The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Yours truly, Johnny Dollars.

The next half hour has its baggage packed to take a trip.

With America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar.

At insurance investigation.

He is just an expert at making out his expense account He is an absolute genius.

Expense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollars to home Office that makes State Casualty and Bonding Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

The following is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of series of accidents affecting your policy holder.

The funfair and widely carnival shows, or how I went for a spin on a cage we might refer to as murder is a merry ground expense account at them one twenty five cents purchase of Billboard theatrical magazine to check the roots of funfair and weatherly carnival shows.

Expense account at him two sixty eight dollars airon train fairs to Talladeca, Alabama.

Item three a dollar ten cab fare and what was only a fair imitation of a cab from Talladega depot to the dusty vacant lot, which at overnight found itself wearing theatrical makeup rightly as the hot sun beat down on the midway, it couldn't help the layout of canvas and flash from looking beat up.

A prespiring mechanic shuts farsh of profanity back in an obstinate motor.

He tried to get it to roll a giant hoop of the ferris wheel.

I asked someone he knew about the accident of a week before, when a card dropped off the same ferris wheel, badly injuring free.

He was charming.

That's been pretty boy.

Don't go get nosy around here.

The Joe, in charge of the electric scooter concession, was just as sweet on the subject of how come one of his scooters blew up a few nights back, sending his citizens at the hospital.

He just didn't feel like talking.

If you ain't a compt moving, if you are, where's you'll warrant?

I was just asking the pilots of the giant airplane spin we thought might have cut the cables.

The night one of his warllboard gliders took off across the carnival crowd, crashing and busting up a few more customers when I got a Canvason's version of a sharp answer a tent statement.

Right well, sleeping beauties waking up?

Huh?

Who are you that?

Maybe you'd be sick of asking clicking first?

Maybe a better answer if you before you get up Number one?

Who are you?

A pilgrim from Hartford?

Never mind the double talk?

Wife?

Guy?

What's your name?

My name is Johnny Dollar.

But right now I feel like two cents?

What's your big interest in those accidents?

You are asking quicks about brickly academics.

I'm only representing the insurance coming that's playing off when those accidents.

Now, maybe you'll tell me who you are and where I am that you guys, we're smartest.

Donnar.

I'll let you in a little secret.

Next time you want to find something out on a traveling show, get to the board first.

Asking a lot of questions around a circus account of a lot is unhealthy?

Where is the boss?

Miss Pepper?

Luis's in the other end of his trailer to be right out?

Okay, you can get up on your feet.

I hope you don't mind if I don't stay up on I'm feel more like sitting down.

Go ahead, it's still Heaven told me who you are.

My name's Brennan.

Oh yeah, Shanty Brennan.

Yeah, you're a general manager of the show.

They told me all about you, Louise.

The paper is right on and strong arms.

How long would you be?

And she's getting dressed, just finished taking a nap.

We drove all night to get here.

How about having a flash with me while you're awaiting os.

I haven't enjoyed a noon bottle since I was two, But don't let me stop you.

Thanks, you're sure you won't have one?

I'm sure.

Brown.

The insurance taking up on your show the police chiefs from the last ten times you've played Stay at the Cleveland.

We haven't got a pick pocket or a grifter in the light, but plenty of trouble during those fast time stops.

At least once a night, somebody's got hurt, but never any of us, as one or two of the county citizens.

Last night, a car on the whip cut loose that sent forward to the hospital.

Uh huh.

Four more insurance claims for nothing makes stakes thing and bonding h one more time.

We won't be able to play again for a couple of years.

We didn't travel out of that town last night by rails Todd and feed it but them straight nights.

Now you've had at least one big accident every night.

What's your gift, Brien?

Has fate taken a steady job on your show or is somebody out to get you?

Somebody's had to get it.

O'll say, well, do you have any ideas?

Oh, why didn't you tell me we were entertaining a gentleman satting had to put on some more clothes.

It would have taken a lot more clothes to cover all that was of Louisa Pepper.

She looked like an aging PUPI doll, but even in a carnival she was no pride.

I didn't like to look in her eye.

Looked much too friendly.

So right away I decided to change the unstuken STRUGGECT, Miss Pepper.

I'm here on business.

I'm sure you.

We're not buying any and I'm not selling anything.

The way things have been going, the insurance company I represent would probably like to buy some of those banks.

Uh huh, Yeah, I'm gonna make state casually investigating the accident.

I'll keep finding her more more than we've been able to and fast before we go, broke the words traveling one time ahead of us.

They got us take for the dangerous and midway.

Have you been using police profession?

Twenty extra cops a night at ten dollars a cop so night before last.

The guy winds up with hammet at sign, ring the bell and win a cigar.

The top of the hammer lies off and almost brings a cop On this show, the police needs protect them.

I see what the rains.

How you fetch for people who don't like you?

We got money to choose from donor.

We treat our health stern square.

We know them all and trust them off.

Fire anybody likely nobody.

The only ones who left were fluters, but none of them had a beef.

Help Tamus Pepper?

How quick fright?

In all your life?

Who do you know who'd most like to see you have a real bad time?

Only one guy, and he's not around said as good as he's in jail has been for the last eight and a half years.

That's a long time.

How long you go up for ten years?

What are you thinking, Dolla?

I was thinking it was try him off for good behavior.

Maybe he's not in jail.

Not in jail, Tenny he's got me in jail.

He's gotta be I tell you told me.

You were right.

Break it up, Luisa Cattter Lacey had a voice of shop as yours.

He gets sold his way out of jail.

Okay, Dollar, you made a guess.

I've seen how good it is.

Sure I'll find out if your bogey man is still in jail.

But I didn't catch that name Lacy, Tarta Lacy.

And where's he been in the Pokee Massachusetts State Prison, Charleston?

And what did he go up for?

What's that?

You got it?

Louisa Dollar, We sent Carter Lady to jail.

Retempted murder.

He tried to kill Louisa's niece, Myrtle.

It's your on not on the snake show on the Midway.

Dolla, how soon can you check for the cot I got out and.

I can make a telephone call, but Shanny, before I do, I like to elaborate on a guess I made.

Now I not only guess that Tarla Lacey is out of jail, but I'd also guessed that he's been out a little over ten days.

FRANSI down Adam four three dollars telephone call the Massachusetts State prison, confirming both of my guesses.

Connor Lacy had checked out of the Bay State Hotel Graystone for bad boys two weeks previously.

It them five thirty two dollars telephone calls the.

Various hotels in the last ten pounds the Funfair.

And Weatherly Carnival shows have played item six ten cents two nickels spent calling two hotels right here in Talladega.

Then I dropped one more nickel in the telephone, got the lucky number.

Yes we do have a mister l Bridge twelve Lasco.

And hit the jackpot.

Fransick cown Adam seven sixty five cents Camp Fair the Sunshine Hotel.

Hit the driver one dollar from the lobby.

I call room three twelve.

He invited me up.

I invited him down.

I know I feel better talking to taught a Lacey.

With a lot of people around, they make nice witnesses.

He suddenly got homesick for prison life and used me as a sick advance.

I waited in the coffee shop.

The waitress brought me a cup of coffee, and my talent went to work refereeing a one sided bout between the strong Java and the whak cream hello teller.

All right, god on, Thanks, so you're caught a lation.

Have some gofy now?

Thanks.

It keeps me awake nights.

How about your conscience having the same trouble with that?

My conscience deserves to make a half year rest, but it can't start his vacation until I even up a few stores busting up carnivals.

Child slay rough Dollar over the phone.

You told me you're an insurance investigator.

You can take your company a lot of money.

Oh, call him up and tell them not to ensure the lives of three people, because any minute now, two of them are going to be dead.

Louis a pepper anist, myrtle and a shanty.

Yeah, dollars, I'm going to kill two of those people.

The other one still, my friend is going to help me do it.

In case you don't know your lord, Dollar, don't bother calling the cops.

I can't be helped for making a threat unless I put it in write well, Lacy, I don't know what your grief is against the people running that carnival, but those actions have been hurting a lot of innocent bystanders.

Dollar, you're talking to a guy who really knows what it means getting hurt as an innocent bystander, expensive coal out of me twenty five dollars recent as a local detective agency hiring shadow for mister Carter Lacy explanations.

An ounce of crime prevention is worth a ton of trials it.

I'm nine a dollar twenty yead fair.

Back to the evening's festivity, to the fun fair and one of Lake Carnival, which was rapidly becoming more and more of a thrill show.

I spent the count out of ten thirty cents down payment on ulcer eating supparate what the Connie people call a grease joint.

I made my way among the trailers that were lined up behind the midway, and as I looked for the one housing Louisa Pepper's snake charming niece Myrtle, the burning sensation around my heart wasn't all caused by the hotdogs I'd just eaten.

I've got a message from Corner Lacy.

What did you say?

I said, I've got a message from Connor Lacys for you and your aunt, Louisa Shandy Brennan.

You're the only one I haven't met yet.

Sorry, I thought I delivered to you first.

Where is in town.

Got any snakes in the trailer?

No, of course, all don't know.

How about inviting me in?

You're the insurance guy they tell me about.

That's right, Okay, come in.

What did lady say?

He said that he's going to kill two or the three of.

You, Which didn't he say?

Oh, he didn't.

He just said that two of you are going to get it, and that his one friend among you, the remaining one, is going to.

Help him do it.

Oh god, I know, yes, No, they don't.

You're the first to know.

I'll stop back here before I go into the twenty one.

It's still yourself.

But she wasn't right in bank, and it's just as well she wasn't.

She might have interrupted me while taking a fank scene trip to the drawers.

When the trailers built in Dureau, the files are silky, nothing that give gals that certain something.

Didn't tell me anything I hadn't known about women before, but a little black book stashed among them did.

I needn't have rushed my fish, though, because Myrtle Pepper was still gone after ten minutes.

That's about the time I headed back to her aunt Louisa's trailer pull over on the door and walked in.

Here me, doll, it is a dollar.

I told you I'd be right back.

Did myrtle here deliver mister Lacy's little love letters?

Here?

The fool?

You always want a fool.

He can't kill us, and he's against the law.

I mean, I mean it's impossible.

Lett.

Look, missus Pepper, you and your niche here are both funny scared while you're out shaking those two stances you got working over on the midway, myrtle, have you told Shenny about Lacy's breath?

Yes?

I met him on the way over here.

That's fimately.

My snakes said, dangerous to work with us?

The honey, yeah, he said, he join us here?

What did you say when you tell them?

He said?

If Lacy had one of us helping him, and the three of us are better spis together, so we should at least watch each other.

My mine, he had a good idea.

I see, the three of you have better stick close to each other beginning right now.

Come on, what are we going over to the snake sent And when we get there, myrtle, you'll be the only one of us who will be among friends.

Three of us left Louisa's trailer.

We walked past the back of the shooting gally, right in the front of it, and along the back of the line of Kansas hatty.

We stopped at once.

Myrtill pulled back the Kansas flap and I stepped in, ready for anything.

When the ladies not far behind me, I hegged slowly over to the square red board scent set up in the center of the tent.

There were dangerous times splashed in white paint along the outside walls of the pit.

I clenched my teeth and looked down to the wire mess stop at a slithering tangle of writhing, angry reptiles, and they're lying among them with a vicious red welt splashing his fore edward, Shaddy Brennan.

He was seating his snakes all right.

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Now back to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, I've just seen a murder mystery where the actors have been hitsing instead of the audience.

The league character in that snake fit wasn't going to win any Academy award.

The scene of the crime was no place from man let alone a woman.

So I heard Andy, Louisa and a niece murdle out of the tents back into the trailer.

Please shady, horrible, I say this, long Dollar, when I said he couldn't do it, Oh, it's gonna happen to her.

Going to one, Lacey told me, Myrtle, what's supposed to happen is only going to happen to one of you.

What do you mean, well, he claims that one of you is in this for them, and that one knows.

She's say makes sure enough to be an acting contest between you two.

What's that question to me?

The one who's safe wouldn't want.

Anybody to know she feels safe.

Un Oh, I wish I had learned to cry.

You don't think it's me?

Ladies?

How about observing a moment of silence the memory of the deceased?

Will I give you a few instructions?

Okay?

Have you got a gun in here, Louisa?

Yes?

And the license to carry it?

Good?

Is it the gun not the license?

I won't give it a yet, Love, You don't.

People might get to thinking that your candor Lacey's girlfriend and accomplice.

Anyway, I don't want the gun to take with me.

I want to leave it here, worrige it?

And that right over there?

Which end of the drawer you blind?

You'll see I'm not telling my bag on you.

Which end make a lot out of dollar?

You don't take any chances?

This end stored me?

Thanks?

Yeah, I'll wear the keys to the car hits to the front of this landyard.

What are they for a dollar?

Just another chance?

I'm not taking where those keys in my pockets?

This trailer won't be joy riding anybody off into the night.

Or are they wait?

A minute.

I'll come.

You know where Luisa's keys are, Yeah, Irdle, I'll come.

Oh, lay in my stand pay sight.

Uh alright, I'm going out and call the police.

Louisa, I want to get into that chair down at the under the trailer.

Okay, then you've got the gun, and you, myrtle, get on a bunk down to the other end.

I don't understand all this, And now, ladies, when I'm gone, I don't want one of you gals to be knocking you off the other.

But on the other hand, I can't leave you here without protection.

Oh I'm leaving the gun right here on this table in the middle of a trailer.

And if the Carter Lacy comes knocking at your door, you can have yourselves a race for the gun.

Spends account on I'm eleven five cents telephone call to the local police, plus another nickel spent calling a taxi.

The cops arrived in four minutes, the cab in fifteen.

Its driver had no firing to take them to the traffic lights.

Item twelve a.

Dollar ten cab fare on an exceedingly slow and sturous trip of the Sunshine Hotel.

If there is kind of a driver a nickel.

I went up to the third floor and hit it down the hall to caught of Lacy's Room three twelve.

I wrapped for an instant, but all that came back was an echo.

The lock of the door was a soft touchpipe, known to the trade as a burglar's friend.

Oh, I went in, call Alabama, stiff fell in Alabama.

Tonight operator, operator, this is an emergency call.

I man, you have a telep speaker police it Hello, police upon um.

This is the same guy who just called you from the carnival report of murder.

Yeah, well you can send in the second team.

I've got another one for you over here at the Sunshine Hotel, Room three twelve.

The party's just been strangled.

Yes, I'm sure, lots of bruises and deep steps, singernail marshed on the throat.

Sure I know who it is.

The name of the deceased is Myrtle Pepper.

Little Peppers certainly has been a fast workers.

You not only has beat me down to the hotel, she agnaged to get herself killed in the bargain.

I dusted the room for information, which was obviously more than the form, made it done for good, and came up with a kit of an eye opener.

You don't drink a pint size surprise in the form of some old newspaper clipping and Connor Lacy's prison release form and what let him out?

Let me in on something.

I got out of a room into the elevator, and when I hit the lobby, wondering what it started looking for him.

I found im sitting there looking at me.

I or you want to talk Lacy?

I don't want to, but if you want to try and make me, what's the matter with right here?

Okay?

I supplied you with an alibi.

Today I don't see him in the lobby as detective.

He had stomach trouble to get kicked in it.

You can reach him at the city hospital, you know, in prison.

I was a frusted I get out, but he tried me over that forecast?

Who gave me this fly?

What else?

Forecast?

Yeah, you predicted that you'll killed two people.

Well the night the two people are dead.

Chanty out of the carnival and now myrtle up in your room.

What does that make you a good forecaster or the killer?

Maybe thanks for them?

Maybe, look dollar, I came to this town to take care of something.

I took care of it.

You want to yell cop go ahead from now on, nothing bothers.

We'll then stop showing your nails.

It told me this morning that one of those three people was working with you.

There's only one left.

And suddenly, Lacy, I don't believe your story.

Suddenly I don't care.

Danny Brennan lied to me this morning.

He said that you want to prison on a charge of attempted murder.

Your prison release papers, so you went up for grand larstening.

You see what.

Happens to bad little boys.

To tell Lie, I'm not true yet.

I finished a bank book out of Myrtle Pepper's trailer, a three way joint account Myrtle, Shanty and Louisa.

The first deposit sixty thousand dollars, the date the same year you were throwing as the can for stealing sixty thousand dollars.

To me, that spells a three way split for them and a frame for you.

Also, to you, it spells a motor for hting.

All three of them.

So I lie to you.

What are you going to do?

Wash my mouth out with dope from now?

And I don't need any answers from you, including smart winners but look, you better stick around.

If the cops don't pick you up for murder, maybe the hotel will want to press charges against you for having an extra unregistered person occupying your room.

From John dollars.

Oh wait a minute, this cutter they arrested him.

Tell me did he escape?

He's at the hotel and the cops run away down there right now.

I hope he's more trofative with them than he was with me.

Yeah.

I had a long, one sided conversation with him.

There's one thing I still can't quite figure out, whether you're really intended to kill Shanty and Myrtle or not?

No?

Yeah, strangled, No, poor little angel.

Of course he meant to kill him.

He hated him, He hated it all.

He can highly blame a fellow for being an odd, flamed and a grand lastly chapped by three old tons.

But you've got the wrong idea, Luais.

What I meant was, did he ever really intend to kill him himself?

Or did he just intend to set off the greatest chain reactions since see Adam Brad and just sit back and watch the three of you try to beat each other to it.

Well, that's crazy, Cooks.

Yeah, like a fox.

Maybe he made his threat to me knowing I tell you it back to you, I say you because you're the only one left.

You see, he set himself up as a patsy.

He's been framed by you once before.

For to me, it looks like Cotter Lacy learned a few things about wrong people during that eight year stretch, namely that they never trust each other.

Yeah, absolutely nuts, Doella.

I think you'd better get out of here, so peddle your in, Shuman.

The cops will take care of mister Lacy.

I don't think they will.

The wiser why not, mortal was strangled.

That's the kind of murder of man would committed.

Well, but there was a set of deep thingernail marks on her throat, and Cotter Lacey bites his nails, So maybe you'd better get yourself a manicure before the police arrive.

Thanks for the advice, and write that dollar.

This kind of utter done.

It's just stand off, Luizer, point to that thing, jump places before I point mine up?

Your not.

Okay, gotta get out.

What's the matter with your lacy er?

You're cracking up?

Your plan was going along fine.

First murder saw Shanny to a snake and Louisa took care of Myrtle.

There's only one left, and the state will take care of her for you.

It's not enough.

There's one satisfaction I haven't enjoyed so far.

That's carrying one of these big squeals.

We can with the money, and Sean can get out of here.

The only one that's going to get out of here is dollars.

Feed it.

I bleed it all right.

I was the only one the trailer without a gun.

I plunged into the darkness looking for something and came up with a tent rope.

Dashed back to the trailer door and lashed then out of the guide rail.

I didn't want those gun happy birds flying the coup just then the season opened.

I didn't know who was going to come out the worst than there, the hunter or the hunted.

The only key I had to the situation was the key to the car, the one I take care.

Earlier in the day, God turned the trailer to the carnival back line and out of the highway.

When I hit the Cemonut, I started spinning the rubber us.

As we hit the streets of the sleeping city.

Things woke up.

Whoever was Smith's back the mat.

The shut up means to the trailer's front window.

The second shot was Mike cue to try to ruin the ring by playing rock a by trailer swinging a car from one side of the street to the others.

Not so shot, Should I made another try?

I picked up Guess what I was looking for?

A game of tag, but a police for.

So fense accounts.

Item thirteen fifteen cents by governor of soda those midway hot jogs i'd had for supper with no whole servent.

Item fourteen thirty five dollars cigars for night shift got a big a police for whom I had started things smoking.

Item fifteen three dollars hotel bills.

But never let it be said that I have a turned amasiately three dollar hotel bill for myself.

This was to check out of the Sunshine Hotel, a man who had checked out in the trailer at the hands of Louisa Pepper.

Louisa Pepper the only one who was a good bet to catch up with Brennan, who had been murdered by Myrtles, and Myrtle, who had been loused up by Louisa and Carter, whom She had also caught it out of this world, proving that when you sawt any kind of scene reaction, to be careful to sause, you're never going to be sure where it's going to stop.

Express a council right, only six undred and ninety two dollars and eighteen cents.

I must be slipping.

Yours fooly.

Johnny Dollar, the Madman of.

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