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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
As Johnny Dalla, Johnny, Bob Hall and Plymouth. We've got
a bad thing down here, Oh, I said, one of
our company investigators has been killed.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I think you knew him.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Jean Rymer.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jean Rymer is dead.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, shot to death.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We learned of it this morning. Sent him down to
Charleston to look into a murder. Is his wife No yet,
she was with him. I mean she went to Charston
with him. We want to put somebody right on it, Johnny.
That's why I called. Oh sure, I'll come right over
and get the rest of the story from you.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expenser Cabs America's Fabulous freelance Insurance Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
As Truly Johnny Dalla. Expensive consubmitted by special Investigator Johnny
Dalla to Home Office, Plymouth Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the Leland Blackburn matter. Expense count had him one two
fifty cab fare from my apartment to the Plymouth building.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Thanks Jeremy, Yeah, oh Hi, Meryl, what are you doing
down here?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Geene rhymer shooting? I wondered if it heard.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He talked a lot about you. You were a good friend.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We learned the business together in the pig and an agency,
almost opened our own office. It didn't pan out.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I wish it had.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We're gonna miss him around here.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
He was a great guy.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, when Bob Hole was waiting for me, merle I
better get in there.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Sure, good luck, Johnny, he's waiting for you can go
right here.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Thanks hi, Bob, Thanks for coming right over, Johnny. I
wouldn't have blamed you. Heared it down. I get it.
That's pretty awful about him. I gave the case to
Jeane myself.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He wasn't up for one, but there would have been
some extra money for I knew he needed to.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He didn't have to take the case. He didn't have
to earn a living this way. That's a funny thing
for you to say, Well, there's no other way to
look at it. You can't hunt trouble forever without finally
running into some I got the idea that you were
his friend. I was. But you aren't hiring a friend, Bob,
You're hiring an investigator. If you want me to go
to work unless i'd better get some facts. I don't
understand you. What about the case he was on? You
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said it was murder?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
A policy holder named Leland Blackburn was bludging to death
in his home.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
How long had Jean been on it? Less than a week?
Five days? Had he sent in any report? And he learned? No,
he hadn't. Is that all? That's all I know? He
was staying at the Hotel Lee. His wife is still there,
as I said she'd been with. I suggest you talk
to her first, will I'll leave as soon as I
can get plane space? All right, Kenny? Good luck? Expense
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count item two eighty five dollars transportation between Hartford and
the Hotel Lee and Charleston them. It was eight thirty
pm by the time I checked in, and my first
move was to the phone. Yes it was Johnny, Barbara.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Johnny, where are you?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The flora above you? The Plymouth Company sent me down
I look into Jean's death.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Oh, I'm glad you're here, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
When all I see you as soon as possible.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Oh, give us fifteen minutes to put a face on it.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Come on down, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Hello, it's been.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
A long time.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I I can't tell you what a shock it was
to hear your voice on the phone, and I've been
thinking about you. Oh it was natural too. You've been
the only one I've turned to when it was trouble.
How did the company happen.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
To send you?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Because I knew Gene?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I guess what's anything said about us?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There was no reason for that. Everything between you and
me stopped when you got married. We'd better keep it
that way now.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Sure it was a beautiful marriage all the way around.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I told you it would be. You remember that. Yes,
there was a sight of Gene Rymer that hardly anybody knew.
He didn't believe me. I learned too, and you made
some pretty serious statements to me after you did. I
wanna get that off my chest before we go any farther.
I don't know how many times you told me that
you were afraid you were gonna kill him for what
he'd done to you, And you meant it, didn't you
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Johnny the last time? The last time was less than
a month ago.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You don't think I killed him?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I remember what you said, Johnny, don't. Why did you
come to Charleston with him?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Because he made me call why because he.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I don't wanna tell you why not.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It doesn't have anything.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
To do with what happened, and you shouldn't mind telling me.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
He found out about somebody had been seeing in Hartford.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I know what sounds cheap, but you must.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Realize that Jean brought you down here to keep you
away from this guy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yes, Johnny, you can't think I killed him.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I hope you didn't. For old time's sake. I'd hate
to learn that you did.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
They were good times, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What do you know about the case.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Jean was working on nothing.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
He never talked about any of them.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And I'll start on it tomorrow. Good night, Barbara. Expense
Cann had him three two dollars camp fare the next
morning the police headquarters where I met Lieutenant Simms, the
officer in charge of both killings.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Looks to me like you piled a load of work
on your shoulders. Dollar you signed both murders.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Chances are that they go together, don't you think? Hard
to figure that far? Yet? What have you got on
is Leland Blackburn?
Speaker 8 (05:54):
And file isn't complete on him. The Window and Son
refused to authorize an autopsy for a few days, forced
it through, so we got no report.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Who was he? An old codger, pillar of the old South.
He was a broker. Him and his son Rolin pretty
wealthy folks.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
What do you think was the lady? Well, we're thinking
it was robbery. Nobody knows how much. But old Leland's
wallet was empty when they found it. He just told
the phone operator he wanted the police. When he was hit,
the phone was still in his hand. Well, i'll have
the gone sort of the family if hisself and this
other Hartford man, likable kind of fellow, you know him?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Ah, I know Jeane for quite a few years. Makes
it bad when it's a friend has the help. Do
you have anything on his death?
Speaker 8 (06:39):
No, absolutely nothing. He was shot three times a close
range with a thirty two caliber gun. All three slugs
went through him and smashed up on a brick wall
behind him, spoiled him for ballistics. Why that happen in
an alley off magazine streech. And that's why we can't
figure any connection between that shooting and the Blackburn killing.
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You know this town, No, I know Blackburn shit Footnet
magazine street section. They'd leave at the other end of
the town, south of Broad Street. That's a whole lot
closer to heaven. I can tell you that, well, thanks
a lot, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Looks like I've got a lot of coal trail to follow,
so i'd better get moving. Later that day, after checking
my phone to learn when the sun would be home,
I went to the Blackburn residence. It was a warm,
friendly estate, glowing with Southern tradition. The same thing could
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have been said about the widow, Missus Blackburn, but son
Raleigh must have taken after his father.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But I resent most of all is that you are
here simply because you suspect you, the mother, and me,
are both of us of nefarious plum.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Isn't that right? Murder is a hard thing to ignore,
mister Blackburn.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I am not ignoring it, but I believe our local
police are quite able to do what must be done.
I do think you'd be interested in having as many
people as possible working clear it up. Naturally, I want
to see my father's killers brought to justice, but I
don't think father would appreciate the importation of investigators from Hartford.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Rolin.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Please, I came here primarily to investigate the death of
the first hearted man. I'm afraid you'll have to put
up with me until I satisfy myself that there's no
connection between your father.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And that possible connection.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Could there be, I don't know. There isn't any.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And if I hear of you dragging the Blackburn name
into a sword and murder in that part of town,
I will personally thrash you within an inch of your life.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Rollin, I must insist.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
I think perhaps that if you left, mister Doler and
I could conclude this meeting much more rapidly.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Don't you have an appointment someplace?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Don't you forget what I said? Balla? I won't.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Oh, I must apologize, mister Donne.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
You don't have to, the loss of his father has
been a great shock to him. And I must say
that other young man who was here, as pleasant as
he tried to be, did leave us with the impression
that he suspected us. One doesn't say things like that
about the Blackburns. It is an extremely proud and moral family.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I understand. I don't want you to think that I.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Am mister Dalla. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well? I think you've probably been asked these questions by
mister Raymer. But if you'll bear with me, of course. Ah,
were you here the night your husband died?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Yes, I was in the other wing where our bedrooms are.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Rollin was there too, But he came down to the
kitchen that's through there and found poor Leland.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Neither have you heard anything?
Speaker 7 (09:40):
No, I had my radio on, I remember. But even
so it is quite a big house.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's a beautiful house, this Blackburn. Do you have any
idea who could have done this thing? Any enemies of
your husband's.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
I knew of nobody who disliked Leland.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
He was a charitable, honest man, and a pious one.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm sorry that this blackburn. I don't bot you anyother My.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Only hope is that I mud join him soon.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Lieutenant seyim is dollar. Lieutenant, Oh yeah, what have you
been up to? I went out to see the Blackburns.
How did you reconstruct the killing out there? Well, like
I said, he still had the phone in his hand.
He's been hit a number of times in some blood instrument.
Anything to make you think there was more than one killer.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
No, wounds were all on the right side of the head,
struck from behind by a right handed man.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Why the son? He was a little agitated at my
being there, he said, killers. He said he wanted to
see his father's killers brought to justice. Plural would make
him say a thing like that. I don't know, and
as it stands, it's not worth anything as evidence, but
I thought i'd tell you for me. At that moment,
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had meant there was a possibility that ronin Blackburn knew
more than he was saying. I spent another two hours
trying to find something to strengthen that possibility, the financial
condition of both the family and their brokerage firm. I
got no place with it, but I returned to my
hotel with the feeling that that one slip was going
to develop into the link to connect Jean's death with
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the Blackburn investigation. The feeling lasted only a few seconds
after I met the man who was waiting for me outside.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
My room, Mister dom Hell Brad, I'm the hotel detective here.
I think i'd better talk to you. What about wound
down four thirteen? Missus Raymer? How to find out about me?
I've been keep my eye on her, so you'd go
to see you and checked on you. I had an
idea that insurance company would send somebody else.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Why have you even watching her?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Her husband paid me to. I guess there was something
wrong between him. Yeah, A man showed up to see
her the day the husband was killed. I didn't get
a chance to tell him, but I thought I ought
to tell you, Hoisy. Richard is his name, George. He's
in the Clemens Hotel up the street. He checked in
from Hertford two.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Come out in the room, Brian, I wanna hear the
rest of her.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Sure there is much more this. Richard showed up at
the rhyme of room about one the afternoon. Rhymeo was
out so I didn't get to him, and then he
was shot that night about ten. Maybe it don't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You know where Richards is now?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
He checked out this afternoon and took the fire for
the plane in the oar.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean for your drink, Bran.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Sure you know, man fool to marry a woman as
beautiful as that all always means trouble. That's my personal opinion. Anyway,
My wife is up, you see, and that's as.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Far as it goes through here. Uh. Thanks, Have you
told this to the police? Brand not yet? Why not?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I figured a couple of days won't make any difference.
If the police don't come up with something else. But
then I'll tell him you talked to her. What do
you think?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I don't know, but I'm going down to stay her.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Wouldn't be very smart for him.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Maybe not. That's the way I have to play it.
Help yourself with another drink brand and and thanks. I've
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gotta see her.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Huh sure, Johnny, come in. What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Why'd youly to me last night?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I I don't understand, George Richards. Why didn't you tell
me he was here?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
How did you find out.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
He was seen coming into this room? Why didn't you
tell me?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I was afraid to her that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I believe. I put myself out on a limb for
you today because I thought there was a chance you
wouldn't lie to me. I withheld information. They want a
motive for Jean's murder, and I didn't mention you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I didn't kill him.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That doesn't mean anything now that there's Richards.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I didn't know he was here until I opened that door.
He stayed here ten minutes, and I made him leave.
I told him to go back home and there'd be
real trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He didn't leave until this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I didn't know that, Johnny I I know I should
have told you last night. I've always trusted you, but
I knew how bad the situation would look, and I
I just prayed that nobody would know George was here.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You weren't covering up for him.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
No, I didn't know, Johnny, I didn't know he was
still here.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Quit it? Quit it? Will you come on, said Ane
and get a hold of yourself. Fuck. I want to
believe you, Barbara. You know that, but it doesn't make
any difference now whether I do or not. The police
are going to learn about Richard's.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Are you going to tell them?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Imagine they'll tell me. But I can't hold back anymore,
and were the answers I'll have to give them. They
can probably indict you for murder or at least accessory
with Richards.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I didn't kill him. I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Stop it. I don't need hysterics. I need proof. How
can you approve to me that you knew nothing about it?
I don't know would Richard's have done and alone? No,
how can you approve that? No? I can't use things
you know. I need people and statements. People will swear
that they saw you at the time. Jean Raymer was killed.
People who will swear they saw Richard.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It was nine o'clock.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
I was here.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I can check that.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That's all I know. Johnny, stop, please stop. I can't
stand anymore, all.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Right, angel. I try to find an alibi for George
Richards that night, but a stranger in a city the
size of Charleston is hard to nail down. I went
to the client hotel and questioned bell boys, clerks, maids,
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and bartenders, but those who remembered him hadn't seen them
during the evening in question, and I tried cab drivers
with no better success. It was after midnight when I
went to bed, and nine the next morning when I
was awakened by a summons from the police accompanied by
official transportation.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Here he is, Lieutenant, Hey, Argeant, you can wait outside, Yes,
sit down, as I had an interesting chat with the
hotel detective where you were stopping.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Oh, I'm not surprised, lieutenant. What's the matter with you? Son?
You put yourself and put it on serious position by
holding back information from me. Why'd you do it?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I'm not sure you admitted knowing that Gene Raymer. Why
didn't you tell me then that you knew about trouble
between him and his wife.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Well, I wanted to check the other. I was first
Blackburn investigation. How bad was his trouble? Pretty bad? I
had a mean streak that she pretty bad. Ryman had
a mean streak that didn't show except to his closest
friends and intimates. You'd say he did her bodily home. Yep,
lots of it. How'd you find out for her? How
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well you knew her? I knew her, I thought they
were married. You loved her. By any chance I had been,
I would have married her. I know what you're driving.
I know tenant. The possibility that I came down here
to protect her from the murder of charge, Well, that's
half true. She's been my friend. I didn't want to
see her pulled in it. She wasn't mixed up in it.
You don't think she was. I'll have to leave that
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for you. I know she had a motor And to
make it better, possible accomplice turns up. But so far
it's all circumstantial.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
And we put a searcher out on this man, Richard,
since how good them circumstances look to us?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Sure, and I'll bet I can reconstruct your reconstruction a
phony tipped to rhyme on how to crack the Blackburn thing,
an appointment on magazine Straight and the payoff. You break
it down, Well, I tried. Barbara has an alibi, but
Richard's hasn't, and I gotta have somebody for that killing dollar.
I'm going to bring her in. I'm surprised you have
it already. I want to talk to you first. I
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want you to stay here while I talk to her.
So why you think you'll break down because of the
It's a matter of that board. I'll be right back.
I gotta go get a man to pick her up. Hey,
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what are you doing columplating suicide? Where's lieutenant? Seems just
went out the other door. I'll be right back. Hey,
you finally got the autopsy report? I know, man Blackburn.
You sell as if he really didn't believe his dad. No,
he's dead, all right? What is the sergeant? The Blackburn
autopsy report? Yeah, look here, I'll be narcotic user. The
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press has been waiting for this lieutenant, and they've got
a ride to it. No, wait, don't give it to
him yet. This has been pretty hard on that family.
Hold on to it. No use dragging them through any
more mud. Please to the federal men.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Go to work on it, all right, sir, if you'll
be hearing a few minutes dollars so relax.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I got to run through a few reports while we'll wait.
It was hardly the time for relaxation, but I tried.
We sat through an hour of questions to which there
was no provable answers. We sat through an hour of
questions to which there were no provable answers. And at
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the end of it, Barbara Raymer was booked on suspicion
of murder and I was released on bail, charged with
suspicion of being accessory after the fact I had only
one place to go. You have to know, missus Blackburn,
good afternoon, I mister Dollar. You remember me, of course
I do.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I wasn't expecting.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I'm sorry, I had enough time of phone mare come in. Yes,
your sun at home.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
No, he's at the office. What is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
A girl has been arrested because the police thinks she
killed mister Rhymer, the other man from Hartford.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I don't think she did it.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I don't think I understand, mister Dollar. Why have you
come here?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Because I think you know she didn't do it, Missus Blackburn,
mister Dollar, could we sit down someplace, yes.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
In the drawing room now, if you please, sir?
Speaker 7 (20:41):
What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Why did you refuse to allow an autopsy to be
performed on your husband?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Because I believe it to be a revolting and savage practice,
a mental torture that no one has the right to
ask the survivors to experience.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I will not condone it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Usually laws are stronger than human feeling. You know that
one had been performed.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I refused.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Rollin told me there was nothing to fear.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He was wrong.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I will not condone it.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's a matter of official record. Now, Missus Blackburn, the report
says your husband was a narcotics user.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
He was not.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
He was. Your son knew it, and I think you did.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
I should have to ask you to leave, mister Dollard, please.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Missus Blackburn, that wouldn't do any good. When I was
here before, maybe you remember your son said something he
didn't intend to say. He told me that more than
one man killed your husband. He said killers.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
He was upset.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Both murders had something to do with the narcotics. Your
husband used didn't they. No, the police haven't been able
to find a link between the Blackburn name and the
magazine street section. The narcotics made that link, isn't it right? No,
Gene Reimer must have found out he was killed. Now
a woman is charged with a murder she had nothing
to do with. What else do you want?
Speaker 7 (21:55):
We thought we were doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Why did you think that.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
We hope to save Leland that shame and rollin His son.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And his widow, Jean Raymer must have learned from you.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
No, no one was to be told. Mister Ramah discovered
it himself when he faced us. We begged him to
say nothing, but when he threatened us, we told him
their names.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
The names of the people who supplied your husband, Yes.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
And made a hell of our lives. They've extorted money
from us for almost ten years. We of the inviolate family.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
They killed your husband.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
They came that night to force him to buy more,
and when he refused and tried to telephone the police,
they killed him.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I want you to tell me who these people are, we.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Told mister Ramah, and.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And he I won't go alone.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
It will be finished. Then this farce we.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Live, it would be finished anyway.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Yes, I could go no further. There are two. One
is named Mila, the other stone.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Where do I find him?
Speaker 7 (23:22):
You won't go alone. We've caused one day.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
I'll tell you where to find them.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I hadn't planned to go alone, but on the way
I began to wonder. At the time I spent interesting
the police wouldn't be used by missus Blackburn to warn
the two men whose capture would put the finish to
the family reputation, so I didn't contact Lieutenant Simms. Instead,
I stopped by my hotel to pick up an automatic
and cab to the magazine street addressed by myself. I
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take it easy up there.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
For thanks, I will hey, I thank you, Yeah, call
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you Miller's Stone.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
What's the difference, Miller? What's that they're pushing in? I
just came from the Blackburn place, where the old lady
is tired of trying to save the family pride. She
talked again. What what other reason would I have for
being here? She's ready to talk to the police about
her husband. I'm ready to talk to you about Jeene Rayman.
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I don't get you better start. Come on out that door.
We'll find our way. Now, listen to me. You can't
pull a man around like this.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I'm saying, why, I haven't done nothing?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Why argue? All right, I'll go get away from me. Fine, Stone,
I gotta talk to Stone. He did get a chance
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to talk to Stone, but not before Lieutenant sim has
heard him out and added his statement and added the
surviving Blackburns, which cleared Barbara Raymer and yours truly. Expense
account had him three one hundred dollars. Miscellaneous expenses in
Charleston had him four same as Item two. Transportation back
to Hartford. Expenser count total. Excuse me? Yeah, hello Johnny?
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Oh him, I thought you were coming over.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
It's after four.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Uh well, as a as a matter of fact, I
was just going to phone I. I can't make it.
What's the matter, Johnny, I've got another case.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
What's the matter, Johnny?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I have to earn a living, all right.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Do you know where to find me if you want to?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'll try to call you when I get
back to town. Okay, goodbye. Expense count total three hundred
and forty five dollars and seventy five cents. Remarks this
was a fairly personal assignment and it brings to mind
a fairly personal observation. Cops, private or otherwise should never
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marry their loudly husbands because they're away from home so much.
But more important, they leave too many widows. Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Gil Dodd with music by
Wilbur Hatch. Edmund O'Brien's latest picture is the Paramount Pictures
production Warpath. Featured in tonight's cast were John Dayner, Jim Knusser,
Jeannette Nolan, George Ellis, John McIntyre and Larry Dopkin. Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by Jimi do Vaier.
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This is Dan Coberly inviting you to join us next
week at this time when Edmund O'Brien will return as
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
As Johnny Dalla, Johnny, Bob Hall and Plymouth. We've got
a bad thing down here, Oh, I said, one of
our company investigators has been killed.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I think you knew him.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Jean Rymer.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jean Rymer is dead.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, shot to death.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We learned of it this morning. Sent him down to
Charleston to look into a murder. Is his wife No yet,
she was with him. I mean she went to Charston
with him. We want to put somebody right on it, Johnny.
That's why I called. Oh sure, I'll come right over
and get the rest of the story from you.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expenser Cabs America's Fabulous freelance Insurance Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
As Truly Johnny Dalla. Expensive consubmitted by special Investigator Johnny
Dalla to Home Office, Plymouth Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the Leland Blackburn matter. Expense count had him one two
fifty cab fare from my apartment to the Plymouth building.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Thanks Jeremy, Yeah, oh Hi, Meryl, what are you doing
down here?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Geene rhymer shooting? I wondered if it heard.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He talked a lot about you. You were a good friend.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We learned the business together in the pig and an agency,
almost opened our own office. It didn't pan out.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I wish it had.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We're gonna miss him around here.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
He was a great guy.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, when Bob Hole was waiting for me, merle I
better get in there.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Sure, good luck, Johnny, he's waiting for you can go
right here.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Thanks hi, Bob, Thanks for coming right over, Johnny. I
wouldn't have blamed you. Heared it down. I get it.
That's pretty awful about him. I gave the case to
Jeane myself.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He wasn't up for one, but there would have been
some extra money for I knew he needed to.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He didn't have to take the case. He didn't have
to earn a living this way. That's a funny thing
for you to say, Well, there's no other way to
look at it. You can't hunt trouble forever without finally
running into some I got the idea that you were
his friend. I was. But you aren't hiring a friend, Bob,
You're hiring an investigator. If you want me to go
to work unless i'd better get some facts. I don't
understand you. What about the case he was on? You
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said it was murder?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
A policy holder named Leland Blackburn was bludging to death
in his home.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
How long had Jean been on it? Less than a week?
Five days? Had he sent in any report? And he learned? No,
he hadn't. Is that all? That's all I know? He
was staying at the Hotel Lee. His wife is still there,
as I said she'd been with. I suggest you talk
to her first, will I'll leave as soon as I
can get plane space? All right, Kenny? Good luck? Expense
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count item two eighty five dollars transportation between Hartford and
the Hotel Lee and Charleston them. It was eight thirty
pm by the time I checked in, and my first
move was to the phone. Yes it was Johnny, Barbara.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Johnny, where are you?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The flora above you? The Plymouth Company sent me down
I look into Jean's death.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Oh, I'm glad you're here, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
When all I see you as soon as possible.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Oh, give us fifteen minutes to put a face on it.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Come on down, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Hello, it's been.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
A long time.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I I can't tell you what a shock it was
to hear your voice on the phone, and I've been
thinking about you. Oh it was natural too. You've been
the only one I've turned to when it was trouble.
How did the company happen.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
To send you?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Because I knew Gene?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I guess what's anything said about us?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There was no reason for that. Everything between you and
me stopped when you got married. We'd better keep it
that way now.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Sure it was a beautiful marriage all the way around.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I told you it would be. You remember that. Yes,
there was a sight of Gene Rymer that hardly anybody knew.
He didn't believe me. I learned too, and you made
some pretty serious statements to me after you did. I
wanna get that off my chest before we go any farther.
I don't know how many times you told me that
you were afraid you were gonna kill him for what
he'd done to you, And you meant it, didn't you
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Johnny the last time? The last time was less than
a month ago.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You don't think I killed him?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I remember what you said, Johnny, don't. Why did you
come to Charleston with him?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Because he made me call why because he.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I don't wanna tell you why not.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It doesn't have anything.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
To do with what happened, and you shouldn't mind telling me.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
He found out about somebody had been seeing in Hartford.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I know what sounds cheap, but you must.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Realize that Jean brought you down here to keep you
away from this guy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yes, Johnny, you can't think I killed him.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I hope you didn't. For old time's sake. I'd hate
to learn that you did.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
They were good times, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What do you know about the case.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Jean was working on nothing.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
He never talked about any of them.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And I'll start on it tomorrow. Good night, Barbara. Expense
Cann had him three two dollars camp fare the next
morning the police headquarters where I met Lieutenant Simms, the
officer in charge of both killings.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Looks to me like you piled a load of work
on your shoulders. Dollar you signed both murders.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Chances are that they go together, don't you think? Hard
to figure that far? Yet? What have you got on
is Leland Blackburn?
Speaker 8 (05:54):
And file isn't complete on him. The Window and Son
refused to authorize an autopsy for a few days, forced
it through, so we got no report.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Who was he? An old codger, pillar of the old South.
He was a broker. Him and his son Rolin pretty
wealthy folks.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
What do you think was the lady? Well, we're thinking
it was robbery. Nobody knows how much. But old Leland's
wallet was empty when they found it. He just told
the phone operator he wanted the police. When he was hit,
the phone was still in his hand. Well, i'll have
the gone sort of the family if hisself and this
other Hartford man, likable kind of fellow, you know him?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Ah, I know Jeane for quite a few years. Makes
it bad when it's a friend has the help. Do
you have anything on his death?
Speaker 8 (06:39):
No, absolutely nothing. He was shot three times a close
range with a thirty two caliber gun. All three slugs
went through him and smashed up on a brick wall
behind him, spoiled him for ballistics. Why that happen in
an alley off magazine streech. And that's why we can't
figure any connection between that shooting and the Blackburn killing.
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You know this town, No, I know Blackburn shit Footnet
magazine street section. They'd leave at the other end of
the town, south of Broad Street. That's a whole lot
closer to heaven. I can tell you that, well, thanks
a lot, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Looks like I've got a lot of coal trail to follow,
so i'd better get moving. Later that day, after checking
my phone to learn when the sun would be home,
I went to the Blackburn residence. It was a warm,
friendly estate, glowing with Southern tradition. The same thing could
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have been said about the widow, Missus Blackburn, but son
Raleigh must have taken after his father.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But I resent most of all is that you are
here simply because you suspect you, the mother, and me,
are both of us of nefarious plum.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Isn't that right? Murder is a hard thing to ignore,
mister Blackburn.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I am not ignoring it, but I believe our local
police are quite able to do what must be done.
I do think you'd be interested in having as many
people as possible working clear it up. Naturally, I want
to see my father's killers brought to justice, but I
don't think father would appreciate the importation of investigators from Hartford.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Rolin.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Please, I came here primarily to investigate the death of
the first hearted man. I'm afraid you'll have to put
up with me until I satisfy myself that there's no
connection between your father.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And that possible connection.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Could there be, I don't know. There isn't any.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And if I hear of you dragging the Blackburn name
into a sword and murder in that part of town,
I will personally thrash you within an inch of your life.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Rollin, I must insist.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
I think perhaps that if you left, mister Doler and
I could conclude this meeting much more rapidly.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Don't you have an appointment someplace?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Don't you forget what I said? Balla? I won't.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Oh, I must apologize, mister Donne.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
You don't have to, the loss of his father has
been a great shock to him. And I must say
that other young man who was here, as pleasant as
he tried to be, did leave us with the impression
that he suspected us. One doesn't say things like that
about the Blackburns. It is an extremely proud and moral family.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I understand. I don't want you to think that I.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Am mister Dalla. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well? I think you've probably been asked these questions by
mister Raymer. But if you'll bear with me, of course. Ah,
were you here the night your husband died?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Yes, I was in the other wing where our bedrooms are.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Rollin was there too, But he came down to the
kitchen that's through there and found poor Leland.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Neither have you heard anything?
Speaker 7 (09:40):
No, I had my radio on, I remember. But even
so it is quite a big house.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's a beautiful house, this Blackburn. Do you have any
idea who could have done this thing? Any enemies of
your husband's.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
I knew of nobody who disliked Leland.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
He was a charitable, honest man, and a pious one.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm sorry that this blackburn. I don't bot you anyother My.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Only hope is that I mud join him soon.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Lieutenant seyim is dollar. Lieutenant, Oh yeah, what have you
been up to? I went out to see the Blackburns.
How did you reconstruct the killing out there? Well, like
I said, he still had the phone in his hand.
He's been hit a number of times in some blood instrument.
Anything to make you think there was more than one killer.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
No, wounds were all on the right side of the head,
struck from behind by a right handed man.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Why the son? He was a little agitated at my
being there, he said, killers. He said he wanted to
see his father's killers brought to justice. Plural would make
him say a thing like that. I don't know, and
as it stands, it's not worth anything as evidence, but
I thought i'd tell you for me. At that moment,
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had meant there was a possibility that ronin Blackburn knew
more than he was saying. I spent another two hours
trying to find something to strengthen that possibility, the financial
condition of both the family and their brokerage firm. I
got no place with it, but I returned to my
hotel with the feeling that that one slip was going
to develop into the link to connect Jean's death with
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the Blackburn investigation. The feeling lasted only a few seconds
after I met the man who was waiting for me outside.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
My room, Mister dom Hell Brad, I'm the hotel detective here.
I think i'd better talk to you. What about wound
down four thirteen? Missus Raymer? How to find out about me?
I've been keep my eye on her, so you'd go
to see you and checked on you. I had an
idea that insurance company would send somebody else.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Why have you even watching her?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Her husband paid me to. I guess there was something
wrong between him. Yeah, A man showed up to see
her the day the husband was killed. I didn't get
a chance to tell him, but I thought I ought
to tell you, Hoisy. Richard is his name, George. He's
in the Clemens Hotel up the street. He checked in
from Hertford two.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Come out in the room, Brian, I wanna hear the
rest of her.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Sure there is much more this. Richard showed up at
the rhyme of room about one the afternoon. Rhymeo was
out so I didn't get to him, and then he
was shot that night about ten. Maybe it don't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You know where Richards is now?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
He checked out this afternoon and took the fire for
the plane in the oar.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean for your drink, Bran.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Sure you know, man fool to marry a woman as
beautiful as that all always means trouble. That's my personal opinion. Anyway,
My wife is up, you see, and that's as.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Far as it goes through here. Uh. Thanks, Have you
told this to the police? Brand not yet? Why not?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I figured a couple of days won't make any difference.
If the police don't come up with something else. But
then I'll tell him you talked to her. What do
you think?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I don't know, but I'm going down to stay her.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Wouldn't be very smart for him.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Maybe not. That's the way I have to play it.
Help yourself with another drink brand and and thanks. I've
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gotta see her.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Huh sure, Johnny, come in. What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Why'd youly to me last night?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I I don't understand, George Richards. Why didn't you tell
me he was here?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
How did you find out.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
He was seen coming into this room? Why didn't you
tell me?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I was afraid to her that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I believe. I put myself out on a limb for
you today because I thought there was a chance you
wouldn't lie to me. I withheld information. They want a
motive for Jean's murder, and I didn't mention you.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I didn't kill him.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That doesn't mean anything now that there's Richards.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I didn't know he was here until I opened that door.
He stayed here ten minutes, and I made him leave.
I told him to go back home and there'd be
real trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He didn't leave until this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I didn't know that, Johnny I I know I should
have told you last night. I've always trusted you, but
I knew how bad the situation would look, and I
I just prayed that nobody would know George was here.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You weren't covering up for him.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
No, I didn't know, Johnny, I didn't know he was
still here.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Quit it? Quit it? Will you come on, said Ane
and get a hold of yourself. Fuck. I want to
believe you, Barbara. You know that, but it doesn't make
any difference now whether I do or not. The police
are going to learn about Richard's.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Are you going to tell them?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Imagine they'll tell me. But I can't hold back anymore,
and were the answers I'll have to give them. They
can probably indict you for murder or at least accessory
with Richards.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I didn't kill him. I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Stop it. I don't need hysterics. I need proof. How
can you approve to me that you knew nothing about it?
I don't know would Richard's have done and alone? No,
how can you approve that? No? I can't use things
you know. I need people and statements. People will swear
that they saw you at the time. Jean Raymer was killed.
People who will swear they saw Richard.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It was nine o'clock.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
I was here.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I can check that.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That's all I know. Johnny, stop, please stop. I can't
stand anymore, all.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Right, angel. I try to find an alibi for George
Richards that night, but a stranger in a city the
size of Charleston is hard to nail down. I went
to the client hotel and questioned bell boys, clerks, maids,
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and bartenders, but those who remembered him hadn't seen them
during the evening in question, and I tried cab drivers
with no better success. It was after midnight when I
went to bed, and nine the next morning when I
was awakened by a summons from the police accompanied by
official transportation.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Here he is, Lieutenant, Hey, Argeant, you can wait outside, Yes,
sit down, as I had an interesting chat with the
hotel detective where you were stopping.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Oh, I'm not surprised, lieutenant. What's the matter with you? Son?
You put yourself and put it on serious position by
holding back information from me. Why'd you do it?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I'm not sure you admitted knowing that Gene Raymer. Why
didn't you tell me then that you knew about trouble
between him and his wife.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Well, I wanted to check the other. I was first
Blackburn investigation. How bad was his trouble? Pretty bad? I
had a mean streak that she pretty bad. Ryman had
a mean streak that didn't show except to his closest
friends and intimates. You'd say he did her bodily home. Yep,
lots of it. How'd you find out for her? How
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well you knew her? I knew her, I thought they
were married. You loved her. By any chance I had been,
I would have married her. I know what you're driving.
I know tenant. The possibility that I came down here
to protect her from the murder of charge, Well, that's
half true. She's been my friend. I didn't want to
see her pulled in it. She wasn't mixed up in it.
You don't think she was. I'll have to leave that
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for you. I know she had a motor And to
make it better, possible accomplice turns up. But so far
it's all circumstantial.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
And we put a searcher out on this man, Richard,
since how good them circumstances look to us?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Sure, and I'll bet I can reconstruct your reconstruction a
phony tipped to rhyme on how to crack the Blackburn thing,
an appointment on magazine Straight and the payoff. You break
it down, Well, I tried. Barbara has an alibi, but
Richard's hasn't, and I gotta have somebody for that killing dollar.
I'm going to bring her in. I'm surprised you have
it already. I want to talk to you first. I
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want you to stay here while I talk to her.
So why you think you'll break down because of the
It's a matter of that board. I'll be right back.
I gotta go get a man to pick her up. Hey,
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what are you doing columplating suicide? Where's lieutenant? Seems just
went out the other door. I'll be right back. Hey,
you finally got the autopsy report? I know, man Blackburn.
You sell as if he really didn't believe his dad. No,
he's dead, all right? What is the sergeant? The Blackburn
autopsy report? Yeah, look here, I'll be narcotic user. The
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press has been waiting for this lieutenant, and they've got
a ride to it. No, wait, don't give it to
him yet. This has been pretty hard on that family.
Hold on to it. No use dragging them through any
more mud. Please to the federal men.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Go to work on it, all right, sir, if you'll
be hearing a few minutes dollars so relax.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I got to run through a few reports while we'll wait.
It was hardly the time for relaxation, but I tried.
We sat through an hour of questions to which there
was no provable answers. We sat through an hour of
questions to which there were no provable answers. And at
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the end of it, Barbara Raymer was booked on suspicion
of murder and I was released on bail, charged with
suspicion of being accessory after the fact I had only
one place to go. You have to know, missus Blackburn,
good afternoon, I mister Dollar. You remember me, of course
I do.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I wasn't expecting.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I'm sorry, I had enough time of phone mare come in. Yes,
your sun at home.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
No, he's at the office. What is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
A girl has been arrested because the police thinks she
killed mister Rhymer, the other man from Hartford.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I don't think she did it.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I don't think I understand, mister Dollar. Why have you
come here?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Because I think you know she didn't do it, Missus Blackburn,
mister Dollar, could we sit down someplace, yes.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
In the drawing room now, if you please, sir?
Speaker 7 (20:41):
What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Why did you refuse to allow an autopsy to be
performed on your husband?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Because I believe it to be a revolting and savage practice,
a mental torture that no one has the right to
ask the survivors to experience.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I will not condone it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Usually laws are stronger than human feeling. You know that
one had been performed.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I refused.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Rollin told me there was nothing to fear.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He was wrong.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I will not condone it.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's a matter of official record. Now, Missus Blackburn, the report
says your husband was a narcotics user.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
He was not.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
He was. Your son knew it, and I think you did.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
I should have to ask you to leave, mister Dollard, please.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Missus Blackburn, that wouldn't do any good. When I was
here before, maybe you remember your son said something he
didn't intend to say. He told me that more than
one man killed your husband. He said killers.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
He was upset.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Both murders had something to do with the narcotics. Your
husband used didn't they. No, the police haven't been able
to find a link between the Blackburn name and the
magazine street section. The narcotics made that link, isn't it right? No,
Gene Reimer must have found out he was killed. Now
a woman is charged with a murder she had nothing
to do with. What else do you want?
Speaker 7 (21:55):
We thought we were doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Why did you think that.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
We hope to save Leland that shame and rollin His son.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And his widow, Jean Raymer must have learned from you.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
No, no one was to be told. Mister Ramah discovered
it himself when he faced us. We begged him to
say nothing, but when he threatened us, we told him
their names.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
The names of the people who supplied your husband, Yes.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
And made a hell of our lives. They've extorted money
from us for almost ten years. We of the inviolate family.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
They killed your husband.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
They came that night to force him to buy more,
and when he refused and tried to telephone the police,
they killed him.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I want you to tell me who these people are, we.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Told mister Ramah, and.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
And he I won't go alone.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
It will be finished. Then this farce we.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Live, it would be finished anyway.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Yes, I could go no further. There are two. One
is named Mila, the other stone.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Where do I find him?
Speaker 7 (23:22):
You won't go alone. We've caused one day.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
I'll tell you where to find them.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I hadn't planned to go alone, but on the way
I began to wonder. At the time I spent interesting
the police wouldn't be used by missus Blackburn to warn
the two men whose capture would put the finish to
the family reputation, so I didn't contact Lieutenant Simms. Instead,
I stopped by my hotel to pick up an automatic
and cab to the magazine street addressed by myself. I
(23:54):
take it easy up there.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
For thanks, I will hey, I thank you, Yeah, call
(24:17):
you Miller's Stone.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
What's the difference, Miller? What's that they're pushing in? I
just came from the Blackburn place, where the old lady
is tired of trying to save the family pride. She
talked again. What what other reason would I have for
being here? She's ready to talk to the police about
her husband. I'm ready to talk to you about Jeene Rayman.
(24:39):
I don't get you better start. Come on out that door.
We'll find our way. Now, listen to me. You can't
pull a man around like this.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I'm saying, why, I haven't done nothing?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Why argue? All right, I'll go get away from me. Fine, Stone,
I gotta talk to Stone. He did get a chance
(25:16):
to talk to Stone, but not before Lieutenant sim has
heard him out and added his statement and added the
surviving Blackburns, which cleared Barbara Raymer and yours truly. Expense
account had him three one hundred dollars. Miscellaneous expenses in
Charleston had him four same as Item two. Transportation back
to Hartford. Expenser count total. Excuse me? Yeah, hello Johnny?
(25:36):
Oh him, I thought you were coming over.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
It's after four.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Uh well, as a as a matter of fact, I
was just going to phone I. I can't make it.
What's the matter, Johnny, I've got another case.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
What's the matter, Johnny?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I have to earn a living, all right.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Do you know where to find me if you want to?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'll try to call you when I get
back to town. Okay, goodbye. Expense count total three hundred
and forty five dollars and seventy five cents. Remarks this
was a fairly personal assignment and it brings to mind
a fairly personal observation. Cops, private or otherwise should never
(26:23):
marry their loudly husbands because they're away from home so much.
But more important, they leave too many widows. Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Gil Dodd with music by
Wilbur Hatch. Edmund O'Brien's latest picture is the Paramount Pictures
production Warpath. Featured in tonight's cast were John Dayner, Jim Knusser,
Jeannette Nolan, George Ellis, John McIntyre and Larry Dopkin. Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by Jimi do Vaier.
(27:11):
This is Dan Coberly inviting you to join us next
week at this time when Edmund O'Brien will return as
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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