July 30, 2025 • 29 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 (00:01):
From Hollywood. It's time now for John Lund as Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
John Johnny, Hey, how would like to go to California
with me?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I like that? Fine? But do I have to work?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
If you want to? We've written a lot of insurance
Los Angeles contract to named Elliott Champion last night as
legs project went up in smoke an Allice building.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
He completed two weeks ago. How much is the policy
word dams over a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I talked with a roster and inspect a long distance.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
He had some interesting things to say, like what file exony,
I'll pack my things, John Lunn in the Transcribed Adventure
of a Man with the Action Packed Expenser Car America's
fabulous free lance insurance investigator. Here's truly Johnny Dollar. Expense
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accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office
Great Eastern Fire and Casualty in New York City. The
following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
the Elliott Champion matter. Expense account Item one thirty eight
dollars and eighty seven cents trained fair and incidentals between
Hartford and New York, where I met Agent Don Vickers
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and we made arrangements to fly to California Item two
twenty eight dollars even one raincoat, Item three one hundred
and ninety nine dollars and fifteen cents transportation New York
to Los Angeles en route. Vickers filled me in under
details concerning mister Elliott Champion.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I met him once, Johnny, when he was in New York.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Last time.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh huh, Vickers, I said to my show, look, will
on this man. He may be the last of his kind.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How's that? Don Well?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Champion sixty up better now and he's been everything in
his lifetime, sailors, soldier, lawyer, financier, lord knows what all
one of those birds who started with absolutely nothing. He
talked fast, worked hard, and what he couldn't get one way,
he managed to get another. All in all, he's done
pretty well.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I didn't like him, Junny go on.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Maybe I was just jealous of his aggressiveness, or maybe
I've heard stories of how he ran rough shot of
a big and little No, well, it's about this office building.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah. Ives.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
The man who called me has worked on several awesome
cases for us, said the fire was of a definite
Incindiariologim can he prove it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, nothing fancy.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Somebody bought a few gallons of gasoline over some leftover
building materials in the elevator chap and though a match.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Him pretty effective.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
What else, well, Champions in financial trouble. The insurance would
be better.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Than the building.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Ives will probably have more for us when we get there.
He's been working out from the start.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I feel like a patsy. Oh how's that? Norman Ives
has always been the best ice man in the business
as I can remember, and you know, a slouch. What
am I doing in this protection, Johnny? If Champion fired
that building? Now to collect the insurance, I want to
know about it. Ives might find the answer. You might
find it, or I might find it. But where Champions involved,
it won't be easy. They'll all have to work. Are
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you scared of this guy? Yeah? Nobody's have a beetle.
That's account out of four seven dollars and a half incidentals.
Upon arrival, Vickers and I checked in at the new
Stadler Hotel, grabbed a few hours sleep, and the next
morning drove out to the scene of the fire with
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Norman Ives, the arsenal expert.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
A watchman on duty had seen a man loitering in
the vicinity of the building when he came to work
at six o'clock. Three other people remember the same man.
A druggist, a filling station man, and a newsboy.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
All of their descriptions were pretty close.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Medium bill, medium high, medium weight between twenty five and thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Uh well, that's helpful.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, Now, the druggist and the man who ran the
filling station could only supply the description. But the newsboy
swear he saw this man sneak around the side of
the building around eight o'clock. The fire broke out about
eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Anybody see him leave?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
The newsboy says he saw him catch a bus in
the corner right before the fire broke out. The bus
driver on the line wasn't any help. The police have
broken out every mug they can find in the arson files.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, if the man with all the uh medium things
about him is the man, this might not be so tough.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No luck so far, and I don't think they'll pick
him up in the arson file.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Dollar.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It was an amateur job, and I'll show you exactly
how when.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
We get there. What about the police light up, No,
they've had three so far.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
It's one coming up tonight and one tomorrow, and I'd
say that's a long chance too.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, professional a firebug, there's.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
A possibility, sure, but none of it seems right to me.
A buggle plan it and perform it just like an expert,
and he'll stand around and watch it burn, and maybe
he'll call somebody up and tell him how happy he is.
But I don't think our boy is any bug. There's
something else in it, or I miss my guess.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, you're the specialist. Any ideas not a one.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I talked to the men who had been working in
the building that day, and there was no gasoline stored
in that basement when they left work at four o'clock,
but somebody moved in at least five gallons of gas
between four and six.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
When the watchman came on.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
How he did it, where he got it, I don't know,
but it's one thing we'll have to find out. The police,
heavingly leads, they're working as hard as they know how
it would take a long time to check every filling
station and find out who bought a five gallon can
of gasoline. Yeah, we're up against something here, and.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
As has anybody talked the champion.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Not yet all he knows is that the fire people
are trying to discover how the blaze started. I thought
it best to leave it that way until we get
our bearings.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well here we are sure looks like a mess.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah you know, Come on, I'm gonn I'll show you
how much of a mess it really is.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We spent the rest of the day covering the ruins
of the ten story office building that had been gutted
by flames two days before. I was acquainted with all
of the necessary details on exactly how the fire had
been started. That night, we sat in on the lineup
at the police station while the four witnesses looked at
some sixty odd suspects. There were no identifications. The next day,
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while Vickers and I was worked with the police, I
went out to Elliott Champion's real estate office in Glendale,
Expenser con item five five dollars taxi fair including tip.
Remember that old saw about how a woman in love
is always beautiful? But when I walked in, I had
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no idea Mildred Champion was in love, and no idea
that she was beautiful. Her sallow face without makeup, framed
in a whisper of never set blonde hair wasn't flattered
by the shapeless black dress and low heeled shoes that
she was wearing. Certainly not the going idea of beauty. Noing,
did her conversation reveal anything to indicate love?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yes, may I help you?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm mister Elliott Champion. Please. Uh, my name is Dollar
Dollar do o lla r uh. He's not expecting me.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Your business, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Great Eastern Fidelity. It's about the fire. Oh just a moment, please, Well,
why isn't it Mildred.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Mister Dollar is here, Uncle Elliott.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't wanna see anybody that they have told you that,
you idiot.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
He's from the insurance company. It's about the fire.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Oh, I'm sending you in.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
To going out to lunch, Yes, sir, alright, mister Dollar
straight ahead.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
He always liked that.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
He's nice today.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I see, thanks, Mildred. Hm. Well that's your name, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Mm? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Oh straight ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Dollar, Yes, mister Champion, come on in. I'm going to
ask you to sit down.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, are you here?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You have insurance investigator written all over you.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
In that case, we can get right down of business.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We certainly can do.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
They know what caused the fyett they do. Somebody poured
gasoline and some rubbish in the basement. Was deliberate?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I thought, so why, because Joseph Harrison is out of
prison now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And he swore he'd get back at me. Who's Joseph Harrison?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Harrisn't worked for me at one time, discovered stealing money
from me, and I prosecuted him. He was sent to
prison for five years. He's the one.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He seemed pretty certain of that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Of course, I'm certain of it. I know what enemies,
I have, what train.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
There are some witnesses who've got to look at the
man who we believe started the fire. What does Joseph
Harrison look like?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I don't remember, I hardly ever remember face.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But you remember this threat.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What I remembered was the small story in the newspapers
last week that he was being released from prison.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, we'll certainly look him up and have a talk
with him now. That's very good of you. I'm sure
I'll look This can be a difficult thing all the
way around, or we can cooperate, mister Champions. I understand you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
People have been over to my bank looking into my
personal affairs.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't think I have to beat around the bush
with you, missus Champion. There's a lot of money at
stake care. We'll have to hold up your claim until
we get all the factors. You'll pay that plain, mister Duller.
I didn't say we wouldn't, but we'll have to be
satisfied in all directions.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Then satisfy yourself. Get Joseph Harrison. He burned down my building.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
A review of the trial and proceedings in which Joseph
Harrison had been convicted of grand theft. His threats at
the time of the trial substantiated Champions information when two
of the witnesses identified Harrison's mug picture and APB went out.
We worked with the police. When all the routine places
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have been covered, we branched out and went out after anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
My name is Dollar, are you mister Angle?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Insurance investigator, mister Angele trying to locate a former client
of yours, Joseph Harrison.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Oh my goodness, I defended Joe over six years ago.
To come in. I always fixed my own dinner postaggs
and half and half ulsers. Name's Dollar? Yeah, you want something?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
No thanks?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Do you mind?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
If I finish, I'll go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I want, uh what.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Led you to me? Uh? Covering everybody, We're very anxious
to get a hold of Harrison and talk to him.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, I don't think I'm going to be much help dollar.
What's it all about?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He's been identified as the man who started a fire
in the Elliott Champion building.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Well, I'm sorry to hear that, are you, miss Engle?
Truly sorry? Joe Harrison was a nice kid who got
in a little tr all, but a calendar job born
with one war just finished, a depression on deck and
another war in the whole makes a difference in a
man's life. The calendar got him. Everything was against him
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at the trial too. Champion poured it on. He didn't
have to, but he did.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
He could have led him off. Did you try to
talk him into that?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
No, I didn't. Nobody talks Elliott Champion into anything. And besides,
Joe would never admit taking the funds. He said he
was framed. Well, he didn't have a prayer with all
the evidence Champion had against him.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Way I read the trial notes.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, and that's it. Joe pleaded not guilty in the
face of everything, and he went up. I wanted him
to make a guilty, plead and go on the mercy
of the court. It was his first claise.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well, he's out now, and as I said, it looks
like he's trying to get even with Champions for prosecuting him.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh for a lousy ten grand Has he got in
touch with you?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Woo? Who he ever? Write? If you're from prison?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Do you have any idea where he'd be in town?
Mister Engle?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
No, I don't well, and I guess I'll leave you
to your eggs. Oh yeah, uh door. If you find Joe,
I'd like to know about it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Why, mister Engle, I'd like to see him.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I wonder what five years in prison does to a
kid like that.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah. At five o'clock that afternoon, it seemed we had
run down every possible lead trying to find Joseph Harrison.
By that time, the other two witnesses had made up
their minds that he was the man they'd seen after all.
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With the four identifications, the case against Harrison became stronger,
and our case against Elliott Champion grew weaker. It was
imperative that we locate Harrison improve or disprove that he
started the fire. Yeah, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
This is Mildred Champion.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
You remember in my uncle's office.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, I remember, Ritter Dollar.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You're looking for Joe Harrison, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I know, y'are?
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You don't happy end to me?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
And I think I can help you find him.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
But he's not the one you're looking for. I live
at ten thirty eight, Mariada Drive. I'll be home in
another hour.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
We can talk there. At five thirty I received another call,
this one from Champion's lawyer. He advised me the Champion
would bring suit if the claim was not honored immediately.
Could have been a bluff or he could have been business.
We never found out. I had a third call at
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five thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Johnny's denied.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Hi, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Champion's dead?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Why? I'm on my way under the house now.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Somebody shot him ten minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We'll return to yours truly, Johnny Dollar, in just a moment. Now,
with our star John Lunn, we bring you the second
act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Apparently Elliott Champion had
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died as swiftly as he had lived. The thirty eighth
slug had entered the very senator of his forehead. There
was no weapon lying about there were no witnesses in
the remote hilly section of Glendale where he lived to
get any information concerning the crime. The police were more
anxious than ever to find Joseph Harrison. The reasoning was
that if he'd burned down a quarter of a million
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dollar building to get back at Elliott Champion, he also
might chewed him. The arson case had turned into a
murder case. When Don Vickers joined Ives and me at
the scene, things were still pretty much up in the air. Well, well,
this is a new wrinkle. What do you suppose just
to have to wait and see? Yeah, and I thought
I was getting somewhere. Do you find something I don't know?
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Take a look at this? Huh uh?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Here Mildred Champ he married Harris in a month before
he was convicted.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well of me too when he separated, only by the
prison term.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No record of any divorced or a noument proceedings.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Hell, what do you make of it, Johnny, I don't
know what to make of it. She called me earlier,
and since she had some information for me, I was
on my way there when this happened. He didn't talk
to him, No, she says, only living relative. And now
she can't be found, not at her place anyhow. Funny Huh,
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It wasn't funny at all. From the two times I'd
spoken to her and the one time I had seen her,
I had gathered a pretty definite impression of build her Champion.
But apparently it had been all wrong. Oh, I go right,
I'm here, I'll be there.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Why? Oh? Whoa dollar?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Hello, mister Engle?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Never thought I shoot you anymore? What's up? Still looking
for Joe?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Still looking for Joe? Yeah, wish I could help you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Dollar.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Elliott Champion was shot and killed in his home tonight.
Oh that's all you have to say. What else is
here to say?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Unless I asked, did Joe do it?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Maybe? Well, did you know Mildred Champion?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I met her?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Did you know she was married to Joe Harrison. Yeah,
I'll throw one more thing at you, angle. Champion wasn't
always too good about paying his income taxes. Our accountants
cover everything in a case like this.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
What do you want me to say?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm here to get all of the story. Now. I
think you're the man who can tell it. Why. You
can tell me if Harrison was the kind of man
who'd start that fire, You can tell me if he
really was an embezzler, you can tell me if you
think he'd kill Champion.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I can't tell you anything, Dollar, All I have is
my opinion.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well, i'd like your opinion, I really would. Angle. There's
something about her being married to Harrison, isn't there.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, the wife can't testify against her hospital. Everyone else
in Champion's office testified against them.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I see now, Uh the opinion, Come on, I know,
and you're right, Dollar, I've.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Got ideas, and all of 'em make me sick inside.
Joe Harrison stood there and told me he was innocent.
He said it a million times if he said at once.
And he told me he thought Champion was framing him.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
For the income tax shortages. And that's just surmise, Dollar.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
He was a green kid who was hired in the
company by Champion. He might have been hired to be
playing on a phone the embezzling charge to give Champion
a good excuse on his taxes for a while. I've
been fooled a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
For you're fool with him.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I don't know. I wish I could have gotten him off.
I tried, Dollar, believe me, I tried. You say he's
out getting even he's burned down a building and maybe
murdered the man. Joe was a nice boy dollar Now
his whole life's gone. And for what, I hope you
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don't find him. I hope nobody ever finds him.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But we did find Joseph Harrison. He was right under
our noses all the time. When I called back at
the hotel, there was a message for me. They got
down to the County hospital. Iwas was waiting for me. There.
We both stood and looked at Joseph Harrison in the morgue.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It's a funny thing, Johnny. There's been an alarm out
on this guy for six hours. Everybody's been looking everywhere
for him, and he turns up right here. Only he's dead.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
But killed him.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
DD just got the whole story. He had it awful
bad up at San Quentin and wounded out awful bad
in the sick ward his last two years. When his
time was up last week he made him release and
but he wound.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Up here died in this hospital. EM just a kid
in Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, we were right back where we'd started from trying
to make a case against Elliott Champion, except now was
trying to make a case against the estate of Elliott Champion.
I was surprised to learn, before leaving the county hospital
that his niece had still not been seen to be
informed of her uncle's death. I was even more surprised
when Don Vickers reported from police headquarters, Johnny, this case
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is breaking. What a guy who runs a gas station
on San Panino Road. So a woman of five gallon
to a gas meet last money, Mildred Champion. The shore
sounds like.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
A tall range about thy con description checks out too.
She could be the one who did the job on
the building.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Easy enough. Yeah, and on her uncle too again. Yeah,
come and close that and lock it. It's awful late
for that, I know, yuh Now, But we found Joe.
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He's dead. Oh no, oh, yes, and he didn't do
any of the things we thought he might have done.
I'm here to find out what you mighta done.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Oh, I don't get you and go.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I don't know how to figure you. I haven't been
able to since we met. Well now, it doesn't make
any difference what I think of you, But it makes
a difference how you answer this question. A lot of
difference to you. Oh what dollar did you help Champion frame?
Joe Harrison.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
No, I told you I defended him. I tried my
best to get him more.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That's the truth.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I'm an honest man, if not a successful one. I
told you the truth.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, if you did, you're not in any trouble. If
you didn't, you might get killed. You might anyhow.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I don't know what you're talking about, asco it is. Yeah,
who is that, Mildred Champion? Mister Engel, tell her just
a minute, Hey, just a minute, miss Champion.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Okay, get over there, go on, get down, all right,
call the police. Hold it up, Mildred, hold it up.
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Are you hurt? You? Are you hurt?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
It'm alright? Did I kill him? Did I kill him?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
No, Mildred, you didn't kill him.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
He ought to be dead. My uncle stole money from himself.
A man looked like Joe, did it. I know about that,
and that one in there. He helped him. Why didn't
you let me kill him too?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
He didn't help your uncle. He tried to help Joe.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
When I went over to see Joe last month in
the prison hospital, I knew he was dying. He had
that look in his eyes, helpless, and he knew my
wife what my uncle had done to him.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
And he couldn't do anything about it, but.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You figured you could. He killed your uncle when you
found out Joe died, and you came here to kill angel.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I thought he he helped him do it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I thought he.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Helped kill Joe. They did kill him, you know, when
they send him to prison, as surely as that they'd
shot him down.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Five years.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
I waited for him to get out of that awful place.
I waited to hold him in my arms and tell
him it was all over. Five years. I waited to
help him.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Forget his hate in my hate, loving him so much.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Every day.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You know he's dead.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
What can you or hire anybody do about what they've
done to him?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Look at me, mister dollar, I'm not what you'd call beautiful.
I'm not even pretty.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Nobody ever looked at me twice until Joe.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
He looked at me, and he loved me. And now
he's dead, and I'm dead inside.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I'm dead inside, and I'll be glad when I'm dead outside.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Come on, mother, Oh Spence account Item six, same as
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item three. Transportation back to New York. Item seven, same
as item one. Transportation New York to Hartford. Item eight
eighty five dollars miscellaneous spenserc count total five hundred and
sixteen dollars fifty four cents comments Item eight You can
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take away if you want to. It's a legitimate miscellaneous
that I pampered myself with. I wanted to forget Mildred
Champion talking about her lover. Yours Truly Johnny dollars. Yours
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Truly Johnny Dollar stars John Lund in the title role
and is written by E Jack Newman, with music by
Eddie Dunsteader. Featured in tonight's cast were Eddie mar Joe
de Val, Joyce McCluskey, Francis X. Bushman, and Herb Butterfield.
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by Heimdlviier.
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This is Dan coverly inviting you to join us next
week at this time when John Lund returns as Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar. Tomorrow night at the Star's address. Look
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up Danny Clover, detective in New York City's Teeming Times
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
John Johnny, Hey, how would like to go to California
with me?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I like that? Fine? But do I have to work?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
If you want to? We've written a lot of insurance
Los Angeles contract to named Elliott Champion last night as
legs project went up in smoke an Allice building.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
He completed two weeks ago. How much is the policy
word dams over a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I talked with a roster and inspect a long distance.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
He had some interesting things to say, like what file exony,
I'll pack my things, John Lunn in the Transcribed Adventure
of a Man with the Action Packed Expenser Car America's
fabulous free lance insurance investigator. Here's truly Johnny Dollar. Expense
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accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office
Great Eastern Fire and Casualty in New York City. The
following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
the Elliott Champion matter. Expense account Item one thirty eight
dollars and eighty seven cents trained fair and incidentals between
Hartford and New York, where I met Agent Don Vickers
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and we made arrangements to fly to California Item two
twenty eight dollars even one raincoat, Item three one hundred
and ninety nine dollars and fifteen cents transportation New York
to Los Angeles en route. Vickers filled me in under
details concerning mister Elliott Champion.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I met him once, Johnny, when he was in New York.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Last time.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh huh, Vickers, I said to my show, look, will
on this man. He may be the last of his kind.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
How's that? Don Well?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Champion sixty up better now and he's been everything in
his lifetime, sailors, soldier, lawyer, financier, lord knows what all
one of those birds who started with absolutely nothing. He
talked fast, worked hard, and what he couldn't get one way,
he managed to get another. All in all, he's done
pretty well.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I didn't like him, Junny go on.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Maybe I was just jealous of his aggressiveness, or maybe
I've heard stories of how he ran rough shot of
a big and little No, well, it's about this office building.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah. Ives.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
The man who called me has worked on several awesome
cases for us, said the fire was of a definite
Incindiariologim can he prove it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, nothing fancy.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Somebody bought a few gallons of gasoline over some leftover
building materials in the elevator chap and though a match.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Him pretty effective.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
What else, well, Champions in financial trouble. The insurance would
be better.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Than the building.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Ives will probably have more for us when we get there.
He's been working out from the start.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I feel like a patsy. Oh how's that? Norman Ives
has always been the best ice man in the business
as I can remember, and you know, a slouch. What
am I doing in this protection, Johnny? If Champion fired
that building? Now to collect the insurance, I want to
know about it. Ives might find the answer. You might
find it, or I might find it. But where Champions involved,
it won't be easy. They'll all have to work. Are
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you scared of this guy? Yeah? Nobody's have a beetle.
That's account out of four seven dollars and a half incidentals.
Upon arrival, Vickers and I checked in at the new
Stadler Hotel, grabbed a few hours sleep, and the next
morning drove out to the scene of the fire with
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Norman Ives, the arsenal expert.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
A watchman on duty had seen a man loitering in
the vicinity of the building when he came to work
at six o'clock. Three other people remember the same man.
A druggist, a filling station man, and a newsboy.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
All of their descriptions were pretty close.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Medium bill, medium high, medium weight between twenty five and thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Uh well, that's helpful.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, Now, the druggist and the man who ran the
filling station could only supply the description. But the newsboy
swear he saw this man sneak around the side of
the building around eight o'clock. The fire broke out about
eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Anybody see him leave?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
The newsboy says he saw him catch a bus in
the corner right before the fire broke out. The bus
driver on the line wasn't any help. The police have
broken out every mug they can find in the arson files.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, if the man with all the uh medium things
about him is the man, this might not be so tough.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No luck so far, and I don't think they'll pick
him up in the arson file.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Dollar.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It was an amateur job, and I'll show you exactly
how when.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
We get there. What about the police light up, No,
they've had three so far.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
It's one coming up tonight and one tomorrow, and I'd
say that's a long chance too.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, professional a firebug, there's.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
A possibility, sure, but none of it seems right to me.
A buggle plan it and perform it just like an expert,
and he'll stand around and watch it burn, and maybe
he'll call somebody up and tell him how happy he is.
But I don't think our boy is any bug. There's
something else in it, or I miss my guess.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, you're the specialist. Any ideas not a one.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I talked to the men who had been working in
the building that day, and there was no gasoline stored
in that basement when they left work at four o'clock,
but somebody moved in at least five gallons of gas
between four and six.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
When the watchman came on.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
How he did it, where he got it, I don't know,
but it's one thing we'll have to find out. The police,
heavingly leads, they're working as hard as they know how
it would take a long time to check every filling
station and find out who bought a five gallon can
of gasoline. Yeah, we're up against something here, and.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
As has anybody talked the champion.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Not yet all he knows is that the fire people
are trying to discover how the blaze started. I thought
it best to leave it that way until we get
our bearings.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well here we are sure looks like a mess.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah you know, Come on, I'm gonn I'll show you
how much of a mess it really is.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We spent the rest of the day covering the ruins
of the ten story office building that had been gutted
by flames two days before. I was acquainted with all
of the necessary details on exactly how the fire had
been started. That night, we sat in on the lineup
at the police station while the four witnesses looked at
some sixty odd suspects. There were no identifications. The next day,
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while Vickers and I was worked with the police, I
went out to Elliott Champion's real estate office in Glendale,
Expenser con item five five dollars taxi fair including tip.
Remember that old saw about how a woman in love
is always beautiful? But when I walked in, I had
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no idea Mildred Champion was in love, and no idea
that she was beautiful. Her sallow face without makeup, framed
in a whisper of never set blonde hair wasn't flattered
by the shapeless black dress and low heeled shoes that
she was wearing. Certainly not the going idea of beauty. Noing,
did her conversation reveal anything to indicate love?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yes, may I help you?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm mister Elliott Champion. Please. Uh, my name is Dollar
Dollar do o lla r uh. He's not expecting me.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Your business, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Great Eastern Fidelity. It's about the fire. Oh just a moment, please, Well,
why isn't it Mildred.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Mister Dollar is here, Uncle Elliott.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't wanna see anybody that they have told you that,
you idiot.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
He's from the insurance company. It's about the fire.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Oh, I'm sending you in.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
To going out to lunch, Yes, sir, alright, mister Dollar
straight ahead.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
He always liked that.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
He's nice today.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I see, thanks, Mildred. Hm. Well that's your name, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Mm? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Oh straight ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Dollar, Yes, mister Champion, come on in. I'm going to
ask you to sit down.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, are you here?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You have insurance investigator written all over you.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
In that case, we can get right down of business.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
We certainly can do.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
They know what caused the fyett they do. Somebody poured
gasoline and some rubbish in the basement. Was deliberate?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I thought, so why, because Joseph Harrison is out of
prison now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And he swore he'd get back at me. Who's Joseph Harrison?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Harrisn't worked for me at one time, discovered stealing money
from me, and I prosecuted him. He was sent to
prison for five years. He's the one.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He seemed pretty certain of that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Of course, I'm certain of it. I know what enemies,
I have, what train.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
There are some witnesses who've got to look at the
man who we believe started the fire. What does Joseph
Harrison look like?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I don't remember, I hardly ever remember face.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But you remember this threat.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What I remembered was the small story in the newspapers
last week that he was being released from prison.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, we'll certainly look him up and have a talk
with him now. That's very good of you. I'm sure
I'll look This can be a difficult thing all the
way around, or we can cooperate, mister Champions. I understand you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
People have been over to my bank looking into my
personal affairs.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't think I have to beat around the bush
with you, missus Champion. There's a lot of money at
stake care. We'll have to hold up your claim until
we get all the factors. You'll pay that plain, mister Duller.
I didn't say we wouldn't, but we'll have to be
satisfied in all directions.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Then satisfy yourself. Get Joseph Harrison. He burned down my building.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
A review of the trial and proceedings in which Joseph
Harrison had been convicted of grand theft. His threats at
the time of the trial substantiated Champions information when two
of the witnesses identified Harrison's mug picture and APB went out.
We worked with the police. When all the routine places
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have been covered, we branched out and went out after anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
My name is Dollar, are you mister Angle?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Insurance investigator, mister Angele trying to locate a former client
of yours, Joseph Harrison.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Oh my goodness, I defended Joe over six years ago.
To come in. I always fixed my own dinner postaggs
and half and half ulsers. Name's Dollar? Yeah, you want something?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
No thanks?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Do you mind?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
If I finish, I'll go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I want, uh what.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Led you to me? Uh? Covering everybody, We're very anxious
to get a hold of Harrison and talk to him.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, I don't think I'm going to be much help dollar.
What's it all about?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He's been identified as the man who started a fire
in the Elliott Champion building.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Well, I'm sorry to hear that, are you, miss Engle?
Truly sorry? Joe Harrison was a nice kid who got
in a little tr all, but a calendar job born
with one war just finished, a depression on deck and
another war in the whole makes a difference in a
man's life. The calendar got him. Everything was against him
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at the trial too. Champion poured it on. He didn't
have to, but he did.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
He could have led him off. Did you try to
talk him into that?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
No, I didn't. Nobody talks Elliott Champion into anything. And besides,
Joe would never admit taking the funds. He said he
was framed. Well, he didn't have a prayer with all
the evidence Champion had against him.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Way I read the trial notes.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, and that's it. Joe pleaded not guilty in the
face of everything, and he went up. I wanted him
to make a guilty, plead and go on the mercy
of the court. It was his first claise.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well, he's out now, and as I said, it looks
like he's trying to get even with Champions for prosecuting him.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh for a lousy ten grand Has he got in
touch with you?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Woo? Who he ever? Write? If you're from prison?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Do you have any idea where he'd be in town?
Mister Engle?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
No, I don't well, and I guess I'll leave you
to your eggs. Oh yeah, uh door. If you find Joe,
I'd like to know about it.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Why, mister Engle, I'd like to see him.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I wonder what five years in prison does to a
kid like that.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah. At five o'clock that afternoon, it seemed we had
run down every possible lead trying to find Joseph Harrison.
By that time, the other two witnesses had made up
their minds that he was the man they'd seen after all.
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With the four identifications, the case against Harrison became stronger,
and our case against Elliott Champion grew weaker. It was
imperative that we locate Harrison improve or disprove that he
started the fire. Yeah, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
This is Mildred Champion.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
You remember in my uncle's office.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, I remember, Ritter Dollar.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You're looking for Joe Harrison, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I know, y'are?
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You don't happy end to me?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
And I think I can help you find him.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
But he's not the one you're looking for. I live
at ten thirty eight, Mariada Drive. I'll be home in
another hour.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
We can talk there. At five thirty I received another call,
this one from Champion's lawyer. He advised me the Champion
would bring suit if the claim was not honored immediately.
Could have been a bluff or he could have been business.
We never found out. I had a third call at
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five thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Johnny's denied.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Hi, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Champion's dead?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Why? I'm on my way under the house now.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Somebody shot him ten minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We'll return to yours truly, Johnny Dollar, in just a moment. Now,
with our star John Lunn, we bring you the second
act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Apparently Elliott Champion had
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died as swiftly as he had lived. The thirty eighth
slug had entered the very senator of his forehead. There
was no weapon lying about there were no witnesses in
the remote hilly section of Glendale where he lived to
get any information concerning the crime. The police were more
anxious than ever to find Joseph Harrison. The reasoning was
that if he'd burned down a quarter of a million
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dollar building to get back at Elliott Champion, he also
might chewed him. The arson case had turned into a
murder case. When Don Vickers joined Ives and me at
the scene, things were still pretty much up in the air. Well, well,
this is a new wrinkle. What do you suppose just
to have to wait and see? Yeah, and I thought
I was getting somewhere. Do you find something I don't know?
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Take a look at this? Huh uh?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Here Mildred Champ he married Harris in a month before
he was convicted.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well of me too when he separated, only by the
prison term.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No record of any divorced or a noument proceedings.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Hell, what do you make of it, Johnny, I don't
know what to make of it. She called me earlier,
and since she had some information for me, I was
on my way there when this happened. He didn't talk
to him, No, she says, only living relative. And now
she can't be found, not at her place anyhow. Funny Huh,
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It wasn't funny at all. From the two times I'd
spoken to her and the one time I had seen her,
I had gathered a pretty definite impression of build her Champion.
But apparently it had been all wrong. Oh, I go right,
I'm here, I'll be there.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Why? Oh? Whoa dollar?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Hello, mister Engle?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Never thought I shoot you anymore? What's up? Still looking
for Joe?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Still looking for Joe? Yeah, wish I could help you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Dollar.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Elliott Champion was shot and killed in his home tonight.
Oh that's all you have to say. What else is
here to say?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Unless I asked, did Joe do it?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Maybe? Well, did you know Mildred Champion?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I met her?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Did you know she was married to Joe Harrison. Yeah,
I'll throw one more thing at you, angle. Champion wasn't
always too good about paying his income taxes. Our accountants
cover everything in a case like this.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
What do you want me to say?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm here to get all of the story. Now. I
think you're the man who can tell it. Why. You
can tell me if Harrison was the kind of man
who'd start that fire, You can tell me if he
really was an embezzler, you can tell me if you
think he'd kill Champion.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I can't tell you anything, Dollar, All I have is
my opinion.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well, i'd like your opinion, I really would. Angle. There's
something about her being married to Harrison, isn't there.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, the wife can't testify against her hospital. Everyone else
in Champion's office testified against them.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I see now, Uh the opinion, Come on, I know,
and you're right, Dollar, I've.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Got ideas, and all of 'em make me sick inside.
Joe Harrison stood there and told me he was innocent.
He said it a million times if he said at once.
And he told me he thought Champion was framing him.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
For the income tax shortages. And that's just surmise, Dollar.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
He was a green kid who was hired in the
company by Champion. He might have been hired to be
playing on a phone the embezzling charge to give Champion
a good excuse on his taxes for a while. I've
been fooled a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
For you're fool with him.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I don't know. I wish I could have gotten him off.
I tried, Dollar, believe me, I tried. You say he's
out getting even he's burned down a building and maybe
murdered the man. Joe was a nice boy dollar Now
his whole life's gone. And for what, I hope you
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don't find him. I hope nobody ever finds him.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But we did find Joseph Harrison. He was right under
our noses all the time. When I called back at
the hotel, there was a message for me. They got
down to the County hospital. Iwas was waiting for me. There.
We both stood and looked at Joseph Harrison in the morgue.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It's a funny thing, Johnny. There's been an alarm out
on this guy for six hours. Everybody's been looking everywhere
for him, and he turns up right here. Only he's dead.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
But killed him.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
DD just got the whole story. He had it awful
bad up at San Quentin and wounded out awful bad
in the sick ward his last two years. When his
time was up last week he made him release and
but he wound.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Up here died in this hospital. EM just a kid
in Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, we were right back where we'd started from trying
to make a case against Elliott Champion, except now was
trying to make a case against the estate of Elliott Champion.
I was surprised to learn, before leaving the county hospital
that his niece had still not been seen to be
informed of her uncle's death. I was even more surprised
when Don Vickers reported from police headquarters, Johnny, this case
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is breaking. What a guy who runs a gas station
on San Panino Road. So a woman of five gallon
to a gas meet last money, Mildred Champion. The shore
sounds like.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
A tall range about thy con description checks out too.
She could be the one who did the job on
the building.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Easy enough. Yeah, and on her uncle too again. Yeah,
come and close that and lock it. It's awful late
for that, I know, yuh Now, But we found Joe.
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He's dead. Oh no, oh, yes, and he didn't do
any of the things we thought he might have done.
I'm here to find out what you mighta done.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Oh, I don't get you and go.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I don't know how to figure you. I haven't been
able to since we met. Well now, it doesn't make
any difference what I think of you, But it makes
a difference how you answer this question. A lot of
difference to you. Oh what dollar did you help Champion frame?
Joe Harrison.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
No, I told you I defended him. I tried my
best to get him more.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That's the truth.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I'm an honest man, if not a successful one. I
told you the truth.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, if you did, you're not in any trouble. If
you didn't, you might get killed. You might anyhow.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I don't know what you're talking about, asco it is. Yeah,
who is that, Mildred Champion? Mister Engel, tell her just
a minute, Hey, just a minute, miss Champion.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Okay, get over there, go on, get down, all right,
call the police. Hold it up, Mildred, hold it up.
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Are you hurt? You? Are you hurt?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
It'm alright? Did I kill him? Did I kill him?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
No, Mildred, you didn't kill him.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
He ought to be dead. My uncle stole money from himself.
A man looked like Joe, did it. I know about that,
and that one in there. He helped him. Why didn't
you let me kill him too?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
He didn't help your uncle. He tried to help Joe.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
When I went over to see Joe last month in
the prison hospital, I knew he was dying. He had
that look in his eyes, helpless, and he knew my
wife what my uncle had done to him.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
And he couldn't do anything about it, but.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You figured you could. He killed your uncle when you
found out Joe died, and you came here to kill angel.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I thought he he helped him do it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I thought he.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Helped kill Joe. They did kill him, you know, when
they send him to prison, as surely as that they'd
shot him down.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Five years.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
I waited for him to get out of that awful place.
I waited to hold him in my arms and tell
him it was all over. Five years. I waited to
help him.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Forget his hate in my hate, loving him so much.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Every day.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You know he's dead.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
What can you or hire anybody do about what they've
done to him?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Look at me, mister dollar, I'm not what you'd call beautiful.
I'm not even pretty.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Nobody ever looked at me twice until Joe.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
He looked at me, and he loved me. And now
he's dead, and I'm dead inside.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I'm dead inside, and I'll be glad when I'm dead outside.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Come on, mother, Oh Spence account Item six, same as
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item three. Transportation back to New York. Item seven, same
as item one. Transportation New York to Hartford. Item eight
eighty five dollars miscellaneous spenserc count total five hundred and
sixteen dollars fifty four cents comments Item eight You can
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take away if you want to. It's a legitimate miscellaneous
that I pampered myself with. I wanted to forget Mildred
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