 Johnny dollar. Hi, Johnny. This is Ted Littleberry over here at good old Union States casualty. Well, hi Ted What's this I hear about you going off the deep end a couple of weeks ago and getting yourself engaged to uh, what's your name? Mary Ann Hooper. Idle rumor, Sunnest Idle rumor. Oh, since when does an Idle rumor hit the society pages of the Sunday paper? Oh that. You mean this was just another false alarm? Just a slight bit of skull-duggery by Mary Ann's mother. She figured if it hit the papers then I'd have to pop the question to her darling daughter But Johnny my boy, it backfired on her. How do you mean? When Mary Ann saw that blurb she got so mad She not only won't speak to her mother. She won't even see or talk to me. Instead of you're having to worm your way out of a romance again. Right. Thanks to dear old mama and without having to go through any sloppy farewell scenes I'm back in circulation and ready to play the field. Well, just you wait though Ted. Huh? When you do fall and I mean all the way including the marriage route You were going to fall so hard the crash will be heard halfway around the world. No Johnny the only girl in this world I could ever really take seriously who has the looks and figure and brains and width and charm and all the other That's beautiful. Oh who that? Pandora. Pandora Peters the most beautiful most charming most everything gal I ever knew So when she does finally come to see me see and talk to me. Okay, what happened? Tell me oh, she wants to know is how and where and when she can see and talk to you Well, you can't win them all you know. What was that? You heard me. So it looks like you're the lucky one and She's really everything you say she is Every so I smothered my feelings and set up a date for you subject of course to your confirmation When today okay, why not what time 2 30? That's about a half an hour from now great now Let's think about the place. It's all set. What is it? Well in this cozy quiet little office of mine. Oh now wait a minute as what I suggested That's what she agreed to so that's the way they'll have to tell you you're a bum. They can leave it Johnny Well I'll be there This radio network bring jewel Mandel Kramer and the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Special investigator Johnny dollar to the Union State's casualty insurance company Hartford, Connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the nugget of truth matter Showered put on a clean shirt and a new tie taking my time about it then spent item one a dollar 30 for a cab into Ted Newberry's office at Union States Just the answer to a fair maiden's prayer you look like a million Johnny I said sit on it sure I Thought I said to 30 you mean I'm late late. Let's see. It's only two 18 Really made time after that pitch you gave me. What did you expect? Oh, that's pandora. Oh, yeah, where is she? Oh, but there's one thing. I just plain forgot to tell you yes that he like what Johnny She's married Well, no reaction Well, I suppose I could take off my jacket and mop up the floor with you Well, let's say you could try and certainly it is the very least you deserve But what's the use? All that buildup was just to drag me out of my nice comfortable apartment down here to take on some kind of assignment I'll just wait until you see her. You are But what's it all about Teddy? Well, the guy to whom she's happily married is young Philip Truesdale peers good family and all that but no money That is not much at the moment, but Johnny thanks to some electronic gadget He's invented and with her dough to get him started a minute Ted Is that a new little plant about 10 blocks east of here? That's the one and one of these days Maybe he'll make it. Well good for him. Good for that money of hers. You mean. Oh, she's loaded Well, but she has enough anyhow, they're both clients of ours straight-life policies How much then something over a hundred thousand a piece? Mmm, and each of them is the other's beneficiary. Yeah Now don't get any wild ideas in spite of the fact that he needs money to push this invention of his no worry He doesn't need her dad to get it. Well, that's the same Teddy Oh now come on Johnny give that suspicious mind of yours arrest for a change the way you talk sometimes You'd suspect your own mother of murdering for a couple of bucks. Well, maybe I do go overboard once in a while Hey, what's the matter? Well, this part was about to pass the most beautiful girl in the world What? You said you very of a biggest flatterer in the world Well, he's not handsome husband of yours wasn't bigger than I am but come in my lovely come in Mrs. Peters and our this is Johnny dollar Well, hi What I stood there staring at Was worth standing 25 or 26 maybe A faultless complexion with just enough makeup to enhance her natural beauty eyes are kind of gray-green With little smile wrinkles at the corners The cute little tilt of her nose and soft And a darned attractive figure in a dress that didn't hurt it one bit, but there was something missing Or maybe it was the other way around Something there that shouldn't have been there in her voice in her eyes I'm not sure But there was a such a cold miss there that wasn't quite right not with all that beauty The calm calculating female that's invariably more deadly than the male. I wanted I Said hi, Johnny. Oh I'm sorry, and did I lie to you Johnny about this gorgeous glamorous creature or not said what so help me out Anybody like you could ever have any problems pandora. I do have one and I'm afraid it's a pretty serious one That's why I wanted to see you Johnny. What is it pandora? Johnny Somebody is threatening to murder me Here pan. Yeah, you better sit down and tell us what this is all about Yes, thank you. Oh I'm sorry. Oh, I am Just the key to the theater family car. Yeah. Thank you. Oh, what? Little charm on this keychain. Oh, but that little golden skull Very unique looks hand-conned what it is Johnny from a single nugget that my grandfather found out in California back in the 1800s Oh, it's my good luck. Tell us Well, if you're being threatened honey, you'd better hang on to it. Don't you worry? I will But now let me tell you yes, I think you'd better It started about two months ago Little note stuck into the mailbox We live out on Barkley Drive, you know, but put that down Johnny. It's one twenty-eight Barclay drive. Oh, I'll remember it go on pandora It was right after Phil got the final patent on his invention. I just what is that invention by the way? Oh, it's some kind of an electronic battery I guess you'd call it just a tiny little thing that might be used in rockets or something and Philip hopes to make a lot of money with it. You don't sound too enthusiastic about it Well, I wasn't at first It looked to me and my lawyer like just a waste of time and money for him to work on it But when those notes started Well, I told Philip to go ahead with it At least until the money ran out So we put up that little factory Billy and he's buying machinery and all sorts of things for it The threatening notes made you change your mind. Yes. Why? Because I'm just playing stubborn. I guess what they say Well, the first one started out with a quotation a kind of a release thing. What was it? Do you remember? What profit if it a man if he gained the whole world? But suffer the loss of his own soul And then it went on to say that for one person alone to profit from such a device was all wrong Was simple Unless you give it to the whole world You'll be sorry that sort of thing That doesn't seem like such a dire threat and I'm what's more was meant for your husband Well, that's what we thought Johnny and Phil just laughed at it. He said it was the work of some crackpot That's the same pan he should have taken it to the police. He did take it and their opinion. They agreed with Phil Because of that word Simple they said it was probably some religious fanatic that such things happen all the time But then more of them came and they got more threatening Threats against my life Johnny your husband's like you mean Well, we still thought so and the police gave Philip a sort of a bodyguard for a while But then yesterday another one came in the mail It was addressed to me in my name and it said yeah It said that Here I made this copy of it. Let's see blind foolish woman It is you who were guilty Because of your money in that device of the devil It is you who must die and very soon Do you see Johnny when worried now I'm dying. Well, I do you poor girl and Dora Yeah, the police have the originals of the notes. Yes, but they say it's just the work of some fanatic who's Trying to scare us. I don't think so now now. I'm frightened Now What you weren't frightened for your husband when you thought they were meant for him. Oh Well, no Because well, he just sort of passed them off. He laughed at them the way the police did but now Well, don't you see? Yeah, maybe I do now. What do you mean by that Johnny or? Maybe they're right. Maybe I am getting upset over nothing Maybe it's just some crackpot, but won't you find out Johnny won't you make sure Pandora and you very well What are your plans for the rest of the day? Well, I can't just stay locked up in the house over time Of course not at least not unless you've got some police protection out there. Yes. Well, where's Phil now over at the new plant, huh? It's in operation already. No, but he goes down every day in case they deliver machinery and furniture and things What time does he get home the bus always drops him off in front of the house about 515 and your plans mean time Well, I have to do some shopping and have a fitting here in town about 350 that will take about an hour Yeah, then I'll drive out to that farmer's market on the spring road. We're always by the meat I promise to a steak tonight and then then it'll be time to go home and get dinner ready. At least that's what I planned But what should I do? Well until I've had a talk with the police I see no reason for you to change those plans. Listen Johnny. She needs protection. So if there's anything I can do No, it's all right Teddy Johnny on our side now. I think everything will be all right You don't feel that you need police protection. Well, do you? I mean until you find out how serious these threats really are Unless the police convince me otherwise I'll be in touch, Pam. Good. Thank you. I feel better already Johnny You're a darling and Thank you to Teddy dear. Bye What a gal. I don't get it. Huh? What do you mean you don't get it? Teddy, there is something very fishy about this thing Very fishy Spencer come out and to $1.20 for a cab back to my apartment where I picked up my own car Then headed out in the direction of the Peters home way out of Barclay Drive But after driving all of half a dozen blocks the car suddenly conked out on me by the time I got a tow from the Auto Club to a service station and a repair job on my carburetor But the slowest mechanic I ever saw it was after five o'clock So instead I drove police headquarters and talked to Sergeant Bill Bud Johnny I've been on top of this thing from the very first of those notes the Peters George Louise White and the last one apparently was addressed to her. The last one, yeah Well, if I were you I'd put somebody on that gal 24 hours a day sergeant until we find out where those notes are coming from Now you listen to me Johnny. Go ahead. That's just what we did for him right in the beginning for nearly two months Good men do not even he had any idea they were on him looking out for him. What happened? Nothing. Absolutely nothing You figured the notes were just the work of some nuts. That's what I told them Me now when you're they broke our necks trying to find out where they were coming from We pour down on every phonetic every troublemaker in the town and we know them all nothing Then suddenly I got why how do you mean? You know very much about those two of the Peters is well frankly no well in the first place They aren't as lovely to be as they look. Oh, no, sir And she has the money Johnny some money anyhow. Yes, so I understand I know it for a fact that she didn't want to sink a lot of it in that crazy invention of his crazy Well, he couldn't get any of the big companies interested in it. I know that but he was bound to go ahead with it You know what I think what sunshine? I think she started writing those notes and the hopes of scaring him out of it I was spending her dough on it You see if he did scare and quit by himself that he wouldn't blame her for his giving up on it and Johnny yeah, that would explain how those notes were getting to him in spite of all our attempts to locate the force see That's a possibility, I suppose But what about the one addressed to her she hoped that would be the clincher Course your little theory might explain why she didn't jump at the chance to have a bodyguard you suggested that to it But there is still another possibility son. You mean that he's been writing So nobody suspect him if he knocked her off to collect all her nice insurance money Right in other words until we can play this thing up wait I'm in it Johnny you think I'm gonna put tails on both of them on their house on that plant for 24 hours a day Mr. Peter Sergeant I knew it I told you something like this would happen and don't you see after that last lightning rubber It was Pandora. It was she this killer was now wait wait I mean her money going into my invention into the plant and all this is terrible Wait, wait a minute. What do you want Conroy? I'm sorry such and I try to keep him from budging in this way We're gonna do something about this terrible thing that's happened. Oh, what terrible thing you know, what are you talking about Conroy? Yes, sir Sergeant. You see I'm the one that found the body But what did you say the body? Yes, don't you understand? Don't you understand my wife? Enged rapidly today mostly they seem to expand Lately they show even promise of expanding right into outer space CBS news is presently covering the effort to break into space and when the time comes to report news out in space CBS newsmen will be looking for space helmets with room for microphones through the facilities of the CBS radio network Expanded CBS news brought into your home hourly combines with this station's local reports to give you up to the minute accounts of events That change the world listen to expanded CBS news every hour on the hour weekdays here The wife was murdered mr. Peters. Yes. Yes, Pandora somebody killed her when mr. Peters where how should I know I asked this Police man. He's the one who found her you didn't see her. No ask him He's the one who knows about this horrible terrible awful thing Conroy if only had taken those letters Seriously, we could have prevented this sir Peters. Do you want our help? We've got to calm down and pull yourself together Right here here now. You better take a slugger. No, no, no I'm sorry. I think you think of this brandy now go on. Go ahead. All right. All right. Thank you. I'm sorry Please officer. Tell them what you want. Yes, go ahead Conroy. Well, I was out in my prowl car You see in the spring road section the regular beat. Yeah Well, somebody reported there was a car blocking that little side road into the woods about half a mile this side of the spring road Shopping section, you know where Dandora went to the meat market. Yes Yes, she always bought the meat at the same place out there and she said that for dinner Okay, okay. All right. Go ahead. Yes, sir Well, I investigated and I found this car parked there with nobody inside of it and the motor was still running, you know Go on. So well, I Decided maybe I better look around so I did That's what I found it over at the side of that little pond that's out there her head all bashed in no Terrible way to tear just say no other way Well, I went on back to a car cut off the engine and then went back to the prowl car down on the horn to headquarters to the tenant Briggs. He's in homicide. Yes. Yes. I know well him and Doc Campbell arrived at the scene a few minutes later And I told them all I knew and they took over To the best of my knowledge just to out there. Well, did you find the weapon that was used on her come on? Oh, no, no, no, sir You asked me sergeant that got thrown into that money little pond never find it in there Yeah, let me be no sir. I mean with all the mud in the bottom of that thing. Yeah Well, I'm a 10 12 feet deep in the bottom. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I mean with all the trees around okay I know count of some kids trying to swim it at last summer One of them got stuck out of all the mountain if I hadn't gotten there when I was aware and when did you find mr. Peters? Oh, I drove right out to his house mr. Dollar. I figured somebody ought to tell him See you were home by then mr. Peters. Yes, I was worried sick or I thought she wasn't there and had left no message It wasn't like her and well after those frightening letters. I thought I knew something was wrong. I knew it Oh When this officer came and told me what he found Pandora, sir, that's when he insisted I bring him right here to see you sergeant Yes, you uh, you didn't take him to the spot out there in the woods. No, sir He had me bring him directly in here and sergeant if you if you don't do something about this if If you don't find this killer look, we're going to do everything we can now, but you've done something before instead of just Just talking about it. This wouldn't have messed up here. No, no those coming to worry about It's only some crack box some trouble maker It was a killer. I just understand that it was a killer. I'm telling you we're gonna do everything we can Peter No, excuse me. I gotta take this Sergeant by the way, it's been murdered. Yes. He is lieutenant for you kind of like me, huh? Okay. Thanks Now let's see now. Oh, yeah Well, gee, I'm sorry now. What has he done? Yes, sir. And sure. What did he say? I'll be out there right away Did you pull another boner Conroy? I stuck the keys to that car in my pocket after I turned off the engine The lieutenant wants him well go ahead then take him out to wait a minute Can I see those keys Conroy? Oh sure, mr. Dollar? Why just an ordinary set of car keys, darling? Oh, yeah And that's why they give us the answer to this whole thing. Yes, sir Oh, I hope so you have a set of these two haven't you mr. Peters? Oh, yes, of course May I see him please? Yes, of course Here Thanks. Hey, will you look at that, Sergeant? That's some gold nugget carved to look like a skull. It's just a sort of a Good luck tell us Good luck. Yes I am afraid mr. Peters not for you What? These are the keys your wife had early this afternoon when I talked to her That means that to get hold of them you had to be with her Between the time I saw her and the time her body was found dollar that also means mr. Peters that Well, do you want to tell us? I hate to Don't you see it? I had to kill her Because of the money because I I needed the money for my invention. I had to kill it Sergeant, don't you think somebody better take this all down? I sure do With that full confession complete with signature There'll be no problem He did it He'll pay for it Expense account total and I may as well include the work on my car Do you think you can afford all of 20 bucks yours truly? 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