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the next season on the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio. So here now
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is The Bennett Matter, Parts three and four from Hollywood. It's time now
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for Johnny Dollar Andrew Court, Johnny, how's it going, Andy? All
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the police have been talking to that arsonist, George Foley all night long.
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You won't admit a thing, won't talk about anything. I'm wondering now how
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long they can hold it. He's the man who fired that building. Andy.
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We've got to have something more for the District attorney, Johnny. We
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haven't tied Folly to Bennett at all. If we can definitely charge him with
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firing that building, then we'll have a lever to go after Bennett. I
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got an idea. What meet you in an hour tonight and every weekday night?
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Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense
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Account America's fabulous freelanced Insurance Investigator Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the four State Fire Insurance Operation forty sixty five Spear
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Boulevard, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expended yours during
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my investigation of the Bennett Arson matter. Expense account Adams six one dollars,
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two drinks, Andrew Cord and myself in Cookie's Place, half a block from
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San Francisco's Hall of Justice, and he's a good insurance man thorough Well,
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it's pretty certain I'll have to release Fully unless he admits something or we can
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find more evidence against him. How about Bennett? Still, no word,
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Johnny. You can see what we're up against. Yeah, well one,
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no, no, thanks, giant's But listen, we had this case tied
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into Tony Midas until he turned up dead, a vengeance motive against Bennett for
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sending him to prison five years ago. Yeah, all right, Now we
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know it wasn't Midas, and we're sure it's this George Foley, at least
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according to Bill underwe and Bill certainly knows the arson racket. Yeah, no,
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man better? All right, then who shot Bennett? No, I
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don't know, Johnny, but that's not our worry at the moment. Andy
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think it might have been Fully, it couldn't have been Midas. But there
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is someone else, you mean Bennett's Nie? Sure, sure is niece.
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She had a reason because of what Bennett did to Midas. It was her
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husband, and she's got a reason to help us. Nobody can find her,
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Nobody knows where she is. They'll find her, and I want to
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make a deal. What sure. If I find her, I'll ask her
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what information she can give us about Bennett and Folly. Possibly she has something
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she said she did once. Now look, if she shot her uncle,
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she'll have to stand for a sullen attempt to kill. Can we give her
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legal help in her case? Johnny, I don't know. I want to
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know if I can promise her that if I see her, can I well,
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you can tell her that we'll do what we can the very best that
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we can. Okay, good, want another drink? No thanks, John,
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all right, I'll try and get in touch with Elizabeth Bennett. Police
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haven't gotten anywhere. Oh, I've been here two days and I got friends
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all over this town. Expense account item seven one dollar and five cents camp
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fare from the Hall of Justice to the apartment house at Marty Angle. Lawyer,
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philosopher and egg poacher again. Yeah, you better close that door and
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lock in, mister Engle. It's awful late for this, you drunk.
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Nope, locked Now what you asked me if I ever found Tony Midas to
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tell you about it. We found a mister Engel. He's dead, oh
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no, oh, yes, and he didn't do any of the things we
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thought he might have done. I'm here to find out what you might have
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done. How did he die tuberculosis? He's at it for two years to
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know? No, I didn't know. I didn't know about it. I
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don't know how to figure you angle. I haven't been able to ever since
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I met you. It doesn't make any difference what I think of you.
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But it does make a difference how you answer one question A lot of difference
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to you. What is it? Did you help Arnold Bennett frame Tony Midas
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and send him up to San Quentin? You say Tony is dead? Now
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what difference did you help Bennett frame him? No? I told you I
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defended Tony Midas in court. I tried my best to get him off.
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That's the Truth's sure that. I'm an honest man, if not a successful
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one. I told you the truth, all right. Then if that's the
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truth, you're not in any trouble and you can unlock that door. But
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if it's not the truth, you might get yourself killed. Why do you
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say that? Because somebody took a shot at Arnold Bennett last night, but
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he was lucky it didn't kill him, but it came pretty near. You
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know that somebody was Elizabeth. That's a good guess. She hasn't got anything
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to lose now she lost her husband. She might be out getting even for
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him if he was framed, and she thinks you helped frame him. I
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tell you I didn't frame him. I defended him. I think Bennett stacked
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every thing against him. I told you that once. I think Midas was
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an innocent man. But there was nothing I could do it. What were
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you expecting? No one ask who it is? Go ahead and ask what
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it is. Who is it, Elizabeth, Bennett, mister Angel, tell
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her just a minute, just a minute, Elizabeth. Okay, over there,
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go on, get down fast. No, you don't angle, call
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a police. Hold holden, Elizabeth, hold it up. You're hurt.
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Your hurt. I'm all right. Did I kill him? Did I kill
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Elizabeth? You didn't kill him in the autumn he did. I don't know
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what you're talking about. He didn't have anything to do with framing Tony.
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He just told me and he was lying. He should be dead. And
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none of this will bring Tony back to you. Come on, now,
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come on, let's get back. How many triumphs have you met in your
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life, mister darnad? A few? Come on, Come on, when
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you met my uncle Arnold, you met a real one. He stole money
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from himself and made it look like Tony did it, and that one in
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there helped him. Why didn't you let me kill it? You're wrong about
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angle. He didn't help you or uncle. He tried to help Tony honestly,
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and I'm glad I didn't kill him. How's my uncle? He's getting
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better? Will he go to prison? We have to prove he hired somebody
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to fire the office building. He hired George Fowley. I know that,
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would you swear? Can you? Yes? He blamed it on Tony.
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When I went over to see Tony last month in the prison hospital, he
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was dying. Oh, I knew it. Had that look in his eyes,
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helpless, and he knew what my uncle had done to him, and
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he couldn't do anything about it. But you figured you could. You shot
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your uncle when you found out Tony was dead, and you came here to
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kill Ankle. I I thought he helped Unclarnal send Tony to prison. I
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thought he helped kill Tony. They did kill him, you know, when
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they sent him to prison. They killed him as surely as if they shot
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him down. Five years. I waited for Tony to get out of that
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awful place. I waited to hold him in my arms and tell him it
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was all over. Five years. I waited to help him forget his hate,
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my hate. I loving him so much every day that No, he's
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dead. What can you hire anybody to about what they've done to Tony?
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Look at me, mister dolla, I'm I'm not what you'd call beautiful.
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I'm not even pretty. Nobody ever looked at me twice until total he looked
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at me, and he loved me. And now he's dead. And I
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didn't sun, I didn't, I know, be glad when I'm dead.
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Surely in this neighborhood. Wait a minute, what's that? No one's hurts,
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Come on, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bennett made a statement down at the Hall
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of Justice admitting she fired a shot at Arnold Bennett, hoping to kill him.
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She also admitted the assault on the lawyer Marty Engel. Charges were immediately
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filed and she was held in the woman's section of the city jail. In
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a separate statement, she told how she had seen Nold Bennett meet George Foley
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in a downtown bar. Folly still maintained that he had nothing to do with
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the fire in the Bennett building and denied any connection with Arnold Bennett. I
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gave Elizabeth Bennett statement. Andy Courtney took it to the Assistant District Attorney.
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I was still in the Hall of Justice when Marty Angel came in. Darla,
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Oh, how long was strangle? How is Elizabeth? They're holding her?
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I'm not going to press any charges. That's pretty decent of you,
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mister Engle. She's a pretty unhappy girl. I'd like to help her.
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Her uncle will probably press charges against her. I'd like to defend her.
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What she needs a lawyer. I didn't do very well for her husband.
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Maybe I can do better for her. I hope. So funny world,
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isn't it not tonight? It isn't no, I guess not. Oh,
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I'll see you, mister dollar, right, Johnny? Oh, Andy,
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Hi, kid, you want to pat yourself on the back. They're going
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to go ahead against George Folly for the Arson job. Enough for them,
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now, Huh. That's a pretty good case against him. Whether he opens
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up and talks or not, a statement from him would still be better always.
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But he's been around Johnny, he hasn't given anybody the time of day
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yet. Yeah, all about Elizabeth Bennett. I can arrange counsel for she's
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already got a lawyer. Andy, Okay, then we'll pay his fee.
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He doesn't want any fee. What's the matter? Kid? Oh? Maybe
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all this has been a little too much. And what time is it?
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Ten fifteen? There's a plane out at midnight? If you don't need me
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anymore, I think I'll be getting back to Hartford. Sure, Johnny,
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Sure, I'll look after things here. Expenser cad Item seven forty nine dollars
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sixty five cents. Hotel and meals in San Francisco. Itam eight same as
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Item three. Transportation back to Hartford. I caught the midnight plan. It
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was in Hertford at two o'clock the next afternoon. I went directly to my
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apartment and went to bed. I was awake in the following morning about seven
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o'clock. What Johnny Dollar, San Francisco calling mister Dollar. Okay? Is
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this mister Dollar? Yes, yes, mister Andrew Cord is calling one moment.
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Please go ahead, please, Johnny, Hi, can you come back
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to San Francisco right away? Well? I just got home and we need
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you again. Jake Eggleston is going to defend Foley in court. Eggleston,
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he's already got him out on the writ. What this case is worth half
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a million dollars towards Johnny. If anything happens that Foley gets off, we
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won't have a chance to get Bennett. You sounds scared. I am.
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Somehow Bennett's holding the best cards again. We got a good case against Foley.
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Once that settle, we can get Bennett. I want to make sure.
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Okay, okay, I'll get the first plane. Thanks Johnny. Even
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as I hung up the phone, I was thinking, at Marty Engel's words,
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You'll never get Arnold Bennett's He's too good for your dollar, too good
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for your insurance company, your fire investigators, everybody, no stronger man ever
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lived, he said. And somebody had to prove angle was wrong, Johnny
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Dollar andrew court, Johnny, do you have? And I stripped back to
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the first goal. I slept most of the way. How's it going?
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Good and bad? Johnny? Good that we've got George fully on trial for
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setting fire to the building. Bad that we haven't connected him to Bennett yet.
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And Bennett's the guy we want now. Once you get a conviction on
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fully, you can go after Bennett. A lot of expert testimony has been
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thrown around here, and the jury's been sleeping through most of it. Besides
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that, Fowley's got one of the best defensemen of the business, Jake Eggleston.
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Yeah, I've heard of him. He's pretty slick. He's going to
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make us lose this case, Johnny, not if I can help it.
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Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Four State Fire Insurance Corporation,
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forty sixty five Spear Boulevard, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an
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accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Bennett matter. Expense account Item nine
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one hundred and twenty four dollars air transportation Hartford back to San Francisco again and
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the Bennett case, which I thought was finished with. I was at the
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whole of justice by nine thirty I met Andrew Court outside of the Superior Court.
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This may be the last day of the trial, Johnny, anything new
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since I talked to you on the phone, and well, I may be
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worrying for nothing, since Finley has handled it all pretty well for the state.
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He's one of the assistant to Yea's. But Foley's still holding on too,
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a not guilty plate. Well, wasn't that just coaching? Oh?
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Maybe you remember Foley didn't make any statement when we took him, and the
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police got nothing out of him at all. Folly had something like twenty eight
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arrests besides two convictions, you know the ropes. Yeah, well that's okay,
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sure, just in time. Yeah, it seems to be the clerk
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now. Yeah, all his nonsession as Honor Judge William J. Bainbridge presiding,
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everybody's dad saying BC. Then John Dallah, Hey, oh, I
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didn't think they'd call you first. No strage right hand, he's almost where
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the testimony. You're about to give us the truth, the whole truth.
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Nothing about the truth, the help of God. I do PC. As
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you know, I'm Charles Finley with the District Attorney's office. State your name,
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please, Johnny Dollar, state your occupation please. I'm an insurance investigator.
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How long have you been engaged in your profession as an insurance investigator?
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Ten years or more? Tell us please? Prior to that, what kind
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of work did you do? I was in the United States Marine Corps for
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four years. Before that, I was detective sergeant's second grade with the New
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York Police Department. Do you have any papers or letters in your possession that
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verify your professional status? Mister Dollar, Yes, I do. I have
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letters of reliability from thirteen insurance companies and adjustment bureaus I've been associated with,
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and my record is police officer. Thank you. Will the court clerk please
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hand these papers to Council for the Defense so he may examine them. Yes,
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sir, thank you. Now tell us what your connection with this case
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is. Mister Dalla, I was employed by the Force State Fire Insurance Corporation
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of Hartford, Connecticut to conduct an investigation in regard to one of their policyholders,
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Arnold Bennett. Yes, Arnold Bennett. Will you please tell the court
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what the results of that investigation were. The Bennett Building was destroyed by fire.
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I worked with arson experts for my own organization and with the police here
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to determine the cause of the fire. Go on, please. At the
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scene of the fire, are expert William Underwood located certain items which we recognized
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as part of the paraphernalia generally used by professional arsonists. Will you please state
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what those items were? A scrap of celluloid and a paraffin wick, anything
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else samples of the ashes which were later analyzed and proved to be celluloid ashes.
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I wish to remind the ladies and gentlemen of the jury that the public
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fire adjuster, the gentleman from the Skyline Laboratories, and the two gentlemen from
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the Fire Inspection Department have previously testified as to the the identity and uses of
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these items. Will you continue, mister Dolla. Well, these particular items
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suggested that the fire was of an incendiary origin. The next problem was to
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establish the exact method used in starting the fire? Were you able to determine
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that method? Yes, sir. In order to refresh the minds of the
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jury, would you mind describing what was established A heavy woolen wick, This
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one, mister Dollar, that one or one like it exhibit see Please continue.
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This wick had been soaked in paraffin and then stuffed into a paper sack
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that was filled with celluloid. It's a simple method. The wick is lit
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and it takes anywhere from three to ten minutes to burn down to the celluloid.
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Now, once that happens, the celluloid flares up and fires anything combustible
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in the vicinity, and that is the method you determined cause the fire on
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the Bennett Building. Yes, and I'd like to qualify that by saying,
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the arson experts from my own company and the gentleman from the police and fire
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departments here in Sanford, Cisco determined it definitely. Mister Dolla, by this
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means you connected the defendant, George Foley, with the fire you were investigating.
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Yes, we did. Oh, George Foley improvised the method I have
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just described. Improvised You mean it is his method? I object, your
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honor. The prosecution is putting words into the mouth of the witness. I'll
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rephrase for mister Eggleston. Is this method identifiable with the defendant? Yes,
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sir, Will you explain the identification. The police files here show that Foley
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has been convicted of setting two other fires in this state. On both occasions
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he employed that method of fire. Your honor, I object the career of
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the defendant as a professional arsonist. As a matter of public record, the
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defendant previous record has no bearing on this case. I have jested a dollar.
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Will you rephrase and delete any reference to the defendant's criminal history. The
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procedure in locating an arsonist is to first establish the method of operation. In
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this case, where the Wick celluloid method was used, the defendant's name came
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up immediately. The defendant made an attempt to call on Arnold Bennett in the
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hospital. The defendant was positively identified by three witnesses as the man they had
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seen near the Bennett building prior to the fire. I remind the jury of
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the testimony of those witnesses. Go on, mister Dolla. The police crime
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laboratory examined all of the clothing Foley was wearing at the time of his arrest
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and all of the clothing in his room. There was definite evidence that he
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had been in the Bennett building. Will you tell us what sort of evidence
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please? Oh, paint smudges on the soles of his shoes and metal filings
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in cups of his trousers, compared with samples who were still available in the
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building where certain painting and metal work had been in progress. You connected him
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with the improvised method of firing. You proved that paint smudges and metal filings
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came from the Bennett building. The defendant attempted to contact Arnold Bennett what else.
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Arnold Bennett's niece, Elizabeth Bennett informed me that her uncle, Arnold Bennett,
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hired the defendant to fire the building to collect insurance. I was on
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the stand all the rest of the morning. When Finley aendered his questioning,
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he turned me over to defense Council Eggleston. Eggleston contested every bit of established
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testimony and recommended that my remarks be stricken from the trial records. The summations
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came right after that, and then the case went to the jury. Expense
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account had him ten three dollars lunch for Andrew Court and myself only has to
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be convicted or will be on the defense when Bennet's insurance claim comes to court
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and we'll probably get stuck with it. And while the jury's out, why
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don't I go over to the jail and talk with Fully? What good would
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that do? Fully must know they'll give him the works if he admits something.
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He would admit nothing. He sits there in court like they were talking
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about someone else. Oh, Johnny, it's too late. Yeah, but
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if he did, you could go ahead and file criminal charges against Bennett,
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beat him to the punch. I'd like that. Oh, we get Folly
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and we've beaten Bennett, and I like that. The job of getting to
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a prisoner who was standing trial isn't an easy one, especially when he's under
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the surveillance of a smart defense attorney like Eggleston. I talked to Judge Brainbridge
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in his chambers and told him what I had in mind. I broke down
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the case against Folly as the insurance company saw it, and the possible case
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against Arnold Bennett if Foley was found guilty. Judge Brainbridge arranged for me to
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see Folly. He was sitting in his cut Eggleston was standing nearby. Hello
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Dollar, Hello, Eggleston, Hi, what do you want? Well,
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I thought we ought to talk about this thing while there's still time. If
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it's okay with you, mister, it's okay with me Dollar. I'll be
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right here some time for what to get your point of a break? Fully?
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Oh that's a real good one. You sit on a witness chair all
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morning, you tell him what a bad boy I am, and you walk
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in here and tell him you want to give me a break? I do
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go away. Now, wait a minute, George, it won't hurt to
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listen to it. Well, you're a great when you I'm a guy who's
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sitting in this cell. Both of you can walk out of here, have
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a good state for dinner, and I already George, listen to him.
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This isn't a court room. When you were first hauled in, Fully,
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you could have made a statement telling us Bennett hired you to fire that building,
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waved a jury trial, and thrown yourself on the mercy of the court.
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But you didn't do that. You made everybody work hard to give it
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to you. And that's exactly what they're going to do. That jury'll come
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out pretty soon and throw the book at you. Is that true. I'm
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not so sure of that. Dollar tell us precisely why you're here. You
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both know my companies after Ronald Bennett, he's filed claim against us for not
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paying off his fire policy. Fully, we know he hired you to fire
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that building. Yeah, and if you're smart, you'll send for the guard,
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make a request for the court to come back in session before the jury
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returns. You can tell them Bennett hired you. You can change your plea
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of guilty and throw yourself at the mercy of the court. It'll probably save
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you five years on your sentence. So I turn here, make everything nice
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for you to go after better. If you do that, his claim will
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be thrown out to the insurance commissioner will prefer charges against him, and he'd
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be right up there with me making little ones out of baby. That's right,
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you're overstepping your province here, dollar. I look, there isn't much
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time. Holy. This man can advise you to wait until the jury comes
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in and that won't be very long, but then it'll be too late for
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you to help yourself. I don't like this high pressure stuff. I don't
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care what you like or dislike, mister Eggleston. I'll listen fully. They've
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got an eight point case against you in they're is he rights. It doesn't
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make any difference. The jury is say it saved me five years? Yes,
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George? What do you think? Up to you? George, I've
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told you what I think a swell spots. Well, oh come on,
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come on, what is it? I'll risk you you're crazy. There's a
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chance those twelve plunk heads will walk out and till everybody I'm not guilty,
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Come on, get a Those last five years will be pretty hard. Wins.
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God, God, thank you for the offer. Just the same dollar
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you don't use your head much. Fully, it hadn't been for you,
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I wouldn't be in here, so don't worry too much about what happens to
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me. I went for guys like you, I wouldn't be in business,
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and I'm not worrying sala yeah, yeah, I hope they let me loseen
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this one to USA. Don't plan on it, and I kinda I'd like
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to kill you or something. Now here's our star to tell you about the
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final intriguing episode of this week's story tomorrow, a verdict in and out of
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a courtroom. The'll wind up, won't you? Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar?
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar starrying Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by
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John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to
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join us tomorrow night, same time and station for the next exciting episode of
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Roy Rowan speaking Welcome back Well.
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The phrase uh no love loss comes to mind for that very intense encounter between
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Johnny and the Arson. Definitely, I think a good highlight. I loved
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I love the overall take of it. To me, the big nagging down
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in this whole scenario, is that the niece who's definitely got a grudge is
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the person who the prosecution case really rest on. And whether the jury picks
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up on that, I think is going to be an interesting question when we
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find out what the verdict is on Friday. I definitely sympathize with Johnny.
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You know, that's rough. You know, you fly home and immediately you
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hop a plane to go back country, back across the country to where you
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were. Definitely not a fun experience. Even flying back three days later,
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which was my latest flight this month, not a fun experience. The bright
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side, it was on the insurance company's time. I love the professional testimony,
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you know, Johnny testifying as an expert really established his bona fides.
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And I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in just a second,
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because there's actually quite a few details on there. But before we let
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the time get away from us, I need to let you know what programs
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were going to bring you next season on The Great Detectors of Old Time Radio.
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There are two types of programs. First of all, we are going
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to have one more one more situation that we will need to address where there's
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a missing episode or in one case there's a non part episode. In those
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cases we have we have a have the Friday episode with and then Wednesday,
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as we did with the McClean matter, we play a special where we play
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another series. So we're gonna have a couple specials thrown in the mix here.
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But I do want to let you know you will get to hear another
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one shot series. This one is starring Frank Lovejoy and the title is Here
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comes McBride. And then once we finish all of the five part Johnny Dollars,
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Wednesdays will become dedicated to the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, which is one
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of the best detective series ever done on radio, and certainly I would say
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the best in the hard boiled genre. Many would disagree, but that's my
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personal favorite. Okay, Well, now onto the testimony. It was somewhat
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interesting just because it kind of contradicted what we heard back during the back during
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the Edmund O'Brien years that Johnny Dollar was a Pinkerton man that's absent from his
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bio. Here, I want to I double checked in uh the uh John
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Abbott, who is a Johnny Dollar matter? And yeah it did it was
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the story that he began his career as a Pinkerton. Since it wasn't mentioned,
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I guess that's been wiped out. Not surprising in a way, continuity
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was not as big a deal, and particularly with Johnny Dollar, which had
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so many writers, and that was said, you know, five or six
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years ago at this point in the story. And uh, beyond the fact
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that he served in the Marines, according to Abbott, there's really not any
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real mention of his military service other than from a Charles Russell Johnny Dollar episode
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that Johnny served in the China Burma India theater during the war. There's also
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some suggestions in later episodes that he knows how to fly that doesn't necessarily wouldn't
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necessarily have and scuba dive wouldn't necessarily have come from the military. I do
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kind of find it surprising that he is portrayed as a member of the NYPD
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because he's been in New York quite a few times and I'm you know,
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already referring to his to the Bob Bailey years, and you know, he's
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never indicated that he's got a people he knows from the old days on the
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forest. It should be somewhat typical or like a special knowledge of the city.
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I will say that having John Abbott's Johnny Dollar book around has actually been
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pretty helpful as I've worked on the show and just a really neat fan resource.
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He's got list of how many times Johnny Dollar was shot, some pretty
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unique indexing of expense accounts, and recaps of the cases, which are sometimes
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helpful because I will sometimes say, Okay, did I actually hear that,
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and get some clarification from the book to make to verify that I'm hearing correctly,
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because sometimes due to a bad audio, it can be hard to tell.
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But he went through the actual scripts. So you would like to receive
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or Canada, we'll send you your choice of volumes one, two, or
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three. Volume one covers the introduction, a lot of overview of the series,
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and all of the pre Bob Bailey episodes that were aired. Volume two's
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is the biggest one that's got all the Bob Bailey episodes in it, and
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volume three that includes the post Bob Bailey episodes, the auditions, as well
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and fifty dollars or more, we can send you all three john Back emails
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in we turn out a listener, comments and feedback. As a listener of
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the original Johnny Dollar Show and a long time listener of your excellent, great
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detective series. I've always had an interest in the musical show associated with these
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shows. I rarely have ever hear you mentioned the music, so I thought
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you might be interested in the person who did much of the music for Bob
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Bailey's Johnny Dollar. As you've see in the attached article, Marino went on
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to a very successful career in music following his contributions to The Johnny Dollar Show.
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And the comment, you know, and I will say that, actually
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this is, you know, some of my favorite music for a detective series.
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I've heard it so many times almost take it for granted, but really
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it is. You know, it's great, exciting music. It's very similar
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in a way to what was later used on Sea Hunt. And I also
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heard I think the exact opening score used on old episodes of Dick Tracy and
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whether that was added in by syndicators or the DVD company, I'm not sure
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which, but it is definitely very solid music here. The information he had
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is actually from a blog. It's called what Became of Johnny Doller dot blogspot
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dot com and just maintains some you know, whatever little tidbits that can dig
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up, and the information that came about Amerigo Marino, who was of course
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the inspiration for the name of the Ricardo Amigo matter. And they point out
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the only Johnny Dollar that was the only genre dollar case to explicitly refer to
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a member of the show's production crew. He was born in nineteen twenty five
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and worked for many years, and is somewhat unique among the key figures of
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the show's mid nineteen fifties heyday. Well Bob Bailey and Jack Johnstone for the
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most part, withdrew from the spotlight after the end of the Golden Age of
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radio, and Marigo arguably went on to much bigger things. In nineteen sixty
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four, he became a music director and conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra,
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a role he held for two decades, during which the ensemble and Marino himself
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attained national acclaim. So there you go. A very talented person and a
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really nice just a great, great score I think for Johnny Dollar that made
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this show just really stand out. Though I love this, this isn't actually
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my favorite theme, you'll get to hear that or favorite opening. You'll get
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to hear that tomorrow. Speaking of that, tomorrow we bring you Nick Carter,
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where you'll have no new episode announcements to Everything's status quo over there,
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and then join us back here on Friday as we wrap up the Bennett matter
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and continue on with Crime for a King in the meantime. Senor comments Box
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From Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.