 From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny dollar you the mr. Dollar from Hartford. That's right. Who's this Jim Acons Vicksburg police department? I'm sending a car over to pick you up, mr. Dollar some questions. I want to ask you about that young lady you were with last night I hope you weren't planning on leaving town. Of course. I wasn't I canceled my plane reservations last night You tell me where you're located. I'll come down by myself. No sense getting head up You aren't in your own backyard now. You know I know where I am the town where a girl died of my arms If you can stop getting lacy with me for a minute, maybe you can tell me who she was Because I'd like to talk to her family. I was the last one to see her alive. Who is she? We haven't identified her yet. To us. She's still Jane Doe Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expensive Count America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar location Vicksburg, Virginia to To special investigator Johnny dollar The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the plantation matter a real mystery about a very mysterious girl Who happened to be dead? Expense account item 5 10 cents one morning newspaper which carried a two-inch story and a half inch space About an unidentified girl who had died at Vicksburg emergency hospital the previous evening I was reading it over in the lobby of the plantation hotel when one of the Vicksburg police force stepped up to the desk and asked for my room number He was a swarthy man in a black suit plain clothes type well I beg pardon. I'm Johnny dollar. Oh Jim Acons we talked on the phone a little while ago. You said you were sending a car Well, you sounded so huffy about everything. I thought I'd drop over myself to say hello. I got the car outside Okay, okay, let's go where you from dollar Hartford, Connecticut. I'm an insurance investigator Look, I talked to a man in your burglary division yesterday about the burglary They had at the hotel yesterday. I was sent down here by Eastern Seaboard Casualty Insurance. You got any identification on you Here okay Looked like who you say you are Now just what was your connection with that girl who died at the emergency hospital? I met her outside in the parking lot last night back at this hotel. She was with a man I don't know who he was. They were having an argument. I stopped when she asked me to help her I uh, I got rid of the man and took her inside here and bought her a drink Then I started to put her in a cab to send her home But she got sick before the cab could take off so I took her to the hospital She died there And that mr. Acons is it how long did you know her? About a half hour all told she didn't tell you her name. No where she lived. No Name of this man. She was within the parking lot. Who was he? I haven't the slightest idea Well, what kind of trouble was she having with him? She didn't tell me that either. I didn't ask her But you sat in the cocktail lounge over there and you had a drink or two one one No name no address no nothing Well, maybe we better do a lot talking downtown Anything you say let's go Egan's turned out to be a lieutenant It took him the whole ride downtown to thaw out and make up his mind that I was just as concerned about what had happened to the Unidentified girl as he was He rephrased but asked me the same questions in front of a stenographer when we got down to his office He was still asking me questions when he led me in the police stenographer to the basement of the building the morgue And she didn't say anything to you about herself before she collapsed. Oh, no all I know is what I've told you You're sure positive Hey, look, let me ask you one. I put up with yours for over an hour now What killed her? Well, you know no, we're still trying to find out What'd you talk about while you were having a drink? She asked me for help That's all it seems she needed somebody else to do the talking at the time So I did it. I made jokes and trying to get it a laugh. I was a great big cut up It's odd me if you wanted won't do much good Still got some things to find out It sure is This is the girl you were with last night Yes, you're positive. I'm positive Okay, dolly you want to sign this for the records Well, that's that's good. All right, Sam, you can send this on upstairs. We'll be up pretty soon Now dolly did anyone there at the hotel bar seem to know her? I don't know cocktail wait for somebody like that I don't know Well, I do we asked around knowing that ever seen in the plant agent hotel before Tell me something dolly ever worked on one like this No, not quite Okay, then I'm gonna tell you what we're up against All the clothes she was wearing was standard brand stuff mostly come from stores downtown some of them New York I'm gonna take us a long time to check them out. We may not be able to trace them at all We're gonna work on the cleaning marks too, and that'll take time And from what you say and from what she said and that wasn't much. She's probably a local girl Somebody's wondering about her, but nobody come in make out a report asking for I hate to do it I might have to take a picture run it in tonight's paper just find out who she is I could be pretty lousy for somebody it's a lousy business I Thought you could help me darling. How well two things One that bud she was with he was arguing without in the parking lot you say that meant he must have had a car out there But you didn't bother to take a look at no no I did and another thing now wears her put I don't know well She must have powdered her nose when she sat down to have that drink with you every woman does She must have reached for a cigarette or something in that place. So where is that place? I don't know Now you see you see how much help you out of me. No, just second Morgue Lieutenant Acons Oh, yeah, put them on while Lieutenant Acons talked on the telephone. I'm at a cigarette After that I tried to interest myself in a calendar that was hanging on the wall After that I tried tying both shoelaces But wherever my eyes roved around that white tiled room somehow They always came back to rest on the quiet still form of the girl who'd asked me for help By any standard she was attractive fine golden hair spun out a smooth white skin. I Remember her eyes had been very big and very brown Now they were closed But she looked more asleep than than what she was She looked as though she might wake up any minute and answer me if I said out loud what I was saying to myself silently How can I help you? Let's get out of here dollar Okay by me There was a lab on the phone Had a little trouble with analysis one analysis what kind of trouble identifying They're called in a toxicologist in the University a drug called perimethol killed her perimethol. That's a new one on me Yeah, me too petrol based stuff Now they figured had been in her stomach an hour or so before she collapsed Could be a suicide judging from the way she acted and talked to you What about the boyfriend? Well, that seems to fit in okay Told you she was disappointed in him didn't she well Sometimes women want to end it all in front of a guy that having trouble with It'll probably turn out now you talk like a copy can that's what I am so simple make it fit into your formula This girl knocked herself off because she lost her boyfriend This girl killed herself because she lost a job fill it in fill it in give it off the wall dollar. Whoa. What's the matter with you? What are you getting there? Oh? Oh, I don't forget it. What are you doing? No now wait a minute Wait just a minute. I'm not all cop dollar. I Saw her laying there too And I can see she was a nice girl something went awful wrong with her if I'd been the last one to be with and talk to her live I'd Probably be taking the same way you are But take it easy Sorry lieutenant Buy you some breakfast He did but it didn't help much And after that we shook hands and parted Expensive on item six two dollars cab fare back to the Plantagen Hotel. I Went up to my room packed my bags called the airport and made arrangements to leave on the six o'clock plane There's nothing more I could do about the case nothing more at all. It was police business. I Had time before the plane for a quiet drink at the hotel bar What's your pleasure, sir? Oh some of that little water. Yes, sir You were you on duty last night by any chance yes, sir. Why are you asked? I just wondered if you happen to remember me No, sir Were you at the bar at that table over there with a lady a blonde girl in a green suit? I'm sorry. I just don't remember Well, here you go. Thanks here. Keep the change. Well, thank you sir Now I probably waited on you, but well so many people, you know, yes, sir Why ask the lady lost her purse thought maybe it might have been turned in here. No, sir We didn't get any places last night a couple money clips is all Not much in them either You're talking about the lady who died later on ain't you sir? Yeah Yeah, I am Police officers was in here asking the same questions. I thought they would be You were policemen too No, I was a friend of hers. Oh Well, then you should call the police. They still trying to find out her name So am I hmm? Well, I thought you said she was a friend of yours. I didn't happen to know her name It didn't seem important to ask it last night. I Just don't understand. I can tell you one thing I might have saved her life if I'd asked her name and some other things Yes, sure Expense account item seven three dollars three drinks. I sat there for almost an hour talking to the bartender Once when he stepped out to the kitchen I went over to the booth where I'd sat the night before with the unidentified dead girl I searched down in the cushions behind the table under the chairs hoping the missing purse might still be around. I found nothing Then I had another idea I left went out to the parking lot where I'd first seen her Get your car, mister. No, I don't have one. Oh well. Hey look last night. I was out here with a lady I I met her in a man here in the parking lot about over there where that Chevy is So what well the lady lost her purse last night. I just wanted if it might have been lost out here someplace Well, it might have been nobody turned anything into me Want to take a look sure good What time last night all around ten maybe a few minutes after a lot of cars in and around that time of night Did you look last night? I didn't know I was missing until this morning About here you say, huh? Here's the Chevy. Yeah. Well, let's take a look. Yeah, make it a good Here's a purse. Hey, you're in real luck. Is that hers? It was hers all right a green suede purse the same color as the green suit you've been wearing It still carried the faint sweet odor of her perfume as I remembered it. I looked inside But there was nothing to tell me her name lipstick calm a $10.00 balance of small change and one other item a 32 automatic recently fired Oh, here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow a dead girls 38 automatic comes to 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 and join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking