 From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny dollar. What's the rush? I have private eye. Why don't you go to the police to find your killers? 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 home office Piedmont mutual life insurance company Hartford Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my search for the beneficiary of policy holder Pearl Carrassa Expense account item one four fifty mileage Hartford to Sing Sing prison last place of residence of the girls convicted murderer Marty Pruitt He was sitting in his cell playing solitaire. What time is? About 11 Marty an hour or more How much you say the policy was for? $5,000 That's funny. Just what I got paid for the job Who'd she leave it to the old lady? Yeah, I knew she would you know where I can find the beneficiary Beneficiary you did not a beneficiary. Did you ever had the pleasure if you'd known or you wouldn't be looking for her Mrs. Carrassa's virtues are none of my business Marty the company is $5,000 and I've got to help them get rid of it What good are you doing yourself by not telling me where she is if you know What time is it now a little after 11? Boy did that money look good. You know all the things you can do at $5,000 This girl back home. I Was gonna get married. I wasn't gonna get married. I'd have put it in roulette like all them other times You never did say who hired you. No, that's right. I never did Marty, I know you've been through this before but you got to admit it's a good point You're going to die and the real murder is getting off free. Did that make sense to you? What's your business, mr? Insurance stick to it. I think I will you know what I do far as you I take that $5,000 and put it in flowers Thanks anyway. Hey dollar Let me give you some last-minute advice Leave it alone. It's the most unnatural mess you ever got yourself into and on your life Expense account item two three fifty-six mileage Ossening New York to police headquarters New York City where the next morning Lieutenant Bernard Goldberg Offered me photographs of the dead girl a cigar and what little information he had Buddy we got the name off the wallet in her hip pocket. What slacks. Oh Patron were done at the docks picked up Marty Pruitt right at the scene Friar was cut and dry And it's funny about these guys. He's crazy. Loyalty to somebody who maybe wouldn't think twice about Yeah Donna to emson remit no no You don't have any idea where I can start looking for the mother most I can do for years to give you the girls less known address But we've been over the ground a hundred times. It's a Roman house Nice, but stupid old couple that don't know nothing. It's Seattle address on the palace in 1941 Then San Diego then to Cairo. Maybe who can know but we're still working on it Parasitical Dullet Parasitical tell them to look it up. Look it up sergeant. What am I your Webster? Expense account item three one dollar and fifty cents cab fad or a sack of dirty bricks in the lower east side Yeah, the manager Thanks, you're the manager Howard's a manager. Well, my name is Johnny dollar. I'm with the heart. All right. We don't ask for references Except in the special circumstances. I'm afraid you misunderstand. I'm not looking for an apartment I'm an investigator with an insurance company, and I'd like to ask you a few questions We never had a fire in this building that was next to keep rubbish in the basement the company's warned them time and time again Never does any good I'd like some information about a girl who I understand was a tenant here a miss pearl Carrasa the police were already here mr. Dollar four times the tenant go big thank us for our cooperation He was such a nice girl quiet home like Jen. Oh, yes terribly How long was she with you? How long was it Howard just two weeks just two weeks, but we got to know her so well She was such a lonely girl used to come down after dinner sometimes and talk about music and all the places She'd been where'd she come from originally. She never said, but she'd been everywhere Florida everywhere Did you have any visitors? Oh, no, and the first thing she told us was no visitors Anybody asked for her. She wasn't home such a lonely girl so pretty too. You think you'd have boyfriends. No, mr. Dollar. No visitors Did she act as if she were frightened of something that's just what the police asked us and we told them before and we told them at The trial that we thought she was frightened. We had a luggage here for a while, but the police took it. I haven't threw it Thanks. Did you notice all the labels from all over everywhere? Wonder what they're gonna do with all those lovely dresses and shoes Look, I know the police asked all these questions, but did you happen to notice if she got any mail? Yes, we did She didn't know not a single letter. No Do you spend much time away from her apartment? Very little. Oh, they're twice a day once in the morning once in the afternoon But she always came back within an hour. I don't suppose you have any idea where she went. That's right. We don't What'd you say you were again? Insurance investigation. Thanks for your time Spence account item for $50 and cab fare Took me the rest of that day and half of the next visiting neighborhood postal substations It looked like a beautiful way to waste time that I was betting on the impossibility that her daily Excursions had been for mail This kind of foot padding taught me very little other than the fact that there are a good number of substations in any given half-hour area The second afternoon I dragged into a fruit store which advertised postal station three two four Along with a special on honeydew melon. I walked up to the little cage Anything for Carrassa today? Carrassa general delivery just a minute Grand Carrassa C-A-R-R-A-S-A Carrassa Here we are. They send postage to Las Vegas, Nevada I looked at the envelope Pearl Carrassa They've been forwarded from Las Vegas three days before I Said something to myself about hard work patience and fools luck and headed for This is dollar Bob on the Carrassa thing I'm still cold on the beneficiary, but we've got the girl traced as far as Las Vegas Leto is forwarded to general delivery here in New York that was originally addressed to the Rambo Club I Got a permit and had it open. It's nothing but a dressmaker's bill I guess the Las Vegas postal authority sent it on. It's all I got you want me to follow it up Count item six two hundred dollars air travel and expenses to Las Vegas, Nevada specifically the Rambo Club It's always the same when I hit Las Vegas I expect to find tuxedos and evening gowns playing the games, but I never do a Boot black comes in off the street with the last quarter. He made and plunks it down on 21 a Grandmother with a California pension a red-headed kid with Oscar's super service tattooed on his overalls. I Always ask myself Where's all the big money? The answer is they're getting rid of it in the back room Jackpot on the nickel Lie Is this taken? No What do you have mister a good bourbon soda? Thanks for your confidence in me. I'll pick you up You worked here long have I You like Nevada What's your hometown Las Vegas here I had in the summer I Guess as you know a lot of people here by sight mostly very few by name Everybody's a stranger. Hey, maybe you know a friend of mine. I went to school with a Oh, yeah, Carasa pearl Carasa Save me my drink Eddie. I gotta get back to work Take it easy That's bourbon in the house Thanks, and that's a buck and a half. This is a real clip joint. Yeah, I can see Yeah, thanks They wait a second, you know where I can find Mrs. Henrietta Carasa She's the mother of a girl that used to hang around here pearl Well Yeah, I think I can help you All right, take over here's your buck and a half. Come on They led to the mezzanine I followed the bartender along the thickly carpeted hole to a door labeled Peter Baron My benefactor knocked the shadow loomed on the frosted glass and just like that There he was a long red gash of a scar ran across the left side of his face twisting it into a humorless smile The bar keep was dismissed with a nod. He sat out See ya Thanks. No, what can I do for you? I'm looking for a Mrs. Henrietta Carasa. Why I got business with it. What kind of business insurance She don't need no insurance. Why can I find it? She don't need no insurance Well, thanks anyhow, sit on what for you see this mark across my face You know how I got this That's can foolish questions and not given the right answers But you tell me what you want with Mrs. Henrietta Carasa. I'll tell Mrs. Carasa you were interested Oh, look, look, this is no way to talk to me now I got a lot of respect for your business ethics and all that but you know how it is sometimes Come on, Mr. Insurance. What do you want with Mrs. Carasa? Are you a pretty good shot with that thing 38 some my specialty In that case, I've got a check what kind of a check a $5,000 kind of a check from home a daughter Well, Pearl She left another $5,000 out at your trace pearl to Las Vegas And never mind. You know what you look like to me. You look like a city official. It's the pinstripe How do I find Mrs. Carasa? It's very simple Mike Mike this is mr What's your name insurance dollar Johnny take mr. Dollar to see Mrs. Henrietta Carasa Tritium gentle. He's got some money for her The place looked and sounded the same on the way out, but something was different Maybe it was the four six footers standing at the door As they fell in behind me. I thought maybe I'd asked one question too many at the alley I found out how right I was Top one would have been easier Slipping my Mickey In just a moment. We will return to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar, but first You hear them all on CBS and some of the funniest parts of that all comes from the birdbrain of a woman miss Gracie Allen of Burns and Allen top troopers on the American stage for years top radio stars after that George and Gracie are now playing a big part in CBS's great Wednesday night lineup Bing Crosby Groucho marks George and Gracie and Dr. Christian Join George Burns and Gracie Allen this Wednesday night on most of the same CBS station And now with our star Edmond O'Brien We return to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar There's a lot more to this case than a $5,000 insurance pay off. I'd sense that from the beginning a Hired killer with a still unknown employer had searched out the girl in a New York hideaway and done a thorough if not profitable job His warnings which a man of my profession is bound to ignore were beginning to materialize As I woke up I could hear voices Wait a minute, I think he's waking up hold his head Okay, you ought to get a doctor for a maybe Looks terrible dollar dollar. Can you hear me dollar? Where you from yeah, what's this insurance stuff? Oh, you're really working for is that they know you are police department. What did you get these cards and your wallet? Come on down. I answer me dollar Give me some water get him some water. Hey get some water Joe. I'll set up Come on. Come on sit up. You're all healthy Yeah All right now. What's the idea? That's what we'd like to know What do you know Pearl Carrasa from? Oh? That man come on I'm looking for a mother. What do you want with a mother? She left an insurance policy girl $5,000 Thanks Who are you Pete Baron oh Yeah, the face is familiar. He mustn't be better dollar. Why why question? Look, I'm just a working man. It's it's so simple There's a company in Hartford an insurance company. They sold a policy the girl aboard is dead Policy is for $5,000 the money goes to a mother All I want to know is Where is mother no Kettler? You're really an insurance. No kidding. Well, why didn't you say so? Why didn't you come right out with it? Why do you go sneaking into bars asking funny questions? mister Do you know a mrs. Henrietta Carrasa here in Las Vegas here in Las Vegas? I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll look it up for you Thanks now Lay me back down again Expense account item seven twenty dollars doctor bills nothing serious, but I couldn't go out in the street looking like that I stayed in my hotel room for two days until the swelling went down On the third morning. I had a visitor was the girl who gave me the brush off and Rambo's bar She had an overnight bag with her. There was a label Bloomington, Indiana You're in trouble. You know that three days ago that information would have done me some good I'm in real trouble. You don't think Pete Barron let you out of there because he believed your story No more than you think you weren't followed here. No, I know Never come here But pearl get a message to her will you tell her never to show up here again? She won't what do you mean she won't? She's dead You know why I gotta get out of here wait a minute Why did Pete Barron hire for it to kill her the go? I gotta get out of here He came up here for a purpose. Yeah, but I didn't know she was dead. You're gonna let him get away with it The gambling places up front They fly it up from Mexico at night and get out by morning Profile doubt about it. That's why they did it Barron no pearl told you all this I'm not taking any chances. I got a bus ticket. It leaves me across the street. I only got a minute I went to the window and watched to leave the hotel across the street a nice girl I thought and I wondered how she got mixed up with Barron's crowd The bus store opened and she put one foot on the step She crumpled to the sidewalk a little overnight bag tumbled into the gutter. I Got downstairs just ahead of the deputy sheriff just after the bus had left the people was still standing around She was a nice kid you knew her not for long. Did you see this happen? Yeah Stop over here for a second. We'll have your name, please. Yes. Yeah, here's my ID card Insurance investigation Something about her. Oh a friend of hers pulled out of the East River Pearl Carrassa shot to death Carrassa Yeah, you didn't know. Oh, we heard she left town. I was about all she got mixed up with Pete Baron and her family disowned her Well, did you see what happened to this girl? Just getting on the bus sounded like a rifle She was working for Pete Baron too. Yeah, I thought I recognized you She just come up to see me had quite a story to tell Barons running narcotics up from Mexico by plane. They're so I've heard we've had a ryanum for months, but we aren't ready to pick him up yet Why would she tell you that she had to tell somebody she had a message she wanted me to deliver Pearl This is beginning to tie up But what's insurance cut to do the character girl at the policy $5,000 to another The conscience must have bothered her comes from one of the finest families in this part of the country and starts down hill with a crowd like that Now her mother needs $5,000 like I need two haircuts and Mr. If I were you I'd take that check out the carasses and catch the next plane out of town You know something sheriff That's just what I'm gonna do And that's just what I tried to do expense account item 850 cents cab fare to the carassus state on juniper drive They should have charged admission There was an ivy stone wall running all around it and a mild drive through a cactus rock garden to the mansion I felt a little like a grocery boy delivering a check for an easily $5,000 I was met at the door by a butler in a business suit and was toured around an indoor swimming pool and potted palms to the library Buried in a large leather chair reading a 25 cent version of how to be your own gardener Was the man of the house. I was introduced and left alone with them Insurance investigation How long since you've heard from your daughter? Oh such a long time such a long time Is she in more trouble? He's dead mr. Crassus dead Pearl dead Can't be she's killed An accident. No Someone hired a killer It's my fault I knew I knew and I Nothing Have you watered the palms today? No, you didn't go off the palms now Gregory The leaves will get all yellow and fall all over the floor It'll take simply minutes to clean up the mess around the pool And I told you specifically that the music club had changed from Wednesday to Monday and Monday is tonight This is a man from the insurance company. How do you do now Gregory? Please do this one thing for me. You know how much I have to do Henrietta It's pearl. I told you never to speak that name in my presence. She's dead dead She was murdered mrs. Crassus in New York. I'm not sorry. Maybe I should be but I'm not not in the least She's never done anything, but brings shame to me and to her father She brought these awful people to the house to this house mind you humiliating me in front of my friends She's one to marry one of them Henrietta, please not now I'm not adept at putting on false grief like you are Gregory. She was no good when she brought this man in I told her right there and then you're not my daughter go to the people that you begin with This is the way it had to end I'm going upstairs Mrs. Carrassa just one thing more If you'll sign this paper my job will be over. I have a check for you What kind of a check she left you $5,000 I remember the policy she took out in high school. She never canceled it Even when you sent her away I don't want it. I don't want Tell me Do you know who killed my daughter the man that did the actual killing has already been executed in New York State? Man who hired him It's only a suspicion. I'd rather not say Baron What about this check? I I don't think she wants the money. You can tell your company that look mr. Carrassa. I've come a long way I'll leave it here. You can sign the form and mail it It's mine calling me a cab Spence account item 9 50 cents cab fare This is where you pulled out of the driveway somebody else pulled in I don't know if he saw me, but I saw him I don't know if he saw me, but I saw him Miss Pete Baron. Are you sure daughter positive? Sheriff, I woke up looking at that face. What would Baron be doing at Carrassa's place could be a connection You didn't know about yeah, this could be the tie-up. We've been looking for somebody who supplied the dough It's a big operation. I'm sure Baron didn't have enough dough to start it. Well, what are we waiting for? I Rode down with the sheriff we bypassed the butler by taking him into custody We heard voices coming from the library and stopped outside the door She may have been your daughter, but she wasn't my why did you tell I didn't she found out? She knew about us. She knew about you. She knew about everything Would have turned you and your wife in a long time ago if you hadn't been a parent But she was willing to turn me in and I did what I had to My idea you coming into this thing, but now that you're in it. You got to learn that things like this happen Yes, and things like this happen, too Robert Carrassa And look who's here. Hello, Mrs. Carrassa. Let's go Carrassa. No, wait. I Want you to know about this woman. I want you to know what she is all Respectability and shine Chamber music and non-objective paintings and high society and where did the money come from? Henrietta from narcotics from the same people you hated so much Gregory I had a tile business before the war, but it wasn't good enough for her. She wanted this place Italian marble tapestries Met Baron in back rooms and arranged to have me buy in his gambling casino. That was the first thing Don't you dare put the blame on me whose idea wasn't to have the narcotics flown in how many times I beg you to stop you never listen to me You couldn't keep impressing the ladies and gentlemen And when Pearl wanted to marry a decent young man you insulted him right out of this house This is the woman who sent her daughter away because our friends were not good enough. I Don't think you need me anymore sheriff. I'll just take that check Expense account item 10 $200 transportation back to Hartford. I Don't know what you can do with the check If it were up to me I'd use it to clean up the respectable slums But that's not my problem It's men's account total 712 dollars and fifty-five cents yours truly Johnny dollar truly Johnny dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title role and is written by gill dowd and David Ellis with music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens Edmond O'Brien can currently be seen starring in the Harry M. 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