 Johnny dollar. All right, Johnny. This is Bob Baker. It's surely mutual insurance limited over there in Daryl Boston, man Yeah, that's right. How are you big? It's been a long time. Yeah, I know what's on your mind And I hope it's something that'll earn me a nice fat commission Well, the matter of fact is a chance you just might clean up on this one Oh, you ever hear of the Ivy Emerald? Nope. Well, you should have happens to be one of the biggest chunks of that green stuff It was ever polished and put in a setting bake the only green stuff. I'm interested Yeah, I know. I know the folding kind. That's right Now tell me what's happened to this Ivy Emerald? What's your guess and listen Johnny? Yeah, unless you can find out who stole it and get it back for us And before it can be chopped up into little ones. I hope how much the insurance on it. I mean $625,000 Wahoo. Yeah You want to come over here and talk about it? I'm on the way CBS radio network brings you 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 Submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to surety mutual insurance limited Boston office Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Ivy Emerald matter Expense account item one is six dollars cab fare to Bradley Field Item two ten ninety planes After landing at Logan international item three is two and a quarter for a taxi into Bob Baker's office on Boylston Street Sit down Johnny. I'll tell you what I know. Okay, babe. Go ahead. Well first of all I'm surprised you weren't familiar with that Ivy Emerald is all over the magazine picture magazine a couple years ago Some big Middle Eastern potent they try to pry it loose from our client. What's the name of the client back? Mrs. Oscar B sterling wait Emily sterling wait a rich old widow lady Mm-hmm, and why the name Ivy Emerald because of the mounting it's a brooch of solid gold in the shape of Well, Boston Ivy. I see old Emily has a collection mostly of diamonds worth literally big Only the emerald was taken however taken from where bank our wall safe in her home Well, she put it last night after wearing it to some charity ball Was it a nitro job? No It was opened in the usual proper fashion by means of a dial and her diamond collection was also in that thing No, only paste copies of some of the diamond stuff for casual wear Ordinarily she keeps her important jewelry in a bank vault but having worn this piece the night before See in other words whoever took it either knew beforehand the diamonds were only paced or Simply recognized them as such and that's the reason you didn't bother with them, right? Well, the chances are then he's an expert, right? Who else knows the combination of a safe? Well, she's the only one you sure that she swears to it If she were to die without telling it to somebody else the only way to get in would be to blast apparently somebody has So she isn't the only one who knows the combination. Oh Yeah, see what you mean She's absolutely certain. She's never told it to anyone a good set the scope will pick up the sound of the tumblers dropping big This box has an oil dampen movement the quietest type. There is made especially for by the Darlington safe company right here in Boston Darlington, well, maybe that's the answer. Oh, how do you mean? Let me have her address. Would you bake? Oh, sure? But what did you mean about maybe that's the answer? Do you know man Darlington? No, never heard of him before or his company. Well, I do know him And if you think that Darlington who personally codes all the boxes they put out would be the only one with access to the records of the Combinations that he sold if you think that he could take my boy. Let's wait and see Item four is the usual 50 buck deposit on a rental car And a few minutes later I was in the Beacon Hill section of town a block or so north of Commonwealth Avenue Mrs. Emily Sterling was one of the fine old beautifully kept mansions that dot that exclusive expensive residential area The front door was open for me by a uniformed butler Since a barbed phone to her that I'd be along she was waiting for me in the mahogany panel of library Because it's in here that I have the wall safe mr. Dollar cleverly hidden behind a movable panel May I see it mr. Sterling with? Of course you may It's right over here Do you see I pressed against the molding here and here and the panel slides away and Here is the safe. Oh That is well hidden mr. Darlington himself to provide the installation of it a long time ago When he and I were quite young and he was up was calling on me. Oh But then of course I married Oscar. I see yes, Harry Darlington dear dear boy was one of my most faithful admirers Now the size of the dial here on the safe. Well, that's because of my eyes You are very attractive eyes, mr. Sterling. Well, thank you mr. Dollar. You're very sweet They've always been one of my better points even as a young girl The only problem is I don't see very well I never have and that's so well. That's why Harry bless his understanding heart made the dial so large for me I don't usually tell that to people though. I'll never mention it to us. Oh, thank you now Who else knows about the safe in here since Oscar died no one but myself and of course Hendricks Hendricks the butler The butler but good heavens mr. Dollar you couldn't suspect him good night Well, you saw here. Yes, and I must admit that he doesn't look the type What's more he's been with me ever since I was a well for nearly 40 years Does he know the combination of it? No, no one does but me. Well, it's somehow somebody Mrs. Telling when he has any servants left you recently Oh when oh about him off the go that was Honored a bit. I believe why well this may be shooting in the dark, but do you by any chance have a picture of him? Well, yes, I guess I do have the one that little Evelyn my niece took with the camera. I gave up for Christmas Should be right here in Here it is good. Yeah, mr. Dollar Evelyn was quite taken with him and he was such a very nice young Oh Oh What is it? Wonder yes, I Don't recall that name on the big speed course. It may have been a funny But I'm sure I've run across this man somewhere in the course of one of my investigations Oh, no, really, but it was so nice and mr. Dollar. Yes, how could he possibly have learned the combination of the safe? Would you like me to show you mr. Stirling went? Would you like me to open it for you? You think you can I think I can but how? Harry Darlington absolutely guaranteed that no safe cracker could do it by listening to the combination or anything like that No doubt he did mr. Stirling wait now look, I'm going to leave the room While I'm out with those big double doors closed behind me you open the safe Would you do that, please very well if you like all right then I'll leave you alone But if the combination can't be heard even with delicate instrument as soon as I've closed this door You go ahead Now I waited outside the door then for perhaps a minute, maybe less than a minute then Mr. Dollar good. I said good now close it again and give the dial a couple of extra spins Very well lots again. Oh, I'm sure of it Let's see now the 36 How did you know? Oh, this is a quiet one now three now one full-turn past 14 to Yes, this oversized dial and the big numbers on it Even so there's a crack between those doors nearly a quarter of an inch wide and you stood away from this Mrs. Stirling wait a full arms length because of my poor eyesight I could have seen how you turn this dial from really twice that distance. I see So that show for or anybody else in this house could have learned the combination just as easily as I did Arnold Bixby you said yes, but now he's gone and I don't know where and if he is the one mr. Dollar That's only a guess but it happened last night And if he was smart enough to have done what you did with all the airplanes and things these days Oh dear he could be far far away or if he's real smart He'll stick around long enough to have the emerald taken out of its mounting and broken up that beautiful stone Carefully done by an expert who would only do enough to destroy its identity without fracturing the main body of the You have notified the police, haven't you yes, there's a fine handsome young sergeant will it be in charge good and the first thing for me to do it? No No, maybe I have a better idea. Let's see now three possibilities so far as always in the case of this kind Mrs. Stirling wait herself Of course, there was nothing to indicate that she was the type to use a trick like that Second course was the ex chauffeur whose picture was familiar to me, but only vaguely so and from where? He might have to find out more about and finally there was Darlington But then in the office of his little safe company when I met Mrs. Stirling wait dear dear Harry Darlington Well, I'm afraid any suspicion of him promptly vanished into thin air. He is honest distress couldn't possibly have been faked Oh just just terrible mr. Dahlin's just terrible She always loved her jewel so much, you know and especially the emerald And to think that one of my own safes made with such loving care betrayed her Betrayed her trust in me in spite of my devotion to her over all these years. Oh Dear, I I fear that I shall never be able to face up to her again I've let her down. She'll never forgive me now Mr. Darlington from From what she told me about you and and her feelings about you. I Think she would like nothing better than to have you right there to comfort her You really think so mr. Dahlin? You think she'd be willing to see me again after After this I do indeed Why don't you call her up and see? Yes Yes, I shall but first if I can be of some small comfort to Emily but first mr. Darlington I I want you to take a good look at this picture Yes Picture of this chauffeur she had This man Emily chauffeur You know him he was employed here in my plant for a while almost a year ago His name was Roger Goh Roger Goh hmm Then it would appear that Arnold Bixby was merely an 80s. What's it? No, nothing. I'm sorry. Go on. Well, he was only a truck driver and a loader, but I Well, I just didn't like him. I'm a splendid judge of character. Oh, I'm sure you are Yes, and when I found him here in my private office one day when I'd stepped out for a minute Wait just one moment That's safe There in the corner. Yes, sir. Is that by any chance where you keep a record a Record of combinations of other safe that you have built over the years. Yeah Yes, yes, it is. Well, then that's where he got it But he could only have been in here a minute or so for a man who knew what he was after that could have been long enough Thank You mr. Darlington Thank you very much, but we did yes This safe was locked when he was in here you sure of that I'm quite sure only quite sure So maybe that's the way he found out Maybe it was the same way. I did At any rate, I think he's our man. Well now mr. Darling. I'll see you later as for what happened next The way things just kind of fell into place Well, you can call it coincidence if you like, but it wasn't no it was simply a matter of knowing which way to turn In this case it was to an old friend an ex-convict an ex-cruc who knows more about the ways the methods the denizens of the underworld and Anybody I've ever run across simply because he was a part of that underworld at one time Item 5 10 cents for a phone call to smoky Sullivan smoky. Yeah, this is Johnny Dower. Oh Johnny How are you Johnny? I'm fine smoky. Just fine. Tell me you Still an undercover man for the Boston Fire Department Yeah You know something Johnny what? Since they've been letting me help them out They got practically no more set fires around here. Oh good boy Listen smoky. Oh, Johnny You're less. Hmm. I've been trying to get you on the phone all day. I've been trying. Oh, well, I'm right here in Boston The main on a kind of the emerald. Yes The IV emerald. Yeah, well, that's why I've been trying to quiet. Oh, great smoky. I knew this hunter mine would pay off Yeah, I know that gets you in on it and it kind of the insurance. You know where it is But you know who took it no No Well Well, then what about it smoky? Maybe I got a good way for it sit tight smoky. I'll be right over Time is late at night when business gets slack here in the diner and I'm listening to the radio. I think to myself I mean Suppose that new for a day walking right now sit down at the counter and say I mean from now on I want you to smoke new ports filter cigarettes You know, they have to suit in coolness a mental a hint of mint and wonderful rich tobacco It's that exclusive pleasant smoking combination that makes new for more refreshing to begin with more refreshing all the way Will you do this for me? I mean? Maybe I'd say take the place. Oh joy the steam table the coffee maker. It's all yours I'm a new port smoker forever You think you have a lead on the IV emerald. Yeah, well Johnny about five blocks from here As a man lives that used to be a fence back in Chicago, huh? Yeah, his name is build though Fritz build though. He handled hot jewelry. Yeah, and he was also a diamond cutter also a gem get him Yeah, and he has he been fencing stuff around here. No, I don't know what he lives on Probably just waiting for a killing on something like the Zimerald all I know is Such a real sharp in the back of his price making cheap jewels for a neighborhood kid Just keeping his hand in maybe I'm smoking. Yeah, no Wait a minute. Look here smokey You know You know that is What was it smoking this man he prayed? Breed don't you know The man he's the best jewel heist this size of state crime Then it's no wonder he'd go for the IV emerald Of course it all ties up his job with a safe company under one name is acting a chauffeur to mr. Sterling Wade under another and With this bill though here to break it up for him. Sure. I think money took a giant. Well, don't you smokey? Where is he? I didn't even know he was here. All right, then our job is to find him Tell me what do you know about this gem cutter this bill though? Oh What do you say? It was an account of the pilot trash around build those place that I started watching them pilot trash Yeah, the way I seen it piled up before when somebody's may be figurant as Have an accidental fire to collect the insurance. Oh, yeah, go on. Well, I know when I found out who it was Bill though. Yes, go on. So last night. I phone my contact on the arson squad That's Tommy Winkler. Oh, sure. I know lieutenant Winkler. I've been knowing very well. Go ahead smokey I told Tommy Winkler to better check up on both. All right. So you told lieutenant Winkler. What about the emerald? Oh, yeah, yeah About 3 a.m. This morning. I took another look at those plates and the car. We had a light on And there he was in his shop at the back Yeah, but when he see me looking in the window he kind of quick show something in a corner Quick turns off the light smokey and he and he pulls down the shade so I and nobody else could see it Okay, what did you see was at the emerald? No, Johnny Well, what was it then? It was just a big gold shag like a brooch like a leaf An ivy leaf that ties it then smokey manny breed took the stone to him to break it up And if Bill though still has it there Come on smokey. Let's go. Yeah It was after dark now the place will build a lived was a little more than a dark alley The shade on the back room that he used for a shop was totally drawn But there was a light inside Maybe manny is in there with them. I don't know smokey. No, we'll take no chances When I kick the door open What and I'll reach running gun because I got this Man he prays that's right. Or is it Arnold Dixby or maybe Roger Gold? Take your choice dollar You are Johnny dollar, aren't you sure if you like And you buddy too bad that bill though recognized you when you showed your ugly pussy this window That's what tipped me off to be ready for anything Well dollar this is gonna be your last case is it many. Yeah. Yeah sure is Come on foul open up. It's me manny What's this? All right, come on get inside book What is this see pal you were right about it being smoky solid in your song Yeah, yeah, and that's stone there on the work table many Well, what do you think this one? Who is he? Well pal? This is the great Johnny dollar Johnny dollar well, but he won't be for long Take his gun away. Yeah Yeah, let me have it now. You see dollar. It's gonna be your gun that kills you too just as soon as fritzy shuts that door Go on pal. Shut it. Yeah. Yeah, I close it. All right. Nobody move. What's up? Tommy Tommy with watch him Tommy Like the US Marines Tommy. Thank you pleasure Johnny. Yes. Thanks, but smoky You know you're a dog. I thought you said to come here just to look for a possible arson setup Oh, yeah, well instead I walk in on a What's this here on this work table? That's it Tommy the ivy emerald And I made your trip over here worthwhile didn't it The emerald back just one thing though my My commission on this one is to be split three ways a third to smoky and a third for Tommy Winkler As for the expense account Well, if you pay that commission promptly You can forget it yours truly Johnny dollar thought I'll tell you about next week story Next week proof the hard way of how wrong one can sometimes be join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? by Jack Johnstone produced and directed by Bruno Zorato, Jr. Music supervision by Ethel Huber Johnny dollar is played by Mandel Kramer Also featured in the cast where Abby Lewis is Emily Sterling wait Lawson's Irby is Harry Darlington Joseph Julian a smoky Sullivan William Griffiths is Bob Baker Jack Grimes as many breathe Sam Gray as Fritz Pildo and William Mason as Lieutenant Tommy Winkler Be sure to join us next week same time same station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar On the sweeter and swingier on the Richard Hayes show weeknights on the CPS radio network and on WDNC AM and