August 5, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We're ready on.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Your call to Boston.
Speaker 5 (00:09):
Go ahead, please Hello, Yes, mister Simpler, this is Johnny Dollah.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I don't believe I remember.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh we've never met.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Your company hired me here in heart but to investigate
the Joan Sebastian dead that they didn't advise me, well,
they probably will. I called you to find out the
name of the officer in charge of.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The case if I could. It's a Lieutenant de Rosas.
You have to know what their theory is, if any theory.
I don't think they've arrived at a definite theory.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Still a toss up between murder and suicide. Eh okay,
Miss Simpling, I'll be in such.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventurable Man with the action
packed expenser car America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly,
Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to
Home Office, Corinthian Life Insurance Company, Hertford, Connecticut. The following
is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the
Joan Sebastian matter.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Expense account.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I in one one seventy five phone call the Boston
advising your manager there of my assignment. It am two
twenty eight dollars car and who in mileage from my
Hertford apartment to police headquarters Boston.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
What's the matter dollar? What's trusice?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Well, it's not up to meet a mistrust, your lieutenant.
These insurance people get uneasy when there's a choice between
suicide and murder, unless the murder motive is the policy.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
And you don't think there's a chance of that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I wouldn't say definitely not.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But the Sebastian girl made her mother her beneficiary and
her mother's an invalid and arrest home.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Good. Did you know the mother has taken up with
an old flame.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No I didn't. Oh yeah, it goes to see her
a couple three times a week. Crazier things have happened.
I'll get the fire for you. So now this has
always got so far, pending the Corners in quest and
the autopsy report.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Here's a photo of where she was found.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Mmm, shallow water, that's the bridge. Uh huh. She was
lying right about there. But I don't think you have
to worry about suicide dollar. As far as I'm concerned,
it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
M I'll buy that too. I wouldn't say this bridge
is a suicide type.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
It's too low.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah. Yeah. And there's another thing.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I've been on the force for more years than I
like to count, and I've run into my share of suicides.
But I've never known a woman to do it that
way without taking out her coat. Oh yeah, usually shoes too.
I've learned that's part of a generally accepted pattern. The
Sebastian girl didn't fit the pattern.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Huh yeah, here's here's the way she looked. Cod On
still tied shoes. Her purse is s through missing. We're
searching the stream poord.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
How old was he?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Twenty one?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
He was a beautiful girl.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, I noticed that. I try not to, but with her,
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
How much questioning have you done, Lieutenant, Oh? Not as
much as we'll do after the inquests. What will that
be day after Tomorra?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do you want anything more here?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Thanks, I'll give you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
The background we have on her. It's in my office.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I won't body anymore, Lieutenant de Rosa.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Besides, I like to dig up backgrounds myself, I know
him better if I do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Thanks a lot for your cooperation.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I drove out to the stream where they'd found the
girl's body, and they had chalked up another point against her,
that being a suicide. The bridge from which he had
dropped was a good four miles from town. On the
assumption that she'd been brought there in a car. The
placement of a body in regard to the two lanes
on the bridge, it made it look as if the
car was going lord Boston, not away from it. Five
(04:02):
minutes later I was heading the same way. Hello this
Mary O'Neil. Yes, The manager suggested I come up. He
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told me you shared this apartment with Joan Sebastian.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
That's right, were you.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
My name is Dollar, I'm from her insurance company. I'd
like to talk to you about her if I could.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Well, I suppose so, but there's nothing I can do now.
This is the biggest shock I've ever had. He said
there'd be trouble, but I never thought she'd do anything
like this.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Maybe she didn't.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
What's that supposed to mean?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Well, there are.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Signs that say maybe she didn't commit suicide. There are
Do you think she had any reason to Well, that's
what I said.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
I never thought she would sit down any place. Thanks,
what Joe, what does it mean?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I'm not sure? Did you say you expected trouble?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Yeah, I kept telling her. It was the way she went,
like she couldn't live fast enough, Like like there wasn't
time to get everything done.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
She's been like that ever since she got ritten. I
mean her mother went into that hospital. Johnny was all
tied down taking care.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
Of her before.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
What could have caused the trouble?
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Well, I'm not saying she was wrong or anything, but well,
there were too many men.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I imagine that was easy for her.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Sure was too easy.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Do you mind telling me who they were?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Well, I don't know, only only about one. Harold Corey.
He's gone with it the longest.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Harold Corey.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Yes, he drives for the North American Van Lines and
sometimes he goes way out to the West coast. And well,
while he was gone, Johnny didn't stay home and catch
up on a reading.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I think I do went out with a.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Different guy almost every night. I didn't pry, but she
never tell me who they were.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Do you think somebody killed it? Don't you?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Would you help me trying to find out what could
I do? You didn't want to pry, but I get
paid to. I'd like to look at her things.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I suppose it's my duty sort of.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Isn't it in a way. Yeah, but I can't force
you to.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Oh I'm not something to do.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Some of the drawers are locked, but I'll show you
what I can.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I started on the lock dress of drawers.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
They gave up and open after a brief struggle, but
contained on the whole things that might normally be locked
up because of their value, imported perfumes, expensive lingerie, and
some jewelry. The only thing that looked as if it
might have been hidden.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
For the sake of secrecy was under the jewel box.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
There was a gold key, a functional house type key,
but with meaning added because the head of the king
was heartsheat.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
It hung from a fine gold chain.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I never saw that before. I never saw the perfume
before either, but I smelled it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
That's a few hundred dollars worth of cent and the
rest of it was it was joan used to such
expensive things, well.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Not that I know about. Harold Corey sure couldn't shell
out that kind of money. Heartshead key, that's cozy.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I'd like to keep it if I could.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I don't know about that, after all, it isn't mine.
I want to get into trouble.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You won't, I promise you. I'm working with the police
on this thing. I want to find out where it
was made if I can, and who ordered it.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Oh, I get it sure. I wouldn't stop you from doing.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
That even if I could.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
North American fan lines.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I wonder if I could get some information about a
driver of yours, Harold Corey.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I phoned his home and couldn't get him. Is he
out of town just a second? Yeah, harl Corey is
on around the Philadelphia. Oh when's he due?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Bang?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
He's doing tonight about about three am tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Thanks very much.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Expense gout had him three seven dollars drinks and dinner
after I checked into the Bristol hotel.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Had him for a nickel phone call.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
The Joan Sebastian's employer, Edward Hollis, was at home and
would see me.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Give me to the living room, mister Donnan may As
will be comfortable.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
It's nice of you to see me in, mister Hollis.
I thought it'd be better to do it this way
rather than bother.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You at work, of course, and I appreciate it. The
atmosphere at the office has been gloomy enough. Oh this
is missus Hollis, mister Donner, Oh, how do you do well?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (09:01):
I didn't know the court girl, but yes, I'm afraid
it is.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
They don't understand young girl like that with everything to live.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Well, it may be even worse than that.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
How could be worse?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It looks more and more.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Like a death was not a suicide, mister Dolla. I
didn't mention it on the phone. The police think it
was murder, though, and so do I. I thought it'd
be better to save the blow until I get out here.
You know, murder is pretty messy.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
This is a shock.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I suppose I could be dragged into a courtroom along
with everybody else.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You'll know it, Beatrice, sir, you run along upstairs. There's
no reason for your going through this.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
All right.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I think i'd rather good night, good night.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I'm sorry, but it couldn't be helped, of.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Course it couldn't.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I'll make this as fast as possible, mister Hollis. I
don't know how much you knew about Jones Sebastian's private life.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I knew nothing. I have a number of girls in
the office and been my philosophy to remember that not
too long ago, I was as young as they are,
as long as they do their work well.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I asked no questions. As a matter of fact, I
have no right to sure.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
From what I've gathered, she was mixed up emotionally. She
hadn't had much freedom because of an invalid mother she
took care of well.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
When the mother went to a hospital, Joan began to
make up for lost time. She led her friends to
believe that she ran around with a lot of men,
But I don't believe that.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
No, I think it was one man.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Would you give me the names of the girls she
worked with.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I'd like to talk to them and find out if
something they have come out over lunch or cocktail.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yes, I'd rather my staff wasn't upset too much.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
But I'll tell you if you'll want a question them separately,
that's right, and I could give you the names now,
But if you'll phone me at the office in the morning,
I'll give you their addresses and phone numbers.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
That would help.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I could you can call any time after nine thirty.
I called the next morning and got a list of
six feminine names, which.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
I pocketed for later records.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And at ten thirty I was at the home of
Harold Corey, a ground floor apartment on him.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
And Way Street.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, who is it? My name is Dolla.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Come later.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I don't want to talk anybody right now.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I'm an insurance investigator. I want to talk to you
about Jones. Have asked him?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Who have you talked to?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
She didn't? What do you mean it's a mistake in
a way. Yeah, it's murdered murder. You're crazy, am I? Oh?
Maybe she never killed herself?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Would she?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
She had no reason to. When did you see her last.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Night before I left for Philadelphia?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Was that two nights ago?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Tuesday? I left it five Wednesday morning. She was found
Wednesday morning. Are you driving at mister?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
When did you learn that she was seeing somebody else
when you were out of town?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Didn't know she Corey. I'm not tossing suspicions around to
see how they bounce off. You are in a bad way.
Do you know that?
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Telling me you think I killed it?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Me?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I loved it. I wanted to marry. That's a motive,
not an alibi. Get out of here were you leave
me alone?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
You aren't helping yourself with this act. You're making it
worse here before I do have a murdered to answer
for it.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Get up, get.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Out, Lieutenant DeRosa.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
This is Dollar. Lieutenant. Hey, I've been.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Kicking myself and not getting your hotel yesterday and.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I didn't have one. But I got a few things
to pass them on to me. And now, well, if
it's the Sebastian thing saving, what do you mean it's
suicide after all?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh, come out of report.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
There was concussion from that dropped from the bridge, but
that wasn't the cause of death. Wait a minute, because
of death was from common monoxide. It looks like she
pull a suicide where it would embarrass somebody, and they tossed.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Her in the creek to get her out of the way.
Come on, you're still there, Dollar, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm still here. This is where I came in.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
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Speaker 2 (13:49):
Won't you.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
With our star Edmund O'Brien, we return you to the
second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, come in.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
In as sergeant said, you were waiting for me. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I told him you'd be showing up to sit down.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
You didn't seem to like the latest development, and I've
been working from other directions.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Given I may again, will you well? Here's the auto
report death biasphyxiat caused by corbon monoxide agent ue known
probably automobile engine exhaust.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
That's the most popular these days.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Do you believe this, Lieutenant?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I believe what's on the report.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And how did you say she got into the river?
I said, maybe she committed suicide somewhere so that somebody
would get involved, maybe in the driveway of somebody who
didn't want to get.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Involved to get rid of it. She was probably moved
at the stream. What's the matter? Don't you like that?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
What else does the report say.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh, symptoms of severe concussion. I thought you'd be happy
with the suicide evidence.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Insurance company hired me to dig up facts. If it
was suicide, all right, But if it wasn't, they want
to know that too, And I don't think it was.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, from what I've learned, she wasn't a type.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
She liked to be alive, and she played it hard
enough to leave some motives lying around.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Jealousy for one. That boyfriend of hers, Oh you know
about him?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Then?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, Cory. Isn't it a truck driver?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
That's right? And then there's this Look, what's this unlock?
I wish I could tell you it was given to
her by somebody. I'd like to know who. Would you
put a couple of men on it and find out
where it was made? I could do it, but I
think the police can get it done faster.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
All right, Dollar, I'll stick my neck.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Out that far.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I'm under orders.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
You know that I have to be a signed before
I can as Yeah. Sure, but I'll take your story
upstairs and see what the chief says.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Let me know what else you're.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Find I will, I say, do you have the address
of the old flame you mentioned the mother's friend.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Still like to settle for fraud? Would you? The death
sergeant will give you his address.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
His name's Paul Anderson. You, mister Anderson, I am. I'm
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from Johan Sebastian's insurance company. One of you would spare
me a few moments, right, Yes, I suppose come in.
I didn't know she had a policy. She did twenty
five thousand dollars to go to her mother. I see
her death has been classed as a suicide, which voyaged
the policy.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
The two years self destruction clause is still in effect.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
And it's a pity.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Why'd you say that's the least she could do for
poor Mildred At some other Yes, an extremely young mother's
almost ruined her life for that girl. I didn't know
that daughter was born when Mildred was only seventeen.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
She was left to care for the child herself. I
helped as much as I could.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
However, did you know the girl after she grew up? Way,
it's a friend of her mother's. How do you ask
which one does you know first? I don't see what
this has to do with the mad own have to answer.
I don't want you to misunderstand it's nothing to be hidden.
I suppose it is unusual. I did meet Joan first,
but when she took me to her house and I
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met her mother, I realized that Joan was well, no
more than a cheap little opportunist, the complete opposite from
her mother. As I say, I suppose it is unusual, and.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
That doesn't make any difference. The point is that you
dropped the girl in favor of a mother.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Is that it It wasn't the gross situation you evidently
wish it had been. I realized Mildred's condition and the
lack of care. I knew she needed someone, and I
did what I could for they do send her to
the rest home, I did. I Look here, this has
gone far enough. You asked me these questions for one reason,
so that you can make your own conclusions, haven't you.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I didn't know it, Sure it does. I think I
sent Mildred to the home to get her out of
the way. Don't you That is not the case. I
shouldn't think what you like. Go ask me if you
get to. I won't bother. Do you know anything about
a gold key? That Jonan gold key?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No? I don't know anything about a gold key. I've
known very little about Joan all these past months. I
could have told you that she was headed toward the
bed end a long time ago.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Now she's reached it. No one to blame but herself.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
It was four pm then, and at five I was
standing in front of the North American Land Building on
Columbus Avenue as Harold Corey backed a big rig into
a parking area and headed for a quick order restaurant.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Hello Corey, what this time?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Dispatcher tells me are going out in another run? Pretty
short layover, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That's right. I asked for it.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I figured driving.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I get my mind officely, what do you want? Do
you know how she died?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I read about it carbon monoxide? Do you still think
it couldn't have been suicide?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
She's dead?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
That's as far as I can think. You knew about
Paul Anderson, didn't you? What about Paul that he might
have been more interested in Joan than he wasn't a mother?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I suppose you're just doing a job, aren't you. What
you say is true. I didn't know about it. If
I had known about it, I would have gone after him,
not Joan. I can't take any more.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Mister.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Look, I don't enjoy it either, Corey, Like you say,
I'm just doing a job. After questioning the six girls
who had worked with Joan Sebastian, I was still nowhere.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
None of them knew anything about a private life. The
next morning the police located a goldsmith. He said he
remembered making the key.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
The police told me you might communister that. No trouble
at all. We're happy to oblige.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
God, you've seen the king.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Yes, the officer showed it to me. Oh, friendly, and.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I have it with me. Sure you made it?
Speaker 9 (20:15):
Oh? Yes, positive can see here. I'd admit to a
quaint conceit. You see here? Howlett scroll?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
See the letters?
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Yes, see my initials Cedric faus that.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
I haven't finished the recollection. Who I made it for?
I told that young after that too. I don't even
remember when there's so much work.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
You know, Maybe I can help you. It would have
been between seven and eight months ago. You keep any
kind of.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Records, Oh, of course I do. I'm bound to a
matter of law. Seven months That would.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Be November after Ber seven would be March eight, would
be February.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Oh, yes, frankly, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
How many of my items may have been involved with tragedy?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Who knows?
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Perhaps I'm a curse.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I was hoping you'll be a cure for this one.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
Well, I hope so.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You wouldn't know what week or day?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Oh oh, February wasn't very good month, post holidays, link
reset changing, exept opals dreadful. Oh mmm, no, no, no, no, no,
that's much too small key for.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
A jewel box.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Where let me see me see ah March he has
engravespoon reset repair. Ah, here it is door key in
gold March seventeen. What name do not deliver? We'll call J. E.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Carter?
Speaker 9 (21:40):
J E.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Carter?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Does that help? No?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
None of it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Do you remember anything about him?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
No?
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Paid in cash?
Speaker 10 (21:46):
Oh wait, now, that was the day Missus brand brought
the baby shoe in for placing.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
She's the councilman's wife. I remember that it was snowing.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
That was the day it was ordered.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
It was modeled from a plain old cast house key.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Uh huh.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
I cannot picture him, but I've done some apartment keys,
and he said this was for.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The cottage outside of town.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
He was a surprise for his wife someplace on the Bay.
I remember that because of the hideous weather, and I
could just feed that wind coming through one of those
summer cottages.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Now do you think you'd recognize him if you saw
him again?
Speaker 9 (22:15):
He can't say. Until I do, I could try it.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
We may have to call on you then, Thanks, thanks
a lot. I think you've helped.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
How'd you make out with that fushy little man dollar.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We found the day the key was ordered, and he
remembered a few things because a councilman's wife came in
the same day when.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
The customer, Carter was the name he used, mentioned the
cottage on the bay that's east and the girl's body
was found northwest of here. I think she was done
from a car coming toward Boston from out there, so
I think the cottage is in that direction. Deduction yet, Okay,
if I were going to dump a body, I wouldn't
carry it across two traffic lanes, would you.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
I am being paid to think about another case.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I couldn't sell the murder bishop stairs, but I tried
an out buck for a promotion.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
If you're right, an upstairs is wrong.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
I don't suppose you could earn that promotion by assigning
some men to cover that section.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Eh. Oh, not a chance.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's county division of responsibility eh. And I, for one
wouldn't be surprised. I don't how many.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
People have died because of that division of responsibility. Expensive
goun item four thirty five dollars mileage covering a two
and a half day search of real estate officers northwest
of Boston.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Object a cottage rented.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
A few days before March seventeenth by a man possibly
using the name J. E.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Carter.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
It was morning tonight legwork, but on the afternoon of
the third day it paid off.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I found an agent who had rented a cottage to
a J. E. Carter.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
She took me out, but before we went into the place,
I noticed a lean to garage marked up by plenty
of tire tranks. Inside I found a stained rug, among
other things.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Well, dollar, I've always said I personally vouch for the people.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I do business, and you never know, do you?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I should say, you don't?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You want to go now?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I think I've seen them now, I mean like it.
I want to see if this keep it?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It does fit?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Yeah, it sure does. Oh, hello, mis dollars, I come in, Yes, yes,
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of course, come in where I didn't expect you to
come back, didn't you, mister Armas, you thought you'd get
away with this.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Well, now there's no reason to be clever with each other.
Mister Armas, I know you killed her. You rendered the
cottage out beyond. Mister Griver, you used the name J. E.
Carter when you bought the gold key.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I did that.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I'm afraid you did come into the other room. Yes,
you're right, I didn't. I became infatuated with her. If
you'd known her, you'd understand I. I realized last week
that it had to stop, and I told.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Her she had been going with that young Cory boy.
I told her that even if I were single and
eligible to marry, I would advise her to hang on
to him some one her own age Andreas. Last Tuesday night, yes,
she left the cottage and I heard a drive off,
or at least.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I thought I did. When I went out, I.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I learned what she had really done. She committed suicide
in the car. You can hardly blame me for wanting
to keep the secret. Now you've been reading the papers,
mister Allah's suicide, and all that I've been inside your cottage.
You didn't know a very good job of cleaning up
the blood stains. You're right, mister Donner. There seems to
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be no longer any reason to attempt cleverness. I'll make
my statement to the police.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'll drive you down.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
How did you find out, Donna?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
There was a Wall Street journal there addressed to you.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
I see.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Beatrice go upstairs.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
I insist, Beatrice, what good would it do to what
I've done? Because I lost you. You ask me to
go up stairs.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I forbid you to say another word. You have no right.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
I've found them, Dolla. It took a long time, but
I found them. She'd taken him from me because she
was beautiful. No, I no longer. I was waiting in
the cottage when they came in an ice struck.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Is this true? Missus hallis?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I killed her?
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Since there was nothing left, we carried her to the cup.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Expense account aue of five one hundred and ten dollars
final bill for car rental item six eighty five dollars.
Miscellaneous expense account total three hundred and fifty six dollars and.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Seventy five cents. Remarks, I don't know what stickers.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
The Massachusetts law courts are, but Joan Sebastian was not
killed by the wronged wife. She was unconscious but alive
when Hollis put her in his car trunk.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
She died there like car.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Monoch sag Yours Truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
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 may soon be seen in the
Paramount Pictures production warpad. Featured in the night's cast were
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Bill Johnstone, and Raymond Burr. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is
transcribed in Hollywood by Jimi del Vaier. This is Dan
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coverly inviting you to join us next week at this
time when we will again bring you.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Edmund O'Brien as Yours truly, Johnny Dalla. Stay tuned for
vonn Monroe's Caravan, which follows immediately over most of these
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From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We're ready on.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Your call to Boston.
Speaker 5 (00:09):
Go ahead, please Hello, Yes, mister Simpler, this is Johnny Dollah.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I don't believe I remember.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh we've never met.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Your company hired me here in heart but to investigate
the Joan Sebastian dead that they didn't advise me, well,
they probably will. I called you to find out the
name of the officer in charge of.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The case if I could. It's a Lieutenant de Rosas.
You have to know what their theory is, if any theory.
I don't think they've arrived at a definite theory.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Still a toss up between murder and suicide. Eh okay,
Miss Simpling, I'll be in such.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventurable Man with the action
packed expenser car America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly,
Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to
Home Office, Corinthian Life Insurance Company, Hertford, Connecticut. The following
is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the
Joan Sebastian matter.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Expense account.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I in one one seventy five phone call the Boston
advising your manager there of my assignment. It am two
twenty eight dollars car and who in mileage from my
Hertford apartment to police headquarters Boston.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
What's the matter dollar? What's trusice?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Well, it's not up to meet a mistrust, your lieutenant.
These insurance people get uneasy when there's a choice between
suicide and murder, unless the murder motive is the policy.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
And you don't think there's a chance of that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I wouldn't say definitely not.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But the Sebastian girl made her mother her beneficiary and
her mother's an invalid and arrest home.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Good. Did you know the mother has taken up with
an old flame.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No I didn't. Oh yeah, it goes to see her
a couple three times a week. Crazier things have happened.
I'll get the fire for you. So now this has
always got so far, pending the Corners in quest and
the autopsy report.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Here's a photo of where she was found.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Mmm, shallow water, that's the bridge. Uh huh. She was
lying right about there. But I don't think you have
to worry about suicide dollar. As far as I'm concerned,
it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
M I'll buy that too. I wouldn't say this bridge
is a suicide type.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
It's too low.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah. Yeah. And there's another thing.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I've been on the force for more years than I
like to count, and I've run into my share of suicides.
But I've never known a woman to do it that
way without taking out her coat. Oh yeah, usually shoes too.
I've learned that's part of a generally accepted pattern. The
Sebastian girl didn't fit the pattern.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Huh yeah, here's here's the way she looked. Cod On
still tied shoes. Her purse is s through missing. We're
searching the stream poord.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
How old was he?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Twenty one?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
He was a beautiful girl.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, I noticed that. I try not to, but with her,
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
How much questioning have you done, Lieutenant, Oh? Not as
much as we'll do after the inquests. What will that
be day after Tomorra?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do you want anything more here?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Thanks, I'll give you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
The background we have on her. It's in my office.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I won't body anymore, Lieutenant de Rosa.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Besides, I like to dig up backgrounds myself, I know
him better if I do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Thanks a lot for your cooperation.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I drove out to the stream where they'd found the
girl's body, and they had chalked up another point against her,
that being a suicide. The bridge from which he had
dropped was a good four miles from town. On the
assumption that she'd been brought there in a car. The
placement of a body in regard to the two lanes
on the bridge, it made it look as if the
car was going lord Boston, not away from it. Five
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minutes later I was heading the same way. Hello this
Mary O'Neil. Yes, The manager suggested I come up. He
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told me you shared this apartment with Joan Sebastian.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
That's right, were you.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
My name is Dollar, I'm from her insurance company. I'd
like to talk to you about her if I could.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Well, I suppose so, but there's nothing I can do now.
This is the biggest shock I've ever had. He said
there'd be trouble, but I never thought she'd do anything
like this.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Maybe she didn't.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
What's that supposed to mean?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Well, there are.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Signs that say maybe she didn't commit suicide. There are
Do you think she had any reason to Well, that's
what I said.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
I never thought she would sit down any place. Thanks,
what Joe, what does it mean?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I'm not sure? Did you say you expected trouble?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Yeah, I kept telling her. It was the way she went,
like she couldn't live fast enough, Like like there wasn't
time to get everything done.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
She's been like that ever since she got ritten. I
mean her mother went into that hospital. Johnny was all
tied down taking care.
Speaker 9 (05:24):
Of her before.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
What could have caused the trouble?
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Well, I'm not saying she was wrong or anything, but well,
there were too many men.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I imagine that was easy for her.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Sure was too easy.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Do you mind telling me who they were?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Well, I don't know, only only about one. Harold Corey.
He's gone with it the longest.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Harold Corey.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Yes, he drives for the North American Van Lines and
sometimes he goes way out to the West coast. And well,
while he was gone, Johnny didn't stay home and catch
up on a reading.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I think I do went out with a.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Different guy almost every night. I didn't pry, but she
never tell me who they were.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Do you think somebody killed it? Don't you?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Would you help me trying to find out what could
I do? You didn't want to pry, but I get
paid to. I'd like to look at her things.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I suppose it's my duty sort of.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Isn't it in a way. Yeah, but I can't force
you to.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Oh I'm not something to do.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Some of the drawers are locked, but I'll show you
what I can.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I started on the lock dress of drawers.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
They gave up and open after a brief struggle, but
contained on the whole things that might normally be locked
up because of their value, imported perfumes, expensive lingerie, and
some jewelry. The only thing that looked as if it
might have been hidden.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
For the sake of secrecy was under the jewel box.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
There was a gold key, a functional house type key,
but with meaning added because the head of the king
was heartsheat.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
It hung from a fine gold chain.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I never saw that before. I never saw the perfume
before either, but I smelled it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
That's a few hundred dollars worth of cent and the
rest of it was it was joan used to such
expensive things, well.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Not that I know about. Harold Corey sure couldn't shell
out that kind of money. Heartshead key, that's cozy.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I'd like to keep it if I could.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I don't know about that, after all, it isn't mine.
I want to get into trouble.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You won't, I promise you. I'm working with the police
on this thing. I want to find out where it
was made if I can, and who ordered it.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Oh, I get it sure. I wouldn't stop you from doing.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
That even if I could.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
North American fan lines.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I wonder if I could get some information about a
driver of yours, Harold Corey.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I phoned his home and couldn't get him. Is he
out of town just a second? Yeah, harl Corey is
on around the Philadelphia. Oh when's he due?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Bang?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
He's doing tonight about about three am tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Thanks very much.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Expense gout had him three seven dollars drinks and dinner
after I checked into the Bristol hotel.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Had him for a nickel phone call.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
The Joan Sebastian's employer, Edward Hollis, was at home and
would see me.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Give me to the living room, mister Donnan may As
will be comfortable.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
It's nice of you to see me in, mister Hollis.
I thought it'd be better to do it this way
rather than bother.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You at work, of course, and I appreciate it. The
atmosphere at the office has been gloomy enough. Oh this
is missus Hollis, mister Donner, Oh, how do you do well?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (09:01):
I didn't know the court girl, but yes, I'm afraid
it is.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
They don't understand young girl like that with everything to live.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Well, it may be even worse than that.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
How could be worse?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It looks more and more.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Like a death was not a suicide, mister Dolla. I
didn't mention it on the phone. The police think it
was murder, though, and so do I. I thought it'd
be better to save the blow until I get out here.
You know, murder is pretty messy.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
This is a shock.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I suppose I could be dragged into a courtroom along
with everybody else.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You'll know it, Beatrice, sir, you run along upstairs. There's
no reason for your going through this.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
All right.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I think i'd rather good night, good night.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I'm sorry, but it couldn't be helped, of.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Course it couldn't.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I'll make this as fast as possible, mister Hollis. I
don't know how much you knew about Jones Sebastian's private life.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I knew nothing. I have a number of girls in
the office and been my philosophy to remember that not
too long ago, I was as young as they are,
as long as they do their work well.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I asked no questions. As a matter of fact, I
have no right to sure.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
From what I've gathered, she was mixed up emotionally. She
hadn't had much freedom because of an invalid mother she
took care of well.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
When the mother went to a hospital, Joan began to
make up for lost time. She led her friends to
believe that she ran around with a lot of men,
But I don't believe that.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
No, I think it was one man.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Would you give me the names of the girls she
worked with.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I'd like to talk to them and find out if
something they have come out over lunch or cocktail.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yes, I'd rather my staff wasn't upset too much.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
But I'll tell you if you'll want a question them separately,
that's right, and I could give you the names now,
But if you'll phone me at the office in the morning,
I'll give you their addresses and phone numbers.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
That would help.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I could you can call any time after nine thirty.
I called the next morning and got a list of
six feminine names, which.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
I pocketed for later records.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And at ten thirty I was at the home of
Harold Corey, a ground floor apartment on him.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
And Way Street.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, who is it? My name is Dolla.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Come later.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I don't want to talk anybody right now.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I'm an insurance investigator. I want to talk to you
about Jones. Have asked him?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Who have you talked to?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
She didn't? What do you mean it's a mistake in
a way. Yeah, it's murdered murder. You're crazy, am I? Oh?
Maybe she never killed herself?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Would she?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
She had no reason to. When did you see her last.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Night before I left for Philadelphia?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Was that two nights ago?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Tuesday? I left it five Wednesday morning. She was found
Wednesday morning. Are you driving at mister?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
When did you learn that she was seeing somebody else
when you were out of town?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Didn't know she Corey. I'm not tossing suspicions around to
see how they bounce off. You are in a bad way.
Do you know that?
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Telling me you think I killed it?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Me?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I loved it. I wanted to marry. That's a motive,
not an alibi. Get out of here were you leave
me alone?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
You aren't helping yourself with this act. You're making it
worse here before I do have a murdered to answer
for it.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Get up, get.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Out, Lieutenant DeRosa.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
This is Dollar. Lieutenant. Hey, I've been.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Kicking myself and not getting your hotel yesterday and.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I didn't have one. But I got a few things
to pass them on to me. And now, well, if
it's the Sebastian thing saving, what do you mean it's
suicide after all?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh, come out of report.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
There was concussion from that dropped from the bridge, but
that wasn't the cause of death. Wait a minute, because
of death was from common monoxide. It looks like she
pull a suicide where it would embarrass somebody, and they tossed.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Her in the creek to get her out of the way.
Come on, you're still there, Dollar, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm still here. This is where I came in.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
We will return you to the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar in just a moment. But first, one of
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Speaker 2 (13:49):
Won't you.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
With our star Edmund O'Brien, we return you to the
second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, come in.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
In as sergeant said, you were waiting for me. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I told him you'd be showing up to sit down.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
You didn't seem to like the latest development, and I've
been working from other directions.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Given I may again, will you well? Here's the auto
report death biasphyxiat caused by corbon monoxide agent ue known
probably automobile engine exhaust.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
That's the most popular these days.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Do you believe this, Lieutenant?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I believe what's on the report.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And how did you say she got into the river?
I said, maybe she committed suicide somewhere so that somebody
would get involved, maybe in the driveway of somebody who
didn't want to get.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Involved to get rid of it. She was probably moved
at the stream. What's the matter? Don't you like that?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
What else does the report say.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh, symptoms of severe concussion. I thought you'd be happy
with the suicide evidence.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Insurance company hired me to dig up facts. If it
was suicide, all right, But if it wasn't, they want
to know that too, And I don't think it was.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, from what I've learned, she wasn't a type.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
She liked to be alive, and she played it hard
enough to leave some motives lying around.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Jealousy for one. That boyfriend of hers, Oh you know
about him?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Then?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, Cory. Isn't it a truck driver?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
That's right? And then there's this Look, what's this unlock?
I wish I could tell you it was given to
her by somebody. I'd like to know who. Would you
put a couple of men on it and find out
where it was made? I could do it, but I
think the police can get it done faster.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
All right, Dollar, I'll stick my neck.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Out that far.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I'm under orders.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
You know that I have to be a signed before
I can as Yeah. Sure, but I'll take your story
upstairs and see what the chief says.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Let me know what else you're.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Find I will, I say, do you have the address
of the old flame you mentioned the mother's friend.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Still like to settle for fraud? Would you? The death
sergeant will give you his address.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
His name's Paul Anderson. You, mister Anderson, I am. I'm
(16:18):
from Johan Sebastian's insurance company. One of you would spare
me a few moments, right, Yes, I suppose come in.
I didn't know she had a policy. She did twenty
five thousand dollars to go to her mother. I see
her death has been classed as a suicide, which voyaged
the policy.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
The two years self destruction clause is still in effect.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
And it's a pity.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Why'd you say that's the least she could do for
poor Mildred At some other Yes, an extremely young mother's
almost ruined her life for that girl. I didn't know
that daughter was born when Mildred was only seventeen.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
She was left to care for the child herself. I
helped as much as I could.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
However, did you know the girl after she grew up? Way,
it's a friend of her mother's. How do you ask
which one does you know first? I don't see what
this has to do with the mad own have to answer.
I don't want you to misunderstand it's nothing to be hidden.
I suppose it is unusual. I did meet Joan first,
but when she took me to her house and I
(17:17):
met her mother, I realized that Joan was well, no
more than a cheap little opportunist, the complete opposite from
her mother. As I say, I suppose it is unusual, and.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
That doesn't make any difference. The point is that you
dropped the girl in favor of a mother.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Is that it It wasn't the gross situation you evidently
wish it had been. I realized Mildred's condition and the
lack of care. I knew she needed someone, and I
did what I could for they do send her to
the rest home, I did. I Look here, this has
gone far enough. You asked me these questions for one reason,
so that you can make your own conclusions, haven't you.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I didn't know it, Sure it does. I think I
sent Mildred to the home to get her out of
the way. Don't you That is not the case. I
shouldn't think what you like. Go ask me if you
get to. I won't bother. Do you know anything about
a gold key? That Jonan gold key?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No? I don't know anything about a gold key. I've
known very little about Joan all these past months. I
could have told you that she was headed toward the
bed end a long time ago.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Now she's reached it. No one to blame but herself.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
It was four pm then, and at five I was
standing in front of the North American Land Building on
Columbus Avenue as Harold Corey backed a big rig into
a parking area and headed for a quick order restaurant.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Hello Corey, what this time?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Dispatcher tells me are going out in another run? Pretty
short layover, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That's right. I asked for it.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I figured driving.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I get my mind officely, what do you want? Do
you know how she died?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I read about it carbon monoxide? Do you still think
it couldn't have been suicide?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
She's dead?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
That's as far as I can think. You knew about
Paul Anderson, didn't you? What about Paul that he might
have been more interested in Joan than he wasn't a mother?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I suppose you're just doing a job, aren't you. What
you say is true. I didn't know about it. If
I had known about it, I would have gone after him,
not Joan. I can't take any more.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Mister.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Look, I don't enjoy it either, Corey, Like you say,
I'm just doing a job. After questioning the six girls
who had worked with Joan Sebastian, I was still nowhere.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
None of them knew anything about a private life. The
next morning the police located a goldsmith. He said he
remembered making the key.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
The police told me you might communister that. No trouble
at all. We're happy to oblige.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
God, you've seen the king.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Yes, the officer showed it to me. Oh, friendly, and.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I have it with me. Sure you made it?
Speaker 9 (20:15):
Oh? Yes, positive can see here. I'd admit to a
quaint conceit. You see here? Howlett scroll?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
See the letters?
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Yes, see my initials Cedric faus that.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
I haven't finished the recollection. Who I made it for?
I told that young after that too. I don't even
remember when there's so much work.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
You know, Maybe I can help you. It would have
been between seven and eight months ago. You keep any
kind of.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Records, Oh, of course I do. I'm bound to a
matter of law. Seven months That would.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Be November after Ber seven would be March eight, would
be February.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Oh, yes, frankly, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
How many of my items may have been involved with tragedy?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Who knows?
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Perhaps I'm a curse.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I was hoping you'll be a cure for this one.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
Well, I hope so.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You wouldn't know what week or day?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Oh oh, February wasn't very good month, post holidays, link
reset changing, exept opals dreadful. Oh mmm, no, no, no, no, no,
that's much too small key for.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
A jewel box.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Where let me see me see ah March he has
engravespoon reset repair. Ah, here it is door key in
gold March seventeen. What name do not deliver? We'll call J. E.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Carter?
Speaker 9 (21:40):
J E.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Carter?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Does that help? No?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
None of it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Do you remember anything about him?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
No?
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Paid in cash?
Speaker 10 (21:46):
Oh wait, now, that was the day Missus brand brought
the baby shoe in for placing.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
She's the councilman's wife. I remember that it was snowing.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
That was the day it was ordered.
Speaker 9 (21:56):
It was modeled from a plain old cast house key.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Uh huh.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
I cannot picture him, but I've done some apartment keys,
and he said this was for.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The cottage outside of town.
Speaker 10 (22:05):
He was a surprise for his wife someplace on the Bay.
I remember that because of the hideous weather, and I
could just feed that wind coming through one of those
summer cottages.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Now do you think you'd recognize him if you saw
him again?
Speaker 9 (22:15):
He can't say. Until I do, I could try it.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
We may have to call on you then, Thanks, thanks
a lot. I think you've helped.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
How'd you make out with that fushy little man dollar.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We found the day the key was ordered, and he
remembered a few things because a councilman's wife came in
the same day when.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
The customer, Carter was the name he used, mentioned the
cottage on the bay that's east and the girl's body
was found northwest of here. I think she was done
from a car coming toward Boston from out there, so
I think the cottage is in that direction. Deduction yet, Okay,
if I were going to dump a body, I wouldn't
carry it across two traffic lanes, would you.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
I am being paid to think about another case.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I couldn't sell the murder bishop stairs, but I tried
an out buck for a promotion.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
If you're right, an upstairs is wrong.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
I don't suppose you could earn that promotion by assigning
some men to cover that section.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Eh. Oh, not a chance.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's county division of responsibility eh. And I, for one
wouldn't be surprised. I don't how many.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
People have died because of that division of responsibility. Expensive
goun item four thirty five dollars mileage covering a two
and a half day search of real estate officers northwest
of Boston.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Object a cottage rented.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
A few days before March seventeenth by a man possibly
using the name J. E.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Carter.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
It was morning tonight legwork, but on the afternoon of
the third day it paid off.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I found an agent who had rented a cottage to
a J. E. Carter.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
She took me out, but before we went into the place,
I noticed a lean to garage marked up by plenty
of tire tranks. Inside I found a stained rug, among
other things.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Well, dollar, I've always said I personally vouch for the people.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I do business, and you never know, do you?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I should say, you don't?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You want to go now?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I think I've seen them now, I mean like it.
I want to see if this keep it?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It does fit?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Yeah, it sure does. Oh, hello, mis dollars, I come in, Yes, yes,
(24:59):
of course, come in where I didn't expect you to
come back, didn't you, mister Armas, you thought you'd get
away with this.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Well, now there's no reason to be clever with each other.
Mister Armas, I know you killed her. You rendered the
cottage out beyond. Mister Griver, you used the name J. E.
Carter when you bought the gold key.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I did that.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I'm afraid you did come into the other room. Yes,
you're right, I didn't. I became infatuated with her. If
you'd known her, you'd understand I. I realized last week
that it had to stop, and I told.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Her she had been going with that young Cory boy.
I told her that even if I were single and
eligible to marry, I would advise her to hang on
to him some one her own age Andreas. Last Tuesday night, yes,
she left the cottage and I heard a drive off,
or at least.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I thought I did. When I went out, I.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I learned what she had really done. She committed suicide
in the car. You can hardly blame me for wanting
to keep the secret. Now you've been reading the papers,
mister Allah's suicide, and all that I've been inside your cottage.
You didn't know a very good job of cleaning up
the blood stains. You're right, mister Donner. There seems to
(26:19):
be no longer any reason to attempt cleverness. I'll make
my statement to the police.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'll drive you down.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
How did you find out, Donna?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
There was a Wall Street journal there addressed to you.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
I see.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Beatrice go upstairs.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
I insist, Beatrice, what good would it do to what
I've done? Because I lost you. You ask me to
go up stairs.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I forbid you to say another word. You have no right.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
I've found them, Dolla. It took a long time, but
I found them. She'd taken him from me because she
was beautiful. No, I no longer. I was waiting in
the cottage when they came in an ice struck.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Is this true? Missus hallis?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I killed her?
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Since there was nothing left, we carried her to the cup.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Expense account aue of five one hundred and ten dollars
final bill for car rental item six eighty five dollars.
Miscellaneous expense account total three hundred and fifty six dollars and.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Seventy five cents. Remarks, I don't know what stickers.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
The Massachusetts law courts are, but Joan Sebastian was not
killed by the wronged wife. She was unconscious but alive
when Hollis put her in his car trunk.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
She died there like car.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Monoch sag Yours Truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
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 may soon be seen in the
Paramount Pictures production warpad. Featured in the night's cast were
Virginia Greg Howard mcneer, Virginia Eiler, Wally Mayer, John Stevenson,
Bill Johnstone, and Raymond Burr. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is
transcribed in Hollywood by Jimi del Vaier. This is Dan
(28:44):
coverly inviting you to join us next week at this
time when we will again bring you.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Edmund O'Brien as Yours truly, Johnny Dalla. Stay tuned for
vonn Monroe's Caravan, which follows immediately over most of these
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