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Johnny dollar are you are you from Hartford? Hello? What was that? Are you the insurance investigator?

Yeah, that's right. You're here about the Alma Scott shooting. Yes, who is this?

This is Alan Swain. Is this a gang? No, it is a gang

Well, it's about time you gave yourself up, isn't it? No, no, I won't because I didn't kill it. Why'd you take a run out?

I don't know. I've done everything wrong, but I didn't kill it. I want to talk to you if you'll promise not to go to the police first

All right, I can do then. How can we work it so I'll be sure? Are you still inside?

Yeah, I'll be alone. My word is good

Edmond Bobriens in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expensive car

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar

Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to home office Columbia

All-risk insurance company Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures

during my investigation of the Alma Scott matter

Expense account had a $1,219 air fan incidental between Hartford and San Francisco

For a day and a half the investigation had taken the form of a search for the man who called me Alan Swain

Poor witnesses tenants in the dead girls apartment house had seen him running away in the corridor outside of flat immediately after they'd heard the shots

So when this chief suspect phoned about eight that second night to say that he was innocent and one of the see me

I was naturally more than anxious to set the meeting up later. I wasn't so happy about it

According to arrangements I kept to the corner of Fulton 26th Avenue found a photography shop in front of which I was supposed to be picked up

And stood there for about five minutes looking at the pictures of some uninteresting bribes

Hello, miss. Are you Mary one of those? No, thanks. I'm supposed to meet somebody here. You live in the neighborhood?

No, I'm from Hartford, Connecticut. And I guess we were fated to meet.

What about the guy that called me? I thought he was going to show up.

James didn't mind. I'll take you to him. Come on, there's a cab waiting around the corner.

I memorized the number of the cab hoping it might have picked her up at some address that might be useful later

There's a silent trip the girl with a pretty that rather hard face slumped in her corner

Looking almost bored except for the fact that she smoked one cigarette after another

When we left the cab in front of the cafe on a coast highway she took my arm and led me away from the lights across the road toward the sand

And there behind the added protection of a little concrete abutment. I met Alan Swain

He did come along. You weren't followed were you? Ask him. I've gotten out of the habit of trusting people

So I wouldn't want to say I told you my word was good Swain. Maybe you deserve it. Maybe you don't

What do you mean? When I'm from the beginning I haven't been able to figure out a guy like you got mixed up with a woman like Alma Scott

I wish you'd been here a month ago to knock that into a sick skull lay off Helen doesn't do any good now that never did

I didn't kill her Mr. Dollar. I swear I didn't

And why have you done everything that guilty man would do

You were seen running away from the scene and getting into your car. You abandoned that

The cab driver remembers picking you up a block away from where it was found and bringing you back to market street

Everything you did has been done by scared killers before I know I know I did everything wrong

But I didn't kill her

I wasn't even in her apartment to match all the testimony that says you did kill her

Can you put your hands on any that says you didn't? No

When I was in the hall when I heard the shots

Well, if I'd gone on in instead of losing my nerve and running I could have cleared myself but it

I didn't all I thought I was my own hide

Then when it was too late I realized the police would never believe anything I said that makes you think I was

I don't know just asking you to give me a chance chance to do what

I want to tell you what led up to that night

It doesn't make any difference how I met her or anything

I knew she was no wangel but I never thought she was all bad nice still don't that's what two years of college does for all lay off

Four years you'd be a hundred percent blind

What's your story about that night

Almanair we're gonna leave town

We're gonna fly to Mexico and get married then we were going to Los Angeles and stay there

She wanted to get away from this town and the people she knew here

I don't think that's worth much but is there any way I can check it clean reservations

Yeah, they're under the name of AJ Hall for next Friday night at night what airline

Cal Mexico why the switching names

Almanair said there might be people who wouldn't want it to leave and she didn't want it to leak out

We were gonna cancel the reservations under that name and make them under my own

Friday morning to match our identification at the border. Who is she afraid of?

I don't know if she wouldn't tell me probably had a big choice. Do you know who?

No one time but give me time. Okay. What's the rest of it swine?

Well, she broke a date with me that night said she wasn't feeling so good

Then about 10 she phoned and told me she changed her mind about going away with me

On reasons that she gave she didn't give any she hung up

I started right over to her place. No, he took me five minutes when I got there

I stopped outside her door because I heard talking to somebody what about

I didn't understand the words, but she was sort of screaming

I started for the door again, and that's when I heard the shots and I don't know what happened to me

Except that I thought whatever was happening was somehow my fault

And I ran

It's all I know that's all yeah, what do you think I can do with that? I don't know, but it's a truth

There must be a way you can find out who was in there with it. Don't you have any idea who it was? No

Man or a woman? Well, man, it must have been a man

Do you hear a man saying anything? No, but there must be some way to find out who was there

I don't know what it is, but I'll follow it up and you won't tell the police about meeting you

I doubt they'd believe me if I did. You can phone me if you think of anything. All right

You're coming with me, Helen? Not cricket to pick a man up and then just drop him

Maybe I can lure him into the bar over there, but he won't see you leave

Thank you can accord me temporarily. Yeah, I'm on an expensive come

Oh

Hello the bar do you want a boat? Both way

It's an over here, okay? Yeah, sure it's fine

I'll take your order

No fashion like it. Ryan's over. Okay

Ryan, all the hire is going

I

It's not generally known that Swain has a sister, is it? You think he has?

You're too young to be his mother

Okay, I can't quite see you in that woman's skull and tongue. I've been there

Can I have a light? Oh, sorry

Tell me something

Why do you think a woman might have killed her? I didn't say that did I?

That galaxy, whether it was a man or woman

I was not able to wish for thinking. She carried a life insurance policy with a half sister as beneficiary

We can't find it. I haven't even thought of that kind of an animal. I never crossed my mind

She just killed for any reason except what sort of a day she was. What kind? Oh, don't get me started

Has anybody else's name come up?

She knew a lot of men. I just went open and shot against Swain with that lineup of witnesses

The police certainly have no reason to chase after anybody else

Any ideas? Yeah

The guy she dropped when she put a leash on her out

Name is Walter Helm the police know him if you don't you mean you think he killed it

You found out they were going to Mexico. I think he would have or I had it done

I didn't swing tell me this but he didn't know they never bothered to tell him

He was using him for something and she didn't want to scare him away. You didn't warn him

I had a better idea but things seemed to backfire

How's that meter thing for this messy thing?

I tipped Walter Helm that they were leaving for Mexico

How did I know I would go storming up there? I don't have the faintest motion

But I wish you'd found a different detective. You don't have to follow it up if you don't want to

So all I got to say and I didn't want to drink

Maybe some other time

I didn't wait for nine either. I settled the bill and followed her out

I was in time to see I got into a car who's another I added to the one we've come out in

And I waited 20 minutes for another to take me back to my hotel

I had no idea of sharing with the police or tossing at Walter Helm the vague hearsay evidence that has been given me

It seemed to me the logical place to go as back to the tenants in Almas Scott's apartment building

And the developments that followed paid a fairly true picture of that hindrance to accurate investigation

The average witness

I won't bother quoting all four of the address but Mrs. Swinehart will serve as a composite

Right here Mr. Downer. I'm glad that I can be a service. I'll do anything I can

Thank you Mrs. Swinehart. I uh

I just come from talking to Mr. Robertson down the hall

Didn't you say that he was already in the corridor the other night when you got there?

Yeah, he was

Well, he seems to think now that you were there before he was

Oh, but that's not so I remember distinctly I went out and if you know the rabbits in the parking is across into the rear of the one that

Woman lived in you taught the rear of the building from the sky

Yeah, well why when I went out the first person I saw was Mr. Robertson standing there

Then I heard the sound of running up toward the front and saw this man

He was running toward the street entrance. Yes, he was so you look very briefly toward the rear and saw Mr.

And then turned toward the sound

Are you absolutely positive that it was mr. Robertson you saw oh of course that is anything sad no

Nobody said anything for a minute we were sad as you know now mr. Robertson remembers that as soon as he came out and saw you

He asked you what had happened. Oh, well mr. Robertson's own

He was there when I came out if he said anything I didn't hear him

Could it be that you expected to say mr. Robertson standing where you were so often seen him and after a glance that

Took maybe a second your mind automatically said that is mr. Robertson

Mr. Daller I know what I saw

Well, what's the meaning of this? It's just possible that there was a second man mixed up in this thing the other night a man who

Might have come out of Miss Katsup apartment and instead of bolting toward the front entrance gone quietly to the rear stairway and out the back

That's why it's so important that you're sure

Could it have been someone else that you glanced at and glanced away from someone who left while your attention was on the running man

I was sure it was mr. Robertson the second time you looked it was we're all sure of that for that first glance

I was so sure it might be that swing who looks so guilty you might not be

It could be the difference between life and death tour. Oh now you have confused me. I was so sure

But I shouldn't like to call mr. Robertson Nair he truly believed that I was in the corridor when he came out

After all it all was so sudden and shocking. I I suppose anybody's mind to play tricks as you say when you come and talk to mr.

Robertson with me. Oh there

Yes, I will

But I'd so hope we'd heard the end of this dreadful state

In less than an hour four positive witnesses had broken down in the face of doubt

None of them could swear that they had been a second stranger in the hallway

But neither could they swear that they hadn't been and none of them had actually seen Alan Swain come out of the scarter partner

I didn't look forward to telling the police what was happening to their open and shut case without at least something constructive to Arthur

At three that afternoon I still haven't had it

But I got it when I stopped by my hotel to check the phone call the clerk told me that I missed a wall to hell with waiting for me in the bar first table with the left

Oh

Yeah, it's down. That's right. My name is dollar oh down

What are you drinking nothing thanks? It's a little early for me. I don't suppose you know anything about me

But I'll get right to the point the papers say you're working on the almost cut things. I have an interest in it

It was a friend of mine. Oh, you've got to do something about finding that maniac that killed her

If you think you can help you ought to go to the police. I don't want to go to the police. I want to talk to you

But then we do it in tribal you know room. I guess so if you've got reason to keep it that private I have

Come on

Which way do we go

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Go ahead after you thanks

I don't get you

Your name came up in a conversation last night. What about the killing you've got an interest in what else?

Who is this conversation with you don't expect me to tell you

We won't get any place this way

Somewhere along the line you picked up the wrong idea about me. Let's get us straight now

I just been in our looking you up in a newspaper morgue

That's hardly the way to build or to fast and strong friendship. That's business. It's got nothing to do with you and me

I came here to talk about Alma. Well, let's get it over then

I'll level it. I've been waiting for a call from the police and it hasn't come

I know they'll pin something on me if they can't they've been trying for years

That's why I want to do something about seeing that swing many act picked up. So it can be pinned on him

That's where it belongs. I don't care what you think about me. You can't go along with them letting a crazy killer go free

Because they want to put me away. Can you? I didn't know that's what they were doing. They will if they get the chance

What did they do with that check? Burn it up. What are you talking about? What check cash is check for 15,000 dollars

I gave it to Alma. I knew it well enough to know I didn't have to kill it or keep it from going to Mexico where that's come

She got tired of me before but not so tired a small gift wouldn't bring her back

I knew I was a sucker, but if that was the only way I could keep her it was all right with me

Huh, it doesn't sit so well. That's the way it was. Maybe this time money wouldn't keep it. You're wrong

She changed her mind. She wasn't going one thing interest me

How did you know she was going to Mexico? How'd you find out?

Swain sister for me have crazy about his life being ruined

Instead of I didn't do something to stop it she would what day was that they Alma was killed

I went over that afternoon with a check and had a talk with

That's when she changed her mind

I've an honest thing pretty much from the beginning and there wasn't a check and they got rid of it

They're trying to pin this thing on me

There's a record kept of cashier's checks if you bought one you can prove it by going to the bank now

If you're a world of hell me a can

I'll say I bribe somebody and probably pay a few bucks themselves to prove that

That's one of the things I want you to do go to the bank. So you'll believe me about that check

I'll pay you your own price aren't you afraid they'd make that out of Brian and what if they could

This is legit

You've got a private licensure for hire aren't you?

Not by a suspect after I've been given access to state's evidence what kind of

I could really make this worth your while

Just between you and me. I feel sorry if you help you're a big wheel

But when you can't count on your money getting you something of getting you out of something you're lost

Because nobody will take you anything you say or anything you do at face value

Maybe you're right

I'm not complaining, but maybe this is the deal. It's such a right

The papers say she was killed by a 32. That's it hasn't been found yet

I don't sound like this. It's probably at the bottom of the bay or in the ocean, don't you think?

That's a shame

32 is all they need to really pin it out. Okay. I gave it to her. It's registered to me

How do you know that was the gun that killed her? She kept it in the drawer in the living room

And you didn't find one in the apartment in any place, did you?

And that's true. You wouldn't hurt yourself by telling the police

You tell not me

I thought I could talk business with you, darling

You say you're not for hire

So this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to post a reward

$20,000. That might be a smart move. It'll be legit

Read about it in tonight's papers

The notice made the front page of the paper I got under the caption

Cooling murder sparked by reward and strangely enough it sounded sincere

Not slanted towards swan as I'd halfway expected but offering 20,000 for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the personal persons who murdered Miss Alma Scott

I didn't know how the police fed but as far as I was concerned the action said in almost immediately

Oh

Johnny dollar this is Alan Swain. Oh how you making out what kind of a trick is this that Helm is pulling the thing in the paper

I don't know. It's got news value and he must have laid cash on the line might even be on the level

You're crazy. It can't be on the level. You know that. He says he didn't kill her. You talked to him. Yeah

What do you say just that that he didn't kill her? I'm surprised you're so upset

According to your sister you didn't know anything about him. She told me about it last night

This is a mess and something I'll have to be done. It should have been done a long time ago

Why don't you give yourself up Swain? No, I won't that would be the best thing to do. No, I won't

I wish I'd gotten out of town while I could but I listen to Helen. Come on in and talk about it Swain

Too much against me. The police don't care that I didn't kill her. They don't care who they get just so they get somebody

Well, they'll have to find me the case against do isn't as strong as it was

What do you mean? The witnesses who saw you outside Elmer's apartment

They aren't sure now that they didn't see somebody else too

But you're telling me the truth. Sure, I am. That's what I mean. Come in and talk about it

No

No, I have to think and I have to talk to Helen

I don't know what this reward is going to mean. This reward trick of hell's

And I have to think and I'll call you back

The phone rang again about an hour and a half later. I thought it was a swing but it wasn't

There's Lieutenant Hallowen and police headquarters. He had a confession who Almas got smurred either they wanted to talk to me about

He was made he said by a woman who claims she was Alan Swain's sister

This damn says she knows you that she met you last night. I guess you do. She says you met Swain and her at the beach

This guy phoned me lieutenant. It could have been a crank. It could have been anything

I met them and nothing they said would have done you any good

So I didn't bother with it bother me with it

With what we have in the head that you think I'd mind picking up a suspect. No, you know my rack

It's sometimes I have to give my word. I get out of the habit of keeping it. I'm gonna miss a lot of bets

Sometimes I wish I was still a private cop and could get away with that stuff again. You are one? Yeah, she out until 49

And you understand I'm not supposed to I tell you what they gave me just broke down the case you were building now

It looks like there was nothing to it. What she say last night that she questioned you as to why you thought a woman might have killed

Alma Scott. Uh, yeah, a beneficiary. They only possible insurance angle in the case by the way

She said that when you mentioned that she figured you had something I don't know when the reward was posted

She decided to give herself up. You sound like you don't quite believe her lieutenant. Well, I'll be honest. I don't know

You think she's protecting her brother? I still don't know

There you want to talk to him? If it will help. I'll send you

Oh

Thanks

That's not important

Move over

I was surprised to hear about this

What do you mean?

Murder is 55 you think it was worth it? I don't know

I have to get away from it. Stay

How did you grind to the last thousand for ten years?

I'm taking care of him that long. No, I'm not chasing

If I hit my mother comes like that on him

That industry even two years of college

I guess I sported more than mom with him

It's going that car if you stop when that you dog got her cars in

I don't think you killed her. It did it that cop but I did

When I learned she and now we're going to Mexico. I went up there and headed out with it

You said you called Walter Helm. I did but he wouldn't do anything so I said I would

He told me he went to say Elma and that she changed her mind about going. That's not what she said to me. What then?

I went there about nine

So to lay off my brother and she laughed at me so I killed it. Where'd you get the gun? I had it. What caliber?

After you killed her what'd you do?

I just stayed in the apartment for a while and I looked out the door and

When the people were out of sight I left back way. Yeah. What street you come out on?

Hope stay. No, no you didn't. The alley doesn't go through the poke

It turns halfway through the block goes on to California. Maybe that was it. I wasn't thinking of where I was going at the moment

I don't think you were there. Yes, I was

Oh, she didn't kill her. He wouldn't have you don't kill something you love and he thought he loved it

It takes only a split second. I love to turn into hate. He didn't kill her. I told you I did

A dollar. Yeah. There's been a shooting out of Walter Helm. No

Oh no. I thought you'd want to know

Oh

Hey, Lieutenant. Sergeant. Things under control. I think so, sir. We shot as we're in. Butler was hit. Tell him it's waiting for him

You managed to shoot each other. How are they? We'll still alive, sir

Uh, we'll go in. This man's an insurance investigator. He's all right. Yes, sir. Thanks, Sergeant

Where's Swain? Right over there, sir. Thanks

Swain

Swain Swain? Remember me? Yeah, yeah

Did it did a come? We don't know yet. Hey, I hope I did

He took away from me

He took away from me. How is Swain? He said he gave her a check and she changed the mind about going with you

Took away

We've got to leave him alone. There's a pretty bad shape

Long shot, isn't it? That Helm is over there

Hello, Helm. You know the

Fuck this would happen over some damn digit. Come on. Take it easy. What happened, Helm?

I heard the shot door

And there he was. Why'd he come here? I don't know. There's only one reason, Helm. You know it and we know it

Doesn't make any difference that

Sure, I killed her. He was going to leave. I couldn't buy her back

So I stopped her the only way I knew

No, it's come like he was. I'm gonna take her away

Nobody

Take her away

I

Expense account item two one hundred and forty four dollars miscellaneous item three same as item one transportation back to heart

Expense account total five hundred and seventy two dollar

An ox I was wrong from the beginning. I'm not making excuses for it

But I wasn't as far wrong as the sister

If her false confession had ended it she wouldn't have taken the wrath for her brother who she thought was guilty

But for Walter Helm who she was afraid was innocent

It only proves again that you will have to watch the words that go above your signature

yours truly

Johnny dollar

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