 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny Duller. This is Renosa L.A. Police. Oh hi a sergeant any luck Nothing, it's top all lenely boys been in jams before he's a tough cookie, and we don't scare him a bit What's his story says he was walking through the courtyard of the apartment house when you jumped him from the bushes Flames he thought it was a stick up and fired that shot at himself defense. What was he doing there in the first place? Calling on a girlfriend only she'd given him the wrong address We can hold him over night for carrying a concealed weapon, but that's about all Johnny He'll make bail in the morning. Well fine. Let him things aren't adding up and it's got him worried He's afraid he's being double-crossed and he's fighting man about it on the loose. Maybe you'll be a help to us Maybe he can find Eddie Kailin. What are you talking about? Eddie Kailin's downtown in the morgue on a marble slab sergeant want to bet Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Australia Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar location, Los Angeles to the home office Trinity Mutual Insurance Company limited Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the Kailin matter expense account continued I was following a hunch one that had started when Sargent Rhinosa said the police found the door of the Kailin apartment locked on the night Of Eddie's death locked with a key And now the hunch was stronger the way leanly had acted topo leanly the gambler from whom Eddie had won $60,000 at night things like Lila Kailin had said about her husband. They all added up But it was still only a hunch not proof and proof I had to have And at the moment the only chance I could see of getting it was to backtrack on Eddie Kailin his hangouts His contacts his missing friend Pete Stammer his movements during the hours before his car was found blazing at the bottom of a Canyon in Palos Verdes in a way what I had to do was bring him back to life Expense account item six fourteen dollars and ten cents Transportation to an incidentals at a dim little hole in the wall bar out on Santa Monica Boulevard called the cafe, Eloines It was an out of the way clip joint dedicated to the mood Caribbean Complete with palm fronds drinks and coconut shells and a lovely little hostess with a beautifully developed and well-rounded Latin accent you would like a nice table amigo. Oh, this one's fine But I would like a nice talk Sit down, honey. Let's get acquainted. Well Maybe for a few minutes My name is Pepita. Of course. What else I'm Johnny dollar That's a funny name. Oh, I'm a funny guy Will will you buy me a drink? Is that the gimmick here gimmick? Oh, what do you order a champagne cocktail? See for which I pay two bucks. It's made with ten cents worth of salt turn you get a one dollar kickback Isn't that the way it's played? Are you with it by squad? I'll forget it relax. Hey, look, I'll do better than buy you a drink What are you doing after you're through here? No, no day When I quit work here, I go straight home amigo and I live with my mother Oh, well, that's a very good arrangement cheaper that way for both of you But here's ten bucks What I want from you with some information about a customer who comes in here a lot or used to anyway Eddie Kailin, you know him you are not the police or you would not give me ten dollars just for talking Sure, I know Eddie What do you want to know about him? When did you see him last on Thursday the day before he was killed? How did he act? What did he say anything out of the ordinary? He say he loved me madly Passionately devotionally and if I do not love him too, he will kill himself Just like ordinary He was lying of course, but he always was such exciting to listen Then he buy me champagne cocktail and borrow for me the money to pay for it quite a boy He was how you say He was the most Yeah How long was he in here that night? One hour perhaps by himself. No, it is amigo with Pete Pete Steimer Have you seen Pete since then? No, I do not think nobody has seen him. What do you think's happen to him? Maybe he's too sad for Eddie dying so he is hideout someplace or by himself Well, it's a theory Did any seem worried that night? No scared Nothing special on his mind apparently. No, just like always Just like Eddie, you know. No, I never met him Then why you ask this question? Oh, just a routine business matter. What about women women? Yeah, other girlfriends of Eddie's and next to you Next to me with Eddie every girl was first. What about the nightclub here any of them come in here work here Eddie was too smart for that in each one place only one girl that way no trouble Eddie was smart. Yeah, he was the most What about girls in other places around town, do you know any of them? Oh, I do not know anybody What you've heard rumors? Well, there is a place which is called a breath monkey. Oh, yeah They have girls there which um, how you say it they they take off some clothes and go jump around with the music strippers Where stippers? Well, somebody has always made jokes with me about one of those stippers They say Eddie has had the big thing with her They think to make me mad, but there's no difference to me. I know how Eddie is. Do you know the girl's name? Very silly name which she has make up. It's Marty midnight Marty midnight. She has black hair like me But mine is natural black. Oh, yeah, sure. I figured as much. It's very beautiful Well, thanks for some pleasant conversation you are leaving now. Yeah But maybe you will come back No, I wasn't planning to One o'clock I am through working if you will come back No No We wouldn't want to worry your poor old mother would we keep a waiting up? What are you talking about? My mother is leaving Havana, Cuba Expense account item seven twenty three dollars and forty cents more transportation and some more of those incidentals This time of the brass monkey in That name would come up twice now Eddie Kalen's widow had mentioned it first So I figured I'd better have a look at it The yellow innings had been a fairly quiet place dimly lighted with a big play on that mystery of the jungle routine But the brass monkey was a pony of a different tint at the brass monkey. They let down their hair and really live The chorus line was on and at it when I arrived and strange enough the girls were all dolls Perky young lively seven of them left to right When I wanted the seven had midnight black hair I leaned against the service bar and waited for the bartender to come down out of the clouds and notice me and he finally did Sorry Buster just couldn't see you for looking at you. Oh, that's all right Who'd bother with a customer at a time like this another art lover man, man I'll tell you true there is the cream of the crop Seven shining sisters the Pleiades brother the absolute up top zenith of the entire Physiastic firm of it Well, you'll have to drink scotch or ice check. Oh, I read a lot. That's where I get all them big words Always try to better myself Get ahead man. That's the thing. Yes, so I've heard so I read all the time and I got a system to a short cut You know all them books you see around you know what they're full of well opinions very Words and you know where they get them from the dictionary so I don't mess around I go right to headquarters. The only book I read is the dictionary you want sure Read it through twice and now I'm clear up to Jay on the third time around You know what a Joss house is. Yeah, that's a Chinese temple. I think I need that drink now Oh, I'm sorry busting. Yeah Say you're pretty smart yourself. Oh, I'm a pedant Pedding that's with a P Nah, nah, I won't get to that for another three months. That's a buck even for the drink. There you go Keep the change. Well, thanks. I Hey, this is a 20 you give me. Yeah, I know See Well, Buster the answer is no I can't fix you up with one of the girls All I wanted some information like what like where is Marty midnight this evening? Oh that I wouldn't know she hasn't been around since Well, not for the last four or five nights since Eddie Cailin was murdered. Is that what you're about to say? Police insurance investigator the company I represent issued a policy on it Eddie Cailin with insurance Yeah, he took it out about two months ago. Who's the better fishery his wife? Well, I never met the gal, but I guess she's got something common. She must have took quite a beating off of Eddie Oh Man that cat could really operate so I get it You happen to know where Marty lives nah She moved a few weeks ago after she took up with Eddie. I don't even know her real name. Is the manager here I'm the manager Buster. I hired him fired him and in between just look at him. Oh, man. What a life You know a friend of Eddie's named Pete's timer sure I know he hasn't been around either disappeared that same night, huh? Yeah, yeah, that was a bad night all around There was another guy dropped out of sight to a hood named Mike Kelso when a topo lean these boys, you know topo He comes in all the time. He's a Wait a minute. You must be the cat that broke his arm Well, congratulations Felicitations and happy days. I'll have a drink myself on that real popular boy Oh the most I understand He got his start by leaning out of his baby carriage and shoving his mother under a car Was he in here that night? Well, sure. That's where Eddie met him I told Eddie to stay clear of that game Was I right and you think that's why it was killed for the $60,000 he won that much That's the type of question I never answered and that's exactly why I stay so healthy Well, you don't have to answer and that's where all the logic points Eddie met topo lean me in here that night and was invited into one of these big-time poker games And he was lucky plenty lucky and lean they got hit hard It is sad that he wouldn't stand still for it So he and his muscle man Mike Kelso went around to Eddie's apartment beat him up got the 60,000 bucks Took Eddie out of the Palace Verde's Hills ran him off the cliff and set fire to his car Any reason why it couldn't have happened like that? No, no, but there are a lot of loose ends Like what has happened to Pete Steimer and Marty Midnight scared silly hide now Mike Kelso same thing He's sweating it out waiting to see which way the wind blows Oh, there's whispers around that he double-crossed topo and ran out with the dough could be But I keep remembering that door what door to Eddie's apartment. It was left locked with a key So what's it got to do with that? The police. I'm rated again. Hey, red That water bar whiskey down a sink Jackie get back there and tell the girls to cover up Relax relax, it's not a raid that's sergeant rainosa. He's handling a Kailin case Plus there are cops a cop them out of what he's hand now shake it up red turn on that one in the second I'm at all in Definitely you doing here Johnny having a drink. What's up, Sergeant? I'm looking for a girl who's supposed to work here named Marty midnight. So am I what's your reason suspicion of murder? What's the guy was killed in their apartment about an hour ago the neighbors heard the shots And it's real crazy Johnny. It just can't be but it is We got a fast check on the fingerprints, you know the guy was sure it was Eddie Kailin It's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow a stakeout a man hunted a tired Intern breaking his heart to keep life in a broken body join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking