 From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar It's industrial. Oh, I have Brad caught another chief accountant with his hand in the till How do you figure well as you know, there's been an APB out on him wanted for questioning ever since he disappeared the day after the holdup Yeah, I know Brad. He was recognized last night in Phoenix, Arizona state highway police throw up roadblocks They tagged him south of Tucson just north of the Mexican border. They get him. They had I wouldn't be calling you Shot his way clear. They killed one of his boys Ronnie bled. So he'll never be missed. So Jipper is still on the loose, huh? Yep along with that hundred thousand dollar payroll and short by us. I Gotta get that money back Johnny. All right, Brad. I'll fly out there and find it for you But watch yourself every minute those hoods are three-time killers. I thought it was two three now They killed a state trooper at that roadblock 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 investigators cause truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar to the home office mid-states industrial insurance company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the primrose matter I don't want a hundred and forty two dollars and eighty cents incidentals in Hartford and transportation to Tucson, Arizona Where I checked into a hotel Then I contacted the highway police and presented my credentials to Lieutenant Cal Mervin who was directing the all-out search for the Knitzen gang Lieutenant Mervin had been at the roadblock They call us flatfooted dollar. That's how they happen to get away with it. How do you mean lieutenant? We flashed the red light on them and they slowed down and rolled up to us like they were gonna stop The car was a different make from the one they'd supposedly been seen in we found later They'd stolen another one in Phoenix. I see then when we threw the spot on them We saw just the one man the driver turned out the others were down on the floor. How many were in the car for apparently Three afterwards. I shot one of them. They threw his body out a half mile down the road. I May have hit another one. I'm not sure that figures I tip off from Kansas City named Jipper Knitzen Ronnie Blood so and to unidentified. Yeah, and blood so is the one who was killed Knitzen and the other two got through You said they slowed down as though they were gonna stop what happened. Oh, there's no excuse mr. Dollar We were careless. It's all but you get so many false alarms mistaken IDs And to make a car the whole setup. It didn't seem to fit You can't be wound up ready to pitch all the time. Well, we paid for it then with his life. I Was luckier. I got off with this bullet burn on the side of my head Hey, never know check Well, anyway, the boys on the floor of the car came up shooting one of them with a Tommy gun They used the Tommy gun in the stick up. That's how the two guards in the armored truck were killed It's a rough weapon mr. Dollar Ben dropped on the first burst from it didn't even know what hit him I got this scratch from a pistol bullet saved my life. I guess it flattened me before the Tommy gun picked me up Then the driver slammed into second and they skidded passed on the shoulder I holed up my gun and emptied it Adam before I passed out Hitting that fella Bledsoe was sure luck any trace of him at all since they broke clear No, they had a little luck themselves as I said I passed out and it was 20 minutes before a car came along the highway or before one stopped anyway I think several probably pass scared to get mixed up in something Oh, that's understandable and the fella that picked me up took me 15 miles up the road to an emergency first aid station All in all it was over an hour before the report got to highway patrol headquarters And they could get new blocks set up and Knitzen and his boys could have covered a lot of ground by then sure it's it Here's a map of the southern Arizona area from here to the border Here's where they hit us. We had the roadblock there at the junction. I see from there south to the border There's no through road branching off just some dead-enders or like the Arivaca road that loop back and connect into the highway again What about the border lieutenant? According to the Mexican customs officials at Nogales the car didn't show up there And I'm inclined to buy that with the rear window shot full of bullet holes It would have been pretty conspicuous and as I understand it. It hasn't turned up anywhere else. Nope so far. We haven't been able to find it Of course, they had the advantage of an hour's hit start. Well, it's it mr. Dollar. They could have doubled back It could be in New Mexico, Northern Arizona, California Thousand places on the other hand though, they couldn't have known they'd have that hour's start What do you mean? Well, they couldn't have known they'd killed your partner and left you unconscious He was still shooting at them when they gunned away from that roadblock All they could reasonably suppose was that you'd be reporting in by radio two minutes later What are you getting at mr. Dollar? Well, if that's what they did suppose then they wouldn't try any doubling back and Yet they didn't reach the border down here at Nogales But there's no through road that connects into that 20 mile stretch highway. All right So maybe they're still bottled up right in that section. I don't see how we've been over at half a dozen times And cars horseback helicopter. We're still checking it. I'm just about ready to cross it off logic says that's the most probable place They'd be and logic find them mr. Dollar and mine combined with a whole lot of luck You got something in mind. I don't know I I was wondering if a Sevinian so to speak might have a better chance of stumbling on to them They'd be on the lookout for the official search parties you being the Sevinian That's what I sort of had in mind They're pretty rough Lance. Hey, tell me something you get a lot of rockhounds around here amateur geologists uranium hunters If you're not careful they jump out from behind the cactus and stake a claim on your watch dial Easterners some of them I suppose Tender feet I guess you call not some of them most of them then one more wouldn't exactly create a sensation He wouldn't even be noticed. Is that the angle you're thinking of unless you know a better one. No, it's not bad Well, you know where I can get fixed up with enough it go to Dave bright sporting goods on South Stone Avenue He'll give you that dude look about as cheap as anybody. Just tell him I sent you on and Don't get too far away from civilization. Mr. Dollar any special reason. Yeah, I May want to contact you to let you know the Knitzen gang's been picked up in Portland or in Butte, Montana, maybe But I wouldn't count on it Expense account item two four hundred and forty six dollars and thirty five cents for a deluxe rockhound rig complete from buckskin Fieldboats to sleeping bag snake bite serum and a Geiger counter and including five days rental on a four-wheel drive Jeep But that kind of a get-up anybody'd have to find uranium just to break even But at least I figured I was equipped for any possible eventuality So I headed into the wilds And the first spot I decided to prospect was around 20 miles north of the border 50 yards back off the Highway it was known to the local inhabitants as Jake's bar and grill The bar was a war plank counter with rickety wooden stools the grills seem to consist of a rack of stale sandwiches wrapped in wax paper But it looked as though Jake himself might be paid dirt. Howdy stranger. What do you say save your money in my beer? That's a good idea, but I think I'll have a scotch this time even better idea Have something yourself You paying for it? Yeah, I'm out at that. Well, they now just have me a little this foreign hooch. Yes, sir Well, here's biting the rattlesnake check Well, you're figuring to find yourself some of that there uranium are you yeah might how'd you guess them? Duds you're wearing come from Dave Bright's place Sunday mine and clothes we call a no offense I'm hard to offend the names Johnny dollar, mr Jake meager Jake's enough though. Everybody knows them for that been around here a long time Oh, then you know this country pretty well I imagine well enough to tell you that if you find a fresh Square foot one where somebody ain't already been looking and you're doing better most tend to feet No offense there. It's just a way of talking. Well, I guess you call us a vacation, too I I don't really care much whether I find anything or not. It's just a chance to see some new country Well, I reckon you could call some of this more or less new once you get away from that there highway Oh, and how do you go about doing that? You mean by car gas Easterners ain't much on walking. Well, I have one with a four-wheel drive Get your mile or two further, but that's about all only way to do it's on foot. Yeah, you're probably right But I'd start by car at least Which side road would I take if I wanted to get lost? Around here you mean yeah anywhere along the highway between the junction and the border Well, as a matter of fact, you wouldn't have much choice there's six seven passable roads But they don't lead no place up the ranches don't even get up in the foothills You uh, you ain't getting the might drag in are you? Oh, sure fun of both of them again much blight see a mr. Dollar Well, there'll always be an England like a fellow says yeah Yeah, but them roads now The only one that might fit the bill for you is a Santa Rita summit road Oh, I think I remember that on the map. Yeah on a map Well, it it leaves a highway about three miles down and runs 14 mile back up into the Santa Rita mountain range It doesn't connect on through no dead ends couple of miles past Primrose camp none of these here roads go no place That's what I've been telling them state police for two days. They've been looking for some stick up fellas They be I reckon you heard about that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did Them fellas should be out of their minds take one of them their side roads ain't no place I could go to on them. Oh sounds logical all right You ask me them fellas jumped the border somehow That's how come they was down here in this part of the country to begin with are you probably right Jake? Anyhow, you think this summit road might get me off the beaten path It's your best bet around here. It climbs up into the pines It hits 6,000 feet at Primrose camp. It's in good shape, too Used to haul over out over the few years back there are mines up in there. No, no, no They're all worked out now. Oh few little high graders scratching for pennies But the big stuff's gone for the time being at least some folks figure it'll come back But I ain't one of them. Oh, what is this Primrose camp? Pop Mardell's place named after the old Primrose mine. Yeah, but what is it? Well Mix your things why pop is probably been making more money there than he would if the mines did come back He's got a filling station and half a dozen flimsy tourist cabins lunch counter that he's Mrs. Runs Little grocery store and souvenir shop his daughter Jenny takes care of who got a lot of things making income for him I want about customers with a place 14 miles up a dead-end road. He gets a few enough Picnicers and tourists in the summertime hunters and winter and fellas like you all year round come looking for this uranium stuff He ain't got much expense neither. It's all in the family. You see and now he's got a new hand to help Starting today. That's all yeah. Yeah, he come down this afternoon. Get the mail Yeah, you see the bus stops and drops it off here with me and pop comes down every day and picks it up Hey, I figure he likes a chance to get out of sight of the missus for an hour Sent this boy today this new hand. He's taking off. Well, not exactly a hand He's pops nephew. So he said comes out of Tulsa yesterday. Oh, I see funny thing though He sure didn't have any Oklahoma accent Jake how the boy is he? Well, hard to say between 25 and 30. Maybe a real close mouse or the fella couldn't hardly get a word out of Uh-huh nothing tall like pop why that old fella talk a leg off here if you go up there for you can open your mouth He'll sell you a tank of gas two quarts all you don't need some genuine phony or samples and rent you a couple of them Cabins Thanks for the warning Jake. I'll be ready for good luck. Mr. Dollar Whatever it is. You're a hunting What do you mean see a lot of tender feet come hunting uranium? But you're the first one that wore a shoulder holster with a gun in it a no offense. You understand Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story tomorrow a talkative man freezes a taciturn man Thaw's but a dead man can't do either all he can do is be dead Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar or is truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by less Crutchfield it is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking