 Johnny dollar Mara sparkly Johnny the Jersey State Mutual well it's about time Mara's how are you bad? I've got troubles Johnny $40,000 worth don't give it another thought just mail me a check. Yeah, he means Okay, then I'll fly on down there and pick it up. Who's he? Well, maybe I'll get lucky and not be able to find a meter then with 40 G's in my little hand Sure, you will now I'm Mario the commission on 40,000 for me if I find this man You want to come down and talk about it? Why sure? You Mandel Kramer in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense out America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the New Jersey State Mutual life insurance company home office Threaten, New Jersey following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Donninger Donninger matter Expense account item one twenty-six ninety for a cab the Bradley Field Airport a plane to Trenton than a taxi into Mars Parkley's office It was lunchtime so Mari dragged me over to lunch at Hildebrecht's Look, are you just going to sit here and stuff yourself or can I tell you about this case? Morse will help me Nobody but nobody knows how to fix softshell crams like a South Jerseyite So I'm going to make the most of it going to you have Mm-hmm. I'll listen mm-hmm. His name is Walter P. Donninger the seven the what the whole family was a bunch of screwballs Bums Except for Walter P. The first mm-hmm who cleaned up on gunpowder and cannonballs about the time Georgie Washington rode across the Delaware Well, that's that and was delicious But his descendants haven't done a lick of work since and that makes them screwballs I'm all right sure nothing to do but look their lives away Bums would there be anything more gentlemen? Well, I know thanks for that. We've got to get out of here Sir, here you are anyhow Johnny this Walter P. The seventh is the last of the line now that his sister many is died There you are with it. Thank you Thank you, sir. She left him with 40,000 insurance units, right? So you've got to find them Johnny and pay it to it but in cash That's what the policy reads in cash in hand just like that five dollars tip. He just gave the weight of right Johnny That's it. What five dollars. Hey, wait a minute. Come on more. You can take it out of my expense Anyhow, I'm gonna has to be paid within ten days of her death Johnny So that gives you just less than a week from now. Well, morey that otherwise We pay him an additional thousand for every additional week or fraction thereup You issued a policy like that. No, I personally you call him a screwball point is that he's disappeared You think he might be dodging him or just to build up this take possibility. I wouldn't put it beyond him What's the address given on the policy addresses Johnny eight of them eight every time he'd move He's dying sister would give us a new one Listed all right then if she only died recently than his last address would know he isn't there He left no word about where he'd go next Hey, you better watch it. Yes. All right lights change. Come on Well, tell me more. Is there any pattern to the way that he's moved around pattern. Hmm. I haven't thought of that I should have may give us an answer Then here's the office. We'll take a look right Here we are Now he started here in Trenton And he lived down in Atlantic City for a while Bloomfield, Cranford, Dumont East Rutherford Franklin Gibbs town and Highbridge And other words all over the state You know that makes any kind of a pattern Johnny well, it sure does morey. It does sure Don't you see Atlantic City Bloomfield Cranford and so on ending up with Highbridge right through the alphabet more from a to age You're right So it's easy Whatever he's gone now begins with the letter I if he sticks to the pattern Yeah But why all the wandering around is he running away from something or is it just a matter of building up the insurance he'll get I don't know Anyhow now you have the answer Find a town beginning with the letter I there is one and you've got him Yeah, thanks a lot But which town beginning with an I if there's more than one. Oh, yeah, I didn't think of that gun Atlas more Yeah, you're sure of course. Yeah, right in front of my nose Help yourself. All right now. Let's see Here we are. Oh, great. No, what's the matter? Listen Imley's town Indian mills in her lock and Iona Iceland plus about a half dozen more from one end of the state to the other man Yeah, no good Well, it's all right with me if you want to pay me plenty of travel money to prowl around that friend fine That's fine, and he'd be in the very last town that you would hit that's a possibility Well, I guess the only thing we can do is write the city hall in every place beginning with an I and hope he'll cooperate Me time time is running out Wait a minute. Wait a minute. There's a better pattern for us You sure like you say the alphabetical one Don't leave the course that extra thousand a week or you'll run up too big an expense account. No, wait a minute Look, don't you see There's more to the pattern like what and how much will it cost? Stop looking smug. Mari. I'll make your proposition. Oh, you will Let me try just one of these towns This one here Interlocking. Mm-hmm. Oh, I picked that one if I don't find mr. Walter P. Doninger the seventh there You won't owe me a cent, but if I do yeah, then what then you tack an extra thousand out of my commission Okay, well even above your expense account and all it okay It's a deal And now Johnny good now look do you mind telling me what this magical key is that you've found? Pattern of his wanderings not at all. Look Mari. It's right here in front of your nose Right here in the Atlas This ever happened to you You're driving down a long highway or working late and then monotony makes you feel drowsy Per cup with no dose no dough keeps you alert with the same safe refresher found in coffee Yet. No does is faster handier more reliable Absolutely not habit-forming the safe way to stay alert without harmful stimulants no dose I can see is the old nut is going through the alphabet and there's wandering Bees you with 11 towns beginning with a letter of eyes to investigate. I look here at the population figures the population First was Atlantic City with something over 60,000 That's not including the annual summer vacation mob that always descends on the place So then came Bloomfield 49,000 less than Atlantic City In spite of the fact that a couple of other towns beginning with be have more Well, then here we have Cranford 17,500 less again, don't you see now Mari? Sure sure Johnny You're right great sure each time he's moved up one notch in the alphabet. He has moved down one notch in population What a caper and see here after Cranford. He was in Dumont sure sure thing At the do money he could have gone to Elizabeth or East Orange or East Patterson Yes, but they have more people in Dumont So he picked East Rutherford with a population just under do my right so on all the way to the letter H for Highbridge the last address you have on him And if you carry on just one more step Here it has to be interlocking. He's got to be an interlocking if he's stuck to this crazy pattern Well, I'll be done I get to think you Think I'm still wrong about calling him a screwball Unless he's running away from something more the law maybe well to be the seventh never well, then I'd say he's kind of cute cute Sure, he knows that every week you fail to pick up his trailer put you on the spot for another grand I think he's bats maybe but at least he's got a sense of humor pretty expensive one for us Just a sort of thing you'd expect of him a moray if a pattern holds And it's his own gag, so he's got to play fair with it Yeah, I will find him smugly sitting around in the town of interlocking Okay, sounds fine great, but what if the Sherlock Holmes deduction of yours turns out to be all wrong? It's only one way to find out Mario isn't there? Yeah Good luck. You'll need it That's count item to 50 bucks deposit on a rental car I headed east then on 33 a main highway through Heights town freehold and ocean Grove and then north and a roundabout way to interlock And a small but very nice resort town that isn't much heard of because it's so completely overshadowed by nearby Asbury Park in Trying to find a city hall. I ended up at the old New York and Long Branch Railroad Station I pulled to a stop beside a group of men loading stuff onto a freight car The most intelligent looking of a lot was the character of old maybe 35 and badly in need of a change Chance to City Hall. That's all I Thought I'd recognize that voice of yours. Your name is Johnny dollar, ain't it? That's right makes any difference How about that Johnny dollar the big insurance investigator, huh? Well, I'm pleased to meet you. Thank you. Now. Well, what's a big shot like you doing around a place like this? Well, does that make any difference? You want to know what I think I'm betting you tell somebody here, huh? My right? Well possibly but look where I'm right Well, Johnny, you want to know anything about this bird you asked me you bill McGrogan. I know all about it See, yeah, I know everybody ever comes into this town So you need help you couldn't have come to a writer party good and me well I'll be glad to give a guy like you a hand And Johnny you know something else now look McGrogan. I just call me Bill Johnny. His name is bill I you know something else. I understand you pay out pretty good for information Like I mean that you can lay it out on the expensive kind of yours, huh? Yeah, my right, Johnny. Well, now that depends Look, why don't you try anything you want to know about interlocking or anybody in it even just the summer people Don't come here for the summer all you got to do is ask me So what do you want to know huh? And what's it worth, huh? Well, come on. Come on, Johnny. You want my help, but don't you know who you're looking for, huh? Well, why'd you come here? Hey, you don't say much to you Yeah, yeah, I am looking for someone a man Now what's it worth if I lead you're right to him Johnny 50 maybe you see no Because if you don't think I can't lead you to him. Well, you just try me see Yeah, 25 maybe you better come down a little bit bill. Let's see About a 10 spot. Okay. Thanks What now? What do you want to mean, huh? Who's the guy you're looking for? The name is wallet down in here. Hey, you see I told you come to the right Yeah What's the matter? Who would you say Johnny? I said a man by the name walk down again. That's right But you know where I can find him or don't you? Well, come on Bill. What's the matter? Don't I got crazy Walt down again, and you want to give me only ten bucks, huh? All right, I'll make it 20 if you really know where he is Yeah, sure. I do sure but a guy that's loaded the way that he is You know that don't you? It sounds like wallet on again. Okay, Johnny Okay, 50 bucks, and I fix it up. What do you mean you fix it up? I'll deliver I'll deliver So we're gonna be staying well matter of fact. I don't know I haven't really planned a lot So you go to the launch month. It's that nice fancy place about three blocks over that way. Yeah Well, look over there turn your head, huh? You can see the top of it with the flag on it. You know that? Oh Yeah, I see that's good. Now you get yourself a room see and Johnny I guarantee I'll get the word to down again, and he'll be there and see you by sometime tonight Okay, now look Bill wouldn't it be a lot easier just to tell me where you can find him with the way that he moves around Oh, sir That's the deal 50 bucks Johnny All right Here's 15 more and the other half you get after I see down again. Oh, yeah when I listen to my deal Just be sure you get him later my room at the large month You shouldn't come through and bring me down again Now after all it would go on the expense account As soon as I'd registered at the large month, I went to police headquarters and talked with a sergeant Holloway You know something Maybe it was lucky that I had run in Bill McGrogan Maybe Well, sure sure dollar. I'll try to find that crazy old man for you Yeah, be at the launch when you say that's right But the way he gets around you know Well in a couple of weeks ever since he got the word of his sister passing away He's lived in a half dozen different Roman houses Sometimes only two or three days in one place at the time. Hmm. He is playing a cozy little game with the company What's up? Oh nothing. I certainly hope you've been fighting for me. Oh, sure. Sure. Maybe in a couple of days Maybe in a half an hour But I'll find them all right. I mean Sometime sometime huh? Well, I'll be waiting That's item three four seventy Then I spent item four half a dollar on a phone call to Maury partly to let him know where I was Then I'll just have to prowl around myself and see what I can learn about down again Well, of course the post office Well, if he moves from place to place Maury the way the sergeant says he does he may have himself a post office box That's right. Well, then I'll dig me up an atlas and figure out his next destination Maury. Don't worry about it We've proved the atlas theory works and now it's just a matter of time before Well, what looks like it's going to be a matter of no time at all Maury, I'll be in touch Yes, sir party and shut up. Wait a minute. I know they'd get you on me, but I didn't think you'd show up this So when I look almost the gun works Complete with silencer that's right. So I'm not as crazy as some people think and you're Walter Donningham That's right scrappy Donningham. I'll move over there dollar next to the bed So when you fall it won't make any noise What do you mean fall down again? I've taken our chances with you. So from here on dollar You're gonna be dead Yes, people who want to get away from harsh rough tasting cigarettes know that the one to switch to is can't and there's a very good reason Can't with the micronite filter Refines away harsh flavor Refines away rough taste for the mildest taste of all Yes, that's your reward for smoking Kent the cigarette that made the filter famous So when you want to get away from harsh rough tasting cigarettes remember the finer the filter Milder the taste and you decide to treat your taste Kindly with Kent Let's say a prayer dollar you said you knew I'd be after you why not Pull a heist up there in Hartford Stuff's gonna be insured isn't it heist so who else would they get to look for me? Only how you ever find out They'd come down here to this little jerk water summer resort And they only been over a day, too Only you pulled a boo boo coming here down and it looks like I pulled a couple Yeah, wise man, you should pick the wrong guy to buy information from You think that Bill McGrogan was on your side? Went for a hundred bucks. He'd let me set you up this way. I see Yeah, you're not gonna be seeing for long a hearing either Get over there next to the bed where you'll drop real easy when I pull this trigger Who's that? Who is it? Wait a split second when he turned to the door was all I needed now I charged across the room swinging and cutting I had a right to the face and I chopped across the back of his neck The last in a heap and they lay very still All right, it's a scrappy down here. We'll take this gun of yours Yes, who is it? Who's there? Wants to be done and go to the 7th Mr. Dollar. Oh now wait a minute Here I am the police and you and the insurance company finally found me so mr. Oh my goodness Who's he what happened to him? Your name is Walter P. Donninger the 7th. Why yes, of course it is Would you like to see some identification, mr. Dollar? Yeah, I have plenty of it But I certainly didn't think even a clever man like you could trade me here to interlock so quickly It's amazing mr. Dollar Simply amazing sit down mr. Donninger you see I had hoped I could delay with it Therefore increase the insurance payment But I was fair in my church game now wasn't I just sit down there mr. Donninger We'll surely mr. Dollar anything you like but this man here on the floor. Yes, this man just just wait Johnny dollar Johnny Don't be too sure Maury I'm listening talk. Did you listen to me? I have him Maury right here Tell them the job is done Their job and they can mail me the check for that reward. That's a fact Maury I'm up to here and so for once I got real lucky And now you can see why I've called this report the Donninger Donninger matter Expense account totally Including the trip home with scrappy Donninger in tow 155 70 plus commission of course plus the extra thousand on Walter the 7th. Oh And I couldn't find Bill McGrogan again, so he'll never get that other 25 bucks Maybe just a jail term someday for the kind of company that he keeps Yours truly Johnny dollar corrected by Fred Hendrick's Johnny dollar is played by Mandel Kramer Also featured in our cast were Jack Arthur Jack Grimes Ian Martin Santos Ortega Melville Rueck and Neil Fitzgerald music supervision by Eugene signs Sound patterns by Walter Otto Technical supervision by Mike Shaskas Be sure to join us next week same time same station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar Art Hanna speaking