Hollywood.

It's time no for redmn O'Brien.

Johnny Dollan, Lieutenant Shirk, you leave a message for me to call.

Yes, I did, Lieutenant.

I want you.

Oh followed up at the time I got it, Snider, got your name and what hotel, But I never didn't find out who you are and what you wanted with me.

It was about the Alonso Chapman killing.

Oh whoa?

What's your interested in that?

I'm insurance investigated.

I was sent out here from Haunted, Connecticut to see what I could learn.

Oh you were whoa?

You get out of Here's some fast.

We got the news at about eight last night.

I was on a plane by midnight and in Los Angeles by noon today.

Must be tired.

I don't have any more than I had last night.

I suppose you want to talk to me though, Yeah, I liked him, all right, come on over, but give me an hour so I.

Can get some munch edmin O'Brien.

In a transcribed adventure of the Man Well the Action Pact expense account America's Fabulous Free Leans Insurance Investigator.

It was truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dolla to a home office Tri State Insurance Group, Hartford, Connecticut.

The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Alonso Chapman matter expense account, I had him one two hundred and eight dollars and fifty cents a half hand incidentals between Hartford, Connecticut and Los Angeles, California.

After a delay of about an hour or so, I was able to make an appointment with the Lieutenant Jim Shock to detective in charge of the case.

I met him at about two fifteen and he brought me up to date.

Chapman was registered at the Quincy Hotel.

He met this this girl in the hotel bar at about seven last night.

They left together.

About you got a quarter of right turned in the alley to get to the parking lot where a car was parked, and that's where he was shot in the alley.

Was it robbery?

It was well.

Healed to over three hundred dollars had in his coat pocket.

Not about this girl.

We didn't hear about her.

We did normal sale.

Picked up on a shop lifting charge last year and uh she got a job and stayed out of trouble since Pretty little thing born Nebraska, She says she met an actor in a road company back there.

He told her he'd introduce her to some important people in Hollywood and maybe she could.

You know how it goes.

Now, But I wonder if Chapman's wife is going to she's on her way out here.

How long had this girl known and.

She says she just met him last night.

I think that's what she said.

She was transferred to county jail this morning, eleven thirty and material witness.

I suppose you want to talk to her?

Yeah, I could, And so I'm as well going over because it's growing too fast.

That's why we got too many people.

We got too many, we got too many cars, too much of everything, but streets the mess.

Was that anything about Harkward.

I've never been there.

When there's a little slower paced on Los Angeles, but it's kind of its problems.

Ah, I supported every place there's something, Lieutenant.

Oh, we just called Cassidy when you want to send it Backelor.

Seven, Yeah, alright, I'll do that.

Thanks.

Oh, come along in.

No, I'm know this man is Mr Dollar.

He's an insurance investigator from back east.

How do you deal with him?

Wow?

You can just sit down.

How are you healing today?

Not very good.

I tried to talk to you last night after Mr Chapman was shot.

Didn't you remember?

I sort of half remember.

I went to pieces I kid, Yeah you did.

Couldn't get anything that even sounded like a statement from you.

It's why I had your hell so we could talk it over today.

Sure, I don't know anything.

We left him then it happened.

How long had you known mister Chapman.

I just met him last night.

He made regular visits to Los Angeles.

Are you sure you didn't meet him before the first time?

I'm sure?

Roy?

Would I lie about that?

We just struck up a friendship last night?

Uh?

How did that happened?

Well?

I dropped into the bar to Quincy for a drink and he started to talk to me.

What all did he say?

It just one of those things that happens all the time.

I knew it was a pitch, but he seemed like a nice guy.

He just didn't want to be alone.

He asked me if I knew any good places to eat, and I told him about a place I like it towards Hollywood.

So he asked me if i'd chow him.

Uh, you ought to be more careful who you get friendly with.

Remembe I'd better turn that.

Around and say you ought to be more careful about who knows you're getting friendly with somebody.

I guess I don't get you.

We'll looking for a reason somebody would want to kill Chapman and maybe a man friend of the others.

Couldn't be anything like that.

I don't have any steady boyfriends.

Oh that's not saying there isn't somebody who wants to be one, is it.

There isn't anybody, that's the truth.

But it had been somebody I knew, it would have recognized him, wouldn't I.

And it's possible that you might want to protect him if you didn't know him.

I didn't know him.

There isn't anybody who'd do anything like that.

I can't hold with that.

Norman.

You're young, you're pretty Why I should think there'd be a bunch of young bucks after you boys from that store where.

You're working with.

We'll tell you there isn't.

It's the truth.

There isn't.

There was.

I'd tell you, well, remember you would.

We've got to find a reason the Chapman was killed.

I don't know it wasn't because he was with me.

Now, Norman, don't get all upset again.

You've got to remember some other thing.

I hope you aren't holding anything back, Norman.

You know that we can learn the truth from other people.

Sure, I do, ask the girls I work with, asked Jeanie Stevens.

She ought to know.

She's lived with me for almost a year.

Ah, Norman.

Now, when you and this chaplain decided don a place to go for dinner, you left the hotel, you started for your car in the parking lot.

H He turned into the alley, which was a shorter trip and going around the corner, and this this gun man was waiting there.

It wasn't dark, No, not quite how far down the alley it was.

This man Wow, not.

Very good at measuring, but must have been about halfway to the parking.

There's a big trash boxer behind one of the building.

This man was waiting behind the box and when you came by, he stepped out, fired three shots, run away, and it was light enough so that you could get a good look at him.

Yes, it was darker in the alley, but I'd have recognized anybody I knew.

Would you remember if you saw him again.

I'm not sure.

Maybe I would an honor.

That's up to us to figure out how come this killer was waiting there where he was?

It beats me, Oh he knew chapmanin was going to pass by that box.

I don't know.

You can see how odd it looks on her.

If he didn't know Chapman was coming that way, he must have known that you would.

I don't know.

How it happened.

I'm telling the truths.

Maybe somebody heard us talking in the.

Bar hard enough to know you and Chapman would go through the alley.

Maybe somebody could have I don't remember exactly how it went, but I told him where my car was parked, Yes, I said, I said, just down the alley, I remember.

And then did you leave?

Oh?

Not right away?

We had another drink.

It takes ten or fifteen minutes, I suppose.

Oh how about a dollar?

I don't think I have anything more.

Thanks, No, it's all right, I'll get cashing to take you down.

I'd like to send you home, Norma, maybe tomorrow.

You know how it goes.

To those Lieutenant Shock and me.

The jealousy motive was still first choice.

As a matter of fact at that point, it was the only choice.

Nothing in Alonzo Chapman's room or among his effects gave a hint of a murder motive.

The Cleveland police had been requested to send anything they had on him, and localmen were work checking as Los Angeles business associates and his movements.

Chock left the question normals sales roommate, and I went back to satisfy myself.

On the beginning of it all, I waited for the evening bartender at the Quincy Hotel.

Now I'm not busy.

We won't get crowded for another hour.

Well our last night you crowded about seven seven thirty.

Oh yeah, yes, swamp.

If you'd ask me about anybody else in the place, I couldn't tell you a thing.

But I remember this little blonde dame and a sky Chapman.

I'm go out of here.

That usually doesn't happen this way.

Yeah, I suppose not, but I'll tell you how it was.

You see, a Chapman had been a hotel for a few days, you know.

Yeah, I got in Friday last week.

Well, I'm not sure when I first met him, but he dropped in for an early drink, like you know, quarter of five five o'clock.

Then we talk a little bit.

Then ain't go up to his room and come back around seven and stay for another hour or so.

And I tell you it was fine to half of What do you mean?

Oh?

And I was getting killed, not that pilot, I mean a little blind.

I didn't snow, but he was sank or anything but that when she came in and the barstools were all taken, Chapman spotsor and kids at his place.

How long had he been there?

It's just a couple of minutes.

I hadn't gotten around of taking his order yet, but when I did, he ordered for the both of them.

Then after that round they moved to one of the bulls.

Did you haven't notice another man who could have been interested in him and could have been.

Closed enough to overhear them.

Oh no, Jesus, the place was full like in the orice Or maybe the bar girl did that Grace cursy or she'll be in a five thirty if you want to talk to And I have to conback lay that Chapman's widow is Judo Ryan in about twenty minutes, that Masha had a wife.

Yeah, how about them?

Oh, I'm no stuff suret.

But if that guy acted this way and all the times he hit, she's better off without them.

I'll ask Grace if you want what what's your hotel?

The lock and if she does remember something about it, i'd appreciate a car.

Sure that my name is Howard.

Thanks a lot, I'll see you, lady.

Yeah, Lieutenant Shark.

Lieutenant this is Donald.

Oh oh, you got anything report on her?

Nothing?

That doesn't any good?

Missus Chapman just checked into the hotel.

I'm in the lobby there.

Now.

How did you make out with Norma's roommate?

Oh?

Just fine.

She seems like a level headed sort of girl.

She says Norma hasn't gone with any one particular man for a year, that his name was client mill the six months sentence on some character.

They're not important.

What but they're all washed up.

He says, he's not even in town, but we'll look for him anyway.

Yeah, I'm going up to talk to the widow.

If it's all right with you, Sure, go right ahead.

Make a suspect of her if you again, we need youth.

Could be from what I hear is she had a motive, not counting the insurance money.

But I don't know whether she knew it or not.

I'll check with you later.

Meeting missus Chapman was quite a surprise to me.

I naturally expected to find that would have approximately the same age as the dead man, something there fifty.

But she wasn't.

She looked to be only a few years over thirty.

If that don't feel like you have to try and make things easy for her, mister Dollar, you don't, al right, missus Chaplin.

Did he suffer much?

Oh?

He died almost instantly.

But it had to happen.

I'm glad it went that way.

Then.

I hope you understand.

I'm trying to I take it you aren't too fond of your husband.

I wasn't, and it would be stupid for me to tell you anything else, or to act any other way than I am acting well.

Still looking for the reason your husband was killed.

You said he was taking this girl someplace.

He was, but we haven't been able to make anything out of that yet.

She says, there's nobody who would kill out of jealousy.

I saw her picture in the paper.

We doubted her too, But our closest friend wouldn't have any reason to protect someone who had tried to kill mis sal She said there was nobody.

Well, there are other men who'd have good reason to kill him.

You didn't know him, did you, No, I never seen him.

He was good looking, not tall, but he sort of looked at He took care of himself, the iron gray hair.

He was better looking when he passed forty five than he ever was when he was young.

I was surprised that you are so young, missus Chapman.

That's why he was attractive to women.

My bad luck was leaving Cleveland and letting myself get roped into a marriage.

I found out about one of.

These girls, and then he started bragging about all the others.

You mean, it's possible that a man followed them to Los Angeles from some place else and killed him.

I don't know, but I do know that he must have hurt a lot of people.

Well he's he's through hurting me.

I've stuck it out because I knew this was going to happen some day.

Every time I've read about a murder like this, I knew it would happen to him.

Now it has.

Now.

I own a house, I have a bank account, insurance money.

I'm finally getting something from my marriage.

I tried to phone a Lieutenant Shaker report on my meeting with the overly honest missus Chapman, but he was out of his hours getting the teletype answers to the request he'd made for information from the Cleveland police.

So I cabbed over to see him.

Now, I'm not saying that what missus Chapman says is impossible, but I don't want to go off half cocked on a wild goose.

Chack.

I didn't think you'd like it.

I don't either.

Chapman came here from President I trained, so say it would have to be some guy from there.

I don't see why he didn't well say he didn't kill him in President because he thought he wouldn't raw suspicion down here.

How did this guy locate him?

Chapman didn't reserve a room at the Quincy.

He usually stayed someplace else, so he'd have to be followed.

No good dollar.

Why you couldn't expect an an experienced man from Preside to do a job of tailing like that true Union station from there the Quincy and all this this traffic, or oh it's possible, I suppose you're going to check him then, so probably wouldn't be too hard to get a list of the people who got on that train at Tresdone.

Yeah, lest hard up for motives.

Now we got 'em all over the country.

He was old enough to know better.

What here's a follow up on that stuff from Cleveland?

Oh?

Thanks great?

Hm, this was a nice little boy.

HM.

Get something.

Hey, Chaplin phoned Cleveland that day, checked in, didn't he?

Yeah?

It was Friday.

Why look at this?

Seems like his missus was seeing a lot of a man named Nicholson.

He's known who.

Left Cleveland on Friday night and he hasn't been seen since.

M like this old lot better.

Yeah, this could be what we wanted, a man with a motive who knew where Chaplin was.

You think it's time you met the honest widow.

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This is Chairman.

This is Lieutenant Shock, investigating your husband's murder.

How do you do and the nature?

Miss Chairman?

I'm sorry answer, it's not very pleasant this Chapman.

We never did get around are talking about your friend Carl Nicholson, did we?

What do you What do you mean?

Well?

You told me about some of the improvements your husband's death was going to bring you, but you didn't mention Carl Nicholson.

Please.

I know I sounded hard when I talked to you.

I shouldn't have said some.

Of the things I thought you were being honest.

I was too honest.

I'm afraid I.

Don't think soon.

It's a chapman.

I've been in touch with the police back in your home town.

They found out somehow about this Carl Nicholson.

First they said you'd been seeing quite a lot of him, especially when your husband was out of town?

Is that right?

Yes, it's true.

MM.

What were your feelings toward Nicholson at that time?

That its prior to your husband's death.

I'm fond of Carl.

I never made any secret of that.

He's my age.

We have a lot of things in common.

No, he is why in Cleveland?

Oh well, that's funny.

The police told me he was out of town.

I don't know what this means.

I don't understand.

You didn't know he left town?

No, I didn't.

Now if you were fond of each other and you had all these things in common, it seems to me you deserve to be told if you were just going up and leave town.

When is your sam last missus Chapman?

It was last week Friday, Yannie chance.

No, it was before then.

It was Wednesday or Thursday.

Why are you asking me these things?

The police back there went on to tell me that this Nicholson left town on Friday.

The Cleveland police, why should they even care.

About car because I told him that on Friday or a husband had telephoned you from the hotel where he was staying here in lost anglish.

Isn't that right?

Yes?

But I don't know what you mean?

Didn't you see Nicholson on Friday after you talked to your husband?

No, do you mean that you think I told him where Al was staying and that he came out here?

Now, missus Chapman, we didn't say we thought anything, but it's our job to solve this murder.

Well, you aren't saying we.

Think you and him planned the whole thing and he hopped out of here the first thing after he learned where your husband was staying.

But there are a lot of things that aren't clear in our mind.

The theory you gave me about all these wrong men around the country didn't hold up too well, missus Chapman.

It wasn't a theory.

I just told you what i'd been thinking.

You said you'd been waiting for it to happen.

But the way we see it, the way your husband was killed, where he was killed, makes it jealous out of town man seen too far fetched, But.

We're looking into it.

Don't you worry about that?

Dope?

Do you have a reason to think that Carl has been in Los Angeles?

Well, covering the possibility that he might have been Maybe you just mentioned the Quincy Hotel in passing casually, so you hardly remember.

No, I haven't seen Carl or talk to him since before Al called me.

I didn't tell him.

Why did he happen to leave town on Friday?

I told you I don't know.

I didn't know he'd left.

Well.

With all these things in common, what did you think when the news about your husband reached Cleveland?

Didn't you wonder about why you hadn't talked to the Nicholson all those days?

Yes?

I did wonder.

Why didn't you tell us all that without all this back and forth?

Because it would have sounded so awful.

Do you think you improved things by holding back?

I don't know.

Maybe I didn't.

The last time I saw Carl was on Wednesday.

We had a fight and he walked out.

You can prove that's the last time you saw him, Troop.

I haven't been thinking about anything like that.

We fought over the same thing for almost a year.

Carl wanted me to get a divorce and I wouldn't.

Because you were waiting for your husband to get killed.

Did you ever tell Carl that?

Yes, you tell him that during is this uh fight on Wednesday?

I think so?

But you didn't talk to him after that?

No?

Could you have learned someplace else where your husband was saying.

I don't know, I'm I don't know who else.

Al called Karl wouldn't kill him.

I'm positive of that.

Would you happen to have a photograph of Nicholson?

Why?

Some are on their way by radio photo and some others by email.

We might be able to save time if you have some.

I have one.

I want to raise something off the back.

Now, don't you fret missus Tamplin Blue.

Show it to a couple of people.

If Carl is innocent like you.

Think he us, this is the quickest way to prove that too.

I see it's sure.

Like to help you, you know, if I've seen a snap of sure and I'm standing, I'm sure.

What did the barbers say?

Oh, it's the same thing you did.

It was crowded and you wasn't sure.

Oh I'm awful.

Sigh.

That's all right.

I'd rather have a careful witness like you than one that thinks he has to say something to live up to the title.

Well, this guy could have been here and he couldn't have been That's the best I can do.

I'm sorry, thanks, So it's okay.

I'll do better next time.

I'll keep my eyes open from now on.

Maybe I gotta afforce some day.

Hellow tenant, you don't have it go, they say, a boat, it's so expensive to keep up it before long, you don't own it.

You don't owns you.

So we shoulder, and then went my fishing trips.

H you get much back there, Ah, but I haven't gotten back into since before the long?

Yeah, you are the everybody are it's the best nerve.

Lieutenant, Well, oh, thanks, we all belong.

Let's take it down when you threw it.

Hell on on her?

Oh, we've got a picture of a man we want you to look at nor muh, why now you look at it?

Come on, get a good bright light on it here?

Who is he?

Have you ever seen this man?

I couldn't swear, but I think he could be the one that.

Shot mister Girk.

I hate to say for sure, because mister Chapman was on that side.

Look at it again, on her?

What is now that you think you recognize?

Hum?

Maybe I'm wrong, But the way he's here right here, the way some of it hangs down across his forest.

This man's about dollars height.

I'm not sure that he's kind of crouched.

But you think you saw the hair.

I don't even know wh I think that.

When I closed my eyes, it seems like I can see his face.

Yeah.

Well, now you take a long look at it.

Study it.

We'll have some more pictures of this man tomorrow, and if you can be sure, then maybe we can let you look at him flesh and blood.

What happened so fast?

Just take your time and forget the lieutenant and me.

If I could, I'd leave it so you could study it all nighte.

But it's a piece of evidence and therefore belongs to the state, so I can't leave it.

As it turned out, we didn't have to take that photograph or any other picture back to Normals Sales for identification.

The first reason turned up.

That night, there was another message from the Cleveland Police.

The body of our chief suspect, Carl Nicholson had been removed from the remains of his car.

The crash had occurred within two hundred.

Miles of his home.

Witnesses said that he had been returning from a friend's country place, and the alcoholic content of his blood gave credence to missus Chapman's story that they had quarreled.

It became obviously that he had been on a week's trunt.

In addition to killing him, it had removed him in other respects as a suspect.

The other thing that changed the direction of the matter is not as closely connected to any of the principles.

As a matter of fact, hardly connected at all.

Was a story on the front page of the next morning's paper.

A man named Max Gerber, where the criminal background had been found, shot to debt.

Along with a year old picture of him was printed the fact that he had been staying at the Quincy Hotel with Lieutenant Shock.

I went to view Max Gerber's remains and his effects, and at ten that morning, Normal Sail was once more ushered into us.

Well, Norm, we sh'd keep you busy, don't we, Sidamo.

Did you bring some more pictures?

Not the same as we brought last night?

That wasn't the man you saw in the alley?

I wasn't sure.

The bartender at the Quincy says he'd never seen you in there before the other night.

Why'd you happen to go there hight to.

No guess?

Seemed like a good idea because I hadn't been there.

Was there some special that took you there?

Normal?

There must be quite a few SIB bars where you haven't been.

There wasn't anything special.

All right, I think it's fair to tell you that.

Uh.

We checked the store where you work and found out that you left there at three Ferry that day.

I didn't feel very good.

You felt good enough to go to the quincy.

Who felt good enough to let yourself get picked up by this man?

Why?

I guess that's my business, isn't it what I wanna do and who I wanna be with?

Why?

Sure?

It is normal?

Who did you want to be with?

What do you mean a man named Elenzo Chapman or a man named Max Gerber?

I just went in that all I met this guy.

You Uh didn't go into that bar expecting to meet some special man, did you?

No, not even if you were paid to meet him.

No, I don't know what you're talking about.

That man that was killed.

I mean the one you were with.

Did you know what he did for a living?

That he was a salesman?

Well, that's a forgetting ant.

He was a sale We cut two pictures out of the paper on him.

He's one.

This is the man you met at the Quincy.

Yes you sure, Normal, Yes, I am.

This man wasn't killed in the alley the other night.

He's the man I was with.

No, he isn't.

This man was killed last night, Normal right outside the Quincy Hotel.

Here's the picture of the other man.

They look alike, don't they.

They're the same.

I saw the suit Max Gerber was wearing.

Even it was sort of the same as Chaplin's.

It was brown still, I mean it was Gerber.

It was Gerber.

You were supposed to meet.

It was Gerber.

No, it wasn't.

Normal, Yes it was I.

You were supposed to pick up Gerber in that bar, aren't you.

I didn't know what they were gonna do, But you did pick this man up and take him down that alley.

They still want some money, and that's all they wanted.

Tell us how you found this man at the bar in Norma.

They planned him out to the lobby.

He made a fun call, then he went into the bar.

I went in after it.

Brown suit, gray hair.

It was Alonzo Chaplin you took out to get killed.

Oh it wasn't.

Why should we tell you it was If it wasn't.

You're lying to me.

You're trying to trick me.

No, they just made it mistake.

They blended him out.

Then you made the mistake.

No, I didn't.

I didn't.

I did what they said.

They told me I had to, and I did.

They sent me because I was blonded.

It wasn't the right one.

They didn't see they were gonna kill him.

He just told them some money.

That's all they wanted.

That's all I wanted.

I didn't want anybody to get killed.

I was blond, I was young, and that's why they sent me for money.

Expense count had them too miscellaneous while in Los Angeles, two hundred and fifty five dollars and eight cents hadem free, same as I had one transportation back to Haydred expensive count total six hundred and seventy two dollars and eight cents.

Remarks.

The second murder, Max Gerber's, was a gangland rubbout planned with the aid of a young blonde as bait.

The first murder was only a mistake.

The apparent marl that companies shouldn't hire a salesman, women shouldn't marry them, young blanche should stay away from them.

But confidentially, some of my best friends are insurance salesman, Yours Truly Johnny Dower.

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