 From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar. This is Paul Damon. Mr. Dollar. I was afraid you left town and I wanted to talk to you Mm-hmm. I wanted to thank you for your kindness about Amy and the way you handled Terry Was darn decent of you. Of course. I want to apologize for my attitude again Osmus is O'Connell terrible. I mean the papers this morning connected her sister Amy with murdering Belden and committing suicide I'm curious. How did you get to her? I found Amy's purse and there was a gun in it. I looked up the registration. Oh The murder gun. I don't know. I haven't turned it over to the police yet. Why? Because I still can't believe Amy Durand was the kind of girl who'd shoot a man and then take poison Tonight and every week day night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar location Vicksburg, Virginia To special investigator Johnny dollar for personal reasons in connection with the plant agent matter Expense account item 11 $15 legal fees for services rented by lawyer Sam O'Field No sound here dollar And here's it Okay, I guess that's it What now mr. O'Field this statement you've made to me clearly states your intentions in this matter your motives You attempted to help a girl who died in your company You had no idea she might have committed a murder or embezzled $10,000 you withheld evidence The gun you found in her purse in the hope of identifying her and saving her family some grief. I Hope you don't have to use this stuff. Well see I'm going to turn the gun in Now and you're coming with me. It's about time. Nothing personal son I think you did a lot of dumb things for her from what they're saying in the papers about her I don't think she deserved it But then we all make wrong guesses sometimes I suppose Let's get this over with Lawyer Sam O'Field accompanied me downtown the police headquarters where we sought out Lieutenant Acons and turned over the 38 automatics O'Field handed the statement over to him and he read it through Then he called in his ballistics man to make an immediate check of the gun when he'd done that Acons asked O'Field and myself to wait He left an hour later. He came back a lucky boy, darling First off, I'm gonna tell you that gun you've been withholding. That's the same weapon that killed the order the Clowns belted Okay, now you played it as safe as you could and you hired this lawyer to protect you when it came to turning it in Where you didn't need him Huh any other time I'd have put you in the poker so fast you to thought you was born there this time I'm feeling generous You can go Mr. O'Field me to you no charges against mr. Dollar of withholding information. No not this time I Got my Jane Doe identified. I know a motive for killing the auditor I know why she took the poison you generally don't get everything in the neat package like that. So I Feel generous and let's get out here dollar you get out. I won't talk to dollar Now stay and listen. It's okay mr. O'Field. I'm gonna get a lecture is on Are you sure? Yeah Call me later then Goodbye, Lieutenant. Yeah One thing more dollar we found an empty bottle of paramyth all in Amy Durant's medicine cabinet and that Centures that suicide part case you had in the doubts It's closed case uh-huh But you didn't help me close it dollar and you could have You worked with the police for years you were an officer yourself once what makes you think you can come down here and run around Doing all these things you've done get away with Why don't you turn that gun in with a price as soon as you found it all right? I'll tell you because I oh It doesn't make any difference now. I'm tenant. You've got your case and you're lucky dawn lucky boy I don't have you to Because you know just well as I do they can Okay, right away Now I got business to take care of Next time you're in my town You take it easy. I will But I don't think I'll ever come to your town again On general principles Well, I guess I know how you felt about that girl. I'm not gonna make any fuss about what you did But I don't think I'd let it pass a second time She sure didn't look the part that you know She didn't yeah happens that way sometimes What you told me about that kid sister hers trying suicide and so forth after she lost her husband well Amy Doran had a good motive for stealing that money if motive can ever be good I was just on my way to see you lieutenant I'll be back in my office in a couple of minutes. You can go on in wait, mr. Dameron. I'm glad I saw you mr. Dollar. I think there's something I should explain to you You'd be interested in this too lieutenant Mr. Dollar saw me arguing with Amy Doran in a parking lot at the plant agent hotel last night She just told me about the shortage in accounts. She hadn't told me about killing the auditor. I Wanted to know that I was racking my brain trying to find a way to get hold of some money to make up the shortage Was always very fond of Amy. I Wondered mr. Dollar if I could give you a check huh something for your kindness Nothing. Thanks. Well, I I'd like to you did something very decent now. Oh Well, I suppose you'll be leaving soon Goodbye, and thanks again. I'll be in your office lieutenant. All right Got to him too if it's any comfort What was that business in the parking lot? Oh, well, I hit him. He was arguing with it. That's all You weren't the only one trying to help a dollar him and then there was somebody else Huh a bank we found a certified check for ten thousand dollars. Name of Doran's apartment National Trust in New York issued three days ago. I Wired the head cashier in New York. He said Amy Doran phoned him long distance requested the loan Seems her folks when they were alive had a good pull and a woman to hold it And this isn't right She could have covered that shortage. I figure she intended to do that But the auditor found out too quick he called on it and she shot him With a ten thousand dollar check in her hand Well, there isn't another to her a bonding company going that wouldn't prefer to turn up the cash and the person who took it They'd listen to any reasonable story. You know that auditor must have scared a dollar. She shot him Didn't she she committed suicide didn't she? You make a lot of noise Agans, but you aren't any happier about this than I am are you? No, why let the papers have it the way it is so that whoever knows Ansel get careless Sure, it burns me somebody thinking the police as dumb as this Burns me. Well, what are you gonna do? wait just wait I Found that pretty hard to do And the more I waited and the more I thought about the matter the more restless I felt So I didn't wait I got out and started interviewing people who had known the murdered auditor The consensus was that he knew his business that if he'd found a shortage and someone offered to reimburse the company He had been the kind of old hand who would have listened to them Why I asked myself if Amy Doran had a ten thousand dollar check to cover her shortages Why did she shoot the auditor and then commit suicide? Why? It didn't make sense Hello Dameron Come in dolly I'm glad you dropped by I thought you'd left town going back to Hartford Well, I've stayed over so long waiting for all this to get cleared up. I thought I might as well stick around a while longer sure Can I get you a drink? No, thanks? It is finished isn't it not yet. I Don't understand I Talked with lieutenant Akins today after I saw you with him He said it was all over as far as he was concerned. You're talking to me now dameron I'm the guy who went out on the limb and I appreciate that a great deal a question. I want to ask you You knew Amy Doran worked with her at Richmond Limited. You're engaged to marry your sister Did you know Amy had a ten thousand dollar check in her hand the day she died really? That was enough money to cover the shortages in her accounts. I'll be darned Or do you suppose she shot him did what she did then I've been thinking about that dameron There's only one reason I can think of Because Amy Doran didn't steal any money because she didn't shoot any auditor. She didn't commit suicide. I Think she borrowed that ten thousand dollars from New York to cover up for somebody else somebody else who? You maybe you better leave here. You're upset that auditor was a smart guy He'd been in the business a long time He found out who'd been taking the money He called you over to ask you about it ask you if you could repay it You lost your head and you shot him with a 38 you picked up over at Teresa O'Connell's one day Now look then you fixed up all the reports to make it look like Amy Doran did the job. You're crazy. That's fantastic If you think Amy Doran borrowed money to cover for you She did it not because you were worth it, but because you meant something to her kid sister You meant something to Teresa O'Connell who'd lost one husband and tried suicide because of it a Teresa O'Connell Who couldn't afford another major tragedy a Teresa O'Connell who might try suicide again if the man She was gonna marry turned out to be a thief You counted on that dameron. I don't know what you're talking about One thing you hadn't counted on was the auditor picking it up so fast and when he called you you had to kill him to keep him quiet Then you made a date with Amy out at the plant agent hotel You slipped poison in a drink and planted the gun in a purse. This is all talk just talk You have nothing to prove a single drink with you before you argue with her out in the parking lot She told me and the bartender later verified it then I came along now look You're a big guy dameron you could have hit me back in that parking lot, but you didn't have time You still had to get over to Amy's apartment and plant an empty poison box. You're crazy. You have no proof of this No proof at all. No, I haven't But I've been thinking about it all day, and they'll be proof You had to buy that poison someplace Lieutenant Agans is a pretty good police officer He and his men will cover every drugstore in this town and ask questions everywhere I'll listen to them what I think and he'll dust off that box of poison maybe a principal turn up on it Sooner or later guys like you make mistakes and Agans finds them Now listen you a girl a fine decent girl asked me for help. This is the quickest way I know to give it Okay, come on come on get up get up I want you to tell it now right now Oh Pick it up go on pick it up Okay here And you know who to call give me the police Expense account item 12 fifty five dollars room and board item 13 fifty five dollar airfare and miscellaneous getting me back to Hartford Total expense accounts seven hundred and two dollars and thirteen cents Yours truly Johnny dollar Remember there'll be another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar beginning next Monday night next week A whole city is aroused by one of the dirtiest rackets of modern times and I end up right in the middle of things 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 heard in this week's cast with Michael Anne Barrett Jean Bates Marvin Miller Frank Gerstle Lawrence Dubkin Jack Prussian Ken Peters and her Butterfield Musical supervision by a marigold marino be sure to join us on Monday night same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking