 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Bob Steele Eastern Trust, how's New York fine, but I haven't found Lorraine Broderick yet How about your lead? What was his name dameron? He hasn't seen her since Christmas Eve a couple of years ago She walked out on him with 6500 bucks What now you want to keep on with it mr. Steele sure we have to pay her off even if it is only $1,500 you sound like this was all the farther you want to go it might be at that Look a sweet old man left a nice little girl $1,500 Apparently I'm looking for a grown woman who isn't very nice anymore Yeah, I guess so okay steel. I'm still on the case Tonight in every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar location New York City, New York To the Eastern Trust insurance company claims division Hartford, Connecticut The following is an account of expenditure is during my investigation of the broad rick matter Subject Lorraine Broderick object to locator and payoff claim results Disillusioning more expenses item 9 3 bucks care fare from the plush offices of William Dameron to a filling station out on Long Island To check his story of Lorraine's disappearance a major oil company owned and operated the filling station where Lorraine Broderick had Last been seen their payroll records named three attendants on duty Christmas Eve that is in 1953 Item 10 $28 more cab fare and don't squawk about it I located and interviewed all three in clothes fine statement of Edward Quinlan remember that chick Better looking in this picture. I'll tell you that She drove in with this old guy Dameron you said yeah Well, he hadn't been away from the car 20 seconds before she was out walking down the street as fast as she could long dress and all When he come back and asked what had happened to her I told him So he went and sat in his car for maybe a couple hours waiting for to come back. I knew she was gone for good You know it to muster But he waited That felt sorry for him Poor old geezer even if he did drive a kid She shouldn't have run out on him like that Christmas Eve and all Pauline Dameron Woodfield sister of William Dameron living up in Westchester County verified her brother's story Lorraine Broderick had left all of her clothes and bags at her house Mrs. Woodfield had not heard from her or seen her since Christmas Eve 1953 a Check of the luggage revealed no information that would be helpful in locating Lorraine Broderick The following morning at the New York Police Department downtown. I requested a missing persons investigation on Lorraine Broderick She was booked in under an alias Jane Brown when I got the court. She gave her right name Lorraine Broderick What was the charge sergeant mr. Meener drunk disturbing a piece 25 bucks a night court April 25th 1953 at the only time she made the blotter. Yep. What's the address sergeant? 1346 yardly that's two years. Thanks At the address on yardly I learned that Lorraine Broderick had moved 18 months before Again, there was no forwarding address, but the landlady turned out to be quite talkative. I'm glad she moved away from here Mr. Dalla, I'd like to help you find her, but I'm awful glad she moved away. Why do you say that Mrs. Gaines noisy? Parties all the time. I run a quiet place, you know Yeah, I'm sure you do when she first come here to rent the apartment. I thought she was the quiet type Nice she looked like she was just out of finishing school or something like that Oh, she couldn't have been more than 20 years old. Well, maybe a little more 22 She told me she was a secretary. She worked in Manhattan. Well, I let her have the apartment of course She paid a rent in advance in cash But once she was in that was a different story. Yeah, did did she tell you where she worked in Manhattan? No, no, she never quite got a round of mention in that Anyway, she couldn't work very hard all the dates. She had night after night Do you happen to know any of the Mrs. Gaines? I do not Big noisy parties. Well, did she go with any particular man? Smart little girl like that sticking to just one man. I don't know whether she was very smart at all Was she friendly with anybody in the building? Nope any idea where she might have gone from here? Nope all I could say is I'm glad She don't live here no more I Went back to police headquarters It had occurred to me that hardly anyone is ever arrested for being drunk and disturbing the peace alone I was right the night court files revealed that Lorraine Broderick had been arrested with five other people Three men and two women. I took down their names and began to check them out Number three down the line was a man named Tyler in the hosiery business. Yes He remembered Lorraine Broderick very well. No, he hadn't seen her for six months, but he could tell me where she lived He'd seen her going in and out of an apartment on 61st Street several times. He gave me the address Yes, sir, may I help you? I'm looking for a miss Lorraine Broderick Broderick. Yes, I'm sorry, sir We have no one by that name registered here. That's funny. I thought at first you were going to say Lorraine Bradley We had a Mrs. Bradley here at one time. Oh Did Mrs. Bradley look anything like this picture? Yes, that's Mrs. Bradley Bradley, huh? How long ago did she move out? Four months ago anyhow, you have a forwarding address and no, sir. I don't I wish I did Mrs. Bradley wrote us a bad check for a rent. We've been trying to locate her. Did you report it to the police? Yes, sir. I understand. She's been quite active along those lines. They're looking for her to For the third time in one day, I was back at police headquarters this time inquiring about a Lorraine Bradley There were five wants on her for passing bad checks Gave it up about four months ago here in New York looks like then we got a buzzer from Chicago She was there for a couple of weeks wrote about six hundred dollars in wallpaper San Francisco people are looking for her to There's something came in yesterday last job in Santa Barbara three days ago Expense account item 11 $4.05 one long-distance phone called a mr. Steele of Eastern Trust in Hartford Yeah, it's probably just a phony no record of a marriage in New York City to anyone that name. I looked I don't know Item 12 38 dollars hotel board and miscellaneous while in New York City Item 13 258 dollars and 60 cents New York to Santa Barbara a little town by the Pacific that impressed me is not caring one thing about the rest of the world Sun see a pleasantly crowded harbor some sprawling hotels to lush green golf courses and acres and acres of smug expensive homes At the police station a sergeant Martin was out So I went over to the harbor end to meet the latest victim of Lorraine Broderick's talents a hotel operator named Harrington tall gray-haired slack sport shirt suntan and sandals I Yeah, I suppose I'm avoiding this business and your questions because I Still feel quite chagrin about this whole thing pretty understandable mr. Harrington on the face of it Do you you think I'd been the hotel business 30 seconds instead of 30 years where she took me? Well, if it's any comfort, she's done the same thing in several cities and as many hotels No comfort. Thank you. She was that good, huh? Brother. She was the best Pranced in here as big as life probably didn't have a nickel in the purse What's more for the whole four days she was here. She didn't break stride once Only the best of everything I see she she gave you a check for eight hundred and thirteen dollars. Is that right painfully, right? And I took it no questions Every night in the dining room. She'd order champagne special dishes I'll give you some idea of how she carried on. Yeah, I get the idea I've seen my share of grift isn't bad check artist, but She tops them all a fume clothes luggage conversation. Can I ask you a question? Humiliated already go ahead. She checked in here alone registered as mrs. Lorraine Bradley Beverly Hills, right? That's right Well, now didn't strike you as odd that a woman would check in a place like this a resort hotel alone stay four days And meet no one see no one you're wrong. She didn't keep to herself Became friends with at least half a dozen guests in the place And the way she was throwing my money around why not picked up all the tabs she threw me off right from the start Let's talk about that start at the top place well She showed up last Wednesday night in the cab loaded down with luggage probably wrote a bad check for that someplace probably See you came to swing you into the lobby with the cabbie following her told the night clerk Do you want to see me? When I came down the stairs. Yo Harry ran up kiss me asked me how my wife was You beat that no But all those tricks that your mind plays on you I suppose are you I? Actually thought I did remember of him somewhere pretty good. What was her story? She said she was on her way back from Lake Tahoe Want to rest up Something about just getting a divorce being awarded three thousand a month alimony That impressed me. I wouldn't press anyone mr. Harrington Did she make up any kind of a story about where she'd met you before no no story, but I got the impression and of course she saw to it that she had stopped here before I Wasn't all together a boob. I did check her home address in Beverly Hills There was a Robert Bradley listed their same address she gave Later on I found out that he's in Europe with his wife and children, but his name was in the book No, he is say getting back to that part about her being familiar That's just a good trick on her part. Oh, yeah, I did think I'd known her from somewhere And well she also arranged it so that I was too embarrassed to ask her specifically And all honesty I suppose I wanted to have known her can you explain that She was about the most beautiful thing I ever saw She walked through that door right now told me none of this was true. I probably believe her Do you have a copy of her hotel account? I'd like to look it over why all the phone calls mostly Maybe she contacted someone we can trace No phone calls Here This check was drawn on a bank in Beverly Hills. Was it personalized? No Maybe I should have thought something about it on a particular Well, here's this much. I can't stand to look it over. It makes me kind of sick $813 I spent another hour with mr. Harrington as he distastefully covered the items on the bill She'd paid for with that bad chick Later that afternoon I met with sergeant Martin Santa Barbara police who reported that a woman answering Lorraine's description had passed bad checks in Burling games Santa Maria and Ohio, California Expense account item 14 102 dollars and 85 cents Transportation of Monterey and Santa Cruz where I interviewed two other hotel managers who would file complaints Their stories were pretty much the same as Harrington's down to the pretended familiarity the divorce and alimony details Item 15 $4 and 15 cents long-distance phone call steal again in Hartford Yeah, mr. Steel. I've been hopping around all over the state policeman in Santa Barbara called you're trying to find you a sergeant Martin He says he's got a line on her. He's done it again I'm down a Malibu Beach the man who runs the seaside in there found out her check was bad 15 minutes after she left I get started. You shouldn't be more than an hour behind her mr. Steel. I'm on my way There'll be another intriguing episode of the Broderick matter tomorrow tomorrow a long look at what seven years can do to a woman's life Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is Transcribed in Hollywood written by John Dawson. 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