August 1, 2025 • 30 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):
Well in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for Edmund O'Bryan as Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Is this mister Dollar, the insurance investigator? That's right. My
name is Mason, Karl Mason. I'm an adjuster from Sierra
al Risk, a West Coast company. Yeah, I need some help.
I flew eased to meet the claim of beneficiary forty
thousand dollars policy. Name is Jackie Cleaver. Now that I'm here,
I can't find her. He means she's missing.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I can't find her. I haven't addressed, but it led
me of a blind alley. I've got the authority to
hire you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
If you're free, we can talk about it good. I
had correspondence with her just last week. It's strange she
should drop out of sight so suddenly.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Edmond O'Brien and the transcribed Adventure of the man with
the action packed expense Account America's Fabulous freelance Insurance investigate.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Her, Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special
Investigator Johnny Dollar to Sierra all Risk Insurance Company, fifth
in Hill Street's Los Angeles, California. The following, Like it
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or Not, is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
of the Jackie klevera matter since connidam one two fifty
cab fare from my apartment to the Excelsior Hotel, Hartford,
where I was directed to room two sixteen and mister
Carl Mason, I'm having drinks send up or is this
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too early for you? East? Tell us a little for me. Thanks.
It's the first time I've been in this part of
the country for six years. One thing you can say
for it. It doesn't change except for the weather. West changes
every day, so I've heard. Still growing up, I had
a lot of good things about you Dollar. Well, that's
something new. When I ran into this ston Wall looking
for this Jackie Cleaver, I called a few of the
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companies around here. They all suggested you probably they keep
me out of the Yeah, what's the background on this thing?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I've got it all here. Policies in the name of Schumacher.
Howard Schumacher. He was killed in a traffic accident out there,
lots of them, you know here. See. Her address was
listed as three eight to two Gardener Street in Manchester.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's just a few miles east of here. I know
the place. What'd you learn there? It's a queer sort of.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
A place, man running around and trousers and the set
of long underwear. I got the idea that he was
lying to me. What did he say that she hadn't
lived there in two months? How could that be when
I've had correspondence with this clever woman in the past
two weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
A mail could have been forwarded to someplace else from
the Manchester Post Office? What was the return address on
her led us to you?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I didn't notice you think she would have mentioned any change,
didn't This man Forceland was his name, said she moved
to a place called Middletown, but he didn't have an address.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I don't know. We're there, but it's too big a
place for an untrained man like me. Let me see that.
This says she's Mack's wife, ex wife, I believe. Will
you take it over for me? Yeah, I'll take a
crack at it anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
God, you can take these forms with you. This is
the one we want signed from here. Here's one of
my business cards. I'll jot the phone and room number
down for you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Thanks. I'll let you know what I find out. Spence
count item two thirty five dollars car rental and mileage.
It was three o'clock when I left the Excelsior Hotel,
but I figured there was enough left of the afternoon
to make the short trip to Manchester and back. Jackie
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Cleaver's address there was a big frame house set back
on the street at the edge of town. A sign
that stuck out from a snow drift called it a
convalescent home. Yes you, mister Fogland.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I am.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, my name is Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Are you the same as that other one?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I'd like to talk to you about the same woman.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Well, you've got to come in. We got to close
the door one way. Tell her thys, yeah, I might
find it too warm in here. Got to keep it
that way from a patience. Now, what's the matter with
that Cleveland woman?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Nothing that I know of. Man left her forty thousand dollars.
I'm trying to find he so she can get it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Forty thousand dollars. Wouldn't take you long to find me,
I can tell you there.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Are you sure she didn't say it out where she
was going when she left here?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
She just picked up and packed one morning, saying she'd write,
which never.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Did she give any reason such need to change. Was
she an invalid?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Not so notice came here for resh said she was
well enough to go clean into Harford to a bank
when a check came twice a month.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Does she have any friends? I could look up anyone
come to see her?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Nobody? I'd say she was a lonely woman. Wouldn't talk
about self.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do you have no notice? Where her mail came from?
Was not?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Except the checks? I can't California, Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, I won't take up any more of your time,
mister Foresland. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
That's much good. I tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh what does she look like? I've never seen it?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Watershot say Well turned out that age had the collar
to a hair expect that was brown, shotless features and
knowing eyes. So a lot of life and the time
it says strange. I'm cute, I understand, just strange.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I caught the Manchester post office before it closed, and
a cooperative clerk there gave me her forwarding address in Middletown.
It's about fifteen miles south of Hot, but I drove
down there after dinner that same night. It wasn't quite
the setting you'd expect for a divorcee who received checks.
From California twice a month, and it was in line
for forty thousand dollars. It was a ratty little hotel
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in the docker end of town. There was one man
in the lobby and one woman behind the desk.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh need, and mister, what'll it be?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I understand you have missus Jackie Cleaver staying here.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Jackie Cleaver?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You kidding? Oh, I'm not kidding? Is she in?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
And she don't stay here anymore?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You know where she went?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It's hard to tell about Jackie. What do you want
with her now?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
An insurance company wants to find her. Somebody left her
forty thousand dollars in a policy.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
She was married to a man named Schumacher in California.
Jackie was married and divorced, but she stayed on as beneficiary.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
She never said anything about that marriage. But it's funny
of her that doesn't come out.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You sound like you know it pretty well.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Not as well as some.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
I guess why.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Didn't she leave here?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Oh, two or three weeks ago? Anyway, I can look
it up.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
More important? Do you know where she went?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
No, not exactly. She said something about new Haven. He
might try the Bridgeport House all right, I will imagine
I'm married. That must be why she got those checks
from out west. They came here too, Yeah, alimony.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Oh that's Jackie. I hope you find her, mister, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So do I Hey, yeah, I'll walk out with you,
all right? Uh?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
What's this about Jackie?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You must have heard all of it if you heard
any Are you a friend of hers?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Who is this shoemaker to say she was married to?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I don't know. What's all a mystery about her? Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:41):
There's no mystery. She's restless, likes to.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Move around, beneficiaries get paid off every day. Everything about
this thing is normal, but her. Why is she so
hard to find? Oh?
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Maybe she don't wanna get found by every time Dick
and Harry passing through.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It's none of my business. I'm being paid to get
her signet. You're in inform, then she gets her money.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Are you from the West Coast?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, I'm from Hartford.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Well maybe I could locate it for you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
What then, I'll give you my card. You can follow
me at my apartment.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Dollar huh, all right, dollar, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Tasutier Hotel, the.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Carl Mason please is in room two sixteen. Please, yes,
it's dollar, mister Mason. I'm not sure yet. Just got
home from Middletown and that man down man who thought
he knew where she was? Hey, what do you know
about her? Nothing at all? Why? Well, it looks to
me like she's on the run from something. I thought
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there was something funny about that place in Manchester. What
else have you run to do? It's just obvious that
she wants to stay out of sight. That's all.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well, we don't care about that. We just want to
get our books clear.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, I gotta hang up now. I'll be here if
anything comes up.
Speaker 10 (09:24):
All right, buy Mason, this is him, But you're back inside, Darling.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well that didn't take you long they got here, did
it anyway?
Speaker 10 (09:35):
From my telephone? Sit down over here?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
What's the automatic for?
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Show you how serious we are about.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
About what you're talking to?
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Somebody named Mason. That's the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Look, I'm not used to being pushed around in my
own apartment. Don't push too hard or I might make
you use that gun.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
Calm down? Is it car Mason?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Whatever it was?
Speaker 10 (09:55):
Where is he?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Go find him?
Speaker 10 (09:57):
I don't want to beat it out of here. If
I don't have Hey, Burton.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Never mind, here it is, it's card by telephone, Get.
Speaker 11 (10:04):
Off, drop a dollar?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It all right? Come here, I'll give you a chance
to try that again. I promise you.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
Come on, Dollar, get up, happy, Go, get a dish
towel something. Stop his head bleeding.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I don't know it to him.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
Come on, get up?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
How much trouble are you gonna give her? How much
do you want?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
What do you know about all that?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh? What I want to know?
Speaker 10 (10:32):
How much Mason told you about? What about Jackie? Don't
play it smart with me?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I couldn't have I wanted to. He didn't tell me anything.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
Did he come alone?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Mason? How the devil? Should I know how he came
to Dollar?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
You're recking your suit.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
I'm sorry about that. Yeah, sure you got a license
in this state. So I'm gonna take a chance on you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (10:54):
I want you to stop looking for Jackie. There's gonna
be trouble anyhow. If you don't stop, there's gonna be more.
Let me see that card, have you?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:02):
That was handy, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
He accepts? Here?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
And what about Dollar?
Speaker 10 (11:06):
I don't know? Be tough taking him with us?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well?
Speaker 10 (11:09):
He looks somebody notice him.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
You want me to go down, I had better go.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
I guess you stay here with him, keep him away
from that phone.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yeah, good luck, Britt.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Thanks give me twenty five minutes and you can get
out of here. See you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
What's it all about, Happy?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Well, now this thing is too big for the both
of us. As they say, now, don't talk. Just pretend
you're here alone and your phone is out avoid.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I thought I knew what to expect at the hotel
after the one called Happy had left and I was
able to get down there. But I was only half right.
Excuse me, excuse me? Can I get through? Please?
Speaker 11 (12:04):
Hey, mister, you can't go in there.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's the ID I was working for Mason.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Oh and the house.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
He text us, Come on, where is he in the bathroom?
Speaker 11 (12:12):
I closed the door.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
He'd evidently had been blasted into the bathroom by the
shock of a heavy caliber gun that had taken him
in the middle of the abdomen in the chest. But
it wasn't Carl Mason. It was the gunman who had
come to kill him, the one called Bert.
Speaker 12 (12:42):
We will return you to the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar in just a moment. You can sing it
again for an hour tonight on most of these same
CBS stations. And while you're enjoying this merry tuneful hour
with Jan Murray and the Gang, maybe you'll get a
phone call and a chance to solve the phantom voice mystery.
The cash jackpot is the highest it's been in weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Be listening for sing It again this evening on CBS
and with our star Edmund O'Brien, we return you to
the second act of yours, Julie, Johnny Dollar. Except for
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one unfortunate coincidence, I probably would have been able to
drop the whole matter right there, and I would have gladly.
But it turned out that the lieutenant assigned the case
was an acquaintance of mine. He had once informed me
that a friend of his was on the state board
from which I got my license, and he had never
let me forget it. Now, John, you tell me this
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fellow Mace hired you, James Mason, Sheila Carl Mason. Oh oh,
I jotted it down with a dull pencil, tartl Mason.
He hired you to get the signature of this clever woman.
Who is she? I knew I wasn't able to find her. Well, oh,
who did this Mason say she was? It's pretty obvious
he've had me a pack of eyes. Looks like he
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I had me to put the finger on her. Oh
why would he do that? I don't know, Schiller. If
I'd known, I wouldn't be here. You ought to be
more careful who you hire out to. John.
Speaker 13 (14:17):
Now, let's see you say that a second man named
Happy held you in your apartment at gunpoint, while the
other one deceased became this hotel room.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Is that true? Of course, it's true. If you were
any kind of a policeman, things like that wouldn't happened
on as taxpayers.
Speaker 13 (14:32):
You haven't been in trouble in hard for quite a while,
have you, John, Not this kind. I'm surprised you didn't
try to notify the police prior to the shooting.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I did look at my head, And now you're asking
me to risk infection just so you can write a
lot of illegible nonsense in that notebook, John.
Speaker 13 (14:47):
John, let's start over in a better mood. Force has
always cooperated with you, at least I have you ought
to be more thankful?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
All right, Shiller, but please put away the pencil. Let
me tell you what I know. Mason evidently came from
the West Coast to find the clever woman. While the
West Coast play at forms and a business card from
a Western insurance company. She had been receiving mail from California.
The guy called Happy mentioned the West Coast. Now, how
would that add up Florida. Go ahead, he's your man, Schiller,
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and he's going to be halfway back to the West
Coast unless you remember your training. Get some men to
cover the airlines and railroads and get some roadblocks.
Speaker 13 (15:23):
I was planning to do anything more from me. You
can't just drap this thing, John, How would that look
at my report?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What do you want me to do? Schiller?
Speaker 13 (15:32):
Find that woman who used my wasting men when you've
already started.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Up Spence Cown.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I had him three ten dollars to the hotel doctor
who stitched and bandaged my head. I had him four
dollars thirty cents night letter to a West Coast detective
agency asking for a rundown, and both Carl Mason and
Jackie Cleaver. Then at about eleven I started back to
the hotel in Middletown, Oh.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Must have dropped off Oh you again?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah? Where is everybody? Who? The guy was in the
lobby the last time I was here? Place is all yours?
Hasn't been a soul in since you left? I don't
think does he live here? I'm not so sure I
know just which one you know? I think you do.
They call him Happy, which he isn't going to be
when I find him.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I don't think I know him.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's a matter, honey, enough to make it smart for
you to level with me. Honey, the police aren't far
behind me. What do you want? I want Happy? Does
he live here?
Speaker 10 (16:58):
No?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
He just's Ron once in a while. Got a girlfriend
lives here?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Eh? Where is she?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
She's not home. She's sick in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Which one the county hospital? What's her name?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Nadine Williams? What's the matter with Happy?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
He and another guy named Bert something teamed up to
get rid of somebody. Let at backfired. Bert was killed.
Oh what is there about Jackie Cleaver that could cause
this trouble?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
If you're holding things back from me, I can have
the police drag you in.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I don't know what it's all about with Jackie, but
I can tell you a few places where you might
find Happy what's his real name, Snail Chandler.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He was going to meet Burt tonight. You know where
a couple places.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
One's the Wigwam. That's a roadhouse on the highway south
of here. Yeah, this further tower in New London.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
All right, I'll check him if he happens to come
in here again, tell him what happened, and tell him
he can do himself some good by talking to me
before the police get I.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Don't think you'll come back here, not with trouble like this.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
He probably doesn't know about it yet.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Oh, I hadn't thought of that. All right, if I
see him, I'll tell him what you said.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
There.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
I don't have the brand you ordered, but I got
some others.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Sorry, just any kind of doc run.
Speaker 14 (18:28):
It's okay. Sure, it's a big call for rum when
it's as cold as this.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
By that, that's fine. Say this Happy Channel. I've been
in tonight.
Speaker 14 (18:42):
Happy Who not the famous one? No, I thought you
were pulling my leg. No, nobody with that name comes
in here. We got a pretty steady set of customers here. Oh,
once in a while somebody driving by dropped in. Maybe
you got your signals mixed, and that could be. You know,
there is another wigwam around here that I know of.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Somebody told me he comes in here not but I
know of.
Speaker 14 (19:06):
How about another one?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Thanks? How do I owe you fifty cent? H thanks?
Thank you?
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Sorry, you got nicked up, doll it over here?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's a lot warmer inside, isn't it happy at all?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I just got here. Look, uh, may at the hotel
give you a bumpstairs. See, don't be too rough on her.
She has to play along with us or she couldn't
stay in business.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah here, that's all I care about.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
She phoned and told me what happened.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
So I came over here to talk it over with you,
but didn't meet me, So I guess it's straight about him.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You'll read about it. Did Mason get away temporarily, but
I don't think he'll get out of the area. Police
have it covered.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I wish him luck.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
You told me I could do myself some good if
i'd talk to you before the police picked me up.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's the way I said. You're in a bad spot,
but if you play ball with me, I'll do the
same for you.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Keep coming.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I didn't know who you were when you and Bert
conspired for a killing. That's a rap. I might save you.
The police don't have your name yet, or your description,
or the name of the hotel in Middletown.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
The cleave old woman. She's the middle of this mess.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
She's clean. She didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
She must have to bring Mason all the way from
the West coast after a Bert died trying to stop him.
She must have done something to rate all that action.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
I mean, as far as tonight goes, she's out of
the picture. She doesn't even know what happened. What would
you do with her?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The police want to talk to her. If she's clean,
as you say, she shouldn't mind that.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I don't think she would. You what, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Don't you believe me she wouldn't. She's got no reason
to be afraid of the police.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh, it's holding us something.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
It's too late tonight. I gotta make a couple of calls.
You mean your apartment tomorrow morning. I'll phll you about ten.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, happy. I'd call myself stupid, except you showed up
here tonight and you didn't have to.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
You'll hear from me.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I'll call it him The first thing I got the
next morning was the information i'd wired for. Carl Mason
was a disbarred lawyer who had linked himself with a
syndicate that until recently had controlled the wire service, et
cetera of four western states. The machine had been destroyed
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by the Supreme Court. Testimony of a state's witness the
rundown on Jackie Cleaver filled out the rest she had
been the witness, Johnny Dollar Dollar mis Mason.
Speaker 15 (21:49):
Oh, Carl Mason, Oh, well, I want to give myself up, della,
But I want you to take me in. Why I've
read the papers this morning, since you were held by
these gunmen, you'll be important to my plea.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
What play is that?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I can build the tightest case on self defense Connecticut
has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And you know it.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
You know that man was on his way to kill me. Yeah,
but you were wrong about my motives for coming here.
I didn't intend to do Miss Cleaver any harm.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I think you've made a good choice. It'd be tough
to prove what your motives were.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I want you a statement. It's part of the formal arrest.
Where can I meet you and when be.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Better for me? Later in the day, maybe right afternoon.
You are the way you are, yes, I think so.
It's a good thing you didn't try to leave town.
They got everything covered I thought they would have. All right, Dollar,
I'll wait where I am and call back a twelfth night.
I'll be here, goodbye.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Huh, Hey, is this happy?
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'm sorry if somebody had a job for me. What's
happening with you?
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Jackie's with me? Uh? What's the name of the coppet
charge of Bird's.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Killing, Lieutenant Schiller? Schiller?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Is he a precint man from downtown?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Downtown?
Speaker 9 (23:02):
You have him in his office at eleven Jackie, you'll
meet you there.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I'll meet her at the desk out front.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
All right, I'll have her there.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And he did. I recognized her from the description that
she walked through the door. Doc nicely featured and wearing
conservative clothes. She held out her gloved hand when I
told her who I was.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Well, mister Dollar, I didn't have any idea I was
causing everyone so much trouble.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, you are hard to locate.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I've had to be.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Where's the lieutenant, Lieutenant Schiller, there's miss Jackie Cleeve. Wow s,
Miss Cleaver.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Thanks, Lieutenant, the pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, we've had ourselves a little trouble.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Haven't I'm afraid, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Oh, I don't blame you entirely.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
From what Dollar tells me, you're to be commended for
testifying for the state out there.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
I didn't know the secret was out, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Part of the agreement was to I wired for some
information on you.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
What did you find out?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Only that you're a testimony? Put the syndicate out of business.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
When you hear the rest, I know you won't talk
about it outside this office. They've been very nice to
me in payment for what I did for them. They understood,
of course, that it wasn't safe for me out there,
so they saw that I got here and had been
sending a small amount of money twice a month.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's not quite the accepted thing, is it.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
My money is sent to a lawyer in Los Angeles
who sends it on to me.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Well, I suppose to have their reasons, Starling. That's not allowed,
isn't it. I take it the syndic had learned where
you were.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
You can't hide from those people.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
I don't know how they found me, but they did
a few months ago. I've had to stay on the move.
Ever since I suppose, not knowing that, you must have
thought I was an arch criminal myself.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I was curious.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
My friends here have done everything they could to help me.
Poor Bert. I don't think he went to kill this Mason?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Why not? Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I think he went to frighten him away. Is there
any news about Mason?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (24:56):
Oh, we will haul him in. Don't you worry about that.
He's ready to give himself up, It told Dollar this morning.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Oh I hope you get him. Maybe that'll put an
end to it. Do you need me any more, Lieutenant?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Well, I don't think so, you Dollar, I guess Nan.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Well, I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, now that we understand, it's perfectly all right.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thanks for coming in. I'm glad I finally met you.
The second surrender that of Mason should have finished the
whole thing, but it didn't. I waited for his call
at my apartment. When it came, I met him for
instruction in a drug store a few blocks away. I
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made one mistake. I answered the only question he asked me.
You found Jackie Keeper. Yeah, I talked with her, and.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I'll tell you what she said, the court thinks she's
a brave, courageous woman arrangements of a maye so that
she gets paid for her service to it.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I say, well, I'll put the light of that. That's
the matter with it, She testified. All right, she knocked
out syndicate outs the one she was mixed up that
could move in. What do you think of that? Is
it true? Of course, it's true that prosecutor thought he
was using her, but she was using him. The situation
the way it is, should perjure yourself. Again.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
There's some federal investigators and make it look as though
there was collusion between the state and the syndicate that
moved in. It's not true, but she could cause some
heads to fall.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Right, I live in Connecticut. Don't be stuffy. Ready to go?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You're right, I'm ready. I don't care what the charges
against me. All right, as long as I can get.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
The truth about that character. I'm ready because outside it's
down this way.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And don't forget you heard those men say they were
going to kill me. I want the arresting.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Wait, yeah, that's the other one. Happy, what do you want?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I've lived up to my part of the bargain. Come on,
let's play it out the right way.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Wait a minute, you happy, Get out of it? No.
I said it should have ended when Mason gave himself up,
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but it didn't smell happy. Chandler was apprehended, but the
search was on again for Jackie Kleab. I wish them luck.
They can have the job expense account Item five forty
five dollars and seventy five cents miscellaneous expense account total
two hundred dollars. Remarks Since Mason actually had nothing to
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do with the Sierra All Risk Insurance Company, I hardly
expect you to honor this account, but you should. It
should be worth that to learn what goes on behind
your back. Yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Dolla, 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's latest picture is the Paramount
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Pictures production Warpath. Featured in Tonight's cast ed Begley, Dick, Ryan,
Mary Lansing, Sidney Miller, Tim Graham, Virginia, Greg hi Averback
and Jim Knusser, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar is transcribed in
Hollywood by Heimi dol Vaier. This is Dan Coberly inviting
to join us next week at this time when Edmond
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O'Brien will return.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
As yours truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
If you've ever tried to read a book in a
bad light, you know the irritation that can be caused
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down their grades. Your community school is your responsibility. Do
all you can to keep its classrooms well lighted, modern
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in every respect. Remember better schools mean better students, better citizens.
Tomorrow and I'll stay tuned for the Bond Monroe Caravan
which follows immediately on most of these same CBS stations.
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Speaker 1 (30:04):
This is CBS where you laugh at Jack Benny every
Sunday night.
Speaker 12 (30:07):
The Columbia Broadcasting System
Well in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now for Edmund O'Bryan as Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Is this mister Dollar, the insurance investigator? That's right. My
name is Mason, Karl Mason. I'm an adjuster from Sierra
al Risk, a West Coast company. Yeah, I need some help.
I flew eased to meet the claim of beneficiary forty
thousand dollars policy. Name is Jackie Cleaver. Now that I'm here,
I can't find her. He means she's missing.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I can't find her. I haven't addressed, but it led
me of a blind alley. I've got the authority to
hire you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
If you're free, we can talk about it good. I
had correspondence with her just last week. It's strange she
should drop out of sight so suddenly.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Edmond O'Brien and the transcribed Adventure of the man with
the action packed expense Account America's Fabulous freelance Insurance investigate.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Her, Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special
Investigator Johnny Dollar to Sierra all Risk Insurance Company, fifth
in Hill Street's Los Angeles, California. The following, Like it
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or Not, is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
of the Jackie klevera matter since connidam one two fifty
cab fare from my apartment to the Excelsior Hotel, Hartford,
where I was directed to room two sixteen and mister
Carl Mason, I'm having drinks send up or is this
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too early for you? East? Tell us a little for me. Thanks.
It's the first time I've been in this part of
the country for six years. One thing you can say
for it. It doesn't change except for the weather. West changes
every day, so I've heard. Still growing up, I had
a lot of good things about you Dollar. Well, that's
something new. When I ran into this ston Wall looking
for this Jackie Cleaver, I called a few of the
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companies around here. They all suggested you probably they keep
me out of the Yeah, what's the background on this thing?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I've got it all here. Policies in the name of Schumacher.
Howard Schumacher. He was killed in a traffic accident out there,
lots of them, you know here. See. Her address was
listed as three eight to two Gardener Street in Manchester.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's just a few miles east of here. I know
the place. What'd you learn there? It's a queer sort of.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
A place, man running around and trousers and the set
of long underwear. I got the idea that he was
lying to me. What did he say that she hadn't
lived there in two months? How could that be when
I've had correspondence with this clever woman in the past
two weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
A mail could have been forwarded to someplace else from
the Manchester Post Office? What was the return address on
her led us to you?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I didn't notice you think she would have mentioned any change,
didn't This man Forceland was his name, said she moved
to a place called Middletown, but he didn't have an address.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I don't know. We're there, but it's too big a
place for an untrained man like me. Let me see that.
This says she's Mack's wife, ex wife, I believe. Will
you take it over for me? Yeah, I'll take a
crack at it anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
God, you can take these forms with you. This is
the one we want signed from here. Here's one of
my business cards. I'll jot the phone and room number
down for you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Thanks. I'll let you know what I find out. Spence
count item two thirty five dollars car rental and mileage.
It was three o'clock when I left the Excelsior Hotel,
but I figured there was enough left of the afternoon
to make the short trip to Manchester and back. Jackie
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Cleaver's address there was a big frame house set back
on the street at the edge of town. A sign
that stuck out from a snow drift called it a
convalescent home. Yes you, mister Fogland.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I am.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, my name is Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Are you the same as that other one?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I'd like to talk to you about the same woman.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Well, you've got to come in. We got to close
the door one way. Tell her thys, yeah, I might
find it too warm in here. Got to keep it
that way from a patience. Now, what's the matter with
that Cleveland woman?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Nothing that I know of. Man left her forty thousand dollars.
I'm trying to find he so she can get it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Forty thousand dollars. Wouldn't take you long to find me,
I can tell you there.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Are you sure she didn't say it out where she
was going when she left here?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
She just picked up and packed one morning, saying she'd write,
which never.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Did she give any reason such need to change. Was
she an invalid?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Not so notice came here for resh said she was
well enough to go clean into Harford to a bank
when a check came twice a month.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Does she have any friends? I could look up anyone
come to see her?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Nobody? I'd say she was a lonely woman. Wouldn't talk
about self.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do you have no notice? Where her mail came from?
Was not?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Except the checks? I can't California, Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, I won't take up any more of your time,
mister Foresland. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
That's much good. I tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh what does she look like? I've never seen it?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Watershot say Well turned out that age had the collar
to a hair expect that was brown, shotless features and
knowing eyes. So a lot of life and the time
it says strange. I'm cute, I understand, just strange.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I caught the Manchester post office before it closed, and
a cooperative clerk there gave me her forwarding address in Middletown.
It's about fifteen miles south of Hot, but I drove
down there after dinner that same night. It wasn't quite
the setting you'd expect for a divorcee who received checks.
From California twice a month, and it was in line
for forty thousand dollars. It was a ratty little hotel
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in the docker end of town. There was one man
in the lobby and one woman behind the desk.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh need, and mister, what'll it be?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I understand you have missus Jackie Cleaver staying here.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Jackie Cleaver?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You kidding? Oh, I'm not kidding? Is she in?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
And she don't stay here anymore?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You know where she went?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It's hard to tell about Jackie. What do you want
with her now?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
An insurance company wants to find her. Somebody left her
forty thousand dollars in a policy.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
She was married to a man named Schumacher in California.
Jackie was married and divorced, but she stayed on as beneficiary.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
She never said anything about that marriage. But it's funny
of her that doesn't come out.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You sound like you know it pretty well.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Not as well as some.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
I guess why.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Didn't she leave here?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Oh, two or three weeks ago? Anyway, I can look
it up.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
More important? Do you know where she went?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
No, not exactly. She said something about new Haven. He
might try the Bridgeport House all right, I will imagine
I'm married. That must be why she got those checks
from out west. They came here too, Yeah, alimony.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Oh that's Jackie. I hope you find her, mister, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So do I Hey, yeah, I'll walk out with you,
all right? Uh?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
What's this about Jackie?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You must have heard all of it if you heard
any Are you a friend of hers?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Who is this shoemaker to say she was married to?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I don't know. What's all a mystery about her? Oh?
Speaker 7 (07:41):
There's no mystery. She's restless, likes to.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Move around, beneficiaries get paid off every day. Everything about
this thing is normal, but her. Why is she so
hard to find? Oh?
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Maybe she don't wanna get found by every time Dick
and Harry passing through.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It's none of my business. I'm being paid to get
her signet. You're in inform, then she gets her money.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Are you from the West Coast?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, I'm from Hartford.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Well maybe I could locate it for you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
What then, I'll give you my card. You can follow
me at my apartment.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Dollar huh, all right, dollar, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
Tasutier Hotel, the.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Carl Mason please is in room two sixteen. Please, yes,
it's dollar, mister Mason. I'm not sure yet. Just got
home from Middletown and that man down man who thought
he knew where she was? Hey, what do you know
about her? Nothing at all? Why? Well, it looks to
me like she's on the run from something. I thought
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there was something funny about that place in Manchester. What
else have you run to do? It's just obvious that
she wants to stay out of sight. That's all.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well, we don't care about that. We just want to
get our books clear.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, I gotta hang up now. I'll be here if
anything comes up.
Speaker 10 (09:24):
All right, buy Mason, this is him, But you're back inside, Darling.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well that didn't take you long they got here, did
it anyway?
Speaker 10 (09:35):
From my telephone? Sit down over here?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
What's the automatic for?
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Show you how serious we are about.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
About what you're talking to?
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Somebody named Mason. That's the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Look, I'm not used to being pushed around in my
own apartment. Don't push too hard or I might make
you use that gun.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
Calm down? Is it car Mason?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Whatever it was?
Speaker 10 (09:55):
Where is he?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Go find him?
Speaker 10 (09:57):
I don't want to beat it out of here. If
I don't have Hey, Burton.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Never mind, here it is, it's card by telephone, Get.
Speaker 11 (10:04):
Off, drop a dollar?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
It all right? Come here, I'll give you a chance
to try that again. I promise you.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
Come on, Dollar, get up, happy, Go, get a dish
towel something. Stop his head bleeding.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I don't know it to him.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
Come on, get up?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
How much trouble are you gonna give her? How much
do you want?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
What do you know about all that?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh? What I want to know?
Speaker 10 (10:32):
How much Mason told you about? What about Jackie? Don't
play it smart with me?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I couldn't have I wanted to. He didn't tell me anything.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
Did he come alone?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Mason? How the devil? Should I know how he came
to Dollar?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
You're recking your suit.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
I'm sorry about that. Yeah, sure you got a license
in this state. So I'm gonna take a chance on you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (10:54):
I want you to stop looking for Jackie. There's gonna
be trouble anyhow. If you don't stop, there's gonna be more.
Let me see that card, have you?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:02):
That was handy, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
He accepts? Here?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
And what about Dollar?
Speaker 10 (11:06):
I don't know? Be tough taking him with us?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well?
Speaker 10 (11:09):
He looks somebody notice him.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
You want me to go down, I had better go.
Speaker 10 (11:13):
I guess you stay here with him, keep him away
from that phone.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yeah, good luck, Britt.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Thanks give me twenty five minutes and you can get
out of here. See you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
What's it all about, Happy?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Well, now this thing is too big for the both
of us. As they say, now, don't talk. Just pretend
you're here alone and your phone is out avoid.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I thought I knew what to expect at the hotel
after the one called Happy had left and I was
able to get down there. But I was only half right.
Excuse me, excuse me? Can I get through? Please?
Speaker 11 (12:04):
Hey, mister, you can't go in there.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's the ID I was working for Mason.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Oh and the house.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
He text us, Come on, where is he in the bathroom?
Speaker 11 (12:12):
I closed the door.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
He'd evidently had been blasted into the bathroom by the
shock of a heavy caliber gun that had taken him
in the middle of the abdomen in the chest. But
it wasn't Carl Mason. It was the gunman who had
come to kill him, the one called Bert.
Speaker 12 (12:42):
We will return you to the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar in just a moment. You can sing it
again for an hour tonight on most of these same
CBS stations. And while you're enjoying this merry tuneful hour
with Jan Murray and the Gang, maybe you'll get a
phone call and a chance to solve the phantom voice mystery.
The cash jackpot is the highest it's been in weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Be listening for sing It again this evening on CBS
and with our star Edmund O'Brien, we return you to
the second act of yours, Julie, Johnny Dollar. Except for
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one unfortunate coincidence, I probably would have been able to
drop the whole matter right there, and I would have gladly.
But it turned out that the lieutenant assigned the case
was an acquaintance of mine. He had once informed me
that a friend of his was on the state board
from which I got my license, and he had never
let me forget it. Now, John, you tell me this
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fellow Mace hired you, James Mason, Sheila Carl Mason. Oh oh,
I jotted it down with a dull pencil, tartl Mason.
He hired you to get the signature of this clever woman.
Who is she? I knew I wasn't able to find her. Well, oh,
who did this Mason say she was? It's pretty obvious
he've had me a pack of eyes. Looks like he
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I had me to put the finger on her. Oh
why would he do that? I don't know, Schiller. If
I'd known, I wouldn't be here. You ought to be
more careful who you hire out to. John.
Speaker 13 (14:17):
Now, let's see you say that a second man named
Happy held you in your apartment at gunpoint, while the
other one deceased became this hotel room.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Is that true? Of course, it's true. If you were
any kind of a policeman, things like that wouldn't happened
on as taxpayers.
Speaker 13 (14:32):
You haven't been in trouble in hard for quite a while,
have you, John, Not this kind. I'm surprised you didn't
try to notify the police prior to the shooting.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I did look at my head, And now you're asking
me to risk infection just so you can write a
lot of illegible nonsense in that notebook, John.
Speaker 13 (14:47):
John, let's start over in a better mood. Force has
always cooperated with you, at least I have you ought
to be more thankful?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
All right, Shiller, but please put away the pencil. Let
me tell you what I know. Mason evidently came from
the West Coast to find the clever woman. While the
West Coast play at forms and a business card from
a Western insurance company. She had been receiving mail from California.
The guy called Happy mentioned the West Coast. Now, how
would that add up Florida. Go ahead, he's your man, Schiller,
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and he's going to be halfway back to the West
Coast unless you remember your training. Get some men to
cover the airlines and railroads and get some roadblocks.
Speaker 13 (15:23):
I was planning to do anything more from me. You
can't just drap this thing, John, How would that look
at my report?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What do you want me to do? Schiller?
Speaker 13 (15:32):
Find that woman who used my wasting men when you've
already started.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Up Spence Cown.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I had him three ten dollars to the hotel doctor
who stitched and bandaged my head. I had him four
dollars thirty cents night letter to a West Coast detective
agency asking for a rundown, and both Carl Mason and
Jackie Cleaver. Then at about eleven I started back to
the hotel in Middletown, Oh.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Must have dropped off Oh you again?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah? Where is everybody? Who? The guy was in the
lobby the last time I was here? Place is all yours?
Hasn't been a soul in since you left? I don't
think does he live here? I'm not so sure I
know just which one you know? I think you do.
They call him Happy, which he isn't going to be
when I find him.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I don't think I know him.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's a matter, honey, enough to make it smart for
you to level with me. Honey, the police aren't far
behind me. What do you want? I want Happy? Does
he live here?
Speaker 10 (16:58):
No?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
He just's Ron once in a while. Got a girlfriend
lives here?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Eh? Where is she?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
She's not home. She's sick in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Which one the county hospital? What's her name?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Nadine Williams? What's the matter with Happy?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
He and another guy named Bert something teamed up to
get rid of somebody. Let at backfired. Bert was killed.
Oh what is there about Jackie Cleaver that could cause
this trouble?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
If you're holding things back from me, I can have
the police drag you in.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I don't know what it's all about with Jackie, but
I can tell you a few places where you might
find Happy what's his real name, Snail Chandler.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He was going to meet Burt tonight. You know where
a couple places.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
One's the Wigwam. That's a roadhouse on the highway south
of here. Yeah, this further tower in New London.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
All right, I'll check him if he happens to come
in here again, tell him what happened, and tell him
he can do himself some good by talking to me
before the police get I.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Don't think you'll come back here, not with trouble like this.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
He probably doesn't know about it yet.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Oh, I hadn't thought of that. All right, if I
see him, I'll tell him what you said.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
There.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
I don't have the brand you ordered, but I got
some others.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Sorry, just any kind of doc run.
Speaker 14 (18:28):
It's okay. Sure, it's a big call for rum when
it's as cold as this.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
By that, that's fine. Say this Happy Channel. I've been
in tonight.
Speaker 14 (18:42):
Happy Who not the famous one? No, I thought you
were pulling my leg. No, nobody with that name comes
in here. We got a pretty steady set of customers here. Oh,
once in a while somebody driving by dropped in. Maybe
you got your signals mixed, and that could be. You know,
there is another wigwam around here that I know of.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Somebody told me he comes in here not but I
know of.
Speaker 14 (19:06):
How about another one?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Thanks? How do I owe you fifty cent? H thanks?
Thank you?
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Sorry, you got nicked up, doll it over here?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's a lot warmer inside, isn't it happy at all?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I just got here. Look, uh, may at the hotel
give you a bumpstairs. See, don't be too rough on her.
She has to play along with us or she couldn't
stay in business.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah here, that's all I care about.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
She phoned and told me what happened.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
So I came over here to talk it over with you,
but didn't meet me, So I guess it's straight about him.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You'll read about it. Did Mason get away temporarily, but
I don't think he'll get out of the area. Police
have it covered.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I wish him luck.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
You told me I could do myself some good if
i'd talk to you before the police picked me up.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's the way I said. You're in a bad spot,
but if you play ball with me, I'll do the
same for you.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Keep coming.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I didn't know who you were when you and Bert
conspired for a killing. That's a rap. I might save you.
The police don't have your name yet, or your description,
or the name of the hotel in Middletown.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
The cleave old woman. She's the middle of this mess.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
She's clean. She didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
She must have to bring Mason all the way from
the West coast after a Bert died trying to stop him.
She must have done something to rate all that action.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
I mean, as far as tonight goes, she's out of
the picture. She doesn't even know what happened. What would
you do with her?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
The police want to talk to her. If she's clean,
as you say, she shouldn't mind that.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I don't think she would. You what, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Don't you believe me she wouldn't. She's got no reason
to be afraid of the police.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh, it's holding us something.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
It's too late tonight. I gotta make a couple of calls.
You mean your apartment tomorrow morning. I'll phll you about ten.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, happy. I'd call myself stupid, except you showed up
here tonight and you didn't have to.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
You'll hear from me.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I'll call it him The first thing I got the
next morning was the information i'd wired for. Carl Mason
was a disbarred lawyer who had linked himself with a
syndicate that until recently had controlled the wire service, et
cetera of four western states. The machine had been destroyed
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by the Supreme Court. Testimony of a state's witness the
rundown on Jackie Cleaver filled out the rest she had
been the witness, Johnny Dollar Dollar mis Mason.
Speaker 15 (21:49):
Oh, Carl Mason, Oh, well, I want to give myself up, della,
But I want you to take me in. Why I've
read the papers this morning, since you were held by
these gunmen, you'll be important to my plea.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
What play is that?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I can build the tightest case on self defense Connecticut
has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And you know it.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
You know that man was on his way to kill me. Yeah,
but you were wrong about my motives for coming here.
I didn't intend to do Miss Cleaver any harm.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I think you've made a good choice. It'd be tough
to prove what your motives were.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I want you a statement. It's part of the formal arrest.
Where can I meet you and when be.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Better for me? Later in the day, maybe right afternoon.
You are the way you are, yes, I think so.
It's a good thing you didn't try to leave town.
They got everything covered I thought they would have. All right, Dollar,
I'll wait where I am and call back a twelfth night.
I'll be here, goodbye.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Huh, Hey, is this happy?
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'm sorry if somebody had a job for me. What's
happening with you?
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Jackie's with me? Uh? What's the name of the coppet
charge of Bird's.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Killing, Lieutenant Schiller? Schiller?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Is he a precint man from downtown?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Downtown?
Speaker 9 (23:02):
You have him in his office at eleven Jackie, you'll
meet you there.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I'll meet her at the desk out front.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
All right, I'll have her there.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And he did. I recognized her from the description that
she walked through the door. Doc nicely featured and wearing
conservative clothes. She held out her gloved hand when I
told her who I was.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Well, mister Dollar, I didn't have any idea I was
causing everyone so much trouble.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, you are hard to locate.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I've had to be.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Where's the lieutenant, Lieutenant Schiller, there's miss Jackie Cleeve. Wow s,
Miss Cleaver.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Thanks, Lieutenant, the pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, we've had ourselves a little trouble.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Haven't I'm afraid, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Oh, I don't blame you entirely.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
From what Dollar tells me, you're to be commended for
testifying for the state out there.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
I didn't know the secret was out, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Part of the agreement was to I wired for some
information on you.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
What did you find out?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Only that you're a testimony? Put the syndicate out of business.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
When you hear the rest, I know you won't talk
about it outside this office. They've been very nice to
me in payment for what I did for them. They understood,
of course, that it wasn't safe for me out there,
so they saw that I got here and had been
sending a small amount of money twice a month.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
It's not quite the accepted thing, is it.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
My money is sent to a lawyer in Los Angeles
who sends it on to me.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Well, I suppose to have their reasons, Starling. That's not allowed,
isn't it. I take it the syndic had learned where
you were.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
You can't hide from those people.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
I don't know how they found me, but they did
a few months ago. I've had to stay on the move.
Ever since I suppose, not knowing that, you must have
thought I was an arch criminal myself.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I was curious.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
My friends here have done everything they could to help me.
Poor Bert. I don't think he went to kill this Mason?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Why not? Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I think he went to frighten him away. Is there
any news about Mason?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (24:56):
Oh, we will haul him in. Don't you worry about that.
He's ready to give himself up, It told Dollar this morning.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Oh I hope you get him. Maybe that'll put an
end to it. Do you need me any more, Lieutenant?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Well, I don't think so, you Dollar, I guess Nan.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Well, I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, now that we understand, it's perfectly all right.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Thanks for coming in. I'm glad I finally met you.
The second surrender that of Mason should have finished the
whole thing, but it didn't. I waited for his call
at my apartment. When it came, I met him for
instruction in a drug store a few blocks away. I
(25:40):
made one mistake. I answered the only question he asked me.
You found Jackie Keeper. Yeah, I talked with her, and.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I'll tell you what she said, the court thinks she's
a brave, courageous woman arrangements of a maye so that
she gets paid for her service to it.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I say, well, I'll put the light of that. That's
the matter with it, She testified. All right, she knocked
out syndicate outs the one she was mixed up that
could move in. What do you think of that? Is
it true? Of course, it's true that prosecutor thought he
was using her, but she was using him. The situation
the way it is, should perjure yourself. Again.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
There's some federal investigators and make it look as though
there was collusion between the state and the syndicate that
moved in. It's not true, but she could cause some
heads to fall.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Right, I live in Connecticut. Don't be stuffy. Ready to go?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
You're right, I'm ready. I don't care what the charges
against me. All right, as long as I can get.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
The truth about that character. I'm ready because outside it's
down this way.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And don't forget you heard those men say they were
going to kill me. I want the arresting.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Wait, yeah, that's the other one. Happy, what do you want?
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I've lived up to my part of the bargain. Come on,
let's play it out the right way.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Wait a minute, you happy, Get out of it? No.
I said it should have ended when Mason gave himself up,
(27:17):
but it didn't smell happy. Chandler was apprehended, but the
search was on again for Jackie Kleab. I wish them luck.
They can have the job expense account Item five forty
five dollars and seventy five cents miscellaneous expense account total
two hundred dollars. Remarks Since Mason actually had nothing to
(27:38):
do with the Sierra All Risk Insurance Company, I hardly
expect you to honor this account, but you should. It
should be worth that to learn what goes on behind
your back. Yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Dolla, 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's latest picture is the Paramount
(28:14):
Pictures production Warpath. Featured in Tonight's cast ed Begley, Dick, Ryan,
Mary Lansing, Sidney Miller, Tim Graham, Virginia, Greg hi Averback
and Jim Knusser, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar is transcribed in
Hollywood by Heimi dol Vaier. This is Dan Coberly inviting
to join us next week at this time when Edmond
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O'Brien will return.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
As yours truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
If you've ever tried to read a book in a
bad light, you know the irritation that can be caused
by tired eyes, by a sick, nagging headache. This same
irritation may be causing your boy or girl to lose
valuable study hours in school. Bad lighting may be dragging
down their grades. Your community school is your responsibility. Do
all you can to keep its classrooms well lighted, modern
(29:13):
in every respect. Remember better schools mean better students, better citizens.
Tomorrow and I'll stay tuned for the Bond Monroe Caravan
which follows immediately on most of these same CBS stations.
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