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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Salt City Matter, Parts One and Three (EP1065) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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here's our listening experience. Today, we'll be reading from John c Abbotts the
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Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter? Volume two, which we'll send to us or
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Canadian listeners with the donation of one hundred dollars or more. All right,
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well, today's episode of Johnny Dollar is actually the second of the series that
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have lost episodes in them, so bear with us. Part one is available,
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but part two is missing, So we'll listen to part one and then
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I'll come back and briefly communicate what we're going to hear what we would have
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heard in part two, and then we'll play part three. So here now
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is the Salt City Matter, Part one from Hollywood. It's time now for
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Johnny Dollar. Hello, Johnny, Sam Robin Oh, I don't know.
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It's a feeling I get every time I hear your voice in the phone.
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Sam, Now what does that mean? Well, the last time you called,
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I took a job and had to honk my watch for cable fair in
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Hong Kong. That's what it means. So I bought your new watch,
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didn't I what's in your mind? Ed Julian, Ed Julian, so long,
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Sam, I don't know. Wait, wait minute, Johnny, Jhnny,
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this is important. I need help. If you're fooling around with somebody
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like Ed Julian, you sure do need help. Go call a cop.
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They can't help me. I'm calling you, Johnny, for all time's sake.
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I'll see you after breakfast, Sam, tonight and every weekday night.
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Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account,
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America's Fabulous Prelance Insurance Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar Expense account submitted
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by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Samuel Rubin and Associate's insurance broker's Majestic Building,
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Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the Salt City matter. I didn't know it was going to be that Salt
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city. I mean, but I didn't know the name Ed Julian. Every
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policeman in the country knew that name. My first impulse was to hang up
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the phone on Sam, but I didn't. Instead, I spent eighty five
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cents. That's my first item on camp fare to get me to Sam's office.
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Welcome Johnny, long time no see. Come on in, sit down,
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have a smoke. Sam Rubin looked about the same as I remembered him,
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and he acted about the same. He shook my hand, pushed a
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cigar at me, held up one hundred and sixty dollars letter, and smiled,
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Oh, Johnny, Johnny, I'd like to have you on my permit
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payroll. Now, that'd be something. Are you making me an offer?
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Just talking? No, I suppose I'm just talking. But you're good to
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look at, you know. It gives me confidence, A little outfit like
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I got here I can't afford high price talent like yourself, or a steady
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diet. Why don't you sit down, kid. You'll pardon me, Sam,
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but I don't feel sorry for you. You're right about every kind of
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insurance has ever been issued. Oh well, yeah, it's sure, but
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nothing like those big operations that you're used to. This is all little bit
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of companies. Eh So I make a living a man having his own company
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running it by himself, none of his own companies. So it's ten times
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as much trouble though. Listen, what do you know about Ed Julian Johnny?
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He had quite a name in Chicago and Los Angeles, Hoboken. I
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thought he was in jail these days? Oh, Ed No, got himself
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out of jail. Must have been three four years ago. Sure, went
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in two enterprises in Florida, California. Very legitimate, fellow. Oh,
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I'm sure he is. Let's get to the point, Sam. But you're
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working for me, aren't you. I don't know whether I am or not.
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I haven't heard what it's all about about. It's about Ed Julian,
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that's what it's about. I lay it right out for you. Here.
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Look at this fifty thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars. I gotta pay his
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widow if something happens to him. You'll point me again, Sam, But
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when you collected that first premium on him, and I take it you sold
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him fifty thousand dollars worth of life insurance, you should have thought of this
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part of it. What if something happened to him. No, nothing's happened
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to him. I'm afraid something's gonna happen to him. I'd have to get
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this money up. I'm just gonna listen to you talk because it doesn't seem
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to do much good asking you a question. So go ahead, Sam,
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talk, talk, Maybe something will come up. All right, But Johnny,
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don't be shrewd with me. Huh. Now, the policy was issued
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maybe a month ago. I personally, I personally, I wouldn't tell a
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man like ed Jordian life insurance any kind of insurance. He's not a calculated
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risk. He's allowsy, longsighted bet man like that. The enemies he makes.
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Oh, he's a bad fellow all the way around. But here it
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is, it's on paper. I'm stuck. If anything happens to him.
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Now, Johnny, the man's living in San Francisco now, And all I
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want is you go to and ask him to cancel a policy. Okay,
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Sam, how did you ever get the insurance? But no, no,
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Johnny, please, why didn't you go to San Francisco? Handle? Did
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you? So? I'll tell you why because you know, and I know,
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there's no way from me or you or anybody else to approach at Julian
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and ask him to cancel out this policy. What it a monster? Is
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that you want me to go there and keep an eye on him until you
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can break the policy. Isn't that it not necessarily Johnny? What do you
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mean? Not necessarily? All right? All right, so you're right.
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Listen. I heard through the grape fund there's a large collection of Ed's old
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friends visiting in and around San Francisco just a few days ago. It makes
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me very nervous. I have already a blood pressure to brand on us who
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might want to shoot him down? Yeah, that's the kind of people.
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Yes, fifty thousand dollars payoff would hit me very hard this week? All
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right, next week maybe not so hot. But this week, ooh boy,
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the mark? Are you playing with company funds? No? No,
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it's the calculated risk. I'm entitled to take with company funds they entrust.
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All right, all right, now, will you please sit down and study
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this thing out with me? What I'm always asking you to sit down?
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You never do. I also never study anything with you. Sam. How
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much EARL expenses five hundred dollars bonus by Sam? No, no, wait,
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wait, wait, Johnny is so impatient. I'll make it a thousand,
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thousand dollars bonus. Take care of yourself, say Johnny. Look,
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look, Johnny, all you have to do is keep them alive till I
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break the policy responsibility. My lawyers can do that. They told me to
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take a couple of days. I don't have to do anything, Sam,
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how'd you get that policy? It was in a bundle of stuff came in
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from the coast. Ed Julian took this out under his real name, Eduardosarcavetti.
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No, who knows it's Ed Julia. Skip the gestures and tell me
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how you do know? Well, my broker out in San Francisco, her
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name is I don't know, Strauba Street or something like that. She sold
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it to him. Later on she found out who he really was. She
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sent me a wire, So a thousand's okay? Huh now so how much
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no calcifying That watch you gave me never kept all right, all right,
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all right. Twenty five twenty five hundred expense account Item two one hundred and
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sixty eight dollars and seventy three cents Air Fair and Intinental's Hartford to San Francisco.
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I arrived at eight in the morning. On the way in from the
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airport, the fog began to roll in from the Bay. From my hotel
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room at the Fairmount, I looked out in time to see the provision bars
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moving out toward Alcatraz before the fog closed in completely. Somebody said the storm
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warnings were up all along the coast, and somebody was right. By eleven
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o'clock a light rain had begun to patter over the fog Mound Bay City.
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I had him three twenty three bucks, one trench coat. I was worrying
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it when I spent another buck. I had him for Kevvera, this time
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to get me from San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel to add Julian's address on another part
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of San Francisco's Knob Hill. There, in the drizzling rain, I interviewed
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not ed Julian, but one of San Francisco's older but more stable residents.
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The uniform said he was a member of the Robberty Police. Hey you,
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I just know there's a minute nobody lives there, and I hope your sake,
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boy, you ain't no Jimmy Artist, because I got me a gun
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under this ring, coach. I'm no Jimmy Artist. I'm just trying to
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locate a man named Julian Ed Julian. That's right, let's Sarcovetti lived here.
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Well, according to my records, mister Sharkavetty and mister Julian are the
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same man. Well, he ain't here now. Mood out bagging baggage a
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week ten days ago, whatever name he used. Uh, huh, don't
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suppose you have any idea where he went to you Nope, you're happen to
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see him move yep, and his wife and their clothes left, all their
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furniture, huh, didn't have any to leave. This place was furnished for
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him. They're the kind of people who never owned more than they carry.
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That's the way I have figured him. Fast traveling and short acquaintances. Now,
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I once to a fellow up in King City. You see, Kings
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City's about forty five miles north. Here. That's how the Ed Julian matter
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stood on a rainy morning in San Francisco. Nothing out of the ordinary for
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Red Julian, yet all around me there seemed to be some sort of a
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dark, threatening undertone that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Whatever it
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was, it troubled me standing on in the rain talking to that old man.
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It still troubled me when I made my way back down the hill and
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found to my surprise that the San Francisco Classified telephone directory listed Edward Julian Enterprises
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expense account. I am five ten cents one phone call. Hello, Hello,
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I'd like to talk to mister Julian. Please, he's not in secretaries
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out would you like to leave a message? Well, this is Johnny Dollar
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calling. He doesn't know me for him, why do you expect him back?
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Never? The rain was just starting up again as I stood in front
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of the floor level office at Paul and Hooker. On the door it said
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Edward Julian Enterprises Incorporated. Below it had said walk in. I did at
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all? Who's that? Oh? Oh, who you're looking for Ed Julian.
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He isn't around now. Maybe I can help you. Oh, maybe
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you can. I'd like to know something about his enterprises. Why? Why
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might want to invest some money? Oh? What's funny about that? You
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were the guy who called me a little while ago. Yeah, I called.
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I suppose you're the one I talked to. What's your angle? I
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want to find Julian so die so do a lot of people. What's her
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name? Shahnny Dollar. I'm Ray Gumby, Edge attorney. Come on in
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here, warmer. I followed Ray Gumby to the back office of the two
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office suite, watched him as he stood in front of the gas heater.
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Medium sized man fifty or so, wearing a tan sport coda wolf scarf for
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turtleneck sweater, not exactly the conservative attire usually expected of members of the bar,
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But then he looked happy about it. Yeah, shit down, Dollar,
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Have a drink, thanks, mister Gumby. Yeah, cheers. Now
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you ask about Edge enterprises, Well, I'll tell you right now. They
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aren't much. He has an oil field, a piece of a gambling casina,
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piece of a racetrack, and a part of a ship, and part
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of a smelter works. What does he do? A couple of weeks ago
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he up and unloads it all. I've had a little pool with all this
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weather we've been having. Why do you want to find him to protect him?
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That's cute. Personally, I wish the bum would get pneumonia. He
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left me holding the sack here. How's that? I've won these corporations for
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him and acted as chairman on all the boards, and he sold out from
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under me. Didn't he bother to say goodbye or pay me off? You
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want to find him to then you bet you. I'm sewing for proper fees.
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Think it'll do any good, mister Gumpy, I don't think so,
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I mean as far as getting my money goes. But if I can get
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him subpoena and he ignores the subpoenae, the courtal issue are worn on contempt
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charges and throw his carcass in jail for a while. If he was behind
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the bars and I want to visit him, maybe I could handle him the
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bars between us, of course, of course you want another knocker? No
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thanks? That sounds pretty good. It is getting him in jail. Yeah,
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if I can get him served, It's not gonna be an easy job
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getting those papers into his hands. Two of my regular boys have already tried
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and failed. I'm a fool ever to accept such a man as a client.
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Never do such a thing again. All off, it makes you feel
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any better, mister Grumby. The man I'm working for said practically those same
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words to me in Hartford yesterday. It doesn't make me feel any better.
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I wish it did, and I wish you luck protecting him. Hey,
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mister Gumby, something just occurred to me. Now, what's that? Well?
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No, maybe we could work this out together. You want Julian to
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be served with a subpoene so you can have the police pick him up.
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I want him to be safe, and there's no safer spot in the city
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jail. Hey, where's that subpoenie right here? And there's a fee in
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it if you can get it in his hands two hundred Maybe? All right?
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You say, two of you men have already tried and failed to get
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to him. What happened to them? Been to his place on Knob Hill?
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I was there earlier today. He moved out, I know, but
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my men went up there to serve him. Both of them fell down two
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flights of stairs. Seems like a miss. Maybe it isn't living in such
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high places these days. I hope not for your shake. Dollar. Now
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here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's in triggering up of this week's story.
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Tomorrow, that's when I begin to find a myth can be stranger than
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fiction. Join us, won't you? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly
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Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written by John
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Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join
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us tomorrow night at same time in station for the next exciting episode of Yours
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Truly Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back Well. According to John Abbott,
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who checked the script because the audio is not available, what happened is
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in part two is that Johnny went to Inspector Walsh of San Francisco Police,
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discussed the case and found out that Julian had left town. Then he met
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with Eleanor Stover, who was the insurance agent who sold Julian the policy,
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and she talks about how she met him at a restaurant and he and she
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sold him the policy there, even though he tried to make a pass at
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her in the restaurant and while he had his wife along with him in the
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restaurant. Uh and uh she. She and Johnny have dinner and Eleanor talks
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about Jim Reno, Chili Winters, Lolovich and Pachachi uh from Detroit and Turkey
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Johnson all gangsters and uh she says that it's a really bad situation for Lorraine.
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And Johnny gets a tip from Wade that Julian is somewhere called the Skyline
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Apartments. So Johnny goes over to the apartments and runs into Swifty, who
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is a known hoodlum, and he uh uh he asked about Julian, and
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Luke and Swifty come up and they beat Johnny up and put him in a
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cab and send him to a Turkish bath. And that's how episode two ends.
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And here now is episode three, Assault City Matter from Hollywood. It's
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time now for Johnny Dollar. Yes, the Skyline apartment, Johnny Dollar speaking
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what Maybe you don't remember, may, but I remember you. I was
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there last night and got banged on the head by a pair of hoodlums.
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I know nothing about it and I can't talk now. Well, then you
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can listen. I'm coming over there in about an hour. I hope you
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have two hoods are there When I show up when you tell them that.
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For me, I'll deliver the message if you show that. And every Weekday
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Night Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact.
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Expense account of America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator, Yours, truly Shohnny Dollar expense
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account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar two, Sam Ruben and Associates, Insurance
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Broker's Majestic Building, Hardfred, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expendit
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yours during my investigation of the Salt City matter. Expense account Item eight ten
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dollars medical bill for two stitches in my scalp, Item nine ten cents.
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One more phone call to the prettiest insurance broker in San Francisco. You said
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you'd buy me lunch. Something's come up. I don't care what you say.
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You said you'd meet me, meet me. I had them ten two
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dollars more of that ever loving cab fair This time I kept a cabby waiting
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outside Eleanor Stover's apartment. Johnny, Johnny, Hi, Angel, I didn't
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want to be a witch, but I did want to see you, if
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only for a minute, Come in can't. My CAB's waiting downstairs. What
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happened? Do you? I argue a little bit with two of Ed Julian's
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hired hands. He has a little muscle around him these days. No one
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to worry, Oh Johnny, I feel responsible? Why? Like a big
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dope. I was the one who sold in that insurance policy. Now you
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have to mix into it and try to keep him alive. You look like
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the one who needs to protection you. Well, don't look at it that
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way. If you hadn't sold in the policy, I'd never have come to
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San Francisco and I never have met you, and you wouldn't be here right
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now. I'll call you Lendy Ellie. Yes, John, I didn't tell
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you this part. I'm going to service a penie on him and try to
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get into appear in court. I don't expect you're pay any attention to it.
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And then they less you a warrant for his arrest for contempt of court.
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I figured he'd be as safe in jail as anywhere else. An attorney
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who worked on a few deals with him, a man named Ray Gumby,
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Oh take care. I went back to my cab and told the driver to
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take me to the Skyline apartments, and we pulled up in front. The
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same kind of things were going on in the same lobby. Hello moish,
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Oh, mister swift, let me swifty Swifty. You're in here looking for
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trouble and you're going to get it. I thought you found that out once.
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I sure did, and I sure am. Where's your tall, skinny
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friend he's coming? Hello, Well, have been in the row? Boy
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from a hartbur How many times we have to tell you out of here?
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You've hit your quota. I only get tossed out of one place at one
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time. What floor is Julian on the foot? But that don't get out
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of my way, not so fast. I messed you up all over the
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door. This is a knife, this is a gun. That way,
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Yeah, that thing away, boy. I got two stitches in my scalp
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from you boys last night. I'll always have a little scar from them,
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and somehow I think you should have the same. Under the circumstances, it
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seemed like the honest thing to do. I left both of them in the
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lobby and took the elevator and escorted up to the fourth floor. But I
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was disappointed once more. Ed Julian didn't answer the door, But a small
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blonde girl who looked like she might have been having a good cry, did
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Swifty? What do you want? You're not Swift? Is that Julian here?
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Swift? He didn't let you come up here. You won't let anybody
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up here. How'd you get inside? Why don't you invite me in?
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And I'll tell you all about it? Are you please? All right?
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Why not come on in? Whoever you are, mister, you're taking some
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awful chances. Well, let's say I'm a friend of Ed's. Ed hasn't
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got any friends, and I know all of them. What's your name,
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Johnny Dollar? Where do I find him? I'm Ed's wife. My name's
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Lorraine. I know you. I mean I know a friend of yours.
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All on a strawberry? She said, she went to high school with you
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about ten years ago, a million years ago, at least a million.
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How did you know her? I'm in the insurance business. Do you expect
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that back soon? I don't expect anything anymore. No, what do you
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want to see him about? Business? I'd like to wait for him.
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You got this far, you might as well? What about Swifty and Luke?
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Downstairs? They were glad to see me come up drink or something.
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You ought to take off your hat and cold. It be cold for you
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when you did they do that? Yes, it wasn't too easy getting in
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those dirty punks. Can I can I fix it or something? Doctor just
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tucked two stitches in it. It'll be okay. I'm sorry. You seem
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like a nice guy. Well, you seem like a nice girl. What
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I said, you seem like a nice girl. Nobody said anything like that
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to me since I married it. You aren't supposed to be nice when I
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love somebody like Ed Julian. Well, my job is to protect him from
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who or what. I don't know, but to protect him. I want
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to find him. You won't protect him here. He hasn't been here for
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a couple of days or he How should I know? Worry is, how
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should I know? I'm only his wife, the hired girl. Those others
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came in town, one of us, those from the East ugly man with
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yesterday, no, I guess it was the day before Ed was here with
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one of them, a man named Chili Winters. They sat right there drink
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and talk, then they both went out together. I didn't like the way
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that Chili looked where they go, I don't know. I'll get out of
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here. Johnny, you're't gonna find him here, ever, go on beat
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it. He'll kill me if you found me talking to anybody. Kildy.
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I didn't want that to happen, so I left. No one was in
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the lobby to say hello, fire up, bullet or use a black jack.
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I spent another hour downtown at the Hall of Justice looking up the record
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of Chilling Winters, a list of felonies ranging from armed robbery to assault with
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a deadly weapon. He'd been convicted twice on the latter charge, once in
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Michigan and once in California. It seemed likely that tracing him might prove helpful
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and locating at Julian, but he was not to be located either. About
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three o'clock in the afternoon, after a fruitless day of trying to locate Winters
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or Julian or Bullets, I went back to my hotel room. Oh,
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mister Dollar, mister Dollar, Now, what do you remember me, the
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desk clerk at the Skyline. Yeah, I remember you. I must apologize
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for what happened. I mean, all the trouble you had with mister Swift
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and mister Luke. They didn't handle the matter very well. No, they
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didn't. What's on your mind? Well, I'll be very blunt. Two
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things were on my mind, ed Julian and your problem in locating him.
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I'm just a desk clerk. I need every penny, you know. I
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hope you're sling it away. I took an awful chance here. You'll ask
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for mister Julian twice yesterday you found him neither time. Come on, get
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to it, Widdy. Well, I know you are a thug like those
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others. I mean, I didn't know until missus Julian told me you were
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an insurance man. Well, anyway, I know where mister Julian can be
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found where, and I'd hoped you'd be able to uh here. This is
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all I'm able to now, Worriesy, thank you, mister Dollah. Now,
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I just happened to over here this morning when I was working the switchboard.
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Mister Julian, Well, he's in Salt City, California, the Salt
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City Smelter Company, I believe, one of his enterprises. It seems he
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went there with the mister Winters because there's going to be a kind of a
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big meeting of all of them there, mister Reno and others sometime this week.
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Does that make sense to you, mister Dolla, it might, Yeah,
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all right, you've got your money. Oh yes, thank you,
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mister Dolla. Oh and please please don't mention to anyone that I was here,
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that I disclosed this to you. I'd lose my job if it got
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out. And a local filling station furnished a map of California, which located
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a place called Salt City about three hundred miles away in the desert. I
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decided to ask a man who might know about it, Ray Gumby, attorney,
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a law Oh what I've handled correspondents from there, not on the beaten
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pass. Well, that doesn't tell me much as near as I can gather.
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It's an enterprise town, lock stock and barrel. Did Julian's going over
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there? We'll do't forget all this, at least my part of it.
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Why I don't want you to go that far and trying to get him back
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here. Salt City's real bad news. Yes, sounds like a mister Gumby,
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Let me ask you something. Why are you going this far on this
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case? Sounds like a loser to me. I don't know mister Gummy.
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I don't know, but I've had the feeling ever since that Junion's name was
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first mentioned, that that something was happening, something way off somewhere, but
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so close I could touch it. That's funny, I've had the same fury
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Expencer count autem eleven thirty eight dollars transportation by train, San Francisco to Salt
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City in Return. It was just coming up dawn when the conductor nudged me
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out of a restless sleep and told me the Salt City stop was sixty seconds
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long. I took my bag and stepped off onto the dry, sunbaked clay
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that served as a station platform. Then I looked around and saw a yellow,
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grimy little town stuck along one side of a yellow, grimy little mountain,
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the stacks from an immense smell rising up to the skyline, the smell
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of phosphorus and coca in the air. It had been a bad trip to
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what was obviously a bad place, and naturally enough, bad things began to
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happen right away. Day. Yeah, sure, what Salt City smell of
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works? Know where they are? Oh yeah, I know where they are,
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but I ain't taking you there. What to get your head off of
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my cap. Hey, look, I hain't off the door called the cop.
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You better do like you say? Pah, oh sure smile. You
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ever been here before? No, it's the end of line. I've been
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here twice. Both times I promised myself I'll never come back again. And
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what are you doing here now? Accident? They kicked me off there free.
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I get nightmares about this police. I remember the first cop I ever
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met here in Sault City. While I was spelling my name to him,
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he hit me in the face several times. Ohs by mistake, of course,
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But don't risk any mistakes. Friends. I'm not going to be here
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long. That's good. That's good, that's real good. You know what
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what? Somebody made this dump and and forgot about it, just plain forgot
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about it. I see it. No birds sing, no dog barked,
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no cock crowed, nothing, nothing but that feeling inside of me and something
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saying it's going to happen here. It's going to happen here. Now here's
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our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's story. Tomorrow.
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Well, maybe I was psychic or something, because tomorrow is when that
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feeling that haunch turns into action. Join us, won't you Yours Truly?
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Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in
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Hollywood. Written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
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Be sure to join us tomorrow night at the same time in station for
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the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowlan speaking welcome back.
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Well, we definitely miss some things not having part two here, but
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we'll talk about the episode first. Really on the positive side, you know,
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these last two weeks of serials have not been amongst some of my favorites,
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but it was just it was just this episode I thought was pretty good.
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I particularly like the description part where they really just establish this scene in
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Salt City in a way I thought was just fascinating. One thing that we
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did miss not actually hearing the episode is we don't have any idea of the
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severity of the beating that Johnny took. I happen to know that this is
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one of those cases of script reuse, and it's actually an episode we played
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on the program way way back when, and I know that when there is
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physical violence dispensed on this particular program. The violence was pretty intense, so
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Johnny probably had a cause to be upset and so quite a bit ahead.
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And I love just the mood in the sense of this. This is just
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perfect, wonderful for Johnny Doller. I just wish we had part four to
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actually pay for play for you. All right, Well, now we're off
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to listener comments and feedback, and we have this from Kelly who comments,
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love the show. Always a huge Johnny Dollar fan. But she says,
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you were so right with the Jolly Roger fraud story. Instead of being involved
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in the show, your mind is saying this is so weak and obvious.
34:27
But and definitely hears like that the show has ups and downs. I think
34:30
this is definitely feeling like an up so far. We'll find out on Friday
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how good it is. But Jolly Roger was was definitely down. And she
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says, I'm not sure which is my favorite Johnny Dollar story, and that
34:52
is one. I think. It's tough if you look at the whole series,
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all the episodes we have, they're around seven hundred and sixteen different episodes
35:02
we have, of course haven't played all of them, but that's a lot
35:06
to pick from. And by the time you've reached the ends, you've forgotten
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some of them, probably the ones that really stand out in your mind for
35:16
good reasons. It might be something to consider as candidates. My favorite pre
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Bob Bailey one continues to be the Yankee Pride Matter, and probably my favorite
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one so far of the serial episodes we've done is the Valentine Manner. I
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thought that was a pretty strong episode, followed by the McCormick matter. But
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I'd love to hear from listeners, but your favorites might be. And then
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we have a listener comment from Itune review from al from Ann Arbor. I
35:52
love listening to the shows, Adam's commentary and the old time ads, except
35:58
for the balloon animals. I have a feeling we're going to be hearing about
36:01
the balloon animal thing for time to come. All right, Well, that
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will do it for today, and we will be back tomorrow with the amazing
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Mister Malone. And then join us here on Friday when we'll bring you part
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four in Part five of the Salt City Matter. In the meantime, send
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