 From Hollywood it's time now for John Lund as Johnny dollar hi chat Graham Johnny Who wake up boy? Chat Graham claims New York Mutual. Oh hi chat How are things bad Johnny? I have to make a little trip out to the coast on a phony claim I'll be gone about four days, but I need someone to hold on my office while I'm away. Can you do it? That's not my line chat. You know that make it your line Johnny somebody has to be here Look you can live in my apartment. You can use my tickets to wish you were here You can even take my girl if you want New York swell this time of year and you got anybody there Everybody's got the flu or busy or something when you want to leave for the coast like to get out on the noon plane today Well, I can be down there by 11. Good. We'll probably miss each other But just walk right in the office and make yourself at home. I'll call you from LA have a good trip By the way, what does your girl look like? Even your best dream was never that good. Just leave her phone number on your desk John Lund in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Here's truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to New York Mutual Underwriters Limited Rockefeller Center, New York City Attention, Mr. Chester Graham claims and adjustments Dear Chet, you've probably read some of this in the Los Angeles papers, but they don't have the whole story Maybe they'll never get it all. I hope not. I've found out part of it stumbled into the rest of it And I'm trying to forget all of it The following is an accounting of expenditures during your four-day absence and my investigation of the James Clayton matter Expense account item one fourteen dollars and thirty five cents transportation Hartford to New York where as per your advice I walked in your office sat down and made myself at home and where 15 minutes later I had a caller mr. Dollar is this that's right the girl at the reception desk said mr. Graham was out of town And that you were taking his place. Yes, please sit down. Thank you, but I don't have time I'm miss Stebbins dr. James Clayton's nurse. He asked me to see you. I see he gave me these policy numbers He said that your company wrote these policies and that he'd like to talk to one of you Well, certainly miss Stebbins. He can come by anytime. No, you don't understand dr. Clayton can't get away from the office We're terribly rushed and I really should be getting back myself. He's there all alone. Well, do you know what it's about miss Stebbins? I Know the doctor's been acting strangely all day He had me cancel all of his outside calls and then he sent me here. He said to explain that it was very urgent. I'm I'm very concerned for him The tall pale Burnett girl in the crisply starts uniform and cape was certainly concerned about something She bit her lip forced out a one unprofessional smile and started to cry I pretended not to notice all this as we got on the elevator and went down into the street However, ten minutes later when we arrived at the suite of offices in the Pellroy building I had to notice dr. James Clayton He met us at the door Most of his costume was medically correct white coat and carrying a stethoscope in one hand But in the other he brandished the 32 Iver Johnson the safety was off. Oh Oh, it's you. Yes, doctor. This is mr. Dollar from the insurance office claims investigation. Yeah, oh fine Jane this be a good time for you to get some lunch. Don't you think well doctor? I have all of those lab reports, but I'll go ahead Janie like a good girl I want to speak with mr. Dollar alone. Of course doctor if you say so Goodbye come in mr. Dollar Sit down Very fine girl Jane. She's worked for me a long time very fine Do you always meet her at the door with firearms doctor? Oh? This well all I can say is this is a ridiculous mess My life's been threatened by a man who has definite homicidal tendencies This I don't even know how to load it. I Look foolish I suppose a threat on your life doctor comes under the heading of police business I know that very well, and I would go directly to the police only Well, it is a delicate matter You seem dubious already. No, I'm just curious go on please Well several months ago. I attended a patient named Florence Harman a Thero examination disclosed that her poor physical condition wasn't based on any organic disorder, but rather upon an emotional instability Now this I finally discovered was brought about by her marriage to an erratic ruthless ill-tempered man Benjamin Harman I Could only advise that she Divorce him immediately. Well, that's somewhat extreme doctor. Are you always certain of advice like that in this case? There's no other answer. I Approach mr. Harmon on the subject last night at his home. I Explained that Mrs. Harman's health her very life is in jeopardy Mores involved here than keeping intact a union which has nothing but legalities a binding force. I see But mr. Harmon doesn't care for somatics, huh? He attacked me if it hadn't been for the assistance of Mrs. Harman and a servant he might have choked me to death When I left he threatened me then you should have called the police. Yes. Yes, I thought of that But look if if you approached Harman in the right manner dollar, he might discard his ideas of violence Well, you're the expert on homicidal tendencies, but best thing I can see for you is to prefer assault charges and have him locked up I know all that but it's for Mrs. Harmon's sake. Please understand. She's been through a shattering ordeal Look mr. Dollar, would you would you go see him and talk to him if you think he means it really? Then I'll call the police and prefer charges against him The Harman residence was in Westchester a Story and a half colonial with all the trimmings There was a 51 Cadillac in the open garage and a 52 Ford station wagon in front of the house Yes, this one didn't have a white coat or stethoscope, but he had a gun. What is it mr. Harmon? I'm Harman. What do you want? Mr. Harman? My name is dollar Easy now Take it, please. You had quite a blow try a little more. It should make you feel better What was who? Oh, you you can bring suit against him against us. You can do anything you want to mr. Dollar He's just ungovernable. He could easily have killed you You uh Mrs. Harmon yes Your husband think I was the ice man. Oh, I don't know what he thought I I just heard him yell at you And when I came to the door he were lying there, and he'd taken the station wagon and left why last night He even attacked my personal physician and threatened to kill him. I don't know what's gotten into him You'd better sit down. That's getting better. Where'd he go? Heaven only knows mad. That's what he is mr. Dollar mad He's liable to do anything. I'm I'm scared. I'm scared stiff. I Called dr. Clayton who promised to notify the police It was about a quarter to six when I got back to his office a Broad-shouldered man in a tweed suit was in the reception room. Hi. You dr. Clayton. No Hey, uh, don't I know you I was thinking the same about you wait dollar Yeah, Tom Bassman central division. Oh sure. How are you Tom? Hi? Hey, you must be the one why this dr. Clayton called downtown about a threat said his insurance company advised him to report it That's right. Where is he? They should be here Tom What's his nurse say I rang the buzzer no one around at all. What's this all about? My name Benjamin Harman's threatened the doctor's life. I met him myself He's carrying a gun and he looked dangerous to me. I just came from his house. He's still there No, I better phone in and get a pickup out on him when the doctor shows up. I'll get a complaint. Oh Hello, hello, I missed a dollar. Hello, miss Stevens. Dr. Clayton here. This is Sergeant Bassman We want to see him ourselves your police officer. That's right miss I heard him talking to you on the phone. Is anything the matter? Just want to see him Well, goodness. He sent me out to pick up these things. He was here when I left. Oh What perhaps he had an emergency Well, is there any way we can find out if he had one it would be right here on the pad because I always have to know What? Emergency call 1213 Alessandro Street. Can I see that please? There's no name on this miss Stevens. Do you recognize the address at all? No, I don't Doctor just wouldn't take a random emergency call unless it were very unusual. This might be unusual dollar How bad off did you think Harman was mad? Had a gun cracked me honey rough This is in the warehouse district. I think we better go down there. I think so It'd have to be that vacant lot over there. This one's 1240 in the rest belong to that warehouse. Yeah Tom hmm at car MD and the license plate Yeah, it might be Clayton's. Yeah, it's Clayton's car. All right. He must be around here somewhere looking for 1213 Let's have a peek. Is it Clayton? Yeah, that's him Some emergency this was Yeah, play Johnny dollar in just a moment On weekend it seems everybody takes his car out on the highways Some drivers are less experienced than others they either speed or poke along with a whole stream of cars behind them Both types are a menace to safety Whatever you do be moderate be obedient to all traffic laws be careful. Use your head And don't take chances With our star John Lund we bring you the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar Neighborhood turned up two people who recalled hearing the shots and one man remembered seeing a man who answered Benjamin Harman's description Loitering in the vicinity of a nearby bar earlier in the evening Obviously, Dr. Clayton had been lured to his death by the murderer who had telephoned him pretended to need a physician Waited till the victim appeared and then shot him down Expense account item three eleven dollars and sixty five cents a good dinner three martinis tip and thinking it took shores After which I stole over to the Pellroy building Expense account item four five dollars even bribed Watchman I shouldn't be doing this, you know might lose my job over it. I appreciate it Since you're from the insurance company, I guess you're all right just looking around is all too bad about the doctor Nice fellow very what do you think you're fine a policeman been here till almost an hour ago poking around You know if they found anything sure Well, what doctor's emergency kit let him say he didn't take it with him when he went out on that emergency Yeah, don't be too long the business about the emergency kit started me thinking I Open Clayton's file drawer and skimmed through every patient's name from Abbott to Zabrowski He'd been a thorough man and from all evidences operated an efficient medical office However, he had no medical history in his files on Florence Harmon There was nothing to indicate that she had ever been a patient of his on the other hand There was an entry a year before which showed that he had examined treated and discharged Benjamin Harmon as a patient. I think these two developments supplied me with all of the curiosity I needed for a while Nurse Jane Stevan's home address was newly noted on dr. Clayton's phone book Oakdale house surprisingly enough on oak Street special rates for nurses room 210 How do you feel not too good mr. Dollar, I just got home a little while ago They kept me down there pretty long Do you want to come in thanks I? Don't want to keep you up. It isn't much for place. Is it I mean, I haven't straightened it up for days. It seems I'm sorry Things like this aren't easy. I know don't apologize to me. It's a dollar. They caught mr. Harmon yet No, not yet Mr. Evans you worked for dr. Clayton a long while didn't you five years Then you should be able to tell me who he was going to marry Mary But I didn't know I have no idea. He'd already made arrangements for a honeymoon honeymoon look Reservations on the yield of France for next April. I found him in his desk drawer Confirmed to dr. And mrs. James Clayton Well What difference does it make I? Don't know seems strange that you've been with him for such a long time and didn't know about this I Or did you all right? What about mrs. Harmon? Look mrs. Stevens things are wrong all the way down the line about your doctor's death about what happened before it It'll come out sooner or later I suppose it will awful to say this mr. Dollar But mrs. Harmon was the only one dr. Clayton saw socially And she of course is married of course and the good doctor advised her to get a divorce He met her when mr. Harmon was a patient of his yes, that's right They became friendly, but mrs. Harmon was never a patient. No never just a husband What can you tell me about mr. Harmon? Well really all I know is he came in to see dr. Clayton a few times Over a year ago, I guess then after After he saw what was happening between mrs. Harmon and dr. Clayton. He stopped coming in I Send a copy of his medical history to another doctor, but dr. Clayton had been seeing mrs. Harmon all this time It's awful to say this now mr. Dollar doctors dead I'm no moralist were all humans happened before married people have been attracted by others I'm tired mr. Dollar sure Do you have any idea why I was called in today? Not first I didn't I Well, of course it happened Police told me about mr. Harmon's threats But I don't understand what you're trying to do that police want mr. Harmon and What does it all mean? It means the wrong man was killed Please mr. Dollar I should have tumbled to it right away, but your husband fit the part too well now Look here. I've been through quite enough today with the police looking for Ben. I don't have you and Clayton I was going to be the star witness when the state tried him for shooting your husband Whatever I said as a material witness would back up his self defense plea and get him off on a justifiable homicide Isn't that it? I tell you I won't let you in the doctor would sail to france and live happily ever after What's the matter wouldn't your husband give you a divorce? You won't listen go ahead If you say it's that way mr. Dollar and you know everything I know you know everything then it must be that Yeah, only it got fouled up your husband did shoot your doctor boyfriend after all get out of here Get out of my house. You can't prove anything. You're right. Mrs. Harmon. I can't prove anything Not a thing they catch your husband and they'll put him away for it But you have something to live with for the rest of your life Or maybe you didn't really love your doctor after all get out Get out. Well, that's it sergeant I want to know if people can really get by with this kind of thing in our courts of law If and when you pick up benjamin harmon will he have any kind of defense? Oh, we'll get him dollar the others I can't answer what she just told me is really a thing I don't see how any lawyer can do much for a guy who threatens another man's life and Finally guns him down to you supposing I could prove that harmon was being set up as a patsy That the doctor was really supposed to gun him down and plead self defense up to the judge in the jury When we get harmon, he'll be arraigned and then died at on first degree murder charges Don't worry about that And if it goes that far it generally means you'll get the works After all we're pretty sure he shot and killed the doctor hang up dollar Huh, you're still there dollar Hang up or I'll blow your head off Benjamin harmon wasn't kidding. He was blazing mad. He had a gun and I knew he wasn't afraid to use it I was across the street when you left my place a little while ago Fixing up another deal. Were you I don't know what you're talking about harmon I followed you here so we could have this talk And we're going to have it you and I you want to put that gun away and let him take you They'll shoot you down if they see nobody's going to shoot me down not yet Now where's your office? Hartford, Connecticut. I mean here. Where do you practice here? Come on. I don't practice anything here. My office is in Hartford This apartment belongs to a friend of mine. I'm standing in for him here while he's out of town Where's his office? New York Mutual Liability. I mean his law office I want to get down there and see how much hold on now I'm not a lawyer. My friend's not a lawyer. We're insurance investigators Where's the office? I tell you we listen Clayton called me this morning and said a lawyer named dollar was on his way over to talk to me about the washing florids You hadn't started swinging that gun butt around. I'd have told you why I was there I think I know why Clayton called you and told you that but I don't you and he were trying to pull something to Take my wife away from me. I know that much you're wrong harmon I didn't know anything about that nobody takes my way for away from me Now that's the kind of temper that got you in all the trouble you're in Look you can shoot me here and I'll be number two But they'll get you real easy here. You know, I didn't kill Clayton. How do I know you didn't kill him? You threatened him half a dozen people heard you threatened him I have an idea why you did it and you might have been right but murder for any reason shut up You're in on us somewhere You know who did kill him and you're going to clear me or I'll whip it out of you, darling I'll whip it out of you. Are you crazy? I'm tired of fooling with you. I'll get out of your feet You've got one point in your favor This gun hasn't been fired Do you have another one? You're taking another drink. Now you have a chance to talk to me right now I don't think the police will be interested in much you have to say I wanted to kill Clayton, but I didn't I didn't nobody will believe that I know I've got a temper and I've tried to control it, but I didn't kill him I'm not impressed with that I want facts Where were you when Clayton was shot? How do I know I didn't know what time he was shot say between five and six today I was out getting mad Pride where who saw you no After we met I was so sore I jumped in the car and went out and bought myself a jug I know it sounds crazy, but I spent most of the time just sitting in the car down to the docks just drifting and thinking Getting mad I don't know what it was I don't know when I walked over to the saloon phone Clayton I told him I was on Alessandro street and to come on down. I wanted to have a showdown You mean you wanted him to come down so you could kill him? Maybe I did have it up my mind. I don't know Waited an hour or so, but he never showed up When I called back at his office nobody answered So I climbed back in my car and that's Where I heard about my being wanted for killing It was on the newscast. I didn't do a dollar. I swear. I didn't The others I knew about I didn't kill them one others for us always had other friends Yes, I don't love her anymore, but I don't know maybe I hated for all of it When a man doesn't let power of his life walk away from it I wouldn't give her a divorce If I had let her get away with it, it would have been too much for me to hold Even though Even though you didn't love her and You knew she didn't love you. Yes That sounds stupid Maybe I loved her once She loved me The way two people only love at certain times. Hell no sense yet I'm not well, darling Clayton gave me a year Now the doctor 18 months Finish anemia The two I'm gonna waited at least so I was dead couldn't I Found some sleeping pills in your medicine cabinet and I fed him a couple with some hot cocoa He dropped off to sleep in your bed while I made some phone calls Confirming what he just told me Expense account item five taxi fare four dollars and five cents back to oak street to oak dale house Special rights for nurses. I thought you'd be back I'm glad it's you I think somehow you're the kind of man who understands Things I'll be a good listener Go ahead And I first started as his nurse I fell in love with him I guess it's an old story Terribly old and corny But then he met her I heard him tell you all those lies today about treating mrs. Harmon. I was out in the hall Didn't have any idea exactly what he intended to do until I heard him call mr. Harmon right after you left He told him you were a lawyer. He knew harmon was upset enough to attack me Doctor was very good about knowing what people would do I was here when mr. Harmon called him tonight Doctor took the call and wrote it down on the pad I saw him put the gun inside his coat and I knew he was going down there to shoot mr. Harmon So I followed him He was walking around the dark looking for mr. Harmon with a gun in his hand I ran up to him pleaded with him not to be crazy that she wasn't worth it Then he said he was going to kill me too He struggled and the gun went off I don't know how many times then I Came back here and pretended I'd been down at the drugstore I see What's your first name? Jane Jane Dr. Clayton made all sorts of elaborate plans so he'd have a self-defense plea But you don't have to go to all that trouble You can prove self-defense He had the gun he was going to use it on you I beg your pardon I can help you jane is a ghost second degree or manslaughter suspended You didn't mean to shoot him, but he meant to shoot you No You're nice But I can't get off what I guess they haven't found her yet I killed mrs. Harmon an hour ago Spence account item six same as one transportation back to hartford I didn't spend any other money jet. I didn't meet your girl and I didn't see the musical I didn't go any place. I just sat in your office and looked at the walls for the next three days I'm leaving this where you'll see it when you come in the morning Settle up and don't call me for a long time a long long time if you call it all Expense account total 56 dollars and 35 cents Here's truly johnny dollar First truly johnny dollar stars john lund in the title role and is written by e jack newman with music by eddie dunsteader John lund can currently be seen in the universal international picture just across the street Featured in tonight's cast were victor perron virginia greg Joseph curin's john mackentire and jenet nullan Yours truly johnny dollars transcribed in hollywood by heimey dolhaya Every sunday cbs radios bob trout brings you a timely weekend roundup of world news As a special eyewitness feature and oversee cbs radio news correspondent flies in to give you an up-to-the-minute account of developments on his beat don't miss bob trout's world news roundup sundays on the cbs radio network