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Agent Matter Parts three and four from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar.
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This is a hotel operator, ready with your call, mister Dollar.
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Oh good, Police Department. I want to talk to somebody in the personnel
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Division. Sorry, I haven't got one. What can I do for you?
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I want to get some information about a gun, find out who it
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was licensed to and so on. Come down to Licensing Division. I think
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we can help you there. Where is that twenty City Hall? Do you
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have the weapon? Yes? Be sure and bring it along with You Tonight
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and Every Weekday Night Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the
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Action Pact. Expenser out America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator US Truley Johnny Dollar Expense
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accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar too Special Investigator Johnny Dollar for personal reasons.
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Location, Vicksburg, Virginia, purpose well. It all started as an
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investigation of a burglary at the Plantation Hotel that was out of the way.
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I happened to run across a girl having an argument with a man in the
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hotel parking lot. She asked me to help her. I did. Girl
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suddenly gets sick and dies poison. I stay around to help find out who
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she is. I don't know that, but I do know that she had
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a thirty eight in her purse three bullets recently fired expense account. I to
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my two dollars camp fare from the Plantation Hotel the two miles into Vicksburg City
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Hall in Room two twenty, as per instructions of Sergeant Peter's I felt more
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than a little guilty by passing Lieutenant Jim Aikins, who had questioned me earlier
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about the case. Yes, Sergeant Peter's that's right. Going to help you,
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sir, I hope so like to know if this gun has been registered
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with you people you always have a look you just buy it? Uh?
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Yeah, got your bill to sail with you? What do you have to
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have one? You should? Who'd you buy it from? Oh that's all
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I met in a bar. Have you a permit to carry this weapon?
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Well? No, I haven't you going to carry it? Oh? No?
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No? Then why did you buy it? Oh? Just wanted it,
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that's ALLID Is there a law against there? No, no, that
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there's a law against practically every other thing about a gun. You you want
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to read those numbers oft to me? Sure? J JJ dash four seven,
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six, nine nine, and then there's an X okay make coat caliber
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thirty eight automatic seven shot. Yeah. Here, you'll have to fill this
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out. Pencils over there. This will take a minute for me to check
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it took fifteen minutes. In the meantime, I filled out the form which
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notified the Vicksburg Police that I was in possession of the above describe weapon,
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that I did not wish to apply for a permit to carry it, and
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so forth and so forth. After that I stood around and smoked a cigarette
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and wondered if I should step downstairs and tell Lieutenant Jimmy Akens that I had
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found Jane Doe's purse and the gun. But before I had time to make
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up my mind, here they go. The gun was purchased in nineteen fifty
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by the Piedmont Banking Service. That's a local armored truck outfit over on Maple
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Street. The gun was permitted for carrying to Raymond W. O'Connell, two
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thirty two Polk Street. This city, nice, Raymond O'Connell. Yeah,
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anything else, that's all. Thanks. That was when I could have,
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but didn't walk downstairs to Lieutenant Agan's office. Instead, I walked outside with
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a gun in my pocket on the slip of paper containing the name and address
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of the man who had carried it, Raymond O'Connell. Expense account item nine
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twenty five dollars deposit on a rented car to get me to two thirty two
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Polk Street. Oh, Paul, down, you're early. I'm hardly ready.
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Hello. Oh, I was expecting someone else. I'm so sorry you're
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not Paul, are you? I'm afraid not. My name is Johnny Dollar.
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Oh, mister Dollar. That's right. Well, what can I do
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for you, mister Dollar? I'm looking for Raymond O'Connell. Ray, Yes,
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coming inside, mister Dollar. Thank you. I really didn't mean to
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throw myself at you at the door. I thought you were someone else I'm
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expecting. Ah, I'm Terry, Terry, Teresa carry O'Connell. Mister Dollar.
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Oh, his wife, I'm Ray's widow. What raised dead? Mister
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Dollar passed away or a year ago? It was pneumonia. Oh, I'm
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sorry, missus O'Connor. Please call me Terry. You had no way of
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knowing about him, I'm sure, and please don't be uncomfortable. A great
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many of Ray's friends from the Service come by who have no idea that he's
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dead. Were you and his company too? Oh? Just a men of
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missus O'Connell. You had so many friends and met so many people while I
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was in the service, and really there was no way for you to not
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understand. Missus O'Connell, I never know to drink and we'll talk. Where
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did you serve with Ray? You know, he finally became a pilot.
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Would you like to drink? She was young and dark and very pretty,
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and as the widow of a man who died rather suddenly. She was doing
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her best to put me at my ease. I would have told her I
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was there checking out the registration on a thirty eighth that have been used by
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her dead husband. I would have told her. I found a gun in
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the purse of an unidentified dead girl I'd met the night before. But she
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was trying to be polite, mistaking me for a friend of her dead husband.
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And I saw the picture in the frame of the mantel, a broad,
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smiling face that belonged to a man I've met in the parking lot of
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the Plantation Hotel, an unidentified man who had been arguing with the dead girl.
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The words on the picture said to Terry, all my love. You
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know him Paul. Paul, Yes, Paul dmmon. I think I met
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him once. I really didn't know his name. Was he a friend of
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your husband of race? No? No, he never knew Ray. He's
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a dollar, mister, Paul, is a real dollar. After Ray died,
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I tried something very foolish. I tried to end my life and then
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Paul came into it. He's been very lovely to me. We're well.
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I don't know why. I shouldn't tell you we're going to be married.
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I think that's fine, Terry. Do you really sure? I'm glad you
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say that. I'm not the most courageous person in the world. I suppose
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Ray mentioned our lives together. It was perfect with Ray, mister Dawler,
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perfect. But now Ray's gone, and I've been able to face that.
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I think I'm going to find a new life with Paul. You must meet
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him. He'll be here soon. We're dining out to night. Perhaps you
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will join us. Well, thank you, mister o Connor, but I
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can't make it to night. How long will you be in Vicksburg? I
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don't know exactly where are you're staying the Plantation Hotel? Or perhaps I could
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give you a ring and we could make it another night. I know you
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won't talk about Ray. Of course Paul understands. I'm sure he does.
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He's truly a wonderful person. He hadn't looked very wonderful the night before,
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standing in the parking lot arguing with a girl who had died. But then
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that was my side of the picture. I wasn't complete, and somebody still
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had to explain the thirty eight of the three bullets missing I left Terry O'Connell,
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went outside and bought an evening paper, and then sat in my rented
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car reading it. The photographer at the morgue had done a good job.
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The unidentified girl's picture was on page one. I was reading the story over
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a second time when a dark business coupe pulled up behind me, and Paul
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Damren got out, heading for Terry O'Connell's doorway. Just a minute, just
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a minute, Oh Paul, what you? Yeah? Me and I love
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Damren? What are you doing here? How'd you know my name? Or
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are you some professional gun soul coming around to sock me again? I still
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don't stop it with you, Dammar. And my name's Johnny Dollar. I
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want you to tell me who that girl was last night in the parking lot,
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the one you had the big argument with. Eh. Oh, well
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you were the big hero there butting in where it was none of your business.
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I didn't like it then, night, right, simmred down, Well
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you who was she? Come on? What's her name to you? Okay,
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okay, it's Amy, Amy Durant, Amy Durant. Yeah, we
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work at the same office. Now, look, Buster, I'm not afraid
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of you, but I I don't want any trouble. See, So if
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you'll just go somewhere else in with you, how does Amy Duran tying with
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Teresa O'Connell. Look, I don't know who you are, what you're after,
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but you've certainly got your nerve of answering me. Pukay okay, Terry's
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Amy's sister satisfied. I don't know who are you anyhow, A policeman or
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something. My name is Johnny Dollar. I'm here because because if you aren't,
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I want to know what right you have to ask me all these questions?
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Cool off, will you? I've been trying to find out who she
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is because last night, after you went off, we had a drink together.
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Then she got sick and I took her to a hospital. She died
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there. She died. She's lying in the morgue right now, unidentified.
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It was some kind of poison that killed her. Amy dead. No,
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I don't believe it. It's in the paper the nights. The police are
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trying to identify her right now. I can't believe it. Poison, Oh
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Dollar, I didn't think Amy was that desperate. There was a way out.
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She could have solved it without this way out of what. There was
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no need for her to do this. I told her I'd help her.
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I had no ideas she poison to Terry. No, not yet. I've
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got to tell her before she sees it like this in the newspaper. It'll
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be awful for a dollar awful. But I apologize for the way I acted
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the way I was last night. I was upset. I can see now
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you're trying to help. Now, let me go in and break this to
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Terry. Call me later here my card, call me. I had to
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admit that Paul Dammeran's concern seemed as genuine as a surprise, he rushed up
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to be admitted to the O'Connell house. After he was inside the door,
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I went back to my car and took out the thirty eight automatic that had
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led me to the sister of Amy O'Connell. Three bullets still missing. I
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drove downtown to the Vicksburg Police station to turn the gun into Lieutenant Agins and
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tell him the whole story as I know it, how I'd found the gun
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and the dead girl's purse, how I'd managed to find out a name,
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The three missing bullets, and other unanswered questions were up to the police.
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Yeah. Well, oh, hi, Dolla, I thought you'd left town.
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Joel. All right, Joe. Soon as they cleared that place up,
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you notify the lad lieutenant. I'm trying to get to you. I
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think I have something that better be looked into excuously. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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Well in about fifteen minutes. Right, I'm sorry, Dolla. What
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was't you was saying? Why all the hustles? Something big? A homicide
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happened yesterday summertime? Yeah? Who got it? A guy named Belden?
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Somebody shot him three times with a thirty eight Johnny Dollar. This is mister
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Oldfield calling sir. You left word at my office, mister Dollar. That's
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right, mister Oldfield. I think I'm gonna need an attorney divor civil suit.
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What mister Dollar withholding evidence murder? Let's take the murder first. Who
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did it? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I have the murder
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weapon in my possession right now. Who was kidding? A man named Beldon?
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I think, what do you want me to do? So? Take
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my statement, notarize it, give me some legal advice. Police station and
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the paybooths down the hall of the homicide. I'll meet you there in five
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minutes. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Vicksburg, Virginia
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to Special Investigator Johnny Dollar for personal reasons, Attention Chief account in Eastern Seaboard
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Casualty Insurance Corporation, Providence, Rhode Island. Did Jim, I'm attaching my
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own expense sheet to your bill for clarification purposes. Expense account item ten ten
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cents one cup of coffee at the counter and the lobby of the Vicksburg Police
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Station. While I waited for Samuel W. Oldfield, Attorney at law,
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to appear, he was there in exactly five minutes. That's right, Samlfield,
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You're the only one here in the lobby, so I figured you were
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the right man. Yeah, cup of coffee, mister Oldfield, who saying
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excuse me a hot burn? Now that was a pretty interesting phone call.
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Tell me who are you, sir, Johnny Dollar. I'm a private insurance
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investigator. How'd you get my name? I looked it up in the yellow
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pages of the telephone directory. You don't live here in Vigsboo, No,
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I'm from Hertford, Connecticut. All right, sir, Now tell me about
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the murder and the withholding of information. Maybe I better start from the top.
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Go right ahead anyway, life. Well, two days ago I flew
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down here to investigate a small burglary at the Plantation Hotel. It was already
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solved by the time my plane got in. Police. Yeah, I had
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nothing better to do, so I waited around the hotel bar for my return
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reservation back to Hartford, and then I happen to walk outside of the parking
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lot for a breath of fresh air. I saw a woman and a man
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standing there arguing. When I got close to them, the woman asked me
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to help her. I did, how do you mean? Well, the
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man she was with started to act like a kid. He got rough,
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so I shoved him away. Go on. Well, the woman was upset,
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so I took her inside the hotel and bought her a drink. After
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that, I put her in a cab and started to send her on her
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way. She started to w act sick about that. Wait, is this
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the woman whose picture was in the paper tonight, the one who died and
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the police don't know who she is? Yeah? I don't know who she
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is, mister Oldfield accepted her name's Amy Duran. I found out her name
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because I found her person. There was a gun in it, a thirty
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eight Colt registered to a man named O'Connell. I checked on the gun here
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at headquarters, went out to the address and found out O'Connell was a bank
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guard and it died about a year ago. I talked to his wife,
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Teresa O'Connell. While I was there. The man i'd seen the night before
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showed up. His name's Paul Damren. I didn't tell him or missus O'Connell
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about the gun. I came down here to give it to the police and
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tell them. But when I got here, Lieutenant Aikins was pretty busy trying
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to solve the murder of a man named Belden who had been shot with a
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thirty eight three times. There are three slugs missing from the gun. I
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found. You gotta lights it? Yeah, here you go. When you
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were found, Amy Durant's persh, why didn't you turn it over to the
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police? Oh? I thought, I Well, somehow I thought maybe I
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could help the girl. I mean, her last words before she died were
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helped me, and for some reason or other, I thought maybe I could.
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Do you have any cards or letters, anything like that, something that
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says you're what you say you are. Yeah, sure, let's see.
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Okay, dull, Now, as I see it, you probably hooked up
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with someone who did some shooting, and that's what worries. I want you
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to take my statement and notarize it before I turn the gun in. That'll
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protect you some. If they want to get nasty, they can though,
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you know that, yeah, I know, well, as I see it.
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The main job here is to try to keep you out of trouble,
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and the statement explaining your motive for participation in the whole affair might help.
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That's why I caught you, all right, did not well, yeah,
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you didn't shoot anybody to do No, okay, let's go over to my
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house. We did, and I made a necessary statement and mister Oldfield notarized
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it. After that, I went back to the Vicksburg Police station to talk
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to Lieutenant Aikins. The thirty eight i'd found in Navy Durant's first was still
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in my pocket and her words were still in my mind. Help me,
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please help me. Thought you were going back to heart for dolla. Oh.
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I decided to hang around and see what came up. Nothing so far,
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and the girl no one's recognized. The picture in the paper. Had
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to turn that over the missing persons. This murder case going to eat up
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all my time. What happened? Lieutenant oh Made at the department house where
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this man bellt And was staying, found him late this afternoon. He'd been
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dead about twenty four hours, shot with a thirty eight. I'm sure we
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did a post mortem right away. It's pretty set case. You uh,
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you know who shut him? Have a pretty good idea. See this Belden,
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He was an order to work on some books at the firm of textile
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wholesalers here, Richmond Limited. The paper scattered around in his apartment show he'd
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found a ten thousand dollars shortage going over their books. And the chief accountant
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for this Richmond company is missing. Yeah, well that does make it seem
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pretty clean that all we have to do is find that accountant. Had an
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app out for half an hour, and now I think we'll pick her up
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pretty soon. Her who, well, her dollar the chief accountant for Richmond
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Limited. She's a woman name of Amy dran To all appearances, Amy Durant
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had been guilty of embezzling money and murdering The order to Belden, who discovered
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the shortages in her books. I didn't tell Against that his suspect was the
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girl lying in the morgue at the moment unidentified. I knew that it was
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only a matter of minutes before her sister or Paul Damaran would be down to
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identify her. And for the third time, I didn't tell Lieutenant Agans about
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the gun. I know if I turned that over to him, it would
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be a close case all around, and somehow I didn't want it closed on
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Amy Duran, not that way. For that reason, I went back to
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my hotel room for a couple of hours, and then about nine o'clock that
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night, I found myself over on Polk Street at Teresa O'Connell's house once more.
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Oh hello, missus O'Connell. Oh, mister Dalla, Yes, oh
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mister Dolla. I had the most awful news tonight, My sister Amy,
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she's dead. You'll have to excuse me. May I come in. I'd
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like to talk to you about your sister, Missus O'Connell. Well, Paul
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came in with tonight's paper, showed me Amy's picture. He went down in
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the moug to identify I couldn't bear too sure. I feel somehow, in
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some way that you're a friend, mister dollar. Missus O'Connell, I am
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a friend in a way, but mostly I'm an insurance investigator. You thought
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I was a friend of your dead husband when I came here earlier. I'm
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not. I never even knew him. But mister Dolla, I don't understand.
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I met your sister Amy last night. I was the last one to
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speak to her before she died. I took her to the emergency hospital last
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night. Oh wait, wait, this is all very confusing, you say,
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your insurance investigator. Yes, now, when well, I got your
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address from a gun I found in your sister's purse. I traced it through
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the license to carry this kind of Missus O'Connell, your husband was licensed to
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carry when he worked for a banking firm. Do you recognize him? Oh
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yes, I suppose I do. Think it's one of Ray's guns. Please
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please let me find something out first. Believe me, I do want to
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help. Did you know your sister had this gun? Oh? No?
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What what would Amy want with a gun? I mean, but she could
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have picked it up here anytime she came over, and probably did. But
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why would Amy have a gun? In her purse, missus O'Connell, you
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better listen to me carefully. Sometime late yesterday afternoon or early evening, a
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man named Belden was shot and killed Claience Building. Yes, he worked with
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an audit infirm. Amy spoke of him. Wait no, wait, listen
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to the rest of this. Belden had been working on books for Richmond Limited.
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As I understand that your sister Amy was responsible for those books. Right
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now, the police have enough evidence to figure that your sister stole ten thousand
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dollars from Richmond Limited, Amy noconnell. They have that evidence in bulk form.
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I certainly have reason to assume, and they are assuming that your sister
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shot Belden to keep him quiet about the shortage. Can you say those things
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about Amy when she's not here to defend the sales, please, I'm just
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telling you what's going on downtown. What they've found. This gun they don't
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have yet, I've withheld it. It has been fired three times recently.
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Belden was shot three times. By now, your sister's body has no doubt
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been identified. They've already established that she died of poisoning, and they halfway
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have the idea that she committed suicide. No, don't you see, They'll
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say she shot Belden to cover up and keep it quiet, and then saw
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how useless it was, took poison and killed yourself to escape punishment. You're
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horrible, horrible, Go away, Go away from me. I'm sorry,
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but in the face of all this, I want to help her if I
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can, if it isn't too late, I want to help you. But
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missus O'Connell, you'll have to help me. Now. Why why would your
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sister steal? Why? I don't know. I think you do know.
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Tell me, please, for her sake, Missus O'Connell. Why what have
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you got to do with her? I met her only for a few minutes,
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but in that few minutes I got the idea that she was a pretty
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nice person. She didn't strike me as a thief, she didn't look like
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a killer, and most of all, she didn't look like a woman who
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take the suicide way out of things. Now, that's all I have,
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except that she asked me to help her, and I'm trying to do that
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now. Believe me, I want to help her if I can. I've
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always been an awful child, mister Dollar. When Ray died I tried to
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kill myself. Amy saved me. I remember then at the hospital. She
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was beside my bed and she said to me, I'll make you want to
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live again. I'll make you. Amy was always like that, kind and
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decent. You weren't wrong about her. She was decent, thoughtful, good.
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She did everything for me. She gave me these clothes and a car,
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introduced me to nice people from my office, like Paul Paul Damren.
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Yes, that must be where all the money went to, not on her
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self, but on me. For me. I'm the only reason I can
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think of that she'd take money from the firm. Yeah, yeah, I
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didn't know she was stealing from me. I didn't know. I wouldn't have
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let her do it. She didn't have to pamper me that much. I'm
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not that much of a child. She didn't have to do it. She
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didn't have to do it. Wait, wait a minute. She didn't kill
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herself, she didn't steal, she didn't murder that man. I did all
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those things because it was all for me. Now here's our star to tell
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you about the final intriguing episode of this week's story. Tomorrow, all the
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evidence comes true. A helpless dead girl gets her help join us, Won't
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you Yours Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,
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is transcribed in Hollywood, written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed
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by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and
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station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking
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welcome back. Well, either Johnny has a really big clue or he really
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doesn't like to see this woman keeping full skill on herself, perhaps a combination
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of both. Though it's kind of an odd exit, but we're certainly set
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for an interesting wind up in this case. It's definitely interesting to see Johnny
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writing a report to himself, and at first glance, this may seem a
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little bit odd behavior, but really it's not. The report is just a
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way that he is comfortable writing and chronicling events, and so writing a report
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to himself to kind of to kind of be clear on what he is thinking
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and what happened to him. I think that's perfectly reasonable, and even though
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he is status as insurance investigator has no relevance to the case, I think
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that it definitely does add some weight to what he says, so all right,
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Well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback ingrid rites. I
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Heeart Johnny Dollar, Rebecca I adds he is my favorite. And but Margie
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emailed me and says, I'm part of a group that does lot of performances
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of old time radio shows, and we recorded our performances for downloading from our
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website. Our shows are free as part of a community outreach. So if
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never worried too much about copety write issues, especially with the thirties and forties
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shows, but we were interested in doing Stan Freeburg's Christmas Dragon at Christmas parody
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for a December show, and I wondered how you handle getting rights to put
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it on your website or if it is in the public domain. Please share
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your thoughts on this. Well, thanks so much for the question, Margie.
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The Freeburg show wouldn't be considered radio old time radio and definitely wouldn't be
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the public domain. My best recommendation, given the kind of uncertain state,
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would be to go ahead and contact mister Freeburg, and I sent along the
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address for mister Freeburg's agency, the agency that represents him over in Studio City,
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because I know that particular parody is still you know, mister Freeburg still
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has CDs that are in print. In that particular parody which originally appeared on
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the LP not on radio, is still being sold commercially, so I would
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definitely recommend getting in touch with him on that. And thanks so much for
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keeping radio alive and re enacting it. I think it helps to give folks
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that experience and feel of listening and watching radio, and I haven't had that
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myself. I've been meaning to get over to Kirkland to see a recording of
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the Harry Nile Show and just have not been able to get around to it
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myself, but one of these days hopefully. All right, well, that
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will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with Nick Carter,
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and then we wrap up both the Plant Agent Matter and Crime for King on
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Friday, so be sure and be back with us then. In the meantime,
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