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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Ten-Thousand Dollar Legs · Lawrence University: Theatre of the Air

• 0:00
  Welcome to Lawrence University Theatre of the Air, recorded before a live audience in F. Theodore Cloak StudioTheatre on campus of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
• 0:17
  We celebrate the best of old-time radio. This year's radio drama festival celebrates the great detectives.
• 0:23
  This is your host, Kara Wantland, welcoming you on behalf of the staff and students of the Department of Theatre Arts.
• 0:29
  This installment features one of the radio's favorite detectives, Johnny Dollar, written by Paul Dudley and Gil Dowd.
• 0:35
  This popular series ran on CBS in a variety of formats from 1949 to 1962.
• 0:41
  This episode is called The Case of the $100,000 Legs.
• 0:55
  This half hour has its baggage packed to take a trip with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar.
• 1:03
  At insurance investigations, he's just an expert. At making out his expense account, he's an absolute genius.
• 1:11
  Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar.
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  To Home Office, High Worthy Insurance Underwriters Association, Hartford, Connecticut.
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  Attention, General Manager Harvey Anthony.
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  Dear Mr. Anthony, the following is an accounting of my expenditures in the case of the $100,000 Legs.
• 1:29
  Or, who put your company out on a limb?
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  Item 1. $60. $20 on a losing horse I was rushed into betting on when you had me page at the public address system at the racetrack.
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  This is Harvey Anthony, Dollar. Thanks for calling back so soon.
• 1:43
  Well, they paged me. They said it was an emergency. And it better be.
• 1:46
  Why, what's the matter, Dollar?
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  This is my day off. And if I know you, this call is going to make it an off day.
• 1:52
  If I know you, my friend, you won't mind this assignment. I want you to go out to Hollywood. Act as a bodyguard for a big movie star, Marilyn Major.
• 2:00
  A rare body to guard. What's the deal?
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  We've issued one of those publicity policies. We've insured her legs for $100,000. The policy will only be in effect for 48 hours.
• 2:10
  We want you to stick with her, just to, uh, make sure she doesn't get mixed up in any hockey game. She's been notibed, so she expects you.
• 2:17
  When do the 48 hours start?
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  Tomorrow noon. Can you make it?
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  Yeah, with the help of American Airlines.
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  Do you have enough cash with you to buy your ticket?
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  I'll let you know right after the next race. I'll call you from Hollywood.
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  Bank account. Item 2. $10. Borrowed from a friend.
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  Taxi fare from the racetrack to town, where I cashed a check to pay item 3. $186.13.
• 2:43
  Plane fare. Hartford to Hollywood.
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  Item 4. $3.50.
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  Cab fare while traveling from the municipal airport to the home of the insured, Miss Marilyn Majors, at the Horizon Apartments on the Sunset Strip.
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  Tip the driver. $1. Miss Majors' apartment has the best view on the horizon, it being a penthouse.
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  But her outlook was anything but rosy. 03:06 --> 03:07 I found the apartment door open.
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  At brst I looked in, and then I went in.
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  Long distance?
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  I want to place a person-to-person call, please.
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  To Mr. Harvey Anthony, in Hartford, Connecticut.
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  Volunteer.
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  Uh, $36,000.
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  My name is Dollar, as in blood money.
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  While I waited to get Mr. Anthony, I wondered who had gotten Miss Major.
• 3:43
  In the movies, I'd always thought she looked right at home anywhere.
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  And now right there in front of me, lying there nice and relaxed, she was right at home in the role of a beautiful gal who had just been murdered.
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  Her face was calm.
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  Her legs were neatly placed in the Bedford cheesecake position.
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  The only thing that was not quite as it should have been was the very real bullet hole, which she'd been wearing where an earring should have been.
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  The next cameras that would be taking her picture would be the police cameras.
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  Mr. Dwala?
• 4:12
  Yeah?
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  Here's your party. Go ahead.
• 4:15
  Hello?
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  Hello?
• 4:16
  Hello, Dollar? 04:17 --> 04:18 Yeah, yeah, this is Dollar, all right.
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  First, I want to tell you that those legs you insured are still in beautiful shape.
• 4:23
  Good, good, bne.
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  I only hope you didn't insure Miss Major's life.
• 4:27
  She's dead.
• 4:28
  What? Marilyn Major dead?
• 4:30
  That's right.
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  Oh, we certainly do insure her life.
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  We only issued that publicity policy on her legs as a courtesy.
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  Dollar, get to work on it right away.
• 4:39
  I'll get to work on it, but don't waste too much hope.
• 4:41
  To me, it looks like your only out is if the policy doesn't pay off on murder.
• 4:45
  Murder? Good heavens.
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  Well, there may be something about the case that'll save us for paying double indemnity from death by violence.
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  But okay, Anthony, I'll get right on it.
• 4:54
  Right after I call the cops to make a report.
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  Do your best. Goodbye.
• 4:58
  Okay, goodbye.
• 4:59
  Hang up that telephone, mister.
• 5:06
  The dame standing in the kitchen doorway had a .32 caliber steel in her hand to back up the brass in her voice.
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  She was a youngster, but obviously an old timer at a lot of things. Her hair was the same color as the murdered woman's. Smoke blonde. Her dress was tobacco brown and round and brm and fully packed.
• 5:27
  I said, put that down.
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  Sure, sure. Okay.
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  Now, do me a favor, will you?
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  If you feel you want your bnger near that trigger, how about moving it near to the front end of the trigger guard, will you?
• 5:39
  Mister, I only heard part of what you said, but you're not calling no police.
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  What makes you think so?
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  That dame in there has done me enough harm. I came here to kill her, but somebody beat me to it, and I'm not taking the rap.
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  Okay, so beat it. Who cares? Then I'll call the police. Somebody's going to eventually.
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  Before I go, I'm bnding a few things and taking them with me. Now, come on. Get up on your feet, mister. We're going to the bedroom.
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  Okay, okay. Don't get excited.
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  Okay, mister. Over against that wall. With your face in close and your hands straight up. Come on, move.
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  All right. Did you learn this at the movies or by watching your friends work?
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  Don't be a wise guy. I'm not as dumb as I look. Now hold still.
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  Look, sister. By this time, I shouldn't still like you well enough to warn you.
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  But what you're doing right now will get you in plenty of trouble, even if you didn't commit this murder.
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  I'll take that chance.
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  If you don't get picked up for larceny, they'll still set you for tampering with the evidence.
• 6:41
  As far as the police are concerned, at the scene of a murder, nothing gets touched. They like it that way.
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  What I'm taking won't even be missed. There's plenty more here just like them.
• 6:52
  That's all she's got in here, love letters from men.
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  Who are you covering up for? Your boyfriend?
• 6:57
  None of your business, mister. But it's my husband I'm covering up for.
• 7:02
  Oh, well then you're just plain nuts. If he knew her, then they'll bnd that out. And if they want, they'll bnd him.
• 7:08
  Yeah, and they'll bnd him dead.
• 7:10
  Huh?
• 7:11
  My husband committed suicide over that no-good dame this morning. I've had enough out of you. Back up. Two steps.
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  Okay.
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  Now get over there and into that closet. Come on.
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  Too bad.
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  What's the matter?
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  I always feel sorry for a sucker.
• 7:29
  Poked around in the dark. It was a small closet. That meant not much air. That meant doing something about it.
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  Took my bngernail ble, stood it on edge, and slipped it under the door, pressing down on it.
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  I did the same with my Tommy pen. That would at least allow me a small supply of air to sneak in.
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  Then I glued my ear to the thin wooden panel that separated me from the bedroom.
• 7:51
  It wasn't long before my captor apparently completed her search.
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  I heard her pass the closet door and head for the front room.
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  I didn't hear her dial the phone, but it didn't take me long to realize that's what she was doing, and who she was called.
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  Give me the police. This is an emergency.
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  Hello? Hello, police?
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  I want to report a murder.
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  Hello? There's been a murder. The movie star Marilyn Major in the penthouse.
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  The Horizon View apartment on the Sunset Strip.
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  Never mind who I am. I caught the murderer. You'll bnd him locked up in the closet.
• 8:29
  From the moment she hung up, I could only guess what was happening.
• 8:32
  I heard a man's footsteps rush in, and then his voice.
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  Blackmail me. What do you take me for?
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  That's what I say about it, and now I'm taking them with me.
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  I didn't think I had the time to spend picking the lock on the closet door, so I thought I'd kick it in.
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  The girl who had just tried to turn me into the cops was lying on her face in front of a telephone stand,
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  and a bevy of bullets had turned the brown silk on the back of her wet, red lace.
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  She'd been shot in the back, and if she'd succeeded in bnding her letters, her killer had taken them with him.
• 9:17
  I made a quick search myself, and took a look through the remaining sets of letters.
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  One from a guy who signed himself Baron, and the other from one guy whose autograph read,
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  With all my love, Lawrence.
• 9:31
  My instincts were trying to pull me out of the apartment, but one look down the street threw them into reverse.
• 9:36
  Black and white prowl cars were arriving.
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  It was less than another minute when their passengers started pouring out of the elevator and into the room.
• 9:43
  Hey, come on, come out of the penthouse street.
• 9:45
  To the bedroom closet, boys, and make sure you all stand in front of that door.
• 9:53
  Never mind the closet, Lieutenant. It's empty. I kicked my way out.
• 9:56
  All right, let's see your hands. Get them up.
• 9:59
  I swear, I'm going to buy some stock in a gun company. Everybody's got them.
• 10:02
  Miller, get around behind him. Check him for weapons.
• 10:05
  Yes, ma'am.
• 10:08
  He's clean, Lieutenant.
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  Okay, who are you?
• 10:12
  Johnny Dollar.
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  And if you lend me back my right hand, I'll show you my ID. It's in my wallet.
• 10:17
  Keep him up. Miller, get his wallet.
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  Here it is.
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  Insurance sticker.
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  Please, I'm a freelance special insurance investigator.
• 10:27
  It sounds better. Keeps my price up.
• 10:29
  Hartford, eh? What's your story?
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  Well, brst, I'd like to go on record as saying I didn't commit either one of these murders.
• 10:36
  Either one? What are you talking about?
• 10:39
  Well, this one here is the girl who phoned in the report that brought you here.
• 10:42
  The one she was talking about, Marilyn Major, is lying just as dead on the ioor in the bedroom.
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  Miller! Get in there and take a look.
• 10:49
  Yes, ma'am.
• 10:49
  Okay. I'll start from the beginning.
• 10:52
  I was sent out here by Highworthy Insurance.
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  They just issued a policy on the legs of that dame that's in the other room.
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  $100,000. Publicity stunt. I was supposed to protect their interest.
• 11:02
  What do you mean by that?
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  Well, what do you think? I suppose to see that she didn't attempt any Hindu bre dances
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  or try walking any tightropes during the next 48 hours.
• 11:11
  Well, your worries are over in that department, at least. What else?
• 11:15
  When I got here, the door was open. I walked in and found her. Dead.
• 11:19
  Any way to prove that? Any witnesses?
• 11:22
  Just one. She's lying there behind you.
• 11:25
  Yeah, over the phone, she accused you of murder. That's the wrong kind of a witness.
• 11:29
  No, Lieutenant. The wrong kind of dame. I knew I didn't do it. She knew I didn't do it.
• 11:34
  She was somewhere in this apartment when I had arrived.
• 11:37
  Then why did she say it?
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  I can hardly ask her.
• 11:41
  Lieutenant, she did tell me that she came here to get some letters.
• 11:44
  Her husband had written them to that major dame. She said she was trying to protect him.
• 11:49
  From what?
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  Who knows? Maybe she just wanted him to rest in peace. The guy committed suicide this morning.
• 11:54
  Yeah, we can't check your story with him, can we? You've got a lot of dead friends. How'd this one here get that way?
• 12:02
  I'm not sure. While I was in the closet, I heard her call you. Then a man came in and yelled something about blackmailing her. And then he shot her.
• 12:10
  And naturally, he had disappeared by the time you kicked your way out of the closet.
• 12:14
  That's right.
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  The story of yours may win some kind of a prize, Dollar, but not from me. I'm not a judge.
• 12:21
  That's one thing in my favor.
• 12:23
  Hey, Lieutenant, I've got something. The dame is dead all right, and look what I found in that closet. A fingernail, bible, a fountain pen with a name on it, Johnny Dollar, and a .32 caliber revolver jammed in a shoe.
• 12:36
  Well, Dollar, that combination puts you in a kind of jam, too.
• 12:41
  Look, Lieutenant, I think I can make you see things my way if you let me go through my story once more.
• 12:46
  Expense account item four. Three dollars. Candy, gum, cigarettes, and magazines to make cell number 36, Los Angeles Jail, less like an old place and more like a home.
• 13:08
  There's something about a jail door closing on you that sounds very bnal.
• 13:15
  In just a moment, we'll return to the second act of yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
• 13:20
  This is Brianna Stapleton, and I'm a sophomore at Lawrence.
• 13:23
  Is someone you love about to bnish high school?
• 13:26
  Maybe you're 16 years old, and you're looking for a place to grow, to learn, and to spend your parents' money.
• 13:32
  Why not consider Lawrence University?
• 13:34
  We feature outstanding programs in the liberal arts and sciences.
• 13:39
  Our theater department is so cool, they do radio dramas.
• 13:42
  You'll be surrounded by really smart people who aren't too stuck up.
• 13:45
  And we're located in sunny downtown Appleton, Wisconsin.
• 13:49
  Just the other day, my friend Nora Taylor turned to me and said,
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  If Lawrence was good enough for Campbell Scott and State Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler, it's good enough for me.
• 13:59
  And I said, yeah, me too.
• 14:05
  Lawrence University, a great school near a great river.
• 14:09
  Now back to yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and the case of the $100,000 links.
• 14:21
  When I accepted this Hollywood assignment, I visualized myself spending much of my time gazing upon bars,
• 14:27
  but not the kind offered by my cell number 36.
• 14:31
  The guy who said stone walls do not a prison make had never been a guest at Los Angeles City Jail.
• 14:38
  He had a better chance of getting out of Bartlett's quotation than I had of getting out of here.
• 14:43
  But, as we keep saying in the insurance racket, never say die.
• 14:56
  Oh, Lieutenant Roach, what are you in for?
• 14:59
  I've heard several boys around headquarters have a very funny joke about roaches in jails,
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  but that's not why I'm here.
• 15:06
  Oh, sit down. Make yourself uncomfortable.
• 15:09
  Thanks.
• 15:10
  Can't offer you a mint julep.
• 15:12
  The closest thing I can come to is a spearmint lifesaver.
• 15:15
  This kind of zero is a pleasure after facing the kind we're up against.
• 15:19
  Huh?
• 15:20
  So far, Dollar, all we've got to go on is you,
• 15:22
  and a mix of evidence we haven't as yet been able to trace down to its rightful owner.
• 15:28
  Incidentally, about that gun we thought might be yours?
• 15:31
  Oh, don't tell me. You're going to give it to me as a birthday present.
• 15:34
  It was the weapon used to kill Marilyn Major, all right.
• 15:37
  The test we took on your hands lets you out. You haven't been bring any guns lately.
• 15:42
  Does that mean you've come to escort me to the front door?
• 15:44
  Not so fast. We do want to know what your bngerprints were doing
• 15:48
  all over those two bundles of love letters we found.
• 15:51
  I'm going to have to learn how to pick up things with my knuckles.
• 15:55
  Lieutenant, I just had a natural curiosity as to who killed the cat.
• 15:59
  The only difference between us, Roach, is that your curiosity is oZcial.
• 16:03
  How far did you get?
• 16:05
  Not far enough. Didn't take much bguring to know that Miss Major has been playing a high-class Dodgers game.
• 6:12
  All the perfume in the joint couldn't cover up the smell of blackmail.
• 16:16
  On top of that, we found the two batches of letters that you've been messing around with. 1 6:20 --> 16:23 One signed Baron, the other signed Lawrence.
• 16:23
  Yeah. And remember, there's probably a third set ioating around.
• 16:27
  Why do you say that? 1 6:29 --> 16:31 I'm not an eyewitness to this, only an earwitness.
• 16:32
  But from what I could hear inside of that closet,
• 16:34
  the dame who came in there looking for her husband's letters found them,
• 16:37
  and she called you to turn me in.
• 16:38
  On her way out of the apartment, some guy came in,
• 16:41
  mistook her from Maryland Majors, and shot her in the back.
• 16:44
  When I kicked my way out of this closet, the letters were gone.
• 16:48
  So?
• 16:48
  I figured the murderer grabbed the letters out of her hand,
• 16:51
  thinking they were something that he'd written.
• 16:53
  Ah, then in your ble, the killer was either that Baron fellow or the other one, Lawrence.
• 16:59
  Lieutenant, in my ble, they're both murderers.
• 17:01
  Except the question of who killed whom.
• 17:03
  The guy who killed Maryland Major certainly wouldn't have come back to kill her again, would he?
• 17:08
  In this town, you never know.
• 17:10
  Lieutenant, I've got a two-way stake in this thing.
• 17:12
  One, to get my name cleared.
• 17:14
  The other, to get my job done.
• 17:16
  And I'm in a hurry.
• 17:18
  And I imagine you are too.
• 17:19
  Well, Maryland Major was a big name.
• 17:22
  That means we'll soon have newspapers burning under our seats.
• 17:25
  We're in a hurry, all right.
• 17:27
  Okay, then listen.
• 17:29
  If I were either of those murderers,
• 17:30
  and I knew the police had a handful of those letters that could send me to the gas chamber,
• 17:34
  I'd head for the border.
• 17:35
  Yeah?
• 17:36
  But, if I thought an outsider, Adam,
• 17:40
  somebody they might be able to buy off or scare off or beat off,
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  then I'd go bnd that guy.
• 17:45
  Well?
• 17:46
  Let's bring this thing to a head in a hurry.
• 17:48
  Run a story in the papers.
• 17:50
  Tell them you released me.
• 17:51
  Uh, tell them that I escaped.
• 17:53
  Tell them anything, just so long as you tell them that you suspect
• 17:55
  that I have those letters hidden someplace.
• 17:58
  If you don't mind taking the chance of having two murderers gunning after you,
• 18:02
  we certainly don't.
• 18:03
  Oh, I mind.
• 18:04
  Believe me.
• 18:05
  I'm not doing you any favors.
• 18:07
  It's just that I feel safer in my own hands.
• 18:10
  Okay, Mr. Dollar.
• 18:11
  You've got yourself elected.
• 18:13
  We'll publish that story.
• 18:14
  Then we'll let you iy the coop.
• 18:16
  Good enough.
• 18:17
  Just make sure you give me plenty of bghter cover.
• 18:22
  Expense account item six.
• 18:24
  Seven cents.
• 18:26
  Purchase of a newspaper.
• 18:27
  An extra edition that hit the street about a half an hour before I did.
• 18:31
  Item seven.
• 18:33
  Five dollars.
• 18:34
  A big square meal to make up for the ones I'd missed,
• 18:37
  ignoring the little round beans while a guest in the city.
• 18:41
  Seeing the lieutenant's picture in black print on the front page of the newspaper almost had me believing it.
• 18:47
  There was my picture.
• 18:48
  Big as life.
• 18:50
  When those birds set up a pigeon, they make sure everybody knows the location of his roost.
• 18:55
  Firmly planted high in the story was the name of the hotel into which they had me registered,
• 19:00
  and to which I was under strict orders to proceed immediately.
• 19:06
  As I walked down the hotel corridor to my room, I felt an icy chill and a iight of goose iesh headed south down my spine.
• 19:17
  Come in, darling, and close the door.
• 19:20
  I expected company, but not your kind.
• 19:24
  At first I thought I'd gotten into the wrong room.
• 19:26
  This kid looked right at home, and she used some clothes from her half-packed overnight bag to make her look it.
• 19:32
  So you're Johnny Dollar?
• 19:34
  Yeah.
• 19:35
  Thanks for saving me a call-in card.
• 19:37
  Who are you?
• 19:38
  Alice Hill.
• 19:40
  Otherwise known as Mrs. Lawrence Hill.
• 19:43
  Oh, Lawrence.
• 19:45
  Last time I saw that name, it was on a letter.
• 19:47
  It said, with love.
• 19:48
  But not to you.
• 19:49
  And that's why I'm here.
• 19:50
  I want those letters.
• 19:52
  Then why aren't you carrying a gun?
• 19:54
  It'll be here if we need it.
• 19:56
  We?
• 19:57
  Yes.
• 19:57
  My husband's down in the lobby.
• 20:00
  Look, if you give me those letters he wrote, I'll pack my little bag and leave, and everyone will be very happy.
• 20:06
  Yeah?
• 20:07
  I think I know the next line, but go ahead.
• 20:09
  I hope you keep on being that smart.
• 20:11
  My husband was watching for you when you came in, so he knows you're up here.
• 20:15
  Naturally, he knows I'm here, and he's on his way up.
• 20:18
  We want those letters.
• 20:20
  Now, this isn't just a Dodgers game.
• 20:21
  This is a whole world series.
• 20:22
  If I don't give you those letters, your husband busts in here, shoots me, and I get written off under the unwritten law.
• 20:29
  Neat, neat, neat.
• 20:30
  It's a handy law.
• 20:31
  You're right.
• 20:32
  It covered up a multitude of sins.
• 20:34
  Where are the letters?
• 20:35
  Where is your husband?
• 20:36
  What's the matter with you?
• 20:38
  What do those letters mean to you?
• 20:40
  Well, right now, they look like my only hold on the future, Mrs. Hill.
• 20:44
  How do I know that you and your dear Lawrence won't kill me after you get them?
• 20:48
  You want me to take your word for it?
• 20:49
  Well, I'll have to trust Lawrence.
• 20:52
  He'll know what to do.
• 20:52
  I already know.
• 20:53
  There's nothing else for him to do.
• 20:55
  Look, Mrs. Hill, why don't you wise up?
• 20:58
  Your husband is ready to commit one murder to remove the evident motive for another.
• 21:02
  He's dragging you in this with him.
• 21:04
  You'll wind up as an accessory before, after, and during the fact.
• 21:08
  You're running up a blind alley as fast as you can run.
• 21:10
  And it's too late to turn around, so I just have to keep running.
• 21:15
  Ah, well, here he is.
• 21:17
  Lace up your track shoes, lady.
• 21:18
  The race is on.
• 21:20
  Come in.
• 21:22
  All right.
• 21:23
  Sit still.
• 21:24
  Freeze, both of you.
• 21:26
  It's okay, Alice.
• 21:27
  You can hold off on the dog and pony show.
• 21:29
  Save that for the witnesses when they arrive.
• 21:31
  Don't waste it on Lawrence and me.
• 21:33
  That isn't Lawrence.
• 21:35
  What?
• 21:36
  Ah, so this must be barren.
• 21:38
  You all through?
• 21:39
  Well, that depends on the gun in your hand.
• 21:41
  Where are the letters?
• 21:42
  Letters, letters, letters.
• 21:44
  There's one thing I want to know.
• 21:45
  Where does an ugly part-time Romeo like you bnd all those pretty words you wrote?
• 21:50
  Look, don't get me sore.
• 21:52
  I'll blast a few letters in all of us.
• 21:54
  Ah, that's the tone I was going to bring your voice up to, Mr. Baron.
• 21:57
  No letters is exactly what I got to offer.
• 22:00
  Lying?
• 22:00
  He admitted to me that he had them.
• 22:02
  He's trying to blackmail you, Baron.
• 22:03
  That's what he's doing.
• 22:04
  Who are you?
• 22:05
  Never mind.
• 22:06
  My husband's in the same boat you are.
• 22:08
  I read the papers.
• 22:09
  Lawrence, huh?
• 22:10
  That's right.
• 22:11
  He'll be here any second.
• 22:13
  Between us, we'll bgure out something.
• 22:16
  Now stay away from me, Dollar.
• 22:18
  I'll answer it.
• 22:19
  Yeah, good idea.
• 22:21
  If a man answers hang up, it'll be Lieutenant Roach.
• 22:24
  Oh, wait a minute.
• 22:26
  Okay, answer it, Dollar, but the brst wrong word bres this gun.
• 22:29
  Oh, you can believe me.
• 22:30
  I've got nothing but right words on the tip of my tongue.
• 22:35
  Hello?
• 22:38
  Whoever was on the other end of the line decided not to talk and hung up.
• 22:42
  So I started an imaginary conversation with Lieutenant Roach of Homicide.
• 22:47
  While I was talking, I was thinking.
• 22:49
  Baron's voice was the voice I had heard when I had locked in the closet.
• 22:53
  That made him the guy who shot the girl who turned me in.
• 22:57
  By the process of elimination, Lawrence Hill was the elected murderer of Marilyn Major.
• 23:03
  During my talk, which made no sense, and my thought, which made plenty of sense,
• 23:08
  I was checking the length of the cord on the phone.
• 23:10
  I needed Baron a little closer.
• 23:12
  So, I started tossing up, tossing out enough dangerous words into the mouthpiece to draw him closer.
• 23:19
  Threatening me with his mutters, his looks, and his gun.
• 23:23
  He moved into range, and I moved into action.
• 23:26
  I heaved the face of the telephone straight into his face.
• 23:28
  Oh!
• 23:29
  I moved in with a knee right after it.
• 23:31
  Oh!
• 23:33
  Oh!
• 23:34
  He stumbled back, letting go of the gun, which I kicked under the bed.
• 23:38
  Then, I made a break front of the dresser next to the bed, using his head to break the front.
• 23:43
  Ah!
• 23:44
  The water from the upset pitcher hit him in the face, but it didn't do him any good.
• 23:49
  Hey!
• 23:50
  Get from underneath there!
• 23:51
  Get away from that gun!
• 23:52
  Come on!
• 23:52
  Hey, let go of my leg!
• 23:53
  I've got to hold your ankle!
• 23:54
  Let go of my leg!
• 23:54
  What do you think you're doing?
• 23:54
  Oh, I've got a good mind to do this thing the right way and hit you out the window!
• 23:57
  Don't take your hands off me!
• 23:57
  Don't take your hands off me!
• 23:58
  Oh, come on!
• 23:59
  Come on out!
• 23:59
  Stand up!
• 24:01
  You!
• 24:01
  You!
• 24:02
  All right!
• 24:03
  I'll listen to you once!
• 24:05
  We don't want any trouble!
• 24:06
  Just let me out of here!
• 24:07
  We'll pay you anything!
• 24:08
  My husband is an important man!
• 24:10
  So am I!
• 24:11
  I've had enough pushing around as I can take!
• 24:14
  From now on, I'm the dealer, and your hand is to shut up!
• 24:17
  All I want to do is get out of here!
• 24:20
  No, you don't!
• 24:21
  I baited you
• 24:22
  You tried to bait me!
• 24:24
  Now we'll both sit here and face your husband!
• 24:27
  That must have been him that called the room and hung up when he heard my voice!
• 24:31
  One thing I didn't bother to tell you, your husband couldn't have known it was me until then!
• 24:36
  Because I came in the hotel the back way!
• 24:38
  Elevator and all!
• 24:40
  What do you mean you baited me?
• 24:42
  Why do you think the police put my name, my address, and my picture in the newspaper?
• 24:46
  To draw autograph runners?
• 24:48
  Oh!
• 24:49
  Oh is right!
• 24:50
  Now get over there in the corner while I free Mr. Barron's gun from under the bed
• 24:54
  before some mouse crawls out through the woodwork and tries taking a shot at me!
• 24:58
  Go on!
• 24:58
  Get going!
• 25:01
  Now turn around!
• 25:03
  Okay, now if you don't want me shooting runs in your stockings,
• 25:06
  don't make a move while I'm under the bed!
• 25:08
  I felt like something that old maids hoped for.
• 25:14
  Lawrence!
• 25:15
  Where is he?
• 25:16
  On the ioor!
• 25:16
  He's got a gun!
• 25:17
  Shoot him!
• 25:17
  Kill him!
• 25:18
  Under the bed!
• 25:19
  No!
• 25:20
  No, Lawrence!
• 25:20
  Not him!
• 25:21
  No!
• 25:21
  No!
• 25:21
  He's under the bed!
• 25:22
  Under the bed and taking no chances!
• 25:24
  Listen, Roach!
• 25:41
  You may be a lieutenant to the police department, but to me, you're just a big fat private.
• 25:46
  Now, now, calm down.
• 25:48
  I don't mind setting myself up as a pigeon, but you promised me protection.
• 25:52
  Where was it?
• 25:52
  Temper, temper.
• 25:54
  Now, who's who here?
• 25:55
  Let's get these stiffs sorted out, then we can talk.
• 25:58
  There's only one stiff.
• 26:00
  The other one, the one near the door, is Lawrence.
• 26:02
  He's only wounded.
• 26:03
  I had to shoot his pins out from under him.
• 26:05
  He came crashing in and killed Barron by mistake.
• 26:08
  That's Barron over there by the bed.
• 26:10
  Oh, another case of mistaken identity?
• 26:12
  How'd he miss you?
• 26:14
  I happened to be under the bed at the time.
• 26:17
  Oh.
• 26:17
  And I wasn't hiding.
• 26:18
  No?
• 26:19
  I was looking for a gun, and I found it, and I used it.
• 26:22
  And if I had one right now, I'm not so sure I wouldn't use it on you.
• 26:25
  You still haven't told me why you left me there alone, holding the sack all this time.
• 26:29
  I'll tell you why.
• 26:30
  And I guess it was our fault.
• 26:32
  The man I had posted in the lobby didn't see you come into the hotel.
• 26:36
  How do you like that?
• 26:37
  Johnny Dollar, wise guy.
• 26:39
  Huh?
• 26:40
  Lieutenant, I've got some news for you.
• 26:42
  Just to make sure I was taking no chances, I came in the back way.
• 26:48
  Expense account item eight. $62.
• 26:52
  Hollywood Entertainment.
• 26:54
  Seeing what there was to see at Ciro's.
• 26:56
  Item nine.mm$105.
• 26:59
  Seeing to it that one of the things I saw at Ciro's had a good time with me at the Motombo Motel.
• 27:05
  Item ten. $86.13.
• 27:09
  Plain fare.
• 27:10
  Hollywood back to Hartford.
• 27:12
  Item eleven.
• 27:13
  One dollar.
• 27:14
  Ticket to the movies back in Hartford.
• 27:16
  To study the last motion picture of Marilyn Major.
• 27:19
  So that in the future, I'd be sure to steer clear of her kind of woman.
• 27:23
  Who's too much of a jinx for any kind of man.
• 27:27
  Expense account total.m$48.76.
• 27:33
  Signed, yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
• 27:41
  You've been listening to Johnny Dollar, part of the Great Detective Series brought to you by Lawrence University,Theatre of the Air.
• 27:48
  This episode was produced and directed by Timothy Troy.
• 27:51
  The case of the $100,000 Leg starred Peter Welsh as Johnny Dollar and Ashley Koroleski as Lieutenant.
• 27:59
  Also featured in this episode, Tammy Forward, Nora Taylor, Gwen Kelly Masterton, Jem Herron, Aram Monisoff, Charlie King, Brianna Stapleton, and Tim Troy.
• 28:10
  Music for this program by Alex Bustrom.
• 28:12
  Our technical director and sound engineer is David Owens.
• 28:16
  Sound effects by Kristen Hammergram and Layla Schwartz.
• 28:20
  Script preparation by Tammy Forward.
• 28:22
  Lawrence Theatre of the Air theme music was composed and conducted by Kenneth Hemba and performed by the Lawrence Radio Orchestra.
• 28:30
  For Lawrence Theatre of the Air, this is Tammy Forward.
• 28:35
  That moment of silence was sponsored by Pete Gilbert and the rest of the staff at Lawrence's Seeley G. Mudd Library, where Lawrence students gather to study,
• 28:45
  and Lawrence professors like to put very long books on only two-hour reserve.
• 29:20
  Thank you.