 From Hollywood it's time now for Bob Bailey as Jenny dollar You Brian mr. Dollar. How are you this morning? That's so good. I didn't sleep very well. How'd you do? I think I have about what you want on John Reardon. Well, if you haven't I can get it for Mrs. Reardon What? Well, I thought you didn't want to tell her about the report that her husband might still be alive She knows she overheard us talking last night. Oh, I might as well look at what you have and get this over with How about an hour from now tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures Of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Baltimore, Maryland The following is an accounting of expended yours during my investigation of the Chesapeake fraud matter Expense account item six dollar and a half one collect telegram from Denver, Colorado I've located Frank Bowers as pre-investigation disclosed as little evidence that would looks like a hand bone to me Johnny What do I do now sign George Hanley George Hanley investigations incorporated Denver, Colorado Item seven two dollars same thing telegram from me Things are about the same way here sit tight. I'll see you in a day or two love Johnny Once the telegrams are out of the way. I walked three blocks from my hotel to the office building of Hugh Brian It was an impressive place full of lawyers and doctors Hugh Brian looked a little haggard when I saw him It took me a while to get all this together Half the night. There wasn't that big a rush. Oh get it out of the way the sooner you have what you need This sooner you can make sure and the sooner. I won't worry about it anymore Did you talk to Elizabeth yet today? No just last night. I thought maybe she might have called you this morning I'm I'm so sorry for that girl. Well, don't feel too bad, Mr. Brian We both did everything we could to keep the report that her husband might be alive from her awkward as it was Yes, I know I know I still don't understand it. I guess Well a man named Combs an insurance official thinks he saw a reared in in Denver last week using the name Frank Bowers He's sure that Bowers was reared If he turns out to be reared in the insurance companies been taken for twenty thousand dollars They paid to Elizabeth reared and just to set you straight that would make Elizabeth party to a fraud and John Lord knows that silly. Oh, silly or not. Yes Well, here's what I have This is one of the last pictures taken of John reared and Have the negatives yes here And these are some vital statistics on him the physical part I got from his doctor He stood in examination about a month before the accident. This is the doctor's name here. Yes Now these other things are in his background and education Here a copy of his marriage license Birth certificate. How did you get hold of these things? Well, I hand a lot of business for John filed a lot of his papers for him. These were just packed away It took a while to find them. Hey Hmm a copy of his fingerprints With those help more than any of this other stuff fingerprints aren't standard papers in anybody's file What John went in the army? He did some engineering work with the proving grounds in Aberdeen. He was fingerprinted there It was a gag at the time Yet a set of his own blown up and put on the wall in a picture frame, you know, just a joke Yeah, I dug them out of his personal things Now then here's a copy of his financial records I spent about an hour in you Brian's office going over material it would help me in the investigation The pictures and fingerprints were the most helpful items After I'd finished I went back to my hotel pack my bags and checked out Expense account item eight three hundred and ninety eight dollars my hotel and incidentals in Baltimore and Plainfair to Denver I got there at nine in the morning the air crisp thin and full of sunshine I rented a car at the airport and drove into town. I have an hour later. I was talking to my detective friend George Hanley How do you like Denver old pal? I haven't been here for a few years doesn't look the same bigger and better They're thinking of putting up buildings as big as those mountains over there. I love it. So does the wife I'm glad you want to try a place like this for a while Johnny. Maybe I want to find yourself a girl and settle down Let's settle down Georgie. Oh sure. How'd it go? You asked me to look into Frank Bowers I looked into him as much as I could without talking to him They are Johnny his bank account his friends his troubles his enemies everything How about his police record one traffic violation two years ago never been in any kind of trouble around here gets along fine with everybody Well, tell me about everybody Georgie his laundry man the milkman the guy who tends bar in his neighborhood the man He buys gas from I talked to all of them. How about the people he works for well He don't do much of that as far as I can see it's gotten off his downtown cause himself a consultant engineer Goes there once a twice a week to pick up his mail. Well now that's a very nice way to be able to live Is he starving to death Georgie? No, he's got a good bank account makes regular deposits money comes from a New York bonding firm He owns a little two-bedroom house out beyond Park Hill paid thirty eight thousand dollars for it Well sleeps in one bedroom uses the other one for kind of studio put us around with clay oils and according to the nosy Dame who lives across the street. He tries to write How about his friends lots of them paces bills get struck now and then normal tell me about his wife He hasn't got one lives alone find out who he goes with Georgie No as much as I could find out he doesn't go with any enemies. Well the guy in the cleaning shop hates his guts bowers Doesn't like his shirts with starch Did you check out the residency business as far as I could he bought that house out in Park Hill in 1951 paid cash for it record of the sale gives his former residence is Toledo, Ohio Well, how long has he been a resident here? Is near as I can figure and this is just rough four or five years ago the first financial transaction was the house He bought the next was a car. He could have been here a long time before that though Well the time element would fit for ridden What do you think Georgie? I think you're probably wasting a lot of money investigating this guy He doesn't seem like the kind of man who's hiding out from anybody here Look at this photo Is this Frank Bowers? Yeah, yeah, I'd say so 511 170 olive complexion no scars no glasses brown hair about 35 Could be him from that. Yes This is a picture of John Reardon and the description is Reardon's What do you want to do now keep on it? I? Got George Hanley busy making a check with some people in Toledo who could find out whether or not a Frank Bauer had once lived there Then I took my rented car and drove out to the address Hanley had given me It was in the east side of the city near the airport a one-story frame house a 53 murk in the driveway I'm looking for mr. Frank Bowers. Oh, who are you Johnny dollar my Frank bar? Well, I'm an insurance investigator mr. Bowers. I'd like to talk to you. Oh, come on in. Thank you Take chair anywhere Son you might just making a routine check mr. Bowers thought perhaps you could help me I don't know anything about my neighbors if that's that kind of thing No, I'm running down a report that came across our office in Baltimore Baltimore ever been there mr. Bowers No, it's well place on Chesapeake Bay. Well, I like Denver. What's this all about? Well, do you happen to remember a few days ago when you were at a place called the ship's tavern? That's in the Brown Palace. This was last Friday to be exact Should I remember what I do steal an ashtray or walk out on a check a man from Baltimore was there that day Mr. Bowers his name was Coombs Paul Coombs you met him. What did I yes right at the bar you had a drink or two with him Well, I might have done a whether to admit it or not. What are you getting at? I don't understand this I know it seems confusing Maybe this will help Take a look at this Now you must admit you look a great deal like the man in that picture Yeah, yeah, I suppose I do Well, I'll be darned I'd do it that This could be a picture of me. That's why I'm here mr. Bowers You see the company I represent ensured the man in this picture for quite an amount of money His name was John Reardon. It was lost in a boat accident in Chesapeake Bay five years ago The mr. Coombs who met you at the bar here last week thought you were John Reardon. I don't blame him But I'm not close though Yeah, I want to smoke. Oh, thanks Thanks, sure Mr. Coombs was a lifelong friend of John Reardon's I have his sworn statement here about that meeting with you and the certainty of his identity You do yes right here. Would you like to see it? Not particularly. I Understand you went to Ohio State. What year did you graduate? I didn't go to Ohio State. Look, what is this? Well, that's what you told mr. Coombs. It's in the statement. Oh, I remember that bird now No, I might have told him anything mr. Dolly, you know, he's one of those inquisitive kind real sure himself Yeah, yeah, I remember Look, don't tell me they sent you all the way out here from Baltimore. They didn't I'm that guy say so It's funny. Did you go to college mr. Bowers? I'd like to clear up that detail. Did you go to college? Well, yes. Yes, I went to Carnegie Tech 36 through 40 You haven't lived all your life in Colorado then where else have you lived look? Do you have any right to ask me questions like this? No, no, but you'll help me a lot if you'll answer them Well, why not? Okay, I've lived in New York, Pittsburgh, Kansas City to lead around the country came here a few years ago My health seemed good to my asthma ever been married once in 1942. It didn't last long What else you want to know look you in a hurry I can come back later. No, no, it's not that Well, look you seem like a nice guy dolla, but it just makes me uncomfortable answering these questions here I appreciate the time you've given me already mr. Bauer, please understand It's a matter of establishing identity, but you know I am I just told you that's true I don't like this business much. Is there any way you can eliminate it the most positive identification would be from Fingerprints. Oh Mr. Bauer, I'm not so much interested in who you are as improving that you're not John Reardon If you volunteered a set of fingerprints, it'd save me a great deal of work and you a great deal of trouble Well, sure why not? We drove downtown together that George Hanley's office and use the portable fingerprint kit I took a complete set of Frank Bauer's prints he attached. I thanked him for his time in trouble and he left If he was trying to cover something it certainly wasn't apparent from his conversational reactions There had been a moment when I was sure he wasn't Frank Bauer on the other hand I was sure that he wasn't John Reardon That cuts it Johnny right thumb and index prints don't match at all Not even close George, and I thought I was getting somewhere I found out he was never in Toledo or at least never registered or licensed as an engineer Well these prints do it when you going home Johnny. Oh, I don't know. There's no reason to stick around any longer This is crazy. We approved your case with the prince. He was too anxious to help me prove it, Georgie You ask any ordinary man on the street two personal questions about himself and he'll tell you to go jump with the lake He asked him for his fingerprints and he's allowed to smash you so Get on him stay with him 24 hours a day get a couple of other men. It'll cost you money get busy Expense account item nine two hundred dollars detective service. I didn't believe Frank Bauer's I didn't believe his background And most of all I didn't believe his fingerprints There'll be another exciting episode in our story of the Chesapeake fraud matter tomorrow tomorrow another man comes to Denver He doesn't check in a hotel or carry luggage at least not much luggage Just a 38 colt Jonas want you yours truly Johnny dollar Yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood written by John Dawson It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking