 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar I sent you a copy of Lansing's insurance examination this morning. Did you get it all right? Yes, I did doctor Thank you very much. Just looked it over and I take it everything's all right It's an exact duplicate of the one sent to the insurance company and that part's okay But it doesn't straighten out matters on this case. I'm not concerned with your case particularly I just hope you're through bothering me, Mr. Dollar. Not quite What does that mean? I want another hour of your time doctor I want you to go over to the coroner's office with me and look at mr. Lansing's body To identify it. I've got to know if he's the man you examined or not about an hour Doctor I can get an injunction 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 account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar location Tucson, Arizona To the Universal Adjustment Bureau home office Hartford, Connecticut The following is a further accounting of expended jurors during my investigation of the Lansing fraud Or was it a fraud? Expense account item three ten dollars loan the Jim Carter who was working with me on the case Thanks, buddy. I'll pay it back soon as I can cash check been so busy. I haven't had time How's your doctor friend? Well, I'm gonna pick him up pretty soon and go over to the coroner's office I want him to look at James Lansing and see if he's the same man He passed on the insurance examination two years ago Either we insured the wrong man or dr. Mayhood examined the wrong man. I don't know which Have you done so far? Well, besides what I told you yesterday about dr. Mayhood. Yeah, well, he's in healthy financial shape Not good bad, but you know healthy his house halfway paid for he owns one car upright There's eight months to go on another one all of which doesn't mean anything if he phoned up an insurance examination Yeah, that's true kiddo. That's true, you know, I've been thinking this would have worked But James Lansing died on the street in the city performed an autopsy death Manutrition for a private physician without an autopsy hanging over him. It could have been heart failure or most anything Jim I think we can do whatever we want around here step on anybody's toes make any kind of noise We like with this kind of situation to investigate. We don't have to be careful easy Johnny Lansing's body's in the morgue There's no doubt that it's him exhibit a but we aren't sure that his $50,000 policy was issued legitimately What are you getting to call the state insurance commission Jim let him know we think this is a bad one from top to bottom Let him know that so that when the beneficiary starts to complain they can tell her It might scare and whoever helped her into being more ridiculous than they've been already I'm gonna hold off Johnny. Why till I see how you and dr. Mayhood make out at the morgue Expense account item for $2 cab fare from my hotel to the Valley National Building I picked up a scowling dr. Mayhood and we drove over to the coroner's office Mr. Dollar, this is a waste of your time on mine. Sorry to inconvenience you doctor, but it's necessary I suppose so and I suppose you have a job to do but I have a job to Mr. Frank's the insurance broker telephones me and says he's sending over a man for a physical I do the physical it's immaterial to me whether the man I examine is qualified for insurance or not My job is to examine him. It's up to the insurance company to determine it Yeah, Johnny dollar. This is dr. Mayhood. I believe sergeant younger phone. Yeah, yeah Dollar it's up to the insurance company to do what they want to about the exam. I understand all that then don't ignore it with your high-pressure tactics Because examination is the only part I have to do with his business I Examine the man named James Lansing two years ago. You have a copy of my findings on that examination I stand on them and don't forget it. I don't forget for one minute Now or do I forget that what you found and what an autopsy surgeon found they're completely different opinions on Lansing's physical condition There's a body pull a sheet back, please. Yeah Well, doctor I Called my lawyer after you called me today. I won't be intimidated mr. Doubt you aren't being intimidated doctor You're being asked to cooperate then maybe I don't like the way you ask for cooperation My attorney will be in my office to represent me if you bother me any more about this Your attorney can't refute what's already been established doctor You pronounce James Lansing in good physical condition two years ago on autopsy report shows that when he died two days ago He was in very bad physical condition So bad that two years ago He couldn't possibly have gone through a careful examination in your office without some of the symptoms being detected by you Where is your medical degree and what? Why don't you shut up and take a look and tell me if you've ever seen this man before I won't be spoken to that way just a minute I'll get an injunction, and I'll charge malpractice and negligence if I have to oh On what ground you're being stupid doctor All you have to do is look at that corpse and tell me if he's the man you examined in your office two years ago well, I Don't know whether I've seen this man before or not well does he look familiar in any way I can't say I might have examined this man. I don't know this is James Lansing doctor The name you filled in on your physical examination for the insurance. I know that is this the man you examine I don't know I honestly don't know It was two years ago if I see a man for three hours in the course of a physical examination Am I expected to remember his face or any details about him two years later? Is there any way you can determine whether or not this is the man you examined in your office? No Not that I know Is there any way you can determine it believe me doctor I can try And I did try That afternoon over the protests of dr. May hood I took all of the personnel connected with his office down to the more a nurse the receptionist the x-ray technician and a laboratory worker None of them recognized the body of James Lansing Expense account item five ten cents one phone call to Jim Carter Who'd spent the day preparing the necessary for us for the insurance commission and gathering data on Lansing's beneficiary? He's too mad too belligerent Jim Well, and maybe he just strikes me as an inept doctor Well, let's say may hoods way down on my list. He examined a man who said he was James Lansing. It could have been anybody I'm on my way out to Lansing's old address. He had an apartment on the other side of town. I want to see how he's lived out there Yeah, go ahead The manager of James Lansing's apartment house happened to be a woman named Anita Regan She also happened to be willing to go back down to the coroner's office with me and view the mortal remain Have you ever seen this man before Mrs. Regan? Yes. Yes, sir. That's Mr. Lansing apartment 34. You're positive Oh, yes, I've seen him every day for almost two years. Okay I want to get out of here. I don't know why I'm acting this way. He doesn't look any different now than he's looked before I've seen him stretched out like that a hundred times one. I mean almost like that out stony Only I guess it's because I knew he was just drunk then not dead. Oh, I see. He was crazy carrying on the way he did Feels good to be out in the sunlight again. Yeah I'll take that smoke now. Oh, thank you Oh, Mr. Lansing used to get up around 10 every morning. He'd look awful, but he was always kind of nice polite, you know He'd be regular his clockwork He'd walk past my door and tip his hat and go right down to the store and come back in a little while with a sack of groceries A bottle of milk for his cat some donuts for himself and some booze And then he just lock himself up in his apartment and stay there all day drinking real alcoholic Yeah, well, I'd say so at least I wasn't surprised he starved to death. You can't live on whiskey He was fried to the ears by noon every day as long as I knew him. Mr. Lansing didn't work Well, I think he tried to sell real estate once a long time ago. Oh, but how could he I understand? He was a retired engineer or something like that. He pays rent. Oh, yes I always seem to have enough money to get along. Did he have any family Mrs. Regan? Well, I know he's got a sister living in town somewhere. What about his friends? He seemed to do all his drinking alone Say you're from the insurance company. You should know about his family Apparently there are a lot of things we don't know. Hmm a man named James Lansing moved into your apartment house two years ago He didn't work, but he had enough money for his rent and his liquor He also had enough money to buy some expensive insurance very expensive Somehow he passed an insurance examination and then he suddenly died. No one nothing just one beneficiary You'd all suppose somebody just gave him enough money to get along so he'd drink himself to death to you That's one way of looking at him, Mrs. Regan Poor poor man I spent another hour with Mrs. Regan gathering as much background as they could about the last two years of James Lansing's life I also spoke to the janitor of the building and two of the tenants They all verified the fact that Lansing had been drinking heavily for better than 18 months prior to his death No one seemed to know why Jim Carter had an answer. I talked to our man in LA Johnny Lansing lived there before he came to Tucson. He had several arrests for drunkenness never married one time He made his living as an engineer finally got fired for drinking on the job Yeah, it's just one of those chronic cases first arrest was back in 1939 How's the beneficiary holding up a sister? Yeah Well, Mrs. Kennedy was pretty upset when the insurance commission notified her We were in town making an investigation in digging and put out things like that She want to know how long it'll take this all comes second hand from the insurance commission Johnny a Broken ain't Hillary Frank's sole policy What have you got on him? Hillary Frank's has represented worldwide insurance in this area for 17 years You're stalling kiddo sure I'm stalling Jim Because we're right down to the meat of it now and it makes me sick There's only one person who stood to benefit by having James Lansing insured. That's the beneficiary his sister Arlene Kennedy. So Jim you know as well as I do somebody else had to take the physical examination and Dr. May Hood's office Someone had to help her arrange that Someone had to help her get Lansing signature on the policies. She couldn't have pulled it off by herself without gumming it up She had to have expert help Hillary Frank. Yeah, Hillary Frank's 17 years broker worldwide insurance company, okay The salesman's the first one to come under suspicion in a case like this outside of the beneficiary So let's get on with all right Jim a one thing but Hillary Frank's knows we'll be looking at him and he knows he's under suspicion That worry you a little bit after 17 years in the business. He should also know where we're gonna be before we get there If he did something as dumb as try to work a $50,000 fraud on his own insurance company He might do something even dumber if so Well, what's the 38 Jim? Here From now on Johnny, you better carry this There'll be another intriguing episode of the Lansing fraud tomorrow tomorrow Well tomorrow, there's a bit of excitement when a pair of thieves start of falling out matter of fact a lot of excitement Join us. Won't you yours truly? Johnny dolly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure and join us tomorrow night same time and stations for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking