 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar room 1302 this is the desk clerk I have a call never mind the call you call the police call the police and tell them to hurry there's an attempted suicide up here Who is shut up and do as I tell you not just a minute. It won't do any good. It won't do you any good at all? Wait a minute. Please you who cares? I'm gonna jump 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 goes to Lee Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar location, Los Angeles, California To the East and Trust insurance company claims division Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditure is during my investigation of the broad rake matter an Old man in Hartford died and left $1,500 insurance money to a little girl who had been nice to him one afternoon back in 1943 my job get the money to her Even if she might take it and jump off the 13th floor ledge of a building It's cold out there Don't just think you should come inside. I'm gonna jump Stay away now. Don't try to grab me. All right. All right. I'll do anything you say Okay What are you doing taking off my coat? Standing out there. It must be cold Here you take my coat. Don't come close. I'm not I don't want your coat. All right, Lorraine I never saw you before in my life. You know my name. I've seen you. No, you haven't I Remember people and watch out just going to the light of cigarette. I Can light a cigarette. Can I? Do you want one? No Can I have one? You You policeman no, where did you see me in a picture in your high school annual at st. Charles st. Charles robot st. Charles What's your name Johnny dollar? Yes Let me see your face in the light over there Don't come near this window. Don't come near. I'll jump right down there. That's right there. Oh, you aren't from Hartford I never knew you You're lying to me. No, I'm not as room clerk of this hotel. I'm entitled to know. Oh What go on go on go on. Yes, yes, you call the police. No, but I will You tell him about the police. I don't care They can't stop me Nobody can stop me. No, I suppose not Lorraine You can jump anytime you want to I can't stop you And I wanted somebody to call the police. I want them all down there When the crowd is big enough, I'll jump and I'm not afraid to do it I'm not afraid. I know that Lorraine, why don't you come away from the edge? I won't hurt you Everybody hurts me you would too. Why do you want to jump Lorraine? I have my reasons There's a couple of people down there who see me. They're looking up here. They'd like to see me jump Look, they're stopping other people They'd all like to see me jump. I don't think they'd like to see that at all Lorraine. Oh, yes, they would Those people down there would love to see it happen You'd like it too. No, no, I wouldn't I want you to live Lorraine You're afraid aren't you? Yes, I am Dying is something all of us face If you die here tonight, it makes me a little afraid of dying. I don't like to be afraid of anything Neither do I You must be afraid of something. I'm not afraid of anything I've never been afraid of anything I'm gonna jump down there and that proves I'm not afraid. I don't believe you Lorraine. I Think you were afraid to love dr. Pollard and Hartford. I think you were afraid to marry William Dummer in the New York City I Think you've been afraid of everything and everybody that was good for you for a long long time Would you like to talk to a priest Lorraine? Look sometimes a priest can help you when you're all mixed worried I'm gonna jump off here any minute you'd say anything or try anything You know what you're doing here while you came here. I told you Lorraine. I've been looking for you Right they aren't coming I don't want anybody here people down there in the street now They're getting the big lights up here Lorraine Look at me Look toward me. I want to help you Lorraine Nobody wants to help me Nobody's ever wanted to help me you're wrong and why did mama and daddy die Why did they have to die? Why did uncle Jim die? Why was I left alone? Why didn't I have anybody? You did have somebody you had dr. Pollard if you wanted him you had William Dameron Did you meet William? Yes, sure last week He's still very much in love with you Lorraine After I stole money for the money meant nothing to me still loves you Lorraine. He told me so I don't love him. I never loved him. He thought so. He was just nice Why did you leave him that way? No good Never have been you know I've never been any good to anybody You're lying to me about him Would you like to talk to Dameron? I can get him on the phone. No, I don't want to talk to him or to anybody I know but after I jump you can tell him something for me sure Tell him I meant to send the money back to him. I didn't You can tell him I loved him He'd feel good if you told him that I think all right go back I don't care who you are go back or I'll jump right now close that hall door Do you want to see me jump you'll have to watch from the street down there with the others? I suppose so. I don't know Yeah, well we all look foolish at one time or another it passes Yes, yeah, you look foolish You're not going through with us You know that for the first time in my life, I know exactly what I want to do how I want to do it. I'm going to jump Somebody's in the roof out here. They have a net Big net from what I know about you. I thought you always knew pretty much what you wanted to do in life I knew what I wanted in life. I never knew anything It's all bunched up Mom and daddy died I should have died too I Should have been with mama and daddy when they were killed in the car well Won't be long. I'll be with them. I Won't be tired anymore pretty soon Those men with a net up for Lorraine white wait for what? You said you talked to people who've known me Who know what I was and what I am Well, I didn't turn out the way they wanted me to did I I didn't even turn out the way I wanted to be Look at me Why should I wait one man had more faith in you than anybody else? It was an old man named John Smith. He sold papers back in Hartford old John Smith Lorraine you met him one day when you were a little girl you helped him sell his papers one afternoon It meant a lot in his life an awful lot. Do you remember him? Oh, you were 11 years old You lived on Cushing Street. Yes, I had a nickel and I bought a paper from that old man tobacco juice on his lips I Talked to him. He told me all about selling papers He said I was a very nice little girl He asked me my name and where I lived talked about school and About growing up. Tell me I grow up someday and be a lovely woman. He said Lovely woman It was very nice. He was the nicest man I ever knew And I only knew him that one afternoon. Where is he? He's dead Lorraine He left you all his money insurance money. It comes to $1,500 No Lorraine he wanted you to have it He worked very hard and sacrificed a great deal to make sure you'd have it It's all I Only that afternoon. It was an important afternoon here. Look Don't come closer. These prove I'm from the insurance company Here is the check. I won't make a move easy Expense account item 17 550 martinis. I needed them It was my first and I hope my last half hour with an intended suicide Attach find insurance check payable to Lorraine Broderick for $1,500 The psychiatrist to examine her believed that she will make a complete recovery in time Until such time. She's not classified as a responsible person. I Notified two parties of the events at the Wentmore hotel one mr. William Dameron in New York City who arrived in Los Angeles yesterday morning to Joseph Tappin Who has already secured legal counsel for Lorraine Broderick when she answers the bad check charges against her? As you know and matters like this Restitution is usually preferred to prosecution Expense account item 18 hundred and eighty five dollars transportation back to Hartford total 1132 dollars 14 cents yours truly Johnny dollar Remember, please. There'll be another intriguing story for you beginning next Monday night next week the Cronin matter a Matter of keeping a sweet old lady from carefully and deliberately losing her life Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar first truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bates Transcribed in Hollywood written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone heard in this week's cast were Eleanor Audley Barbara Eiler Virginia Greg Carlton young Harry Bartell Herbert Ellis John Vayner Marvin Miller Tony Barrett Frank Gerstle Chester Stratton and Lawrence Dubkin Musical supervision by Amarigo Marino Be sure to join us on Monday night same time in station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking You