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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dolla. I
received a message. You'll call this is Roy Underwood.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Oh yes, Miss down Wood.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I've been hired by the Plymouth Insurance Company to look
into the jewelry you reported stolen.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's what the message said.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Light will do it to me every time.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
From Hollywood, It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I received a message. You've called this is Ry Underwood.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Oh yes, Miss down to Wood.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I've been hired by the Plymouth Insurance Company to look
into the jewelry you reported stolen.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's what the message said.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I wondered when I could see you find out if
you have any idea who's stolen.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'll be in my popment for the rest of the
night and I'll tell you everything you need to know.
I know stolen, and I think I know where you
can find it.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, you make it sound very simple, miss Undwood. I'll
see you after dinner, say eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Edmund O'Brien in the transcribed Adventure of a Man with
the Action Packed Expenser car America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance invest.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
To get her Here is truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home
Office Plymouth Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The falcon is an
accounting of expenditures. During my investigation of the Virginia Town
expense account, Eine won twenty dollars transportation and incidentals between
Hartford and the Hotel Bentley, New York City.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I contacted the policy holder, Roy Underwood, and at eight forty.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Five that first night, I arrived at the sixty third
Street department.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The meeting was not in private.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
We can go in the study.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Maybe I shouldn't have interrupted you tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Won't take long.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
A little business.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
But what am I going to do with him? He
just sits there with that character and ignore.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh sure, Allie, sure, I'll talk to you about it
in a minute. Now, excuse me. I hope you'll pardon
Maya not introducing it. I will gets a little out
of hand. Sometimes I hear there's whiskey on the table.
If you wanted no thanks this jeury. You reported stolen.
(02:29):
I have a description. When you look at it, tell
me if it's right. Yeah, yes, this is correct. They
were stolen by a woman named Virginia Town. You're sure, then, yes,
I'm sure of it. She was here at a party
very much like this one.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I saw leave with him. You didn't try to stop him,
of course I did.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's not my responsibility to place the thief under arrest.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Did you notify the police? No?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I was going to, but I thought better of it.
Next morning, I wanted to give her a chance to
think twice too. She bring him back. I won't swear
out and complain.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
The pieces are all women's jewelry. Two bracelets and three rings.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yes, I buy odd pieces when I can a reasonable price.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
How did she manage to get hold of them?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I were in my dresser drawer, she put them on.
I told her to take them off, She refused and left.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You mentioned on the phone that you thought you knew
where I could find this Virginia Town.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm not sure you understand. I tried to foundered her apartment,
but she'd moved out. When I called her closest friend,
the girl called Francis Adams, and she said she didn't
know where Virginia was. But I think she was lying.
I think Virginia was right there. Where do I find
this Francis Adams. Oh, were flats of Lexington there fortieth.
(03:45):
She's a check at the top hat and works till
fall in the morning. I'll give your address.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Before I left, I was shown a posed photograph of
Virginia Town, inscribed to Roy with more thanks than I
can ever say. I didn't keep the photograph, but the
vision of the face, and it stayed with me. On
(04:15):
Roy Underwoods hunch Virginia Town might be I capped to
the address of a friend on Mexican.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That's the second till didn't he take?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh, miss Virginia Town.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
My name is Dolla. I'm an insurance investigator.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I'm here to talk to you about some jewelry owned
by mister Roy under One.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
What I come in? Please?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yes, Roy, sin't you here?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I'm working for the insurance company. Roy said, he thought
you might be found.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Here, and he said the jewelry was here.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That's right. He said, you stole it.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
That's not true.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
He gave it to one of the bracelets for Christmas
last year, the other for my birthday, and the rings
at other times.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You have proof of them.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Proof he knows he gave them to me.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I said proof My instinct was that something like this
might be the case. But the people who hired me
can't consider the personal angles.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You've expected something like this.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Under its proof of ownership.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
He ensured the pieces to himself, and he undoubtedly has
bills of sale. You will have to give it all
back or he'll go to the police.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I can't give it all back. I sold one of
the bracelets.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You can buy it again, No, I couldn't.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Possibly.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I sold it at a low price because I didn't
have any money and I had to live.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You must have friends. Can't you borrow enough to get
it back?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I have friends, I did the ones I had before
I met Roy. One's a hat check girl like I was.
And there's a cab driver. That's why I thought was
at the door when you knocked. You know the kind
of people who can scrape up fifteen hundred dollars at
the drop of a hat.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Is that what you need?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
At least?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Not much of a market for things like that bracelet.
I had to take a cut price that or wait
months for a buyer. But I had a right to
sell it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It was mine.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I didn't he said you did. He said you took
it and the rest of the stuff out of his
dress and drawer.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
It's not true.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Was a party going on?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Did you go into his room?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yes, to tell him that I didn't want to see
him anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
He laughed at me and said I'd come back to
him any time he wanted me to.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I guess this is what meant.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
If you were in there alone with him. It's his
word against yours. As I said, he has proof of ownership.
I'm afraid you're really in trouble unless I crawl back.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
That'll be Phil, just a second. Phil. I don't know
how he's going to take the news. There's nothing to
do but tell him.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Phil's last name was Kelly, and that Matches' appearance. He
was over forty, red hair beginning to gray as he listened,
His heavy, freckled hands started to clench and unclench, and
the look in his eyes convinced me more than her words,
that Virginia.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Town was telling the truth. The rest of his story
came out.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Underwood had gotten her into a few chorus lines after
he talked her out of a job at a nightclub,
not because she had any outstanding talent except beauty, but
because of his influence. When he stopped using that to
her advantage.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
There was more, Kelly, until I finally got it through
my empty head that the father in debt I got
the more he enjoyed it. So I stopped it the
only way I knew how. I told him it was finished,
and it was.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And she's no thief. She sold only what was hers.
She didn't steal him Geegauz, It's.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Not what I think, Kelly. That's what the police can
pile up in the way of evidence. Well, then the
truth of it is I sold the bracelet. I stole
it from her. I stole it from her, and that's
why she can't give it back. Tell him, Matt and
see what he can pile up against me.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I'll wait a minute, Kelly.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Oh, now you're being ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
There's no reason to bother mister Dollar with all this.
It's his job to return the.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Jewelry if he cares all You're not going to see
Virginia arrested because of the personal feelings of this scum.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Now, no, I'm not. If I can help it, well,
it's better.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
What are you going to do with mister Dollar.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I'm going to give you some time to try to
raise the money. I'm overstepping my bound, but I think
you deserve a break. I'll stall Underwood for two days,
tell him I haven't found you. It's tomorrow and the
next day. That's the best I can do.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That'll be time enough, and I'll deliver his blasted gigors
myself with a slug.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And the teeth to move.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
I don't know how to thank you, mister Daller.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Forget it. I'll check back with you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I felt justified in letting personal feelings rule me for
that short time, at least because I was sure the
company wouldn't want to be used in any kind.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Of blackmail scheme.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I met Francis Adams, the girl with whom Virginia was
sharing the apartment, when I checked the progress the following afternoon.
When I went back that evening, a couple of hundred
dollars had come in and Kelly was out trying to
raise more. I stayed there alone with her, waiting for
them to come back, and I caught myself thinking less
about my part of it, more about the way she
was facing what could be in her future. She was
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un complaining and almost naively brave about accepting the possible
results of the mistake she had made. I knew I
was on thin ice when I stalled Underwood one more day,
but it had to end that third night when she
calmly gave me the latest development.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
We couldn't buy the bracelet if we had five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Johnny, I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
It's been cut up. Even one of the larger diamonds
has been cut.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
When did this come out this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
About four?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Why didn't you call me then?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Cause I didn't want anybody else to be here when
I told you about it.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That doesn't seem to make my next move any easier.
I don't have to go to Underwood tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I know you will.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
That's why I wanted to tell you this way, cause
the next time I see you, you won't be my friend,
be just another.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Man with some evidence. I've grown used to you as
a friend. Johnny.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I'm sorry it had to happen this way.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
No matter how it happened, I'm glad it. Did you
think we could forget all of it? How should take
me someplace we can try?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Where do you wanna go any place?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Just to have a couple of drinks?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I just wanna go someplace with you. Come on, get up, sure.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Hey what joy? Hello Onwood? Come in?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
What was this nonsense? You were talking on the phone
when you thought the insurance company would be willing not
to prosecute if the loss was made up? Who was
going to make up the loss?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Forget it?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You think that's any way to top Try and forget it?
I certain intend to. I got your stuff. I was
willing to show some leniency. Everything was returned, but I'd
be a.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Ful fumising pieces listed as worth twenty four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
If you will sign this claim, I'll turn it into
the company. He's my pen. Thank God.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Can't afford to be taking advantage of by every beautiful
young thing that happens along. Hey wha, thanks well to
thank you for what you've done.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Nothing with a job, under it, Nothing with a job.
It was a quarter after twelve when I left Underwoods apartment.
I had to make my own report on the matter
to the police, and that took him til two thirty.
I then had lunch and went back to my hotel.
(11:43):
The pack planning to leave a hert Ford as soon
as possible. It wasn't very soon.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Come it, yeah, Lieutenant Drinker homicide.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
MM, what's up, Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You made a report earlier this afternoon on some jewelry
owned by one Roy Underwood that had been stolen and
then partially return I did. I guess we need another
statement from you. Stuff is missing again and Roy Underwood
has been shot. To there, come on.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
On the way to headquarters the Lieutenant Brinker. I learned
it Underwood had been killed in his apartment. The report
had been phoned in by the building manager at two
twenty that afternoon when he heard the screaming of Alice Breen.
She was the drunken young woman I had run into
the first night on the case. She was being held
as a material witness in spite of the fact that
the jewelry was again missed. The police took a dim
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view of her story that she'd entered the apartment and
found Underwood dead. As far as as far as I
was concerned, there were a number of things I wish
As far as I was concerned, there were a number
of things I wish I hadn't done, and a number
of things I wish I hadn't said.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
In my first report.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
To the police, stated that After three days of searching,
you found the suspect in the original theft this morning,
recovered the stolen property, minus one item, and returned it
to the owner. Do you think that between the time
you found this Virginia Town and started back to Underwood's apartment,
somebody could have learned about the jewelry and athology.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I'm not sure somebody knew about it and planned to
steal it. I don't know why they didn't steal it
from the town girl.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
According to your report, this Virginia Town told you she
considered the property in question to be a series of gifts.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That's what she said that were true.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Do you think she would have conspired to arm Ruby
to regain it.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I don't know. I don't know. Why are you working
these possibilities over, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm trying to eliminate them as possibilities. This Sallas Breen,
we know she was involved with Underwood, told he was
pretty ruthless and getting rid of women. He was through
with modial passion would be easier to work with.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I haven't heard her whole statement.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
She hasn't made a decent one, but what she told
the manager doesn't job with.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
What she told us Lieutenant, I can recheck the town
girl's statements and maybe get something if you'll let me.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Do it alone.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Why should we do that.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh, you don't have to. She knows my sympathies are
with her. I think she was getting a bad deal
from under it, and she knows.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I think. So.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You've got a good record here in New York Dollar
you think you might do better alone. I guess I
can take a chance on you. You've got quite a
bit at stake yourself, haven't you.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
By then? I sent some men to Virginia Town's place.
She wasn't there, but the girls she lives with was.
But she told my men. Makes it sound like you
found her before you said you're dead.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You can still take a chance on me, Lieutenant, I
hope so, doll it.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
By the time I got to the Lexington Avenue apartment,
the roommate, Francis Adams, was gone too, but through his
cab company, I did locate Phil Kelly.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I swear I didn't even know about it. I was
brought up to mourn the dead, but if you'll excuse me,
I can't bring myself to it this time.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's hardly the point where's Virginia.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I don't know. Where's France Adams.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know that either. This is a work there,
but on the go since morning.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Why would Virginia go? You must have an idea what
I've seen? Why would Virginia go? You must have an idea.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
From what I've seen. I wouldn't be at all surprised
if she wasn't looking as hard for you as you.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Are for her. If you thought of that, why would
she do that? You don't know? Or come now?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
She has the strongest motive for the killing so far.
If I can't find her, I have to tell the
police that's why she's hiding.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now that isn't so at all.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
What other reason would she have? He'll ask me that,
and I'll have to answer them. She's no murderers, and
she's acting mighty like one.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Get into the cab. I'll take you to her. That's
the door there.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I won't go in with her if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I don't know she's she's dead, Okay, I've got a
check on you, Kelly.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Who is it? Felt?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's Dollar?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I mean, why did you come here? Who told you
where I was?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
None of your business? Did your job, didn't you. You
told me last night, no matter what your personal fe.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Leaves were, you had to do your job, so you
did it. Why can't you leave me alone? Though?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
If he was still alive, I couldn't still alive. The
police have been looking.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
For you, so I Underwood stead you didn't know.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Of course I didn't know, Johnny. Why are you hiding
because I because I didn't want to be arrested. You
told me Roy was gonna sweat out a complaint you didn't.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Have a chance to starting at about one o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Wherever you're been here, Johnny?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Please, how did you get here?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
What difference does that mean? No?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And how did he know where you were?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Johnny?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I came here because you said Roy could swear out
a complaint and it was his word against mine, and
that somebody in my spot didn't have much of a chance.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I wish you'd been as truthful with me to me
you've lied to me?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Oh I haven't.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yes, now I realized they were stupid, obvious, nice, and
I believe them because I wanted to believe them. Johnny,
you told me Underwood gave you those things as presents
Christmas birthdays and so on.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
The police have learned that he bought all of the
pieces on the same day at an auction a year
before last.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I didn't know that. I don't care what he bought him.
He gave them to me.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You didn't tell me until last night that the bracelet
you sold it them cut up. The police learned that
the jeweler who bought it told you he was going
to cut it up.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
All right, I did lie. You offered me two days
to try and think of something to do.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I gave you three, and I'm in trouble because of them.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Is that all they mean?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah? Now that's all they.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Mean, Johnny. How can you say that?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Because your lies have made you a lot less beautiful
than I thought you were. Johnny, I have to clear
myself with the police, not only about robbery, but about murder.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Now. The only way I can do that is to
take you in. Let you clear up your lives if
you can. I'm sorry, Johnny about what.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
But it had to be this question. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
If you're ready to go, there's a camp waiting minute.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
It was a silent trip the police headquarters in Kelly's
taxi and Lieutenant Brinker allowed me the privilege of being
present while he questioned Virginia for two hours.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
When it was finished, Alice.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Breen, the material witness, was released, and I walked out
of the building into a murcy New York Kee.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Mister Dollar, you're still here, Kelly? What else would that be?
You want to drive me back in my hotel?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Sure, get in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
When she's coming out.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I don't think she is, Kelly? Why not? And building
up quite a case against her?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
What about not killing that scum?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, she didn't do it, and you know it. I
don't know Kelly. Well I do.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I know where she came from, and I know what
she is. She had nothing for so long. The when
that underwood gave her his line and made his rotten promises,
she thought it was heaven opening up to her. I
know because she told me so with her eyes shining.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Can't you see you just exposed her motive? Can't you
see you've just exposed her motive? She had nothing when
he found her, and he was going to send her
back with less a prison turn.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
She didn't kill him.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Why do you keep paying that, Kelly?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Because I killed him. The motive you've given her was mine?
Do you think I'd stand by and let him send
her a risen. Do you think I'd do that, knowing
that since she was a.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Baby, the mother and father before, Kelly, do you know
where the jewelry is?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yes? I know where is it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I'll tell you in good time. I want you to
take me in there now.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
The police said the jewelry, Kelly. They're lying to me.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
She told them when she'd taken it after she killed him,
and they found it there.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Maybe I'd better get another cab.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
H Expense a count Adam two two hundred and thirty
dollars miscellaneous Item three same as Adam one. Transportation back
to hot but expense a count total two hundred and
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seventy dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Remarks.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Please make the check payable to Charles Hagen, Attorney for
the defense in the case of the People Versus Virginia Town.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Gil Todd with music by
Wilbur Hatch. Edmond O'Brien's latest pictures, the Paramount Pictures production.
The Redhead and the Cowboy featured in tonight's cast were
Ramsey Hill, Gie Wood Virginia, Greg Jack Moyles, and Ed Begley.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was transcribed in Hollywood by him
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do Vaier. This is Dan cubberly inviting you to join
us next week at this time when Edmond O'Brien returns
as Yours truly, Johnny dollars
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dolla. I
received a message. You'll call this is Roy Underwood.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Oh yes, Miss down Wood.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I've been hired by the Plymouth Insurance Company to look
into the jewelry you reported stolen.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's what the message said.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Light will do it to me every time.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
From Hollywood, It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I received a message. You've called this is Ry Underwood.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Oh yes, Miss down to Wood.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I've been hired by the Plymouth Insurance Company to look
into the jewelry you reported stolen.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's what the message said.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I wondered when I could see you find out if
you have any idea who's stolen.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'll be in my popment for the rest of the
night and I'll tell you everything you need to know.
I know stolen, and I think I know where you
can find it.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, you make it sound very simple, miss Undwood. I'll
see you after dinner, say eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Edmund O'Brien in the transcribed Adventure of a Man with
the Action Packed Expenser car America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance invest.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
To get her Here is truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home
Office Plymouth Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The falcon is an
accounting of expenditures. During my investigation of the Virginia Town
expense account, Eine won twenty dollars transportation and incidentals between
Hartford and the Hotel Bentley, New York City.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I contacted the policy holder, Roy Underwood, and at eight forty.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Five that first night, I arrived at the sixty third
Street department.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The meeting was not in private.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
We can go in the study.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Maybe I shouldn't have interrupted you tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Won't take long.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
A little business.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
But what am I going to do with him? He
just sits there with that character and ignore.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh sure, Allie, sure, I'll talk to you about it
in a minute. Now, excuse me. I hope you'll pardon
Maya not introducing it. I will gets a little out
of hand. Sometimes I hear there's whiskey on the table.
If you wanted no thanks this jeury. You reported stolen.
(02:29):
I have a description. When you look at it, tell
me if it's right. Yeah, yes, this is correct. They
were stolen by a woman named Virginia Town. You're sure, then, yes,
I'm sure of it. She was here at a party
very much like this one.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I saw leave with him. You didn't try to stop him,
of course I did.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's not my responsibility to place the thief under arrest.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Did you notify the police? No?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I was going to, but I thought better of it.
Next morning, I wanted to give her a chance to
think twice too. She bring him back. I won't swear
out and complain.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
The pieces are all women's jewelry. Two bracelets and three rings.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yes, I buy odd pieces when I can a reasonable price.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
How did she manage to get hold of them?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I were in my dresser drawer, she put them on.
I told her to take them off, She refused and left.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You mentioned on the phone that you thought you knew
where I could find this Virginia Town.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm not sure you understand. I tried to foundered her apartment,
but she'd moved out. When I called her closest friend,
the girl called Francis Adams, and she said she didn't
know where Virginia was. But I think she was lying.
I think Virginia was right there. Where do I find
this Francis Adams. Oh, were flats of Lexington there fortieth.
(03:45):
She's a check at the top hat and works till
fall in the morning. I'll give your address.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Before I left, I was shown a posed photograph of
Virginia Town, inscribed to Roy with more thanks than I
can ever say. I didn't keep the photograph, but the
vision of the face, and it stayed with me. On
(04:15):
Roy Underwoods hunch Virginia Town might be I capped to
the address of a friend on Mexican.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
That's the second till didn't he take?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh, miss Virginia Town.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
My name is Dolla. I'm an insurance investigator.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I'm here to talk to you about some jewelry owned
by mister Roy under One.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
What I come in? Please?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yes, Roy, sin't you here?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I'm working for the insurance company. Roy said, he thought
you might be found.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Here, and he said the jewelry was here.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That's right. He said, you stole it.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
That's not true.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
He gave it to one of the bracelets for Christmas
last year, the other for my birthday, and the rings
at other times.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You have proof of them.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Proof he knows he gave them to me.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I said proof My instinct was that something like this
might be the case. But the people who hired me
can't consider the personal angles.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You've expected something like this.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Under its proof of ownership.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
He ensured the pieces to himself, and he undoubtedly has
bills of sale. You will have to give it all
back or he'll go to the police.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I can't give it all back. I sold one of
the bracelets.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You can buy it again, No, I couldn't.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Possibly.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I sold it at a low price because I didn't
have any money and I had to live.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You must have friends. Can't you borrow enough to get
it back?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I have friends, I did the ones I had before
I met Roy. One's a hat check girl like I was.
And there's a cab driver. That's why I thought was
at the door when you knocked. You know the kind
of people who can scrape up fifteen hundred dollars at
the drop of a hat.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Is that what you need?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
At least?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Not much of a market for things like that bracelet.
I had to take a cut price that or wait
months for a buyer. But I had a right to
sell it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It was mine.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I didn't he said you did. He said you took
it and the rest of the stuff out of his
dress and drawer.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
It's not true.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Was a party going on?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Did you go into his room?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yes, to tell him that I didn't want to see
him anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
He laughed at me and said I'd come back to
him any time he wanted me to.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I guess this is what meant.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
If you were in there alone with him. It's his
word against yours. As I said, he has proof of ownership.
I'm afraid you're really in trouble unless I crawl back.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
That'll be Phil, just a second. Phil. I don't know
how he's going to take the news. There's nothing to
do but tell him.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Phil's last name was Kelly, and that Matches' appearance. He
was over forty, red hair beginning to gray as he listened,
His heavy, freckled hands started to clench and unclench, and
the look in his eyes convinced me more than her words,
that Virginia.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Town was telling the truth. The rest of his story
came out.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Underwood had gotten her into a few chorus lines after
he talked her out of a job at a nightclub,
not because she had any outstanding talent except beauty, but
because of his influence. When he stopped using that to
her advantage.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
There was more, Kelly, until I finally got it through
my empty head that the father in debt I got
the more he enjoyed it. So I stopped it the
only way I knew how. I told him it was finished,
and it was.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And she's no thief. She sold only what was hers.
She didn't steal him Geegauz, It's.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Not what I think, Kelly. That's what the police can
pile up in the way of evidence. Well, then the
truth of it is I sold the bracelet. I stole
it from her. I stole it from her, and that's
why she can't give it back. Tell him, Matt and
see what he can pile up against me.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I'll wait a minute, Kelly.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Oh, now you're being ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
There's no reason to bother mister Dollar with all this.
It's his job to return the.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Jewelry if he cares all You're not going to see
Virginia arrested because of the personal feelings of this scum.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Now, no, I'm not. If I can help it, well,
it's better.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
What are you going to do with mister Dollar.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I'm going to give you some time to try to
raise the money. I'm overstepping my bound, but I think
you deserve a break. I'll stall Underwood for two days,
tell him I haven't found you. It's tomorrow and the
next day. That's the best I can do.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That'll be time enough, and I'll deliver his blasted gigors
myself with a slug.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And the teeth to move.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
I don't know how to thank you, mister Daller.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Forget it. I'll check back with you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I felt justified in letting personal feelings rule me for
that short time, at least because I was sure the
company wouldn't want to be used in any kind.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Of blackmail scheme.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I met Francis Adams, the girl with whom Virginia was
sharing the apartment, when I checked the progress the following afternoon.
When I went back that evening, a couple of hundred
dollars had come in and Kelly was out trying to
raise more. I stayed there alone with her, waiting for
them to come back, and I caught myself thinking less
about my part of it, more about the way she
was facing what could be in her future. She was
(08:59):
un complaining and almost naively brave about accepting the possible
results of the mistake she had made. I knew I
was on thin ice when I stalled Underwood one more day,
but it had to end that third night when she
calmly gave me the latest development.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
We couldn't buy the bracelet if we had five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Johnny, I don't get it.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
It's been cut up. Even one of the larger diamonds
has been cut.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
When did this come out this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
About four?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Why didn't you call me then?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Cause I didn't want anybody else to be here when
I told you about it.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That doesn't seem to make my next move any easier.
I don't have to go to Underwood tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I know you will.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
That's why I wanted to tell you this way, cause
the next time I see you, you won't be my friend,
be just another.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Man with some evidence. I've grown used to you as
a friend. Johnny.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I'm sorry it had to happen this way.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
No matter how it happened, I'm glad it. Did you
think we could forget all of it? How should take
me someplace we can try?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Where do you wanna go any place?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Just to have a couple of drinks?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I just wanna go someplace with you. Come on, get up, sure.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Hey what joy? Hello Onwood? Come in?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
What was this nonsense? You were talking on the phone
when you thought the insurance company would be willing not
to prosecute if the loss was made up? Who was
going to make up the loss?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Forget it?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You think that's any way to top Try and forget it?
I certain intend to. I got your stuff. I was
willing to show some leniency. Everything was returned, but I'd
be a.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Ful fumising pieces listed as worth twenty four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
If you will sign this claim, I'll turn it into
the company. He's my pen. Thank God.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Can't afford to be taking advantage of by every beautiful
young thing that happens along. Hey wha, thanks well to
thank you for what you've done.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Nothing with a job, under it, Nothing with a job.
It was a quarter after twelve when I left Underwoods apartment.
I had to make my own report on the matter
to the police, and that took him til two thirty.
I then had lunch and went back to my hotel.
(11:43):
The pack planning to leave a hert Ford as soon
as possible. It wasn't very soon.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Come it, yeah, Lieutenant Drinker homicide.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
MM, what's up, Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You made a report earlier this afternoon on some jewelry
owned by one Roy Underwood that had been stolen and
then partially return I did. I guess we need another
statement from you. Stuff is missing again and Roy Underwood
has been shot. To there, come on.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
On the way to headquarters the Lieutenant Brinker. I learned
it Underwood had been killed in his apartment. The report
had been phoned in by the building manager at two
twenty that afternoon when he heard the screaming of Alice Breen.
She was the drunken young woman I had run into
the first night on the case. She was being held
as a material witness in spite of the fact that
the jewelry was again missed. The police took a dim
(12:41):
view of her story that she'd entered the apartment and
found Underwood dead. As far as as far as I
was concerned, there were a number of things I wish
As far as I was concerned, there were a number
of things I wish I hadn't done, and a number
of things I wish I hadn't said.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
In my first report.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
To the police, stated that After three days of searching,
you found the suspect in the original theft this morning,
recovered the stolen property, minus one item, and returned it
to the owner. Do you think that between the time
you found this Virginia Town and started back to Underwood's apartment,
somebody could have learned about the jewelry and athology.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I'm not sure somebody knew about it and planned to
steal it. I don't know why they didn't steal it
from the town girl.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
According to your report, this Virginia Town told you she
considered the property in question to be a series of gifts.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That's what she said that were true.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Do you think she would have conspired to arm Ruby
to regain it.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I don't know. I don't know. Why are you working
these possibilities over, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I'm trying to eliminate them as possibilities. This Sallas Breen,
we know she was involved with Underwood, told he was
pretty ruthless and getting rid of women. He was through
with modial passion would be easier to work with.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I haven't heard her whole statement.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
She hasn't made a decent one, but what she told
the manager doesn't job with.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
What she told us Lieutenant, I can recheck the town
girl's statements and maybe get something if you'll let me.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Do it alone.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Why should we do that.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh, you don't have to. She knows my sympathies are
with her. I think she was getting a bad deal
from under it, and she knows.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I think. So.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You've got a good record here in New York Dollar
you think you might do better alone. I guess I
can take a chance on you. You've got quite a
bit at stake yourself, haven't you.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
By then? I sent some men to Virginia Town's place.
She wasn't there, but the girls she lives with was.
But she told my men. Makes it sound like you
found her before you said you're dead.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You can still take a chance on me, Lieutenant, I
hope so, doll it.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
By the time I got to the Lexington Avenue apartment,
the roommate, Francis Adams, was gone too, but through his
cab company, I did locate Phil Kelly.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I swear I didn't even know about it. I was
brought up to mourn the dead, but if you'll excuse me,
I can't bring myself to it this time.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's hardly the point where's Virginia.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I don't know. Where's France Adams.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know that either. This is a work there,
but on the go since morning.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Why would Virginia go? You must have an idea what
I've seen? Why would Virginia go? You must have an idea.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
From what I've seen. I wouldn't be at all surprised
if she wasn't looking as hard for you as you.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Are for her. If you thought of that, why would
she do that? You don't know? Or come now?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
She has the strongest motive for the killing so far.
If I can't find her, I have to tell the
police that's why she's hiding.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now that isn't so at all.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
What other reason would she have? He'll ask me that,
and I'll have to answer them. She's no murderers, and
she's acting mighty like one.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Get into the cab. I'll take you to her. That's
the door there.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I won't go in with her if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I don't know she's she's dead, Okay, I've got a
check on you, Kelly.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Who is it? Felt?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's Dollar?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I mean, why did you come here? Who told you
where I was?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
None of your business? Did your job, didn't you. You
told me last night, no matter what your personal fe.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Leaves were, you had to do your job, so you
did it. Why can't you leave me alone? Though?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
If he was still alive, I couldn't still alive. The
police have been looking.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
For you, so I Underwood stead you didn't know.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Of course I didn't know, Johnny. Why are you hiding
because I because I didn't want to be arrested. You
told me Roy was gonna sweat out a complaint you didn't.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Have a chance to starting at about one o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Wherever you're been here, Johnny?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Please, how did you get here?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
What difference does that mean? No?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And how did he know where you were?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Johnny?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I came here because you said Roy could swear out
a complaint and it was his word against mine, and
that somebody in my spot didn't have much of a chance.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I wish you'd been as truthful with me to me
you've lied to me?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Oh I haven't.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yes, now I realized they were stupid, obvious, nice, and
I believe them because I wanted to believe them. Johnny,
you told me Underwood gave you those things as presents
Christmas birthdays and so on.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
The police have learned that he bought all of the
pieces on the same day at an auction a year
before last.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I didn't know that. I don't care what he bought him.
He gave them to me.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You didn't tell me until last night that the bracelet
you sold it them cut up. The police learned that
the jeweler who bought it told you he was going
to cut it up.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
All right, I did lie. You offered me two days
to try and think of something to do.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I gave you three, and I'm in trouble because of them.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Is that all they mean?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah? Now that's all they.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Mean, Johnny. How can you say that?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Because your lies have made you a lot less beautiful
than I thought you were. Johnny, I have to clear
myself with the police, not only about robbery, but about murder.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Now. The only way I can do that is to
take you in. Let you clear up your lives if
you can. I'm sorry, Johnny about what.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
But it had to be this question. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
If you're ready to go, there's a camp waiting minute.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
It was a silent trip the police headquarters in Kelly's
taxi and Lieutenant Brinker allowed me the privilege of being
present while he questioned Virginia for two hours.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
When it was finished, Alice.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Breen, the material witness, was released, and I walked out
of the building into a murcy New York Kee.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Mister Dollar, you're still here, Kelly? What else would that be?
You want to drive me back in my hotel?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Sure, get in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
When she's coming out.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I don't think she is, Kelly? Why not? And building
up quite a case against her?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
What about not killing that scum?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, she didn't do it, and you know it. I
don't know Kelly. Well I do.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I know where she came from, and I know what
she is. She had nothing for so long. The when
that underwood gave her his line and made his rotten promises,
she thought it was heaven opening up to her. I
know because she told me so with her eyes shining.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Can't you see you just exposed her motive? Can't you
see you've just exposed her motive? She had nothing when
he found her, and he was going to send her
back with less a prison turn.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
She didn't kill him.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Why do you keep paying that, Kelly?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Because I killed him. The motive you've given her was mine?
Do you think I'd stand by and let him send
her a risen. Do you think I'd do that, knowing
that since she was a.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Baby, the mother and father before, Kelly, do you know
where the jewelry is?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yes? I know where is it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I'll tell you in good time. I want you to
take me in there now.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
The police said the jewelry, Kelly. They're lying to me.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
She told them when she'd taken it after she killed him,
and they found it there.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Maybe I'd better get another cab.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
H Expense a count Adam two two hundred and thirty
dollars miscellaneous Item three same as Adam one. Transportation back
to hot but expense a count total two hundred and
(20:48):
seventy dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Remarks.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Please make the check payable to Charles Hagen, Attorney for
the defense in the case of the People Versus Virginia Town.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Gil Todd with music by
Wilbur Hatch. Edmond O'Brien's latest pictures, the Paramount Pictures production.
The Redhead and the Cowboy featured in tonight's cast were
Ramsey Hill, Gie Wood Virginia, Greg Jack Moyles, and Ed Begley.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was transcribed in Hollywood by him
(21:31):
do Vaier. This is Dan cubberly inviting you to join
us next week at this time when Edmond O'Brien returns
as Yours truly, Johnny dollars
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