed because he was working for me,
I'm sure of that wouldn't have.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Made any difference if he had been. Doug was forty
last month. He was twenty one when I married him
in New York. He was on the force there for
twelve years before we opened his office here. I've been
waiting for this to happen all these years. Can you
understand that?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think so.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
I tried not to think of it, but not a
day passed that I didn't. Now that it's happened. I
it's like so many things it's supposed to be. The
anticip the anticipation was so bad. I well, I I
thought that another detective might understand.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I think I do, Missus Taylor. Did Doug talk his
cases over with you?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
No, not for a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You knew he was working for me.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yes, he mentioned it, but that's all he liked to
agree to you.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He didn't speak of any trouble or the chance of anything. No.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I suppose it's my fault, but he didn't. He knew
I worried too much as it was, and never told
me anything.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Do you know if there would be any specific reason
for his being killed? I mean outside of his work.
What do you mean, Well, it'll sound like a rotten
thing to ask, but was there anyone else in his life?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You mean a woman?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
There was. I didn't know about it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You don't sound quite sure.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I'm not. I did suspect him that. It was one
of the things that kept gnawing at me all those years,
but I never found out anything.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I hope you're telling me everything, Missus Tamman.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I am. That's the way it was, being married. I
was alone so much.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I Oh, I know I thought about.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Things too much, but I couldn't help it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah. Who are some of his friends, Missus Taylor. I
don't remember that he ever mentioned any to me.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Oh, we had a few friends here in the neighborhood,
and there's the man who was his partner for a while,
Henry Varner.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Never heard him? Where is he?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
He's a house detective at the hotel Millart.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
How close were they Well, they were good friends.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
A hundred and station.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh have the policemen here?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
No, i'd do I.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Have to talk to them.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't think it would be wise to try not to.
Do you want me to let him?
Speaker 6 (07:39):
No, No, I'll i'll I'll let him in.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Tell him, Missus Taylor, do you feel up to answering
some questions now?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yes, yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Thanks. I will uh try not to take any more
of it. Lieutenant Race got everything taken care of. But
I does that mean did you get her story rehearsed?
Climb off? Lieutenant, and I don't play that way. What's
this man doing here, Missus Taylor?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
What my husband was working for mister Dollar when he
was killed, so he came to see me.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Has he been asking you questions? Yes? What kind luck
Lieutenant nine Dollar? What kind of questions, Missus.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Taylor about Doug being killed?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Did he tell you how to answer police questions?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
No, that never came up.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Dollar. How much information on this insurance case did Taylor
have in his office, a reason for him to have
any why the office had been torn to pieces. By
the time we got to it this morning, all or
part of the motive was there, and somebody came back
after it. You'd better clear yourself of this mess, dollar,
or I'm going to see to it that you'll put
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right out of business. I had to wait until seven
that evening before I could get to Henry Vonna, the
hotel that Missus Taylor had spoken of him. He was
the slight dark type of a hairline mustache and too
much have to shave powder, the kind of house stick
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that usually causes the feminine gets, the kind of trouble
that paid to stop. Yeah, I had a little deal
cooked up this afternoon, the kind of where you don't
leave a phone of the week can be reached a fitthold,
I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, what a doll?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Hey, uh, what's behind us Doug Taylor? Miss anyway, I
haven't read the evening papers.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Hasn't broken yet. His wife told me you and Doug
were good friends.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, we used to be partners for a while.
We used to get out of town once.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
A while, hunting and fishing. Ye, that was a pitch.
When did you see him last time?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Let's get out of the lobbying, go in the office, John.
It uh seems to me. The last time I saw
Doug was around the middle of last week.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He stopped by here on the way home. Was he
on a case?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I don't remember him saying, you know, it was one
of those things that I asked him how I was going.
He said, the same old stuff. He got killed over
one of his cases.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Looks like it his office was broken into somebody after
one of his reports or something the police say, uh huh.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Seems to me it was offul fed up. The last
few months we got together A couple of times he
mentioned there was gonna be a change, was to go
back to New York or Florida or out with some place,
whether without his wife without I think she's a creep.
You know, I jealous and all that stuff. The poor
guy had to sneak the money to spend a week
get together.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
What about the money for it? Has change? He mentioned, I.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Don't have any idea. Never followed it up because I
thought he was just dreaming. They uh was paying you
for this, not his.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Wife, nobody. I'm tryna claim myself with the police. They
think I'm holding out information on him. Oh how come
he was working with me when he was killed? I
made you think his wife might have hired me. I
was wondering if she hired you before for the tamient
h they just for the four walls and me. Do
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you think she'd be capable of killing him? Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, one of those fit zippers. I really think she's
a little off. Should if she got Wendy was really
leaving if she figured he had some dough hi.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Into the olph. Mm, that's what I meant should call.
But maybe you got something? He owned the car, didn't me?
Please say that Bunny was driven to the freight yard
and yet it was just dawn. You might have some Uh,
I'll go see Thanks for the time, Nie. It was
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dark by the time I got across town again and
back to the Taylor Duplex. I happened to look up
at their second floor apartment, and I saw a light
switch on behind a drawn shade in one of their rooms.
If I hadn't done that a number of things would
not have taken place. Is Taylor, Taylor, It's Johnny Dollar.
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Come on, I know you're in there. Let me.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Hey, hey, what's this?
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I'm in here out kill you? Sure don't don't get
close to me. Move right across the room.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Where's missus Taylor in the bedroom?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Maybe she's dead. I don't know. I hit her, she
wouldn't be quiet, and I hit her with a gun.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I'll kill you too if I have to.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I don't care how many anymore?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Why'd you kill Taylor?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Kase?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
He was too filthy to stay alive, to study, rotten
to live? Do try to follow me?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Out?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Kill you too?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And I mean it, nothing means anything anymore?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
What are you fighting? What'd you come here?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Don't you try to follow me?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Hey? Come here, Hey, come here. I have no intention
of stepping out into the hall. Right then, he was
young and obviously out of his head from fear. I
hope the shatzi fired would alert the plainclothesman that I
thought was still sticking to me, But he wasn't there.
If I tried to lose him, it probably would have
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taken a week, But as I learned later, a split
second set of circumstances caused him to miss me when
I left the hotel, and Douglas Taylor's killer simply disappeared end.
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second act of Yours, Julie Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Missus Taylor had been knock unconscious, but it hadn't been
seriously harmed. I phone Lieutenant Reese higured some tenants into
going back to that dinners, and then did what I
could for it.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
He was crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, that's all right, all right, he came.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I knew he was good to kill me.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I knew it.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I knew that was the last thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Take it easy, Taylor, take it easy. He's gone, and
you're all right. I can explain.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I knew I was dying and I tried to hang
on and I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Can you drink some more of this?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I'll dried.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
M You saw, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah? I Hadn't you ever seen him before?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Never?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
It was crazy, he told me. Did he killed you?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And he killed me too? What else did he say?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I couldn't understand.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Don't think about hot dog ruined two lines?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Wished he could kill him again. Then I screamed and
he gave it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Mean anything to you?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
No? I didn't understand any of them. I wanted to
ask him why he came here.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He was looking for something for the place to pieces.
It must be the same one that broke into Doug's office.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
I don't understand any of you. I'm so scared he
was gonna kill me.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Come on, try to relax, get hold of you. Police
are on their way, and I want to talk to you.
I'll wait for them in the living room. You didn't
think he was going to wait in the hall all night,
did you? Why didn't you go out after him? One
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of your men has been tailing me since morning. I
thought he'd be outside and that the two shots would
wake him up. Where was he? How hard did you
make yourself to follow I didn't give him any trouble.
A boy scout could have stayed on me. Then Parker
is probably following the boy. How long did you have
to study him? Less than a minute? But I think
I can give you a fair description. Let's have it. Well,
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he's about five nine, between seventeen and twenty years old.
I'd say fair complexion, small features, brown wavy hair, brown eyes,
very white teeth and uh, what looked like a mole
above his right eyebrow. No other marks, not that I saw.
He's wearing a ring on his left hand. I couldn't
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see it too well, but it could have been a
class ring. How about clothes? Well, no hat, white shirt
without tie was open. Uh, flannel slacks, brown tweed jacket,
and brown wingtiped shoes. His clothes were well cut, looked expensive.
What kind of gun revolves from? Less than thirty eight?
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With a black brother hand grill? You're sure of all it?
Because I'm sure you think I'm making it up. I
can't forget you're holding out a half million dollar motive
on me. You'll feel better if you do. You talk
to witnesses that heard the shots, didn't you? You could
have fired them with what. I'm not carrying a gun.
You could have got rid of one. Go look for it, lieutenant.
Then you can stop making an ass of yourself. Wren't it. Dollar,
You're doing a pretty good job of needling me. If
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you'll stop riding your badge for a little while, we
can get together and make some sense. Go ahead. Doesn't
it seem obvious that Taylor had something on this kid,
something big enough to be his motive. There must be
a record of it. The kid missed it at the office,
or he wouldn't have come here. And I'm sure he
didn't take anything out of the apartment, so it must
be around someplace. If you're all through, go sit down someplace.
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What's the matter with it? It's nothing, that's all. We've
gone through every file that was in Taylor's office, and
we went through this apartment. There's nothing hot enough for
a killing. Nothing. And why did the kids show up here?
I'll work on that when I'm convinced he did. None
of the witnesses saw him, Oh nobody did nobody but
you and your friend the widow in there. It turned
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out to be a long night. Looking back at it now,
I can see how the lieutenant felt justified and pushing
around somebody who wouldn't cooperate. But that night it was tough,
including a paraffine test that he called inconclusive because I
could have been wearing a glove when I fired the
two shots, and then gotten rid of it. But finally,
at about one fifteen in the morning, he got tired
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of it and he let me go home. I didn't
leave my apartment the next day, except to go out
after the extra additions that called me the private investigator,
whose position and importance in regard to the case is
not clear At the moment. At nine that night, I
was at home again and the door buzzer sounded. I
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thought it was a delivery boy brings some liquor on it. Hey,
your fan?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Oh, get back inside? You want back up for I'll
kill you? You know I will, don't you?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You were crazy enough too, but it it'd be stupid you.
You'd never get out of this apartment building. What's the
matter of you anyway? What do you want? You were
in with Douglas Taylor, won't you? What do you mean he.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Told us about you?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
When did he tell you that he.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Brought somebody else in for protection? He said, we'd never
find out who it was. But I did find out,
didn't I pretty mixed up about something.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
I don't lie to me.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
If you'd only stopped when he told us you were
going or none of this would have happened. But you didn't.
He kept coming back. We told him to have to
stop some way.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
We couldn't pay anymore. We've got nothing left.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Wait a minute, Oh you wait.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Now he had a file on me, and I gotta
have it, and if you don't give it to me,
I'll kill you.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
We've got to have it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I haven't got it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Ah, that's what he said, and it didn't do any good.
I killed him anyway. It won't do you any good
to lie now.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I'm not lying as you are, and we'll do any good.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Don't you know that.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You're way wrong? Now? Listen to me. No, I you
told me that you killed Taylor because he lied it,
didn't you? And I believe you. I believe that you'd
kill anybody who you thought was lying to you. I
know you would. Now listen, since I know that, Since
I know that if I had a choice of telling
you the truth and saving my life or lying when
I knew, you'd kill me, wouldn't I tell you the truth? Well, huh?
(20:22):
If I had your fire or whatever it is, wouldn't
I give it to you to save my life? All right?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Thank you of it.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I don't have it. I don't have anything of yours.
I don't know who you are. I don't know your name.
All I know is that you're wrong. You're mixed up, confused.
You think I'm someone I'm not.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Oh, Taylor told me about you.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
What did he say to make you so sure that
he meant me?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You came to his apartment. You were the only one,
and you were in the paper.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
If I was mixed up in anything with Taylor, I
wouldn't have come to the apartment. I would have stayed
as far away as I could. Don't you see how
wrong you are? You've got everything wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But but you know him.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
A lot of people knew him. I hired him once
in a while. That's so I don't know what you're
talking about. You can believe that, Oh, well, I gotta
go where you don't know where to go.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Oh, I shouldn't have come. If i'd been able to think,
I wouldn't have come. But I don't think anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I just do things my life's all.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Whining up, and it goes faster and faster than I
can't stop it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And uh, Douglas Taylor did all this day? Oh oh,
not all.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Of its hot of it, I did myself.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I don't know anything about it or about you. I
feel sorry for you. You're driving yourself crazy, aren't you.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I did what I had to do.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Why don't you sit down? What's a don't answer? It's
just a boy brings some liquor aside the dog.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Coming in.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
No, it isn't the police. He just put the liquor
down against the door. Now he's gone. I don't believe
Why would the police come here because.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
They're looking for it?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Not in my apartment, you can believe that. See there's
nobody there anymore. The police would be breaking in by now. Yeah,
it was a delivery boy. Sure, you're nothing to be
afraid of.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I don't think anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You're a nervous wreck, you know, I yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know, because you're fighting something you know you can
never beat. I've been doing that all right. Don't you
know you'd be a hundred times better off if you
gave yourself up. The Taylor's killing him?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
No, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I can't. I gotta get away.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
You'll never get away from it.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Then I'll die.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Taylor was black. Why do they haven't? How do you
know that to be a lot of it these days?
Be as bad off as you think of.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
You because it isn't even important any go.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
What is important like this? Huh? A family? What makes
you think I got it? Because it sticks out all
over her father with a fur collar and his overcoat,
and my mother belongs to every civic club in town.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
All right, and a sister engaged to a lawyer. That's
why I can't give myself up and.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Have our name all over the papers.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
That's why I gotta find that Farrell Taylor hadn't get
rid of it, and then get away. I've almost ruined
the family. Now Dad's been bled dry keeping Taylor from
turning my name in. Now now they don't have to
pay anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
What do they think about as being dead?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, he asked me, and I told him I didn't
do it.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I think they believe me.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It's all right anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's better now than it has been for the last
two years.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That long two years.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
It started when Dad got a feeling about what I
was doing. He hired Taylor to find out, and when
he finished.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
His job, that's what he threw at us. Hey, wait
a minute, where you're going now?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We don't want to get a light. If that's okay,
I live here, you know I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I don't know why I've talked like this.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You wanted someone to talk to. I'm not as sorry
for you as I was, because I think you're playing
its stupid.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I don't care what you think. I did what I
had to do, and I know what I gotta do now.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You ought to give yourself up, and you know it now.
I'm through talking sense. If you want to blow it
all up, your way, go ahead. I know what I
have to do. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Oh look, I want you to come down to the
ground floor with me. All right, we'll use the stairway,
and you know that I'll kill.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You if I have to. I've gathered that, Yes, we
anytime you want to leave. There are enough people on
the sidewalk to stop him. But I didn't start anything
because I knew that he would open up with his
thirty eight without thinking about who might get hit. He
had the fear crazed look in his eyes again as
(24:25):
he left me just outside the entrance and started across
the street. I realized what was going to happen before
he did either. He had been spotted and followed by
my building had been staked out. It didn't make any difference.
When the police officers saw us together, it was old.
They needed hey, you.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Stay where you are?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Who do you want where?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Police?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
We want to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
HOLDI oh, right, stop it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
The family turned out to be the Bardettes, the father
of judge and so on. The son got at least
one wish he didn't live to stand trial for murder,
but as far as protecting his family, he'd done nothing.
The whole story rocked hard for for weeks following. Expens
count had him too miscellaneous one hundred and eighty dollars
expends a count total one hundred and eighty one dollars
(25:36):
and twenty cents remarks For a number of reasons, I'm
sorry I had to drop the arson case for this interlude.
But somehow a half million dollar loss, which I couldn't
have prevented anyway, doesn't seem as important as the destruction
of an entire family, And I couldn't prevent that either
Yours Truly Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
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 will soon be seen starring in
the paramount picture Silver City. Featured in tonight's cast were
Ray Hartman, Joseph Kerns, Edgar Barrier, Jeanette Nolan and Hi Abberbank.
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Himy
(26:31):
del Bay.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
This is Nick Cutting inviting you to join.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Us next week at this time when Edmond O'Brien returns.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
As Yours Truly Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Uncle Sam gave thirty six million pounds of US farm
surplus ags and milk to say the Yugoslavs, but somebody
had to pay the freight. Care undertook to raise it
from the American people, and at five dollars and thirty
five cents for three hundred pound package, the people gave
three million. Yugoslav mothers and children have already received the care,
eggs and milk, but with the months to go before
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winter closes down the program, one million remained to be reached.
You can reach one hundred with only five dollars and
thirty five cents. Mail it to your local Care office
or to Care Los Angeles or Care New York. The
Von Monroe Show is back from vacation. Bond, the Moonmaids,
(27:39):
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again be heard every Saturday, beginning tonight. In fact, on
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