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Speaker 1 (00:01):
A journey into the rail rom the strain and tellify
I hope you will enjoy the chap, that it will
tie you a little and kill you a little. So
settle back, get a good grip on your nerve. Where
are we going? You'll find out when we get there.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Johnny, did you hear Yes, I just turned off my radio.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Oh it's horrible.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Who is this? Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I'm sorry, Sam Harris, Columbia.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Sure, does your company carry the policies on that airline?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yes, but I'm not thinking of that. That crash was planned.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
They're definitely about it now.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes, an explosion, some kind of a bomb. There were
thirteen people killed in the plane. They don't know how
many in the houses have crashed into We've got to
place responsibility. The company wants to do whatever it can.
We've got to find whoever is responsible.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, mister Harris, you want me to go out.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, we do. The airline representative is a man named Reed.
Go out and do everything you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Can, Edmond O'Brien in the Transcribed Adventure of a Man
with the Action Packed Expenser Card America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator,
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator,
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Johnny Dollar to Home Office, Columbia or.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Risk Insurance Company.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
of the Fairway matter. Expencer count Eem one two fifty
cab head of the scene of the plane crash.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Which, as you know who covered quite a bit of territory.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The Fairway Airlines plane had taken off at eight twenty pm,
had reached an altitude of no more than a thousand
feet and then had crashed, setting afire two houses a
short distance from the spring feel hard for the airport.
I got there at lap of nine thirty. One house
had been partially saved that the other had been completely demolished.
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The family of four living in it could be killed.
The parents of one child in the first house were
unexpected to live and beyond twisted pieces of the plane
were scattered across a field. Fragments still smoking and turned
white by the phone from chemical extinguished.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
As red.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Card. A car read over here?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
What is it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
At lea small and waking a car?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Lets you know as soon as we can.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yes, who you are? My name is Dona, the insurance
company said. Insurance Kim, good lord, this is hardly the
time to worry about money. I'm a I'm an investigator
that I've hired, made a help them any way I can,
and picked the plane.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh you will have to excuse me.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
This is good, Hugh, there are some things I have
to do.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Come along, mister dall it geez I doesn't know about
the explosion, and she thinks something as chance when her
daughter wasn't on the plane or she was so was stewardous.
If you haven't told her, I can let her hope
for a couple of more hours. Why shouldn't I I've
had to tell too many people. It's it's just horrible.
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I think, even worse than if it had been an accident,
and you know it was premeditated, when you know someone
planned it, kind of person would would you have to
beat and to plan something like this. It's an underbladanstory.
And because we have proof there was an explosion in
the extreme after section that destroyed.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All the control cables to the tailors.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
And I don't suppose being civil aeronautys man as well
those eyes away as sending one of their best has
w Newton.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Captain Lenhard of escaped nieces here though.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh, I'd like to speak to him, and you have
any idea where he is the last time I saw
him he was little by that at Oh it's left,
but uh see the group of men over by the hangar. Yeah,
well they they collected the bodies there, made as many
identifications as possible.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I know, expanded mister Reeve, but don't sure where the
pieces had.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That wouldn't help him. Oh ah hah, I'll be hard
to tell him. Uh, I'll see you left. Yeah. I
remembered Captain Jim Lenhard from a case we chaired last year,
and I found him in the group of silent man.
The silence and the expressions told better than words how
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they felt about the row of sheet draped bodies on
the ground. I was readmaking up. I thought he was
going to pieces a little while ago. He's still in
pretty bad shape. You know, he's not alone. But for
the US anyway, dollar it could have been worse, plane
could have been filled. Yeah, tru my mind and you
and I are thinking together, Captain, that our approach will
be to find out, if we can, which victim was
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the plan victim well with what we have now, and
don't feel the other way to start you the possibilities
as I see them, murder with a motive, suicide disguised,
or a homicidal maniac that must cover it. I have
the incoming airport a few mile circle around it. Their
orders are to question everybody they spot, search every car.
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It's about all we can do to learn. I'll see
in the morning then if it times you sure is,
but heavy on the case, I'll meet your mylefe of
name good. Oh, there's another ambulance, and get the rest
of these poor devils into the morgue how to find
out who they are. The next morning, the official findings
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were released. The explosive had been nitroglycering. They have been
defonated by some electrical means, which it was assumed was
connected to a timing device that had not yet been found.
Captain Lenhardt's men had questioned the number of suspicious characters
near the airport without result, but he himself had received
an anonymous tip on a possible suspect, a Wilberg Wheeler,
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who was a member of the ground crew that had
serviced the plane just before its takeoff. Wheeler was shown
to the captain's oves about forty minutes after I'd gotten there.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Why'd you pick me.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
To come up here?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Why didn't you get Straker or Mills?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They're over me.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's just routine, wheeler routine.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
But you must have a reason. I got a right
to know if you got a reason have at night?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Why do you think we started with you? Well, I'm
asking you, the said wheler. Can't you say you don't
know the stewardess who died in that crash? Surely good, Hugh,
I know, I know, I understand that she meant something
to him.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Were you in love with her? Yes, we understand that you.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Made quite a pest of yourself phoning her at home
waiting for at the airport, and then a week or
so ago you learned she was going to marry the
co pilot who was killed. What's his name, Bill Strand?
Wasn't it Willen?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, you're saying that you think I caused that crasher.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You wanted to know why you went in. I told
you it was just routine, really, and it would have
been if you'd acted differently. But it sounded as though
you were trying to hide some facts from us.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I won't anymore. I don't. I don't have any reason to.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And why did you?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't know, I mean going crazy since I heard
about it last night. I was still at the field night.
I got sick and I had to go home. Yeah,
we heard about that.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I got home and I turned on my radio and
I heard what caused the crash and explosion.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I knew that a lot of things I've said, a
lot of things i'd done were gonna make trouble for me.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Even getting sick and coming home was bad.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
What were some of the other things?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I said some pretty bad things to Shirley when I
heard she was gonna marry Strand then I had a
fight with him. I had to fight with him over
the same thing. I guess for me, it was really
over that he ordered me around one day and I
didn't like it, and that's how it started.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
He beat me up pretty bad and said he'd have.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
My job, and I told him that.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I'd see the day is playing with him.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Minute would be planted to get some hill.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I know what it sounds like now, but it didn't
mean anything.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It would just talk.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
There's plenty of that, Eh, you heard enough dough? Yeah,
I think see that's all went.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Winn, I can go.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, nobody would be stupid enough to compromise himself the
way you did and pull a job like this.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I'm sure made a lot of mistakes and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, just be around where we can find you if
we want to talk to you anymore.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
But I can't come back to the airport, Sir, I.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Was gonna call him and quit. If it's all right,
would you just be where we can find you?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's all I will.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm sorry. A lot of people are whether you know.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Well, goodbye, Winn, Thanks for coming down. Yes, sir, what
do you think m The.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Only reason I say if I get him is because
he's the first one we've questioned, and the things don't
work out that way.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, Collis the.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Man just leaving my office name was Wheeler Whilbert. Really,
I pull the boys, get on him and stay all
the ways to.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Lead him tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, I think I'd like to know it's in his background.
I'd like to get a psychiatrist reaction.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Wouldn't you.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
We learned about him, Well, let's get on this list
of passengers and see what we can get from their survivors.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We spent the rest of the day.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
In the efforts of six more of Captain Lenhart's mean
preparing files on the ten dead passengers. One file contained
nothing but a name, Rupert Stone, gotten from the ticket
office records, is that of a man who had paid cash.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
For space to Augusta made.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
The heart for the address he had given was non existent,
and the phone number rang a bakery where no one
had ever heard of a Rupert Stone. That one we
dropped until the accurate identification of the bodies was complete.
Glenn Hard and I started out to follow up a
couple of the others that evening. This is rot and
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work and check missus Graham, Yes, this is mister Dollar.
I'm Captain lett Hard of the State Police. We'd like
to talk to you about the death of your husband.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
No, I've talked too much and only keeps in my
mind the things that I saw in that field and
the women's crime.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
We know, mister Graham, that it's Aunt John to fix
the responsibility. We only want to ask you a few questions.
If you'd wanna help find whoever caused all those this,
If you could, wouldn't you? How can I have?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
And maybe we come in all right, but only a
little while I haven't slept.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Thank you who no, skiller? Be quiet?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
He knows poor old dog.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Very soon he will die and I'll be alone.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
M please sit don mm thank you yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Uh uh missus Graham, your husband, yeah, uh well he
he bought space to Boston and me.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yes, his brother's there and there. M. He was a
religious man. Quite often he would go to visit his
brother's grave.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I see, Uh, I think that's all we needed.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Wasn't a dollar to recheck his plan for Yeah? Yes,
I I think that was only I think we better go.
We're sorry to bother you, missus Graham, and uh, thank
you very much for seniors. Right, yes, thanks very much, sir.
Oh well, don't bother to get up. You don't have
to come to the door with us. Good night, good
night night quiet.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
He won't come back.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I couldn't cut it. Think that dog did it? Sorry,
apologize to me.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
This hasn't happened to me since I was a rookie.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Forget it. But grilling a poor woman to find out
of her husband's cancer might have driven him to suicide.
And I couldn't go through it.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
A whole rocking mess.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Think it's getting it said, well, I only had a
couple of drinks in the way downtown to get it
for the night man or trying to.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That suits me. You know aile's on Front Street.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yah, it's fine anything, so let's go. Then I'll hold
him there and have colums check me off duty.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Oh you pleasure to leave?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
No, he had his phone. I'll catch it. Dollar sixty,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Oh here come, I'll drink up dollar. I guess I'll
have to waste mine because it seems I'm not off duty.
What happened I'll go back to that stewardess again. Explosive
has been checked.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
The herd equipment, Well, I have men say some twisted
metal ay from used to be a first aid box.
I think it was a man And bring his Wilbo
wheeler back again too. And he's been picked up right now.
I don't think I need this drink to get through
a stage with him. We will return you to the
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second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in just a
moment now, with our star Edmond O'Brien, we return you
to the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. Not
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necessarily were not necessarily?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I heard you do?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Did you locate Carl Weibeller. Yeah, he was at home.
The guy has been under doctor's cam and I think
I got what we.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Need on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Been getting along and we just got here.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
We were covering the point of whether or not I
have a right to have him brought down here.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Maybe I'm wrong?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You are?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Didn't you want to come will?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Then?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I guess I don't like the idea of being boarded
into a police car twice in one day, with everybody
in the block gawking at A lot of people have
been loaded into police cars today with her. They were
glad to come in and do anything they could to
help clear this thing up.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I want to help too.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I didn't mean it that way, glad.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
To hear that. How long have you worked for the
Fairway Airline? About a year and a half. Again, what'd
you do before that? What do you mean you still
think I had something to do with that? Christ That's
what you mean is we'd like to find out who did,
wouldn't you?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
But you think I did it and I didn't. I
told you I didn't even you said I didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And it sounds like you've got nothing to worry about,
So calm down and answer our question.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I want to know why you're asking questions like that.
Why did you bring me back here?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Be cause some new evidence has turned up.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's why that has to do with me.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It has to do with Shirley Goodview.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I don't know what you're talking about. I told you
everything there was about her and me.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Did you know that she carried a first aid kid
about the plane last night?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
First aid kid? I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You don't after.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Working there a year and a half, What did you
do on the plane?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Brought on check the water and a few other things,
things that the stewardess would be involved, and she'd be
there with you, wouldn't she.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah, but I don't know what you're driving. And I
don't know what you mean in the back part.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Of the plane.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yes, Shirley was there and you were there last night. Yeah,
but where did she put a first aid kid? Wer?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Why do you ask me that? I don't remember. I
didn't notice they had a place they kept it, but
I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I don't know I was in it.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
If I know what you meant, I don't know why
you're asking me these I talked to mister Reid, so
I know about these things. Fairways non scheduled airlines, so
they have their own particular routines. One of them is
that this first aid kid is the steward responsibility.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Each one is a kit.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
They take it off the plane when they leave, and
they bring it aboard when they report for work.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The explosive Wheeler, the nitroglycroom that was hidden in that
first aid kick.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I didn't put it there, that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But I didn't do it. I didn't know anything about
it enough explosive to tear off the whole tailor side.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I didn't thirteen people in that plane Wheeler four people
in one of the houses had crashed into probably two more,
and the other I.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Wilbert Wheeler was turned over to the police psychiatrist because
we couldn't get any father with him, and a lie
detected test was arranged for the following morning. The web
that was tightening around him was only circumstantial.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
And the question was did he know that he could
keep on saying.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
He hadn't done it and that we couldn't do anything
without physical proof, or was he innocent. My last move
that night was to go to Wheeler's room. We were
looking for a wire that could be checked to that
hues with the explosive. We couldn't find that or anything
else that could be a definite help, But a couple
of things we didn't find seems strained Fay. He said.
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He came home and turned on his radio.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But there isn't radio here.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Maybe we've got him on a real line newspapers land home.
Can you find any most oh hard any unless he's.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Got him on a site something.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Why would he do that?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I'm in the waste papers. Ask it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You think a man as closely connected to this as
he was would want to find out what the papers
were saying, wouldn't you guilty or innocence? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I don't know, Dollar, I'm bushed.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Let's drop it for to night. An't ready. We'll try
him again tomorrow. I'll drop you at home and see
about a mile in the morning. The next morning, Lenhart
and I talked to the psychiatrist who would spend a
couple of hours with Wheeler. In technical terms, what he
said was that Wheeler was definitely suffering from a severe
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guilt complex, but whether that meant he had actually committed
the crime, or I had only wished secretly that harm
would come to his good hue wasn't clear yet in
terms of evidence, that meant nothing. The lack of a
radio or newspapers in his room. The doctor tossed off
his meaning merely that Wheeler was hiding from actuality. As
Captain Lenhart put it, if that doctor thinks he helped
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my metal condition, he's wrong. That afternoon, there were two developments.
The first one was the report that the results of
Wilbert Wheeler's light detective test were negative, but his reactions
put the mark of guilt all over him. The second
came from the Fairway office of Carl Reid. He'd been
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unable to locate another of his stewardesses, and when finally
he'd sent someone to our apartment, she'd been found shot.
That we met mister Reid at the scene of the
second crime. I I simply had to get back in
the job today. Two of our flights were delayed yesterday
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because of my going to pieces.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
But I watch I don't know if I make it easy.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You try to phone this girl and tell out report
for one of your flights, and when you send somebody
out here. She was found that right. Yes, I hadn't
tried to contact Alice before because I knew that she
and Missus Goodview had been close friends, and I knew
she must have felt almost responsible for her death.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Why, mister read, Why sh she was scheduled for the
flight the other night? I thought you knew that. No,
we didn't.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I wish we had, But I told you that that night,
at the scene of the crash, I was talking to
her mother and Missus Goodhughes, because I remember that you
said she thought there was a chance that her daughter
wasn't on the plane. I told you the other girl
was scheduled us to read.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, you made it sound like Missus Goodhue thought her
daughter was on a different flight. You didn't say anything
about another Stuart.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's good, lord, it's all right. It's all right, mister Reeve.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But the human mind doesn't then follow them, but it
can correct its mistakes.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'll go on and tell us not that that's all.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
With everything else, I suppose it didn't seem important. I
know our procedure is less exact than the larger companies.
The girls often traded flights. Why did you find out
about this trade, not until missus Goodhue told me that
her daughter had gone to work that night.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You didn't discuss it with her buying the chance?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Oh I I didn't discuss it that night.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And and well, I think we better go see missus Goodhugh.
Do I think so, Sergeant Collins or will they will
be in charge here? Mister Reed, you may want to
ask you a few more questions. All right, Collin's I'm leaving.
I'll say a headquarter. Oh yeah, this probably means the
case against Wheeler is shot the second stewardess. That's a pattern.
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Everything they've tried to do is more than nothing. Circumstantial
evidence sometimes does it. I thought we were close. We
settled on a stewardess anyway as the intended victim. And
it doesn't help to think that maybe all those.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
People died because of a mistake.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
The wrong steward has died in the crash, and the
killer had to come back to take care of the
right one.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Of course, of.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Course, I'll tell you anything I can.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh, we've just learned that your daughter wasn't scheduled to
be on that plane. This is good youal No, she
wasn't do you know why she happened to be We
understand that she and Alice turning to exchange flights quite often.
That Do you know how it happened the other night?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
No, Shirley was here at home and the phone right now.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
What time was that? Please? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
I hardly remember. We've had an early dinner.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
The plane jackov at eight twenty five. How long before then?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Well, an hour at least, No, it was less than that,
because Shirley left in such a hurry.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What did she say, Well, she.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Said that one of the girls was sick and she
was going to.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Take her place on a flight just up to Maine
and back.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
She said.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
She said she'd be home soon after midnight. I've never liked.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Rush decisions, and I've always worried when Shirley left in
a hurry like that.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
She did it quite often.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Is yes, they all did. Six of them live here
in Hartford. I never liked it.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Did she trade more of them with Alice Turner than
the others do?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
No, it was an agreement, almost a code. If one
of them couldn't work, one of the others would fill in.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, then it's possible that Alice Turner called some of
the others before she calls your daughter.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yes, it it is possible, and I wish that I.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Naturally.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
The hope that Captain Lenhart and I had was that
we'd find another of the stewardess as Alice Turner and
had talked to and learned the reasons she had wanted
to get out of the fatal flight.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
We didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
She hadn't called any of the others, and we were
left with nothing, nothing but the prospect.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Of starting the whole investigation over.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
From the beginning, the enormity of the crime had been
in all of our minds from the first night. We
never thought it might have a positive quality, but it did.
The horror of it led to the solving of it.
Late that afternoon, Lenhart and I had found no place
from which to start over.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
I went back to my apartment.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Building and in the corridor just outside my door.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Is that doll it?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Huh? Yeah? Can I help you?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I want to talk to you. I think we put
it on a side.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'm pretty busy.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I know you, I know you are.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I want to talk about the plant explosion, all right,
come in. Look, Ah can't stand it anymore. I read
about Alice Turning this afternoon, and I can't stand at
That's all I do even know about it, just that
all those people killed killed for nothing, and I partly
the plane too. I'm ready to give myself up.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
All right, as you come to me. Then why did
you go to the police?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
How as you can talk to somebody like yo? The
police are always put in the case for the state. Okay,
I'll get you anyway, but you'll.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Know what I really said.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
His name is Church, not the church who was at
the church. He's the chief pusher for a bigger narcotic
somfit than you ever thought they was.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
We've had a few cranks in this case already.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I know crank, No crank. Alice Turner was carrying stuff
for him. She wanted to get out in church one leather,
so she's got smart. She set up a meeting with
a federal man the other night. That's why she was killed.
All the rest doesn't make sense. If she'd made this day.
Don't you think the Federals would have been.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
In on this.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Alice didn't tell him who she was or what she did.
I'm the one that told her Church was hollower. I
told her the Trump and not the goal. That's my
part of it. I told the church was on with
and he'd stop her some way, some way. I told
her to drop no matter what.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, I got.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Why would she put Shirley good You on the spot?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Well, Alice didn't know what would happen. I didn't know
who couldn't know it. Why did he do anything like that?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Why did he? If what you say is true, he
could have stopped her some other way.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
That's my doing too. I kept her out of sight,
and the other night I told her to do anything
to stay where she was and had to go to
the field. She believed me. Then I called Shirley Goodhew
and told her she was sick, and that's why she
didn't go.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You know how the explosive was that wrecked the plane.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I read today the first aid kid. That's where I
was carried to the stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
And it was that kid.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
How did the good You girl get it?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Because she was cold at the last minute, and Alice
had things in the like with the field. And now look,
mister dollar, I wouldn't be here. I wasn't telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's a peddler, not for me.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
But I don't read these stories about the people that
got killed and the families that are left. I couldn't
take it, couldn't take it. I know the truth. And
when Alice was killed, there was no reason for that
town what I knew. Are you ready to go to
the place where you heard what I got to say,
giving myself up your witness to that? You know where
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there's not the church is yeah. Yeah, he and I
we live together, and you'll come with us. I have
to sure, sure, I'll take it to him. That's it, Maria,
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this is where I left him. You go in and
callum moves here, all right? Just calling natural right now?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
All right, all right? Are you here? I'm here, you're curdy.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Away. I got expensive count item too miscellaneous twenty three
dollars and forty five cents. Expensive count total twenty five
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dollars and ninety five cents remarks with the cost of
the other people, the total hardly.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Seems important, does it.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I think it would be easier if forget the twenty
five dollars than the rest of the matter.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
So let's do it.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It's truly Johnny Dollar, yours truly. Johnny Dollars stars Edman
O'Brien in the title role and is written by Gildard
with music by Eddie doun Sty. Edmond O'Brien can soon
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be seen in the Paramount Pictures production Warpath. Featured in
Tonight's cast were Peter Leeds, Ray Hartman, Martha Wentworth, Bill Bouchet, Victor.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Perron, and Virginia Gregg.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by him Dalaye.
This is damned, probably inviting you to join us next
week at the same time when Edmund O'Brien returns as
Yours Truly Johnny Dalla
A journey into the rail rom the strain and tellify
I hope you will enjoy the chap, that it will
tie you a little and kill you a little. So
settle back, get a good grip on your nerve. Where
are we going? You'll find out when we get there.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Johnny, did you hear Yes, I just turned off my radio.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Oh it's horrible.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Who is this? Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I'm sorry, Sam Harris, Columbia.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Sure, does your company carry the policies on that airline?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yes, but I'm not thinking of that. That crash was planned.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
They're definitely about it now.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes, an explosion, some kind of a bomb. There were
thirteen people killed in the plane. They don't know how
many in the houses have crashed into We've got to
place responsibility. The company wants to do whatever it can.
We've got to find whoever is responsible.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, mister Harris, you want me to go out.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, we do. The airline representative is a man named Reed.
Go out and do everything you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Can, Edmond O'Brien in the Transcribed Adventure of a Man
with the Action Packed Expenser Card America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator,
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator,
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Johnny Dollar to Home Office, Columbia or.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Risk Insurance Company.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
of the Fairway matter. Expencer count Eem one two fifty
cab head of the scene of the plane crash.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Which, as you know who covered quite a bit of territory.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The Fairway Airlines plane had taken off at eight twenty pm,
had reached an altitude of no more than a thousand
feet and then had crashed, setting afire two houses a
short distance from the spring feel hard for the airport.
I got there at lap of nine thirty. One house
had been partially saved that the other had been completely demolished.
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The family of four living in it could be killed.
The parents of one child in the first house were
unexpected to live and beyond twisted pieces of the plane
were scattered across a field. Fragments still smoking and turned
white by the phone from chemical extinguished.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
As red.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Card. A car read over here?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
What is it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
At lea small and waking a car?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Lets you know as soon as we can.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yes, who you are? My name is Dona, the insurance
company said. Insurance Kim, good lord, this is hardly the
time to worry about money. I'm a I'm an investigator
that I've hired, made a help them any way I can,
and picked the plane.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh you will have to excuse me.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
This is good, Hugh, there are some things I have
to do.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Come along, mister dall it geez I doesn't know about
the explosion, and she thinks something as chance when her
daughter wasn't on the plane or she was so was stewardous.
If you haven't told her, I can let her hope
for a couple of more hours. Why shouldn't I I've
had to tell too many people. It's it's just horrible.
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I think, even worse than if it had been an accident,
and you know it was premeditated, when you know someone
planned it, kind of person would would you have to
beat and to plan something like this. It's an underbladanstory.
And because we have proof there was an explosion in
the extreme after section that destroyed.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All the control cables to the tailors.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
And I don't suppose being civil aeronautys man as well
those eyes away as sending one of their best has
w Newton.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Captain Lenhard of escaped nieces here though.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh, I'd like to speak to him, and you have
any idea where he is the last time I saw
him he was little by that at Oh it's left,
but uh see the group of men over by the hangar. Yeah,
well they they collected the bodies there, made as many
identifications as possible.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I know, expanded mister Reeve, but don't sure where the
pieces had.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That wouldn't help him. Oh ah hah, I'll be hard
to tell him. Uh, I'll see you left. Yeah. I
remembered Captain Jim Lenhard from a case we chaired last year,
and I found him in the group of silent man.
The silence and the expressions told better than words how
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they felt about the row of sheet draped bodies on
the ground. I was readmaking up. I thought he was
going to pieces a little while ago. He's still in
pretty bad shape. You know, he's not alone. But for
the US anyway, dollar it could have been worse, plane
could have been filled. Yeah, tru my mind and you
and I are thinking together, Captain, that our approach will
be to find out, if we can, which victim was
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the plan victim well with what we have now, and
don't feel the other way to start you the possibilities
as I see them, murder with a motive, suicide disguised,
or a homicidal maniac that must cover it. I have
the incoming airport a few mile circle around it. Their
orders are to question everybody they spot, search every car.
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It's about all we can do to learn. I'll see
in the morning then if it times you sure is,
but heavy on the case, I'll meet your mylefe of
name good. Oh, there's another ambulance, and get the rest
of these poor devils into the morgue how to find
out who they are. The next morning, the official findings
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were released. The explosive had been nitroglycering. They have been
defonated by some electrical means, which it was assumed was
connected to a timing device that had not yet been found.
Captain Lenhardt's men had questioned the number of suspicious characters
near the airport without result, but he himself had received
an anonymous tip on a possible suspect, a Wilberg Wheeler,
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who was a member of the ground crew that had
serviced the plane just before its takeoff. Wheeler was shown
to the captain's oves about forty minutes after I'd gotten there.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Why'd you pick me.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
To come up here?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Why didn't you get Straker or Mills?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They're over me.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's just routine, wheeler routine.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
But you must have a reason. I got a right
to know if you got a reason have at night?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Why do you think we started with you? Well, I'm
asking you, the said wheler. Can't you say you don't
know the stewardess who died in that crash? Surely good, Hugh,
I know, I know, I understand that she meant something
to him.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Were you in love with her? Yes, we understand that you.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Made quite a pest of yourself phoning her at home
waiting for at the airport, and then a week or
so ago you learned she was going to marry the
co pilot who was killed. What's his name, Bill Strand?
Wasn't it Willen?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, you're saying that you think I caused that crasher.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You wanted to know why you went in. I told
you it was just routine, really, and it would have
been if you'd acted differently. But it sounded as though
you were trying to hide some facts from us.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I won't anymore. I don't. I don't have any reason to.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And why did you?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't know, I mean going crazy since I heard
about it last night. I was still at the field night.
I got sick and I had to go home. Yeah,
we heard about that.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I got home and I turned on my radio and
I heard what caused the crash and explosion.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I knew that a lot of things I've said, a
lot of things i'd done were gonna make trouble for me.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Even getting sick and coming home was bad.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
What were some of the other things?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I said some pretty bad things to Shirley when I
heard she was gonna marry Strand then I had a
fight with him. I had to fight with him over
the same thing. I guess for me, it was really
over that he ordered me around one day and I
didn't like it, and that's how it started.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
He beat me up pretty bad and said he'd have.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
My job, and I told him that.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I'd see the day is playing with him.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Minute would be planted to get some hill.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I know what it sounds like now, but it didn't
mean anything.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It would just talk.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
There's plenty of that, Eh, you heard enough dough? Yeah,
I think see that's all went.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Winn, I can go.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, nobody would be stupid enough to compromise himself the
way you did and pull a job like this.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I'm sure made a lot of mistakes and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, just be around where we can find you if
we want to talk to you anymore.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
But I can't come back to the airport, Sir, I.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Was gonna call him and quit. If it's all right,
would you just be where we can find you?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's all I will.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm sorry. A lot of people are whether you know.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Well, goodbye, Winn, Thanks for coming down. Yes, sir, what
do you think m The.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Only reason I say if I get him is because
he's the first one we've questioned, and the things don't
work out that way.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, Collis the.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Man just leaving my office name was Wheeler Whilbert. Really,
I pull the boys, get on him and stay all
the ways to.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Lead him tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, I think I'd like to know it's in his background.
I'd like to get a psychiatrist reaction.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Wouldn't you.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
We learned about him, Well, let's get on this list
of passengers and see what we can get from their survivors.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We spent the rest of the day.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
In the efforts of six more of Captain Lenhart's mean
preparing files on the ten dead passengers. One file contained
nothing but a name, Rupert Stone, gotten from the ticket
office records, is that of a man who had paid cash.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
For space to Augusta made.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
The heart for the address he had given was non existent,
and the phone number rang a bakery where no one
had ever heard of a Rupert Stone. That one we
dropped until the accurate identification of the bodies was complete.
Glenn Hard and I started out to follow up a
couple of the others that evening. This is rot and
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work and check missus Graham, Yes, this is mister Dollar.
I'm Captain lett Hard of the State Police. We'd like
to talk to you about the death of your husband.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
No, I've talked too much and only keeps in my
mind the things that I saw in that field and
the women's crime.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
We know, mister Graham, that it's Aunt John to fix
the responsibility. We only want to ask you a few questions.
If you'd wanna help find whoever caused all those this,
If you could, wouldn't you? How can I have?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
And maybe we come in all right, but only a
little while I haven't slept.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Thank you who no, skiller? Be quiet?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
He knows poor old dog.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Very soon he will die and I'll be alone.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
M please sit don mm thank you yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Uh uh missus Graham, your husband, yeah, uh well he
he bought space to Boston and me.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yes, his brother's there and there. M. He was a
religious man. Quite often he would go to visit his
brother's grave.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I see, Uh, I think that's all we needed.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Wasn't a dollar to recheck his plan for Yeah? Yes,
I I think that was only I think we better go.
We're sorry to bother you, missus Graham, and uh, thank
you very much for seniors. Right, yes, thanks very much, sir.
Oh well, don't bother to get up. You don't have
to come to the door with us. Good night, good
night night quiet.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
He won't come back.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I couldn't cut it. Think that dog did it? Sorry,
apologize to me.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
This hasn't happened to me since I was a rookie.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Forget it. But grilling a poor woman to find out
of her husband's cancer might have driven him to suicide.
And I couldn't go through it.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
A whole rocking mess.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Think it's getting it said, well, I only had a
couple of drinks in the way downtown to get it
for the night man or trying to.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That suits me. You know aile's on Front Street.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yah, it's fine anything, so let's go. Then I'll hold
him there and have colums check me off duty.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Oh you pleasure to leave?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
No, he had his phone. I'll catch it. Dollar sixty,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Oh here come, I'll drink up dollar. I guess I'll
have to waste mine because it seems I'm not off duty.
What happened I'll go back to that stewardess again. Explosive
has been checked.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
The herd equipment, Well, I have men say some twisted
metal ay from used to be a first aid box.
I think it was a man And bring his Wilbo
wheeler back again too. And he's been picked up right now.
I don't think I need this drink to get through
a stage with him. We will return you to the
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second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in just a
moment now, with our star Edmond O'Brien, we return you
to the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. Not
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necessarily were not necessarily?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I heard you do?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Did you locate Carl Weibeller. Yeah, he was at home.
The guy has been under doctor's cam and I think
I got what we.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Need on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Been getting along and we just got here.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
We were covering the point of whether or not I
have a right to have him brought down here.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Maybe I'm wrong?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You are?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Didn't you want to come will?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Then?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I guess I don't like the idea of being boarded
into a police car twice in one day, with everybody
in the block gawking at A lot of people have
been loaded into police cars today with her. They were
glad to come in and do anything they could to
help clear this thing up.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I want to help too.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I didn't mean it that way, glad.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
To hear that. How long have you worked for the
Fairway Airline? About a year and a half. Again, what'd
you do before that? What do you mean you still
think I had something to do with that? Christ That's
what you mean is we'd like to find out who did,
wouldn't you?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
But you think I did it and I didn't. I
told you I didn't even you said I didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And it sounds like you've got nothing to worry about,
So calm down and answer our question.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I want to know why you're asking questions like that.
Why did you bring me back here?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Be cause some new evidence has turned up.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's why that has to do with me.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It has to do with Shirley Goodview.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I don't know what you're talking about. I told you
everything there was about her and me.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Did you know that she carried a first aid kid
about the plane last night?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
First aid kid? I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You don't after.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Working there a year and a half, What did you
do on the plane?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Brought on check the water and a few other things,
things that the stewardess would be involved, and she'd be
there with you, wouldn't she.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah, but I don't know what you're driving. And I
don't know what you mean in the back part.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Of the plane.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yes, Shirley was there and you were there last night. Yeah,
but where did she put a first aid kid? Wer?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Why do you ask me that? I don't remember. I
didn't notice they had a place they kept it, but
I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I don't know I was in it.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
If I know what you meant, I don't know why
you're asking me these I talked to mister Reid, so
I know about these things. Fairways non scheduled airlines, so
they have their own particular routines. One of them is
that this first aid kid is the steward responsibility.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Each one is a kit.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
They take it off the plane when they leave, and
they bring it aboard when they report for work.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The explosive Wheeler, the nitroglycroom that was hidden in that
first aid kick.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I didn't put it there, that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But I didn't do it. I didn't know anything about
it enough explosive to tear off the whole tailor side.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I didn't thirteen people in that plane Wheeler four people
in one of the houses had crashed into probably two more,
and the other I.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Wilbert Wheeler was turned over to the police psychiatrist because
we couldn't get any father with him, and a lie
detected test was arranged for the following morning. The web
that was tightening around him was only circumstantial.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
And the question was did he know that he could
keep on saying.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
He hadn't done it and that we couldn't do anything
without physical proof, or was he innocent. My last move
that night was to go to Wheeler's room. We were
looking for a wire that could be checked to that
hues with the explosive. We couldn't find that or anything
else that could be a definite help, But a couple
of things we didn't find seems strained Fay. He said.
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He came home and turned on his radio.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But there isn't radio here.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Maybe we've got him on a real line newspapers land home.
Can you find any most oh hard any unless he's.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Got him on a site something.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Why would he do that?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I'm in the waste papers. Ask it.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
You think a man as closely connected to this as
he was would want to find out what the papers
were saying, wouldn't you guilty or innocence? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I don't know, Dollar, I'm bushed.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Let's drop it for to night. An't ready. We'll try
him again tomorrow. I'll drop you at home and see
about a mile in the morning. The next morning, Lenhart
and I talked to the psychiatrist who would spend a
couple of hours with Wheeler. In technical terms, what he
said was that Wheeler was definitely suffering from a severe
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guilt complex, but whether that meant he had actually committed
the crime, or I had only wished secretly that harm
would come to his good hue wasn't clear yet in
terms of evidence, that meant nothing. The lack of a
radio or newspapers in his room. The doctor tossed off
his meaning merely that Wheeler was hiding from actuality. As
Captain Lenhart put it, if that doctor thinks he helped
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my metal condition, he's wrong. That afternoon, there were two developments.
The first one was the report that the results of
Wilbert Wheeler's light detective test were negative, but his reactions
put the mark of guilt all over him. The second
came from the Fairway office of Carl Reid. He'd been
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unable to locate another of his stewardesses, and when finally
he'd sent someone to our apartment, she'd been found shot.
That we met mister Reid at the scene of the
second crime. I I simply had to get back in
the job today. Two of our flights were delayed yesterday
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because of my going to pieces.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
But I watch I don't know if I make it easy.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
You try to phone this girl and tell out report
for one of your flights, and when you send somebody
out here. She was found that right. Yes, I hadn't
tried to contact Alice before because I knew that she
and Missus Goodview had been close friends, and I knew
she must have felt almost responsible for her death.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Why, mister read, Why sh she was scheduled for the
flight the other night? I thought you knew that. No,
we didn't.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I wish we had, But I told you that that night,
at the scene of the crash, I was talking to
her mother and Missus Goodhughes, because I remember that you
said she thought there was a chance that her daughter
wasn't on the plane. I told you the other girl
was scheduled us to read.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, you made it sound like Missus Goodhue thought her
daughter was on a different flight. You didn't say anything
about another Stuart.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's good, lord, it's all right. It's all right, mister Reeve.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But the human mind doesn't then follow them, but it
can correct its mistakes.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'll go on and tell us not that that's all.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
With everything else, I suppose it didn't seem important. I
know our procedure is less exact than the larger companies.
The girls often traded flights. Why did you find out
about this trade, not until missus Goodhue told me that
her daughter had gone to work that night.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You didn't discuss it with her buying the chance?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Oh I I didn't discuss it that night.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And and well, I think we better go see missus Goodhugh.
Do I think so, Sergeant Collins or will they will
be in charge here? Mister Reed, you may want to
ask you a few more questions. All right, Collin's I'm leaving.
I'll say a headquarter. Oh yeah, this probably means the
case against Wheeler is shot the second stewardess. That's a pattern.
(20:55):
Everything they've tried to do is more than nothing. Circumstantial
evidence sometimes does it. I thought we were close. We
settled on a stewardess anyway as the intended victim. And
it doesn't help to think that maybe all those.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
People died because of a mistake.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
The wrong steward has died in the crash, and the
killer had to come back to take care of the
right one.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Of course, of.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Course, I'll tell you anything I can.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh, we've just learned that your daughter wasn't scheduled to
be on that plane. This is good youal No, she
wasn't do you know why she happened to be We
understand that she and Alice turning to exchange flights quite often.
That Do you know how it happened the other night?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
No, Shirley was here at home and the phone right now.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
What time was that? Please? Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
I hardly remember. We've had an early dinner.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
The plane jackov at eight twenty five. How long before then?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Well, an hour at least, No, it was less than that,
because Shirley left in such a hurry.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What did she say, Well, she.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Said that one of the girls was sick and she
was going to.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Take her place on a flight just up to Maine
and back.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
She said.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
She said she'd be home soon after midnight. I've never liked.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Rush decisions, and I've always worried when Shirley left in
a hurry like that.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
She did it quite often.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Is yes, they all did. Six of them live here
in Hartford. I never liked it.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Did she trade more of them with Alice Turner than
the others do?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
No, it was an agreement, almost a code. If one
of them couldn't work, one of the others would fill in.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, then it's possible that Alice Turner called some of
the others before she calls your daughter.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yes, it it is possible, and I wish that I.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Naturally.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
The hope that Captain Lenhart and I had was that
we'd find another of the stewardess as Alice Turner and
had talked to and learned the reasons she had wanted
to get out of the fatal flight.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
We didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
She hadn't called any of the others, and we were
left with nothing, nothing but the prospect.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Of starting the whole investigation over.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
From the beginning, the enormity of the crime had been
in all of our minds from the first night. We
never thought it might have a positive quality, but it did.
The horror of it led to the solving of it.
Late that afternoon, Lenhart and I had found no place
from which to start over.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
I went back to my apartment.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Building and in the corridor just outside my door.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Is that doll it?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Huh? Yeah? Can I help you?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I want to talk to you. I think we put
it on a side.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'm pretty busy.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I know you, I know you are.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I want to talk about the plant explosion, all right,
come in. Look, Ah can't stand it anymore. I read
about Alice Turning this afternoon, and I can't stand at
That's all I do even know about it, just that
all those people killed killed for nothing, and I partly
the plane too. I'm ready to give myself up.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
All right, as you come to me. Then why did
you go to the police?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
How as you can talk to somebody like yo? The
police are always put in the case for the state. Okay,
I'll get you anyway, but you'll.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Know what I really said.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
His name is Church, not the church who was at
the church. He's the chief pusher for a bigger narcotic
somfit than you ever thought they was.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
We've had a few cranks in this case already.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I know crank, No crank. Alice Turner was carrying stuff
for him. She wanted to get out in church one leather,
so she's got smart. She set up a meeting with
a federal man the other night. That's why she was killed.
All the rest doesn't make sense. If she'd made this day.
Don't you think the Federals would have been.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
In on this.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Alice didn't tell him who she was or what she did.
I'm the one that told her Church was hollower. I
told her the Trump and not the goal. That's my
part of it. I told the church was on with
and he'd stop her some way, some way. I told
her to drop no matter what.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, I got.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Why would she put Shirley good You on the spot?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Well, Alice didn't know what would happen. I didn't know
who couldn't know it. Why did he do anything like that?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Why did he? If what you say is true, he
could have stopped her some other way.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
That's my doing too. I kept her out of sight,
and the other night I told her to do anything
to stay where she was and had to go to
the field. She believed me. Then I called Shirley Goodhew
and told her she was sick, and that's why she
didn't go.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You know how the explosive was that wrecked the plane.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I read today the first aid kid. That's where I
was carried to the stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
And it was that kid.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
How did the good You girl get it?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Because she was cold at the last minute, and Alice
had things in the like with the field. And now look,
mister dollar, I wouldn't be here. I wasn't telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's a peddler, not for me.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
But I don't read these stories about the people that
got killed and the families that are left. I couldn't
take it, couldn't take it. I know the truth. And
when Alice was killed, there was no reason for that
town what I knew. Are you ready to go to
the place where you heard what I got to say,
giving myself up your witness to that? You know where
(26:23):
there's not the church is yeah. Yeah, he and I
we live together, and you'll come with us. I have
to sure, sure, I'll take it to him. That's it, Maria,
(26:49):
this is where I left him. You go in and
callum moves here, all right? Just calling natural right now?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
All right, all right? Are you here? I'm here, you're curdy.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Away. I got expensive count item too miscellaneous twenty three
dollars and forty five cents. Expensive count total twenty five
(27:27):
dollars and ninety five cents remarks with the cost of
the other people, the total hardly.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Seems important, does it.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I think it would be easier if forget the twenty
five dollars than the rest of the matter.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
So let's do it.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It's truly Johnny Dollar, yours truly. Johnny Dollars stars Edman
O'Brien in the title role and is written by Gildard
with music by Eddie doun Sty. Edmond O'Brien can soon
(28:01):
be seen in the Paramount Pictures production Warpath. Featured in
Tonight's cast were Peter Leeds, Ray Hartman, Martha Wentworth, Bill Bouchet, Victor.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Perron, and Virginia Gregg.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by him Dalaye.
This is damned, probably inviting you to join us next
week at the same time when Edmund O'Brien returns as
Yours Truly Johnny Dalla
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