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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Bennett Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1029) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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here now is the Bennett Manner from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar
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Andrew Court. Johnny, how'd you like to go to San Francisco? What's
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up? Andy? We've written a lot of insurance for an independent contractor out
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there man named Arnold Bennett. A last night, his latest project went up
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in smoke an office building he completed a month ago. How much is the
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policy worth? There were five companies involved. They took it on at one
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hundred thousand apiece and turned it over to US half a million bucks YEP.
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I talked with the arsenal inspector for National Fire Underwriters in Simrancisco. He said,
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the fire looked phony. I'll pack my things tonight and every weekday night.
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Bob Bailey, in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed
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Expenser cout America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators, truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted
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by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the for State Fire Insurance Corporation, forty sixty
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five Spear Boulevard, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expendit
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yours during my investigation of the Pennett matter. Expense account Item one fifteen dollars
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flowers for my girl. I wasn't able to keep our date. Instead,
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I met for State Fire Investigator Andrew Cord at his office and we made immediate
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arrangements to fly to California. I had him two twenty five dollars and six
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cents one raincoats him three one hundred and forty four dollars and fifteen cents air
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transportation heart for New York, San Francisco, our roots. Andrew Cord filled
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me in on the details concerning Arnold Bennett's Oh, Johnny, is things stand
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now? Bennett hasn't file acclaim yet, although I imagine that'll be coming through
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pretty fast. If I know him, I met him once when he was
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in New York getting money to finance one of his big subdivisions. Yeah,
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seems I've heard of him. Oh he's made time in life a couple of
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times each. Oh yeah, I met him. I said to myself,
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Andy, looked well on this man. He may be the last of his
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kind. Oh, how's that? Al Nnold Bennett must be past sixty now.
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He's been everything in his lifetime. Sailor, soldier, lawyer, financier,
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bootlegger, gun runner, lord knows what all talk fast, worked hard
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and well. He couldn't get one way, he got another. All in
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all, he's done pretty well. It shows all over him. I didn't
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like him, Johnny will go on, go on, Well, maybe I
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was just jealous of his aggressiveness, or maybe it's that I've just heard stories
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of how he ran rough, shot over big and little. Wow about this
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new building of Bennett's it burned down? Yeah, yeah, Well, the
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man in San Francisco is pretty sure the fire was of incendiary origin. What
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can he prove it? Well, that'll be up to him and you and
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me for State and National Fire and the writers are going to handle the investigation.
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Fedro, Great Atlantic and Try State under writers aren't going to send any
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minute at all. They figured it's best not to clutter things up. But
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proving the fire wasn't senty or may not be too easy. Andy, Well,
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we'll see when we get there. There's a standoff motive in the whole
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thing. We can start with that. And what's that Bennett's in financial trouble,
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big trouble. Taxes on the fire wasn't out. I see. Well,
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who's the arson man in San Francisco? Billy Underwood? Oh good,
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good, Bill Hender was one of the best arson men in the business.
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Well, it's going to take all of us to get Bennett. Jellny,
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we'll explit it three ways. We'll let Underwood handle the fire evidence. You
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can play front for us with Bennett and I'll comb around in the financial situation.
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Yeah, well, we sure got our work cut out for us.
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But listen, Andy, you sounds so it is scared of this guy Bennett.
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I am kind of why nobody's ever beat him. Expense account item four
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seven dollars and a half vincent Atle's. Upon arrival in San Francisco, Andy
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Cord and I checked in at the Fairmount and then went downstairs, rented a
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car, and drove out to the scene of the fire. Bill Underwood was
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already there, had been there all day. We all shook hands, and
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then Underwood broke it down. Bill was a bit of a pedant at things
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pretty well organized for us. Oh, it's this way. The watchman on
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duty saw a man lettering in the vicinity of the building when he came to
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work at six o'clock. Three other witnesses remember the same man, A druggist
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billy station attendant on his way home from work, and a newsboy got a
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description. I did mail. Caucasian twenty five to thirty, medium build,
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approximately one to seventeen, dark hair and dark complexion. That's it. I
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have to talk to the police hit. I haven't had a chance, Billy.
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You know they got eight men on this Wow that much of a description.
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It might make it easier, I sure hope. So so far,
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the description hasn't fitted anyone in the files yet. The newsboy swears that he
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saw this man sneak around the side of the building about six o'clock. The
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fire broke out about six thirty. Anybody see him leave? The newsboy says
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he saw him catch a bus on the corner right before the fire broke out.
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Might help us. The bus driver on the line wasn't any help.
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He's pretty busy that time of night. Have we had a chance to go
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over this yet? Well, we started. I'm working with a fire inspector
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on it, and as soon as we come across anything, I'll let you
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know. We can't overlook any possible on this bill any Yeah, I know
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about Bennett. He's been out here asking me who I am, what I'm
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doing. He doesn't like it? Oh he does. Yeah, he learned
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to swear somewhere along the line. Or has he filed claim yet? Oh?
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We haven't heard. It's a professional firing job. I'm sure of it.
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Yeah, sure, Well, I haven't got what I need in the
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way of concrete evidence yet, but I'll find it somewhere in these ashes.
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The place burnt too well and too fast to be anything but professional. It
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was drafted. The fire got hot and going before anybody even spotted. Well,
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this is a little out of my league, Billy, tell me more.
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You see, an amateur will mess it up. Generally, it'll smoke
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a lot, and somebody will spot it. And now a bug, you
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know, an he'll do it as good a job as a professional, but
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he'll stick around and and watch it burn. Stand a good chance of getting
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caught. He might even call up somebody and tell him how happy he is.
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But this bird, when the newsboys saw getting out of here fast,
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well, he sounds like he knows his business. It's business with him.
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Then it'll be my job to connect him and Bennett somehow. And that's the
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tough part. Yeah, all I got to do is play around in the
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ashes. Oh, Johnny, Yeah, watch a step with Bennett. Sure
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he doesn't care about anybody. I spent another two hours with Cordon Underwood covering
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the ruins of the ten story office building that had been gutted the day before.
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Underwood acquainted Court and me with all of the necessary details all he could.
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That night we sat with the three witnesses at a special show up in
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the Hall of Justice. Sixty odd suspects were paraded out. There were no
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identifications. The next morning, while Corton Underwood carried on with their part of
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the investigation, I went on to Arnold and It's real estate office near the
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Presidio. Remember that old saw how a woman in love is always beautiful.
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When I walked in, I had no idea Elizabeth Bennett was in love,
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and no idea that she was beautiful. Her sallow face without makeup, framed
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in a wisp of stringy blonde hair, wasn't flattered by the shapeless black dress
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and low heeled shoes she was wearing. Certainly not the going idea of beauty.
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Now did her conversation reveal anything to indicate love? Yes? May I
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have you, mister Bennett? Please? My name's Dollar, Dollar, dule
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l R. He's not expecting me. Your business, mister Dollar four State
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Fire Insurance Corporation. It's about the fire that destroyed the office building. Oh
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yes, just a moment, please, Well what does it Liz? Mister
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Dollar is here? Uncle Arne. I don't want to see anybody today.
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I told you that, you idiot, mister dollars from four State. It's
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about the fire. Oh well send them in and go out to lunch.
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Yes, sir, it's all right. Mister Donnas, straight ahead. He
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always liked that. He's nice today. Thanks Elizabeth. That's your name,
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isn't it. Yes, I'm Elizabeth Bennett. Go straight ahead. Dollar.
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That's right, mister Bennett. Come in, come in. I'm not going
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to ask you to sit down. I know why you're here. You have
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insurance investigator written all over your face. Oh in that case, we can
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get right down to the business in hand. What caused the fire? I
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don't know yet. It was deliberate what Somebody started that fire, that's what.
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And I know who. Get him and you'll save yourself from work.
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Tony Midas. Tony Midas, who's that the crack pot that's set fire to
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my building. He's out of prison now and he's swore he'd get me.
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Look, maybe you'd better tell me just who he is and why he'd want
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to get you. Tony Midas worked for me once. I caught him stealing
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money, and I prosecuted him. We sent to prison for five years,
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and he's the one you want. You seem pretty certain of that. Of
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course, I'm certain of it. I know what enemies I have, what
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friends don't tell me. I'm going to have to pussy it around with someone
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like you and get any place in this whole affair. Well, there are
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some witnesses who got to look at the man who started the fire. At
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least it's a good bet he's the one more after So tell me what does
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this Tony Midas look like. I don't remember I hardly ever remember faces.
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But you remembered his threat. You bet your last nickel. I remember his
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threat, and he's the kind of screwy punk to carry it out. Last
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week it was a small story in the newspaper that he was being released from
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prison. Now I will certainly look him up and I have a talk with
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him. That's very good of you, I'm sure. Oh. Now,
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look, this can be a very difficult thing all the way around, or
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we can all cooperate, mister Bennett. I'll cooperate. I know why you're
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in town. I know who you came with. I met that glorified fire
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inspector yesterday Underwood. You people don't fool me, and I'm not trying to
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fool you. Get Tony Midas and you've got your man. Did you tell
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the police about Midas? No, I was waiting for some bird like you
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to walk in here with your high handed attitude. Now I've told you.
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Now you can get out and get busy. Look him. Arnold Bennett lived
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up to all of his advanced notices. And then so I'm paid very well
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to stand and take what i have to to find out what I want to
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find out. Sometimes it's not enough money. A review of the trial on
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proceedings in which Tony Midas had been convicted of grand theft his threats at the
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time of his trial substantiated Bennett's information. That didn't surprise me. What did
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surprise me was that one of the three witnesses identified Tony Midas's mug pictures the
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man seen in the vicinity of the building. The night of the fire,
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an APV went out for Midas, the San Francisco police began to turn the
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town upside down looking for him. By five o'clock in the afternoon, the
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other two witnesses had made up their minds that he was the man they had
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seen After all, the case against Midas became stronger, it was imperative that
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he'd relocated. Johnny Dollar. This is Elizabeth Bennett. Mister Dollar, remember
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in my uncle's office. I remember, mister Dollar. You're looking for Tony
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Mitis, aren't you. You don't have to answer. I know you are.
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I think I can help you find him, but he's not the one
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you're looking for. Look if you turn him in, let me finish and
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then we'll talk about him. I live at ten thirty eight Mirada Drive.
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I'll be home in an hour. We can talk there. Two minutes later,
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when I was putting on my coat, I received another phone call,
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this one from Bennett' lawyer. He advised me that Arnold Bennett of file claim
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it would bring suit if his claim was not honored in the prescribed length of
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time. I thanked him for the information and went downstairs. Began to look
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around for care a police card. Kareem did the driveway, and a familiar
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hat on top of a familiar head leaned out, Hey, Johnny, No,
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yeah, any cord I still left it all. I'll ben okay inspector
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truck Inspector Kane, Hi, what's up? Somebody shot Arnold Bennett ten minutes
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ago Dollar Building Underwood. Johnny, they're trying to get you all over town.
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Hotel said to call you at this skyline number. I'm out of Donald
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Bennet's house. He's been shot. What who shot him? You don't know
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yet. I'm a transfusion here before they take him to the hospital. Look,
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Johnny, I got something to show you, now what some ashes we
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just analyzed the Bennett Building was fired by a pro you sell you, Lloyd,
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and a wick made out of paraffin. I can prove it. I
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hope Bennett lives to hear that. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
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to the Ford State Fire Insurance Corporation, forty six sixty five Spear Boulevard,
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Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the Bennett Arson fraud. Arnold Bennett was removed to the hospital where he was
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given a fifty to fifty chance of recovering from a thirty eight slug that had
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entered his chest. There was no weapon lying about and no witnesses in the
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remote hilly section of San Francisco where he lived to give any information concerning the
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attempted murder. The police were more anxious than ever to find Tony Midas,
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the man Bennett had put the finger on earlier. The reasoning was that if
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he could burn down a building worth half a million to get back at Arnold
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Bennett, he also might shoot him. I told Andy Cord about Underwood's findings
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when the police car got us to the scene of the shooting. So you
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Lloyd and Tariff and Wick, did you say, Yeah, that's what Bill
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Underwood said on the phone. Well, then it would point away from Tony
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Midas. He was an embezzler, not an arsonist. Maybe he was that
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policeman over there. Oh, that's inspected Dicken. Well. I talked to
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him about it for a while. He said, lived in sam Quentin with
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a man named Hanley, a professional burnner. Yeah. Well Hanley could have
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taught Midas a few tracks of the trade. Yeah, it's possible, Joy,
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I don't know, at least none of it is sure that he can
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prove it head and incendiary origin. Well, that's the first hurdle. Maybe
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we can't tie it to Bennett, that Johnny. If Midas did it,
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let's wait and see what Bennett has to say when he can talk. I
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think I'll get on over to the hospital. Okay, Oh, here's something
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that came up. Yeah, you said Bennett attributed everything to this Tony Midas,
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and there might have been something personal in it too. Midas is married
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to Bennett's niece, Elizabeth. He's what. Yeah, she married him a
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month before he was convicted. Well, that might explain some things. Yeah.
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She called me tonight and said she had some information for me about Midas.
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I was on my way to see her when this happened. Oh,
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you haven't talked to her yet. No. No, let's see, there's
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ten thirty eight Marada Drive. What if that's far from here. No,
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Johnny, not far at all. This happens to be ten thirty eight right
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here. Oh, we'd better tell the police about her, Andy. Andy
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Cord went on over to the hospital to await results in Arnold Bennett. I
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spoke to the inspector in charge and told him the information about Elizabeth Bennett.
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The police added the name to the apbe already out for Tony Midas, and
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that's the way the case stood at midnight. By morning, the hospital reported
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that Arnold Bennett would recover from the gunshot wound. Elizabeth Bennett had not been
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located, nor had her husband, Tony Midas. I always fixed my own
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dinner, poached egg in half and half ulcers. Name's Dollar, Yeah,
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that's right, insurance investigator. You want something to you? Coffee? Maybe?
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No, thanks, mister Engle? Nine to five? Finish, go
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right hand? What led you to me the notations about the trial? Mister
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Engle, you were the defense attorney for Tony Midas or anxious to talk to
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him? I defended him. I don't think I am going to be much
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help Dollar. I haven't seen him since he got out of No idea what
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he is. We'll find him, mister Ingle. And what's it all about?
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Well, Tony Midas has been identified as the man who started a fire
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in the Bennett building, or at least I was seen in the vicinity of
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the building when I went up. I'm sorry to hear that, are you,
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mister Ingle. Tony Midas was a nice kid who got in a little
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trouble. Everything was against him at the trial. Bennett poured it on.
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He didn't have to, but he did. He could have let him off.
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You are Midas's lawyer. Did you try to talk Bennett int to Letty
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Minosoft. No, I didn't. Nobody talks Arnold Bennett into anything. Oh,
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Tony never would admit taking the funds. He said he was framed,
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but he didn't have a prayer with all the evidence against him. Yeah.
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I read a transcript of the trim. Then you know, Tony Midas pleaded
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not guilty in the face of everything, and he went up. I wanted
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him to make a guilty please in rest on the mercy of the court.
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It was his first offense while he's now and it looks like he's trying to
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get even with Bennett for prosecuting him. All full lowsy ten grand. Yeah,
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did you ever get in touch with you? I told you no,
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no phone call. No. Do you have any idea where he'd be in
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tom mister, No, I don't. Okay, Then I guess I leave
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you to your eggs dollar. Yeah. If if you find Tony Midas,
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I'd like to know about it. Why, mister Engle, just curious.
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I'd like to see him. I'd like to see what five years in prison
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does to a kid like that, mister Engle. Arnold Bennett was shot in
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his home last night. No, that's all you have to say. What
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else is there to say? You could have danced? Is he alive or
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is he dead? For one thing? Suppose I don't care. Okay,
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he's still alive. I think he'll pull through. Who do you think shot
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him, mister Engle, I don't know. They're looking for Tony Midas for
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that too. Did you know Bennett's niece Elizabeth As? I meant, well,
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I'm looking for her too. She's married to Tony Midas. Yes,
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because I knew. I knew about that. It's an I'm asterringle. What
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is this going to be? An inquisition? That egg and a half and
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a half doesn't interest you no matter how much you look at it. Will
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you want to leave me alone and go find your fire bug? Come on,
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let's have the story. I don't know any story to tell you.
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Was it spite that sent Tony Midas to prison because of him and Elizabeth Bennett?
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No? No, they proved him a thief. I'll throw one more
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thing at you. Angel Bennett wasn't always too good about paying his taxes.
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Our accounting man has him pegged him for exactly what he is? An opportunist,
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a dodger, a man out to get what he can for as little
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as he can, no matter what. Yeah, we cover everything in a
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case like this. You'll never get Arnold Bennett. He's too good for you,
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Dollar, too good for your insurance company, your fire investigators, everybody,
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no man stronger ever lived. We've already got evidence that proves the building
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was fired. I'm here to get all the story, and I think you're
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the man who can tell it. Why me, because you work for him.
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I never worked for him never. All right, we'll let that go
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for now. But you can tell me this was Tony Midas, the kind
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of man who'd start that fire. You can tell me if he really wasn't
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embezzler. You can tell me if he tried to kill Arnold Bennett. I
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can't tell you anything for a fact, Dollar, All I have is my
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own personal opinion. Well that's what I want. I want that. I'd
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like your opinion. Now, there's something about Bennett's niece being married to Midas,
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isn't there a wife can't testify against her husband. Everyone else in Bennett's
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off is testified against Midas. She didn't I see now the opinion. Oh,
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come on, Angel, come on, you're right, Dollar, I
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have got ideas. All of them make me sick inside. Tony Midas stood
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there and told me he was innocent. He said it a million times if
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he said at once, he said he thought Bennett was framing him to cover
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up for income tax shortages. It's just surmise, but it fits. Midas
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was a green kid hired into the company by Bennett. He might have been
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hired to be framed on a phony embezzling charge that had give Bennett a good
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excuse on his taxes for a while. I've I've been fooled a lot of
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times, Tony Midas, fool you, I don't know. I wish I
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could have gotten him off. I tried, Dollar, Believe me, I
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tried to get him off. You come here to me and say he's out
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of prison now and getting even he's burnt down a building and tried to murder
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Arnold Bennett. Tony was a nice boy, Dollar, but now his whole
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life's gone. And for what. I hope you don't find him or her.
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I hope they go far away and stay away and don't have to talk
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to anybody ever. They deserve that. I hope nobody ever finds him.
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But we did find Tony Midas. He was right under our noses all the
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time. When I got back to the hotel, there was a message for
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me to get down to the County Hospital. Cord was waiting for me there.
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They took us downstairs and then we were both standing in a room looking
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at Tony Midas before they took him across the hall to the Morgue. Funny
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thing, Johnny, there's been an alarm out on this guy for thirty six
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hours. Everybody's been looking everywhere for him, and he turns up right here.
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Only he's dead. Yeah, what killed him? T B. He
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had it awful bat in the same Quentin. It's in the sick ward his
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last two years. When his time was up last week he made them release
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him, but he wound up here and died in his hospital. It's rough,
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just a kid. Yeah. Up until that time there had been some
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kind of a case against Tony Midas, but obviously since he had been dead
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almost two days, it was impossible to connect him with the attempt on Arnold
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Bennett's life and the firing of the building. So we were right back where
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we started from, trying to make a case against Arnold Bennett's who was still
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lay in his hospital room and refused to talk to anybody who came near him.
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All right, Johnny, know what, Ben, It's gonna be hard.
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We're gonna have to work around him. His niece is the best opening
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I can think of. Worry is she? Police haven't located, not a
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trace. Andy, she had some information for me when she called last night.
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I still want to get it if we got a break. George Foley's
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in town. Who's that best city lord and wickman in the country. If
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you happen to want a building burned down? One of the policemen at the
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hospital spotted him in the lobby trying to see Arnold Bennett. I a tired
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Johnny. Where is he now? They followed him to an address on Barrango
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Street. They aren't going to move in until we decide something. Twelve minutes
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later, Andy Court, Bill Underwood and I were standing in front of a
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decrepit looking boarding house on Barrengo Street talking to the three policemen from the San
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Francisco Police Department. Dollar Underwood, Aye, she wants the story of well
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the way we see it. Foley still trying to get part of his money
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for burning the building. He took a chance coming to the hospital tonight to
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see Bennett. No kidding, he'll probably make another try. You boys have
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more at stake here than anybody. If you want to talk to him,
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try to make a deal with him to turn on Bennett. How's the time?
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What do you say, Johnny? O, Wait a minute. We
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aren't sure of anything about him. Oh he fills the bill, Johnny,
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Paraffin and Wick jobs are few and far between, but nothing more than that.
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I'd stake my rep on fully being our boy for what it's worth.
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All three witnesses now pick his picture instead of Midas. Oh a good defense
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attorney. Get that thrown right out. What do you want to do?
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Oh well, let's shake him up a bit. Okay, go ahead,
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we'll be covering the back in front. Come on, we know he's in
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the Johnny, let's bust out. No wait, watchohn Eddie, all right,
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all right enough, that's enough, joky Bill Hendie, Yeah, all
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right, it's a boy. Good on your feet. Let's get out of
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here. H Now, here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode
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of this week's story. Tomorrow, we have an arsonist right in the palm
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of our hands with very surprising results. Join us, won't you Yours Truly?
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Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed
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in Hollywood, written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack
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Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and station for
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the next exciting episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Roy Rowan
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speaking Welcome back. It's definitely kind of different to see Johnny Doller as part
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of some big team. It's not unheard of to have a larger team than
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just Johnny on the scene, but it's kind of unusual for this series.
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And also, you know, I think we've heard Johnny say several times it's
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not his job to find a way to avoid paying off on acclaim sub Skeptics
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of insurance companies might say, you know, this would kind of prove otherwise,
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But in this case, they're dealing with a crafty operator and they've just
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they're down one red herring. But it's a question now if they can tie
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the firebug back to mister Bennett. Of course they We've got three more episodes
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to wrap this up on and we'll bring them to you on Wednesday. All
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right, Well, we will go ahead and announce before we get into the
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listener or comments, We'll go ahead and announce the show that we'll take Johnny
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Dollar's place on Mondays once we finished the five part Dollar serials. When we
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finish that, we'll go back to Johnny Dollar just being on Fridays and it
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will be replaced on Monday and Wednesday. And the show that will replace Johnny
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Dollar on Monday is Pursuit, a CBS series that featured Inspector Peter Black of
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Scotland Yard. The series starred at different times, Ted de Courcia and Ben
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Right. Following that series, we'll bring you The Saint with most of those
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episodes featuring the Great Vincent Price. So coming up in our next season,
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look for Pursuit and The Saint coming to Mondays. All right, Well,
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continue on with listener comments and feedback. And I received a comment from the
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McLean on the McLean matter from Christine, who writes, I just listened to
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part five. The episode was brilliant, even though part three was missing.
33:46
I felt like we got the whole story so well acted by every player,
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and the story itself was excellent. Maybe I find it particularly interesting because I
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work for Life insurance company. In any case, it was right. Thanks
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for bringing it well. Thank you so much, Christine, and I apologies
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the listeners who had difficulties with the downloads on the mcclan matter, but with
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idiot that fixed so you can redownload that. We have one listener comment on
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iTunes, Galactic Pea Rots. I remember listening to this show on the big
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broadcast on w AM you when I lived in the DC metro area. I'm
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so grateful to have these episodes available as a podcasts so I can listen to
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them at my leisure. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I
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hope you're able to upload re upload the old episodes which have disappeared, presumably
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to a space limitation issue with iTunes. Thanks so much, Galactic p.
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And that's referring to the Johnny Doll yours truly Johnny Dollar episode feed and Johnny
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Dollar is actually and maybe along Sherlock Holmes, because there were some video theater
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episodes thrown in with two years of programming, but most of the shows.
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We have one hundred and ninety nine shows. Is our maximum feed size any
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more than that? And it starts, and it starts dropping episodes, So
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Johnny dollars above two hundred episodes, particularly since we've been doing three episodes a
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week, and unfortunately there's no way to add them back in other than to
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rerun previous programs. However, you can go to archives Great Detectives dot net
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and download any shows that have fallen off onto your onto your mobile device,
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or just onto your computer. And yeah, it would probably not be advisable
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to wait for us to upload again because yeah, we'd have to rerun the
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episodes. And as of this recording, we're kind of in the middle of
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the EDM and O'Brien episodes as to availability, So if you're interested in downloading
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old episodes off the feed, probably the best good idea to download as quickly
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as possible. And then we have this comment from Denise love the shows,
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but could you save the commentary till the end? Well, I definitely appreciate
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the viewpoint, and usually commentary doesn't go on long at the beginning. Oftentimes
36:38
actual speaking is a minute or last, certainly not today as we're introducing the
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listener support campaign. But we try and keep it short and save most of
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so hope listeners appreciate that. And you know, if you want to
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fast forward, just fast forward ahead. But sometimes there's something there you'll want
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to listen to as well. So uh again, listener choice always the best
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thing. Okay, well, that will do it for today. We'll be
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