 From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar. This is mr. Oldfield calling sir You left word at my office mr. Dollar. That's right mr. Oldfield I think I'm gonna need an attorney divorce civil suit what mr. Dollar with holding evidence murder Let's take the murder first. Who did it? I don't know but I'm pretty sure I have the murder weapon in my possession right now Who was killed a man named Belden? I think what do you want me to do sir take my statement notarize it Give me some legal advice. Where are you police station in the pay booth down the hall from homicide? Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures 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 location Vicksburg, Virginia to special investigator Johnny dollar for personal reasons Attention chief account in eastern seaboard casualty insurance corporation Providence, Rhode Island dear Jim I'm attaching my own expense sheet to your bill for clarification purposes Expense account item 10 10 cents one cup of coffee at the counter in the lobby of the Vicksburg police station while I waited for Samuel W. Oldfield attorney-at-law to appear he was there in exactly five minutes That's right Sam who feels sir. You're the only one here in the lobby, so I figured you were the right man Cup of coffee mr. Oldfield. No, thanks gives me heartburn, but I'll sit down with you That was a pretty interesting phone call tell me who are you sir Johnny dollar? I'm a private insurance investigator How'd you get my name? I looked it up in the yellow pages of the telephone directory. You don't live here in Vicksburg No, I'm from Hartford, Connecticut. All right, sir Now tell me about the murder and the withholding of information Maybe I better start from the top go right ahead anyway you like Two days ago. I flew down here to investigate a small burglary at the Plantagen hotel It was already solved by the time I plane got in police. Yeah, I Had nothing better to do so I waited around the hotel bar for my return reservation back to Hartford And I happened to walk outside of the parking lot for a breath of fresh air. I Saw a woman and a man standing there arguing when I got close to them the woman asked me to help her I did how do you mean? Well, the man she was with started to act like a kid. He got rough So I shoved him away Go on. Well, the woman was upset so I took her inside the hotel and bought her a drink after that I put her in a cab and started to send her on her way She started to act sick about that way Is this the woman whose picture was in the paper tonight the one who died of poisoning and the police don't know who she is Yeah, I don't know who she is. Mr. O'Field accepted her names Amy Durand I Found out her name because I found her purse and there was a gun in it a 38 Colt registered to a man named O'Connell. I Checked on the gun here at headquarters went out to the address and found out O'Connell was a bank guard and it died about a year ago I Talked to his wife Teresa O'Connell while I was there the man I'd seen the night before showed up his names Paul Dameron I Didn't tell him or Mrs. O'Connell about the gun. I came down here to give it to the police and tell them But when I got here lieutenant Akins was pretty busy trying to solve the murder of a man named Belden Who'd been shot with a 38 three times? There are three slugs missing from the gun I found You got a light sir? Yeah Here you go When you were found Amy Durand's purse, why didn't you turn it over to the police? Oh? I thought I Well somehow I thought maybe I could help the girl. I Mean our last words before he she died were help me and For some reason or other I I thought maybe I could you have any cards or letters anything like that Something that says your what you say you are sir. Yeah, sure. Let's see Okay, darling Now as I see it You probably hooked up with someone who did some shooting and that's what worries you I want you to take my statement and notarize it before I turn the gun in that'll protect you some If they want to get nasty they can though you know that Yeah, I know well as I see it the main job here is to try to keep you out of trouble and Statement explaining your motive for participation in the whole affair might help. That's why I caught you all right and I Well, yeah You didn't shoot anybody. Did you? No, okay. Let's go over to my office We did and I made the necessary statement of mr. Allfield notarized it After that I went back to the Vicksburg police station to talk to lieutenant Akins the 38 I'd found an Amy Durand's purse was still in my pocket and her words were still in my mind Help me please Going back to heart for a dollar. Oh, I Decided to hang around and see what came up Nothing so far in the girl no one's recognized a picture in the paper had to turn that over to missing persons This murder case gonna eat up all my time. What happened lieutenant or made at the apartment house with this man Belden was staying found him late this afternoon He'd been dead about 24 hours shot with a 38 You sure I'm sure we did a post mortem right away It's pretty set case you uh You know who shot him Have a pretty good idea See this Belden he was in order to work on some books to the firm of textile wholesalers here Richmond limited The papers scattered around his apartment show he'd found a ten thousand dollar shortage going over their books and the chief Accountant for this Richmond company is missing. Yeah. Well, that does make it seem pretty clean. Yeah, all we have to do is find that accountant Had an APB out for half an hour now. I think we'll pick her up pretty soon her Who will her dollar? The chief accountant for Richmond limited. She's a woman name of the Amy Doran To all appearances Amy Doran had been guilty of embezzling money and murdering the auditor Belden who discovered the shortages in her books I didn't tell agents that his suspect was the girl lying in the morgue at the moment unidentified. I Knew that it was only a matter of minutes before her sister or Paul Dameron would be down to identify her And for the third time I didn't tell lieutenant agents about the gun I knew if I turned that over to him it would be a closed case all around and Somehow I didn't want it closed on Amy Doran not that way For that reason I went back to my hotel room for a couple of hours and then about nine o'clock that night I found myself over on Polk Street at Teresa O'Connell's house once more. Hello, Mrs. O'Connell. Oh Mr. Dala isn't yes Mr. Dala I had the most awful news tonight My sister Amy she's dead You'll have to excuse me May I come in I'd like to talk to you about your sister Mrs. O'Connell. Well, I Paul came in with tonight's paper showed me Amy's picture He went down the morgue to identify I couldn't bear to sure I feel somehow in some way that your friend Mr. Mrs. O'Connell I am a friend in a way, but mostly I'm an insurance investigator You thought I was a friend of your dead husband when I came here earlier. I'm not I never even knew him Mr. Dala, I don't understand. I met your sister Amy last night. I was the last one to speak to her before she died I took her to the emergency hospital last night. Well, wait, wait. This is all very confusing You say you're insurance Investigators. Yes now when Well, I got your address from a gun I found in your sister's purse. I traced it through the license to carry This gun Mrs. O'Connell your husband was licensed to carry it when he worked for a banking firm Do you recognize it? Yes, I suppose I do. I think it's one of raised guns. Please please. Let me find something out first. Believe me I do want to help Did you know your sister had this gun? What would Amy want with a gun? I mean Well, she could have picked it up here anytime. She came over and probably did But why would Amy have a gun in her purse? Sit down, please. I'm Mrs. O'Connell. You better listen to me carefully Sometime late yesterday afternoon or early evening a man named Belden was shot and killed Clarence Belden? Yes He worked with an Auditon firm. Amy spoke of it Wait now wait listen to the rest of this Belden had been working on books for Richmond Limited as I understand it your sister Amy was responsible for those books Right now the police have enough evidence to figure that your sister stole $10,000 from Richmond Limited. Amy? No, no, Mrs. O'Connell they have that evidence in bulk form They certainly have reason to assume and they are assuming that your sister shot Belden to keep him quiet about the shortage How can you say those things about Amy when she's not here to defend herself? Please please? I'm just telling you what's going on downtown what they found this gun. They don't have yet. I've withheld it It has been fired three times recently Belden was shot three times By now your sister's body has no doubt been identified They've already established that she died of poisoning and They halfway have the idea that she committed suicide. No, I don't just see they'll say she shot Belden to cover up and keep it quiet And then saw how useless it was took poison and killed herself to escape punishment Horrible go away go away from me. I'm sorry, but in the face of all this I want to help her if I can if it isn't too late. I want to help you but Mrs. O'Connell you'll have to help me Now why? Why would your sister steal why? I don't know. I think you do know Tell me please for her sake Mrs. O'Connell. Why? What have you got to do with her? I met her only for a few minutes, but in that few minutes I got the idea that she was a pretty nice person She didn't strike me as a thief. She didn't look like a killer and most of all She didn't look like a woman who'd take the suicide way out of things Now that's all I have except that she asked me to help her and I'm trying to do that now Believe me. I want to help her if I can. I've always been an awful child, Mr. Dollar When Ray died I tried to kill myself Amy saved me. I Remember then at the hospital She was beside my bed and she said to me I'll make you want to live again. I'll make you Amy was always like that kind and decent you weren't wrong about her She was decent thoughtful good She she did everything for me She gave me these clothes and a car Introduced me to nice people from our office like Paul Paul Dameron. Yes That must be where all the money went to not on herself, but on me for me I'm the only reason I can think of that. She'd take money from the firm. Yeah. Yeah, I Didn't know she was stealing for me. I didn't know I wouldn't have let her do it She didn't have to pamper me that much. I'm not that much of a child She didn't have to do it. She didn't have to do it wait wait a minute She didn't kill herself. She didn't steal. She didn't murder that man I did all those things because it was all for me Oh, here's our star to tell you about the final intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow All the evidence comes true A helpless step girl gets her help 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 John Stone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking