 From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny dollar Six hours by train. Take a plane. All right. I'll take a plane. Why? Get on what case Harry? Yes, sir, Mr. Poulton right away Edmund O'Brien in another transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to Harry Poulton Shippers and demnity Hartford Connecticut the following is an account of expenditures incurred during investigation of Atlantic Central Railways claim regarding missing freight or The story of the 1008 Expense account item transportation plane fare Hartford de Buffalo $48.16 plus cab fare $6.35 to the main offices of the Atlantic Central Railway Where a tall heavy-set man and a dusty blue surge pulled a cold cigar from the side of his mouth and spun a swivel chair in my direction I'm Eve Grimm's dollar sit down now. Let me close this door You didn't take long getting him. I wasn't very far away I'm the Cinderbolt for this outfit and I'd be doing what you're gonna do if was like the old days only Shippers and demnity handles the insurance and it's our job now. That's the service you pay for mr. Grimm When they stuck me in this desk I've been knocking dead heads around for 20 years and seeing they got themselves 30 days on the road gang now. I'm just I guess they figure I'm too old. Well, maybe you can give me a hand on this and like to John I need some action you want to tell me about it mr. Grimm you bent Atlantic Central hustle six gully jumpers a day up to Rochester Five hours after the 1008 leaves here last night She jerks up at Batavia so the clowns can water it down That's when the done again notices one of our brownies is busted open and half the jig is gone So right away. He whacked doodles a copper buster up the line Are you getting this I think so Translated you mean the breakman at Batavia found the boxcar had been broken into and half the cargo stolen and he phoned ahead to the Telegraph that's it all sorts of stuff on the car I don't know what all's gone yet. It was a make-up any kind of freight, you know I got the poodles over in the bullpen looking up the invoices to see exactly what's missing. It'll take a while good That'll help who is in charge of the loading here Andy Mattson been with us 19 years He inspected it and sealed it down himself. I talked to him already, but call him in if you like Well, I might want to see him later. What about the breakman in Batavia a gandy dancer ski to minkosky Nah, he couldn't have done it then highball only lingered there long enough to get water can unload a brownie in three minutes take more like three hours What are the stops did she make one six minutes at the junction 15 miles outside of here waiting for a hot shot Passes you to get by and all in all the trains stop 10 minutes at the most not long enough to unload a kitty car Engineer named a roper claims he spotted the dam in a red dress hanging around the yard just the afternoon And the boys at the roundhouse say the same dame was in asking questions about trains leaving said she was in my newspaper She give her name Ruth Smith. I checked no newspaper in town got any Ruth Smith working for her. Well, she's our tipster Let's get somebody out to look for it already got somebody out doing it Good now along the route up to Rochester between here and Batavia there There must be a highway running parallel to the track somewhere And whoever cracked into that box car had to get aboard at the junction Then tossed the stuff from the moving train and jump off somewhere this side of Batavia And there had to be a truck following along on the road to pick up the stuff in the dark You've been out there yet, mr. Grimm's now Kind of thought i'd wait around see what sort of bull workers the insurance companies have turned out these days I like you jolly. You're all right You figured how it was done fast Other guys that are hemmed and hard around ask and train crews questions. I already asked Well, what's next find out who did it? Kind of frisky, isn't it? I like that too Hey, um, have you got a car? I can borrow mr. Grimm's I've got a jeep and a chauffeur to go with who's the chauffeur me He said you might want me to help you. I bought the thing from army surplus I want to see if I got a bargain Expense account item four dollars 38 cents for gasoline Which went into a jeep that if grimm's and I use to follow the lonely stretch of old road that ran parallels of the atlantic central railroad tracks Two miles beyond the junction. We found heavy-duty tire marks which could have been made by a truck Which could have left the road then driven over the flats as far as the embankment to pick up freight which Could have been thrown from the moving train Following the right of way we found several such tire marks at several points turning off the road But no building nearby Finally at one place we found an unpainted shanty that stood barren and lonely against the sky It belonged to a man named bogartis big truck. You're dang right. I did mr. You're dang bootily doodle right woke me up. It did. Well, what does the truck look like? Do you remember what the truck looked like yellow yellow? It was all yellow seen it playing even though it was night You happen to notice the license number You kidding sonny. All right, forget it. But you happen to notice any lettering on the truck, mr. Bogartis Don't read never learn never believed in it. Nope Well, don't make no difference. So it wasn't nothing red on it anyhow Oh, the truck's usually got printing on them dang things making all that noise Grunting and heaving and waking a man out of his sleep Ain't had nothing like that since the army maneuvered here in 41 Are you going to stop it? Well, I hope so good. Do you happen to see who was driving the truck? Nope Do you know about what time it was here? Nope Do you happen to say anything to them? Nope Well, do you know in which direction it went from here? Yep Huh turned around and headed back for buffalo Which is exactly what we did back to buffalo Well, we began to look with the help of the police for a big yellow truck with no lettering on it We tried garages trucking concerns in any place big enough to hide such a truck. It wasn't an easy job, but it turned up Hello Tire right here. You got out of his car to fix the flat and saw here where it tumbled down Good stumble must be 30 feet anyhow. They're trying to get the driver out of the cab now. He may still be alive They're using a settling torches 10 minutes later the ambulance crew dragged the driver out of the twisted cab The interns worked on him for a short time and one of them straightened up handed me a billfold Well, here you are. His name is Blakey Blakey Rick's Blakey for the moment. He won't live another five minutes fractured skull neck broken If you've got any questions, they ask you better hurry. Thank you Blakey Blakey listen to me Listen, you haven't got along. We know this is all stolen cargo on your truck We want to know who worked with you Jake Get Jake Jake Jake who Jake Jake slugged me put it in gear and rolled me over to the side of the road Get him mr. Cup. Get him for doing this to me Stayed around the wrecked truck watching if grim's crew stacking the cargo And then I saw something that could have fallen out of Blakey's wallet when the intern handed it to me It was a card On one side was printed horseshoe bar and grill and there was an address underneath it But on the other side was written Jake eight o'clock Tuesday. He's always there The horseshoe bar and grill was short on lights and even shorter on drinks After a couple I signaled the bartender. Yeah Another one Sure Dame trouble pal I'm here to see Jake You should drink You've been in here tonight. That'll be 50 cents Jake hangs around here doesn't look the minute you walk in I look at your feet and I say to myself Flatty gumboots glim healed cops Not city hall type guy, but something else I say Something different that still spells law. I was asking about a guy named Jake something else. I say Maybe private people And I say if he's working he's got himself a bib And a bib means it don't come out of his pocket when he's around looking for somebody and asking for guys Will this help? Thanks Old Abe took a great picture And what was your asking about a guy named Jake sit tight chamis I'll tip you when he comes in An hour went by and about the time I was wondering if I was going to be able to write that five bucks off on the expense account The bartender slipped out from behind the bar and went through a door in the back mark private I finished my drink and strolled after him. He was just hanging up the phone as I walked in Oh, there's a lot of customers waiting to be served out front. Yeah, I want to get right back. Wait a minute Yeah, haven't we got some unfinished business? Well, yes and no I came back here to slip myself a quick smoke and the phone is ringing You never guess who it is Jake, what's his last name? How do I know? Across the bar a guy's just Jake or Sam around Anyhow, Jake says he ain't coming by tonight. He called you up to tell you that No, no, you see Jake says he lost his glasses when he was here last night. He was calm to ask if I found him Did you? No But Jake says that if I do find him I can send them over to the embassy hotel That's where he is Room 210 embassy hotel Where is that from here to block snort Thanks, sure sure anytime Anytime you got an expense account I walked over to the embassy hotel and naturally enough there was no one in room 210 named jake As a matter of fact, there was no room 210 But when I stepped outside and started back for the horseshoe bar and grill A pair of wide shoulders and a coat collar fell and stepped beside me He shoved something against my back. Let's show me kind of turn in here I'd blast you right here and you know it in the alley I want you should meet a friend of mine. Jake. How'd you guess? Okay, hold it Here he is Jake A tall thick figure with an odor of fine cologne around it stepped from the shadows His hat was down and this collar was up. He stood very close in front of me and asked Where do you want me? Who are you? I'll ask you first. I All right Prisking trench See who he is Everything became very quiet then except for one voice that belonged to a man who had died earlier that day I kept hearing it In just a moment we'll return to the second act of yours truly johnny duller, but first This wednesday night and every wednesday night over most of these same cbs stations You're invited to hear the bing cross the show Bing cross be with the music of john scott trotter the rhythm heirs ken carpenter and of course the top name star each week Is his special guest? Here's the show designed for the whole family a pleasant and diverting mixture of music and merriment Guided by the one and only bing cross be Plan now to make wednesday night cross be night on your listening schedule That's the bing cross be show every wednesday night on cbs And now with our star edmund o bryan, we return to the second act of yours truly johnny duller I was lying in a dirty alley with my face up against the cold brick wall And something warm was dripping down the back of my neck. I didn't move I couldn't It was a steady ringing in my head and my body seemed far away I struggled to my feet and headed for the man who had led me into this I've been beaten and slugged and frisked all because I talked to the wrong guy I looked for you on the bar. They told me you went home Now spit it out spit water. Does that remind you of anything? You tip jake off that I was looking for him. Why? Let go of me I can't talk like this if you can breathe you can talk Come on. Look jake's a steady customer of mine. I got a treat him, right? I never seen you before on my life What's jake's full name? What does he do? And why can I find him? I don't know you don't know what anything about him Except that he's a big black haired guy who dresses like a bookie flash He just comes in with some guys and drinks The name is jake samuels. He has a sidekick named french I don't even know his last name. What does jake do? I don't know You don't say nothing personal to me. What do you think he does? Maybe plays the horses books. How do I know? And you don't know where he lived Mr If he owed me a hundred dollar bar bill, I couldn't find his house It was late in my head hurt and I wanted to lie down somewhere So I made for the imperial hotel if greens had recommended I took a shower and polished off the drinks they sent up And I felt well enough to call grims again But before I lifted the phone he walked into my room with some interesting information Sorry you got beat up johnny It's all right. I'm covered with accident insurance, you know I wish I could help you with this jake samuels fella, but I never heard of him Thanks, anyway, but I'll I'll run him down sooner or later. I do have something to mind up johnny Yeah, we checked all that cargo that was found in the right truck and I don't know exactly what it means, but everything was there except one barrel What was there a barrel and listen to this of all things a barrel of jeweler's rouge The stuff they use for gem polishing. That's what an intelligent friend of mine told me It was ensured that when I get right here Two hundred and forty seven dollars now. Why would anybody want that? Well, who sent it? Uh jeweler by the name of Ralph Morton Morton jewelry company 1312 Shenandoah street Sent to michael adelson adlson 177 carling terrace boston mass Adelson yeah, adelson or adelson norm johnny Not sure Something rings a bell Thanks a lot grims I'll have a talk with that jeweler ralph morton in the morning In the morning I rented a small car and started for the morton jewelry company on Shenandoah street I found it in the middle of the block a small hungry-looking neighborhood jewelry store But the most interesting thing about it was standing in a doorway across the street from it A middle-aged man He was a plant if ever I saw one I ignored him and entered the store It was a small man with thinning brown hair bent over the insides of a watch And a snappy-looking blonde job dusting counters about four paces away I spoke to the watchmaker. He took out his eye lens and looked up Yes Two days ago you shipped some jeweler's rouge to michael adelson and boston Yes, I I did What about it? Well, it was hijacked out of the freight car yesterday Clumsy this morning Hijacked you say stolen Somebody wanted it pretty bad. They passed up a lot of other stuff more valuable like Who are you johnny dollar insurance investigator with the shippers indemnity company. Oh, it was insured, of course Well, you should know for two hundred and forty seven dollars. I'm sorry. It was stolen I presume your company will have to pay for it. We don't mind paying if we know what we're paying for What do you mean by that? Why would anybody want to steal rouge? I'm sure I don't know whoever did it went to a lot of expense and trouble and they murdered a man for good measure Andrea Why must you always be knocking things down? I'm sorry, mr. Morden my hands. Well be more careful You say they killed a man mr. Dollar Surely they did not do this over my little shipment of jeweler's rouge. It sounds stupid. I know but it was done Why did you send rouge all the way to boston to michael adelson when you could buy the same stuff there? Oh, no, you're wrong. This is a private formula. I developed myself I sell it to a number of widely scattered people. They seem to prefer my mixture Who is michael adelson a designer of expensive jewelry his reputation in the field is first class. Well, mr. Morden That's all that's all for today, but i'll be back All the time I was in there to blonde miss phillips kept her blue eyes and her pinky is focused on me My common sense spoke to my vanity and told it to play dead She was interested in more than my profile Outside I spotted the plant across the street I thought he was growing in the doorway until I approached him He ducked clumsily and walked away with such Obvious nonchalance that I was tempted to follow him and I did To a corner drug store with a good view of the morton jewelry company We shared a joining stools while he cut into a butterscotch sundae Any uh a little more butterscotch on this please you got the 20 cent special What do you want for 20 cents? Butterscotch Okay Okay, I don't pay for it. Anyway, what's the job? What's it? Huh? Oh, it's you uh feed it Yeah, we're both in the same racket. Oh insurance Are you working on the arccadia job too? No, what's the arccadia job? What are you working on a railroad hijack? What's the arccadia job? Ben Sanchez is my name. How do you do that? How do you do? Yeah, I'm working independent. I I don't take divorce cases Me and two months. I haven't had a decent job But I got myself a little old idea You see three months ago a wholesale jewelry house was pried open thing And 250,000 worth of uncut stuff disappeared so far none of it has showed up anywhere And somebody will pay a lot of money if it's found Especially an outfit called the eerie mutual fidelity. What's mortons there, johnny? Well, I I could be wrong, but I seen that guy operate for a number of years Oh, thanks. Thanks a little jewelry store stuck off in a forgotten part of the city You know buys watches for 10 bucks and sells them for 12 lots of guys do that Yeah, yeah, but they don't own a little old 85 thousand dollar house in the long acre section with two new cars in the garage Do you think morton has the arccadia jewels? I think he's been a fence for a long time Has been nothing good defense since the arccadia job He has a record he has Say what they steal of his from a railroad car Just some jewelers ruse that's all Oh Yeah, maybe i'm wasting my time Well, I hope you Pardon me A blonde came out of the jewelry store with a coat and hat on and climbed in an automobile park down the street I made for my u drive-at model and followed her at eight cents a mile I was out about a buck 25 before she shut off a key and coasted into a curb I went past her around the block parked the car And sauntered back to the house she had entered It was just a house nothing special a few more bricks maybe flagstones instead of cement for a walk That was all I stood looking straight at the house when it turned out. I should have been looking straight behind me Why don't you kind of put your hands behind your neck? That's it You won't need this heater seems to me. I've heard that voice before and it was just as unpleasant Now, why don't you kind of walk into the house? I would have been amused to know that I kind of wanted He would have been amused to know that I kind of wanted to get into that house as much as he kind of wanted me to We went up the walk arm in arm. He opened the door and graciously allowed me to enter first The living room was empty, but I could hear voices plainly in the next room More than you've ever seen before I took a long time looking for two guys Oh, what a lousy couple of chisels I could stuff with Hey, it's me French. I've got a visitor. Is there nobody you trust in this world? Hey, it's me We stood there trench beaming and me frowning and they came into the room The guy was big black haired and overdressed the way the bartender had tagged him It was Jake Samuel's all right and hanging on his elbow giving him a hot ear was the jeweler's name Samuel's wasn't in too good a frame of mind I'll blast it all over town And you won't be able to touch me because I got protection. Now will you shut up? I got to talk with a friend Johnny dollard jake is Welcome to my house Just the same. It's too bad you had to come. This isn't exactly the day we're receiving Well, I work weekends and this is the only time I could make it Jake will do the talking What is it you want to see me about last night and the night before? Oh You mean when we roughed you up that and the Atlantic central job and ricks plaky whom you killed at the wheel of his truck Then there's the little matter of your blonde girlfriend here I saw her in morton's jewelry shop She couldn't possibly be the phony reporter who was hanging around the railroad yards or uh, could she shake this guy really? Shut up. Shut up. Is that all you can say? Yeah, is that all you can say shut up? Well, listen shut up. I won't You owe me 45 000 dollars. What are you talking in front of him for what do I care about him? That's your worry Five thousand dollars for three hundred thousand worth of jewelry Go on now get out of here. Take what you got and consider it lucky. We took all the risk now beat it All right All right, I'll beat it When I come back you're gonna wish you what did jake Go on yet When she reached the door she pulled a gun from somewhere spun and trench got both slugs He dropped groaning to the floor and I kicked his gun into a corner Jake samuels stood frozen to the rug looking at the barrel of the automatic. She held You going crazy or something for down that gun They shut up to me now Go on say it You yellow two-bit woman be angry or you're making a big mistake. No Am I going to get my 45 000 or not? But I uh, I don't have that much in the house. Well, then call somebody and get it I'll come up with some jewelry. Yes tomorrow tomorrow. I promise not tomorrow today now Yes, phillips. I'm talking to him Don't you get any ideas? Look, there's only one way for you to get out of this and that's to kill everybody in this room If you leave me alive, I'll track you down. That's what I get paid for if you can lecture I know what i'm doing. If you leave trench or jake alive, they'll get you too. You bet we will I'm so scared Come on jake the money right now. You've only got a petty crime against you do any more and it'll be murder You'll last a month if that long. What are you getting there? Give me these two guys You kidding turn them over to me and I'll go the limit and helping you I'll forget the 5000s you got from them. The most you can get is a year in the county 5000 clear is good dough What happens to them they wanted for murder? I'll say in my report. You turn them over to me. Maybe you won't get anything Are you level now? Of course he isn't andrea. I'm as level as a guy can get come on Give me the gun miss phillips. I don't know It's that or a murder rap Come on stay away from me. It's freedom or murder. Which one do you want? I give me the gun Yeah You take it. I just want to do this anyway from the start This isn't living this is This is dying every day You're lucky You found it out in time miss phillips You know Except for the guy in the gas station Nobody ever called me miss phillips And that polled him is the way it all wound up. I called the police and they took things in hand The jewels of course were buried in the barrel of the jeweler's rouge and miss phillips knowing that morton was unloading them in boston Sold the information to jake and friend for $50,000 which she didn't get The arcadia wholesale company jewels were in the stuff the police picked up Oh, by the way, you'll notice one item on the expense account four dollars and 85 cents That was a gift a foam rubber seat for eith grimm's surplus jeep Total expenses three hundred and twelve dollars Yours truly johnny dollar Yours truly johnny dollar stars edmund o' brian in the title role and was written by e jack newman and john michael haze With music composed and conducted by leith stevens Edmund o' brian can currently be seen starring in the harry m popkin united artist production Doa Featured in our cast were ted decorsia pat mcgee and herald duran fourth john vayner bill buchay gene baits and clayton post Yours truly johnny dollar is produced and directed by heimei del vai Join us again next week at the same time when from hollywood edmund o' brian returns in another transcribed adventure of Yours truly johnny dollar