 From Hollywood, it's time now for John Lund as Johnny dollar Dan may you look forward for me to call? Oh, Lieutenant I've been trying to see you on this lot for that thing. What's your connection dollar? I'm investigating for the National Underwriters. Oh, did you know Thompson? Yeah, too bad I'll be tied up till after lunch. You want to get together then anything I can do in the meantime No, thanks, but enjoy the weather dollar. I don't think you'll enjoy the case I'll see you in my office about two right, Lieutenant John Lund in the transcribed adventure of the man with the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigator here's truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to home office National Underwriters Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the lot to rep matter Expense account item one 97 dollars and 50 cents airfare and incidentals between Hartford and Denver Arrived at 6 30 in the morning with a cold sun filled dawn. I Reacquainted myself with a mile-high city at the airport restaurant where I drank coffee and waited for my luggage I've been there once before on a case in 1947 But the Denver I saw this time was a great deal different figure filled out bustling Towns like people change I Arranged to rent a car from the Avis people and drove on into the city itself There I checked in at the Cosmopolitan shower and shaved and waited until nine o'clock before I rang Bessie Thompson's room Johnny dollar Bessie. Yeah as a matter of fact in the same hotel Yeah, why don't I buy you some ham and eggs? Why not? Expense account item two four dollars and No, no, I guess not this one was on me Buying breakfast for the widow of the man who died on the case. I was taking over Was a difficult meal I buried him here Yeah, I would have taken his body back to Hartford with the expenses and all Besides doesn't really make any difference where you're buried Brown was frozen here, too. I hear they have to use jackham. It's what happens now, baby I haven't anything to stay around here for I guess I'll go home try and get a plane out sometime today. Maybe that'll be better I'm 32 now I'm still attractive. I suppose some man will come along even men Bessie What is this? You tell me The coroner said the Tommy might have been drunk, but he wanted out on the highway and that the driver of the car That hit him could have done it not even known it. I know Tommy drank But not like that Or did he what do you mean? You were with him for three weeks in Omaha last year When he was away from home from me Johnny was he I Mean did he drink a lot and get around I never saw him do anything like that, but Honest honest Don't lie to me He was in love with your best scene. He didn't care who knew it Don't torment yourself with thoughts like that We're awful that way, aren't we? I mean women I think you're wonderful that way, too think Tommy was murdered yummy It couldn't have been a hit-and-run accident Bessie and they aren't doing anything about it They haven't found other things. Oh easy honey. They're working on it. You know that it's all tied into that much who it man Tommy found out something and he was killed for finding it out Bessie, I'll have to tell you right now What reports Tommy sent in on my turret don't make him responsible in any way then why are you here? Just to wrap up the details There'd have to be something more than what we have now then there is something Tommy phone long distance the night before he was killed. He said he thought he'd be coming home in a couple of days You saying thing about the case. No, but he was coming home That meant he had it about finished He sent in a report the day before he was killed there was nothing But the police didn't find any report for that day in his room How did he get out of that place on the Golden Road? Who was he with? Johnny he was killed. He had something on someone in this case and he was killed if he was We'll find it out right Where's he buried? Crown Hill Center I'll send some flowers out there get the man who ran him down You'd like that a whole lot better Yeah Guess he would I Suppose I was trying to tell her in a gentlest way I knew that men do go out to taverns and drink But occasionally they do drink too much and it was entirely possible that Tommy Thompson had been killed as reported And not for any information or investigating connected with Frank La Tourette When I met and talked with Lieutenant Mates at two o'clock he confirmed this Here's the report from our arson man And this is from homicide You can take those copies with you if you like had them made up for you Thank you very much lieutenant The fire was reported by a passerby about two o'clock last Wednesday morning By the time the trucks got there the whole bookstore was in flames when they broke in they found Mrs. La Tourette's body She'd suffocated in the smoke her husband said she'd been there working on the books There was no evidence that her death was anything but accidental And in the opinion of our arson man the fire was caused by a cigarette She fell asleep working in the office and the place caught fire But your man Thompson probably sent you all this, isn't he? Yeah, the fire policy had to be investigated Now as far as Thompson's death goes we're looking for a hit-and-run artist The people who operate the tavern out there said he absolutely was not in there that night Uh-huh At any rate we don't have to go on that assumption because we haven't been able to dig up anyone who can say he was there that night The tavern people could be lying Thompson could have gone in there gotten himself loaded and walked out in front of a car They'd be in license trouble if that happened Yeah, sure On the other hand, we'll just have to assume Thompson wasn't in that tavern at all And what was he doing out on the golden road? I don't know You know how he got there I haven't found that out either Still checking the cab company He might have been with someone. Well, you might have I don't know that either darling I suppose you've wondered if it could be connected with la Tourette. Oh, yes I've wondered When a man in the same business dies like that you're bound to wonder wondering about things is one of our hazards, darling Well, you have it all right there since la Tourette stands to collect about 80 000 fire damages and 17 000 on his wife's death He's been caught into twice now. Your man Thompson did a lot of it and we did a lot of it. Yeah Now the night of the fire la Tourette was bowling over to place on Glenn arm 17 witnesses saw him there He's in good financial shape doesn't know anybody had died The neighbors tell us he's always had a nice home life. He has a boy who plays football in one of our high schools So why look at la Tourette anymore? Yeah But but your man Thompson was killed and looking into it. Is that it? That's it Lieutenant Thompson's wife's in town She buried him yesterday and she's pretty broken up. Sure. She is. I talked to her at the funeral Her husband died hard and cold out on a lonely road and they We say he was drunk and got in front of the car But in spite of the questions we were just tossing around about how he got out there on the golden road and what he was doing there It still looks like a hit and run on the drunk and that has seemed to about ended No, no, I should say not We want to find the bird who ran Thompson down And if there isn't enough of those reports to satisfy you that the fire was an accident that mrs. La Tourette's death was an accident And that Thompson's death was what we say it is Then just sound your horn i'm around all day and i'm open to any kind of suggestion Okay That sounds fair enough lieutenant I might give you a ring right I spent the rest of the day in my hotel room going over the bulky envelope of police reports I compared them with information Thompson had forwarded to the office before he'd been killed No matter how you looked at it the whole business was a story of tragedy of violence and death Mates was right. I wasn't enjoying the case and I was anxious to close it It was dark by the time I got out to park hill and found the la Tourette home Through the drawn shades of a living room. I saw the figure of a man He didn't move. I used the doorbell Hello in there Hello Who is it? My name is doll. I'm mr. La Tourette He won't be back until tomorrow I wonder if I could leave some papers for him to sign Leave him at the door. I'll get him later There was something about the voice the strain and shakiness in it that worried me I didn't leave the papers outside the door He merely tried the knob Hey, what is this Why the shotgun get in you get inside and close the door. I'll kill you Okay Right over there All right, you can stop Where's mr. La Tourette? Oh You'll get the same thing if you do anything funny at all Why Let me ask you that from now to the day I died. I'll get your hands up. Oh, they're up, sonny Lucky might still be alive. You could call a doctor and That I don't know who you are or why you did this, but you'll never get away with it. They'll catch you Who's there? You better give me that shotgun. Don't try to get close to me now. Who are you? I'm an insurance investigator My name is doller. I don't quite know what to do about you. Give me the gun. Oh, no Oh, no The baby's got more work to do tonight. Yes, sir. Just a little more work. Why did you kill him? He killed a man and a woman. I guess that gives me a right to turn around and kill him What man what woman? Somebody you probably know A man named Tom He ran over him the other night Oh Sure He ran him down with a car because mr. Thompson found out about a woman His lady love his lady boy. He had what a real pretty lady Who helped him burn my mother to death out of fire so they could be together I'll see that they get together real soon your mother Your name is la Tourette La Tourette, that's my old man lying there Turn to yours truly Johnny dollar in just a moment all with our star john lund We bring you the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar Bruce la Tourette was young and he was obviously out of his head with fear But in spite of it he held onto the shotgun Turn around look Bruce this won't do you any good. You can't get away with a thing like this turn around now turn around go on You're gonna shoot me the way you did him. You're gonna have to work on it a little harder I won't turn around and die that I don't want to shoot do it. He didn't do anything to you either But you shot him he killed my mother. He couldn't have killed her the police checked him The police don't know about Evelyn nobody knows about Evelyn with me. She burned the store down and he might as well have done it Evelyn Evelyn who I'm gonna kill her too And I'll shoot you if you don't stop right where you are I don't want to but I will I gave a license number in the description of the car over the phone along with the other information on bruce la Tourette Several prowl cars arrived, but There was nothing that could be done for Frank la Tourette I waited for lieutenant mates. We sure pitched this one wrong Lord. Yeah, everybody did Yeah 815 I thought they'd pick up that kid by now APB's been out since you phoned Shouldn't be too hard to spot. He wants to kill somebody named Evelyn and he looked pretty determined I never saw such a thing in my life. You suppose he's dreamed all this. I don't know well enough La Tourette might have had a woman who helped him burn down the store and kill his wife He might have had to kill tomson when tomson found out about it. That's the part that makes it an old dream Dollar if we don't have that kid in our hands pretty soon We'll be standing in another room someplace looking at another corpse tonight. Yeah, I know How could we miss it? Who's Evelyn? Why didn't any of these people in the neighborhood know anything about it when we questioned around? I don't know. Let's see Farrell and Hayes, Stahl, Weiner Come on, let's talk to these neighbors again. Okay Boy, what I'd give for one gossipy old lady who knew everybody's business. You mean who knew somebody named Evelyn? Yeah, I guess that's what I mean An hour of questioning in the neighborhood revealed no one who had any knowledge of frank la Tourette's association with a woman whose first name was Evelyn Bruce La Tourette seemed to have completely disappeared somewhere within the city However at 1015 a young girl walked into police headquarters and asked to see lieutenant maix I was in the office when she was ushered in What's her name miss? Dorothy Kelly That's mr. Dollar. I'm lieutenant maix. How do you do? At the desk they said you had some information about Bruce La Tourette, isn't that right? What would you do to him? Try and stop him from killing another person. He's already killed his father Yes, I know. I heard it on the newscast at nine o'clock. Want to sit down? Thank you You know Bruce? Yes, we we go to school together uh-huh I I don't know exactly how to tell you this it isn't easy. I mean I've heard Bruce talk about it ever since his mother was killed in a fire last week I Well, maybe I shouldn't have come down here at all. Well, if it'll help us stop him from killing someone else He did the right thing. You know where Bruce is Dorothy. No, honest. I don't know that I'd tell you if I knew what has Bruce been talking about Dorothy Well, he was pretty upset about his mother's death and took it pretty hard. Yeah, sure He's out of school all last week and then when he came back this week We had lunch together one day We hardly ate anything just sort of sat there staring out. You know, uh-huh Did he say anything? Not at first He used to talk to me all the time. I mean, we're a pretty good friend Oh gosh, if my mother knew I was mixed up in this you will talk to your mother, Dorothy Go on Well Bruce was sitting there and all of a sudden he said they killed her I thought it was crazy. I said who killed her He said that his father and somebody named Evelyn killed her He said that Evelyn set fire to the store and that his mother couldn't get out He said his father had been seeing Evelyn for a long time And he also said something about telling all this to a man named Thompson and that Thompson was killed too Did he tell you who Evelyn was? No, sir. Did he say where she lived? No, did he mention her last name? Gosh, I don't remember. I I think he just called her Evelyn Nothing else about her. No, sir. Oh wait What? She teaches skiing What? He said he met her once with his father when he was skiing. She's a ski instructor somewhere Does that help you any? It might It did help Three quarters of an hour later the owner of a sporting goods store remembered a woman named Evelyn Warder Who had skiing classes on weekends He located an address for her in north Denver and I drove out there with lieutenant mates She was a tall plane-looking woman in her early 30s. What is it miss Evelyn Warder? Yes, police I'd like to talk to you for a minute. What about? May we come in? Yes You know a man named Frank Lattorette No, why? His son shot him to death tonight Do you know him? Miss Warder No Why are you here telling me this? Don't you know? No, I don't know. I have no idea I was there right after Mr. Lattorette was killed His son said he was going to kill a woman named Evelyn He's still loose What are you doing talking to everyone named Evelyn? You going out? If you didn't know Lattorette, you don't have anything to worry about if you're lying to us You're liable to get killed He came by because we thought you might be the one he's after We don't have a lot of time. I don't know anyone named Lattorette And you're okay. Sorry to bother you. That's all right. Good night. Good night night The pouting mouth, the plain face Tall and gamely person of Evelyn Warder Couldn't fit the role of a homebreaker or murderous But we sat in the car across the street from her house The mape's put in a call for two more cars to come out It really didn't get sunny all day today And this was a pretty lousy night Nothing to say? Nope Sure, you don't You could be in a nice warm hotel room getting your head full of sleep right now I can do that anytime Right now I want to be around when somebody talks about a fire My company has an $80,000 claim on and a murder And Tommy's murder The whole thing Tommy's wife this morning wondering if he played around with other women That kid standing there shaking and crying and killing and out to do more killing I'd like to sleep I don't think I could wonder where that kid went you Should have had him by now if he stuck with the car at all How could he walk around town carrying a shotgun without being a little conspicuous? Yeah This could be the wrong Evelyn It's the only one we've got a line on Yeah Dollar this stinks What? That's the right Evelyn in there and if that kid isn't picked up he'll be around a killer tonight Yeah, so let's go in and give her the business She said hey Across the street. What that's the car the kids. Yeah, let's go How'd he get either without power there? Yeah, come on Bruce Not to rat this place is covered. You'll never get away alive Yeah, you okay shooting in the dark That isn't going to do any good Bruce. Let me try sure Bruce This is Johnny dollar remember And they don't want to kill you Bruce put down the gun The law will take care of her of what you say is true Wait Bruce she isn't there Upstairs window here. She wasn't here, huh? Make himself a perfect target One more chance for a direct throw the gun down Okay, boys That did it. Yeah What is it? Let me get it Take it easy They'll get her They did get her She was taken down and charged with suspicion of murder in arson Bruce La Tourette was removed to the emergency hospital and died there three hours later I was in his office when lieutenant mates had a stenographer take a confession from Evelyn water All right miss water I met Frank three years ago scheme He asked me to have dinner with him one night and tell him Later he'd see me every now and then It was his idea Killing his wife that No, that was mine. You figured out how to do it Yes, why? You mind telling us about it I knew she worked on the books in the store at night I had a key to the store I just went in there and saw she was sleeping and started to fire How? Waste basket I knew the spoke and that little officer did the rest Had you ever met her before? I don't know You never talked to her at all? No Did he? I mean about a divorce He said he did But I know he didn't He didn't want a divorce for her for me So you killed her I guess I did The insurance man, Thompson? Yes I guess the boy told him about us He followed us out to the place on the golden road I told Frank we'd have to get rid of him And we did Who was driving, Evelyn? I was Your car? Yes You killed them both then? Mrs. Latterad and Thompson? You don't think Frank would have the nerve to do anything like that, do you? I don't know why I went for him I really didn't, I guess He had money But no nerve Okay, Evelyn, anything else? What happens to me? That's up to the court, Evelyn Expensive car item three, twelve dollars, hotel and board Item four, twelve dollars and fifty cents, car rental Item five, same as item one, plane fare back home Expense account total, two hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents Yours truly, Johnny Dollar Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, stars John Lund in the title role And was written by E. 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