 I'm now for Edmund O'Brien as yours truly Johnny Dallas Edmund O'Brien souring in another adventure of America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny dollar at insurance Investigation Johnny dollar is only an expert at making out his expense account. He's an absolute genius Expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny dollar to the great Colombian life insurance company The following is an accounting of my expenditures during the investigation of the circumstances surrounding the murder of your policy holder Loyal B Martin or how to take a vacation in Fairfield County Since account item one three dollars and twenty cents mileage from Hartford, Connecticut to the country of state of the deceased I draw up a long cement driveway towards the Moseley and Pipe Manor house. There were rolling green lawns liberally sprinkled with statuary And the thought occurred to me that if he had spent much of his life here the late Mr. Martin was most fortunate. He'd feel right at home in a cemetery Yes, my name is dollar. I'm here to see Mrs. Martin. Oh yes, Mrs. Martin. I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you The widow has gone shopping the day after the death of her husband Something attractive and morning clothes, I'm sure. Well, what time is she expected back? I have no idea It shouldn't be long Do you mind if I come in and wait? You'll forgive my asking young man, but just what is your business here at Loyal Haven I was sent here by the insurance company Oh, why? I'm here right in here I'm Mrs. Tomkins the housekeeper, Mr. Dollar I was with Mr. Martin for over 30 years. He was a wonderful man This furniture also looks like it might have been with Mr. Martin for over 30 years. Victorian isn't it? Yeah pure Loyal Mr. Martin that is was an expert on the Victorian period Thank you I'm Mr. Dollar. I I suppose you'll think it's indelicate of me at this time, but About loyal's insurance His policies it did they yes, Mr. Tomkins. They did one of his policies leaves you a nice sizable amount But before you start counting it, maybe you and I had better have a little understanding Yeah, well, I'm not here to represent the payoff department. I'm here to investigate the murder Oh Well, I see Yes before the company pays off They want to make sure that among the beneficiaries They don't pay off the murderer because they they really don't have to do it I didn't realize when I did do a lot of people, you know, that's the way quite a few good murders are wasted Yeah, I suppose you're right Well, that's what you're here for I suppose you want to talk to the police Lieutenant Markwood is in the library That's where it happened Oh library, huh? Well, that might help. I can't find any other answers. I can always try looking some up in a book Which way do I go the door just across the hall? Thank you And water hole the only thing missing was old queen victoria herself Even the musty odor clinging to the green bells that seem to have been passed down through the centuries There was a brace of moth moth eating pheasants on the wall and a bouquet of moth eating flowers under glass on a marbles upside table The library was the same But there were three things that looked out of place a An old suit of armor b a glass case filled with new well polished sporting rifles and shotguns and c A very gruff looking lieutenant of the police who eyed me as I came in and who are you? Oh here's my little breath saver Oh, yeah, johnny dollar. He told me you'd be here Well, I've told everybody else about it. Tell you don't touch anything. They want to re fingerprint the whole room Okay, okay. What's your fine lieutenant nothing but the cadaver with two bullet holes in his back Haven't got a caliber report from ballistics yet. Have you an estimated time of departure? Yeah, the coroner says martin died after dinner last night Uh-huh Anything to go on just the usual faith hope and suspicion His wife too young and too pretty for an ugly old buck like martin must have married him for his money Then there's that housekeeper sarah tomkins. Yeah, I met her on the way in and she used to be the old man's intended from What I can find out probably jealousy the young wife Then there's the brother marty. He showed up a few weeks ago broken brooding probably in love with the young wife And then there's nick baladi a private detective who hired himself out his martin's bodyguard Bodyguard, huh? No doubt also in love with the young wife. Could be Who's your choice except for the fact that there are only two bullets. I think they all did it The nose through which lieutenant mark would talk was a long one and in more ways than one a horn of plenty For out of it had poured enough motives and suspects to furnish a dozen murders I started through this cast of characters And found that all of them had very little to say and didn't want to say it The first I dug up was the bodyguard my brother investigator nick baladi as he returned from a horseback ride I had to have you on the case dollar police have tied my hands They told me to stay out of it but to stick around have you gotten the ideas Everybody seems to think it was an inside job that somebody in the household did it I'm not so sure the reason I was around was because old man martin made too many dollars and too many enemies doing it But that's only my opinion Why don't you talk to the old boy's younger brother marty? I found marty living the life of riley He was upstairs in his room cuddled up to a 20 year old bottle of brandy Which was still underage to be around as the kind of book he was reading Yeah, I'll tell you something taller My brother and I never did get along You'd find that out. Anyway, why'd you come back here marty? Because loyal's little bride joyan sent for me She was afraid of him and she didn't know if he was on to her was he About that you'll have to talk to joyan Joyan didn't get home until three o'clock in the afternoon I caught up with her 20 minutes later as she came dripping out of the swimming pool The suit she was wearing would have gotten her pinched on the riviera Refreshing. Oh, it certainly is. Oh, it taught me that tolly. Yeah surely here mrs. Martin joyan. I hate formality Who are you? Well, I'm from the insurance company here to find out whether you killed your husband or not Good for you mr. Dollar. That's what I like Men who get right down to the point I was told you were here. Oh Nobody told me about you. Come on over and learn. I want to sit down here in the sun Here you may end the fly swatter. Okay Come on sit down here beside me We get too warm flip off his shirt. Oh, thank you Well, suppose we start talking business marty tells me you sent for him to come here because you were afraid of your husband I'll come Well, I knew marty before I knew loyal Matter of fact, he's the one who introduced me to What do you call a dead husband you call him unlucky? I guess Anyway, for the purposes of this conversation, I'll know who you mean if you just say husband But you didn't answer my question. I meant were you afraid of your spouse? And if so, why? Yes, I was afraid of him Oh, I might as well tell you mr. Dollar. I want to be frank with you The only thing you loyal didn't have to offer me with love I seem to be a girl who needs just that Frankly, I I tried to make up the deficit Mrs. Tompkins the housekeeper thought to it. That's my husband found out about it And then on it would like having with a madman So ended my confession So beginner for my suspicion What about this housekeeper until I came along? She always thought that the lawyer would wind up marrying her Don't get me wrong I realized that I'm still the best jury bait around if you kill them You might make some headway with a self-defense plea Thanks I remember that just in case this thing gets messy for me and it shows signs I'm gonna spend what's left of my free time enjoying myself Well, that won't sound good to a jury, but it sounds good to me If I spend too much time around here I might wind up having to plead self-defense myself. Oh From me? No I'm not breathing, sir I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to keep two eyes on four people Reading from left to right brother Marty stayed in his room finishing his book and his brandy Nick Bellotti the bodyguard with nobody to guard Got back in his horse and canted off into the sunset The joyous widow joy and locked herself in a room and all I could get through the keyhole Was the sound of a light and lovely snore I couldn't tell whether it was the genuine article or not Having no way of checking I picked up the trail of sarah tomkins the housekeeper She at least was apparently up to no good I found her in the library doing just what lieutenant mark would have told her not to do Smearing the surfaces of mr. Martin's desk with a dust rag and as anybody knows you can't fingerprint a dust rag Hey, cut it out Those are the police private fingerprints you're messing up I was doing nothing of the sort I'm dusting his desk I always do it at this time of day get out of here. You don't belong in here. Keep your wig on mrs. Tomkins I'll not be told what to do by outsiders Everything was all right until outsiders started coming in So wasn't for outsiders loyal to still be alive first that girl Then his brother and that detective now it's the police and you Why did any of you have to come here? Why couldn't you leave us alone? I'll calm down And what are you two love birds up to it's all right lieutenant, I'll tell you about it later All right, but get her out of here. I've got some looking to do privately Take her down to a room and then come back. You mean you got something hot It ain't cold. Okay, mrs. Tomkins. Come on, but I haven't finished in there Come on. You can get it later. It's just time for you to take a little rest before dinner But I never rest this time of day. He didn't like me too mrs. Tomkins Come on. Tell me really why were you wiping off that desk? Both police this morning Scattered white powder all over his desk. He would have been furious with me. He hated any car The shots had come from the library and that's where I went but not fast enough By the time I got there lieutenant markwood was dead and whoever had done the shooting was gone Apparently through an open window Mark would still clutch the shotgun. He'd grabbed out of the gun case and hadn't had a chance to use Two things had just died in that room The lieutenant and the hot piece of evidence. He'd never had the chance to pass on to me In just a moment we return to the second act of johnny duller but first The cream of the wit and the best of the music which arthur godfrey brings you in the daytime on cbs Can now be heard on godfrey's digest a new saturday evening show heard on most of these same cbs stations Listen tomorrow night And hear the week's fastest flashes of the godfrey humor the top song sung by janette davis and bill laurence The finest singing of the mariners arthur godfrey's digest and the goldberg are the latest addition to cbs's great saturday nights Now with our star edmund o'brien we return to the second act of yours truly johnny duller What are you doing now? I'm looking for what there seems to be a shortage of around here bellotti clues You don't mind where you look do you rule number one don't get caught frisking dead cops forget about it bellotti, will you? Maybe I can suffer from lapse of memory for you sometimes. That's a deal Got any idea what you're looking for? No But whatever it was it was important enough to get him killed I'd hope maybe there'd be something in his notebook for instance any luck. Well very little at the brand new book only one notation in it Here it is Check tattooing diameter recheck penetration What do you make of that? It's too scientific for me. I must skip case and divorce type detective myself All I know is you'd better put that book back in his pocket and leave it there. Yeah, I guess you're right A nice timing bellotti and remember thanks for the loss of memory. Forget it. See what happened. What's going on? Lieutenant markwood who did it? Dealers choice so far the deal is the only one who knows first my brother now lieutenant markwood There'll be real trouble about this johnny shall I call the police drop the innocent access from all column No, maybe I better do it marty if everybody will stop pleading not guilty by wanting to call the police I'd like to get a word in the police have already been called If you'll get out of here, I'd like to try earning my salary If I had had longer ears and more soulful eyes I would have been all bloodhound because I could sniff out the first of the trail The smell of court I told me that lieutenant markwood's killer and I'd have been inside the room when he fired Or just outside with the weapon pointed through the still open window Outside the grass formed a deep wet rug right up to the house and smothered any immediate hopes I've had a finding footsteps but 10 feet away. I had better luck Array of light from inside spotlighted something that looked like it might be a star witness It was a 32 caliber of alba I scooped it up with my handkerchief and went back through the open window to look it over Under the light I checked six empty chambers and that crimson smear on the walnut grip Somebody was feeding me a herring. It sure was red, but it wasn't blood It was lipstick I'd like to introduce myself dollar. I'm sergeant norm mcdougal. How are you sergeant? Ah poor markwood. Thank the lord. He didn't have any wife and kids. I'm glad to hear that cops usually do Well, it's one good thing about it when the police officer goes There's plenty of them that lives on to fight back All the police in the world you can throw in the private ones too sergeant. Thanks dollar And now maybe I'd better take your statement. Well, it won't take long I heard the shots from the hallway and I came back He was killed either from inside the room or just outside the window I didn't get a look at the killer, but I found what might be the murder gun. Here it is. What's that handkerchief? 32 caliber. Yeah, how does that match up with the gun that killed old man martin? Do you know? Same caliber I wonder what he was doing with this shotgun It ain't loaded and markwood knew better than to wave an unloaded gun in the face of a full one Did you get anything else out of ballistics sergeant? Headache Dollar what we got from ballistics don't add up with what we got from autopsy. Well, how's that? Those two slugs ended martin's body an inch and a half apart But according to the shallow penetration, they were fired from a distance of 300 yards Now do you know anybody who could do that kind of shooting with a 32? That's pretty fancy shooting Could it have been done with a stationary mount? Not a chance the body would have started falling after the first shot and you can't re-aim a stationary mount that fast Yeah Yeah, you're right You know, I didn't have a chance to spend much time with markwood before he got it. So I I don't have much to work on Do you got anything to spare? Just a lot of routine confusion so far You know yourself dollar you take four witnesses. You're bound to get at least two different stories Two of the people that heard the shooting when martin got killed last night, so they heard two shots The other two weird witnesses said they heard one The only thing the whole four agree on is that they didn't see anything. Well, that sounds familiar Thanks anyway, sergeant sure anytime. Hey sam Take this gun into town tell ballistics to run it through for finger print and check it against those slugs the martin case I want to report right away I hitched the ride with that gun into the ballistics department while waiting for the test to be made I asked some questions and I came up with a real brain buster Despite the fact that the penetration report said that martin had been shot from a distance of 300 yards His skin and clothing had been tattooed with powder Indicating the shots had been fired at close range The tree that little puzzler put me up would have made the giant redwood forest look like a hedge Then they gave me the ballistic report The Lands and grooves scored into the slugs by the revolver barrel proved that both loyal martin and lieutenant markwood Had been killed by the 32 caliber gun. I'd picked up in the yard No prints on it registered owner The young lady who looked much better in a bathing suit than she'd ever look in the electric chair the widow joy and martin The hartford hawkshaw a dollar. I want to talk to you Okay First she was in the pool now it's the shower She's also in plenty of hot water Hi Don't pay any attention to my hair. Hmm. Don't worry. I won't I suppose you think it's a silly time of night for me to be taking a shower I thought it might help me to get to sleep. Well, I'm afraid I won't Hi johnny You uh You were pretty careless with that gun, weren't you? What gun that handy little 32 caliber gun with a handy little registration number engraved on it That told a nasty old police that you bought it six weeks ago My gun's right here in the drawer. I bought it to protect myself and my husband It's real gone It's done gone and killed two men so far And if you can't do some fast talking and some fast proving It stands a good chance of shortening your pretty little life expectancy Somebody must have stolen. Oh, no, that's not even a down payment on a story But johnny there's a whole house full of people who could have done it Not only that they'd they'd be glad to get me out of the way if they could why Well, this is thompson because she hates me Hoyle's brother marty because I stand to inherit everything. What about nick velati? Doesn't he have an axe to grind? I don't know what it could be. Okay, skipper Tell me you remember hearing two shots being fired around here anytime before your husband was killed Probably away from the house Because I want to know did you You amazed me Yes, I did hear two shots The day before loyal was killed I was horseback riding down by the walnut grove I remember because my horse shied. Well, this is coming a bit too readily to be readily believed But how big is that walnut grove? Not very big Yeah Can you spot those shots a little closer? Please sounded as if they came from about the middle I I didn't stay to find out I guess I've frightened easily. Yeah Yeah, you frightened me easily Why don't I'll tell you why? Because whether you shot anybody or not You'll murder baby. I didn't kill him. Don't leave me, Johnny I don't have to But just for a minute. I will what is there about police drivers even out in the country They got a lay on those sirens Johnny come on. You better get dressed, sweetheart. I told them I keep you occupied till I got here Oh The police took joyan and a hurt feelings off to the pokey I took myself and my hurt cheek off the bed The next thing I had to do had to be done by daylight So I took over joyan's painfully empty and prettily perfume sack Set the alarm for dawn with snoring up a storm I never knew before how much went on in the country so early in the morning On the way to the walnut grove the damp air washed the cobwebs out of my head And I started thinking now first Loyal Martin had been found dead with two bullet holes in him Yet two of the witnesses joyan and the housekeeper mrs. Tompkins had heard only one shot Second that powder burn tattooing on the body Denoting a close-range killing was in violent argument with a bullet penetration report which screamed long-range killing Those facts added to what was in lieutenant markwood's notebook Plus that shotgun clutched in his dead hand Came close to telling of the total that had cost him his life Inside the grove I found four walnut trees with hollows in their trunks The first one gave me a handful of nuts and a fancy sassing by an irate squirrel The second one came up with a handful of spunk water and a wet cuff And the third I found what I was looking for I found about two packs of clean cotton waste that is clean except for some powder burns Everything was falling into place including a blunt instrument which hit me on the head from behind But before I hit the ground I saw a brother marty martin legging it back towards the house I made it up the house and then up the hill and onto the trail And just starting up the stairs when I heard another out of season fourth of july Yeah Yeah So I see it was self-defense. I had to do it. I hated to butt in on your case But all of a sudden everything stacked up and I knew he was your man When I threw it in his teeth. He made a driver his guns. So I dropped him. You sure did baladi Well, I owe you a lot of thanks But if you don't mind I'll take over from here sure help yourself good and uh I think the first thing you'd better do is hightail it into town get your story filed with the police Yeah, I guess you're right You're off straight now. So you can back me up hundred percent nick all the way. I'll get going come on. Okay, Donna. See you later Sergeant noran mcdougal Johnny dollar sergeant. Oh, yeah, what's new? Well just another corpse and in just about 15 minutes the guy who made it one And conspired on the other two killings is going to walk right into your arms through the station house door What who is it nick baladi new york private license? He just shot his partner in this thing marty martin That was their fondest hope sergeant to pin it on her They borrowed her gun fired two slugs from it into some cotton waste and took the slugs and stuck them in a shotgun shell One shot just like both ladies said they heard The shotgun lieutenant markwood was looking at when he died was really the martin murder weapon To tell you an early morning bedtime story just before you go off duty He'll give you a pitch about a self-defense killing It's a lie The victim wasn't carrying a gun if he had been he would have used it on me, but he didn't he used a sap the sap Expense account items two three four five six seven eight and nine Six hundred and twenty four dollars entertainment Appeasing a rich widow with rich taste Expense account items one through thirteen inclusive 160 entertainment of poor insurance investigators with extravagant taste Expense account item fourteen Seven dollars and eighty cents mileage new york to harthers You may disagree with that item claiming that i finished the case in fairfield county, but i didn't Finish the case until i left her and new york city is where i left her Expense account total eight hundred and twenty three dollars Signed yours of Truly johnny doll Yours truly johnny dollars stars edmund o' brian in the title role and is written by paul dudley and gill dowd With music composed and conducted by leith steven Edmund o' brian can currently be seen starring in the harry m popkin united artist production d o a Featured in our cast were iran tedrow walter berke ted decorsia john daner gene baits and ed begley Your truly johnny dollar is produced and directed by heimey dobai Join us again next week when edmund o' brian returns in another adventure of yours truly johnny dollar Ladies and gentlemen cbs invites you to hear senator brian mcmayon on the capital cloak room over most of these same columbia stations tomorrow night senator mcmayon is chairman of the joint congressional committee on atomic energy And when he's interviewed by cbs newsman eric severide bill schadell and griffing van cross This will be the first detailed discussion of the hydrogen bomb and its implications Remember the first discussion by a high government official since president truman's historic announcement earlier this week Remember that cbs's capital cloak room tomorrow night at 10 30 p.m Over most of these same cbs stations. 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