 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Johnny this phone number you left for me to call it you at Bellevue Hospital. Yeah, Randy What's wrong? Are you at headquarters? Yeah truck ran over Mike Flynn, and I'm sure it was deliberate But he's alive. I hope he was four hours ago, and I dragged him in here I'm not so sure this time. What about that truck? Do you get the license? Yeah, the boys at the first precinct are working on it check with them Would you while I stay here at the hospital sure Johnny and one of the things yeah Find out how long that glad hand rescue mission has been in existence place where old Mike's been living. Yeah, why I don't know yet But do it will you sure and you let me know when Mike's out of danger, huh? Johnny Better pray a little bit Randy 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 Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar location New York, New York to the lakeside life and casualty company Following is an accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the indestructible Mike matter The veneer of class and education assumed by J. Wesley Cosgrave just wasn't thick enough to hide the fact that he was better known a few years ago as Dutchy Gordon and The old-time racketeer it looked like a cinch pick up a bowery bomb like Mike Flynn Ensure his life of 50 grand give him a few weeks of high living then knock him off and collect the insurance Yeah, real cinch Especially for Cosgrave who'd learned as far back as the early days of prohibition how to employ hired thugs to do the dirty work While he sat back and collected the profits I knew as surely as I'm sitting here that Cosgrave was behind the knifing the shooting and now this accident to old Mike But how to prove it Yeah, sitting here in the waiting room of the hospital waiting waiting for some word of Mike's condition Oh, yes, Doc, can I see him now very shortly? I believe. Oh, how is he is there's a phone call for you at the floor desk? Oh Thanks But how is Mike doc? How is he you'll be able to see him shortly? There you are. Oh, thanks Johnny dollar sure that you'd be there at the hospital. This is J. Wesley Cosgrave What made you think that why because of the accident to Michael Jeremiah Flynn? How did you know about it? I kept it out of the papers I find it helpful to know about a lot of things that don't get into the papers Well your boy goofed Cosgrave Mike is still alive my boy You know as well as I do duchy that one of your mob was at the wheel of that truck that ran him down You better keep your yaps shut dollar I thought I made it plain to you earlier that I no longer have any connection with the doings of the Shall we say underworld oh sure sure as for poor old Mike I understand it was an accident very unfortunate knock it off Cosgrave I was there when it happened. Oh, yeah Pretty stupid of a would-be killer to try that with an investigator right next to Mike wasn't it? Did you see the driver of the truck suppose? I did you say he wasn't one of your boys So what difference would have made to you why no did you see him? Why don't you worry about that for a while? Again I waited sat and waited Paced the corridor the hospital Outside the Sun sank slowly behind the horizon of skyscrapers and the busy clamor of the days traffic segwayed to the softer muffled But still busy traffic come at night And I waited and smoked and waited Finally it must have been close to midnight a nurse let me quietly down the hall and indicated the private room that I'd had set aside for Mike After a brief instruction about not staying too long. She pushed open the door for me, and she tipped her away And there low and behold and all his glorious head swirled in bandages, but wearing a smile a mile wide said indestructible Mike Mike oh Mike you all reprobate I Guess there is something in prayer after all how about this Johnny in the swell isn't this the finest place you ever saw Mike you're gonna be okay. Aren't you gonna? I am now, but I guess I had those doctors scared. Oh My my my Johnny you just should have seen the way they flutter around and those nurses Johnny I never saw such beautiful ladies in all my life and so nice And doesn't it smell good in here the disinfectant they use in here as much nice and daddy Bill has at the mission And you know some I haven't seen a single bed bug not even a cockroach No Mike Mike. I'm so glad to see in one piece sure But I know bum hasn't any right in a pretty place like you had no more business living through that accident then oh Johnny How you talk yeah, yeah, and you mustn't talk so much no matter how good you feel you need rest Time to heal up. Whatever got broken broke. Oh me. Well, you still need rest and quiet here. I'll turn off this light I'll see you in the morning But Johnny yeah Johnny how can I just sleep? Too much pain huh want the nurse to give you a hypo? Oh, they fill me up with more needles, and you ever saw but There's only one real pain killer, you know Yeah, I uh, I'll see you later If the administration of Bellevue Hospital ever found out that I was back in Mike's room a few minutes later And why they probably have my neck, but I didn't leave the whole bottle with him I swear it only about three fingers in his water tumbler and The blissful expression on his face as he closed his eyes to sleep made me sure I've done right I'm 15 180 taxi back to my dingy little hotel And I thanked whatever gods may be that old Mike had pulled through He'd been right. They just couldn't seem to kill him so far But I knew they wouldn't give up not with $50,000 at stake 50,000 more to line the pockets of Dutchy Gordon who I was sure was just as much of a racketeer as ever despite his present name of J Wesley Cosgrave and his pretense of gentility Because his henchmen had always feared to squeal or died violently before they could the police had nothing on him My job was to find one of the mob make him sing, but how I? Guess I was still thinking what dreaming about it when my phone rang the next morning Hello, joy dollar. This is Hello, oh Johnny dollar. Hey, you still in bed. Oh, Randy. Yeah, I thought you were gonna call me Is he still alive? He sure was when I last saw him at about midnight It's a miracle after what that truck did to him and say yeah, the boys downtown found that truck Yeah, yeah, it had been stolen and was abandoned. Did they find any Prince on plenty whose lefty skillman well They've picked yeah, yeah, they found them all right tied up in a sack floating in the East River old-time gangster stuff Oh, so help me. I knew that when Cosgrave Randy he was sitting up in bed perky as a cockatoo I don't know how he does it Why he was all ready to pack up and go back to the glad hand rescue mission Felt he didn't deserve to be in such a nice clean place as the hospital Did you find out anything for me about that flum house? Yeah, that's what I called you about But you still haven't told me what you find According to the records the building was put up in 1901 as a mission as a piano store 1901 to 1906 Real respectable place then well that section began to degenerate 1906 to 18 was a cheap grocery store 18 for 1956 1918 to 22 was a second-hand clothing store and a speakeasy the 1929 Keep going ready. I guess the depression knocked that out because next it was a saloon. How long? 1944 that's when William Grover Larkin took over the lease Daddy Bell. Yeah, I know it Randy I know it yeah, why duchy Gordon alias J. Wesley Cosgrave told me that he'd got a hand from that mission when he was just a kid That would have meant 25 30 years ago at least yeah, it's only been a mission for 12 But the lease on that property when it was a speakeasy was in the name of Larkin, too Ed one more fact Randolph and you see what I'm getting at what's that your own police file show Cosgrave was still in the 1944 yeah, but on a charge that we couldn't substantiate right tie him up Cosgrave was a rumrunner during prohibition Daddy Bill ran the speak for him since 1944 You're trying to build a case on purely circumstance 11. All right, but I think I can make it stick now Listen, where does Cosgrave get the thugs for whatever job he's pulling now if he is of course He is and he gets him out of that flop house the boys he gives jobs to that are never seen again. Remember Wow, hey, maybe it does tie. Oh, you bet your sweet life. It does at least I'm gonna tie it up And then I take it easy Johnny. Just how are you gonna go about it? Well the first thing I'm good Beholding, huh? What's the matter somebody outside the door this room? I think Hold on any yeah. All right. What do you think you do? Whoever hit me with whatever he hit me with wasn't fooling me In the second before I passed out I vaguely remember hearing a voice the voice of the room clerk shouting at whoever it was And the sound of footsteps running away In blackness Dark heavy throbbing in my head Then after a long time another familiar voice It was Randy I think Dimly somewhere along the line I could see figures bending over me hear the voice again And more darkness and the weird sounds in my brain Other sounds too that seem familiar and seem meaningless Meaningless Finally After an eternity of jumbled sounds and shadows a cold bright light pierced into my slowly returning consciousness The momentarily I could see a man in white and women and Yeah, yeah a hospital. He's with a doctor and the nurses. I tried to speak to them. I couldn't But slowly a realization of what had happened came to my mind Randy on the telephone had heard the attack on me and had brought help An ambulance had brought me here For a brief moment. I saw the glint of a needle poised above my arm Blackness again But a soft quiet peaceful That's the boy wake up Mike that's right Isn't it nice they put you in the same room with me Yeah Your policeman friend saw to it And he told me something Johnny And he's right You've got to be careful They're out to get you too Now here's our star to tell you about the final intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow Well, Mike may have been indestructible, but I knew by now that I wasn't so tomorrow the wind up It had to be while I was still alive Join us. Won't you yours truly johnny dollar? Yours truly johnny dollar starring bob bailey is transcribed in hollywood It is produced and directed by jack john stone who also wrote tonight's story Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly johnny dollar Roy rowan speaking