 From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny dollar Good I was just checking in lieutenant. You said to keep in touch in case I left civilization Yeah Well, I'm going up into the Santa Rita mountains around Primrose camp Well both but at the moment it's more hunch than lead. I just wanted you to know where to start looking in case I disappear Relax lieutenant if things work out you may find us together Tonight and every week day 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. Jake's bar and grill somewhere on a highway in southern, Arizona To the home office mid-states industrial insurance company Hartford, Connecticut assignment the Primrose matter Expense account continue Item for three dollars and sixty cents to Jake meager for information and incidental beverages The jibbernitz and gang had hijacked an armored truck in Kansas City and escaped with a hundred thousand dollar payroll Two nights ago. They'd shot their way through a roadblock in southern, Arizona killed a state trooper and left one of their Own members dead in the road Then the other three had simply disappeared the information from Jake That old pop bar del operated a tourist camp and service station 14 miles up a dead-end road in the nearby mountains And it seems that pop had acquired a new nephew within the last 24 hours a complete stranger to Jake There was only one way to check it out drive up to Primrose camp Hi, how are you? Want me to fill up the tank? Yeah, I might as well Probably won't take much so Hey, how much farther does the road go just a couple of miles just starting to enjoy the scenery You know, you're lucky living up here in the hills got some real pretty country around you here Yeah, I Thought I might spend a little time in it if I could find a place to stay I Guess there'll be some more tourist cabins on down the road. Oh, no these are only ones. Oh, oh, well On that case you get yourself a border To place in 4-gallon. Yeah, I figured it wasn't now much Need to get caught short though up here away from the highway Now how about that cabin? Sorry, we're all full up. Oh You'll find some places down on highway. Well, wouldn't be much point in that I was planning to do some prospecting get around a little on foot. This would be a good spot to work from I've got no vacancies. How about the oil and water? Oh, yeah, you better take a look I guess Bad country for a tender foot you're getting a lot of trouble such as what? Snake bite get lost fall off cliff Not things. I've been in a place of two before best you forget it son Well, it's all right. It's funny those cabins look empty. No cars parked in front. They're all rented And the water's all right, too. Oh, they rented to vacationers It'll be a dollar twenty six. I need worth stopping for There you are. Keep the change Call again. Yeah. Yeah, maybe I will when pop Bardell gets back I'm pop Bardell You can't be you know fit the description What do you mean? Well, I was told pop Bardell had started talking a leg off me before even got my mouth open But he not only sell me a tank of gas but also two quarts of oil I didn't really need in a handful of fake or samples and Rent me a couple of cabins whether I was planning to stay or not. Who told you that Jake meager down at the highway Jake Jake's one talks too much. Maybe you can't notice it What is it nephew? That the nephew Jake was telling me about Yeah, that's him a nice looking fella arrive yesterday unexpectedly Jake tells me Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's right comes from Tulsa. I understand tells Yeah, yeah, that's right from Tulsa. I'm coming I got some friends in Tulsa. I wonder if he might know where you're going. I want to say a little you know No, you can't go in there. Why not? We're fumigating it. It just ain't safe. Oh, all right I won't go inside but I want some cigarettes out of the machine. I'll get them for you. Just give me the quarter You feel all right Sure that seems to me a kind of jumpy on edge. I thought all you Western is we're supposed to be relaxed and easy Look, you want them cigarettes? No, no no trouble. This fellow just born some cigarettes is all what brand cester eyes There you are. Thanks. Oh Here don't you want the money for you give it to my uncle here? Yeah, sure Thank you. That's all I understand you from Tulsa That's so I got a good friend down there Clem Welke. Yeah, I thought maybe no Frighten up. Look if there's nothing else now you've been there about a year He's working on that new electric plant. They're building down there But I guess he'd be out of a job before long though Understand they'll have the plant done by the end of the month. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. It's about finished now Look, mr. You never met Clem, but Tulsa's big town. Yeah, it's a big town Come on uncle. Let's get that stuff moved Well, I guess I'll drift on down the road and sleep out tonight. Maybe I got my sleeping bag Now probably see him a way back. Yes. Yeah, you do that There was only one thing wrong with the whole setup The best of my knowledge there wasn't any new electric plant in Tulsa. I Drove on past Primrose camp two miles farther to the end of the road It was narrow unpaved and for the most part bound by a straight drop off on one side and a vertical cliff on the other With no chance for a car to turn off There were two fire roads for access for the Forest Service actually nothing more than narrow trails The turn-offs were blocked by steel cables padlocked between heavy metal posts As far as I could tell they hadn't been tampered with and no car had turned into either of the trails for a month or more It ended up to one thing There was simply no place in the area where the Knits and Gangs car could be hidden Yet, I was still certain that they were here somewhere an hour later I'd left my car at the road and was lying in a rocky ridge 300 yards Of so above Primrose camp watching the place through binoculars and seeing nothing of any importance Two cars stopped sightseers apparently One driver had the water checked and left a Couple got out of the other car and spent 20 minutes in the lunchroom came out and drove off Pop Bartell came outside occasionally his wife too a couple of times But Bartell's daughter whom Jake meager had told me about didn't show Neither did the mysterious nephew. I Kept on watching Oh No, no, not exactly look like you were I'm just admiring the view and city fella She can tell one every time can't you can when you lived alone in the mountains long as I have then them duds You're wearing too got them at Dave bright store. Didn't you that's right Dave outfits a lot of you Eastern fellas can always tell stuff that comes from Dave's it's got a look about it Hey, you wouldn't be a prospector would you 40 years of it, son? You live up in these parts somewhere a six mile across the canyons there Got a cabin about myself and some claims of mine ain't been there for three weeks or was that so? No been prospecting over toward the rim counts heading back home now You're the first living soul a scene. You haven't heard any news then in the last three weeks. Oh My name's Johnny dollar by the way Proud to know you son Sides you up before I spoke to you and decided to take the chance Might be glad to find you a smart aleck like a lot of them city fellas Oh, it takes all kinds to make a city mr. Marsh reckons. Oh never could see why it takes some kind so There's pop bar there out in front of the station Usually step by and say howdy to him, but I reckon I'm going to pass it this time No one pop along about 14 years now Then you must know his family pretty well Well aside from his Mrs. There ain't no family except their daughter Jenny No, I was thinking of his nephew in Tulsa. He ain't got no nephew. Mr. Tuller Oh, I'm still he had he ain't got no living king at all except for some cousins in Virginia I guess I was misinformed. Yep. That's for sure Pops a real old wolf used to be a prospect himself years back But he never really had the knack for it anyhow He he finally bought this here primrose camp and settled down to a civilized way of living I'd say you got about as far away from civilizations. He could a compromiser. That's what he is always fooling himself I told him that a lot of times even keeps on prospecting off and on right around the camp there when he knows There ain't no pay dirt on this rock Well, it's like a city man growing vegetables in a window box. I guess Son, I wonder if I can ask a favor of you. Oh sure what I was aiming to go on down there and get pop to do it But I'll have to stay all evening if I do and I'm kind of hankering to get home Well, if it's anything like of course if I go to the authorities They'll keep me around asking questions making statements talking about if there'd been any signs of life Anything I could do to help you understand Mr. Marsh. What are you getting at? Well over across the ridge there in the bottom of the canyon There's a car half buried under a rock slide Hi, these are very much. We don't want to start the rest of that rock coming down. I've been moving rock all my life, son Hurry up. All right. It's clear. Let her go Now that's good I can get the car door open now Watch this They had a pretty well buried already. What do you mean by they it doesn't matter at the moment. Give me a hand with you Let's get this guy out That's fine. We'll lay him here on the side of the car It's like I figured Couldn't be anybody left alive after rolling all the way down that slope this one wasn't alive before the car rolled down What he was shot by the state highway police Did a good job of hiding the car temporarily at least it couldn't have been seen from the air the only way of finding it Was to stumble on to it the way you did You ain't up here just for pleasure. I am Mr. Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator I'm after a stick-up gang who've killed two bank guards in the state highway trooper This man was one of the gang. There ain't nobody else in the car here Is he the game there were four of them to start with this is the second one who's been shot to death There are still two to go where you figured they are at Primrose camp Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story tomorrow Alliance den reluctantly opens its door to let a trusting victim step inside and the victim me Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? There's truly Johnny dollar 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