 From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny dollars Thanks lieutenant, how's the driver? What about the loss is the amount been figured out yet pretty close almost $250,000 I don't suppose there's a chance but was any of it marked or listed by serial number very little of it You better come down The driver does regain consciousness. We may get something if he doesn't we'll be starting pretty much in the dark I guess both of us have done that before all right lieutenant honest, and I'll be right down Edmund O'Brien in another adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator was truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to home office Columbia all risk insurance company Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the month-end raid matter Expense account item one hundred and eight dollars and twenty five cents AFM incidentals between Hartford and Kansas City, Missouri Where I arrived some seven hours after the company had advised me of the loss sustained by armed robbery By the and over chain of department stores The first details I received was sketchy at the finish of a four-day month-end sale The armored truck that had picked up the receipts from three branch stores had been robbed One guard had been killed at the scene the driver Carl Biller was dying at 11 30 that night when I met Lieutenant Arneson in the hospital corridor I'm afraid I talked you into a way to sit down here Just saw the doc again and giving Bill a lesson now to live now His wife just went into the room never came back at all. No, I've been with him most of the time and had a man there And I wasn't what did you expect him to give you lieutenant? Sure according to witnesses he and the guard was shot down by one of the men in cold blood Not because they resisted the killers why to eliminate them maybe why because the victims knew the killer maybe in spite of the masks they were wearing That's what I hope you tell me that's a point How are these witnesses any good good as most the picture seems to have been two cars both sedan One of them is in the passenger loading zone when the armored truck arrived and parked in front of it These men you went and where then they sure did they knew the truck had picked up the receipts at the end of the stores across the In Kansas City, Kansas and independence and the one car was waiting for them at the store here The other car double parked the money came out the men were shot down And the truck was empty before anybody turned in an alarm how about license numbers both the rest of them call it Didn't work any way you want a dollar. I won't get me a road thanks lieutenant We're both aiming for the same thing and I'm going to have my hands full Robbery detail tells me they're informers have hinted that the gang has been forming here in town for the last month or two I guess they were right. We're pulling in everybody. We can't maybe we can get some talk out of some of them It'll be a slow process, but that's the way we work. I'll be in my up. Oh, yes, Cole Is he gone? There was nothing they could do Yeah, let's finish this that this is mr. Dollar Sergeant Cole. All right, Sergeant Cole dollars investigating for the insurance company Yeah, but they're hurting now. I've seen them in better moods Were you planning on talking to the widow tonight lieutenant follow up the possibility that he knew the killers What kind of condition is she in? Hard to tell she seemed to be standing up. All right I just as soon leave it to you tonight dollar Cole and I am gonna get back to headquarters and see what we've pulled in sure lieutenant anything you say A short time later a white-sheeted figure was rolled out of the bill a room Followed in a couple of minutes by mrs. Biller a plain lumpy woman in her 40s in silence She followed me into an empty waiting room a few yards down the corridor I want to go home. I've been here all day, and I'm tired. I can certainly understand that mrs. Biller, and I won't keep you long This may seem like a strange question under the circumstances, but Do you think there could have been anything personal connected with your husband's name personal? We're looking for a valid reason for mr. Biller and the other men being shot down the way they were what are you talking about I? Wouldn't he get shot didn't surprise me It was always with a lot of money, and I told him he'd get shot someday There was no apparent reason mrs. Biller. They weren't given time to try to protect the money. They didn't draw their guns Private guards work under orders to surrender as a rule, but they weren't given a chance They were met on the sidewalk and killed without a word. I haven't been thinking about anything like that all day long You've been wondering what would happen if he died Now he has and here I am with the house still not paid for in no money. I just have to face it Dead nuts all those to it you Want to help us find the man who killed him if if you could wouldn't you how could I help you do that? He and the other man could have been killed because they knew the man who killed him How could anything like that be? Why should Carl know anybody like that? We don't know that he did we only wonder and I read the papers How could he know anybody when they were all wearing masks? That could mean that he knew them very well well enough to recognize them in spite of the masks Don't you see what I mean mrs. Biller? I Can't think you couldn't expect me to think after a day life. This has been I Don't know what to say. I'm all mixed up now. I understand mrs. Biller. I won't bother you anymore tonight What we want to know is if somebody who knew your husband and knew quite a lot about his job Could have been responsible for his death and the robbery We'll talk to you about it again Maybe tomorrow Lieutenant Arneson thought enough of the interview on the widow's reaction to assign a couple of men to keep her covered The police spent most of that night pulling in known and suspected criminals and grilling them without any definite success The next morning I was in the new tenant's office while he was waiting for one of his informers to be brought in Nothing under missing cars yet. I love it. I'm dead certain they haven't got out of town He had it sewed up in a hurry. I put another man on a billar angle to looking into his habits and friends But staying away from his wife We'll save her for you. Thanks a line. I thought you'd like her Here's the count lieutenant. Yeah, come on in a well This is a male or dog sometimes called a count sit down there You and I have known one another for a long time, haven't we? I owe the lieutenant a deep debt of gratitude Yeah, get along Evil this man's working for the insurance company that covered the missing money You can trust if you say so what else what's going on in town email? What does the crowd say about this heist they don't say very little they don't like this These are foreigners who do this from where Chicago the crowd don't like this doesn't look like a fine job to me They knew just where that armored truck would be and we're waiting for it How it outside is get information like that. Who are these foreigners and where are they where they are? I don't know who I hear only some names that are nothing one is pinkie one other is Ross First name alas only Ross other is shorty other is the meek Who their other names are nobody knows? He's not much lieutenant, but I am only a man Anything more Johnny? Yeah You know if they're still here in Kansas City How do I know that so I from the crowd and the only one who knows where they are then I am shot, too The lieutenants seem to be fairly sure that the man and the money was still in town All the escape routes have been covered by police armed with Composite descriptions of more than 30 witnesses to the shooting the information given us by the informer was almost worthless But the first names and aliases were wired to Chicago for a search and the officer working on the bill angle came up with a development later that Same afternoon So I was armed with at least something definite when I went out to see the widow doing better today Some ways I do some ways. I don't This is bill. I Learned some things this afternoon that I hope you've been thinking about what your husband of this woman named Betty Claire I was going to tell you What do you know about it? She's married to a man who just got out of prison. I was going to tell you I Knew she'd get him into trouble sooner or later. I did all I could to get him away from her Even wrote a letter to the bonding company that she was nobody to be hanging around somebody with Carl's work He saw her after her husband was parole not so much. I guess but the husband was away sometimes. I don't know Yes, Carl went to see her some then you must have thought of her when I talked to your last night I did there's no use lying. Why didn't you mention it? I don't know Maybe I was ashamed of having a husband some other woman could keep a hold on until she got him killed And you think their association was one where he would have told her details about his job Yes, now you'll admit that you think she had something to do with the robbery. Yes Because Carl didn't come home night before last I don't know where he was But he came here in the morning to change into his uniform than he left That was the morning. He was killed. Did you ask him where he'd been? No, I got over doing that quite a while ago As she been arrested not yet. Tenon honest and is waiting for me We wanted to get what you had to say before we talked to her Do you have anything more? No Except I hope she gets her as much as she's made me get it. I think that's all there, Mr Bill, I'm sorry you didn't mention this last night. I hope we aren't too late now I guess we're safe he will return you to the second act of yours truly Johnny daughter in just a moment There's lots of good folding money and an hour of merriment and music on hand again tonight when CBS presents sing it again The phantom voice brings an extra tingle of excitement and pays off handsomely when Jan Murray uses that coast-to-coast phone Here sing it again on CBS tonight Now with our star Edmund O'Brien, we return you to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar They have been strangled obviously by a pair of hands The apartment showed signs of a struggle but further search revealed only a newspaper whose date and time Seem to indicate that she'd been killed after Carl Villa had died There wasn't a lead as to the possible whereabouts of her husband Arnold Claire But the search for him was speeded up at five a report from a section of Kansas City called East Bottom did give us a lead The body of a man was found in a garage He'd been shot to death and in his pocket was a receipt for an insured parcel post package a follow-up on the receiver's address Showed the package to contain $15,000 in cash Later the informer email order followed the lieutenant and me in to view the body Okay, Charlie. You know this man email. How could I be sure? He's one of the crowd. I know who he is. You know His name is not what you know it is. Yes. I know Oh no the record of narcotics possession suspicion of burglary 60 days last year in vacancy and carrying a concealed weapon Yes, I'll know what the lieutenant tells me he's not from Chicago. I know that he's a local boy Yes, you still say the antler of a job was pulled by Chicago men. This is what I think what the talk is I also told dollar that I never could really trust you a There was always a chance somebody might buy you into bringing me false information Oh, no, couldn't somebody who just made a $200,000 haul by you into it a move. Oh, no No, he's not going to do you any good if I find out you aren't leveling with me I got about four charges. I can bring against you. They send you up for quite a while I owe you deep gratitude. I tried to find out more. So you let me go now I'll give you the rest of the evening up to 10 30 a month one thing you don't have to find out nor with hair Send 15 grand out of the city by mail. There's only one reason he do that. It was mixed up for the end of a job I'll get going. I'll pick you up later The two additional killings possibly linked to the robbery said Kansas City is underworld and police force spinning Every officer in town was put on duty until further notice by eight the tanks were filled with woodlands While the streets and hangouts were strangely empty and silent At nine o'clock it seemed that things started to break a known associate of Arnold Clare was picked up and brought to the lieutenant's office Sure, sure. I know Arnold. I was in prison with him I met his wife the other night, but I don't know anything about the handover job Well, where you're the morning was pulled. Listen, I got alibis to prove I wasn't mixed up in nothing. What about Arnold Clare as far as I know. He was going straight That's what he told me anyway. We've got Clare linked up pretty close We know his wife was running around with the driver of that armored truck That would give Clare access to the information he'd need. Well, I can't help what his wife was up But we told me he was going straight said he was looking for a job When did say that last time I saw him the other night when I met his wife Tuesday it was Tuesday night. Yeah, robbery came off Wednesday morning and you were with Clare and his wife Tuesday night That's right. I tell you I don't think he had nothing to do with it. How late were you with him? Oh must have been 1 30 2 in the morning and Betty Clare was there all the time. That's right Doesn't jive with Mrs. Biller story lieutenant. Look, I'm telling the truth. I got no reason to lie How about proof? Is anyone else there? Yeah? Yeah, somebody else was there We ordered some liquor sometime around midnight the boy from the liquor store brought it up. I've Forgot the name of the place, but I can show you Mrs. Biller said her husband was with Betty Clare the night before the robbery That ain't true. Nobody was with her, but Arnold and me I'll take you to that liquor store and she was killed yesterday the day after Biller died. What why? Who was killed? Are you sure Biller wasn't with you and Betty Clare and her husband? You're telling me Betty Clare is dead You know she is strangled now. Tell us why wait a minute wait a minute. I didn't know anything about it I swear I didn't I'll tell you what Arnold is to prove I didn't know what kind of proof is that I didn't know I swear I didn't he didn't tell me he said there was too much heat on from the handover job And he didn't have an alibi for the whole morning. He said he wanted to stay out of sight for a while sure make himself look innocent I suppose I don't care what you think that's what he told me and that's all But if his wife has been killed, I don't want to have nothing more to do with him That's a real double cross to get me mixed up in anything like that. I'm through with him Where is he? There's a shack out by the Hedger town near the river. I've been taking food to him. Let's get started Lieutenant means you stone now look you you ain't gonna make me go with you ain't I ain't I ain't it enough I tell you where he is. You're the first real live hunk of progress. We've had we want to hang on to you Come on. He'll kill me if he gets a chance you try and see that he doesn't get one Yes, Cole bad news they caught up with them a lord off. He's dead. Yeah, the report just came in That's too bad. He's a good honest story and I'm going to miss him. It's a better start. Don't you think the town is really hot? I can't remember it ever being this hot We checked stone story at the liquor store the delivery boy finally remembered and agreed that only stone had been with the Clare's in the apartment tonight before the robbery 20 minutes later with headlights out our car pulled up on a dirt road The shack stone pointed out the screen by a stand of willows on the riverbank One small window showed some light from inside Wait, wait a minute. I ain't going in there. You can't make me come on. Come on. Come on. You'll kill me. No, he won't stone Let's go. I tell you he'll kill me My case. I'll take it. Hey, we are clear Stalled in the chair Then an honest and homicide stalled you saw me out. I'm trying to lie to me I'll you lied to me you didn't tell me about your wife and you was getting me mixed up in a killing Well, I don't set with me and I called you my for the back Checking for weapons Jenny sure Relax clay. You can't do yourself any good by making a play stand up. I Will make a play. There's a 38 my left coat pocket You can sit down Why do you want to start clan? I I guess it don't make much difference doesn't why'd you kill your wife? What makes you so sure? I I killed her because I was trying to go straight this time And she got mixed up in this handover job I'd known about it before I'd stopped it for sure, but but I didn't find out until after it happened How did you find out one of the guys that got killed the driver bill his wife got me on the phone the night he died She told me about About Betty and her husband you didn't know about it. No, I didn't know this dame told me about it all the years I was in prison and after I got out every chance they had not the only reason you had I told you I was trying to go straight And I found out Betty is working this bill into setting up a job with She was doing it to get rid of me again She knew the board would take my parole away no matter what I said Mrs. Biller told you all this her husband talked about it Before he died. You're a stupid fool. Sure. I am sure but I couldn't help it. I went crazy Betty wasn't at home when I found out I I guess I drank a lot and thought about it When she came home, I just grabbed I couldn't help it. I knew I was killing I couldn't stop You know something I Don't care that's the spirit. What about the handover job? How much do you know about that? I I know one guy that was in on it and I'll finger them for you. I'll finger them I'll see some of them take the same ship. I'm taking From the break stone gave us the case snowboard The man Clare took us to let us to another and he to another Dwent that way until 430 and all that remained with the men from Chicago. We'd heard of earlier They were holed up in a house together and one of them Ross Degnan had been the killer during the job He'd killed for no reason except that he'd been under the influence of narcotics Don was just beginning to break when the stakeout was drawn around the house Fasten I wanted one of the men who got here before we did says he heard a phone ringing in the house. They've been tipped I'm probably such a call I think so you covering me with a Thompson from the driveway near the porch there. Yeah, you aren't forgetting those sort of shotguns Are you not going to get within range at me? Try to call them off the street Wait car starting. Where is it? The garage they've got into the garage the garage you may not have back cover the garage Watch it here they come We'll use it get the driver, but we saw the end of the trouble there on the street What the Chicago men had with them and stolen money brought the recovery up to within $2,000 of the original amount Expense count item two hundred and eighty dollars miscellaneous item three same as item one transportation back to Hartford Expense account total three hundred ninety six dollars and fifty cents remarks. I Talked to Mrs. Biller before I left Hoping to get some kind of revenge against the woman who'd stolen her husband She told Arnold Clare that Betty had set up the robbery, but she got her revenge Murder and the company owes her a deep debt of gratitude because when that broke the whole thing broke It was truly Johnny dollar Truly Johnny dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and has written by Gil Dodd with music by Wilbur Hatch Edmund O'Brien's latest picture is a Paramount Pictures production the redhead and the cowboy Featured in tonight's cast were Herb Butterfield Joe Deval, Virginia Greg Edgar Barrier Sydney Miller and Peter Leeds Yours truly Johnny dollar is produced and directed by Jaime del Valle This is Dick cutting inviting you to join us next week at this time when Edmund O'Brien returns as yours truly Johnny dollar There's one fire in an American home every 20 seconds that fires kill 11,000 people every year staggering isn't it 90% of fires in the home start through carelessness Be careful with matches and keep them out of the reach of children and if you're a careless smoker Don't smoke in bed or discard lighted cigarettes thoughtlessly Don't gamble with fire The odds are against you Stay tuned now for five minutes of the latest news This is CBS where our Miss Brooks holds classes every Sunday night the Columbia broadcasting system