 From Hollywood it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny dollar Yes, Sergeant Wright had to go back to his office and ask if I would call you. Oh, I get it now the boulder shooting Sorry, I understood Dr. Stone was on the case. We've both been attending. What's his condition now, doctor? He's improved some but he'll be lucky to live. We gave him three blood transfusions this afternoon this evening He regained consciousness the sergeant right there at that time. Yes, what did boulder say? Did he say you shot him? No, he wouldn't talk about it that he didn't remember but he was lucid when he arrived What do you think I can see him? Well, that's why I called Mr. Dollar. You can see him this evening Sergeant Wright hopes that since you aren't a police officer, perhaps Volteric will talk to you. Well, I can try. I'll be there in about 45 minutes Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-pact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to home office Corinthian all-risk insurance company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Arthur Boldrick matter Expense account item one two dollars and thirty cents CAD fare from my apartment to the emergency hospital I wouldn't stay with him too long dollar. Just a few minutes. You'll be able to tell when he tires This is the room Well, Baldrick, how are you feeling now? I don't know. You're coming along fine. This is Mr. Dollar He represents your insurance company. Hello, Baldrick. Sorry about that happen Yeah, Mr. Dollar wants to ask you a few questions I've told him not to stay too long, but if you feel tired you can tell him to leave I'll drop by and see you later. Do you think I'm gonna die? Is that why you're here? No, of course not. Doctor told me you're out of danger I just got some routine questions asked You say it was a man that shunned you? Yeah Nobody I never saw before that I can remember But I don't know what happened. You remember where you were when you were shot? It was in the backyard near the garage I was right by the garage door and this guy come around from the alley and what did he say to you? He was after the car keys. I Had him in my handy Me to grab for me. He said give me those keys or something like that I give him a push and that's when he shot me after then I Didn't even know he had a gun. You didn't see it when he asked for the keys No, if I just thought he could have had the keys either. I don't fight no man with a gun. What did he look like? well, that's That's one of the things I don't remember too good happened so fast he was wearing Like overalls or something what kind well blue seems like only faded Could have been shirt and pants too. It was awful fast. There he was and then it happened. What else about him? That's about all I I Think he was sort of dark But I don't think I'd even know him for sure if I saw him again. Maybe I would maybe you'll remember more if you try I will I I Figured this guy whoever he was was in trouble or something when he just needed a car in a hurry, but he didn't take the keys Well, I figured he lost his nerve Wilma can run it up and she heard the noise will wheel it from the next door This guy was gone when they got to me Well, I won't bother you any longer, but You will help find this man if you'll think about it as much as you can And try to remember what he looked like Hey, Mr. D My wife come to see me at night I'd sure like to see her. I don't know. Well, I like to carve on the way out. I'll see you later boulder I made my report to the sergeant the search was started for a dark man dressed in a faded blue work clothes and possibly armed with a 25 caliber pistol or a valver It was only seven o'clock barely dusk, so I carved out to the bold Rick address It was a single story a run-down house in the neighborhood we hot fortians choose to call an older part of town Rather than a slump His wife was a work-worn woman who looked older than a 34 years She led me into the backyard and showed me the garage the face on an alley and the spot still stained Where a husband would lane There was no one who was in sight when you get out here Mm-hmm. I didn't see nobody Husband mentioned he lives next door Yeah, that house and this man must have run down the alley. Is it open under a street at both ends of the block? Yeah Runs clear down the Lawrence and up to about theater the other way I should think that most of the people in the neighborhood would be home at that time time. He was shot. Wouldn't you I? Should think so, yeah, and the police will probably find somebody who saw this man running down the alley Think somebody saw him But most people Yeah, well, it's all right You don't feel like it just tell me all right Please from the insurance. My name is dollar. He must be mr. Wheeler. That's right I don't think nobody ought to be bothering well in the middle all this trouble We wanted to meet her and ask a few questions. That's all I'm through All right, then go on in the house. I'm gonna try and get some rest If it's all right, then show him mr. Goldie. Thanks very much. All right Yes, I couldn't help very much This is kind of a great bad shape find an art like that Then they won't let her go and see How is it, you know pretty bad? I saw him a little while ago Was he making sense seem to be Before the ambulance picked him up. He was kind of off all you could say was some guy shot him But he didn't know something about the car keys But he told me to sell rotten neighborhood just for a rotten people He isn't gonna die easy. They don't know You didn't tell Velma that did you know what I think somebody should because he reads it in the papers One of the dangers is a wound. He got in the last one No long two slugs. He took this afternoon. They take care of the other one. I think it was as bad as that Guess they better tell her a Friend of ours for a long time Well, I'll see you later As I left the neighborhood I noticed two police cars so I knew Sergeant Wright's men were at work I was in his office a little later when two of the men brought a witness in This is mr. Dower Mrs. Cole, how do you do this go? It was nice of you to come in I thought it was my duty the other policemen wanted to know if I was in my backyard near the alley when there was that shooting And I was how far from the bull recast you live, Mr. Cole There's two houses between theirs and where I live those policemen told me they were looking for somebody who saw a man Running down the alley. I've got a garden up back and that's where I was when I heard the shots I didn't see no man running, but I saw a car come from that way Which way do you live from the bullwrecks, Mrs. Cole down from them South that is and did you recognize this car? No, I didn't I didn't see the man in it either But it came from that way. Did you see anybody else in the alley at the time? No at first after I saw the car I thought it was backfired, but then when I heard about the trouble I remembered the car Oh, we're glad you did miss Cole. There's a car traveling faster slow. Would you say oh? About media might say they can't go too fast in the alley on account of a chuck hole. What color was it and a brown I don't know much about what kind it could be. I think you call it a sedan Anything else down? All right now The officers you came in with will want to ask you a few more questions, and then they'll drive you home, Mrs. Cole No, I want to thank you very much. I hope I've been some help. Good night, Mrs. Cole. Good night Nothing fits dollar Three witnesses on the other side of Baldrick's place swear they would have seen anybody running in the alley at that time And this one says she saw a car leaving. It's still early. I guess you better phone the hospital find out if we can see him Yeah, yep I'll put out an alarm on a brown or tan sedan and then I'll call Hello, Baldrick How you feeling now? How come they tell me I'm not strong enough to see my wife and then they let you guys come in? I want to see her. It'll only be a few minutes. We thought you'd like to know what they found out about the shooting. Sure, I would Enough to make us wonder if you're telling the truth about what happened I don't get you three witnesses who live in your block say that a man didn't run down the alley after the shooting Well, I can't help what they said can I but another witness said she saw a car drive away The more people we questioned Baldrick the less possible it seemed that this man you talk about could have shot you They'd have no reason to lie, so We've come back to you You haven't been telling the truth. Have you why should I do anything else? What about this car that drove away? I didn't see any car. I don't know anything about now Look, you've been evasive about this from the beginning You told me you couldn't remember but you had time to think before dolly got here and you gave him the story about this Man we think you're protecting whoever shot you Baldrick. That's crazy. We want you to tell us who it was I can't that I don't know you won't tell us who is in the car leave me alone All right, Baldrick Do you want to protect whoever tried to kill you? I guess it's your business But we'll then who it was wait a minute. I Deserve to get it. I don't make any difference to you. It does to me I don't want to hurt anybody anymore That's why I won't take it easy bolder. There was only one way to stop me from hurting people. What were you doing? my XY You were still seeing her. I guess there was only one way to stop me. I Was hurting her husband my wife Was her husband in the car Baldrick any group at a call the doctor was her husband in the car Yes, but I don't want to hurt him anymore Maybe we shouldn't have questioned them. I'll call dr. Carp We will return you to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar in just a moment Johnny dollars listening fans will want to make a special note of Johnny's time change Beginning this coming Wednesday June 20th over most of these same CBS station Follow yours truly Johnny dollar on his San Francisco search for a missing medical a puzzling case Johnny calls the Malcolm wishmatter Enjoy it when you hear yours truly Johnny dollar moving to Wednesday nights on CBS starting on the 20th next Wednesday And now with our star Edmund O'Brien we return you to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar Without a bold Rick nearing the point of death the next move was obvious to bring in a man. He had accused an arrange of formal identification accusation Sergeant right called two other officers to stand by the hospital and in case we were too slow get a death bed statement Then right and I left The dying man's first wife Anna had married a man named Thomas hood We found their house in the slightly more desirable neighborhood, but not too far from where the bold Rick's left Are you Mrs. Hood? Here you are Here you are police Your husband at home. Oh, he's out of town. What's the matter? I think we'd better come in and talk to you then What do you want with me? We want to talk to you about Arthur Boldrick. What did he do? He was shot this afternoon Now may we come in all right? This is mr. Dollar. He's a private investigator. This is hood. Oh, he's dead. No, but he's not expected to live Why did you come here? We just left boldrick short time ago. He told us your husband shot him. No No, he didn't he said your husband was out of the city. Mrs. Hood. When did he leave this afternoon? Why did he leave? He went on business? He's a salesman. He's out of town. He couldn't have shot a turn to the leave Afternoon, I think about four left this house about four I think that's what it was boldrick was shot a little after 5 30 between then and the quarter to six Your husband's caught a sedan or a coupe of wine. What color a sedan driven by a man and described as brown or tan was seen Leaving the alley near where boldrick was shot. It was seen a few seconds after the shots were heard You mean he approved of your saying boldrick boldrick Doesn't make any difference except my seeing him didn't have anything to do with whatever happened Tom didn't shoot him because he didn't know about it and he mustn't know he mustn't find out in spite of what you thought It looks like he did now Now where is he mrs. Hood? We want to reach him tonight. I won't tell you He didn't have anything to do with it And I can't let him find out about art to me. This is her according to the doctors boldrick won't live through the night This is going to turn into a murder case What we say to your husband about you is an important the least Very few things are what it's murder. He didn't know he didn't have anything to do with it When do you expect to hear from him? I don't know Sometimes he's phone, but never the first day out Usually to say he'd have to stay out longer than he expected to We'll have to have more than that We'll get in touch with this company I If you talk to him all you're gonna do is bust up our lives. That's all you're gonna do Then I guess that's what we'll have to do You ready to go dollar Time we got back to the hospital after boldrick was dead He had made a deathbed statement in the game that named Thomas Hood is the man who had shot him Well, Sergeant Wright went to work on locating him. I stopped by the boldrick house The next door neighbor will wheeler I got a lot of drinks down there and she finally went to sleep I don't know what kind of shape she'd be in if you woke her up. I'm a father of that Her husband died about an hour ago And I sort of knew I guess after I talked to you the second row dark sure gonna miss him He had a lot of false everybody knew about those I guess too a lot of good things about him, too Hardly anybody knew about them Anymore on the guy that killed him he changed his story. He finally told us Tom hooded shot him Tom who'd Dan this husband? Don't get it What? Well, he's holding one story and then changing the first one didn't hold up Please could find plenty of people who would have seen a man running away, but nobody that did But a woman saw a car that checked with the one hood drives. I guess you knew about boldrick and his ex-wife Yeah, I still don't see why he told the first story and then changed I don't either he said he deserved to get shot that he'd hurt a lot of people and there was no other way to stop him Said he didn't want to hurt hood anymore That's why he didn't say it was him That's what I mean about the bad side of him and the good side did his wife know about Anna I'm not sure since I never talked to her. Oh Oh You think he told that first story to keep her from finding out it could be The police will call her in the morning when she hears about it tell her there are some insurance papers about a sign with you The next morning when I phone sergeant right at 10 things did pretty much the same Thomas hood hadn't been located He supposedly had left for Boston where he was expected to check into the Royce Hotel He never reached there The Massachusetts police were alerted and we were sure that part of it was covered I got the rights office at 1045 and at 1130 we were thrown a curve My name is man tell I read in the paper this morning, but they shoot not north yesterday Well, my friend said I was a fool for coming in the sea But I work on radio repairs and I deliver to set to some people in the next block that afternoon What time did you deliver it mr. Mandel? 530 a little after I read how some woman saw a chance of then going down that alley and you were looking for it Well, I'm pretty sure that was mine Yeah, I did you're sure at the time you can ask the people who want to set their name is Olson the next block You followed the alley through the next block. Yes, I did the same way that game said did you hear the shots? No, but I think I know why that alley is bumpy and I got a few loose boats in that car It's pretty noisy, but the car that they'm spotter was mine. I'm sure that Very thanks, mr. Mandel. That's very interesting information It was interesting especially in the face of bolderick's death bed statement As far as we could see mr. Mandel had no reason to lie Sergeant right now. I went back over everything we had when we finished There are only a few points from which to start the investigation again This is sergeant right mr. Wheeler. I don't believe you've met how do you do I do we hope Mrs. Bolderick is able to see us. Yeah, I think she's in pretty good shape What is anything new at develop? Well, I would think so mr. Wheeler Where's mrs. Bolderick? She's here in this one. I want to talk to you Velma Serious sergeant sergeant, right? Hello, Mrs. Bolderick. We want to cover this as quickly as possible You know that your husband accused Thomas Hurdup shooting him It wasn't if you believe it said so you knew about him and his ex-wife No Not till Will told me about what he said when he was dying It's your event. I He never talked about Anna Well in spite of the fact that your husband accused hood right up to the time he died It looks like hood didn't shoot him. I Why would he say it must have been that he was trying to protect someone But if you didn't know about him and Anna he couldn't have been protecting you Because you wouldn't have had any reason to kill your husband. So who do you think he was protecting mrs. Bolderick? I don't know wait a minute. I told so many stories. I I don't get it the last one depended on a car I told you about it, but it turned out not to be the one that hood drove What was the matter with it? Well, it looks like he was just trying too hard only one or two people could have really seen Whoever killed Bolderick. We've covered the alley both ways We've covered the houses across the alley where the killer could have slipped through This house and yours wheeler The only ones we didn't bother to check. I can't do any more will wait a minute. What's the matter? All right, all right, all right Wasn't my idea I went as far as I could it was his idea was it you he was protecting mr. Bolderick I mean anyone would have done it. He's over too far because of Anna Much to play I couldn't stay away from her but she could have made him in yesterday with her husband out of town It reached a peak. We all know it would you seem to know quite a bit about it. We learn Yeah I'm in it too. I Lied along with our It's not will fall he didn't because he was a friend. He didn't lie. He just I Killed our that's what's important isn't it? Yes, it is mrs. Bolderick. He was going to see her Even told me And I couldn't help but I guess I Volid him out and shot him An item to miscellaneous 75 dollars expense account total 77 dollars and 30 cents remarks According to precedent mrs. Bolderick will probably get one of those widows specials I'm free to 20 on second-degree murder That should have her out of prison in a little over two years So the company has that length of time to figure out ways and means to avoid payment of her claim yours truly Johnny dollar Beginning next week yours truly Johnny dollar will be heard on Wednesday at 9 o'clock eastern daylight saving time Consult your papers for the time change in your area Yours truly Johnny dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and is written by gill dowd with music by Wilbur hatch Edmund O'Brien can soon be seen in the Paramount Pictures production war path Featured in tonight's cast for Edgar Barrier Polly Bear Jeanette Nolan John McIntyre Wally mayor Virginia Greg Jean Bates and Harry Lang Yours truly Johnny dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by Jaime del Valle This is Dick cutting inviting you to join us next Wednesday at 9 o'clock eastern daylight saving time when Edmund O'Brien returns as yours truly Johnny dollar Really novel crime-busting switch Instead of sure she left them it takes a fem to do the detective work on tonight's action-packed gangbusters manhunt on most of these same CBS station in This fast-paced gangbusters chase it takes a lady detective to trap a shrewd safecracking Trio when her male counterparts fail to get the evidence And I'll stay tuned for five minutes of the latest news is CBS the Columbia broadcast