 From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny dollar Oh, yes, do I understand that you're in San Francisco because of the disappearance of my husband? That's right, Mrs. Wish the doctor's insurance company seemed to feel that the circumstances deserve some looking into I know you must be Upset and I know that the police have bothered you quite a bit, but I wonder if I could come out and talk to you Please feel free to come anytime that's convenient to you Edmund O'Brien and a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed Expensive cars America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar By special investigator Johnny dollar to home office Washingtonian life insurance company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditure during my investigation of the Malcolm Wish MD matter Expense account item one two hundred and eighteen dollars and forty-five cents airfare and incidentals between Hartford and San Francisco There after a phone call to his wife I went to the home of the missing dr. Wish which was situated about halfway up fashionable Knob Hill Wish is expecting me. My name is dollar. Yes. Yes, come here. Thank you. You're the insurance investor. That's right. I'm the daughter My name is Cecil You learned anything about father not yet, but I just got here this morning Yeah, I should have realized that I'd like to talk to you about it You mean you think you know some other things that other people don't some other people You haven't told the police. No, I didn't like the man who came here the tenant huge I don't want to talk to you until after you've seen her sure anything is saying please staying the Cleveland Hotel on Sutter I'm gonna be down town. I'll meet you at the coffee shop at noon. Okay, Cecil. I'll be there Where can I find your mother second door leads to the morning room in the view of the bay Waiting to just walk right in and don't mention what I said to you. All right. I'll see you later. Yeah, this is wish. Yes I was told to come right in. I'm Johnny dollar. Oh, yes, I've been waiting come and sit down I'll take up as little of your time as possible, Mrs. Wish. It's quite all right. I Understand the last time you saw your husband was night before last when he left the house to make a professional call. That's correct Would you tell me about it, please? Oh, I only wish I knew more about it My husband very seldom except night calls but night before last the phone rang and he talked for a moment And then he left what time is that a little past nine isn't it his habit to let you know where he's going when he goes out at night No, I'm afraid it isn't anymore once it was yes And you didn't hear him mention the name of the patient that called him No, I was out of the room and he answered the phone himself. I must have said something to you Well, he seemed to be in a hurry and he told me he'd be back in an hour or so that it was an emergency Naturally, we assumed it was one of his regular patients. So yesterday my daughter and I started phoning them We got the names from dr. Huber. He's the other doctor in your husband's office. Yes I believe he's called some of Malcolm's patients too, but none of them seem to have phoned that night Oh, I'm terribly worried mr. Dollar. We'll do everything we can. How do I get to his office from here, Mrs. Wish? It's in the tide building on post you can take the cable car on the corner and it'll drop you just a half a walk away Thanks, I'll be in touch with you. I Was so brief with you on the phone at a patient in the office at the time. That's perfectly all right dr. Huber it wouldn't help matters to discuss Malcolm's disappearance in front of them You know how tongues wag. Please be seated It is true that this situation is not yet common knowledge. The papers have left it alone How did you hide the truth when you phoned his patients? Oh, of course you have met with his wife. She was insistent that I do that But it is not my duty. I thought at least at this time Do you not agree? I suppose so if you don't think dr. Wish is in danger I don't jump to that conclusion until I see some reason the man has disappeared dr Many men have disappeared dr. Wish is 52 years old He has practiced here in San Francisco for more than 20 years before that in Seattle The past two months I have noticed a change in him Tiring he was no longer satisfied with his life Are you inferring that he might have ducked out on his own perhaps even amnesia Does it sound like amnesia for a man to answer the phone tell his wife he'll be home in a short time Pick up his medical kit and drive away in his car. Who knows about amnesia Doesn't amnesia victim go to the trouble of keeping a car hidden from the police of three states It would depend on the type of amnesia. I didn't think there were types So you must mean voluntary or involuntary if he did just suddenly drop his life here, and you know that to be the case I hope you know nothing Dr. Wish and I discussed very little but medical matters I repeat that I realize that for two months or longer He was not a happy man if he has made arrangements to change that I do not know but it is a possibility You wouldn't tell me if he were in trouble over his practice would you I would not but I'm sure that he was Dr. Wish is to the best of my knowledge a highly ethical man of medicine You know probably being cooperative doctor, but I'm not sure whether it's with a wish or with the police and me I am simply without information I'm an appointment 15 minutes, but I'd like to come back this afternoon get a list of his patients You are welcome ever please mention it to the receptionist on the way out. She'll be happy to gather the information for you You prefer a table of the counter. I was supposed to meet someone here at noon. I've asked you sir Yeah, I know I don't see her. I guess she's later than I am. Would it have been a miss Cecil wish sir? Oh, yes, that's right Then if you're mr. Dollar she phoned and asked me to tell you that she wasn't able to lunch with you But that you would be reached by phone at her home any time after two I see Thanks very much. I'll take the counter. I was rather sandwiched I didn't suspect Cecil's motives until I left the coffee shop then I realized I was being followed I Kept my eyes pretty much off the man But so enough to describe him medium height and a broad shoulder suit and the hair that showed below a hat was so white That I thought it must have been bleached He followed me to a drugstore when I phoned lieutenant Hughes the detective on the case Then my shadow followed me aboard a market street bus and dropped off a block after I did It was lounging on a corner when I went into police headquarters. I'm glad to have you in town. Don't I don't have anything to give you I put out a description of the doctor in his car, and I've been running along on that Laughter for a few more days unless something breaks. I take it you've talked to the other doctor in his office And he hinted that dr. Wish dropped out of sight. Yeah, that's itself doesn't happen to be a crime. They're not yet anyway Things like that sometimes crowd the law against insurance fraud lieutenant for a while. Oh, don't think I'm passing yourself about reason But the information I have now is down a little I can do except wait and see if the wife doesn't get a brush off by mail from Alaska Some places legal you have a line on any women in his life Doesn't necessarily have to be one does it it helps sometimes you know any reason why somebody should be tailing me Hailing you When you spotted right after I had lunch at the Cleveland Hotel coffee shop when you think the table's put on I'm not sure I Went out to the wish house this morning from there. I went to his office They're at a coffee shop, and I came here Any ideas? Yeah I've got an idea that a man who wants to drop out of sight wouldn't risk drawing attention to himself by putting a tail on somebody Who's looking for him Jim partly? It's all right with you. I'd like to leave things the way they are I wanted to let you know about it, but I think we ought to let him play for a while. I'll go I got some good man. I could put on it, but Let's leave him alone. Maybe he's only a hungry tourist who thinks I might lead him to a good steak He followed me back to the doctor's office, and he was waiting for me 50 minutes later when I left with the names Addresses and phone numbers of what I'd been told were all the patients of dr. Wish by this time. I was learning a few things about the man following me He was good at it unobtrusive not too eager yet never losing me though I didn't make myself too easy to follow I let my shadow watch me buy some stationary and a paper near my hotel Then I went up to my room hoping he'd relax downstairs I checked in the corridor three times in the next half hour, and then at 2 15. I phoned the wish house This wish The dollar You may have more trouble getting out than even you figured on It doesn't look good when you promise information then don't show up to give it Why did you really make that date and then not show up? What is this information you have you can give it to me now can't you I'll come up I can be anytime you say I think it'd better be my room 830 why so late We'll talk about it when you get here the room is 3 2 3 don't stop at the desk come right up to the third floor and wait near The elevators. I'll be a minute or so late. Why do I have to have a mind be here you stand me up again I'll see that the police make the next date with you So will I see so goodbye I left as soon as I'd hung up and led my shadow away from the hotel Before I thought there could have been any contact between him and Cecil wish I Kept him moving the rest of the afternoon and away from phones as much as possible While I called on some of the missing doctors patients I arranged it so that he couldn't have seen her go into the hotel and still when I reached the third floor She wasn't waiting for me when I spotted lieutenant Hughes leaning against my door I thought I knew why you friend I'm trying to do my job. Do you scare a girl away from here? What did you notice? There's a time and place tell me This man and stop tailing you. No, he's waiting across the street from the entrance. Why lieutenant dr. Wish his coat hat shoes and the suicide note were found in the Golden Gate Bridge about an hour ago They found his body not yet and I'll explain for what possible reason this guy should have been tailing you We will return you to the second act of yours, Julie Johnny dollar in just a moment George raft popular screen star plays Rocky Jordan an American in Cairo his mission adventure Every week starting next Wednesday over most of these same CBS stations George raft as Rocky Jordan gets a meshed in new often bizarre exploits Next Wednesday Rocky Jordan takes part in a search to find a beach strewn with diamonds Don't miss this exciting CBS thriller Now with our star Edmund O'Brien, we return you to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar As it turned out the lieutenant deny instead of playing it smart should have colored the blonde shadow hours before but the voted sale By the time we got down to the street. He disappeared an alarm was broadcast on his description and lieutenant Hughes And I went up to the wish address Myself to accept almost any kind of horrible news and accident some sudden illness anything but not this Didn't your husband in any way show that he might have been this fun in no way was there any trouble between you and him We were normally happy little fat Cecil yes, mother Was there anything hidden from me? Was your father unhappy because of something that you knew about and I didn't not that I know of mother You've seen the note mrs. Wish. Yes, I've seen the note and you are still sure he wrote it I wish I weren't so sure. I'm sorry that it has to be brought up But it sounded as if he were pretty unhappy about his life. Whatever it was. He kept it hidden. I haven't an inkling We've been so happy the other doctor in his office thought that he might not have been so happy And then dr. Huber was aware of something. I knew nothing about Perhaps I was blind Doing quite well Not as well as you are not trying. What are you doing being honest father's not dead and I think she knows it Glad yourself sure not a suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge. That's too much come on out in the other room We'll be back in a minute Lieutenant Where are you going? Come right back mother? Father had no reason to take his life. What do you think has happened then? I was going to tell you what I thought when we plan to meet at noon It changed my mind is a change of mind what came up that you couldn't get out of I had to get away from a lot of things First I thought that he was playing a dirty trick on me Then I wondered if I wouldn't be playing a dirtier one on him by telling you about it You've changed your mind about meeting me at seven to cut the news about the things on the bridge just so I was leaving Father's reached what they call the dangerous age. I guess it is Finally fell in love. I don't envy him. Dr. Huber diagnosed it as possible amnesia Typical you were diagnosed. I Don't think he knows about things that you found out of course. I did Wasn't taken in by these night calls at all. I followed him. I even talked to her without her knowing who I was nice I felt like a chaperone. What's her name and Moevious. She talked you into luring me to that coffee shop I mean I was under that guy that was following me from the time I left there. I don't know what you mean Stop it. I let him right over to police headquarters and told lieutenant Hughes about it I don't know what you're talking about the guy was good I had half a hunch he might be a private detective then when I realized how well practiced he was on melting away from the police I began to wonder There's a police alarm out on him now So you'll save a lot of time and trouble by telling me who he is and where we can find you think I made you go there So you could be followed. I was followed. Why you put me in that coffee shop. Why were you followed because I was looking for your father You know that I don't know it. I don't know anything about her. She's younger than father about 345 married a singer I don't know where does she live An apartment a building on down here. I thought they'd run away together. Maybe give me the apartment number Lieutenant and I'll go and see To the bedroom That's right. It's dry and blood. A lot of it. Look at you. Well at home or a knife. The label says Brewer's Carson City, Nevada It was under the coat There are more blood stains on the bed There's something more to it Figures that dr. Wish was here. All right There was a metal wastebasket in the bathroom doorway and it was a large amount of surgical dressing all blood stains They told of a wound that had been dressed and redressed a number of times Other things in the room fell into place a sales slip from mills department store in San Francisco It was in receipt of the purchase of a man's shirt and jacket probably to replace the bloodstained ones left in the apartment The slip was dated p.m. The current day which was Thursday and finally on the dresser We found a day old Nevada newspaper the front page item that seemed to fit reported Unidentified trio murders and robbs Carson City betmaker dying man believed to have wounded one of his assailants Other time figures are alive leaving then they could have gotten to San Francisco by eight or so Then I thought I could disappear a couple of stands in town They carry out a state paper they old so this one must have been bought today And we didn't miss them by far lieutenant according to the signs This guy must be in pretty bad shape to get him out of this building without drawing attention They'd have to do it after dark. Don't you think I think they were plenty rushed I've done something to cover up the tracks here for that time Dr. Wish's coat and stuff on the Golden Gate Bridge. Where does that lead almost any place quite open once you're across the bridge But the blonde man who is still following me when I met you at the hotel after sticking together this far Would they leave him or come back after a thought I'm gonna get on the phone out here and put some men on it I'll check the tenants on this floor and see if the building managers come in yet. I'll meet you at your office. I Got nothing from the building the woman and movies hadn't lived there long enough to become friendly with anyone The manager knew that she had received men visitors now and then but that was all Nobody had seen a injured man enter or leave an hour later in lieutenant Hughes's office I learned that the police had had better luck than I had I got on a telephone at the Carson City Your description of the blonde man fits with the having a man named Ned ring Records in Nevada, Newfound Anybody with hair like that never should have tried to be a criminal. Yeah, and I gave him the name Movious They have an Allen Movious no record, but I know an associate of this Ned ring So it figured no next to Kenan Movious. I suppose. No But he must be a brother to the woman unless that's her married name Anyway, they never heard of her. She's clean as far as working sir Then I guess she just happened to know it Hello Right now, that's the name of it. Oh good. Put him in a room. We've arrived down How's that your blonde friend? He was picked up boarding an airport limousine Glad to see you look I don't know what any of this is all apart. You got no right to home. What happened ring Your buddies duck out on you. What do you mean my body stuck out on me? Where were you flying to when you got picked up the other cop got my ticket? It says LA I got a right to go to LA. How may that way your buddies are going Buddies I was going along. Why weren't you going to Carson City? What's eating you too? Must have me mixed up with somebody else. Your name is Ned ring. Isn't it sure? How do you think we found out what your name was? Well, he had it all over me You have a cop got my wallet and stuff. We had your name before you were picked up We got it from Carson City Do you give me this stuff? Maybe he doesn't know the devil he doesn't you don't think you followed me all day without my catching On to it. Do you never saw you before how about a dr. Malcolm wish or and movies not talking to you best a couple of men are On the way from Carson City. Maybe you'd rather wait and talk to them I don't know anything about anybody in Carson City. Yes, you do ring It started out to be an unidentified trio that killed that betmaker in Carson City, but it isn't anymore We've got your name and we've got another one Allen movies And we've got a link between an obvious and the doctor that disappeared the other night He was held in an apartment on Van Ness. He took care of one of your buddies have been shot That's a kidnapping right now. It looks like another murder you try to set it up like a suicide But if you went off that bridge, he was pushed. I don't know anything about about what that bad Whatever you're talking about get off and ring your tied up. They left your ring Didn't they they had to get out of that apartment while they had you off tailing me around town They left and they left a hundred leads pointing right at you That's why you're here They even left the newspaper with the story of that Carson City killing. They really ratted out on you Yeah They should did they all right where'd they go? I don't know They did don't think I wouldn't tell you they pulled out before you saw me go into my hotel about 8 30. Yeah Yeah, I guess it was it who's the one that was wounded movies Couldn't just leave in the body We should have Get yelling about a sister and Frisco was friends with a doctor so we drove him all the way here How bad his movies pretty bad as long as inside of some place. How far do you think they could drive on him? I didn't think he could be moved out of that apartment. I kill him. Where does the sister stand in all this? No place. She was stuck Seeing her brother like that. She couldn't think of anything with him. She lied to the doc He told him she got hurt to get him over And Google me woke up good either third man. Yeah, yeah He's the one who did the gun work in Carson City We knew we couldn't let the doc go unless movie has died or else got better so we get out of here We was trapped more than the dock was That's why I had a plan on his house and pick your I think you're talking straight with us rain. I hope you are Got much reason not to have it. Well, there must have been some talk about where you'd go if you had to leave We never did get to that I know where they were brother. I tell you you can believe that I'm not ain't gonna take all this by myself They will and willing to supply some more pertinent information such as a description of the other man Gould and the make model and license number of the Car they were driving even with that it looked like the case would stretch over into the next day But at 1130 Lieutenant Hughes got a phone call from Petaluma small town some 30 miles north of San Francisco All that drugstore the doctors was handed a prescription for a painkiller that he had his doubts about Was filled up by a doctor a wish. It's all the sheriff's office and they have a man on the customer Hill You get to lay out of this place. I guess all these motels about the same drive way up the middle It puts another 12 on this time. I guess I wonder if it was the one with the light showing in the curtain But I don't think there's a way out except the drive way. All right, sir I think we're ready to go in number 12 was in the middle of the row of accommodations on the right only three of us went to the door And none of us expected trouble certainly none of us expected the kind of trouble we found Where's dr. Wish dr. Wish You all right dr. Wish Yes, it's sort of surprised when you answered the door where are the others and Mobius her brother the man named Gould Hey They are here. Well in the bedroom, I Like to tell you I killed them all Sit down dr. Wish. I'm gonna go take a look dog Tell me what happened. I killed them When we left the city, I knew I would I I'd have to die myself. I Told Gould only one thing would save Mobius and wrote the prescription and I Killed them with it The wounded man with an injection the others internally and water and more they are still and Mobius too With her brother She was with them She told me she wasn't she told me she I Didn't believe I didn't believe Wish The tenor Jews we have to get him to a doctor. He's got some of that stuff himself Expense account item two miscellaneous a hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents item three same as item one Transportation back to Hartford expense account total 577 dollars and forty cents remarks we got dr. Wish to a doctor and time to save his life So your policy holder although alive is also a triple murderer He claims it was justifiable, but at the same time it was premeditated. So there's a fine line to draw What I keep remembering is that his daughter Cecil said he had reached the dangerous age and I guess he had yours truly Johnny dollar yours truly Johnny dollar stars Edmond O'Brien in the title role and is written by Gil Todd Edmond O'Brien can soon be seen in the Paramount Pictures production Warpath Featured in tonight's cast were Jeanette Nolan, Virginia Greg Ray Hartman Bill Boucher Tony Barrett and Lou Krugman Yours truly Johnny dollar was transcribed in Hollywood by Jaime Dovall This is Dan coverly inviting you to join us next week at the same time when Edmond O'Brien returns as yours truly Johnny dollar For your security for your country's security invest regularly in United States defense bonds Buy them automatically through the payroll savings plan where you work for personal security for America's defense Now let's all buy bonds Relation and syncopation are the main elements of tonight's main Crosby show over most of these same CBS stations No wonder the groaner himself vocalizes and Informalizes and things guests include Tommy Dorsey with some fancy licks on his slide trombone Hot violinist Joe Vanute and that equally torrid songbird Teresa Brewer tonight on the Bing Crosby show for it follows immediately Over most of the same CVS station. 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