 Sure, they may have plenty of blue blood in Boston, but from what I just saw they've got plenty of the other kind, too This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous reliance insurance investigator Johnny dollar That insurance investigation Johnny dollar is only an expert at making out his expense account He is an absolute genius expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar Do home office tri-state life and casually insurance company Hartford Connecticut The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my search for your missing policy holder miss Michelle March or He came in like a lion and went out on the lam or He should have been banned in Boston that's account item one two dollars and eighty five cents railroad transportation Hartford to Boston Expensive count on him to a dollar eighty cab fare to the corner of Longwood and Huntington Avenue A half block from the apartment house that was Miss March's last known address Boston may be called the cradle of Liberty, but somebody else got rocked asleep that morning on Longwood The shots came from two car beans and two men in one light-pan club coop parked across the street. I Waited long enough to memorize the license number at the pot right out of there My heart was counting but not from exercise Even prayed coming out of a doorway that in another 20 seconds. I would have been going in but the coincidence didn't stop there Yeah, we'll get you some help you know who did it? March what I didn't get you Michelle March what's wrong looking for what she got to do with it? Can you hear me? What's Michelle March got to do with it? Come on. I'll try I'm here if I should have stayed in Hartford Mr.. How is he can you tell yeah, let's just say you don't need to stand back to give him air He can't use it While the two limelight happy characters from the crowd argued about who was going to notify the police I Disappeared from the scene by way of that desk doorway Causing inside just long enough to learn from the buzzer panel that Michelle March's apartment number was I'm luckily 213 Bothered look for the apartment house manager. I didn't even bother to pick the lock I put my shoulder to work on the door the apartment of search, but it didn't offer anything to find The only thing even faintly resembling a lead. I found on the floor behind the bureau a Book of matches that advertise Boston's best bar by far Planneries with a dress on Washington Street About then I decided that rather than being found at the scene of breaking and entering I'd look up the police at the scene of murder You got to say about this not much Shot them across the street by two men and a fan club crew Probably stolen license number Massachusetts three are one six five Weapons were carvings 30 caliber army issue. Hmm. You sure of all that? Yeah Yes, this will tell you why I make it a habit to be sure of things Dollar insurance investigation, huh? Well in a way that makes two years I'm lieutenant Val Deller the nature that man was a local detector Private life is good business and a bad reputations name of Something I can't pass out right now. Okay. Here's why I'm interested lieutenant if run detective was our case He could have been hired to find the same party I was hired to find and since he was blasted at said party's last known address It could be that somebody doesn't want said party found Which ain't interesting but gloomy picture of my future. Who is this set party a girl Michelle March reported to missing persons in New York yesterday by a worried sister who is also the beneficiary of a $25,000 insurance policy owned by Miss March Insurance price day life got the report from missing persons and hired me to find it. You think she's dead. I'll tell you when I find her Yeah Now what makes you think the deceased might have been looking forward to because he mentioned her name just before he went bye-bye Why do you stand on it? Just in case we need you cart ride hotel You've got a murder and I've got a missing person You can love if you want to but I'm eager. I want to talk to the apartment house manager. Any objections? No Go right ahead darling Good luck to you Mr. Donald I've managed room and houses for over 30 years in Boston some very nice This is the first murder I've ever had. Oh, why did they point at me? They didn't point Mrs. Macy the gentleman was knocked off because he was involved with one of your tenants Oh, that's impossible. I've tried so hard references my own personal observation Oh, I'm glad I hear that mrs. Macy. It's nice. The more personal your observations were Glad I'll be well. It isn't that I snoop. Oh, of course not Michelle March 2013 lovely girl, but her habits were quite irregular often came in late I understand. She hasn't been staying in her apartment for the past two weeks. You know where she went No, but I I did happen to be just outside her door when she came up with a suitcase and her gentlemen collar Her employer, I believe she said Something about some work. They had to do in the country. Uh-huh. You leave a forwarding address She had little reason to do that why all the time she's been here The only letter she's gotten is from somebody in Chicago one the month a man. I'd say You don't get one this month though. Do you buy any chance? Remember what those letters said? I'm only trying to I know mrs. Macy. You're a lovable old guy After mrs. Macy chased me out of her apartment. I questioned some of Michelle's second floor neighbors What they gave me only augment of the story. I already had He hadn't been seen in the company of anyone for four or five months Until zapper medium build and swarthy took over All of them had seen him none of them knew his name, but they all agreed He was the guy Michelle March had marched away with Everything I learned added up to a dame getting tired of waiting for somebody in Chicago and ducking out with somebody else And would have looked that simple if it hadn't been for that detective who had so recently taken up new headquarters in the city of morgue That's a count item three four dollars and seventy five cents drinks and dinner After which expense accounts item four 180 taxi ride taken on the strength of the week flew I found on the shells apartment floor the match holder from Boston's best bar by far Looked like they wouldn't want to know how old you are, but how many stretches and in what Christmas A bubble row of breezy bottles the wall and the bar was covered with pictures of pyres Right from old John L up the rocky grotting out But none of them looked as brutal as the eight or ten gorillas who had their feet on the brass rail This was no place to ask for a lady. No, I asked for a drink Straight ride double I'm trying to forget as Blackie been around lately. Who's black? Well, maybe that's not his full name. It's the one I knew him by He wore a lot of sharp suits, you know about medium-build dark swathe That could be anybody Now drink your drinks they fall and move along. I wonder whether now I haven't got anything against the guy I'm looking for a game. That's without What's the free for I need the room expecting a private crowd Beat it. I'm all flannery. Oh, maybe I want to talk to these guys I get closed up again if I give any more trouble this week. Take them outside rocks. Yeah, shut up What this Niles named you looking for my shell March, you know her Yeah Let's go someplace Nice for the invitation Go with the arm. You get gangrene when the circulation is cut off. Sorry Come on What makes you so upset about the loss Michelle? What do you want with Louis Marine? Louis Marine These are guys with all I wanted to do is to point her out you and me might get along with that You'd be worth plenty to look out They were in was different, but those carbines sound the same I rub my nose raw trying to bury my head in that sidewalk I knew they had to empty those carbines sometime, but instead of sounding better. It's hard to sound worse I twisted my head How to look at the street saw one of the attackers in the process of falling out of one of the windows of the gun car Close my eyes again and realize why they never let my kind of insurance investigator be a policy holder I've been sent to find a missing girl and there I was in the middle of another Boston massacre You are listening to yours truly Johnny dollar starring Charles Russell 20 seconds after the smoke a battle had started to clear for me to realize that I've been saved by the arrival of fire support from an unexpected source The police Look around for my new friend and brother target Roxy, but he had disappeared The way the suspicion broke over my flow of thought with this question How did it happen that all those cops with all those guns? Just happened to be in all those hiding places Waiting for those gunmen to drive up and open up and sir a hunter stew like that usually calls for a pigeon I didn't feel like flying but I did straight back to my hotel with one landing in a newsstand Even paper gave me everything else. I needed except the feathers But I wasn't exactly cooing when I got to my hotel room phone and put a call through to the Boston police Give me look at the bell and homicide one moment. This is dollar lieutenant. I'll have your badge for this The evening paper quote Boston private detective whose name has been withheld by police was slain today Presumably to stop his search for a missing girl. It was learned by this paper from reliable source Oh, not dollar another investigator still alive has joined the hunt for the girl Johnny dollar well-known Hartford insurance Luke checked in the room 705 at the Cartwright Hotel today Well, you want more I think the boys did You'll probably touch your toes every morning for practice Well, I hope you got the results for your stake out in front of flannery's you got two hot car beans in a hot car The evidence that could have talked those gunmen I saw full of police lead that your only chance of learning anything now is to find somebody strong enough to pick them up and Right with them. No, wait a minute. You know hire them. Well, I'll find out when you get confused check with me I think I know Now look at the name of that private detective the deceased Hired by well, but don't know that they were hired by a gent named Louie Marie to stop Roxy Morris from finding Michelle March Why we'll have more about that later, but if you'll put a search on that pair of names I'll look for a good night's sleep And after that sidewalk It was easy to find Who is this? Well, good morning Michelle. I've been looking for you. That's why I called I Read that you were hired by my insurance company. Yeah, that's right. They don't like disappearing policy holders. Let me tell you this They want to save the money. They'll have to pay for what you're afraid of the Roxy Morris will follow me They'd like to find you and Louie Marine. What do you tell you? Oh what counts is that I filled in what he didn't tell me Namely that he was in Chicago for a year and you were supposed to be waiting for him in this fatal apartment along with Avenue But instead Louie Marine landed took the situation well in hand and captured you for himself That's it even an approval The point is there are too many people looking for you to stay lost Where can I meet you? I can't trust anybody. Look, I'm still working for insurance company So my greatest interest is keeping you alive not selling you out My promises aren't equipped with lifetime guarantees, but I'll do what I can if you tell all and if the story is big Enough they should be willing to make a deal Where do I meet you? I know it's part of Boston Okay, sweetie, I'll be there up until now whoever's been doing the shooting issues everything but battleships Even though Michelle's story sounded like trap bait cheesy indeed. I had to take a chance I dove into a cab and had a cab dive into the top of Hanover Street and down to Boston's North End Playing quiz games with strangers in that section is called take it or lump it But a few well-placed 20s led me to a neighborhood undertaker who had the officially Unproved reputation of creating a large demand for his own services We swapped donations. I gave him 50 bucks and he gave me a large out of the corner of his mouth Listen to me good About a year ago the laws pick up a Roxy Morris on a suspicion They had a good idea. He's a heist to the 75 a g payroll, but There were no witnesses Didn't believe in us Roxy knew they'd watch him so he hightailed it out of town But he didn't detect the loot with him the boys around here got it back on the grapevine He was suffering from the short So Everybody figured he had to go the station away or somewhere all right around here Is that all? Have you got anything else to tell me? Yes? Goodbye I didn't like the way that undertaker said goodbye I Lated up to the subway station mark Union went down in and caught a train for Charlestown Once the city square a three-block walk down Chelsea Street produced the gangplank bar Which in turn produced that nose bruising smell which comes from slopping beer on sawdust? Out of place in the place that Michelle March. He was a good looker with a bad look And if I had been Roxy Morris, I would have elected her the last national bank I flopped into a booth beside her. She turned her head my way Look me straight in the kisser blew a smoke ring at me and pop two words through it you dollar. Yep. I'm dollar you March I'm Michelle March. Well so far so good It's nice hearing a breeze. I mean price that insurance can keep it's nice twenty five thousand dollars only if you keep me this way Mr. Dollar And that might prove to be a difficult thing to do Well you indicated yourself that your magnetic personality might suddenly attract a few Steeljankin's bullets that means you'll have to be somebody to pull the trigger No, I have to do is to sit around see who tries to take a shot of the target you and we've got our man It's not that easy I'm in trouble three ways And it's hard to see three ways at once look I know all about Roxy Morris He's wiped seventy five thousand dollars and gave it to you to mine You don't know the half of it Two months after Roxy was gone a guy named Louis Marine came to me with a story that Roxy had sent for twenty thousand dollars. I gave it Then he told me that Roxy had never sent for Let if I squawk he'd convince Roxy that I'd fallen in love with him and just given him the money He's a battery tip off the police. He had me going and coming nice fellow. He wouldn't leave me alone He made me give him fifteen thousand more of Roxy Weeks ago I got word through to Roxy in Chicago He blew up turned up They're running from him ever since He wants to seventy five thousand all of it and I haven't got it. Oh It's like you've been taking chances all the way. Oh, you know what I want you to do know what take one more I Told Michelle what I had in mind for her during the next few hours at least And grab the cab back across the bridge into the north end Expensive count out of five fifty dollars another donation to my expensive undertaker That's why I paid him for trucking but not to me Then I took over the telephone and dialed my way through to the guy to whom I was about to give a chance of becoming the ding dong daddy of the Boston police force Lieutenant bell Well, how would you like to get the goods on Roxy mark like a fine Okay, and along with that, how'd you like to pin a receiving stolen property wrap on Louis marine? I'm not left on it Now look you may have to do some trading with a gal on it to you Yeah, you may have to promise us some time off for verbal good behavior Listen, I have baited a tall thin granite trap for Roxy Morris and Louis marine debate is Roxy's ex-girlfriend Michelle March I had a tips to call Roxy Morris and tell him that Louis marine was meeting Michelle at a certain place at three o'clock this afternoon Yeah, I also had mr. Blabbermouth call Louis marine and tell him that Michelle is meeting Roxy at the same time and the same place What I had him tell each of the gentlemen that Michelle was meeting the other one with what's left of the money in cash First call the call the place where I've arranged a surprise party and tell them to get rid of the public Also, tell them let a girl named Michelle March come and go as she pleases also me Lieutenant Bell what I wanted for those two characters to run up a blind alley and when I say up Oh brother, they got the word that Michelle meeting would be held at the top of the Bunker Hill Monument And you might remember what just general first and foremost said don't fire it till you see the red in their eyes I was back in Charlestown at the base of the Bunker Hill Monument at quarter to three The door of the museum at the bottom was open for the state park officer stood by its side I told him who I was me now me for the bronze doors Officer did miss March get here. Yes, sir young man. She went up the shaft. Oh, well, look, can I run the elevator myself? Elevator your steps Oh This may be going to heaven the hard way, but here it goes That's way up the winding granite stairs. I killed for Michelle But she either didn't hear me or just didn't want answers I kept going and hoping I came closer to the top. I tried yelling again Still no answer Finally, I made it up into the observation landing at the top Michelle was there She still wouldn't talk but she had written me a note Decided a crumpled figure with a vial that hadn't been filled with perfume the note was short and to the point Dear Johnny dollar. I Still want to help, but I hadn't better be around here alive when everybody gets here And it was time of shell I've been over to see what kind of vibe by medicine she's taken I heard something That might mean a sudden dose of lead to the head for me By the morse or marine Atlantis and there I was stuck at the top with a bait that had suckered them into a trap Which suddenly turned out to be mine Waiting up there in that tiny room for death to come get me would it kill me anyway? So I started down in my heart and known step from the granite blocks I had the pitter-patter of anything but tiny feet come charging up a narrow staircase It was coming up and I both slowed down but my heart didn't Crept around a curve and my eyes went to a head-on collision with a pair staring back I'm a tourist Oh up there. Oh, I don't know who they are. Just some girl with a guy. She keeps trolling Louie Roxy Morris tag me with a butt of a 32 going by But walking there with my head against the cold granite inside wall of the monument brought me back and Conscious with a very dangerous condition for me to be in Because charging up the stairs came another pair of unfriendly feet that couldn't have belonged to anybody but Louie marine Who are you? What are you doing here? Somebody hit me on the head. I was telling Roxy Morris and his girl. They're up there. Sure Louie. Yeah, they're up there Let me buy okay Go ahead. Bye. We had a gun at my back and Roxy had one waiting for me up front We took the last few steps up to the top real quiet like My eyes came level before the observation room Roxy was bending over Michelle, but he snapped up in a hurry and his right hand was loaded with heat Louie pushed me ahead of him up and in I stood there between them listening to them grind their teeth at each other With one foot under Michelle's arm, then I got two big shots Let's scream for Michelle just before she snatched my legs out from underneath What are you doing alive? I don't know. I Guess I didn't think Well, whatever you're doing alive. I'll tell you one thing Your two boyfriends sure took care of each other Come on. Let me get you out of here. I didn't think I'd be able to carry me down all those stairs Now I have to carry you That's a count item six twenty dollars to the hospital Having Michelle's stomach pumped out and the way Michelle took my suggestion that she voluntarily turn herself over the police Was very good. The Senate Bell was very cooperative Otherwise, I might let it be known of the reason that he didn't show up on time to help me in the 1949 battle of Bunker Hill was because he forgot to reset his watch at the end of daylight saving time He showed up for a three o'clock appointment at four Uh Expense account total 786 dollars and no sense signed yours Truly Johnny dollar Truly Johnny dollar is produced and directed by Gordon T. Hughes and stars Charles Russell with script by Paul Dudley and Gildow Featured in the cast were Bill Boucher, Myra Marsh, Dick Ryan, Larry Dodkin, Charles Seal and Dorothy Lovett Special music is written and conducted by Elise Stevens. Be sure to be with us next Saturday October 1st When another unusual expense account is handed in by yours truly Johnny dollar That's right. Yours truly Johnny dollar will be heard on Saturday evenings starting next Saturday And look at who's going to be here at the same time on Sundays The world's most famous blockhead Charlie McCarthy Accompanied by a man who shadows him closely as Johnny shadows the suspect Edgar Bergen Yes, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen have joined the great parade of stars to CBS along with Jack Benny Amos and Andy Horace Hyde and Red Skelton who show starts next Saturday or rather next Sunday also Don't miss the first hilarious appearance of Charlie and Bergen on most of these same CBS stations at the same time Next Sunday night and every Sunday thereafter This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system