 It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny dollar Lou Craig or Mr. Dollar yellow. What's up? They found the boat a few miles off the Atlantic side of St. Croix. Oh, she was empty Neither one of them aboard. No from what I understand. It looks like there was trouble. All right. How's that blood stains? I guess signs of a struggle the engine had run until it was out of gas That's yours the boat, huh? Yeah, they must be oh, that's sure. It's registered to Willard South Yeah, all right. Where can I see it? Well, they won't have it in for another 30 minutes The police stock is next to Royal Mail. You can't miss it. I'll meet you there if you want good Lou I'll see you in about 20 minutes Edmund O'Brien and the transcribed adventure 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 to great eastern insurance company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Willard South method Expense account item one a hundred and forty three dollars and eighty cents airfare and incidentals between Hartford and the city of Charlotte Island of St. Thomas Virgin Island group I arrived there two days after the disappearance of your policyholders Willard South and his wife Georgina and one day after the report had been made by his foster mother She was too upset to be questioned But I did find a local guide and boat owner who claimed to know the boating habits of Willard South Through a number of fishing trips. I made arrangements with him to start my own search the next morning But it was this guide Luke Craga who phoned that second evening to tell me that South Scruiser had been found empty I didn't know if you'd spotted me or not. I haven't you could do better on light down here That is part of the romance of the island This is the boat, huh? Police officers still aboard are native by the name of shore. I told them you were coming We can go aboard now Officer shoy. Yes, I missed the dollar is here Come inside then Thanks for letting me aboard officer glad to meet you mr. Dollar I was sent to your university of Iowa to learn to be a policeman a good school I learned what they taught me but I've had no chance to learn of what they taught me is right It is our boat that there is no crime in the Virgin Islands that has been right But now this well it happens in the best of circles sooner or later. What do you make of it? Let me show you with my light Near the wheel The bullet still in the wood. Yes, I will take out the piece of the panel with a saw and take the bullet from that It's bloodstain under the wheel They're more like it. This is the large one If somebody fell there if somebody fell there There are more here and more in the passageway than on the deck They're on the rail if somebody climbed over the side or was pushed over There's one other thing back here This piece of line It's been cut mr. Kragas says a small boat was usually tied to the stern. You sure that low. Oh, yeah, I'm sure Will it always trailed a dinghy, you know skiff unless he was trolling then he hoisted it aboard But where is it now? You're searching for it, aren't you? Yes. So is the coast guard boat. I wish you luck a Little skiff will be a lot harder to find than a cruiser like this Well, I'll be anxious to learn of any developments officer. Sure. I'm staying at the Grand Nothing had developed by noon the next day I spent the morning on routine legwork In the 1230 I was back at the Willard South address There's an old building with enough elevation to give its windows of you old Charlotte Amelie's Pleasant Harbor Met me at the door. I'm Willard's brother. I was told you'd called yesterday. Mr. Dollar come in Your mother was too upset to talk with me yesterday You've gotten the news on what they found I suppose yes I went down to see the boat has anything further been learned. Oh, that's it sit down mr. Dollar It's cooler here on the veranda. Thank you. I Wasn't here yesterday because I was searching for Willard's boat, too. I'm surprised to learn willard has a brother I've asked a lot of questions about him in the village Nobody mentioned you Well, I'm only here a few days a year. My my home is in Tampa. I arrived the first of the week Tuesday Glad I met you before I had to see your mother It's a lot easier to be blunt with a brother Blunt mr. Dollar about Willard's reputation on the island I can't seem to find anybody who doesn't hate him. I'm afraid you won't either Do you know anyone who hated him enough to shoot him? Well, I Hardly know how to answer that I I know a number of men have been hurt seriously by him the ones that have lost wives Yes, do you think he's dead? I don't know The only thing I'm sure of is that there was a shooting on his boat and somebody was hurt I'm told your brother and his wife were seen leaving on at the dusk night before last That right. Yes, they'd packed an evening meal meal had never been eaten Well little trips like this a regular habit of this. No, they weren't at all. It was a special occasion Georgina has never stopped hoping she could reform willard and win him back This trip was one more of her efforts Did they say where they were going? No, but I thought it would be calibre That's an island about 20 miles from here in a westerly direction Mother said they started that way But the boat was found almost 40 miles in the other direction It's a matter of 60 miles. Yes 60 miles Mr. Dollar, what could have happened in those 60 miles? I don't know yet, but I hope to find out You knew about this gift being cut loose. Yes, they told me but Yes There any news nothing yet mother. This is mr. Dollar from the insurance company. How do you do mr. Dollar? Mrs. South I'm sorry. I have to meet you at a time like this a great many crises in the past ten years have Revolved around my son willard. I've conditioned myself to expect them Even his death by violence if that should be mother please, but if harm has come to Georgina There's no evidence of that mr. South if it does I shall hold myself Responsible mother because I allowed her to become the wife of the beast. I have called my son It was a rare situation There was no actual evidence that will it south have been murdered But almost everyone I talked to seemed to think he had been simply because there were so many motives One of the people who didn't think so was a newcomer to the island Celeste Robertson there to take advantage of the six weeks divorce law Who told you about me bartender up the street? He said you and south had been seen together recently Yes, I know him As a matter of fact, I've spent quite a bit of time with him in the last couple of weeks Where do you think he is? I Don't know you think he's dead No No, I don't most people do well. I can't help that I Know a lot of people don't like him. Would there be anyone close to you that doesn't like him No, there wouldn't I'm here alone When you see him last the afternoon before he and his wife disappeared in their boat You answered that almost as if you knew you'd be asked the question Well, I didn't I just Remembered it was only a couple of days ago, but you wouldn't remember his mentioning anybody who might be out after a scalp, huh? Understand he enjoys that sort of thing. He never mentioned anybody. What are you holding back? Mrs. Robertson? Nothing. I don't have anything to hold back. Do you ever say anything to you about getting rid of his wife? I don't know what you mean look all we have to work with is a bullet hole in the boat with some blood stains That could have come from her or from him He never said anything and what are you afraid of? I'm not Look mr. Dollars, please. I I don't want to get my name mixed up in this if I can help it I'm here sort of on good behavior. I know I was wrong to see him because he was married, but but what? Just because I did see him. I don't think I have to get mixed up in things like shooting Something I don't know about it. Oh, I guess you can't be blamed for that You don't have to get mixed up in it unless you already are All that day planes searched the sea for the missing skiff boats to swept back and forth between the islands It wouldn't seem possible that anything they missed would ever be found but it was That evening after the planes had given up in order to get back to their fields before dark a radio report was received from one of the boats The skiff had been found and in it still alive Was Mrs. Willard South I? Was with Officer shoy when the boat was docked under the steady hand of a leathery old skipper with a We can go aboard now mr. Donald right all right captain breakin Your luck is good Mrs. South and she talked to us she cannot He's been put through a hard time She gets turned over to dr. Gar before she talks to anybody else. What about her husband? Did she say what happened? Yes, she did She's seen him shot down before her very eyes His dead body heave to the sharks and then somebody go fetch dr. Gar. She needs some work else. She'll die We'll return you to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar in just a moment Have you heard the news sing it again the new comedy of Jan Murray your host on that coast-to-coast bone? The new cash prizes for cracking the mystery of sing it again spant and voice The new speed and color of the tuneful little riddle songs that makes sing it again a Saturday night must for radio listening You'll like the news sing it again be listening for it tonight on most of these same CBS stations Now with our star Edmond O'Brien we return you to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar It wasn't until the next morning that dr. Decided mr. South was strong enough to be questioned He'd taken her to the single small hospital in Charlotte Amelie the 10 he beckoned from the door to a room. I Think it'll be all right, but please don't tire her. I missed a teller. Yeah, I Want you to question her. I never learned about a case like this one. I never did either Anything you say. All right, dr. Georgina. This is officer shoy, and this is mr. Docker Yes, mr. Dollar is here to ask you some questions, but I don't want you to let him tire you. I'll try not to miss his own Why are you here? I was sent down from the States when you and your husband disappeared by your insurance company Now I know it's pretty horrible to go back over it But we've got to find out just what happened on that boat the quicker we do it the quicker we can get to the bottom of I Try to help captain Bracken told us just the bear to tail. He's the boat captain who found you remember I mentioned his name Yes, he told us you saw somebody shoot your husband. Who was it? No, no We're two men. I've never seen them before How'd they get a board mr. Sound? We won a winner Gleebrough almost halfway, I think it was dark and we saw a light blinking from in the boat Will said it was a signal when somebody was in trouble and they went over This man said they'd run out of fuel and asked if we had any to spare But when we'll pull along side This man jumped on our boat gun It's all right, Georgina don't go on if you don't want to He shot shot will That's all it he shot him and and then the other man jumped aboard too. What do they say? You think your husband knew them What do they do then I wanted to hit me because I Was claiming it. I was wearing a bracelet He grabbed it off my wrist and then me take off two rings and They took wills while I didn't drag him out of them. They pushed him into the water I don't remember anymore I can't it's all right Georgina nobody can hurt you now I think we'd better let her rest sure doctor. I'm sorry. We had a body of Don't be considering what she's been through. I think she did very well actually her physical condition except for exhaustion It's quite good. She did have water during the time. She was adrift and some shelter from the Sun What you make of it the whole thing seems pretty brutal for simple robbery Say where's the nearest prison show a Puerto Rico now that's something that it not occurred to me Escaped convicts might carry out such a ruthless attack might they not yeah even more so I will send cables to both of those reasons. I think you'd better There's little enough to go on it was obviously useless to try to get any more information from Mrs. South Dr. Guy had every right to insist that we leave his patient alone I was assure he went to his headquarters to cable his questions and I went back to the waterfront The skiff was still on the dock before I even got to it. I was hailed Whatever your name is. How are you Captain Bracken? Oh How's the invalid have you heard? Yeah, I just left it. She'll be okay. Yeah, that's a spunk that one What are you figures behind? She wasn't strong enough to tell us much an officer sure is checking the possibility that those two men She talks about might be escaped convicts. Hey, they might have been I can't see anybody Like that leaving her alive to talk about it and no matter how low to get this then they can't kill a woman I suppose What are you doing down here? I want to take a look at that skiff by daylight Escape prisoner theory is too long a chance to rest on Still may have been a local job. No, I hate to see it turn out that way somehow What do you say that? Oh, this wants to be a peaceful island. It's the truth Nobody wasted any affection on will it what if it'd been downright fitting if two escape convicts done that devil in I Spent 30 minutes looking over the skiff another hour going over will it south's cruiser again Nothing I dug out of either one added up I did the results of a trip to the cable office There had been no recent escapes from the prisons Right from the beginning for all my prying and all my questions I hadn't gotten one positive lead But by this time there were so many things I couldn't put my finger on But I began to reason why not make a weapon just that So I started again with Luke Prager the first person I've met in the investigation. I found him aboard his boat Donner what's got into you anyway? I'm sick and tired of the run around and double talk. I've been getting I don't get it You will You were quick to make yourself available to me when I showed up here Why greater I thought you needed some help you wanted a boat. I had one I think you mean somebody else needed help and piece of line you pointed out I was a sure in me on south's cruiser the short piece Who cut it? I don't know. How should I know who cut it? It's one of the things you better get straight You said it had been used to tow the skiff the line of the skiff had not been cut. What does that mean? That you were lying I'm no sailor But why cut a line when loosening a couple of half hitches with free the skiff, but it was cut wasn't it? The line you pointed out was cut and you made your point that will it south always trail the skiff why? Because you wanted the search for it to go on because you knew his wife was alive and would be found in it I think the tropics have got you dollar You don't think I can break this case down do you because half of the non-tourists on the island are willing to lie to cover Up for her. I don't care how noble their loyalty is this case is going to be broken down Because there's a reason coast guard planes can search for three days and not find her but that night after dark your friend Bracken can her story of the other boat and the two men if the south cruiser had been stolen the other boat would have been found How do you know what happened? I know that a doctor will be here in less than 18 hours Who will prove that Georgina south did not spend three days adrift? You don't know what you're talking about. Where are you going to cable the dock? Oh, wait a minute You don't know what you're doing dollar. I was told what to do when I was sent down here. These things as they are dollar Believe me. It's the right thing to do. That's where I come from. Well, I can't let you You heard of Craig you heard him take it easy Listen to me dar Sometimes right the way you find it in the book isn't right Remember that I told you I'm sorry mr. South Didn't see you in the swing. I wouldn't have barged in Dosing it's been so little sleep. Yes, I know I Went to the hospital first. They told me that Georgina had come home. Yes, she did I'll have to see it, please. Why must you see her mr. Dollar? I think you know You know Willard's brother knows Captain Bracken is crewman. No, Luke Craig a dr. Gar I'm not sure how many others Please please what's the use? You shouldn't have tried it no matter how you felt should have realized that it wouldn't work Even way down here in the Virgin Islands a murderer is hard to protect Where is she who told you this? There were too many mistakes. Luke Craig I made the biggest one. You too are making ones the dollar. I'm sorry mr. South Murder is murder They speak of heredity and environment Many say that heredity will never be overcome Others say that environment will win out But both the right and both the wrong is a sound my husband and I took our boys from the poorest Foundling home we could find Paul is one of the best But will it will it didn't deserve to live? He became more best you'll every day He couldn't live any longer. No more secrets Georgina my dear. I must tell mr. Dollar the truth It's I who've been hiding behind my friends. I'm the murderer. I killed bullet. I had to I had to be funny destroyed us all Item two eighty five dollars and forty cents miscellaneous expenses and Charlotte Emily item three same as item one Transportation back to Hartford expense account total 373 dollars remarks I Tabbed the confession as a false one when they heard it And I'm not charging the company for the time I spent trying to prove it false But it wasn't So is the awkward fact that a large number of the leading villages are liable as accessories after the fact of murder It should develop into quite a trial yours truly Johnny dollar Stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and is written by Gil Dowd with music by Wilbur Hatch Edmund O'Brien's latest pictures the paramount pictures production the redhead in the cowboy featured in tonight's cast for Irene Hubbard as Evangela Jan Weiner as Georgina Gilbert Mack as Lou Fran Lappity as Celeste Ed Latimer as Sam Reese Tarplin as Shoei and Bernard Lindrow as the doctor This is Olin Tice inviting you to join us next week at this time when Edmund O'Brien returned to another transcribed adventure of yours truly Johnny dollar Everybody wants to help America's defense program And part of everybody's duty is to be extremely careful with the handling of fire This is especially true in Wooded Forest Where forest fires can cause terrible losses in valuable natural resources lives and man power 9 out of every 10 of these disastrous fires can be prevented because they're man-made Don't leave fire prevention to the other fellow only you can prevent forest fires Stay tuned now for five minutes of the latest news. 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