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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Laughing Matter, Part Five and The Lady Was Lethal, PT. 3 (EP1141) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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remember check Johnny Dollar air dot com. First. All right, well,
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now it's time for us to get into today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar. And after the program and after our commentary on Johnny Dollar, be
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sure and listen for the next Carter Brown case. But here now is the
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Laughing Matter Part five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Would
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you ask John oh it was this? I'm doubt about it, But I
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was fun He's out of his office at the moment. What's the matter,
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Burton? Somebody shooting at you again? That's not funny, mister Dollar.
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I was laughing. The man's been murdered, you know. I think that's
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anything but a laughing matter. I said, who's laughing? And except for
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the whims of fate, it might well be me lying dead at this moment.
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And that's really why you're upset, isn't it, Burton, because it
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might have been you. You're not really concerned about Al's death. I was
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extremely fond of the boy. You were no fonder of him than he was
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of you. So save that good old lovable Charlie business for your television audience.
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I never did buy it myself. Dollar. May I remind you that
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your position, I know my position in it. I'm an Incinnata to protect
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your life because some company was crazy enough to write a half million dollar policy
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on you. All Right, you're still alive, aren't you? Goodbye?
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Burton? Tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of
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the Man with the Action packed expensve caud America's Fabulous Freelance insurance Investigator, Yours
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truly, Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location in Sonata,
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Mexico to the home office Union States Casualty Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment
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the Laughing Matter expense account, final page item twelve fifty cents. Two bottles
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of beer, one for myself and one for Capitan Parral. We sat in
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his office in the Commandant Sea day Police and drank them slowly, and watched
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the sun sink behind the headlands across the bay, and we waited. The
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daytime heat reluctantly loosened its grip, and the town, pushing off the lethargy
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of afternoons, stirred to the quickened pace of evening. A sprinkling truck passed
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slowly sweeping the dusty, rutted street with a spurating broom of water. Gleeful
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kids ran out behind it and splashed in the puddle, squealing happily Spanish squeals.
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They were the commandancias off the tourists beat and all the while, somewhere
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back inside the building, an autopsy surgeon worked on a corpse. When yest
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listo the medical he is all finished? Now, Well, what's the verdy
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par is what we are thinking? Else Matopo Veneno, he was, how
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you say poison? What kind of poison? Cura? How you call it
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cyanidere cyanide? And here also are very much cyanide in this bottle which you
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has give to me. Yeah, yeah, I thought it'd smell like it.
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He'll drank a glass and a half out of it and then dropped dead
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right in front of the camera. And you are said, the wrong man
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has drink it. The wrong one is get killed. That's right. Charlie
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Burton was supposed to play that role himself, but this morning at breakfast he
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agreed to let Al have the part. I was there, I heard it.
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So if it was not do that, he is one who will be
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dead now sure, Charlie Burton himself and the figures Paru, he's when the
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target all along that threatening note that was slipped under his door, somebody firing
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a shot at him last night, see said Guru. Then when they finally
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got their punch in, they tagged the wrong guy. I have no understand
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what he's happened to this. Nacho Morales hmm, Rolena's husband I made at
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the hotel that Charlie kept annoying, and no, he's one big place.
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He's very small. These down and we all look every place anyor, but
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we are now find these man. I don't know Parrel, and yet I
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got a hunch he's the key to this whole thing. We find them,
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say he's no way for us. Gave these down. We find him pronto.
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Now you bet your life itam thirteen a dollar forty taxi back to the
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hotel. Lights were coming on, a cool breeze was starting to blow in
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off the Pacific, and the whole town was brightening up to the challenge of
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the Knights. But not me technically, of course, the job I'd been
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sent here to do was still under control. Big time comedian Charlie Burton,
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a great, big, lovable scream to his public, had been insured by
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his television sponsor for a half million bucks. Then Burton had received the anonymous
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note threatening his life. So I was here to protect the insurance company's investments.
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I didn't care personally what happened to Burton. It was just a job.
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But I did care about how Johnny, Oh, hello, Gloria,
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what is it, Johnny? What happened? No one seems to know anything
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definite about it. Al Shriver's dead poisoned, That's all I know about it.
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Come on in the lounge. I'll buy you a drink, all right,
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Johnny? Have they found that man who was missing what's his name?
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Not? Your morale is No, he's still missing the table? All right?
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Sure? Anywhere? Waiting to Margherita's Frank mast said something about Charlie and
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Ol changing parts. Yeah, Maltz got Charlie mad, and he made the
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switch to prove a point. What point? That Al wasn't ready for a
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starring role. Oh that's right. You didn't come down for breakfast this morning.
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No, I wasn't in today's scenes, so I just leapt in.
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It's just as well. It wasn't a very pretty sight. It's a rotten
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shame. Al was a real swell guy. Here, boy, the irony
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in this world, Johnny, what do you mean? Charlie Burton, who's
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been a rat all his life, makes his usual crude play for the maid
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here in the hotel, and what happens? Her husband hits back at the
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wrong man. Al gets killed, a kid who would never harm anybody in
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his life, and Charlie gets off scot free. I was with Captain Perral
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last night when he talked to the Morales girl, not his wife. She
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doesn't speak any English, Colorier, and she says her husband doesn't either.
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Really wouldn't need to? Would he to pull a trigger or poison bottle?
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Maybe not, but he would in order to write a threatening note in English?
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Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that. If Nacho's in it, he's
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not in it alone. And I've got a hunt. She's oh, thanks,
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Johnny Dollar, this is a what is it? Parol? We have?
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Just finds good. I'll be right down. But Johnny, do you
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think Frank Mall's might not if he was after Charlie Burton? He knew that
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now not Burton was going to drink out of that bottle. But didn't everybody
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know that? No, not everybody, You didn't. Nacho Morales was sitting
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alone in the starkly burned attention room of the Commandant Sea. He was a
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small man, maybe a few years older than his wife, a field worker
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with narled hands and a bent back. He was waiting patiently, quietly,
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gripping the brim of his sombrero in his hands, trying to hide the fear,
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the terror that lay just behind his eyes. His eyes flickered slightly as
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Parral and I opened the steel grilled door. And then he waited, when
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as theres ombre, when as the escapitan, the where is Morales is good?
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Bad? Senor? As I supposed, Morales s senor compasola notchia ombre
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was locked off by the barrier of language. I watched while Parral stopping now
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and then to transflate. Then Parral asked the question that started the avalanche,
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cosa pourcato matarrel, senor why did you try to kill that man last night?
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And answer to Perral's accusation, not your story poured out in a flood
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of Spanish, and as I stood there listening to a translated I began to
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feel sick inside. I'd been blind. All the facts were there, all
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the evidence, and I'd still failed to spot the play. Not your story
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was the key. It fit, and I knew he was telling the truth.
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He'd been hiding out on a friend's fishing boat since the night before.
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He knew he'd be accused because he had been at the hotel when the shot
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was fired through Burton's window. He was hiding in the shrubbery by the terrace,
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and he'd seen the whole thing. The shot had been fired by Charlie
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Burton himself. Who is it, Johnny Dollar? I want to talk to
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you, Burton, all right, just minute? What is it? Dollar?
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Have they caught that killer yet? Not your morales? I mean yeah,
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Burrell picked him up about an hour ago. I just came from there.
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Has he confessed, No, he hasn't. They ought to beat it
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out of him. That's the only way to make that kind of talk.
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It is, sit down, Burton, I think you'd do for a shock.
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What are you talking about? Not sure didn't try to kill you?
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Well? Then who did? Nobody? Crazy? What about Al Schreiver?
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I suppose he's not even dead? Oh he's dead? All right? You
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want to know you killed him. That was your whole plan, wasn't it,
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Burton, to kill Al Schreiber and get away with it. Everything else
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was a preliminary build up. That's very funny. You ought to be on
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television. Well, there's going to be an opening soon. You wrote that
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threatening letter yourself, what and then tore it up after Moltz had seen it
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so it couldn't be traced back to you. You get better all the time.
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You fired that shot through your window from the terrace. There more build
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up. Then you made your play that phony argument this morning, switching parts
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with Al, putting him on the spot, making it look as though somebody
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had tried to poison you and missed. It was fairly clever, Burton,
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but you're still going to be tagged for it. It was Parral all this.
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Why don't you ask him? I'll be glad to step all right,
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Dollar, don't move, get your hands up now, slow. Is that
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the same gun you used last night? You're wrong. You know I'm not
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going to be tagged. Relaxed, Burton. There's no capital punishment in Mexico.
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You can star in all the prison shows. You're too smart. Dollar,
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You're like Al. And you know what happened when he got too smart.
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I started to tell you I'd be glad to call him that he was
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listening out there in the terrace. He's gone, no, hmm, Mira,
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Senor, I am not shoot too bad, I think, No,
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No, not bad at all. Brov, Well, yes for it.
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I MC is going to pull his trigger, so I are to shoot much
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fazz bum bum bumb I tell you he's look very surprised. Anyone. Yeah,
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it's too bad. He couldn't have seen the look on his face.
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A comedian would have really appreciated it. Why he'd have died laughing it AM
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fourteen four hundred and sixty two dollars and thirty cents. Hotel and miscellaneous and
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ansnada and transportation back to Hartford expense account total seven hundred and ninety one dollars
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and fifty five cents. End of account. End of report remarks Ray policy
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on the life of Charles Z. Burton deceased. Refer Clause thirty four sub
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paragraph see quote. If the insured dies while committing a felony, this policy
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is null and void. Quotes The Superior Court of Baja California rules that Burton
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was shot while resisting arrest and committing an assault with a deadly weapon. So
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you can keep you a half million bucks, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Now here's our star to tell you about next week's intriguing story. Next week,
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a frantic chase across the country after a girl who couldn't possibly exist then
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suddenly turned up. Join us, won't you yours truly? Johnny Dollar?
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Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, Starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood. Written
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by Les Crutchfield, it is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in
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this week's cast were Virginia Gregg, John Dayner, Lucille Meredith, Lawrence Dubkin,
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Gil Stratton, Harry Bartel, and Don Diamond. Musical supervision by Amerigo
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Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same
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time and station for another exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
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This is Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, this was a good serial,
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some nice performances in here. I had one problem with the laughing matter.
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And here's the thing. I think that I really had trouble buying John
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Dayner as a comedian here. And I don't know if it was his fault
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or if it was or if it was the fault of the writers. And
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I noticed no real joke material for the most part, other than they when
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they were describing that scene one. And I think one difference between this program
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and a lot of other programs that feature comedians either people who are murdered or
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who commit murder is usually the comedian is someone who is very sarcastic and cutting
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towards those around them, and well, usually I think it's good to depart
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from a trope. In this case, I think that the trope really does
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have some power. A great and talented comedian is going to use sarcasm,
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is going to use humor as a weapon against as coach stars, because I
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think a lot of people who are abusive and have issues go ahead and they
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use the humor as a weapon. The lack of that here was somewhat to
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bother some because Daner sounded like it sounded like they were doing Shakespeare or something
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and not one of the funny place. All right, Well, we did
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receive some comments regarding the Indestructible Mike matter, and Steven says, I was
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expecting you mentioned the Invincible mic from Johnny Dawler last week was based on a
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true story. They adapted it, but Mike himself was pretty close to real
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life. Well. The reason, of course that I didn't mention that is
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I did not know that it was a real life story, but apparently it
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was. It goes back to the days of the speakeasy and several people got
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together and they said, you know, this guy you know just comes in
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there drinks. There's no value to being alive, but we could sure collect
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some insurance. So they laid out their plot and they decided, you know,
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let's just be pretty simple. You know, we get their life insurance
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on the guy and vitamin he does just drink himself to death. But that
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wasn't working. So then they started poisoning the alcohol, and that wasn't working.
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They gave him poisoned food, including raw oysters, soaked methanol and uh
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spoiled sar deans with mixed in with poison and carpet tax and none of that
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worked. So then they took the guy whose name was Mike the Durable or
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Iron Mike, the nickname Michael Malloy. They took him out there and they
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put him on a park bench. When he was drunk and passed out,
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it was fourteen degrees below zero fahrennet. They threw him in the snow and
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then poured five gallons of water on top of his bare chest, and then
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he showed up the next day asking for a drink. Then one of them
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was a cabby and he ran a mic down with his cap and Mike went
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to the went to the hospital for a few weeks, but then he showed
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up for a drink, and then finally they were They did actually succeed in
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killing him when once again he passed out and they went ahead and they poisoned
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him with carbon monoxide. The problem that these crooks ran into, though,
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was that the story of Mock's durability it spread around and the police they didn't
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believe it at first, but then they investigated it and they found out what
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had truly happened because the killers had chosen carbon monoxide, which leaves traces long
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after death, and one person turned state's evidence, the guy who drove the
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cabin he got life imprisonment, and the other were sent to the electric chair.
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And the combined amount of money was probably the lass than we were dealing
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with in the indestructible mic manner. The amount there amounted to thirty five hundred
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dollars or around sixty one thousand split four ways, adjusted for inflation. Really,
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this whole murder senate that it ended up taking a comical turn, darkly
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comic, but there was a real story behind it, and there's a listing
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here on Wikipedia of some of the stories. This inspired an episode of Gangbusters.
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It's it's it's inspired to play and a couple bits of song, as
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well as an episode of the BB series a QY, and an episode of
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Amazing Stories and a novel. All Dames are dynamite back in the nineteen forties,
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so you'll learn something new every day. All right, Well, we
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have more comments, this one from this one regarding Howard mcneer. Just finishing
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listening to the Johnny Doller episode Indestructible, Mike, I really enjoy Howard mcneer's
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characterization of the role. I don't know anyone who could have played the role
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better. In fact, I've enjoyed everything I've heard or seen him do.
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His doc Adams on Gun Smoke, his genius work, and of course the
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Andy Griffiths Show was a showcase for him. I understand that deriving a Top
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one hundred of anything opens opportunities for critics, but I was surprised that he
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did not make your list. Think about how different all of the shows would
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have been without Howard mcnehe he deserves a tribute. Well, n John and
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I definitely agree he deserves a tribute. There's always you alluded to it a
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big challenge in making the top one hundred list, and Howard mcneer' is one
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of those people. I wish I could have found a room for it.
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I think that when you get very far in the list, you kind of
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get into oh gosh, I really would like to have this person in there,
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But then I'd also like to have that one. So he was one
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didn't quite make the cut eye. I think I'd heard him in a lot
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of shows very similar suspense. Johnny Dollar, the lineup. I don't know.
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Maybe if I were making the list this year, with all of the
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episodes of Johnny Dollar and the lineup I've heard this year, it might make
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the list. I don't know. It may just be a matter of perspective.
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All right, Well, we've gone kind of long. I have one
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more email, but it's not Johnny Dollar specific, so I'll save it for
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after our Carter Brown case. So here now is the Lady was Lethal?
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Part three Carter Brown Mystery Adventures in Excitement and Suspense, based on the best
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selling novels by the slick storytelling sensation Carter Brown. I was working in the
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dark, and I wished someone would turn on some light. With the firm
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of Williams and Eaton. Deprived of the services of Hank Williams by sudden death.
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It left me missus Eaton's little boy, Johnny, carrying the ball.
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Only drawback was that I didn't know what the ball was supposed to look like
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or where I was supposed to boot it. Well, what did you do
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with this babyface? Brill? After you knocked him out? How Wiltham,
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the blues club manager, came over and I gave baby face to him?
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What is it? A mean? John Helen? I wish I knew.
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It certainly looks like it's all tiding with Hank's murder. That is for sure.
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Your brother had something, or muse something. Why the heck? The
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Dumbhowks always insisted on playing his cards close to his chest. I'll never know
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If only he'd left a note some hint. Even if he had, you'd
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still never have found it. That laban man would have got it first.
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Yeah, I guess. So how's the appartment, Helen? It's all right,
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Johnny. I'm afraid I can't take much interest in anything on Hank's killers.
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Yeah, I know, Honey, I know. Nah, Who's that
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I wonder? I can tell you it's a man named Stookes. He called
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up this morning and wanted to see you. I told him you'd be in
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the office about this time. Okay, let him all right, Johnny,
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mister, won't you go in? Thank you? Good morning, mister Eaton.
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My name is Stokes. Good morning. Shut the office door. We'll
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be nice in private. You wanted to see me. What can I do
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for you, mister Stokes. I read about your partner's death. Terrible business
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his sister, and I agree with you. I have his murder on my
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conscience, mister Eaton. You see I am the man responsible. You mean
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you No, I don't mean I'm the man who pulled the trigger, though
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I might just as well have done so, And the man who hired your
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partner for the investigation that led to his death. A cloud, thanks cloud.
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Yes, I hired mister Williams to investigate the Blues club and give me
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proof of the bribery and corruption which came from it. Can I ask why,
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mister Stokes, I'm a rich man, mister Eaton, he went to
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the Blues club a few times. I suppose she thought it was exciting that
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they knew her, knew where she came from, knew that there was money
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behind her. Go on, mister Stokes, you know the story, mister
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Eaton, It's an old story, not even a very exciting story except to
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the people directly concerned. He spent her allowance, she sold her jewelry or
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clothed, he stole things from the house, and then finally she couldn't stand
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it any longer. I'm sorry. I can understand how you feel. I
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think perhaps you can, mister Eaton. I know how your partner felt about
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you, and I imagine you felt the same way about him. I wanted
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him to get the proof of the Blues Club's activities and proof that it was
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allowed to exist by a number of people holding positions of public trust. And
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I think he had it. Yeah, I've got reason to think that too.
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The morning of the day she was killed, he called me that he
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had something really big and that he was sending you urgent why to come back
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and help you with it. The next thing I knew is the notice of
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his death in the papers. You'll go to ask me if I have that
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proof, mister Stokes. I haven't, but I know the people concern haven't
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got it either. He hid it somewhere, we don't know just where,
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but it must turn up sooner or later. I can only pray that it
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does mister Eating, I came here this morning to ask you to take over
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where mister Williams left off. I'm doing that in any case, of course,
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but I should like you to consider this check as bringing the retainer up
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to date. Who are than Goneth? That's a lot of hay. I
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told you my feedbag is well filled. Here's my card. You can reach
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me at that phone number of address, right, mister Stokes, I'll keep
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you informed. You may believe me, miss Eating when I say that,
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once I get my hands on whatever Williams onearthed, I shall owe the best
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quarters in which to make use of it. Good morning, mister Eaton,
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Good luck, good bye lady. Who was he? He was your brother's
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client, Johnny. Then you know what it's all about. I've got an
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idea, and tonight I'm going to make sure. Tonight I'm paying the Blues
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Club another visit. I got there early. The club was only half full,
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the waiters were looking bored, and after a couple of drinks, I
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donned the dull expression too. I folded a couple of five spots in a
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half, held them prominently in my hand, and signaled the guy who had
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served me. Same again, sir, no, this is a bit slow.
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I'd like to go upstairs. Upstairs, sir, don't kid me.
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A pile of mine told me all about this, John. I want some
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fun, how about it? I'll inquire, sir, if you'll just wait.
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I waited with my fingers crossed and my eye on the entrance in case
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the hefty huntret was tiny. Leaven showed up. Then the waiter was back.
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If you'll follow me, sir. Sure. We went past the vand
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to a doorway next to the kitchen, and up a narrow staircase to an
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iron door at the top. The waiter rapped on the door. Yeah and
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no member, Okay, come on in, No member. What's the name
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Hyde? Jko Hyde? Gosh, you're fifty Dallas entrance fee, mister Hyde.
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Sure, okay, you're in through that door. Help yourself. It
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was a large room, well supplied with gambling tables. It was also well
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supplied with babes. One of them a redheaded, swivel hipped model with the
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latest type chassis. Swayed over your new member. That's right, I'm Anna
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nice Denia. I go over a girl with your Manna, Anna, would
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you like to play? That's what I came for. What can you where's
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a let backer our sherry or dice? Dice is strictly for the proletarians.
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I think I'll have a whol at the wheel, have some more champagne.
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Honey. No, like the man and the song, I get no kick
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from champagne drive one of the other tables. What for? I dropped four
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hundred bucks in the roulette? That makes you think I'll be any luckier the
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other y? You're really down. I don't just sugar right down down.
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Well, you can't get no donna. I went something exciting, something new,
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something with a real lift in it. Maybe I could do something about
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that. Come with me in here, give me two hundred dollars and I'll
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get it for you. Okay, just wait here. I lit a cigarette
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and waited. I thought I was getting closer closer to finding out what Hank
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found out. Then I remembered he'd got killed for it. Here, Honey,
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just two pellets comes high, doesn't it? A hundred becks a pellet?
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That's the real thing. You ought to be grateful. I am,
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baby, and I'm going to demonstrate my gratitude to you. You are a
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sugar huh, Right, this all sorry, Nna, that it's time I
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was going. I wouldn't want you to stop me. I got past the
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gorilla at the iron door with no trouble and walked through the club with my
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gun in my pocket and my fingers cold around the button. Half an hour
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later, I was in my apartment and the two little white pellets were safely
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stowed away. Whether they'd make evidence or not, I wasn't sure. I
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thought i'd ask Lieutenant Jogginson some time, but at last I knew exactly what
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went on at the Blues Club. Good morning, Johnny. Do you always
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get into the office this early? Sure, Helen. When I'm breaking in
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a new secretary, you can't call me, and you I've been working here
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for three days. Now. Did you get anywhere at the Blues Club last
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night? Yep? I got into their private rooms. And you've found out
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a few interesting items. Well, here's another interesting item. This letter and
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package arrived here, addressed to you in Kentucky and forward it. Yes,
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the day after I came here, I ride back, leaving your office as
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my bority address here. Read the letter first, but it's Hank's handwriting.
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Yeah, Helen, this is terribly origined. I wouldn't be bothering you and
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closed as a package. It is vitally important. Please put it in your
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safe deposit till I send for it. Eaton is on his way back from
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Detroit, so I can't send it to him, and I didn't carry it
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around with me. When I get some time, I'll tell you all about
35:06
it. When are you coming over for that holiday? When am I coming
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over to take see? Let's take a look at that package. It's a
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notebook. Hey, what is it? Wait a minute, Wow, I'll
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be wow. It's dynamite. It's loaded. No one they wouldn't stop it
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murder to try and get it back. Well, without looking at it from
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beginning to end, it looks like a record of payments, a record of
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bribery and corruption of people they paid to keep their mouths shut. City hall,
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state politics, the police, and the narcotic squad. Narcotics. Yeah,
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that's one of the adams I found out last night. The blues clubs
35:52
are front for dope pedaling. Honey, This little book will lift the roof
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off the city if it ever hits the price, it'll smash prominent people,
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people in positions of trust, respectable people, say you don't believe it until
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you see it. And now we've got it, Johnny, what are you
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thinking? I'm thinking of using this little book as bait. We might hook
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quite a lot of fish. Isn't that dangerous? Sure it was dangerous for
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Hank. I owed him something for that, and this is paying off time.
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Welcome back. Well, he knows everything, and we're going to get
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the wind up. And these can be pretty interesting. I think we've had
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a couple of them, and usually they can be somewhat manned cap escapades.
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So that's what I'm bracing for next week, and I hope you'll join us
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for next week's episode of The Lady was Lethal? All right? Well,
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