August 12, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bing Crosby has been on the summer holiday, but beginning
October third, Bing and his crew will return to this
their regular time. So joining the fun with Bing Crosby
at this time next Wednesday, October third, from Hollywood. It's
time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Fine, what have you got for me? Mister Benny Waxman's
insured with Columbia. When did he die? And what's wrong
with the way he did it? He's very much alive
and his business is the ast delicate test mature left
too has burned out. When did it happen last night?
We don't know whether Waxman did it himself. The fire
department said it was started deliberately. Police holding Waxman not
yet no evidence, Betty get Donnie. I'll give you everything
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we've got. I'm yours at Forsheven ashallon.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Edmund O'Brien in the transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expenser Car America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator,
Yours truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Spencer ac count Submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dodalla to
Home Office, Columbia, All Risk Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
the protection matter. Expense count out of one thirty two
fifty six train fare and incidentals between Hartford and New
York City. After I received from you the necessary information
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concerning Benny Waxman, I arrived in New York three thirty
in the afternoon and made my way through a heavy
rain to ten seventy eighties one hundred and fifth, where
I found Benny Waxman in a small apartment. The Lieutenant
Parkinson in the fifteenth Precinct was there also, Yeah, mister
Blaxman's then, what are you wanting for? Johnny Dolla? I
represent Columbia All Risk Insurance on Watchman's store. Who is it?
(01:50):
Dynamed Dollar from the insurance company?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Come on in, Dollar Insurance Company.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you know the reason you started the fire.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I had nothing to do with it. I keep telling you,
run over.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He keeps telling me an over, run over. I keep
telling him he's a.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Liar, a liar, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
My name is Johnny Dollars, the Waxman.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I can't depend it on him yet, I'm kind of
a bomb.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I ain't got no story in the Yeah, sure, he
ain't like the stuff of us in the war.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Another big explosure. Nobody heard an explosure. When it went off,
it burned good and the area. Yeah, I don't know
how he got at the.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Will trace it, And yeah, of course you don't know
how I got it. I didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How much was the place ensured? Twenty thousand? You're not
gonna get at Waxman.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Look, Lieutenant, I don't yeah, no more, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You will?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I'll make it a care. I didn't start There was
a man killed in that fire. What I didn't start it.
I didn't kill nobody.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
People lived over the store, three apartments, and old man
doesn't get out. Your company won't have to pay a
red cent dollar because I'm gonna prove Waxman started it.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Why why would I burn down my store? I make
a good living.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Tell mister Dollar how much money you've gotten the back
you'll hear me Waxman.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's not much for a guy who makes a good living,
is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I told you, I told you a dozen time told me.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He gave five thousand to his daughter.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Check your daughter. It's a little tough. We can't find
its to live here with her papa. But she's just disappeared,
and papa doesn't know where she went. Do your papa.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
She went on a trip, mister Dollar, a vacation. Yeah,
I gave it a five thousand for a vacation. And
he doesn't have any idea where she is. I don't
I don't know where she went.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He just gave her five thousand for a little vacation.
It broke him, but his daughter needed a little vacation.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Don't care anymore. I tell you, I don't care, mister Dollar.
Tell your company. I don't want the insurance money.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You don't get out there.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't want out for nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You're on a spot. You figured it was a set.
So many guys like you, Waxman, figure it's as sense
and forget about guys like me. I want you for
a fire and a killing, and I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I'll say it forever I did not do it. I'll
say it till they take me to my grain.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It doesn't give you much time, and I've gotta be going.
I like looking at report. Lieutenant. Yeah, sure, come along, No, No,
I check with you later. I want to talk to Waman. Sure,
fifteenth person. I'll be around until I find out where
I got that bomb. Right, you're loose till I get something, Waxman.
But uh, do me a favor, Huh whether is it?
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Try and leave town. I'd love it.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, mister dollar, go back and tell your company to
forget it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I don't want the insurance money.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
If you didn't have anything to do with the fire
or entitled to it.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I'm gonna leave this town when I can open a
business somewhere else, another city.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
If I'm lucky.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
If you're not guilty, why not take the money.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Because I cannot prove rya innocent.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
What are you afraid of? Why? I said, what are
you afraid of? It's pretty obvious you're afraid of something.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I'm not afraid. I'm I'm just I'm nervous policeman. The
fire and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Five thousand for vacation is pretty weak.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Please, mister dollar, I I let your company out of
all the claims. They don't have to pay me nothing else.
Please don't ask me any more questions.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I cops out to get you. Look the law. I
believe it.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
If they convict me of something I did not do,
then perhaps it is in payment for something I did
to break the law.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What I I can't explain? Uh, please, mister.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Donald, Okay, look, mister Wackman.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Good day, mister Doner.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I hadn't noticed. I left the building and went out
on the street. Rain was coming down hotter, so I
turned up my collar and started to walk. I couldn't
stop thinking about Benny Waxman in this crazy, mixed up story,
A guy who burned down his store with an incendiary
bomb and smart enough to have a better story. The
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five thousand he'd given his daughter or vacation that was wrong,
taking himself look guilty by telling me to forget the
claim that was wrong. He was scared, not of Parkinson
or me, but of something that was mixing up his reason.
Maybe I was wrong too, but I was gonna find out.
The fifteenth Precinct was on Madison. Lieutenant Parkinson was in
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his office. Hellout, hello, you look wet walk. I'll take
off your coat and yeah, I sit out. Thank you?
Did uh you have a talk with Watsman? M I
think I couldn't tell you him five seconds. Yeah, what
do you think? I'm surprised, but what he didn't come
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here to insult h You think he's innocent. I think
there's a lot more to it than just a fire
and a killing, isn't they're always I think he's scared stiff.
Tell her why a guy who starts a fire. That's
a better alibi. He want some coffee? Yeah, I'm good,
that should be. My wife gave me the electric pot
so I could have my coffee on do so as
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I drink too much of it, but she gave it
to me. Yeah. Yes, watsman didn't start that fire. Is
that strong enough? Mm CA's pretty good. Guys who burned
down their bill us do it two or three different ways.
Not with him in Senniary Barns. I've got to ride him.
I try to be nice to him, try to get
it out of him, but he's too scared a lot. Yeah, Now,
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I have to guess. There's a protection racket here that
covers every independent store in the city. It's the tightest
best controlled organization I've run up against, so tight that
we've been trying to break it for a year. Two
other stores have gone up this way, but the owners
are so scared they won't say a thing. Scared for
their families. It's the best thing to be scared for
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Waxman's daughter. Yeah, I don't know how she fits. I
don't know how the five grand it's what do you
expect to gain by making him look ill? Long shot?
He won't say anything, but uh, maybe one of his
friends will. Maybe they will say something if they've been
scared this long. He's got one friend very close from
the Angelino Giuseppe business. Yeah, delicatessen. Like Waxman, Angelino hasn't
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got a family, but he got beat up last year.
Wouldn't make a complaint. He's scared too, but he's only
got himself to worry about. Maybe if he thinks his
best friend is in line for a murder raft, he
would give us something to go on. Why don't you
arrise Waxman make it look like he's really in trouble.
And I'll do that when I have to. I think
his daughter is mixed up in it some way. Most
of her clothes are still in the apartment. Maybe Waxman
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will be contacted. I want to be around when he is.
I don't know, Dolly, but a gang that can put
this much fear into people might do anything. Waxman's been
beat up a couple of times himself. Never pressed charges,
but he's been pretty indignant. What I can find out
about him, he's not the type to pay for protection.
Became a citizen two years ago and believes in what
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he had to learn to become a citizen. Oh maybe
the five thousand went to the gang. That's possible. Daughter
only gotten a ton of month ago before. They could
only work him over with the daughter here. And if
he paid them the five thousand, why burn down his store? Uh,
I've only been guessing. I haven't got the answers. No,
excuse me, Parkinson, Yeah, yeah, I know you Okay, how
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do you like that? Why it played off? It was
Angelina Giuseppe. He wants to see me great, and you
wanna come along? Yeah? Sure, Hey, you make pretty good coffee, Lieutenant,
I get lucky sometimes. We left the precinct and grabbed
a cab. Parkinson didn't want an official car in case
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somebody should be watching Angelino. We cut across town, and
twenty minutes later we were walking through the front door
of Angelina's delicatessen. A small, broad, little man with A
bald head moved around the counter and walked up to
see us.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Hello, look, Enny, Hello, Angie, Uh new man.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Uh Johnny Dollar Insurance investigative, Measter Dollar. Not long, mister Giuseppe.
What do you wanna see me for? Anie?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Well, it's uh, it's uh, it's about the Bennie.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Now what about that you you you're gonna arrest to him?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's right? You think he burned down his own the store?
And no he did.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
What about you, mister Dollary? Do you think Benny burned
down his store and kill that man up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I haven't seen the evidence of g I think so
he'll bring me all the way over the west of that. No, no, no, lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Look, if if I tell you something, if I tell
you something that maybe shows you that Benny don't burn
down his store or what.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, let's see. Maybe it's gonna make a lot of
trouble for a lot of nice to keep. They'll get protection.
I could get killed, not while I'm around, Angie. Well, uh,
come on, Angie, if you got something, give it to me.
I was on my way over to pick up Benny.
And now if you've got anything they can save him.
Let's have it.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
But I I can prove that Benny did not burn
down his place. But I think I can tell you
who did too. Them guys, Them guys who come around
once a week and the collected.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Doll tell me about him.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
But you remember when I got to beat up plus year,
them guys had done it. That make us all pay
them protection and if we.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Don't, we get beat up or our families.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
But I don't know their names.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
I I.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's no matter. You better get out. Two guys across
from the street. Yeah, that's the damn you better get out.
They got the guns. Those the guys who beat you up. Yes, yes,
a please so look or you better get out right now.
Listen to me, Angie, act like we're customers when they
got the gun. What I tell you, I'm alright. I
like them. I try to whack like nothing's wrong, Angie.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Okay, well I try only.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And uh give me about eight slices of the Swiss.
Now what is uh all right? I thought? I, oh, yeah, yeah,
I I'd be right to you.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, uh we don't want no cold cut illt red Co,
no car oh no, no Parkinson? What about Angie? I
told him you right, nap you ma, I'm Ben the
pone idiot step on the car.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Al right, I thought, I how is it?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
How is it? The band? Parkinson is a band? I
can't feel much, must speak? Let me look what about
the two? Oh they've had it? You have to listen,
O y one with red hair. Yeah they he used
to wake the dutch fish. Dutch Fish up? He isn't it?
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And yeah, got to get whoever Parkinson? The embony? Yeah,
sure is.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We'll return you to Yours truly Johnny Dollar in just
a moment beginning next week. Listen for Edmund O'Brien as
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Saturday nights on most of these
stations at this time. Next Wednesday, The Great Bing Crosby
Show returns to most of these same stations with Jane
Wyman as being's first guest of the season. Another premiere
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next Wednesday, The Red Skelton Show. We'll also be back
on CBS Radio, remember, starting a week from tonight, bing
Crosby returns to his usual time and Red Skelton moves
his ullnesses to Wednesday. On CBS Radio Now with our
star Edmund O'Brien, we bring you the second act of
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yours truly, Johnnie Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
We're still raining. When they carried the lieutenant out, I
explained everything to a nice young Copnick Brennas, Angelina and
I got into Brenni's car headed the fifteenth Precincts A
long Jeneral Clark. I just met him a few hours ago.
You know, we've been trying to correct this protection record
for a year. Looks like maybe we've started the hard way. Yeah,
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I'll lead you state with them. I'm scared. I'm really scared.
I do nothing to worry about, Miss GIUSEPPI will give
you all the protection protection. I guarantee it for me.
He's sure.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Or what about all the other people, all my friends? Well,
what about to Benny Parkinson? Didn't think Benny started that fire?
I know I was assigned of checking the bomb.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Or why do you think we inter said nothing before?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Because they threaten us. They threatened my friends. They tell
them if if they say anything, they're gonna hurt their family.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What about the barn? Nothing doesn't have much to go
on for the first person, you'll lie.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
So Lieutenant's a lie. He told me Benny wasn't gonna
be arrested. That's why I was gonna tell him about
those guys that beating me up.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Nobody had to talk.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh sure, I talk, and look what happened. What do
you think is gonna happen to Benny now?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Because I thought, huh, they got here the talk. I
ain't gonna tell you nothing the more.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
What about Benny's daughter, Ergie?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
No, no, I ain't gonna get to nobody in a moon.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
No more trouble. The troilers happened, Ergie. Well, I don't
care if they're gonna make it tough on Benny. They'll
do it now.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Just because I called it lit, just because I want
to help for Benny.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The only way you can help Benny and is to
tell us what you know.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
No, that too many other people, my friend.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And we can save them. Tell us what you know
and we'll get the people who make the trouble. No, okay,
when they dragged Benny's daughter out of the river, I
hope you think about it.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Oh you think I wanted You think I want to
see Benny's a little girl. Look I got a thing
about all the all.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Listen, listen. You think this won't happen again if we
don't get them in behind.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
This, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Look, gangie, you've got beat up. Last year, Benny got
beat up twice. Stores have been ruined, Benny's place was bombed,
and an old man burned to death upstairs. We ada
Parkinson and two killers around the way to the morgue.
Every one of you kept your mouth shut for a year,
and look what's happened. You think it's gonna get better?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Okay, okay, what.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
About Benny's doing it? They got her? Oh I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
The only ones I ever saw were the two guys
who got killed a little while ago. Benny came over
to my place one night. He was in an awful condition.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It wasn't crying.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
He said they had to tell somebody.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
They got his Louisa, And he say why they got it?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
And Ben and he hated them. He didn't ever pay
them any money, so they beat him up twice, but
he still didn't pay them.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
He said they didn't have no right, but he wouldn't
go to the police because he wasn't scared for me
and my friends. Then Louisa came here from Detroit to Michigan,
and they took her and made him pay five thousand
dollars to get ow back.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Why did they burn down his store to.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Teach the rest of us a lesson those two guys
who were killed.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
And that's what they said.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
They said, if I didn't pay them every week, that
would happen to me and anybody else that didn't paid them.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Did they send then his daughter back to him tonight?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Tonight? They were supposed to send her back to him.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Will they do you think they will? Now? I don't know.
Rolled our way over the wet pavements that reflected the
sun as it sank into the river behind us, and
the precinct. Brand's got our statements and took me down
to the mud fire to look at pictures of Red
Dylan as partner. That's Dylan one two mean six arrests,
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two convictions, one in the state, Kansas City employ Yeah,
most of the arrest that city. That boy I don't
the only thing about the other guy, I think he's new.
When will you get a report? And that shouldn't go
on Parkinson's that Dylan used to work for Dutch Fisher. Yeah,
there's Fisher's package. Uh huh m. He's still doing time. Yeah.
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Convicted June nineteen forty three, sentence to state prison. July
same year, ten of twenty armed robbery. Mm that's seem
right rhymes yeah, Lou Fleischman. Oh okay, that's the Arctic
back now, thanks, that's the other one, ouh Fleischman. That
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name's on Fisher's card. Yeah, convicted with Lou Fleischman. Wait
a minute, remember that rad Fisher got sent up on
his pick payroll job. Here it is both Fleischmann. Convicted
nineteen forty three, five to ten. Released July twenty sixth,
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nineteen fifty one. I wonder I thought he was a
new boy. It's like the gang stuck together. That there
was somebody else in that hole that had him alibi
if I remember it, never pinned it on him. Might
be our boy. I can't remember him. He should be
easy to check. Yah, let's find out he was beginning
to fit. The two strong arm boys had worked together
in Kansas City for a man named Dutch Fisher who
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was still doing time, and there was a fourth member
of the gang still unaccounted for. In a half hour,
Branda's had the information. His name is Billotti, I remember now,
George Bilotti. He took the information down to the mug
file and dug out the package on George Blotti, the
fourth member of the Dutch fisher Gang. Branna's took one
look at his picture and his mouth fell open. Well, oh,
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what's wrong George Bilotti about him? He's in the city
I know, and let's go talk to him. Uh No, Now, look,
Fenny's daughter is still missing. That remark I made about
the river could become a fact. George Biolati is George Bivens.
That's the name I know him by. I came to
this town about seven years ago, runs a respectable night
and pick him up on what suspicion he's clean in
this town. You've certainly got enough in this record. I
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have a talk to him. There isn't much time. If
we pick him up, that girl won't live five minutes. Yeah,
where's his nightclub? Fifty second Street, the Yellow Parrot. Why
somebody's got to talk to him? And then your official capacity,
you'll never get the answers you wanted. What makes you
think I'll give them to you? Because I kind of
liked Lieutenant Parkinson.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Yes on your one.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, George Bivens got an apploytment. No, well you Johnny
Dalla tell Bevins, I want to see him.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Sorry, you gotta have an appointment.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I'm gonna spoil if I stand around much longer. What
a rotten For all I care? You aren't gonna see Vans.
You get excited like this all the time. Yeah, you
were in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You don't know skeptic. Hey, you're at the piano. Which
way do I go to find VNS? Thanks? Who are you?
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Name's Dolla? What do you want? Ad you get by Ziggie?
He's tied up with a stomach ache. Oh, swallow the fist. Okay,
you get rough? What else do you do? Find out things? Cop?
I'll make this quick, Vivins, because I have to read.
Dylan and Lou Fleischman are pretty dead. Yeah we were there.
You worked with him in Kansas City in forty three.
I did I forget Dylan, Fleischman and Fisher together you
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pull the fancy payroll robbery. The law didn't think Lieutenant
Parkinson was shot to death by Dylan. Is that all
not quite? We'll get it off your chest. I'm busy.
Dylan and Fleischman were working a protection racket. Look you
if they were just the collectors. I've had about enough
of this. I'm gonna throw you off. It's just what
I want. I'll get up. What do you think you're doing.
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I'm gonna show you. You've got Benny Waxman's daughter. What
are you talking about to me if I made a mistake,
you've got his daughter? You're crazy? Like your two boys
killed Parkinson and burned down Benny's store. I don't know
what you know. Stand up. Yeah, we've been beating up
a lot of nice little people for a year, and
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now that nose is just a down painting. You think
you're busting here and you know you keep falling down.
You better sit in a chair. Now, listen to me, Bevans.
I'm in a nasty mood. Besides all the other people
getting pushed around. Your boys tried for me too. I'm
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behind schedule, The cops can't book you, and I'm not
gonna let you kill that girl to save your dirty neck.
Now where is she? I don't know where she is?
Please believe me, vibvns. Oh look, I got friends, they'll
take care of you. Who's gonna tell him to do it?
I am your mouth swollen shut? Come on, Bibbons. Where
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is she? No? Where? Oh? Where? Warehouse Fourteenth Street. Up.
What warehouse? Alright? No, no rogers and sons, big big
sign on the top, police department. Please, don't you know
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it's not the light to listen? Vivns, what do you
want me to do? Go to sleep? I gave Sergeant
Brenners what I had, and he told me he'd meet
me at the warehouse, but in the meantime he'd send
over for Vans. He was as good as his word,
for in less than three minutes, radio patrolmen were taking
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charge of Bivens and his entourage. The place looked like
a police lineup on. I left and headed for the warehouse.
It was getting late when my cab pulled up near
the river and a cold wind was moving in from
the Atlantic. Brenner's got there a few minutes later, and
he staked out his men. The girl is in right
here to go on the front door. Let's go in
a window. I'm a second story at at heart. Anyway, Now,
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did you ever get Bivens to talk? He'll tell everyone
and he's bound to get Michael lousy cut. Brenners gave
his men orders and we went looking for a weak window.
We found one of the back crawled through and dropped
down on the dark, cold pavement inside of the warehouse.
I could hear a radio from somewhere towards the front
of the building, so we picked our way along the
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wall until we found a flight of stairs and climbed
up to the main floor. We opened the door and listened.
Y you getting cool? Yeah, I wish bibbots would call
and tell us what to do with us, Dane. We
kept going and moving as quiet and as possible until
we saw them, two men sitting in a small storeroom.
The door was open. We could see the girl tiede
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and gangs. It wasn't gonna be easy. There was something
new statements, I don't get the most room, make a noise,
bring 'em out to see where the way is. Okay,
you better said that. You get down that side and
say we get them between it and want to shoot
into that office. But give it about ten seconds and
then push one of those crates over. I mean, hung,
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we doo and I have a relaxed Okay, what here
it is? Something? Of course? Tell her who to relax.
I didn't hear nothing. I've got a lot of jumps.
We've been in this dump for three days. Now, what
was that you gonna tell me? I'm here the thinks now,
some somebody's out there and you'll kill a light?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Shut up with this time?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Kidnapping?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Not shut up? Yeah, maybe it's nothing, maybe a cat
or a rat or something.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Let's get out of here. Let's forget the dam and
get out.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Don't you to keep your face shut? Now? Come on,
let's see what it was.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Maybe maybe it's the cop.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Something was wrong Vivins with a call. Well, maybe he couldn't.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Maybe the dollumn man.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That's come on, I don't see nothing. It's too dark.
There's a great rober boys cos this one's dead. Yeah,
the other one's on his way. Well, let's go get
the girl. Benny's worried enough. We took Benny's daughter back
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to our father and he confirmed the story that Angie
had told us. Angie was sent home, and the last
I heard, the store owners who had been paying protection
to Vibbins were planning the biggest block party since the
Boston t Caper. Expensec count eed him two twenty dollars
and eighty cents for two dinners. Brenner's was nearly as hungry.
As I was id him three sixteen dollars flowers for
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Lieutenant Parking since funeral, and I am four the same
as Adam won faan incidentals between New York and Hartford.
Expense account total one hundred and one dollars ninety two cents.
And the next time you send me out on a
simple little insurance fire, make sure it's really simple. I
don't mind helping people out occasionally, but I'm too old
and too underpaid to go back to being a boy scout.
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title
role and was written by Blake Edwards with music by
Eddie Dunsteader. Edmond O'Brien can now be seen starring in
the Paramount Pictures production Warpad. Featured in tonight's cast were
Joel Samuel's Bill, Conrad Sidney Miller, Jay Novello, and Ray Hartman.
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by him
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October sixth, when Edmund O'Brien returns.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
As yours truly, Johnny Dobvitt.
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time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Fine, what have you got for me? Mister Benny Waxman's
insured with Columbia. When did he die? And what's wrong
with the way he did it? He's very much alive
and his business is the ast delicate test mature left
too has burned out. When did it happen last night?
We don't know whether Waxman did it himself. The fire
department said it was started deliberately. Police holding Waxman not
yet no evidence, Betty get Donnie. I'll give you everything
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we've got. I'm yours at Forsheven ashallon.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Edmund O'Brien in the transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expenser Car America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator,
Yours truly, Johnny Dalla.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Spencer ac count Submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dodalla to
Home Office, Columbia, All Risk Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
the protection matter. Expense count out of one thirty two
fifty six train fare and incidentals between Hartford and New
York City. After I received from you the necessary information
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concerning Benny Waxman, I arrived in New York three thirty
in the afternoon and made my way through a heavy
rain to ten seventy eighties one hundred and fifth, where
I found Benny Waxman in a small apartment. The Lieutenant
Parkinson in the fifteenth Precinct was there also, Yeah, mister
Blaxman's then, what are you wanting for? Johnny Dolla? I
represent Columbia All Risk Insurance on Watchman's store. Who is it?
(01:50):
Dynamed Dollar from the insurance company?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Come on in, Dollar Insurance Company.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you know the reason you started the fire.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I had nothing to do with it. I keep telling you,
run over.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He keeps telling me an over, run over. I keep
telling him he's a.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Liar, a liar, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
My name is Johnny Dollars, the Waxman.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I can't depend it on him yet, I'm kind of
a bomb.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I ain't got no story in the Yeah, sure, he
ain't like the stuff of us in the war.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Another big explosure. Nobody heard an explosure. When it went off,
it burned good and the area. Yeah, I don't know
how he got at the.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Will trace it, And yeah, of course you don't know
how I got it. I didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How much was the place ensured? Twenty thousand? You're not
gonna get at Waxman.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Look, Lieutenant, I don't yeah, no more, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You will?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I'll make it a care. I didn't start There was
a man killed in that fire. What I didn't start it.
I didn't kill nobody.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
People lived over the store, three apartments, and old man
doesn't get out. Your company won't have to pay a
red cent dollar because I'm gonna prove Waxman started it.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Why why would I burn down my store? I make
a good living.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Tell mister Dollar how much money you've gotten the back
you'll hear me Waxman.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's not much for a guy who makes a good living,
is it, mister Dollar?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I told you, I told you a dozen time told me.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He gave five thousand to his daughter.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's the truth.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Check your daughter. It's a little tough. We can't find
its to live here with her papa. But she's just disappeared,
and papa doesn't know where she went. Do your papa.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
She went on a trip, mister Dollar, a vacation. Yeah,
I gave it a five thousand for a vacation. And
he doesn't have any idea where she is. I don't
I don't know where she went.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He just gave her five thousand for a little vacation.
It broke him, but his daughter needed a little vacation.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Don't care anymore. I tell you, I don't care, mister Dollar.
Tell your company. I don't want the insurance money.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You don't get out there.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't want out for nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You're on a spot. You figured it was a set.
So many guys like you, Waxman, figure it's as sense
and forget about guys like me. I want you for
a fire and a killing, and I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I'll say it forever I did not do it. I'll
say it till they take me to my grain.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It doesn't give you much time, and I've gotta be going.
I like looking at report. Lieutenant. Yeah, sure, come along, No, No,
I check with you later. I want to talk to Waman. Sure,
fifteenth person. I'll be around until I find out where
I got that bomb. Right, you're loose till I get something, Waxman.
But uh, do me a favor, Huh whether is it?
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Try and leave town. I'd love it.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, mister dollar, go back and tell your company to
forget it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I don't want the insurance money.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
If you didn't have anything to do with the fire
or entitled to it.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I'm gonna leave this town when I can open a
business somewhere else, another city.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
If I'm lucky.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
If you're not guilty, why not take the money.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Because I cannot prove rya innocent.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
What are you afraid of? Why? I said, what are
you afraid of? It's pretty obvious you're afraid of something.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I'm not afraid. I'm I'm just I'm nervous policeman. The
fire and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Five thousand for vacation is pretty weak.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Please, mister dollar, I I let your company out of
all the claims. They don't have to pay me nothing else.
Please don't ask me any more questions.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I cops out to get you. Look the law. I
believe it.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
If they convict me of something I did not do,
then perhaps it is in payment for something I did
to break the law.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What I I can't explain? Uh, please, mister.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Donald, Okay, look, mister Wackman.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Good day, mister Doner.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I hadn't noticed. I left the building and went out
on the street. Rain was coming down hotter, so I
turned up my collar and started to walk. I couldn't
stop thinking about Benny Waxman in this crazy, mixed up story,
A guy who burned down his store with an incendiary
bomb and smart enough to have a better story. The
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five thousand he'd given his daughter or vacation that was wrong,
taking himself look guilty by telling me to forget the
claim that was wrong. He was scared, not of Parkinson
or me, but of something that was mixing up his reason.
Maybe I was wrong too, but I was gonna find out.
The fifteenth Precinct was on Madison. Lieutenant Parkinson was in
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his office. Hellout, hello, you look wet walk. I'll take
off your coat and yeah, I sit out. Thank you?
Did uh you have a talk with Watsman? M I
think I couldn't tell you him five seconds. Yeah, what
do you think? I'm surprised, but what he didn't come
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here to insult h You think he's innocent. I think
there's a lot more to it than just a fire
and a killing, isn't they're always I think he's scared stiff.
Tell her why a guy who starts a fire. That's
a better alibi. He want some coffee? Yeah, I'm good,
that should be. My wife gave me the electric pot
so I could have my coffee on do so as
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I drink too much of it, but she gave it
to me. Yeah. Yes, watsman didn't start that fire. Is
that strong enough? Mm CA's pretty good. Guys who burned
down their bill us do it two or three different ways.
Not with him in Senniary Barns. I've got to ride him.
I try to be nice to him, try to get
it out of him, but he's too scared a lot. Yeah, Now,
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I have to guess. There's a protection racket here that
covers every independent store in the city. It's the tightest
best controlled organization I've run up against, so tight that
we've been trying to break it for a year. Two
other stores have gone up this way, but the owners
are so scared they won't say a thing. Scared for
their families. It's the best thing to be scared for
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Waxman's daughter. Yeah, I don't know how she fits. I
don't know how the five grand it's what do you
expect to gain by making him look ill? Long shot?
He won't say anything, but uh, maybe one of his
friends will. Maybe they will say something if they've been
scared this long. He's got one friend very close from
the Angelino Giuseppe business. Yeah, delicatessen. Like Waxman, Angelino hasn't
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got a family, but he got beat up last year.
Wouldn't make a complaint. He's scared too, but he's only
got himself to worry about. Maybe if he thinks his
best friend is in line for a murder raft, he
would give us something to go on. Why don't you
arrise Waxman make it look like he's really in trouble.
And I'll do that when I have to. I think
his daughter is mixed up in it some way. Most
of her clothes are still in the apartment. Maybe Waxman
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will be contacted. I want to be around when he is.
I don't know, Dolly, but a gang that can put
this much fear into people might do anything. Waxman's been
beat up a couple of times himself. Never pressed charges,
but he's been pretty indignant. What I can find out
about him, he's not the type to pay for protection.
Became a citizen two years ago and believes in what
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he had to learn to become a citizen. Oh maybe
the five thousand went to the gang. That's possible. Daughter
only gotten a ton of month ago before. They could
only work him over with the daughter here. And if
he paid them the five thousand, why burn down his store? Uh,
I've only been guessing. I haven't got the answers. No,
excuse me, Parkinson, Yeah, yeah, I know you Okay, how
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do you like that? Why it played off? It was
Angelina Giuseppe. He wants to see me great, and you
wanna come along? Yeah? Sure, Hey, you make pretty good coffee, Lieutenant,
I get lucky sometimes. We left the precinct and grabbed
a cab. Parkinson didn't want an official car in case
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somebody should be watching Angelino. We cut across town, and
twenty minutes later we were walking through the front door
of Angelina's delicatessen. A small, broad, little man with A
bald head moved around the counter and walked up to
see us.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Hello, look, Enny, Hello, Angie, Uh new man.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Uh Johnny Dollar Insurance investigative, Measter Dollar. Not long, mister Giuseppe.
What do you wanna see me for? Anie?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Well, it's uh, it's uh, it's about the Bennie.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Now what about that you you you're gonna arrest to him?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's right? You think he burned down his own the store?
And no he did.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
What about you, mister Dollary? Do you think Benny burned
down his store and kill that man up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I haven't seen the evidence of g I think so
he'll bring me all the way over the west of that. No, no, no, lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Look, if if I tell you something, if I tell
you something that maybe shows you that Benny don't burn
down his store or what.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, let's see. Maybe it's gonna make a lot of
trouble for a lot of nice to keep. They'll get protection.
I could get killed, not while I'm around, Angie. Well, uh,
come on, Angie, if you got something, give it to me.
I was on my way over to pick up Benny.
And now if you've got anything they can save him.
Let's have it.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
But I I can prove that Benny did not burn
down his place. But I think I can tell you
who did too. Them guys, Them guys who come around
once a week and the collected.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Doll tell me about him.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
But you remember when I got to beat up plus year,
them guys had done it. That make us all pay
them protection and if we.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Don't, we get beat up or our families.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
But I don't know their names.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
I I.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's no matter. You better get out. Two guys across
from the street. Yeah, that's the damn you better get out.
They got the guns. Those the guys who beat you up. Yes, yes,
a please so look or you better get out right now.
Listen to me, Angie, act like we're customers when they
got the gun. What I tell you, I'm alright. I
like them. I try to whack like nothing's wrong, Angie.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Okay, well I try only.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And uh give me about eight slices of the Swiss.
Now what is uh all right? I thought? I, oh, yeah, yeah,
I I'd be right to you.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, uh we don't want no cold cut illt red Co,
no car oh no, no Parkinson? What about Angie? I
told him you right, nap you ma, I'm Ben the
pone idiot step on the car.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Al right, I thought, I how is it?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
How is it? The band? Parkinson is a band? I
can't feel much, must speak? Let me look what about
the two? Oh they've had it? You have to listen,
O y one with red hair. Yeah they he used
to wake the dutch fish. Dutch Fish up? He isn't it?
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And yeah, got to get whoever Parkinson? The embony? Yeah,
sure is.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We'll return you to Yours truly Johnny Dollar in just
a moment beginning next week. Listen for Edmund O'Brien as
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Saturday nights on most of these
stations at this time. Next Wednesday, The Great Bing Crosby
Show returns to most of these same stations with Jane
Wyman as being's first guest of the season. Another premiere
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next Wednesday, The Red Skelton Show. We'll also be back
on CBS Radio, remember, starting a week from tonight, bing
Crosby returns to his usual time and Red Skelton moves
his ullnesses to Wednesday. On CBS Radio Now with our
star Edmund O'Brien, we bring you the second act of
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yours truly, Johnnie Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
We're still raining. When they carried the lieutenant out, I
explained everything to a nice young Copnick Brennas, Angelina and
I got into Brenni's car headed the fifteenth Precincts A
long Jeneral Clark. I just met him a few hours ago.
You know, we've been trying to correct this protection record
for a year. Looks like maybe we've started the hard way. Yeah,
(13:58):
I'll lead you state with them. I'm scared. I'm really scared.
I do nothing to worry about, Miss GIUSEPPI will give
you all the protection protection. I guarantee it for me.
He's sure.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Or what about all the other people, all my friends? Well,
what about to Benny Parkinson? Didn't think Benny started that fire?
I know I was assigned of checking the bomb.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Or why do you think we inter said nothing before?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Because they threaten us. They threatened my friends. They tell
them if if they say anything, they're gonna hurt their family.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What about the barn? Nothing doesn't have much to go
on for the first person, you'll lie.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
So Lieutenant's a lie. He told me Benny wasn't gonna
be arrested. That's why I was gonna tell him about
those guys that beating me up.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Nobody had to talk.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh sure, I talk, and look what happened. What do
you think is gonna happen to Benny now?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Because I thought, huh, they got here the talk. I
ain't gonna tell you nothing the more.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
What about Benny's daughter, Ergie?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
No, no, I ain't gonna get to nobody in a moon.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
No more trouble. The troilers happened, Ergie. Well, I don't
care if they're gonna make it tough on Benny. They'll
do it now.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Just because I called it lit, just because I want
to help for Benny.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The only way you can help Benny and is to
tell us what you know.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
No, that too many other people, my friend.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And we can save them. Tell us what you know
and we'll get the people who make the trouble. No, okay,
when they dragged Benny's daughter out of the river, I
hope you think about it.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Oh you think I wanted You think I want to
see Benny's a little girl. Look I got a thing
about all the all.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Listen, listen. You think this won't happen again if we
don't get them in behind.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
This, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Look, gangie, you've got beat up. Last year, Benny got
beat up twice. Stores have been ruined, Benny's place was bombed,
and an old man burned to death upstairs. We ada
Parkinson and two killers around the way to the morgue.
Every one of you kept your mouth shut for a year,
and look what's happened. You think it's gonna get better?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Okay, okay, what.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
About Benny's doing it? They got her? Oh I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
The only ones I ever saw were the two guys
who got killed a little while ago. Benny came over
to my place one night. He was in an awful condition.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It wasn't crying.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
He said they had to tell somebody.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
They got his Louisa, And he say why they got it?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
And Ben and he hated them. He didn't ever pay
them any money, so they beat him up twice, but
he still didn't pay them.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
He said they didn't have no right, but he wouldn't
go to the police because he wasn't scared for me
and my friends. Then Louisa came here from Detroit to Michigan,
and they took her and made him pay five thousand
dollars to get ow back.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Why did they burn down his store to.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Teach the rest of us a lesson those two guys
who were killed.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
And that's what they said.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
They said, if I didn't pay them every week, that
would happen to me and anybody else that didn't paid them.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Did they send then his daughter back to him tonight?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Tonight? They were supposed to send her back to him.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Will they do you think they will? Now? I don't know.
Rolled our way over the wet pavements that reflected the
sun as it sank into the river behind us, and
the precinct. Brand's got our statements and took me down
to the mud fire to look at pictures of Red
Dylan as partner. That's Dylan one two mean six arrests,
(17:03):
two convictions, one in the state, Kansas City employ Yeah,
most of the arrest that city. That boy I don't
the only thing about the other guy, I think he's new.
When will you get a report? And that shouldn't go
on Parkinson's that Dylan used to work for Dutch Fisher. Yeah,
there's Fisher's package. Uh huh m. He's still doing time. Yeah.
(17:27):
Convicted June nineteen forty three, sentence to state prison. July
same year, ten of twenty armed robbery. Mm that's seem
right rhymes yeah, Lou Fleischman. Oh okay, that's the Arctic
back now, thanks, that's the other one, ouh Fleischman. That
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name's on Fisher's card. Yeah, convicted with Lou Fleischman. Wait
a minute, remember that rad Fisher got sent up on
his pick payroll job. Here it is both Fleischmann. Convicted
nineteen forty three, five to ten. Released July twenty sixth,
(18:12):
nineteen fifty one. I wonder I thought he was a
new boy. It's like the gang stuck together. That there
was somebody else in that hole that had him alibi
if I remember it, never pinned it on him. Might
be our boy. I can't remember him. He should be
easy to check. Yah, let's find out he was beginning
to fit. The two strong arm boys had worked together
in Kansas City for a man named Dutch Fisher who
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was still doing time, and there was a fourth member
of the gang still unaccounted for. In a half hour,
Branda's had the information. His name is Billotti, I remember now,
George Bilotti. He took the information down to the mug
file and dug out the package on George Blotti, the
fourth member of the Dutch fisher Gang. Branna's took one
look at his picture and his mouth fell open. Well, oh,
(18:54):
what's wrong George Bilotti about him? He's in the city
I know, and let's go talk to him. Uh No, Now, look,
Fenny's daughter is still missing. That remark I made about
the river could become a fact. George Biolati is George Bivens.
That's the name I know him by. I came to
this town about seven years ago, runs a respectable night
and pick him up on what suspicion he's clean in
this town. You've certainly got enough in this record. I
(19:15):
have a talk to him. There isn't much time. If
we pick him up, that girl won't live five minutes. Yeah,
where's his nightclub? Fifty second Street, the Yellow Parrot. Why
somebody's got to talk to him? And then your official capacity,
you'll never get the answers you wanted. What makes you
think I'll give them to you? Because I kind of
liked Lieutenant Parkinson.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Yes on your one.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, George Bivens got an apploytment. No, well you Johnny
Dalla tell Bevins, I want to see him.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Sorry, you gotta have an appointment.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I'm gonna spoil if I stand around much longer. What
a rotten For all I care? You aren't gonna see Vans.
You get excited like this all the time. Yeah, you
were in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You don't know skeptic. Hey, you're at the piano. Which
way do I go to find VNS? Thanks? Who are you?
(20:26):
Name's Dolla? What do you want? Ad you get by Ziggie?
He's tied up with a stomach ache. Oh, swallow the fist. Okay,
you get rough? What else do you do? Find out things? Cop?
I'll make this quick, Vivins, because I have to read.
Dylan and Lou Fleischman are pretty dead. Yeah we were there.
You worked with him in Kansas City in forty three.
I did I forget Dylan, Fleischman and Fisher together you
(20:49):
pull the fancy payroll robbery. The law didn't think Lieutenant
Parkinson was shot to death by Dylan. Is that all
not quite? We'll get it off your chest. I'm busy.
Dylan and Fleischman were working a protection racket. Look you
if they were just the collectors. I've had about enough
of this. I'm gonna throw you off. It's just what
I want. I'll get up. What do you think you're doing.
(21:12):
I'm gonna show you. You've got Benny Waxman's daughter. What
are you talking about to me if I made a mistake,
you've got his daughter? You're crazy? Like your two boys
killed Parkinson and burned down Benny's store. I don't know
what you know. Stand up. Yeah, we've been beating up
a lot of nice little people for a year, and
(21:32):
now that nose is just a down painting. You think
you're busting here and you know you keep falling down.
You better sit in a chair. Now, listen to me, Bevans.
I'm in a nasty mood. Besides all the other people
getting pushed around. Your boys tried for me too. I'm
(21:53):
behind schedule, The cops can't book you, and I'm not
gonna let you kill that girl to save your dirty neck.
Now where is she? I don't know where she is?
Please believe me, vibvns. Oh look, I got friends, they'll
take care of you. Who's gonna tell him to do it?
I am your mouth swollen shut? Come on, Bibbons. Where
(22:14):
is she? No? Where? Oh? Where? Warehouse Fourteenth Street. Up.
What warehouse? Alright? No, no rogers and sons, big big
sign on the top, police department. Please, don't you know
(22:42):
it's not the light to listen? Vivns, what do you
want me to do? Go to sleep? I gave Sergeant
Brenners what I had, and he told me he'd meet
me at the warehouse, but in the meantime he'd send
over for Vans. He was as good as his word,
for in less than three minutes, radio patrolmen were taking
(23:04):
charge of Bivens and his entourage. The place looked like
a police lineup on. I left and headed for the warehouse.
It was getting late when my cab pulled up near
the river and a cold wind was moving in from
the Atlantic. Brenner's got there a few minutes later, and
he staked out his men. The girl is in right
here to go on the front door. Let's go in
a window. I'm a second story at at heart. Anyway, Now,
(23:26):
did you ever get Bivens to talk? He'll tell everyone
and he's bound to get Michael lousy cut. Brenners gave
his men orders and we went looking for a weak window.
We found one of the back crawled through and dropped
down on the dark, cold pavement inside of the warehouse.
I could hear a radio from somewhere towards the front
of the building, so we picked our way along the
(23:48):
wall until we found a flight of stairs and climbed
up to the main floor. We opened the door and listened.
Y you getting cool? Yeah, I wish bibbots would call
and tell us what to do with us, Dane. We
kept going and moving as quiet and as possible until
we saw them, two men sitting in a small storeroom.
The door was open. We could see the girl tiede
(24:10):
and gangs. It wasn't gonna be easy. There was something
new statements, I don't get the most room, make a noise,
bring 'em out to see where the way is. Okay,
you better said that. You get down that side and
say we get them between it and want to shoot
into that office. But give it about ten seconds and
then push one of those crates over. I mean, hung,
(24:30):
we doo and I have a relaxed Okay, what here
it is? Something? Of course? Tell her who to relax.
I didn't hear nothing. I've got a lot of jumps.
We've been in this dump for three days. Now, what
was that you gonna tell me? I'm here the thinks now,
some somebody's out there and you'll kill a light?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Shut up with this time?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Kidnapping?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Not shut up? Yeah, maybe it's nothing, maybe a cat
or a rat or something.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Let's get out of here. Let's forget the dam and
get out.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Don't you to keep your face shut? Now? Come on,
let's see what it was.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Maybe maybe it's the cop.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Something was wrong Vivins with a call. Well, maybe he couldn't.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Maybe the dollumn man.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That's come on, I don't see nothing. It's too dark.
There's a great rober boys cos this one's dead. Yeah,
the other one's on his way. Well, let's go get
the girl. Benny's worried enough. We took Benny's daughter back
(25:38):
to our father and he confirmed the story that Angie
had told us. Angie was sent home, and the last
I heard, the store owners who had been paying protection
to Vibbins were planning the biggest block party since the
Boston t Caper. Expensec count eed him two twenty dollars
and eighty cents for two dinners. Brenner's was nearly as hungry.
As I was id him three sixteen dollars flowers for
(25:59):
Lieutenant Parking since funeral, and I am four the same
as Adam won faan incidentals between New York and Hartford.
Expense account total one hundred and one dollars ninety two cents.
And the next time you send me out on a
simple little insurance fire, make sure it's really simple. I
don't mind helping people out occasionally, but I'm too old
and too underpaid to go back to being a boy scout.
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