บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ The Punctilious Firebug Matter

00:04:08.879 my home, my wife and everything else I can. What's 72 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:12.360 the time, Johnny, it's furmun us after eleven. Wouldn't want 73 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.400 to lay a little bit while this phone's ringing at 74 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:23.240 this time of night, would you? Eastern and Dana Day Connors. Yeah, 75 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.879 that figure where I get that address? That's uh, wait 76 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:31.519 a minute, that's seven to five East west Chester. Yeah, 77 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:35.879 I got it. Yeah, thanks, Lieutenant be seeing it number five, 78 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.480 big apartment building, not in Westchester. You're sure it's one 79 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:42.639 of yours. Wrote the policy on it myself four days ago. Well, 80 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:43.879 let's get out there and have a look. 81 00:04:43.959 --> 00:05:02.839 Huh man, that's sure, I've gone. 82 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:04.839 Yeah, there's another one. You're gonna write off. 83 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:07.959 You can say, oh, cover's land Bouchard over there, didn't 84 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:08.680 I'd be done. 85 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:11.040 Here so quick. Let's see what he's got to say. Yeah, sure. 86 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.680 I had, Lieutenant, he got down here right fast. 87 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:22.600 Even reasonable to mister Conner's not. There's much I can 88 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.240 do before she cooled down. I won't be before morning. 89 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:28.120 I'm like you to meet Johnny Dollar, lieutenant, one of 90 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:29.439 our investigators from the east. 91 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.240 Johnny, that's Lieutenant Landbort idn't oil, Lieutenant. 92 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.720 Looks like our firebug didn't waste any time showing himself 93 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:36.879 off to you, mister Dollar. 94 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:39.120 No question about I being talked well. 95 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:40.839 That guy said, I won't be able to get in 96 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.519 there until morning. When you figure the pattern where that 97 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.920 fire rolled up and took hold, no doubt in my 98 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.879 mind who reported it. Fellow by the name of Hendrickson 99 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.160 at the second floor Apartment West called in from a 100 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:53.319 hallway telephone. 101 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:54.759 What kind of a story did he give you? 102 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.000 He didn't got trapped up there on the second floor 103 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.439 suffering third degree burns and shit, he's not in any 104 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.120 sheep to talk to anyone. I don't know that I 105 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:06.879 care to be around when he is fit to talk, though, Oh, 106 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.959 why is that his wife and two kids? It's still 107 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:10.680 in that fire. 108

00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:20.720 Someone Jeff Conners went back to the office to wire 109 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.920 his preliminary report to Hartford, while I stayed around to 110 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:26.920 see if anything would turn up. By one thirty am, 111 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.639 the only thing we'd learned was that our only possible witness, Hendrickson, 112 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.000 had died en route to the hospital. A preliminary check 113 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.040 of the record seemed to indicate that the fire had 114 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.800 started in the basement, but it was still too hot 115 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.959 to check into the thoroughly, so Lieutenant Borcher drove me 116 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:43.720 back downtown. 117 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:46.920 I'll dig into it in the morning. Dollar. I can 118 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:48.360 tell you right now what I'll find. 119 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:49.439 Oh, what's that, Lieutenant? 120 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:52.399 There'll be four or five hotspots indicating the use of 121 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:56.319 kerosene gasoline something like that amount of paraping drippings. 122 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:59.160 Sounds like a candle's used for a slow fuse. 123 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:01.879 That's what we figure it found the same drippings and 124 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:02.879 all the other fires. 125 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.399 Any idea of how slow a feuse it is looks 126 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:06.319 like an hour and a half. 127 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.319 Two hours gives a bug plenty of time to get away, 128 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:11.319 fix himself up, and alibis somewhere. 129 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.560 Connor says, you think it's someone in his organization. 130 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.560 Fold pattern points that way. Haven't been able to run him. 131 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:20.160 Down, though takes a lot of legwork. 132 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:24.480 Connor's has been a big help co operating right down 133 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:25.519 the line. 134 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.079 Known him along, Donna, Oh, four or five years off 135 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:30.519 and on. He's a good man. 136 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.759 Yeah, he doesn't seem to be letting his personal troubles 137 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:35.199 interfere with his work any. 138 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:36.680 What personal troubles at us? 139 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:39.040 Well, he's been pretty broke for the past six months 140 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.879 or so. Wife's been sick, run up a lot of 141 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:45.279 doctor and hospital bills, had to buy a new home recently. 142 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.000 Oh why is that last one burned down? Lost his 143 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.480 eight month old son in that fire. Been pretty rough 144 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:56.360 going for him. Yeah, well, when we get this firebug 145 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:58.680 pinned down, might

help him some, take some of the 146 00:07:58.680 --> 00:07:59.959 pressure off, relieve his mind. 147 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:04.519 Maybe you are Dollar, Oh thanks, Lieutenant. 148 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.399 Check with me in the morning. Dollar, think over what 149 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.720 I've been saying. If something will come. 150 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:19.839 To mind, Yeah, yeah, I'll think about it. I had 151 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.959 Bortuer dropped me off at your office building. I figured 152 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.160 i'd pick up my bag and talk things over with 153 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:31.519 Jeff before checking into a hotel. I let myself in 154 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:33.399 with a key Jeff had given me and headed for 155 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:44.519 his inner office. Wow, good morning you, Johnny Dollar. Mean 156 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:46.519 anything to you, Johnny Dollar. 157 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:51.000 Oh you're that insurance investigator, mister Connor said, was coming 158 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:51.879 out from the east. 159 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:52.720 That's right. 160 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:54.720 Well, I'm plenty happy. 161 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:55.000 To hear that. 162 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:58.080 He gave me a pretty bad stop, mister Dollar. 163 00:08:58.240 --> 00:08:58.960 I'm sorry. 164 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:01.759 I'm Ally Martin, mister Connor's secretary. 165 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:03.679 And the rest of it. 166 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:06.799 Well, you mean what I'm doing up here. 167 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:08.679 Well, I'm as curious as the next guy. 168 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.360 But I promised to have some material ready for mister 169 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.519 Connors in the morning at the office tonight and said, 170 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.759 you hurry. I forgot it and we'll just stop by 171 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:19.919 to get it ready for him. 172 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:23.960 You're a pretty conscientious employee, miss Martin, getting out of 173 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:25.679 bed at two in the morning to come down to 174 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:27.000 the office for something like that. 175 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:29.000 Oh, No, wasn't that way at all? 176 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:29.960 Oh what way was it? 177 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:30.600 Well? 178 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.960 I had a date this evening dinner theater and that 179 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:34.759 club Romilo just down the street. 180 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:36.960 Stopped up here on my way home. 181 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:42.120 M h. Is this the material mister Connors wanted ready 182 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:47.000 in the morning. Yes, it is comprehensive fire policy on 183 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:50.639 the property. At seven to twenty five East Westchester. I try, 184 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:55.240 that's pretty coincidental, isn't it. Well, or maybe you didn't 185 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:58.480 know that there was a

fire out there tonight, a poet, 186 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:04.840 Any idea why mister Connor has wanted this particular policy out. 187 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.720 I think if you have any more questions to ask, 188 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.440 mister Dollar, mister Connor should be here to answer them personally. 189 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:15.559 That sounds reasonable, and maybe we should ring in Lieutenant 190 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.559 Borchyard too, Lieutenant. 191 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:19.399 Book, Hey, Sally, what's keeping you so long? 192 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:20.879 Oh? 193 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.000 Hi, didn't know anyone else. 194 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:23.559 Was up here with you. 195 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:27.639 This is Johnny Dollar, one of our investigator. Bill, mister Dollar, 196 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:29.399 this is still tremblers. 197 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:31.279 Oh, glad to know you, mister Dollar. 198 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.639 I was telling mister Dollar about the wonderful time we 199 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.000 had denied dinner in the theater and. 200 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:38.600 Being at the Club Romulo until just a few minutes ago. 201 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.000 Huh oh yeah, yeah, that's right. We did have a 202 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:46.000 swell time. But honey, it's getting late, so if you 203 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:47.200 were ready, let's run along. 204 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.639 Okay, Bill, good night, mister Dollar. 205 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:58.480 Glad to meet your dollar. Hope see you again. Sometimes, 206 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.519 being a firm believer in the ability of my subconscious 207 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:03.279 to resolve any knotty problems. 208 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:06.960 I checked into the Baker Hotel for the night. The 209 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 bed was very comfortable, but my subconscious didn't come up 210 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:19.039 with a thing. Expenser count had them two three dollars 211 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:23.200 and seventy five cents Texas style breakfast, including steak and 212 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:26.840 pan fried potatoes. That supplied me with enough energy to 213 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.000 walk over the City Hall and look in on Lieutenant 214 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:30.679 Bortude with a. 215 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.480 Little hit and run accident the corner of Westchestern Gates 216 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:36.759 by nine o'clock last night. Dolla, it's just half block 217 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.639 away from where the fire was, seems a fifty three 218 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:42.519 Ford stand parked on the street there suddenly took off 219 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:45.679 without lights, spun around the corner, and threw the fender 220 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:47.240 off another car coming up the street. 221 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.039 Do you think there's some tie in between that and 222 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:49.679 the fire. 223

00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.360 Well, one of the boys in traffic thoughts. So, after 224 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:55.600 witness gave him the license number the Ford, he checked 225 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:56.559 it through motor vehicle. 226 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:57.519 Who's it registered to? 227 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:03.600 Jeff Connor? 228 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.399 Friends, No matter what kind of work you do, there 229 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.360 are bound to be times when the job seems monotonous, 230 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.799 you feel tense and restless, and you need something to 231 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.840 give you a boost. Well, you'll be surprised how helpful 232 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.519 a stick of Wriggly Spearmint chewing gum can be at 233 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:37.159 times like that you see. Chewing on a smooth piece 234 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:40.519 of Wriggly spearmint gum is a natural way to ease 235 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:45.080 tension and relieve that feeling of restlessness. The easy chewing 236 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:48.080 gives you satisfaction. You get a nice little lift out 237 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.320 of it. And Wriggly's Spearmint gum tastes good too. Its 238 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:57.399 flavor is lively refreshing spearmint a flavor millions and joy. 239 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.600 Try it and see for yourself. Get a few packages 240 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:04.879 of Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing gum and chew a stick from 241 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:08.559 time to time while you work. Chewing this delicious gum 242 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.559 will make your job seem easier and pleasanter. It really will. 243 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:21.639 And now, with our star John Lund, we bring you 244 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:39.600 the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. The Traffic 245 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:42.320 Divisions report of the hit and run accident on Westchester 246 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.759 the night before added nothing to what Lieutenant Borchard had 247 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:49.240 already told me. Jeff Conner's ford had been parked halfway 248 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:52.519 down the block at approximately nine to five pm, it 249 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:55.519 roared away from the curb without lights, turned the corner 250 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.360 on the gates, smashed into the side of another car 251 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.360 some ten feet from the intersection, and kept right on going. 252 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.759 That'd be some reason for Connor's being there just two 253 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:08.039 hours before the fire, and for taking off in such 254 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:10.039 an old fire to hurry that way without light. 255 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.200 Well, let's get Jeff's out of the story before we 256 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.559 jump to conclusions. Lieutenant, I don't. 257 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:18.200 Believe much in coincidence, mister Dollar. Time element checks out too. 258 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.159 The two hours between the accident and the fire. 259 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.080 We know those candle teess burn an hour and a half. 260 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:26.159 Two hours leaving here at nine gave him plenty of 261 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:27.840 time to ditch the car and meet you at the 262 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:31.279 airport with a pretty clean alibi. He wasn't driving the 263 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:34.639 Ford when he picked up, was he? No, it was 264 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.720 a Plymouth coop. Mayh, that's his wife's car. 265 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:39.960 What have you've done about getting him in? 266 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:43.279 Not at home, he's not at his office. Nothing else 267 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.200 I could do but send out a pickup on him. 268 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:48.879 Leave word for me at the Baker Hotel when you're 269 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:49.559 getting with him. 270 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.559 Sure thing, mister Dollar, I know how you're feeling about it. 271 00:14:53.759 --> 00:15:00.840 I'm sure sorry. 272 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.480 Expenser cann had him three two dollars and twenty five 273 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:08.039 cents cab Fair are to the Modern subdivision where Jeff 274 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.200 Conners had his new home. Missus Connors turned out to 275 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:14.639 be a sweet, nice looking young woman whose recent illness 276 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:15.519 was still a parent. 277 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:18.159 I'm sorry you had the long ride out here for nothing, 278 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:21.559 mister Donner. Jeff's not home. He left early to get 279 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:25.240 his car fixed or something too bad. You didn't call first. 280 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.320 Oh that's all right, Missus Conners, it's you I wanted 281 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:28.840 to see. 282 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:34.759 Yeah, that's well. I guess I knew that it's about Jeff, 283 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:36.480 isn't it? Those fires? 284 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:37.279 That's right? 285 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:43.159 And you've noticed it too. Terrible things were in Sarah 286 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.759 can do to a man. Well, until six months ago, 287 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.679 Jeff was the happiest man I'd ever known me, and well, 288 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:52.200 I will just fell apart. 289 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:56.440 That's when your home burned, Missus Connerson lost my son. 290 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:00.480 Something happened to Jeff, then what happened to me too? 291 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:06.320 I broke down, had to be hospitalized with Jeff. Well, 292 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:07.000 it was different. 293 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:07.879 How do you mean? 294 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.600 She bottled everything up inside of him, refused to let 295 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.559 it come out, and never even talked about it. A 296

00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:16.480 person can't do that, mister Dollar. 297 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:23.240 You mentioned the recent fires, missus Conners, any particular reason why. 298 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:28.399 Yes, that's what has me worried so ever since they started. 299 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:32.559 He's become terribly depressed. I'm afraid he's going to break 300 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:33.559 down under the strain. 301 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:36.519 That's the only reason you mentioned him. 302 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:40.159 Yes, I've tried to do everything in my power to 303 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.799 help him. I thought perhaps if we moved away from 304 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:46.919 Dallas it might help, but he wouldn't do that. Then 305 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:50.159 I tried to get him interested in sports. That brought 306 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.120 the first encouraging sign I've had in six months. 307 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:54.399 Oh what was it, missus Conners. 308 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:57.960 Well, usually on Monday and Tuesday nights, Jeff brings work 309 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:01.080 home with him, all the mail umulated over the weekend, 310 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:05.480 the new premium and renewals and so on. Well, for 311 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:07.880 the past five weeks, mister Dollar, believe it or not, 312 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.000 Jeff has gone Bowlin every Tuesday night. He's become so 313 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:15.359 infused about it. Right, he hasn't come home before midnight 314 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:16.880 on any Tuesday evening since. 315 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:17.720 Now. 316 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:19.920 Don't you think that's encouraging, mister Dallas. 317 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.440 Expenser cont item of four fifteen dollars and seventy five 318 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:36.119 cents cab Fair in and around the city of Dallas. 319 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.440 I spent the rest of the day checking the neighborhoods 320 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:42.519 where the fires had occurred, talking to policyholders, neighbors, anyone 321 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.079 who might give me a new or different slant. I 322 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.400 came up with nothing. Around five o'clock I called into 323 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:49.200 Lieutenant Bouchard. 324 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:53.519 Still the same answered, mister Dollar, picked up Connor. Yet 325 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.759 we checked out Sally Martin and Phil. 326 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:02.000 Tremla do anything there? Just like said, yeah, I see. 327 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:04.559 Looked like something might have tied in. 328 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:07.920 You had to work with Connor, you know Trendlear was 329 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.240 with Eastern Identity months ago. 330 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:21.319 Yeah, then start a business of his own. Bowling alley. 331 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.359 Expense acount antum of five a dollar and sixty cents 332 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.319 cab fair to Trendler's bowling them for him on East 333 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:33.319 Gatto Street, five alleys and a drinking sandwich bar. Tremdler 334 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:35.319 was keeping a score for a couple of high school 335 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:42.160 bobby socks over on alley number three. 336 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:44.960 Don't let it get you down on it happens to 337 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:47.319 the best of us. Take off one of them anyway. 338 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:49.680 Can I talk to you for a minute, mister Tremley. 339 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:55.759 Oh, it's you. The insurance man, Johnny Dollar, isn't it? 340 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:56.400 That's right? 341 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:58.039 What's on your mind? Dollar? 342 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.720 I'd like to talk to you for a minute about 343 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.480 the fires. Yeah, take over for the girls. 344 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.480 Gym will be right back. Let's go on the office. Dollar, 345 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:15.279 Let's have a dollar. 346 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.559 He used to work for Jeff Conners at Eastern Yeah, sure, 347 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.039 up until two months ago. Why did you quit? 348 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:24.119 I just wasn't cut out to be a good insurance salesman. 349 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:25.839 So you opened this bowling alley? 350 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:27.480 Anything wrong with that? 351 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.000 Well, they tell me it takes money to open these things. 352 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.519 I had a few bucks saved from not being a 353 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:34.680 good insurance salesman. 354 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:37.599 Why are the interest in my finances? Dollar? 355 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:40.440 I'm just curious, So be curious. 356 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:41.720 About something else. Huh. 357 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.279 Okay. Did Jeff Connor's ever come bowling here? 358 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.480 Yeah? A couple of times. 359 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:50.680 Jeff's wife says he's been bowling every Tuesday night. 360 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.559 I wouldn't know. The last time I saw him was 361 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:55.960 four weeks ago last night. 362 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.880 Any idea where he might have been those other Tuesday nights? 363 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:00.839 Wh Sally Martin? 364 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:01.960 What she got to do with it? 365 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:05.279 She's a secretary, she was within the times he came here. 366 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.160 Maybe they figured out something better to do with their 367 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:09.000 Tuesday nights. 368 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:10.640 She was out with you last night. 369 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:13.880 Yep, every minute from six o'clock for two to fifteen 370 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:15.880 dinner theater Club Romulot. 371 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:18.279 Well, you can always walk out of the theater

before 372 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:21.319 the final curtain, and a ten dollar bill can make 373 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:23.759 a nightclub way. They're pretty confused about time. 374 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.480 Be kind of hard to prove anything like that, wouldn't it. 375 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:38.519 Dollar, Well, there's no law against trying. Expenser count hadem 376 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:41.319 six one dollar and eighty cents cab fair back to 377 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.559 your offices. They were closed for the night at the 378 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:47.359 Baker Hotel. I put a call into Sally Martin's apartment 379 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:49.960 and got no answer. When I was trying to figure 380 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:53.519 out the next move, Lieutenant Boorchyard called and made up 381 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.240 my mind for me. 382 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.480 Yeah, front two minutes done off yip, Where are. 383 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:02.160 We going, Lieutenant? What's out there? Another fire? No? 384 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:05.240 Je Connor's board twelve feet of water. 385 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:14.759 Look about an hour for a mobile crane to get there, 386 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.079 and another thirty five minutes before the grappling hooks got 387 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:20.480 a solid hold and swung the car off on a 388 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:34.079 dry land. Bucher and I were beside the car almost 389 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:35.319 before the crane put it down. 390 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:41.559 Well that's a big help. 391 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.000 Disappointed lieutenant would. 392 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:46.480 Have helped if he'd been in the car. Costs money 393 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:47.680 to drag a river like this. 394 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:49.599 I don't think you'll find him down there. 395 00:21:49.720 --> 00:22:01.640 We got a look. 396 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:00.200 On his way back to city hall, Borcher drop me 397 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.920 off at the hotel. On a hunch, I went across 398 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.279 the street and had a little talk with a night 399 00:22:05.319 --> 00:22:09.440 elevator man in your office building. Let's see. 400 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:15.000 E me somebody went up to eat an indemnity since 401 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:19.319 closing time? Yep, here it is checked in at eight 402 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:23.000 seventeen again at age twenty three, Salie Martin. 403 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:25.359 Was anyone whe her? Come to think? 404 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:25.519 What? 405 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:28.920 There was fella waiting outside in the car, see you No, 406 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:32.279 I'm just wondering if it was mister Connors himself. 407 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:41.799 Expenser can Adam seven six dollars and ninety cents for 408 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:45.079 a fast cab ride out to Sally Martin's apartment. The 409 00:22:45.160 --> 00:23:00.559 extra five was for the speed.

Yes, what is he? Sally? 410 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:03.799 Where's who Jeff Connors? Is he still here? 411 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:05.599 Then? 412 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:05.920 You know? 413 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:09.160 But he was hiding here today? Let's say I guessed, 414 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:10.400 all right, where is he? 415 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:13.799 I don't know what now? 416 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:17.279 Look, there have been firefires and three people are dead. 417 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:19.119 You're hurting my arm, mister dollar. 418 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:20.519 I want to know what you were doing up at 419 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:22.640 the office and where Jeff went when he left here. 420 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:24.799 We went up there to get a list of the 421 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:26.359 new policies that came in today. 422 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:27.799 Why what did Jeff want with them? 423 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:28.319 I don't know. 424 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:30.079 Well, there was some reason. What was it, I tell you, 425 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:30.680 I don't know. 426 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:35.000 I got back here tonight and told him Missus Connors 427 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:36.440 had called about the new policies. 428 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.319 He made me drive right down. 429 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:39.559 I called the office. 430 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:42.799 Missus Connor has always did that, double checked the policies 431 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:44.640 with me because of the files he kept at home. 432 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:46.279 What was different about her call this time? 433 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:52.000 Well, nothing except the day. Maybe she always called on Tuesdays. 434 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:54.480 There wasn't any real reasons for were to call the day. 435 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:57.559 Only one new policy had come in, a fire policy, 436 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:00.720 Yes on an apartment building out on the way. Where 437 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:03.039 is it cook, mister Donna, I know what you're thinking, 438 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:05.640 But Jeff didn't have anything to do with those piles. 439 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:06.279 Believe me. 440 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:19.440 Where's the policy? Sally over there on the table expense 441 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:23.000 account it of mate seven dollars and fifty cents cab 442 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:26.200 there with speed to the newly insured apartment building on 443 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:30.079 the west side. I called Lieutenant Borchard from Sally's and 444 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:38.400 he was there waiting for me. Its spotted them yet, Lieutenant. 445 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:41.640 Yeah, talk to miss Martin's car back there in the alleyway. 446 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:44.000 What are you going to take him? We're just waiting 447 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.240 for you. Okay, let's go. 448 00:24:53.880 --> 00:25:01.880 There it is, Donna. Yeah, keep your hands on the wheel. 449 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:06.279 Conned, don't worry, lieutenant. I won't try anything. Are you 450 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:10.319 expecting us, Jeff, No, matter of fact, I was hoping 451 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.640 you wouldn't show. Johnny, I wanted to handle this myself. 452 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:15.440 You've been handling it that way too long. 453 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:17.319 Connor, Yeah, I guess I have. 454 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:20.319 I wasn't really sure until I saw the car last night, 455 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:22.680 read about the hit run in the morning papers. 456 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:24.480 Is that why you dumped it in the river? 457 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:27.799 Didn't make much sense, I guess trying to cover up 458 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:33.440 that way, just getting kind of desperate. Where is she, Jeff, Well, 459 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:39.680 your wife? Where is she in the basement? Yes, she 460 00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:42.000 must be through by now. I was waiting for her 461 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.599 to come out, trying to lay it over the last minute. 462 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:46.599 I guess I'll have to get her. 463 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:50.920 Connie, You're treated gently, won't you, Lieutenant. 464 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:53.359 Don't worry. I'll treat her gently. 465 00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:59.759 Sally Martin's not mixed up in this, Johnny. Boy was 466 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:01.640 just trying to help her boss out of a jam. 467 00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:04.799 Didn't even know what it was. Don't worry about it, Jeff. 468 00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:10.599 Doesn't make much sense, does a journey my own wife, firebug? 469 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:15.759 I suppose maybe it was our home burning boy, I 470 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:21.279 don't know. This doesn't make much sense. She was a 471 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:26.640 lovely girl, Johnny. I wish you'd know that she was 472 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:27.920 such a lovely gift. 473 00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:52.400 Expense account adam nine thirty seven dollars and forty cents. 474 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.480 Hotel bill and miscellaneous expense accunt adam ten one hundred 475 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:59.519 and nineteen dollars and ten cents. Airfare back to Hartford. 476 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:02.720 Expense account total three hundred and nine dollars and twenty 477 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:08.759 five cents. Remarks. I've seen fires burn everything from blocks 478 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:12.000 of tenements to a hole in a rug, but this 479 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:15.160 is the first time I ever saw and actually burn 480 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:18.160 the heart out of a man. I don't ever want 481 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:38.279 to see it again, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 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