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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Have a journey into the rail of the strait and
tellify I hope you will enjoy the shape.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That it will tree 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 3 (00:31):
Resents for your listening enjoyment Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Has Johnny Dallas.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
This is Louise.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Louise say, that's funny. I was thinking of you Unlucky
just this morning. Yeah, how I am.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I don't know, Johnny, that's why.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What's the matter, Louise? Something about Lucky?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I don't know. Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm getting tired
of being a detective wife.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hey wait a minute, that doesn't sound like you.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I know, but something's wrong. He's been on a case
to San Francisco, or at least that's what he told me.
I haven't had one word, not even a postcard, in
a week.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That doesn't sound like Lucky. Maybe he's in trouble divorce case.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Johnny. Could I talk to you about it? Maybe I'm
all wrong, but I'd like to know.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Yeah, sure, Louise, I'll be over about an hour, if
that's all right.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The makers of Brigley Experiment, Chewing Gum, Bring You Edmund O'Brien,
and another adventure of the Man with the action packed
expense account America's populous freelance insurance investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Expense Council Advice Social Investigator Johnny Dallas to New York
Police Department Shinn Homicide Bureau. I know you do honor
this statement, but for the sake of convenience, I'll use
my regular report for The following is an accounting of
expenditures during my investigation of the Lucky Costa mat her.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
His real name was Frank Costa.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I don't know where he picked up the lucky tag,
but he'd had it five years ago, when both of
us were on the payroll of one of the big
detective agencies. He opened his own opposite about the same
time I went into insurance.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I got to know him and his wife well, but
not intimately, and I liked them both.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So when she phoned with worry in her voice, I
went over to see her. In a way I wish
I hadn't.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
So kind of silly and embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
M who don't have to talk about anything you don't
want to Louise.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Why don't we go to dinner in a movie and
forget the detective rankeet for a while.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
That doesn't tried, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
It's not only the sweet that I haven't heard from
Lucky changed how nothing I can explain to you. If
you'd seen him every day, you probably wouldn't have noticed
anything but something that a wife could see seeing with
these eyes when he didn't always looking at him sort
of a far away, as if he was thinking of
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something that I didn't have any business knowing about.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
You know, Luck, he's never been like that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I guess any man keeps secrets when it's his.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Job too, who Lucky never has with me.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
He didn't need to so as his job when he's
always told me that they didn't good to come home
and talk whens over with me, even things he really
wasn't supposed to talk about.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
It happened in that.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You think he's mixed up with another woman, don't you.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Started over a month ago?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Done?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I've been used to like you being away?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You know that? Yeah, I think I you'd have to
be like I.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Said, I I knew him.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Things are different when it well, it was more than
just being away from me.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You sure you aren't imagining things.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
I'm not imagining that. I haven't heard from him, and
all this time that never happened before.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
MM. How long has this been going on? This change
you speak of.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
I tried to remember exactly when I first noticed it.
I think it was one night about a month ago.
I asked him what he was thinking about, and he
sort of came to and did something that I don't
remember now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Did you present any further?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
A couple of times, and I didn't anymore because it
made me think he was hiding something from me.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I didn't want to think that.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I kept telling him I hope that everything was all right.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I know it was. Was he on a case a
month ago?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
He was tracing some ponies. It doesn't have anything to
do with work, Johnny. I know that he traced pony before.
He's done everything before.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
It wasn't work well.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I don't have a wife's viewpoin him, but I know
Lucky pretty well.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Some things about him I know better than you do.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
It seems to me that if he was going to
go wrong with a woman, he'd have done it A
long time ago.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
We met something.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
You know, Yeah, I've heard.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Does it's better still live here in town?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yes? That I haven't phone him.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Same address on board, wasn't it. Yes? Are you going
to see you? Yeah? I thought I might. You want
me to check on Lucky, don't you.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I don't know what I want. Yes, I'm going to
find out all right.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I think his brother is the best place to start.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The last time i'd been at the Broad Street address,
i'd been for the funeral of the constan's mother.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The house was a few years more beat up than
it had been. Some old chicken coop stood.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Empty in the backyard, and Joe the brother pull up
in an old car. After I'd thumbed the doorbell three
or four times and that started to leave.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I took the wife from kids over to the park
so I could have some peace for an hour or so.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, I always missed you. I'm glad you didn't shine.
It's been a long time. Nothing has been going with you, Joe.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
You this guy can make a living, but making him
go far enough is another story.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They come in the house, sure names, I'm working over
breakers now. It's better spot than the old. Jeff had
one race already and another one coming up. Man, that
sounds good, Jude. Are you still doing the same thing. Yeah,
I'm still following people.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You see much of Lucky anymore? No? No, not for
six months anyway. A matter of fact, I came here
to talk to you about him. Yeah, what about Well?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I wondered if you've spoken to him before he left
to San Francisco last week.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Now, I talked to Lucky for the last time as
far as I'm concerned. That was about a month ago.
It does the matter. Thought you two were okay, that
you got along, all.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Right, we're putting a friend of his aunt you, Johnny, Well,
you know how it was.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You and I just fell together and we were with
the agency. Yeah, we're good friends. Maybe I see him
only twice a year, but he's almost the only guy
I've held on to him. Did he ever tell you
about his first wife he was married before?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah? Did he ever tell you about the year and
six he spent in prison? Joe? You serious?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that's the way Lucky is. He don't let his
friends know anything about him, but he don't want him
to know. He's always been like that. There's always been
two signs to Joe. Why don't you know about him?
Wyn't you don't what about this prison to him, he
was grand theft. It was all this girl that he married,
his first wife. He stole some first for him. How
long ago twelve fifteen years, I guess when we're still
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living in Brooklyn. Lucky was a wild kid when he
was eighteenis so, and he still got some.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Of it in him.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Who was this woman he married? Her name was Hazel Mackie.
And she called me about getting in touch with Lucky.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Oh, that was about a month ago.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's when him and me had our showdown.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I told him he was a dumb cluck if he
saw Hazel like and I said, you got a new
life now.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You are moaning or something. You're married to a nice kid.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
But I could tell I wasn't getting told him he.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Was going to see her.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
I knew that, so I told him if he did, it.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Was the end of him and me brother and no brother.
He was sure he saw her, you know, before he
left that he would. She had some kind of heard
about him back when they were married.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
She still do what do you want from Lucky Johnny Loo?
He's called me. She hasn't heard from him in a week,
and she wants to know what goes he's dropped.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Out of sight. Sure he is, I know he would.
Where can I find this Hazel, New York. She's got
an apartment on eighty second. You got the number?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Finding the other rooms?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
L mackey, Yeah, oh you. My name is Dolla and
a friend of Lucky Constance.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Come on in.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
You know where Lucky is not at the moment.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
No, who are you? So he's been missing for a week.
His family is worried. I'm looking.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
He's on a case.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is he working for you? Yeah? What kind of case?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I don't know that it's any of your business. I
need a detective, so I hired him. Is that all right?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
It would be if he were on the up and
up about it, But he isn't. As far as his
wife knows. He's in San Francisco and a divorce case.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I can't help what he tells his wife, how did
you get here?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
He'd rather tell me about you.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
I guess that's why he doesn't know. I guess that's
why I told her he was going to San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know where I can reach him? No, not for
a while. Do you think I under send his wife
to the police.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
I don't see why you should.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I will if I don't find out about the case
he's and Hey, what's with this pressure stuff? What's the case?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I needed a bodyguard for him. I was engaged to
a guy who was sent to prison. Was there two years?
I changed my mind about him. He's out now and
I'm afraid of him.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Who is he?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
You know? I don't like you. You got a lot
of nerve. None of this is any of your business.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I wish you were right, but I've already stuck my
neck out and made it my business.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So I don't find out these things from you. I'll
find him out for someone else.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Yeah, I yes, you would. His name is George Myers.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
What makes you think he's going to cause you money trouble?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Some of the things he told me when I went
to visit him. It's hard to talk since to a
man who's been in prison that long. I tried to
tell him how I felt that blow's top and make
a out of threat.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Where is he now? I don't know. It's been out
a week.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Luck, he's trying to get a line on him.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He hasn't contacted you yet.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Nobody will when it's over with and we get things
straightened out. I'm Lucky can go back to his wife now,
if you'll approve, I just as soon you get out
of here.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
A few things don't figure you? Answered? That? Does it?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Not like a dame that's afraid of someone coming? But answer, Oh,
you're right. It's Lucky.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He's business, how he arns his money.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I'm tell him you dropped in.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's up to you, right, no long. I put off
telling his wife for two days because I didn't know how,
and because I didn't think it.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Was up to me to tell a thing she never
knew about her husband. But on the third morning it broke.
The story made page one, part two of all the
New York dailies. The body at ex convict George Myers
had been found the night before. He'd been shot to
death by what they called an unknown assailant. I found
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a brother, Joe Constant met him outside Breakers during his
lunch hour.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Hi, Johnny, what's up? Well? Maybe the local pature didn't
carry her here?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Who's this Myers? Friend of Hazel Mackey's.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
She told me she hired Lucky the bodyguard against this Myers.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Give me Lucky too. I don't know, Joe. It looks bad.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Read this lass Bang Myers went to prisoner and a
robbery wrapped for money was never recuted.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
There's two hundred thousand dollar. I was floating around, Joe.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I can't help wondering if this Mackie woman having her
finger on.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It, why do you have to tell me this challenge?
Because I couldn't carry it myself. I talked to Hazel,
but she chose me put the finger. I'm lucky. I
want to do it in early because I'm gonna have
to go to the police with it. We is gonna
kill Louise.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
What can I do? Joe? Well, it seems to me
you could stop playing hero. No, wait, you don't have
to run of the police. If Lucky you did it,
let them find out. You don't have to tell oh
not for let no good Lucky. But oh, Joe, listen
to me.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
They get the Hazel Mackie and she tells them about
talking to me. Then what happens that I'm in trouble.
I can't afford that, Joe. I've got to stay clean
with the police.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Sure, stay clean, no matter what it does to the wise.
That's the way this.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Then I didn't ask to get mixed up in it.
I didn't tell Louise what I found out about him.
But it's out of hand now, Joe, and there's nothing
I can do.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
God Head, then go ahead, maybe some nice back copple
patch on.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
The back, Joe, Joe. That's our racket.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And now, with our star Edmund O'Brien, we bring you
the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I left Harford for New York on the one ten
that afternoon. When I got there, the later editions.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Reported the usual rounding up of known criminals who were
being grilled about the Maya shooting. And the closer I
got to the apartment on eighty second Street, the rattana,
the whole thing looked to me.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Who it's Oh, come on, open up?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Why what do you want?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Where is he now?
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Lucky?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I told him to give himself up, but he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Did he killed George Myners?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yes, the stupid idiot, And that happened, Lucky heard a
room over to Montclair, and George must have followed me
over there.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
You went across town so you could be with your bodyguard. Yes,
and the man you were afraid of followed you. Yes,
you were either not very bright or not very scared.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Well, about two o'clock we came out and George was
waiting in the lobby.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
He followed us out on the street and started swearing
at us. He took a swing at me, and then
Lucky tried to stop him. He pulled a gun out
of his pocket, and that's when Lucky shot him.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh it sounds very neat.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
What do you mean.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I got a fairy? Then I'll try out on you
when I get close. Tell me the two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Dollars that never showed up after George Meyer's arrest, So.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
A split of that, Lucky ad need to kill him.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You're crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You hire a detective as a body god.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Theoretically he could kill this man you were afraid of
and ride out of it on his license and a
self defense.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Please, it was self defense. George pulled a gun.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The police didn't find it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
If it was self defense, why didn't Lucky report it
like he should have?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I wanted him to. We came back here and had
begged him upon the police.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
What about the two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It need it will be hard to prove that you do.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I said, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I take it you haven't thrown the police.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
No, I know I should, but I just can't do it.
The Lucky.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You know I'm gonna call him, don't.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I thought you said you were his friend, not that
good a friend. What can I do to me?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Hold you as a material.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Witness while I tried to get some troop together that
you dragged Lucky into this, dragged him into what I
hired him.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I told you that I was afraid of George, and
I hired him.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And he killed Maya as a line of duty and
in self defense. Why didn't he turn himself in?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I wanted you must have give him some reason for
not doing it. What did he say?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
He said that everything was all ruined now and that
he'd rather take a chance on getting away.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Why was it ruined if he killed himself defense, I'd
had to do it.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Are you going to help him get away?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
We didn't talk about that. He was like a crazy
man pacing the floor. Then he left. About where was
he going?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
He didn't say, are you going to get in touch
with you? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
He said he'd tried to call yeah, he won't.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Be here to take the call. I want the police
to hear your story. The officer who answered my call
was Lieutenant Carl Belder. Twos you and upon men who
were with him took Hazel Mackie back to headquarters and
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he listened to my theory. We searched the apartment without
finding proof of holding any amount like two hundred thousd dollars.
She had a small savings account and a small checking account,
and a stuff showed that she had paid Lucky Costa
a week in advance.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We waited the rest.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Of the afternoon for Lucky to call, and he finally
did an hour or so after dark.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Go ahead, Dollar, that might be him. Johnny Dollon's Lucky.
This is Johnny Dollar. Don't hang up, Lucky.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Why should I hang up? Are you Jenny?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I'm all right, Lucky? How are you hi? Yeah? I
can imagine what was the matter with you.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
How about you explaining yourself? Lead and might girl's apartment.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
She's not lonesome, she's down visiting New York's finest. Why
don't you use your head and come on in Lucky.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Shouldn't I like it where I am?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You're still figuring I'm trying to run out.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Sure it's worth a chat, don't you think, Johnny?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Have you killed myers and self defense? Why don't you
play it that way?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Haven't? It's called phrase, Johnny?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I hope we wouldn't have to play games like that.
I thought if I could talk to you, you'd come
to your senses. Can I meet you someplace where we
can talk it over him?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You're a good guy, Johnny, but I think you might
sell me out.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You've already been sold out. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You know his positions were reversed.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I wouldn't ask you to anybody get himself in a
mess like uram. We shouldn't expect help. Now use your head, Lucky.
Let's get this over with.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Sure, I'm meet you in Times Square New Year's Eve, Johnny, Lucky.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You know him better than I do. But don't you
think he pressed him a little too hard? Wouldn't he
if he leaves you if you talk like you were
going to help him? No, he knows me better than Yeah,
that's a tough spot. Dollar, an old friend like that. Well,
he's still in New York. He won't get out now,
and everything should be covered by now. Do you know
him well enough to guess what he'll try? I don't
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think so, because a killer isn't the guy I knew.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
He's clothes are still in the hotel room. I don't
think he'll try for them now. She got about two
hundred dollars in his pocket. I don't have any idea
what he'll try and return.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I guess all we can do is wait.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
An officer was posted at the apartment, Lieutenant belt her
and I went down to headquarters under steady questioning. Hazel
Mackie held to a story that she knew nothing about
any two hundred thousand dollars, that she'd been afraid of
George Myers, that she'd hired a detective and good faith
to protect her, and that after Myers had been killed,
she had pleaded with Costa to get himself up. He
seemed apparent, and he then, after having talked with him,
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that she had her statement well rehearsed and felt that
if she stuck to it, there was no way for
us to prove anything else. I stayed in New York
that night in the next waiting for something to break
when it came. It came from Hartford. Joe Costa wanted
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to see me as soon as possible. Johnny, Yeah, Joe,
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come on here. All I got here as fast as
I could, as Louise not very good.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So now I'm sorry about blowing up the other day.
All right. I didn't blame you the bad time for
both of us.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You were right, Johnny. All I could think of them
was he's my brother. But now don't make any difference.
He's no better than a rat that you got a trap.
There's nothing to do but stop him.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You're right, Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I had to quit my job over and I couldn't
take it. The way the boys were looking at me.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
They wouldn't talk to me. It'll smooth over. What do
you want to talk to me about? Joe? Has he
contacted you? Yeah? He called me. He wants for me
to give him some money so he can get away.
He needs more than money. Now he'll never get out.
What'd you tell him?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Well, I told him I didn't have any to give him.
There was a time I knew for sure that you
would right upon him. So when he asked me again,
I told him I'd see what I could do. About
raising something. I told him to call back tonight. I
did that so I could sell him.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Out to you.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Was the right thing to do, no matter what you think,
he wouldn't think. Twenty is about pulling you into this mess, Joe,
And that's what he did. He asked you to.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Be a party that are killing Yeah, I know that.
When is he going to call sometime after seven o'clock?
Does he want you to meet him? Yeah, it's right
with two hundred bucks. He's going to tell me where
when he calls. He's still in New York? Is me
yeare in Manhattan? He want me to talk to him? Yeah,
if he gives himself up. I kind of figured they
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might take it easier on him. What could be deal, Joe,
I'll talk to him. I'd like to see him doing
by himself.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Oh yeah, what a glass of wine while we wait, Johnny? Yeah, yeah,
that'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
This is some new stuff for my wife's folks. I
took current of kids up to their house and stay.
This blows over. You think we were all criminals?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Away? People threat us in this time.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
The call came in about eight thirty. The meeting place
was a flat near the Bowery.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
The time was about ten the following night, I was
there at five minutes after.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
High, Lucky, what's this? I mean? Nice place you got?
You know? I get better than her home with her wife?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Joe sent me out. Huh, he gave you a break.
He didn't call the police.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
He send me some money.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
No, do you think you had any right to ask
him to? I need some, Johnny, I want him? Sure?
What about your girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You can shut up about that too.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
A double cross, Lucky, eh?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, yeah, double cross, A real good one.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I got no beef. You gonna let Hazel get away
with it.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
With the murder, wrapped the square with her, you know what?
Shut up the double cross for her? Who will did Johnny?
He stumbled into this thing and set it up for her.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Maybe she'll send me a gold watch. I saw her
three days before you killed him, Lucky. If you knew
I stumbled in, why didn't you pull out?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You didn't tell me about your until after I killed him.
Oh that's the way it went.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah, one little thing Hazel forgot, and she hoped it
wasn't important. She hadn't wanted up bother me with it.
But a friend of mine acted like he was suspicious
of what we were doing. All it did was blow
the whole thing sky high. I was going to copy
a self defense plea, but you were around, slipping out
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the premeditation. I didn't have a chance.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
It's tough, Lucky. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.
Get off, will you. I came into this with my
eyes open. I know what kind of an operator. She
was not beefing.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
There was a chance to make one hundred grands, so
I took the jump. So I lost what now, Lucky,
I was going to ask you right now, thanks, won't
break with me right now? Right I'll slip you on, Mickey.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I wouldn't put it past you. If I was in
your way. You are in my way.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Everybody's in your way now, the whole world. You can't
make it, Lucky, you won't get out of town. How
much you got, says start making sense. You've been on
the right side of enough these things to know you're finished.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I want you to get a shirt and tie on,
make yourself look halfway human, go to headquarters with me.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They may give you a break if you give yourself up.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
We're talking about it. What are you going to do
I'm not sure now that Joe showed me out. I'm
in the bed spots, Johnny. I know that I'm not
ready to quit yet.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Joe didn't sell you out. He wanted to give you
a chance to give yourself up, just like I do.
We're still your friends, Lucky. We can't stand by it
if you won't do the right thing, and I'll go along.
When what do you think I'm gonna do? Lucky sit
here with you until you get ready to leave. I
sort of hoop you would make it easier if you
did well.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I came here to give you a break. I made
my offer. Come with me, give yourself up. Oh I
can't do that, and I'm leaving. I'm telling the first
coup I see to come and get you. You're going
to put a gun on me, Lucky.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, I can't let you leave, and you'll have to
use it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You want me to come up a coward and kind
of an old friend like you.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I'm sorry, Johnny, you got nothing to lose. You won't
get blamed if I get out of here.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I can't let you, Lucky. I'll have to see I'm leaving.
I'll ask you once more to go with me.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Don't try it, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'll kill you if you stop for the door. That's
your privilege, lucky, because you're already a killer.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Johnny.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Don't, Johnny. I'm telling you, Sonny, I told you.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well Dollar, he won't give up. Lieutenant. Yeah, we'll take him.
Then he's armed.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
When he's drunk, but take it easy on him if
you can. He could have killed me and he didn't.
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I realized that the confession has sat down and this
report is worthless as evidence, And as far as proof goes,
you are still unable to charge Hazel Mackey for her
part of the conspiracy. But after Frank Costa died trying
to fight his way out of the flat, I want
to suggest that she'd be picked up again and grilled
until she breaks. She's as guilty as he was. Yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
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role and is written by Gil Dawd with music by
Eddy Dunsteader. Edmund O'Brian can now be seen starring in
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Have a journey into the rail of the strait and
tellify I hope you will enjoy the shape.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That it will tree 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 3 (00:31):
Resents for your listening enjoyment Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Has Johnny Dallas.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
This is Louise.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Louise say, that's funny. I was thinking of you Unlucky
just this morning. Yeah, how I am.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I don't know, Johnny, that's why.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What's the matter, Louise? Something about Lucky?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I don't know. Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm getting tired
of being a detective wife.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hey wait a minute, that doesn't sound like you.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I know, but something's wrong. He's been on a case
to San Francisco, or at least that's what he told me.
I haven't had one word, not even a postcard, in
a week.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That doesn't sound like Lucky. Maybe he's in trouble divorce case.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Johnny. Could I talk to you about it? Maybe I'm
all wrong, but I'd like to know.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Yeah, sure, Louise, I'll be over about an hour, if
that's all right.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The makers of Brigley Experiment, Chewing Gum, Bring You Edmund O'Brien,
and another adventure of the Man with the action packed
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Speaker 1 (01:55):
Expense Council Advice Social Investigator Johnny Dallas to New York
Police Department Shinn Homicide Bureau. I know you do honor
this statement, but for the sake of convenience, I'll use
my regular report for The following is an accounting of
expenditures during my investigation of the Lucky Costa mat her.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
His real name was Frank Costa.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I don't know where he picked up the lucky tag,
but he'd had it five years ago, when both of
us were on the payroll of one of the big
detective agencies. He opened his own opposite about the same
time I went into insurance.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I got to know him and his wife well, but
not intimately, and I liked them both.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So when she phoned with worry in her voice, I
went over to see her. In a way I wish
I hadn't.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
So kind of silly and embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
M who don't have to talk about anything you don't
want to Louise.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Why don't we go to dinner in a movie and
forget the detective rankeet for a while.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
That doesn't tried, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
It's not only the sweet that I haven't heard from
Lucky changed how nothing I can explain to you. If
you'd seen him every day, you probably wouldn't have noticed
anything but something that a wife could see seeing with
these eyes when he didn't always looking at him sort
of a far away, as if he was thinking of
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something that I didn't have any business knowing about.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
You know, Luck, he's never been like that.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I guess any man keeps secrets when it's his.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Job too, who Lucky never has with me.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
He didn't need to so as his job when he's
always told me that they didn't good to come home
and talk whens over with me, even things he really
wasn't supposed to talk about.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
It happened in that.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You think he's mixed up with another woman, don't you.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Started over a month ago?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Done?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I've been used to like you being away?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You know that? Yeah, I think I you'd have to
be like I.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Said, I I knew him.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Things are different when it well, it was more than
just being away from me.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You sure you aren't imagining things.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
I'm not imagining that. I haven't heard from him, and
all this time that never happened before.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
MM. How long has this been going on? This change
you speak of.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
I tried to remember exactly when I first noticed it.
I think it was one night about a month ago.
I asked him what he was thinking about, and he
sort of came to and did something that I don't
remember now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Did you present any further?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
A couple of times, and I didn't anymore because it
made me think he was hiding something from me.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I didn't want to think that.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I kept telling him I hope that everything was all right.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I know it was. Was he on a case a
month ago?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
He was tracing some ponies. It doesn't have anything to
do with work, Johnny. I know that he traced pony before.
He's done everything before.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
It wasn't work well.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I don't have a wife's viewpoin him, but I know
Lucky pretty well.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Some things about him I know better than you do.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
It seems to me that if he was going to
go wrong with a woman, he'd have done it A
long time ago.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
We met something.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
You know, Yeah, I've heard.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Does it's better still live here in town?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yes? That I haven't phone him.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Same address on board, wasn't it. Yes? Are you going
to see you? Yeah? I thought I might. You want
me to check on Lucky, don't you.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I don't know what I want. Yes, I'm going to
find out all right.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I think his brother is the best place to start.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The last time i'd been at the Broad Street address,
i'd been for the funeral of the constan's mother.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The house was a few years more beat up than
it had been. Some old chicken coop stood.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Empty in the backyard, and Joe the brother pull up
in an old car. After I'd thumbed the doorbell three
or four times and that started to leave.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I took the wife from kids over to the park
so I could have some peace for an hour or so.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, I always missed you. I'm glad you didn't shine.
It's been a long time. Nothing has been going with you, Joe.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
You this guy can make a living, but making him
go far enough is another story.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They come in the house, sure names, I'm working over
breakers now. It's better spot than the old. Jeff had
one race already and another one coming up. Man, that
sounds good, Jude. Are you still doing the same thing. Yeah,
I'm still following people.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You see much of Lucky anymore? No? No, not for
six months anyway. A matter of fact, I came here
to talk to you about him. Yeah, what about Well?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I wondered if you've spoken to him before he left
to San Francisco last week.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Now, I talked to Lucky for the last time as
far as I'm concerned. That was about a month ago.
It does the matter. Thought you two were okay, that
you got along, all.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Right, we're putting a friend of his aunt you, Johnny, Well,
you know how it was.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You and I just fell together and we were with
the agency. Yeah, we're good friends. Maybe I see him
only twice a year, but he's almost the only guy
I've held on to him. Did he ever tell you
about his first wife he was married before?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah? Did he ever tell you about the year and
six he spent in prison? Joe? You serious?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that's the way Lucky is. He don't let his
friends know anything about him, but he don't want him
to know. He's always been like that. There's always been
two signs to Joe. Why don't you know about him?
Wyn't you don't what about this prison to him, he
was grand theft. It was all this girl that he married,
his first wife. He stole some first for him. How
long ago twelve fifteen years, I guess when we're still
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living in Brooklyn. Lucky was a wild kid when he
was eighteenis so, and he still got some.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Of it in him.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Who was this woman he married? Her name was Hazel Mackie.
And she called me about getting in touch with Lucky.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Oh, that was about a month ago.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's when him and me had our showdown.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I told him he was a dumb cluck if he
saw Hazel like and I said, you got a new
life now.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You are moaning or something. You're married to a nice kid.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
But I could tell I wasn't getting told him he.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Was going to see her.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
I knew that, so I told him if he did, it.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Was the end of him and me brother and no brother.
He was sure he saw her, you know, before he
left that he would. She had some kind of heard
about him back when they were married.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
She still do what do you want from Lucky Johnny Loo?
He's called me. She hasn't heard from him in a week,
and she wants to know what goes he's dropped.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Out of sight. Sure he is, I know he would.
Where can I find this Hazel, New York. She's got
an apartment on eighty second. You got the number?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Finding the other rooms?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
L mackey, Yeah, oh you. My name is Dolla and
a friend of Lucky Constance.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Come on in.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
You know where Lucky is not at the moment.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
No, who are you? So he's been missing for a week.
His family is worried. I'm looking.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
He's on a case.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is he working for you? Yeah? What kind of case?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I don't know that it's any of your business. I
need a detective, so I hired him. Is that all right?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
It would be if he were on the up and
up about it, But he isn't. As far as his
wife knows. He's in San Francisco and a divorce case.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I can't help what he tells his wife, how did
you get here?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
He'd rather tell me about you.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
I guess that's why he doesn't know. I guess that's
why I told her he was going to San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know where I can reach him? No, not for
a while. Do you think I under send his wife
to the police.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
I don't see why you should.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I will if I don't find out about the case
he's and Hey, what's with this pressure stuff? What's the case?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I needed a bodyguard for him. I was engaged to
a guy who was sent to prison. Was there two years?
I changed my mind about him. He's out now and
I'm afraid of him.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Who is he?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
You know? I don't like you. You got a lot
of nerve. None of this is any of your business.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I wish you were right, but I've already stuck my
neck out and made it my business.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So I don't find out these things from you. I'll
find him out for someone else.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Yeah, I yes, you would. His name is George Myers.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
What makes you think he's going to cause you money trouble?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Some of the things he told me when I went
to visit him. It's hard to talk since to a
man who's been in prison that long. I tried to
tell him how I felt that blow's top and make
a out of threat.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Where is he now? I don't know. It's been out
a week.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Luck, he's trying to get a line on him.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He hasn't contacted you yet.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Nobody will when it's over with and we get things
straightened out. I'm Lucky can go back to his wife now,
if you'll approve, I just as soon you get out
of here.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
A few things don't figure you? Answered? That? Does it?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Not like a dame that's afraid of someone coming? But answer, Oh,
you're right. It's Lucky.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He's business, how he arns his money.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I'm tell him you dropped in.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's up to you, right, no long. I put off
telling his wife for two days because I didn't know how,
and because I didn't think it.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Was up to me to tell a thing she never
knew about her husband. But on the third morning it broke.
The story made page one, part two of all the
New York dailies. The body at ex convict George Myers
had been found the night before. He'd been shot to
death by what they called an unknown assailant. I found
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a brother, Joe Constant met him outside Breakers during his
lunch hour.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Hi, Johnny, what's up? Well? Maybe the local pature didn't
carry her here?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Who's this Myers? Friend of Hazel Mackey's.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
She told me she hired Lucky the bodyguard against this Myers.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Give me Lucky too. I don't know, Joe. It looks bad.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Read this lass Bang Myers went to prisoner and a
robbery wrapped for money was never recuted.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
There's two hundred thousand dollar. I was floating around, Joe.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I can't help wondering if this Mackie woman having her
finger on.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It, why do you have to tell me this challenge?
Because I couldn't carry it myself. I talked to Hazel,
but she chose me put the finger. I'm lucky. I
want to do it in early because I'm gonna have
to go to the police with it. We is gonna
kill Louise.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
What can I do? Joe? Well, it seems to me
you could stop playing hero. No, wait, you don't have
to run of the police. If Lucky you did it,
let them find out. You don't have to tell oh
not for let no good Lucky. But oh, Joe, listen
to me.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
They get the Hazel Mackie and she tells them about
talking to me. Then what happens that I'm in trouble.
I can't afford that, Joe. I've got to stay clean
with the police.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Sure, stay clean, no matter what it does to the wise.
That's the way this.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Then I didn't ask to get mixed up in it.
I didn't tell Louise what I found out about him.
But it's out of hand now, Joe, and there's nothing
I can do.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
God Head, then go ahead, maybe some nice back copple
patch on.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
The back, Joe, Joe. That's our racket.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And now, with our star Edmund O'Brien, we bring you
the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I left Harford for New York on the one ten
that afternoon. When I got there, the later editions.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Reported the usual rounding up of known criminals who were
being grilled about the Maya shooting. And the closer I
got to the apartment on eighty second Street, the rattana,
the whole thing looked to me.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Who it's Oh, come on, open up?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Why what do you want?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Where is he now?
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Lucky?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I told him to give himself up, but he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Did he killed George Myners?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yes, the stupid idiot, And that happened, Lucky heard a
room over to Montclair, and George must have followed me
over there.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
You went across town so you could be with your bodyguard. Yes,
and the man you were afraid of followed you. Yes,
you were either not very bright or not very scared.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Well, about two o'clock we came out and George was
waiting in the lobby.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
He followed us out on the street and started swearing
at us. He took a swing at me, and then
Lucky tried to stop him. He pulled a gun out
of his pocket, and that's when Lucky shot him.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh it sounds very neat.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
What do you mean.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I got a fairy? Then I'll try out on you
when I get close. Tell me the two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Dollars that never showed up after George Meyer's arrest, So.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
A split of that, Lucky ad need to kill him.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You're crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You hire a detective as a body god.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Theoretically he could kill this man you were afraid of
and ride out of it on his license and a
self defense.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Please, it was self defense. George pulled a gun.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The police didn't find it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
If it was self defense, why didn't Lucky report it
like he should have?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I wanted him to. We came back here and had
begged him upon the police.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
What about the two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It need it will be hard to prove that you do.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I said, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I take it you haven't thrown the police.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
No, I know I should, but I just can't do it.
The Lucky.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You know I'm gonna call him, don't.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I thought you said you were his friend, not that
good a friend. What can I do to me?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Hold you as a material.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Witness while I tried to get some troop together that
you dragged Lucky into this, dragged him into what I
hired him.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I told you that I was afraid of George, and
I hired him.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And he killed Maya as a line of duty and
in self defense. Why didn't he turn himself in?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I wanted you must have give him some reason for
not doing it. What did he say?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
He said that everything was all ruined now and that
he'd rather take a chance on getting away.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Why was it ruined if he killed himself defense, I'd
had to do it.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Are you going to help him get away?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
We didn't talk about that. He was like a crazy
man pacing the floor. Then he left. About where was
he going?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
He didn't say, are you going to get in touch
with you? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
He said he'd tried to call yeah, he won't.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Be here to take the call. I want the police
to hear your story. The officer who answered my call
was Lieutenant Carl Belder. Twos you and upon men who
were with him took Hazel Mackie back to headquarters and
(16:54):
he listened to my theory. We searched the apartment without
finding proof of holding any amount like two hundred thousd dollars.
She had a small savings account and a small checking account,
and a stuff showed that she had paid Lucky Costa
a week in advance.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We waited the rest.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Of the afternoon for Lucky to call, and he finally
did an hour or so after dark.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Go ahead, Dollar, that might be him. Johnny Dollon's Lucky.
This is Johnny Dollar. Don't hang up, Lucky.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Why should I hang up? Are you Jenny?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I'm all right, Lucky? How are you hi? Yeah? I
can imagine what was the matter with you.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
How about you explaining yourself? Lead and might girl's apartment.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
She's not lonesome, she's down visiting New York's finest. Why
don't you use your head and come on in Lucky.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Shouldn't I like it where I am?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You're still figuring I'm trying to run out.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Sure it's worth a chat, don't you think, Johnny?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Have you killed myers and self defense? Why don't you
play it that way?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Haven't? It's called phrase, Johnny?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I hope we wouldn't have to play games like that.
I thought if I could talk to you, you'd come
to your senses. Can I meet you someplace where we
can talk it over him?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You're a good guy, Johnny, but I think you might
sell me out.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You've already been sold out. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You know his positions were reversed.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I wouldn't ask you to anybody get himself in a
mess like uram. We shouldn't expect help. Now use your head, Lucky.
Let's get this over with.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Sure, I'm meet you in Times Square New Year's Eve, Johnny, Lucky.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
You know him better than I do. But don't you
think he pressed him a little too hard? Wouldn't he
if he leaves you if you talk like you were
going to help him? No, he knows me better than Yeah,
that's a tough spot. Dollar, an old friend like that. Well,
he's still in New York. He won't get out now,
and everything should be covered by now. Do you know
him well enough to guess what he'll try? I don't
(18:53):
think so, because a killer isn't the guy I knew.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
He's clothes are still in the hotel room. I don't
think he'll try for them now. She got about two
hundred dollars in his pocket. I don't have any idea
what he'll try and return.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I guess all we can do is wait.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
An officer was posted at the apartment, Lieutenant belt her
and I went down to headquarters under steady questioning. Hazel
Mackie held to a story that she knew nothing about
any two hundred thousand dollars, that she'd been afraid of
George Myers, that she'd hired a detective and good faith
to protect her, and that after Myers had been killed,
she had pleaded with Costa to get himself up. He
seemed apparent, and he then, after having talked with him,
(19:44):
that she had her statement well rehearsed and felt that
if she stuck to it, there was no way for
us to prove anything else. I stayed in New York
that night in the next waiting for something to break
when it came. It came from Hartford. Joe Costa wanted
(20:07):
to see me as soon as possible. Johnny, Yeah, Joe,
(20:28):
come on here. All I got here as fast as
I could, as Louise not very good.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So now I'm sorry about blowing up the other day.
All right. I didn't blame you the bad time for
both of us.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You were right, Johnny. All I could think of them
was he's my brother. But now don't make any difference.
He's no better than a rat that you got a trap.
There's nothing to do but stop him.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You're right, Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I had to quit my job over and I couldn't
take it. The way the boys were looking at me.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
They wouldn't talk to me. It'll smooth over. What do
you want to talk to me about? Joe? Has he
contacted you? Yeah? He called me. He wants for me
to give him some money so he can get away.
He needs more than money. Now he'll never get out.
What'd you tell him?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Well, I told him I didn't have any to give him.
There was a time I knew for sure that you
would right upon him. So when he asked me again,
I told him I'd see what I could do. About
raising something. I told him to call back tonight. I
did that so I could sell him.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Out to you.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Was the right thing to do, no matter what you think,
he wouldn't think. Twenty is about pulling you into this mess, Joe,
And that's what he did. He asked you to.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Be a party that are killing Yeah, I know that.
When is he going to call sometime after seven o'clock?
Does he want you to meet him? Yeah, it's right
with two hundred bucks. He's going to tell me where
when he calls. He's still in New York? Is me
yeare in Manhattan? He want me to talk to him? Yeah,
if he gives himself up. I kind of figured they
(21:56):
might take it easier on him. What could be deal, Joe,
I'll talk to him. I'd like to see him doing
by himself.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Oh yeah, what a glass of wine while we wait, Johnny? Yeah, yeah,
that'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
This is some new stuff for my wife's folks. I
took current of kids up to their house and stay.
This blows over. You think we were all criminals?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Away? People threat us in this time.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
The call came in about eight thirty. The meeting place
was a flat near the Bowery.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
The time was about ten the following night, I was
there at five minutes after.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
High, Lucky, what's this? I mean? Nice place you got?
You know? I get better than her home with her wife?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Joe sent me out. Huh, he gave you a break.
He didn't call the police.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
He send me some money.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
No, do you think you had any right to ask
him to? I need some, Johnny, I want him? Sure?
What about your girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You can shut up about that too.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
A double cross, Lucky, eh?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, yeah, double cross, A real good one.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I got no beef. You gonna let Hazel get away
with it.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
With the murder, wrapped the square with her, you know what?
Shut up the double cross for her? Who will did Johnny?
He stumbled into this thing and set it up for her.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Maybe she'll send me a gold watch. I saw her
three days before you killed him, Lucky. If you knew
I stumbled in, why didn't you pull out?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You didn't tell me about your until after I killed him.
Oh that's the way it went.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah, one little thing Hazel forgot, and she hoped it
wasn't important. She hadn't wanted up bother me with it.
But a friend of mine acted like he was suspicious
of what we were doing. All it did was blow
the whole thing sky high. I was going to copy
a self defense plea, but you were around, slipping out
(24:12):
the premeditation. I didn't have a chance.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
It's tough, Lucky. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.
Get off, will you. I came into this with my
eyes open. I know what kind of an operator. She
was not beefing.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
There was a chance to make one hundred grands, so
I took the jump. So I lost what now, Lucky,
I was going to ask you right now, thanks, won't
break with me right now? Right I'll slip you on, Mickey.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I wouldn't put it past you. If I was in
your way. You are in my way.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Everybody's in your way now, the whole world. You can't
make it, Lucky, you won't get out of town. How
much you got, says start making sense. You've been on
the right side of enough these things to know you're finished.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I want you to get a shirt and tie on,
make yourself look halfway human, go to headquarters with me.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They may give you a break if you give yourself up.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
We're talking about it. What are you going to do
I'm not sure now that Joe showed me out. I'm
in the bed spots, Johnny. I know that I'm not
ready to quit yet.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Joe didn't sell you out. He wanted to give you
a chance to give yourself up, just like I do.
We're still your friends, Lucky. We can't stand by it
if you won't do the right thing, and I'll go along.
When what do you think I'm gonna do? Lucky sit
here with you until you get ready to leave. I
sort of hoop you would make it easier if you
did well.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
I came here to give you a break. I made
my offer. Come with me, give yourself up. Oh I
can't do that, and I'm leaving. I'm telling the first
coup I see to come and get you. You're going
to put a gun on me, Lucky.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, I can't let you leave, and you'll have to
use it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You want me to come up a coward and kind
of an old friend like you.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I'm sorry, Johnny, you got nothing to lose. You won't
get blamed if I get out of here.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I can't let you, Lucky. I'll have to see I'm leaving.
I'll ask you once more to go with me.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Don't try it, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'll kill you if you stop for the door. That's
your privilege, lucky, because you're already a killer.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Johnny.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Don't, Johnny. I'm telling you, Sonny, I told you.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well Dollar, he won't give up. Lieutenant. Yeah, we'll take him.
Then he's armed.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
When he's drunk, but take it easy on him if
you can. He could have killed me and he didn't.
(27:05):
I realized that the confession has sat down and this
report is worthless as evidence, And as far as proof goes,
you are still unable to charge Hazel Mackey for her
part of the conspiracy. But after Frank Costa died trying
to fight his way out of the flat, I want
to suggest that she'd be picked up again and grilled
until she breaks. She's as guilty as he was. Yours truly,
(27:28):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollard stars Edmund O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Gil Dawd with music by
Eddy Dunsteader. Edmund O'Brian can now be seen starring in
the Paramount Pictures production Warpath, featured in tonight's cast We're Virginia,
Greg Gloria Blondelle, High Have her Back, Peter Leeds and
Sidney Miller. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed
by him Delvai, makers of Breaks,
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