 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Is this mrs. Kailin Lila? Yes, someone from the police department asked me to call Sergeant Manosa at this number, but I didn't yeah Rainosa was trying to reach you, but your phone didn't answer Where are you Johnny? What's happened? We're at the apartment of a girl named Marty Midnight ever hear of her No, why Lila you better brace yourself, honey. You've got another shock coming Your husband didn't die in that burning auto No, no not now He was shot to death an hour and a half ago here in Marty's apartment Who did it? I don't know yet hang on to yourself, and I'll come by and see you soon as I'm free here Promise Night and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar location, Los Angeles to the home office Trinity Mutual Insurance Company limited Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the Kailin matter Expense account continued The homicide squad was finishing up its work when Sergeant Rainosa and I got back out to the apartment of Marty Midnight Star stripper the brass monkey in Eddie Kailin's body had been photographed check measured fingerprinted examined sketch written up and reported on taken out finally under a white sheet I Held the door open for the morgue attendance to get out with their silent burden Instead watching them wheel a stretcher down the walk and loaded into the waiting ambulance A light mist had started to fall and a damp cold blanket of fog was seeping down from the dark hillside at Griffith Park beyond the road There was a feeling of finality in the air the end of things and for the man who died twice. It was final Yeah, there was no doubt about it this time Eddie Kailin was dead Johnny just plain dead dog tired It's going to be a long night sit down and start talking Any particular subject sergeant, you know what subject you weren't surprised when you heard Eddie Kailin Had been alive all this time that it wasn't his body in the wreck car out in Palace Verde's How come Johnny why weren't you surprised? Because I was expecting it. Why else? No, you got to do more talking than that Well, it started with a hunch and the hunch started when you told me you found the door of Eddie Kailin's apartment locked When you went there that night he was supposed to have died. Yeah, I know locked with a key you mentioned that but well That was the important part If it had been a door with a nightlock or a spring latch that snaps when you pull a shut it wouldn't have been anything It still doesn't as far as I'm concerned. I look There was evidence that been a fight in that apartment at night We assumed that somebody had knocked Eddie unconscious or killed him there in the apartment then taking his body out to his car Driven it out to the Palace Verde's headland and set fire to it. That's right Then at the time that somebody left the apartment the heat was on They had a body on their hands. Maybe someone had heard the fight call the police. They had to get out fast Yeah, sure, but under those circumstances Can you imagine anybody taking the time to go through Eddie's pockets to find his door key and bothering to stop and lock the door behind them? No, it's a logical except for one person Eddie himself How do you figure with him? It would be just a matter of habit locking the door as usual when he left home All right, Jenny. I see your point. Then. How do you call the play that night about the way we were tagging it up to a point? Eddie won 60,000 bucks in that poker game with topo leanly He went home either alone or with that friend of his Pete Stammer. So so topo had no intention of taking that kind of a loss So he sent his trigger man Mike Kelso to recover the money The fight was between Eddie and Mike only Mike was the one who lost not Eddie Can you figure Eddie put Mike Kelso's body in his car and drove it out to Palace Verde's and set fire to sure with Pete Stammer's help probably No, it's possible. The body was practically destroyed all we had for identification was the wallet watch keychain So a naked have been planted. I think they were it was a sudden idea spur of the moment, but Eddie was ripe for it There he was with $60,000 in his pocket, but a dead man on his hands and as far as his wife was concerned I think the chance of shaking her and not sharing the money was just an added inducement So he and Peter range for the body to be identified as his and Eddie just disappeared and hold up here in his girlfriend's apartment Why not he and Pete both Apparently the three of them were planning to jump the country judging by that forge birth certificate You found in there on the breakfast table. Well, we didn't work out that way Well, Eddie's dead really dead now Pete and Marty have disappeared again and the 60 grand is missing find them and you find a money Johnny it sounds like the same old story big money big temptation and a falling out among friends That's the most likely of course. There is one other possibility. What's that top old leanly was he out? Yeah I'll come It's a rough combination Johnny good lawyer on his side in a poor case on ours He was sprung two hours before the neighbors reported the shooting here the anonymous neighbor. Well, it could be But I'm still betting I was Pete Steimer or Marty midnight I'm not betting anything anymore the way things stand now It's anybody's guess his own gun no prints on it. You pay your nickel and you take your choice Well, at least the field narrows down Seems like we got a visitor probably one of the uniform boys on duty outside Yes, the policemen outside say for me to come to you. I am Janette Du Bois No, what can I do for you? I am the person who reports the shooting on the telephone Come on in. Merci. Thank you. How come you refuse to give you a name when you phone the police you are Captain sergeant Renault. So this is Johnny dollar. Mr. Boyle. He is also police. He's working with us on this Now why wouldn't you give your name when you reported the shooting? I am very sorry, you see I have not been in this country too long And I am afraid that I will be Implicated so I do not give the name at first But finally I think it over and I call my friend the console and he say I must come to you immediately and he's right So you heard the shooting. We miss you. I was poor walking past in front I leave three places down from here All of a sudden there is bang bang bang and I am scared to pieces I can imagine then the door of this place is slam open very quick and I jump in the shadow behind a bush A girl start to come out and then she stopped in the door. What did she look like mr. Boyle? It is too dark for telling good But I have seen her before I know from her hair very long black Marty midnight was that the one the girl who lives here? We miss you. I did not know her name. All right What happened then? She's standing the door for a second. She is wearing a How you said a white raincoat? She is holding something in her hand This thing she wipes with the raincoat all over then she throws it back into the room. Was it a gun? I think so then she pulls the door shut and runs down the street. I Am too scared to think what to do for a minute Then I hurry home very fast and I telephoned to the police You didn't see anybody else around the place or in the street out in front. No, mr. Dollar I watched for my window until the police have come Nobody else has come out or go in I see Well, sir, she won't get far girl with her looks draws too much attention. We'll pick her up before morning Thank you for your information mr. Boyle in view of your cooperation now I think we can forget about you're not telling us all this sooner. You said mean I can go now Yes, just leave your name and address with the officer outside It kind of surprises me I could figure the two of them together ganging up on any But apparently it was just morning midnight all on her own been done before Johnny They're not the weaker sex no matter what the book says. I know But the fact never fails to amaze me it shouldn't you must have been on some of the same kind of cases the devil Come on The patrolman stationed at the back entrance to the apartment when house told us what had happened It surprised somebody a man. He thought lurking in the bushes beside the house The crawler fired a shot and ran he paid no attention to the order to haul the patrolman had fired twice missed The fugitive had escaped into the dense underbrush of Griffith Park just across the street Sergeant Rainosa spotted men quickly along the edge of the brush set up a portable spotlight in the squad car Send his other car up an access road to block off the ridgeline radioed for reinforcements Within five minutes a 15-acre area of the slope was surrounded and blocked off Well, what do you say Johnny? Should we go in after him? It looks like we'll have to he seems to be the shy type call it. Who do you think I'm putting my money on top only me good bad Let's go Keep that crop back out of the way Couldn't be any docker in there. Oh what a They shoot your flash over there to the right No, it's an old stuff. All right, we've got you surrounded. You'd better come out with your hands up You try to resist you'll only make it tougher on yourself You hear something then No, it's over to the left. I think let's take a look watch yourself Johnny. He's thrown live once already. Yeah, there Back of that tree hold your flash steady there. I see Come out with your hands up It's your last chance I'm warning you Got no choice Johnny He's down. Come on. It wasn't top O'Leanley. It was Eddie Kalen's friend Pete Steimer Expense account item nine one dollar for a newspaper two packs of cigarettes and a cardboard carton of hot coffee Purchase from an all-night diner across the street from the Queen of the Angels Hospital. I Took them up to the police emergency ward room 612 pulled a chair up in front of the window and sat down to wait Pete Steimer was still unconscious Still hadn't been able to speak a word since he dropped to the ground with Sergeant Renosa's bullet in his chest So I waited Outside the cold mist was still coming down steadily the night was pretty far gone. It was less than three hours before dawn A nurse sat silently beside the bed The only sound in the room was the horse slow breathing of the wounded man After a while the nurse left the room for something and he'd seem to rouse slightly at the sound of the door Oh Take it easy, please. Don't try to talk Eddie This is Eddie here. No, he's not here He ought to be here It's Always been like this relax. It's all right Eddie always runs out and Leaves somebody else Somebody else Face the music Pete and those were his last words Before he went to face the music Is our star to tell you about the final intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow a quarry run to earth a strange alibi and A shocking twist at the wind up join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar Truly Johnny dollars starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood written by Les Crutchfield It is produced and directed by Jack John Stone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking