 Johnny dollar Pat Fuller Johnny at Universal Adjustment Bureau. Well, hi Pat. Huh Pat Fuller. Did you say that's right? Well, how come what well Pat McCracken's always been my contact over there to your place five or six years now Haven't you heard Pat's retired retired? Yeah, at his age. Well, he's only about let me see 50 on the nose then here since he was 25 So now he's often gone with a real nice pension from the company son of a gun Well, I always didn't know I was in the wrong end of this business You want a job as a company man? Come on over. You can live long enough during a nice soft pension too If that is you'll do the same thing he did that I'm doing. What do you mean? Well, you know instead of keeping your own hours traveling around all over the country all the time New places new faces lots of excitement. Well, you'd have to be tied down to a desk Nine to five day after day month after month year after year Yeah, but think of the advantages if Christmas off and new years and the 4th of July Well now let's uh and all sorts of free life and health insurance and other benefits a couple of weeks off with pay every year Let's forget it Pat. I think I'll stay freelance and free. Whatever you say Johnny Anyhow it's McCracken gone. I've taken over what's on your mind and I hope it's something that'll get me really away for a change Don't ask for it For this things over you may find yourself having to cover the whole country from stem to stern Oh, it sounds intriguing. What is this thing one of the oldest and simplest rackets that ever hit the insurance business Look one of the hardest to catch up with tell me all bunch. Come on over here. I will All right. I'm on my way Work brings you a mandel kramer in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly johnny dollar Expense account submitted by a special investigator johnny dollar to the universal adjustment bureau home office heartford connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the be or not to be matter Expense account item one a dollar twenty for a cab to universal adjustment bureau down on the square Pat fuller was about forty i'd say and in spite of his easy casual manner was obvious He didn't miss a trick very much like his predecessor pat mccracken Wow glad to see you johnny. How are you pat? Uh, fine sit down. Let me tell you all about it. Okay Figure out thanks Now as you know johnny here at universal adjustment We handle claims for a list of insurance companies as long as you're on i know all over the country every state in the union Uh-huh, but only the sizable claims the little ones for a few hundred a few thousand dollars Well, it's cheaper for the companies to handle them to pay them off themselves Sure However, they're all required to inform us about them even if they involve only pennies I see But unless there's something unusual about those small settlement reports They're simply glanced at and then filed away. Well now I take it you run across something unusual. I sure have you see them here Thirteen reports and claims paid out by thirteen different companies the smallest for two hundred and fifty dollars The largest thanks to an impulsive darn fool hotel manager is for over four thousand You said for one of the oldest rackets in the business false injury Like the one I busted out on the coast a while back with some old wino was carefully run down His leg broken then the insurance split with him and something like that These reported injuries were all the results of false Sounds like the hotel or department store keeper then it is Hotel yeah Couple goes to a nice hotel registers just for one night The man carefully explains to the clerk that they have important business in some other town the following day Sure Just before checkup time they casually walk across the lobby And she suddenly trips on the edge of a rug or slips on the polished floor That's out of yellow. I know the rest he yells for the manager holds her up to the room by the time the manager gets there She's putting on the agony act and they threaten to sue the pants off the hotel and raise a big scene right They usually demand around a hundred thousand threatened to call in some local lawyer They just happen to know yes and the manager all excited and hoping to avoid a lot of adverse publicity as well as a lawsuit Has them sign a release Pay them something in cash whatever they can talk them into and they're on their merry way pat Why don't these hotel managers ever learn to hold on to people like that and make them undergo a medical examination? This pair is clever johnny in more ways than one How do you mean well the woman usually slips on a spot of oil or grease Who's to prove that they put it there themselves after all nobody's watching them every second Simply because nobody knows who they are and what they're up to yeah, that's it's a mean But also johnny in every one of these cases Some doctors been called and made a quick examination and confirmed the fact that there was an injury and insisted that they stay around for a while No, no, like I said, they've already established the fact that they have to be in some other city on business Thousands of dollars at stake that if they're made to stick around then no really soon 13 in a row you say it's all over the country and all within less than four months About gone a pet if there really is an injury in each case at least enough to fool a doctor I know that's a puzzle of me too. Well, it doesn't sound like the same couple then doesn't but it is I'm sure of it now Why well, johnny, you know as well as I do that most crooks develop a sort of pattern Whether they themselves realize it or not Well, you know that some of them set a pattern deliberately, you know leave a regular trademark just to show off right or just to make the cops look silly exactly Now they haven't used the same names each time. Oh, no, no, of course not But what they have done now, what about their descriptions? Is it covered in these reports? Oh, yes But they they don't mean very much because one time she's a blonde the next time a brunette and then a redhead You know and the same thing goes for him thick glasses one time unless dash another clean shave in the next and so on But look here I have a picture of them. Oh, how'd you get this photographer in a hotel lobby in chicago? Taking pictures of a model showing awesome clothes. They happen to be in the background. See There we are. Yeah Oh fine, this this will be of help Even if they even if they fool around with the disguise it to But now to get back to this pattern that you mentioned really the showoff element as you call it Yeah, the home address they give when they register fictitious one I don't know, but it's always the same. What is it 21st street and fairmont avenue. Where Philadelphia PA Well, if it isn't fictitious, it might give us 21st and Fairmont in Philadelphia. That's right. Oh, oh great. What that's something to work on. All right Pat this case may be tougher than you think Could even be dangerous. Oh, that is if that address ever really was his the man. Why johnny? What is it? 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Because of the way they change their appearance somewhat each time And because they're pros and they're smart They'd get wind of a fact that they're being looked for and duck under cover Maybe even try some other caper until the heat died down After all if they're clever enough to stand a doctor's examination Because I still don't get that part of it. I don't either anyhow to really nail them down It looks to me like they'll have to be caught in the act How can you possibly know where they'll operate next with this fake injury racket? Now you said they've been all over the country look for yourself Boston Philadelphia, Houston, Albuquerque, Chicago, Miami Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, Portland, Indiana Seems I like that name part of a pattern. I don't know go ahead Seattle, Wichita, Kansas City and Minneapolis, Minnesota And I'll be darned if I can see any pattern That's a pretty smart to move around so much Be a lot easier to figure the next move if they covered one area even one state at a time There might be a chance of finding some plan in their movements There was only a relationship between these cities or even some alphabetical order Something to latch on to a pattern. Yeah some pattern aside from their method of operation Of course that ridiculous address a state penitentiary yet Maybe there is It's only a wild hunch, but Sometimes those are the ones that pay off. What are you thinking of can I borrow this picture of them? Sure and a list of the towns they've hit so far, of course now take it There's no question about my being on expensive. Of course you are All right What are you going Johnny? What are you going to do? You think they'd like to see me in the state pen? Spent account item two 2410 for cab to Bradley field a plane to the city of brotherly love and then the cab to 21st street in Fairmont Avenue eastern penitentiary One of the assistant wardens was all cooperation and after studying his records for a few minutes He came up with some highly valuable information. Yes, mr. Dothery. It's harry bain. All right. There's no question of it Harry bain finished out his term for burglary only a little over a year ago burglary. Yeah, and I must confess I'm not at all surprised that he's operating again Also, I'm not surprised that he's changed his type of operation. Why do you say that would be a very clever criminal? If for no other reason and that he was able to escape conviction for so long He had an arrest record a mile long, you know, no, I didn't know yes all over the country Chicago to houston to seattle to miami all over I see but they could never convict him Because always before he'd pull a job. He didn't list the services or some local mouthpiece go on Yeah, he'd have an alibi rig before he made a move It was only by actually catching him in the act with the goods in his possession They were able to nail him down here in pennsylvania In other words what you're saying to me is that I'd better catch him and that female partner catch him in the act Yes But are you sure that he and his partner have pulled all these fake injury jobs? You're thinking of a doctor's opinion each time that there really was some injury to the woman a really sprained ankle or a busted knee or whatever Of course After all recovery from something like that some 13 times in only four months. I know I know it bugs me too Unless you can definitely prove there's no actual injury after one of her falls and regardless of a doctor's opinion mind you In other words, Mr. In other words, what and the first thing I have to do is find out where they're going to pull their little stump next and be there when they do Yes All right, then Maybe that's where you can help me. Wow You have a list of all the cities where this harry bain operated Before you got him. Yeah, I think Boston Houston Fort now wait just just one minute now Just let me um Let me check your list against this list of mine All right now go ahead. Okay Boston Houston Portland, Oregon jack portland, Maine and portland, indiana, right Miami wait a minute, huh? Yeah, all right. Go ahead your Orleans. Oh chicago Seattle wichita Minneapolis albuquerque little rock Duluth, yeah Kansas City And here in philadelphia good Then there is a pattern What mr. Dove? You gave me the same 13 cities that I have on my list All of them places where he already had a contact with a crooked lawyer from his burglary days. Oh Also, you gave me three new ones New Orleans Little Rock and Duluth Towns that he hasn't hit yet with this new racket But i'm betting that he will hit them new Orleans little rock and Duluth right And if I can be there when he tries Excuse me Yeah, is mr. Johnny dollar there warden? Yes, he is there just minutes. It's for you mr. Dollar. Oh, thanks Johnny dollar Pat Fuller Johnny They've done it again. Where little rock, arkansas. Good. Good. Sure is Pat. I'm on my way. What? Where to? I'll take your choice new Orleans or Duluth, minnesota. What? The most effective aid to needy families abroad is given each year through the religious organizations of america They are so efficient that a single dollar will send more than 300 pounds of food to feed hungry miles in lands overseas But our religious groups go much further besides food. They send clothing medicine and bedding They help support hospitals and clinics and develop self-help projects Keep faith with those in need abroad Give through your faith You Item three Two and a quarter for a cab to the velvue strafflin And there I ran up item four 181 dollars and 40 cents in phone calls To the manager of every sizable hotel in both Duluth and new Orleans I'd got a list from one of the big hotel associations that was only too glad to help Item five 61 dollars even for all the books magazines and papers. I could read and for plenty of room service I didn't even go out for meals after three days at it I just about had my fill of doing nothing but reading eating and sleeping but then Johnny dollar, this is miss. You shot Devereux at the hotel that we leave in new Orleans miss. You dollar Yes, I promised to call you if anyone from out there in pennsylvania happened to register here in our splendid hotel Yes, we now have with us a couple by the name of chatsworth Monsieur and madame henry chatsworth. Oh, so it's chatsworth now, but they're such lovely people from here in philadelphia Yes, but they're such lovely people and they gave 21st and ferriman is their address here Yes, they did but they're such lovely people mr. Dollar I just refused to believe they're those horrid rascals that you telephone now you just hang onto them I'll grab the first plane. I can hang on to them What but they're only staying overnight. I know That's what he thinks Item six four dollars for a cab item seven 81 45 plane fare But the only flight I could get didn't leave until the week small hours of the morning So it wasn't till after breakfast that we finally pulled in new Orleans Item eight another four bucks for a cab to the hotel the police And there the prissy little manager suddenly became a real problem And I've had you this year dollar, but I simply refused to believe that that nice monsieur and madame chatsworth are those Horrible, but you may be quite there now please be Mr. Denver or if you're only a private investigator You have no reason to follow that only to well and for that reason alone, sir I must refuse your admission to this when you please listen If you wish to call in the police have them stationed their men about half a bunch of police Swarming all over this place harry bain who calls himself chats would would smell them a mile away He in the name would would simply take a powder at these that would save my hotel for many embarrassing situations Which is all I care about sure and would let them scot-free again And I simply refused for these are such lovely you said that I meant it too, sir Now if that's all missus on All right All right, mr. Devereaux you almost make me wish they would knock you over I have told you simply refuse to believe yes Now must I order you off the premises? You mind if I stop at your bar long enough for a drink? I think I need one not at all But I should be watching you. Oh, I'm sure you shall Oh, good morning, mr. Chatsworth madame chatsworth You're up early this morning Now I dust behind a pillar and listen. Oh, yes, monster. We plan to have breakfast in your lonely Snaps is a very conversation that you can't and I just pray that devereaux wouldn't tip them off Well, we'd like to stay mr. Devereaux, but we've got to leave for new york Big business deal up there and of me and the missus aren't there right on time to sign some papers It could cost us a fortune. I mean really big money. Yeah, so we're all packed and we'll be leaving right after breakfast Oh, I'm so sorry, but of course I understand sure. I knew you would well come along dear. Yes Henry. Oh my my hungry Now miss you dollah miss you dollah While the manager looked for me in the bar I ducked across to the other side of the lobby grabbed the bell boy and shoved a five-spot into his hot little hand But for watcher mr. And mrs. Chatsworth the number of their suite Well, it's 214 but may I ask good now working you and I have a little talk all alone But even a 10 spot wouldn't persuade him to part with his uniform for the rest of the morning So, uh, I'm afraid I had to use other tactics So I made sure he was comfortable in the linen closet where I tied him up gagged and left him Then grabbing a handful of towels I ran up the back stairs to the second floor where thanks for the borrowed bell hops uniform And it was a pretty sad fit a chambermaid let me in the 214 The Chatsworth luggage was packed all right. They were all ready to take off But I had to find some clue as to how they passed the medical examination as one of the so-called Accidents so I carefully went through the bags one at a time Now what did I find? You've never believed it. It was nothing more less than I heard a key in the door so I slipped into the bedroom and under a bed Oh Henry, this is killing me Killing me now. I know it honey and boy you get that manager up here in the doctor too. You hear me? Okay, now where is it? We got to act fast here in this suitcase Henry good now pull down your stocking what? What's the matter? I thought I'd lock that suitcase whenever mind that don't worry about it now here Okay, you're ready. I was ready as I ever am I guess I just wish it didn't hurt. You ought to be used to it, but um Here we go Didn't hurt a little you wouldn't sound like it Now that'll do it Now go in the bathroom, slap on some eye-dye to hide the mark that they made then lie down on the bed Yeah, okay. How good is it taking already? Looks like the worst brain ankle that manager ever saw Man if you brought a doctor that they put on a mask could have won a Oscar Are you old fool didn't you hear what I said? She isn't in new york with me by tonight on that business deal it could cost us a million So if you make her stay here, I'll sue you too the way I'm going to sue this hotel for that slippery floor down there in the lobby, please Mr. Jazz would not so loud. You know what's good for you saw bones You'll give her something to ease the pain so we can catch our plane then you'll get out of here Please doctor you better and hers for you mr. Devereux. Yes, sir Well, I've heard plenty about cases like this about you hotel guys being so careless with slippery floors And I'm going to sue you for $50,000. Please mr. Chatsworth. Okay, okay. You've been nice to us So I'll make it 10 or 15,000. Oh, no, you know a lawyer by the name of Frankie Tobello That there is he gets me 10 grand for this mr. Chatsworth Yeah, perhaps the injury isn't as bad as it looks and if we pay the doctor's bill and say Uh What you out of your mind, I don't want a lawsuit or the publicity and I'm only trying to um to uh to A thousand perhaps In cash immediately now listen I've got you over a barrel and you know it. So you're going to pay for this and plenty Now make me a decent offer price. Is that allowed? 2000 bucks cash immediately But as Devereux the poor excited sucker was about to go downstairs and get it I crawled out from my uncomfortable spot under the bed and you know something Henry Bain and the woman gave up without a struggle when they found out who I was and what I was doing there And the manager when I pulled the little glass jar out of their suitcase and showed him How they made their phony accident look so real Real enough to fool a doctor Oh, believe it or not the shock was so much for me almost fainted so That was that And the expense account total comes to 471 dollars and Wait a minute. I forgot to tell you about the trick Their little trick for making that ankle swell up and look like the worst sprain on record You see that jar the one that Bain had opened and then clapped against her ankle Contained exactly three nasty little yellow jackets B's Yes clever Yours truly Johnny dollar Now here is our star to tell you about next week's story next week one of the nicest killers. I've ever met Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar Yours truly Johnny dollar is written by jack john stone produced and directed by brunazarato junior music supervision by apple huber Johnny dollar is played by mandel kramer Also featured in our cast where john thomas is path puller Ivor francis is the hotel manager robert griden as harry bain alias chasworth Goodwood warner is mrs. chasworth and bob donnelly as the assistant ward Be sure to join us next week same time same station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar art hannah speaking