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Dallas Willis Dunnel, mister Dollar, I took Marmon Shield's place at the Plymouth Life in Georance Company.

Oh yes, yes, I read about that my journal.

Mister Donhalla.

I'm glad to hear from you.

Thank you.

I'm told you've done a lot of work.

For the company.

Yes, I've handled a few things.

I have an assignment for you now, if you're available.

I have an appointment of ten that I'll be free by noon, if that's all right.

What's the case?

Ally, policyholder Millard Ward was stabbed to death.

He was a boson on a ship and according to the.

Cable, that crewman killed him as being held.

Name is Lewis Ratney.

It sounds open and Shutneesster Dunhill.

Is there an insurance angle?

Possibly is something about Ratneck and the dead man's wife.

The ship is due in New Orleans tomorrow afternoon, and we'd like you to go down and look it over.

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It was truly Johnny dallar expensive count submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to a home office Plymouth Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, but following is an accademic expenditure.

During my investigation of the Millard Ward met the men's count out of one one hundred eighteen dollars and forty cents a half an incidentals between Hartford and New Orleans.

When I got there, the newspapers were banning the expected arrival of what they called a death shift, and that four that afternoon, I was standing with two homicide men on the edge of the crowd of me curious on the squad trade.

I knows it's the Harmony Street war.

And this board a single prow gangway was put over the side, and the homicide men and I went aboard on Lieutenant Trace in New Orleans Police you one of the offices and ships there the captains in this quarter and the chief mate, Sir aw Donovan.

This is sergeant right, this is mister Darlot Ward than Chewing's company.

I am Donovan.

I guess you know how it goes.

Ward's bodies in the isolation room in the hospital, and Lewis Radnick's on the brick.

What about the knife that we here?

We left it where it was in the body.

Yes, you want to talk to Radnick.

I planned from wait until we got him asure.

What about you don I guess it's not important now, but I would like to see where it happened.

Sure, it's just forward here in the fourth pick stick.

Look, then we used table the gangway right wagon should be here anytime?

Which way is?

I fear?

Sir shipped plenty of messay, but we put them in in their quarters until this was taking off our hands.

I was Ridnick have to say about missus?

Donad nothing?

He wouldn't open his peep after it happened.

If it hasn't since I hadn't said a word, must have said something, and I think it wasn't out and not evasive.

Happened during my watch for the eighth.

Ward had some men up here on this deck.

This was last Saturday morning.

Yes, they were chipping and red letting some rust, and Ward took Radnick into the fourth pick to get some paint.

Radney came out alone and fell to again without saying anything.

Then when somebody asked him, he said, Ward must have stayed below, that's right, down here.

How long was that after Rodney came out?

You know?

Oh, about twenty minutes is as close as we could come.

When was Ward found?

Then it wasn't for about forty minutes.

You know how men are.

They figured they could take it easy as long as the bowsman was out of sight.

The ship's carpenter finally showed up, masked where he was.

He found him and reported to me, and you wanna go down?

Yeah, I think we better look Kenny and I will watch the latter.

H it's pretty sheer.

I'll go and get some lights on.

Go ahead, lieutenant, I don't think still a little tamp in here.

We were taking some seas this morning.

Now, this is where it happened.

He was lying across here, m M.

Where was his head?

Well, his head was right here, his feet over there.

He was lying on his side, and the knife was in his chest.

Did Radney admit that the was here?

It wasn't his.

We staw the twine and rope down air and kept a knife handing.

Well.

Radnicken met her being here with Ward, didn't he He didn't say it, but we all knew he was.

I'll tell you he didn't say anything when I asked him.

He said, he's dead, isn't he?

If you think I killed him, lock me up and leave me alone.

I'll talk to the police when I get ashore.

Ooh.

The scene of the crime, the four biggest small compartment in the very forward part of the ship, seemed to hold little else in the way of information.

As we left, the chief mate explained that the obviously had been bad blood between Radnik and the dead Bosom and one crewman had allegedly once heard them arguing about Ward's wife.

For the permission of the lieutenant, while he and the Khan I arranged for the removal of the body.

I went to the airless cabin that served as a brig and met the accused men.

He was twenty three years old.

I've been saying, and I talked to the police and nobody else.

I still mean it.

And that goes for you, since you're a privilege rad Nick.

But when you talk to the police, you'll be talking to me too.

While working together on this thing.

I don't get it, I told Jervis, hired by Ward's insurance company, I want to find out if his palace they had anything to do.

You're killing him?

Who told you, I killed him, who seems to be pretty Why they accepted?

Did anybody see me do anything like that?

The men knew you hated each other?

How much does that mean?

And it seems to have been something between you and Ward's wife.

That's a lie.

Why should anybody lie about it?

Who said that?

I don't know who it was one of the men who heard you and Ward arguing about her.

I'll break his neck if I find out.

Oh, it's a lie.

For your sake, I hope it is.

She's being pulled in for questioning this afternoon.

You can see that if there was something between you, it'd be better if you told us there wasn't anything.

I hardly know it, but for some crazy reason, Ward thought there was.

I think it was because he was older, and those guys are always like that.

How well did you know, well just to talk to have a few drinks together while he was out in the tramp while he was out, guys, they should have figured in the okay, what should make it sound like there wasn't anything wrong?

He and I said with the company quite a while, most of the time on the same ship.

Earlier the summer.

I got sick and mister Tripp.

That's when I met her well in a bar.

If there was never anything between us, Ward never would believe it.

But it's true.

What made Ward think you did?

And I don't know.

I'd try to find out who was talking to but he never say somebody in the bar?

Where you say you meant it?

I don't know.

He'd never say where's the bar?

The international mostly when there was the Oakland up uncommon?

And why do'd you kill him?

Right?

Think self defense?

I didn't kill him.

Everybody thinks I did, but I didn't.

How did he die then?

I don't know.

When I left him, he was still a map.

I brought a bucket of lead and went back on deck with the rest of the guys.

I didn't hear that he was dead until everybody did.

That's just it's no story.

I don't have to make up a story.

All have to do is tell the truth, and that's it.

If it is, you'd be better off the line and claim self defense.

Nobody's going to buy it the way it stands down.

I heard him repeat his statement a few minutes later through a blank faced Lieutenant Tracy, when the prisoner had been started on his way.

The police had good.

We did what checking we could through the crew.

Everyone agreed that the two men openly hated each other right they had always been given the dirty, dangerous work there the mother threats from both.

It was a situation, they explained, that would naturally grow out of all proportion aboard a ship, and there was no escape from facing one another every day.

We left the ship in Lieutenant Tracy's others, and then at the widow girl obviously in Northerner in her early twenties, with too much arch pencils into our eyebrows and a dread on him out but hardly enough emotion showing to fit the circumstances, said down his war cho thanks chin, oh, thank you.

I want to tell you something before we get any further.

Louie Redness didn't kill him.

Everything we've learned so far is says just the opposite of that, Missus warl.

I don't care Louie didn't kill him.

That makes you so sure of that missus one.

Because he didn't have any reason to.

I know my husband thought there was something going on between Louis and me.

He knocked me around enough trying to get me to say so.

But there wasn't nothing.

There weren't any more.

Than good friends.

We understood that you saw quite a bit a from while your husband was away.

I didn't see quite a bit of them at all.

Once in a while i'd go crazy in that farming room where I live, and i'd leave, go have a drink at the International or the Oakland, And a few times I ran into Louis and talked to him.

It never went any further than that.

They never even left together.

Don't you have any other frames?

Not many.

I don't seem to get along with the people down here.

But louis different.

You don't like New Orleans, not from the minute I got off the train from New York.

Louis Radnick's from up north, too, isn't he?

That's right, Chicago.

I'd just stay here if you hated it that way, I don't know.

I was always gonna leave just for a visit anyway, but I never did.

Well.

I suppose you're figuring on leaving now here.

I think I will with your husband, Dad.

There's no more reason for you to stand in town you hate.

Huh.

If you think you can make anything out of that, go ahead and try.

You can't admit it looks pretty bad.

I don't care how it looks.

You can't make anything out of it.

You're cough, so you gotta push people around and pry.

Well, I'll tell you the trouble.

I was sick and tired of being married to that that slob.

I hated him.

Why didn't you leave you?

It wouldn't have lasted much longer?

For this way, you might get some insurance money.

Did you tell me, right Nick, how you felt.

We never talked about my husband.

We talked about New.

York and things like that.

Louie didn't kill him, He didn't have any reason to.

Okay, miss Well, wouldn't less mister dollar her something more?

You can go, I can leave, sure as how's emphas?

Oh?

Can I see Louie?

He's not seeing anybody but a lawyer right now.

There'll be a coroner's end quest tomorrow morning.

I think it'd be a good idea if you come to that.

Uh, where do I go?

And what time?

Sergeant outside?

Thank you for coming down.

Please accept our sympathy and your grief.

You're sweet, both of you.

But do you suppose that picture was for him?

I thought maybe she'd find it clear herself of any part of me.

If she and the boy did plan it, if he admits it, she can just keep bounce in what she told her.

Well, I think I'll check the two bars that you mentioned.

She said they never left together, and I can all that holds up, wouldn't you.

I talked to the bart and there's quite a few of the patrons at the International in the open.

Both that afternoon and again that evening, I ran into three people who remembered missus Warden and rad nickname together, and one a waiter who was quite definite in saying he had seen the piece separately but never together.

On one hand, it did nothing to clear Ratnik, but on the other it made it look like any premeditated motive was going to be hard to prove.

Tenants at the Ward's rooming house didn't help either.

None of them remembered ever seeing a man of Radneck's description in the building.

That's the way it stood.

At ten the next morning, when the car and his inquest got under way, mister Herbert Massey police by here when you stand up, please, mister master.

Yes, sir, mister Massey, you're employed as a ship's carpenter on the same shift Millard Ward worked.

On Yes, sir, I've been on it four years now.

Is it true that you discovered his body?

Yes, sir.

Can you tell that during your own word how that happened?

Yes, sir, I know that Ward had some men doing maintenance work on the fort.

That guy wanted to borrow too to help me for a minute with some work I was doing, and then told.

Me he was in the fourth page.

So I went out, mister Massey, who told you Ward was in the four feet all of them?

I think?

Did Louis Radnick say so?

I think he did well?

Anyhow, I remember somebody said if he went in the fourth pick with Radnick and must have fell asleep, it was Carl Nixon.

I think, all right, and then what have But then I went up and followed him.

He was lying there with a knife sticking in him.

Was he moving?

No, sir, he was dead.

Then what did you do?

I felt for his posts, and then I came back up on the deck and reported to the chief officer, mister Donovan.

Did anything to the man knows?

I went down on the other side of the deck and onto the breach deck and promised, and Donovan.

Reported After the testimony of the ship's contident.

A little more was heard from a few of the crewmen.

None of it seemed to change the picture.

But the reports from the autopsy surgeon, together with the one from the police laboratory, it did a The knife had entered Ward's body at such an angle that the fatal wound could have been self inflicted.

See there were no fingerprints on the handle of the murder weapon.

See Ward was wearing leather gloves when he died, And finally the possibility of suicide was strengthened by the fact that there were blood stains on the right glove.

Everything was still indefinite, but I wondered how Radnick would react to the news, and after the inquest, I went to his cell to find out.

Still trying to save the insurance company some money, I do when I can.

I just came from the inquest, randing, I understand I could have saved the taxpayers some money.

On that I can.

They don't have an inquest when there's a confession, Duer, what confession?

Ran Nick?

I killed him.

That's what everybody wants to hear, isn't it.

Wait a minute, what brought this?

I killed him because he was trying to kill me, and that's gonna be my plea.

I kill him in self defense.

What's the matter.

Don't you like that story either?

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The men of the crew said, we hated each other.

You can ask him how that crazy guy was riding me all the time and giving me all a third aboard waite a minute ending I was a guy on the output side when we were painting davits.

He was trying to kill me then waiting for me to fall over the side.

Well I didn't, so he got me in a four piek and try to brain me.

So I stuck a knife in him.

It was off his head and I had to keep him from killing me.

How you throw that?

Told I was to it.

Why didn't you tell us this in the first place?

Because I didn't want to?

What made you change your mind?

I got sick of lying?

You hired a lawyer.

I got a right to haven't I He counted all the evidence against you, figured in the fact that there wasn't an eyewitness, and decided to play it this way.

Why not everybody knows I killed him, don't they?

We want to be sure?

Why I told your self defense?

What did he trying to hit you with?

He took a swing at nis fist, then he picked up a can of paint?

Did he swing van at you?

Yeah?

He started to.

Then I backed up and got the knife.

Then when he swung again, I figured there was only one way to stop him, and that's what I did.

Did you try to get away?

It was between me and the ladder.

Didn't you yell or anything?

I didn't have time to think of anything like that.

He gone off his head over you and his wife.

Oh, but nothing except what was going through that crazy mind at his There wasn't anything else, nothing between her and me.

But he tried to kill me, so I had to kill him to save my life.

Who's your lawyer?

I mean his name is Waterman.

When's you get him?

He does a lot of work for the union.

He should have stuck the business problemence, what do you mean by that?

I don't think he'll get to first base with the play.

Well, that's what happened too.

It's happened before and there weren't any witnesses.

But this time we're too close to her motive.

I think a jury will fill in what we don't have.

I guess that's the chance you gotta take.

I guess, sir, I'll see you later.

Oh Uh, that kind of paint he was swinging?

What did he do with it when you stabbed him?

Uh?

He dropped it.

I guess I wasn't noticing things like that, okay, and just wondering be able to give Ward's wife all the details of your new story.

He had nothing to do it.

He was crazy, that's all.

He's not alone, and he's saying man would have admitted a self defense killing like you described right after it happened, and you shouldn't have wiped off the night.

I didn't wipe Oh was that.

I said, all I'm going to say, now leave me alone.

Sure, sure, you better work on that story.

And I don't think a new lawyer would hurt.

I don't care how full of holes it is.

We've got to find more than we have now.

I know that that boy is guilty.

I wanna hand in some evidence.

It says, so, and nothing there.

You better go back to the ship.

Yeah, I think so too.

Go over the same as a killing again.

Seems to me.

We ought to be able to settle that can of paint, he says, Ward was swinging at him one way or another.

That would help.

Where's that chip, carpenter?

You suppose he went back to board up so he discovered the body.

He ought to be able to fill in some details, right, you know?

Uh, what's his name?

Massey heard of Mercy?

Probably the same thing going through your mind that the last person we think saw water alive isn't too far separated from the one that says he's the first person that's undead.

You aren't thinking that boy is anescent, not necessarily, how about you?

He wasn't what everything stacked up against him the way it is that lawyer could have figured it.

We're safer to have him take her self defensively.

I think we better go back to the ship, don't you This must be in.

Yeh, come in.

Hello missus Massey, you remember may Lieutenant Dreason.

Oh sure from the spot of the inquest.

That's right.

This is mister Dollar Insurance investigator.

Hello, ah ers messy, we came back.

I talk to you, mister Massey, because we still don't have enough evidence to make a decent charge of murder against Redney.

But sure, I'll do anything I can to help the police sit down.

Why don't you think?

Well?

All I can say is what I saw.

I I found word, that's all.

Sure we know that.

But you did know that they didn't get along too well, didn't.

But I heard more about that after it happened.

That I heard before I got my own work to go board.

I don't work much for the crow m Afterwards I.

Heard him talking about it.

It's a massy How clearly do you remember things the morning you found what dead?

I I don't know what you mean.

Do you remember exactly what you saw and what you did?

Sure?

I think so?

You're sure he was dead?

Sure?

I told you that I I felt for his pulse what made you do there?

Well, I don't know.

I I guess I just remembered.

That's the way to tell.

Where did you feel for it in his throat?

You remember then?

Huh?

You're sure I don't.

When I saw him lying there, I called his name first, and then when I saw the knife, I leaned over him and saw his eyes open.

That I for a first pulps.

How long did all this take?

Do you think?

Oh?

I don't know.

Uh, not very long.

I came up on deck right away.

What's so important about that?

We just want to get everything straight?

What can you remember about the four peak?

Mister Mancy?

Was everything in order?

Everything in order?

I I don't quite know what you mean.

Well, do you remember anything unusual, anything out of place?

No?

I I didn't notice anything.

Uh.

Well, he asked me that it's important.

Do you remember a can of paint rolling around on the deck?

Kind of paint?

What's the can of paint?

Cut stores?

And do you remember seeing one?

No?

What would I be doing looking for a can of paint at a time like that?

When you saw he was dead?

Weren't you startled?

And didn't you look around?

I would have no?

Uh?

All I thought was going to the old man or the mate and telling him, say, why are you asking me this kind of question?

Which told you we don't have enough evidence against Radnick, and we thought you could to help him.

We've got to be sure he killed Ward.

My sure he did.

How do you know that?

Oh, everybody knows that all of.

Them, nobody saw him do it.

Everybody knows there was trouble between them all they Yeah, everybody knows.

They went after paint together and war didn't come out.

And then you went in and when you come out, that's when it turned out that Ward was dead.

It's sure us right, And you.

Didn't notice any signs of the struggle.

No, I didn't notice anything.

But Ward.

I'll tell you the word stands.

Radnick said he didn't kill.

Him with any Then he must be lying.

That's what we thought too.

Everything that anybody said made it look like he was lying.

Why, sure he is.

But then he changed his story.

Then he said Ward had tried to kill him, and then he stabbed himself to fence.

He said, Ward picked up but here be came of paint, tried to brain it.

I don't know what happened.

Well, I fight like that would have been heard, and it would have been things knocked around.

But you say you didn't notice anything, and the men say they didn't hear anything.

I don't know anything about that.

I was on there, so I didn't hear anything, and I didn't notice anything because I just didn't look around.

We don't think there was a fag.

We think either Radnick just stuck him or that somebody else killed.

Everybody knows Radnik did it.

It could be that everybody just thinks he did.

Everybody knew there was trouble between them, it was shapen up.

So when you found Ward dead, naturally everybody thought Radnick did he That's right, everybody did.

You came out and told the mate you found Ward's body, and then everybody just naturally figured Radnick could kill him.

That's right.

But what if he didn't, Mercy, I I don't know what you mean.

If Radnick didn't kill him, who did?

We just want to get a stray.

If Radnick didn't kill him, who didn't.

I I don't know who else was in the fore peak.

I was.

That's what you mean, isn't it.

I was in there.

I found Ward in there.

What you mean is you think if Radnick didn't kill him.

I did.

Isn't that right from verdicule me?

I found him there.

I tell you he was dead when I found him.

That's all I can say.

It's all I know.

Okay, Mercy, you weren't learning on going any personally.

Now you can't arrest me.

I didn't do anything.

We just don't want you to leave town.

We don't want to talk to you again if we can't build anything better against Radney.

The Lieutenant put some men checking Massy's background for a motive in case we needed it, and it looked like we might.

And then we went back to Lieutenant traces out us and looked at one another.

Our circumstantial evidence was one thing, but we had nothing in the way of actual evidence.

The information on Massy came in and it was incomplete and worthless.

While came in on the association between RATNK and missus Ward, all it did was make us wonder whether they were innocent or smart.

There was such a complete lack of anything to put our fingers on that we decided on some pressure tactics to eliminate at least some of the possibilities you lied to us, Rodney.

We want to know why you did?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Why'd you give us that stuff about killing Warden?

What stuff?

We think you were lying?

We don't think you killed him?

Until are you crazy?

We think it looks so bad for you that you and that lawyer decided the best thing to do was try our self defensely, What are you giving me?

Why did you give us?

You said you killed him?

Everybody else said I did.

That's what we've run into too.

What do you want then?

The truth story?

Why did you give us that self defense pitch?

I was, like you said, everything was against me.

We we thought it was the best way to handle things.

Did you really kill him or didn't?

I'm not gonna say any more until I talk about layer.

Why on Rodney we said we don't think you killed him?

It's your chance?

And why not though?

Because I think it got something up your sleeve.

We have it.

We've got more than you ever thought we'd have.

I don't care what you got.

I told you what happened.

What do you think Ward's wife told us she had a good reasons to double cross.

You're riding without you.

She doesn't have to slip the insurance money.

I don't know what you're talking about.

She tried to might make us think she didn't have anything to do with it, and we let her.

She tried to clear herself.

She thought she was saying something else.

But once she really told us was that she was tired of her husband, and when died, they get away from him.

Then she told us you came along.

You want to see her sign the statement?

What did she sign a paper that says she asked you not to do anything, but you said you were going to get rid of her husband.

You're lying.

I got it right here.

She's a thirty rotting liar.

She signed anything like that.

She's a thirty liar.

Yeah, at the statement thing?

So in this building a case against you, Well it's not true.

I don't care anymore because I don't see that even a lawyer was wrong.

I don't have a chance, and I'm sick of lying.

Tell us about it.

Then it was her.

After I met her, she asked me to do it.

She said, kill him.

She begged me.

She said, with the money we'd get, we could leave New Orleans.

Honest, I'm tired of lying, and this is the real truth.

She said.

We go alway together right wing to ride me the whole trip, and when Ward and I were in a four peak it was only two days from home.

I knew I had to do something, and I did it.

He didn't attack you, You just damn me.

I don't know what happened to me.

We were there and I knew it was my last chance.

I didn't know what I was doing.

I just saw a chance, and I took the knife when I stabbed him.

I wish I hadn't.

You'd lend it the aheadn't.

I wish I hadn't.

I wish i'd never met her.

I wish I'd never come to this town and met her.

I don't know what happened to me.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Expense account Adam too miss Olnius one hundred and eighty dollars and fifteen cents item free same as item one transportation back to Hartford.

Expense acount total four hundred nineteen dollars and five cents REMARX.

I don't think any of U needed is a clear case of attempt at insurance fraud.

But if you can figure out where things like this start, what causes them, and insure against them, you'll save a lot more money than you've saved on this matter, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Edmond O'Brien will soon be seen starring in the Paramount Picture is Technical or Production Silver City featured into Life's Guest where Sidney Miller, Barton Yarborough, Bill, Conrad hi Everbeck and Gene Bates.

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