 From Hollywood, it's time now for John Lund as Johnny dollar I like that fine, but I have to work. How much is the policy worth like what I'll pack my things John Lund in the transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expensive car America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator here's Julie Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to home office great eastern fire and casualty New York City The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Elliott champion matter Expense account item one thirty eight dollars and eighty seven cents train fare and incidentals between Hartford and New York Where I met agent Don vickers and we made arrangements to fly to California Item two twenty eight dollars even one raincoat Item three one hundred ninety nine dollars and fifteen cents transportation in New York to Los Angeles On route vickers filled me in on the details concerning mr. Elliott champion. I Met him once Johnny when he was in New York last time. Uh-huh because I said to myself look well on this man He made you the last of his kind. How's that done? Well champion 60 a better now, and he's been everything in his lifetime Sailors soldier lawyer financier who Lord knows what all one of those birds who started with absolutely not He talked fast worked hard and what he couldn't get one way. You might as you get another all in all he's done pretty well I Didn't like him kind go on And maybe I was just jealous of his aggressiveness or maybe as I've heard stories of how we ran rough shot of a big No, it's about this office building. Yeah I was the man who called me has waked on several awesome cases for us said the fire was of a definite incendiary origin Can he prove it? Yeah, nothing fancy Somebody bought a few gallons of gasoline over some leftover building materials in the elevator shaft and floor matching I'm pretty effective. What else? Well champions in financial trouble the insurance would be better than the building I've so probably have more for us when we get there. He's been working on it from the start I feel like a patsy. Oh, how's that? Well, Norman eyes has always been the best arson man in the business as I can remember and you're no slouch What am I doing in this protection Johnny? If champion fire that building down to collect the insurance, I want to know about it I might find the answer you might find it or I might find it but where champions involved It won't be easy. They'll all have to work. Are you scared of this guy? Yeah, nobody's ever beat him Let's account item four seven dollars and a half Incidentals upon arrival Vickers and I checked in the new statler hotel grabbed a few hours sleep and the next morning drove out to the scene of the Fire with Norman Ives the arson expert A watchman on duty had seen a man loitering in a vicinity of the building when he came to work at six o'clock Three other people remember the same man a druggist a filling station man and a news boy All of their descriptions were pretty close medium build medium height medium weight between 25 and 30 Well, that's helpful. Yeah Now the druggist and the man who ran the filling station could only supply the description But the news boy swears he saw this man sneak around the side of the building around 8 o'clock The fire broke out about 830 The news boy says he saw and catch a bus in the corner right before the fire broke out The bus driver on the line wasn't any help The police have broken out every mug they can find in the arson files Well, if the man with all the medium things about him is the man this might not be so tough No luck so far. I don't think they'll pick him up in the arson files dollar It was an amateur job. I'll show you exactly how when we get there What about the police lineup? No, they've had three so far one coming up tonight and one tomorrow and I'd say that's a long chance to no professional Firebug there's a possibility sure, but none of it seems right to me a boggle planet and perform it Just like an expert and he'll stand around and watch it burn Maybe he'll call somebody up and tell him how happy he is But I don't think our boy is any bug. There's something else in it or I miss my guess Well, you're the specialist any ideas not a one I talked to the man who had been working in the building that day There was no gasoline stored in that basement when they left work at four o'clock But somebody moved in at least five gallons of gas between four and six when the watchman came on How he did it where he got it. I don't know But it's one thing we'll have to find out the police have any leads they're working as hard as they know how It would take a long time to check every filling station and find out who bought a five gallon can of gasoline. Yeah We're up against something here and I said has anybody talked to champion not yet All he knows is that the fire people are trying to discover how the blaze started I thought it best to leave it that way until we get our bearings Well, here we are Sure looks like a mess. Yeah You know come on. I'll show you how much of a mess. It really is We spent the rest of the day covering the ruins of the 10-story office building that had been gutted by flames two days before I was acquainted us with all of the necessary details on exactly how the fire had been started That night we sat in on the lineup at the police station while the four witnesses looked at some 60-odd suspects There were no identifications The next day while vickers and I was worked with the police. I went out to Elliott champions real estate office in Glendale Expense account item five five dollars taxi fare including tip Remember that old saw about how a woman in love is always beautiful When I walked in I had no idea Mildred champion was in love and no idea that she was beautiful Her sallow face without makeup framed in a whisk of never set blonde hair Wasn't flattered by the shapeless black dress and low-heeled shoes that she was wearing Certainly not the going idea beauty nor did her conversation reveal anything to indicate love Yes, may I help you a mr. Elliott champion, please my name is dollar dollar DOL a r He's not expecting me your business, mr. Dollar great eastern fidelity. It's about the fire. Oh Just a moment, please A mr. Dollar is here Uncle Elliott He's from the insurance company, it's about the fire. Oh, yes, sir All right, mr. Dollar straight ahead. He always like that. He's nice today. I see Thanks, Mildred. Hmm. Well, that's your name, isn't it? Yeah Straight ahead color Yes, mr. Champion. Come on in not going to ask you to sit down No while you're here. You have insurance Investigators written all over you. Well in that case we can get right down to business. We certainly can Do they know what caused the fire yet? They do somebody poured gasoline on some rubbish in the basement with the liver and I thought so Why because Joseph Harrison is out of prison now and he swore he'd get back at who's Joseph Harrison Harrison worked for me at one time discovered stealing money from me and I prosecuted him He was sent to prison for five years. He's the one. He seemed pretty certain of that. Of course I'm certain of it. I know what enemies I have what friends there are some witnesses Have got a look at the man who we believe started the fire. What does Joseph Harrison look like now? I don't remember I hardly ever remember face that you remember this threat what I remembered was the small story in the Newspapers last week that he was being released from prison. Well, we'll certainly look him up and have a talk with him No, that's very good of you. I'm sure how luck this can be a difficult thing all the way around or we can Cooperate mr. Champion. I understand you people have been over to my bank looking into my personal affairs I don't think I have to beat around the bush with you mr. Champion There's a lot of money at stake here. We'll have to hold up your claim until we get all the facts You'll pay that claim Mr. Dollar. I didn't say we wouldn't but we'll have to be satisfied in all directions Then satisfy yourself get Joseph Harrison. He burned down my building A review of the trial and proceedings in which Joseph Harrison had been convicted of Grand Theft is threats at the time of the trial Substantiated champions information when two of the witnesses identified Harrison's mug picture and APB went out We worked with the police When all the routine places have been covered we branched out and went out after anybody My name is dollar. Are you mr. Angle? That's right insurance investigator mr. Angle Trying to locate a former client of yours Joseph Harrison I defended Joe over six years ago and come in I always fix my own dinner post egg and half-and-half Pulsars Names dollar. Yeah, you want something? No, thanks. Do you mind if I finish? I'll go right ahead What? What led you to me? Well covering everybody. We're very anxious to get a hold of Harrison and talk to them Well, I don't think I'm going to be much help dollar Watch it all about He's been identified as the man who started a fire in the Elliott champion building Well, I'm sorry to hear that Are you mr. Angle? Truly sorry Joe Harrison was a nice kid who got in a little trouble is all but a calendar job born with one war Just finished a depression on deck and another war in the hole makes a difference in a man's life The calendar got him Everything was against him at the trial to champion poured it on he didn't have to but he did he could have let him off Did you try to talk him into that? No, I didn't nobody talks Elliott champion into anything and besides Joe would never admit taking the fun He said he was playing Well, he didn't have a prayer with all the evidence champion had against him wait I read the trial notes And that's it Joe pleaded not guilty in the face of everything and he went up I want him to make a guilty plea and go on the mercy of the court. It was his first cleanse Well, he's out now and as I said it looks like he's trying to get even with champion for prosecuting him Oh for a lousy ten grand has he got in touch with you? Oh You have a right here from prison. Oh You have any idea where he'd be in town mr. Angle. No, I don't Well, and I guess I'll leave you to your eggs. Oh, yeah dollar If you find Joe, I'd like to know about it. Why mr. Angle like to see him I wonder what five years in prison just to a kid like that Yeah at five o'clock that afternoon it seemed we had run down every possible leave trying to find Joseph Harris By that time the other two witnesses had made up their minds that he was the man they'd seen after all With the four Identifications the case against Harrison became stronger in our case against Elliott champion grew weaker It was imperative that we locate Harrison and prove or disprove that he started the fire Yeah, Johnny dollar Yeah, I remember at five thirty. I received another call this one from champions lawyer He advised me the champion would bring suit if the claim was not honored immediately Could have been a bluff or he could have meant business. We never found out. I had a third call at five thirty eight Hi, how's it going? Turn to yours truly Johnny dollar in just a moment our John Ludd We bring you the second act of yours truly Johnny doll. It is swiftly as he had lived 38 slug it entered the very center of his for it There was no weapon lying about There were no witnesses in the remote hilly section of Glendale where he lived to give any information concerning the crime The police were more anxious than ever to find Joseph Harrison Their reasoning was that if he'd burned down a quarter of a million dollar building to get back at Elliott champion He also might shoot him the arson case had turned into a murder case And Don vickers joined I was in me at the scene things were still pretty much up in the air Well, this is a new wrinkle. What do you suppose just have to wait to see yeah, and I thought I was getting somewhere You find something. No, no Take a look at this here Mildred champion married Harris in a month before he was convicted Well, I'll be me too when they separated only by the prison term no record of any divorce or an element proceedings Well, what do you make of it Johnny? I don't know what to make of it She called me earlier and said she had some information for me. I was on my way there when this happened You didn't talk to her. No, she says only living relative Now she can't be found not at her place anyhow funny, huh? It wasn't funny at all From the two times I'd spoken to her in the one time I'd seen her I'd gathered a pretty definite impression about her champion But apparently it had been all wrong Mr. Angle Never thought I'd see you anymore. What's up? Still looking for Joe still looking for Joe Wish I could help you down Elliot champion was shot and killed in his home tonight. No That's all you have to say What else is there to say? Yes, I asked Did Joe do it? Maybe Well Did you know a Mildred champion? I met her. Did you know she was married to Joe Harrison? I'll throw one more thing at you angle Champion wasn't always too good about paying his income taxes our accountants cover everything in a case like this What do you want me to say? I'm here to get all of this story now I think you're the man who can tell it why you can tell me if Harrison was the kind of man who'd start that fire You can tell me if you really was an embezzler You can tell me if you think he'd kill champion. I can't tell you anything All I have is my opinion. Well, I'd like your opinion. I really would angle There's something about her being married to Harrison, isn't there? Yeah Her wife can't testify against her husband Everyone else in champion's office testified against him. I see Now the opinion Come on You're right. I've got ideas And all of them make me sick inside Joe Harrison stood there and told me he was innocent. He said it the many times if he said it once And he told me thought champion was framing him for the income tax shortages Well, that's just some eyes dollar. He was a green kid who was hired into the company by champion He might have been hired to be playing on a phony embezzling charge that would give champion a good excuse on his taxes for a while I've been fooled a lot of times for your food with him. I know I Wish I could have gotten them off. I tried dollar believe me. I tried You say he's out getting even he's burned down a building and maybe murdered the man Joe was a nice boy dollar Now his whole life is gone and for what? I Hope you don't find him. I hope nobody ever finds him, but we did find Joseph Harrison He was right under our noses all the time When I called back at the hotel there was a message for me to get down to the county hospital I was was waiting for me there We both stood and looked at Joseph Harrison in the morgue It's a funny thing Johnny There's been an alarm out on this guy for six hours Everybody's been looking everywhere for him and he turns up right here only he's dead. What killed him TV Just got the whole story. He had it awful bad up at San Quentin wanted out awful bad In the sick ward his last two years when his time was up last week. He made him release him But he wound up here died in this hospital Just a kid, huh? Right back where we'd started from trying to make a case against Elliott champion Except now was trying to make a case against the estate of Elliott champion. I Was surprised to learn before leaving the county hospital that his niece had still not been seen to be informed of her uncle's death I was even more surprised when Don Vickers reported from police headquarters What? Mildred champion and on her uncle too. It's awful late for this. I know we found Joe. He's dead. Oh No, oh, yes And he didn't do any of the things we thought he might have done I'm here to find out what you might have done. I Don't get you angle I don't know how to figure you. I haven't been able to since we met Well, now it doesn't make any difference what I think of you But it makes a difference how you answer this question a lot of difference to you No, what dollar did you help champion frame Joe Harrison? No, I told you I defended him I tried my best to get him wrong. That's the truth I'm an honest man. If not a successful one. I told you the truth Well, if you did you're not in any trouble if you didn't you might get killed You might anyhow, I don't know what you're talking about Ask who it is. Who is it? Mildred champion, Mr. Ingo tell her just a minute Just a minute miss champion. Oh, he ought to be dead My uncle stole money from himself and they look like Joe did it. I know about that And that one in there he helped him Why didn't you let me kill him too? He didn't help your uncle. He tried to help Joe Over to see Joe last month in the prison hospital. I knew he was dying at that look in his eye What my uncle had done to him and he couldn't do anything about it, but you figured you could It kills your uncle when you found out Joe died You came here to kill ankle. I thought he He helped him do it. I thought he helped kill Joe They did kill him, you know When they sang to prison as truly as if they'd shot him down Five years. I waited for him to get out of that awful place I waited to hold him in my arms and tell him it was all over Five years. I waited to help him forget his hate and Mikey Loving him so much every day And now he's dead. What can you or I or anybody do about what they've done to him? Look at me mr. Dover. I'm not what you'd call beautiful. I'm not even pretty Nobody ever looked at me twice until Joe He looked at me and he loved me and now he's dead and I'm dead inside I'm dead inside and I'll be glad when I'm dead outside Item six same as item three transportation back to New York Item seven same as item one transportation New York to Hartford item eight Eighty five dollars miscellaneous Expense account total five hundred sixteen dollars fifty-four cents comments Item eight you can take away if you want to It's a legitimate miscellaneous that I pampered myself with I Wanted to forget Miller a champion talking about her lover Here's to the Johnny dolly Johnny dollar stars John Lund in the title role and is written by E. Jack Newman with music by Eddie Dunsteader featured in tonight's cast were Eddie Maher Joe Duvall Joyce McCluskey Francis X Bushman and Herb Butterfield Yours truly Johnny dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by Jaime Delvalle This is Dan coverly inviting you to join us next week at this time when John Lund returns as yours truly Johnny Look up Danny Clover detective in New York City's teeming Times Square area Danny born and brought up in the shadow of the Great White Way knows its haunts and its people as few others do Tomorrow and every Saturday night on most of these same stations Tomorrow and every Saturday night on most of these same stations Follow Danny Clover on CBS radio's drugway is my beat. It's packed with thrills and human interests Is your soldier boy coming home on furlough? 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