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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Truck Matter (EP1363) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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The Wayward from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellar. Ted Darloff here
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Arlo, Los Angeles. That's right, Try Western Indemnity Company. Well,
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hi, Ted, look, are you free to come out here in a
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hurry? What's up? A wayward? Truck awayward? That's right? Truck
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lost straight or stolen? That's what I hope you can find out. It's
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a big one. Insured for nearly twenty thousand. That is a big one
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and aborted when it disappeared. Was the driver insured for ten thousand? And
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the cargo of copper tubing worth ninety five hundred also insured? Holy Ted,
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I'll grab the next plane. Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of a Man
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with the action packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. It's truly Johnny
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Dellar, No Act one of Yours truly Johnny dollars expense account submitted I special
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Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Trian Western Intemnity Company, Los Angeles office. Following
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is an account of expenses encourage during my investigation of the Wayward truck matter.
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Expense account Item one one hundred and ninety four dollars sixty five cents airfare and
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Incidental's heart for the Los Angeles, California. When my plane sat down at
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the International Airport shortly after nine am, Tedor Loff was waiting for me.
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He led me on out to the parking lot. Here we are, Johnny,
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this car right here, all right, go on, I'm in okay,
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you reserve a hotel room for me in sounds Why? Well, after
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all, I've been sitting up on a plane all night and wouldn't mind a
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chance to shower and slick the whiskers off my post strange clothes. Don't want
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to take the time. That's why I'm glad you could make it out here
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right away. See, this thing only happened Wednesday night. Well, just
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what did happen? And who suffered the loss? And how about stopping somewhere
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so I could grab some breakfast? Then sure find a place along the way.
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Like I told you, Johnny, a truckloaded with ninety five hundred dollars
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worth of copper tubing has disappeared. What kind of tubing, the kind they
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use a lot of in building airplanes, that sort of thing on. It
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was shipped from Marlow Copper Products over in East Los Angeles. That's where we're
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heading. Marlow is a big jobber distributor. Okay, So what happened late
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Wednesday night? A driver but the name of Jackie McCallan was scheduled to haul
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this order of tubing over to the Belt and Aircraft Corporation OPRAH, Victorville.
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That's about one hundred miles east of here, out in the desert. Yeah,
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I know so well, the truckers usually dry that root of night,
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not only because of lighter traffic, but to avoid the heat during the daytime.
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He can say that again. Yeah well, anyhow, right after midnight
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Wednesday, twelve o five, to be exact, Jackie signed out of those
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Marlol warehouse with his load of copper tubing. Yesterday morning, Pardy Belden Aircraft
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was screaming for wanting to know why it hadn't been delivered as promise just disappeared,
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just disappeared, Hi Jack obviously, and the driver any rid of him?
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Nothing? Well, what kind of a market is there for stuff like
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that out here? Plenty of market for it, not only because it's expensive,
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but it's hard to get too, especially for some of the new little
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companies that have sprung up around Palmdale and Lancaster are not that way. I
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didn't Lockheed just build a plant out there, Lockeed, Belden, a lot
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of the big ones, and they subcontract worked to the little boys. That's
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why nearly ten thousand dollars worth of copper tubing would be worth its weight in
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goal of those little plans. Well, and it's a wonder there is more
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of this kind of hijacking. I guess that's what it is. What do
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you know about the driver of that struck? Jackie McCallan is as honest as
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a day is long? Yeah, who says his employer? No, Jackie's
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been driving for Marlow Copper Products for years. They dressed that boy with a
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load of pure gold. Yeah yeah, what does that mean? No?
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Man might have some trouble selling off a load of pure gold. Huh.
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But if what you say is true about the demand for copper tubing in this
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area. Oh now, wait a minute, and every man's supposed to have
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his price, you know. To look, Johnny, I see what you're
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driving at all, right, But not Jackie mccaff you sure ten thousand is
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a lot of money. Wouldn't be worth ten thousand sold undercovered? Jackieould certainly
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nowhere to sell it ol withdn't he Johnny? And why hasn't he showed up?
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I'll tell you why, because he's probably been killed. I had him
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two a dollars seventy five breakfast for me and a cup of coffee for tedorl
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Off on the way into Marlow Copper Products in East Los Angeles. I was
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amazed at the way this industrial area has grown in the past. For years,
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the mono operation turned out to consist of a small office and a couple
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of warehouses. Marlow himself is a tall, lean man of about fifty on
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the ball, Yes, sermons a dollar. It's as simple as that.
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Now. Willie here is the night watchman. I do sure, hi willing?
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According to Willie's clock and the shipping order in the manifest, Jackie mckellian
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sign has load out at exactly twelve oh five, and that's the last we've
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seen of either of them. He took off a loan with a load worth
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ten thousand dollars ninety five hundred. Yes, well, isn't that taking quite
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a chance? We've done it many times, mister Mornaut promises this Jackie ern
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a week. Well, I would depend anywhere from one hundred and I'll wait
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a minute. If you're thinking what I think you are, you're wrong,
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dollar dead wrong. Just as I said, Johnny, I trust Jackie with
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my own life, and believe me, whoever's done him in, well,
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he's going to have to deal with me. I'll see him. Hang.
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What makes you so sure he's been done in? Honest? The only thing
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that could have happened to make him give up a shipment of goods a hijacker
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to have to kill him. And whoever did this to Jackie? Tell me?
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Do you think there's any possibility of his having been approached beforehand by high
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Jackie is perhaps threatened into turning the shipment over to them. No, not
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a chance. He would have told me of anything like that immediately if he
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had time. Maybe who's working on the case, Thomas Tomorrow? The LA
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Police department in the sheriff's department of every county in southern California? Are wrong?
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Your trucks like those two? I see out the window there, Jackies
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was we got four of those big singles? Did as Now it's three three
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big tractor trailer rigs. M A truck like one of those is a pretty
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big hunk of stuff to just disappear, Willie. Yes? Sure? Were
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you on duty Wednesday? Yes? Sure I was. Did you notice anything
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unusual about Jackie that night? Why? No? Sure not? Did I
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knows? He came to pick up his truck alone. I didn't see nobody
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else with it? Well, did he look worried anything like that? Not?
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Did I did see? And he didn't say anything that might have indicated
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things weren't as they should be. Not that I heard. Just exactly what
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did he do? What the driver always does? Come in, sign in,
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sign up, the man offit, put down the time, then drove
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off with his truck. I go, nothing unusual at all, mister Marlow.
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Where did Jackie live? Somewhere over on West third Street? He lived
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alone? Naturally, the police looked for him. Their first thing, I
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have that address, police, I'll have my secretary get it for you.
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You all too with me, Bosh, Yes, Willie, if you're going
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to work tonight, you better get some sleep. Yes, sure, thank
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you. I don't believe me. Nothing's going to happen anything this time.
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If I were you, mister Marlow, I think i'd have more than that
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for a night watchman in a place like this. Just what were you thinking
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of, mister dollar Jackie's address? I mean, look, if the police
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and sheriff's offices haven't been able to turn up anything, well, in spite
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of what you said, there's always the possibility of collusion in a case like
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this between Jackie and whoever stole that truck. There's always the possibility, voluntary
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or otherwise, if Jackie was in with the hijackers. Even against this,
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I wouldn't believe what. It's a possibility, whether you want to believe it
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or not. For one thing, how about the high check is no when
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and how the shipping was to be made from any one of a number of
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sources, the man who supervised the loading here, for instance, Red Kingsley,
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or almost anybody in the place, or just as easily anyone over at
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Belton Aviation in Victorville. Bell then with no exact time of a departure from
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this warehouse. Well, no close timing, and a hijack operation is usually
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pretty important. But they knew the stuff was due with their planned early Friday
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morning. They've been hollering for it ever since. I'll lay my money on
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the tip off coming from this end. Now. Has the route between here
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and Victorville been fairly gone over by the police and they found no sign of
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either the truck or this fellow jack That's right. The truck, of course,
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could be disguised. You could have paint, that sort of thing often
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done, but no body alive or otherwise. No, So how do you
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plan to proceed? Well, Jackie was forced to participate, I'm sure he
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wasn't. Then, I don't know. Let me have that address, huh.
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I didn't have the least idea what I was looking for, but I
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couldn't just stand around, So I borrowed a company car with a name and
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a number plastered all over the side and drove to the West third Street address,
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hoping I'd have no trouble for s waiting the manager to let me in.
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Manager not in that old ramshackle frame house. The front door was wide
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open. And the mailbox had the number four up with the Jackie's name that
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went upstairs. As I reached the second floor, I could see that the
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door of number four was slightly a jar, and I could hear somebody moving
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about inside, opening closets and drawers. Quietly, I slipped close to the
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door. Inside his back towards me was a big, broad shouldered group hastily
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emptying one of the bureau drawers. He was dressed in dirty work pants and
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wore heavy tattered blue sweater. Maybe you better than let me ask the questions.
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Oh yeah, Now, look buddy, doing here? What are you
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putting into those handbags? None of your visions out here, not until I
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find out what you're up, I said, get out, and you hear
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me take it? Oh yeah, do you want to play that way?
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That's right, brother, that was a big mistake. Oh you asked for
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you all right? Start talking? What are you doing here? And Jackie's
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one, what was I doing here? Hey? Look, who do you
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think you are? Lower something margin in here like this? That's right,
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Hawaiian, I said Hawaiian mckayon. What that's right? Jackie mccayon Act two
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of Yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment. Our flag now numbers fifty stars,
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and behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty
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states. New Jersey's flag was created at the direction of George Washington in seventeen
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seventy nine. General Washington directed that the New Jersey Continental Regiments where coats of
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dark blue with buff colored facing. This was done as a tribute to the
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former ruler of these colonies, the Dutch, whose national colors were buff and
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blue. Later, he instructed that the field on the flag of New Jersey
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should be the same buff color, and the state coat of arms in blue
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be placed upon it. The state's motto, reflecting the aspirations of all who
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came to these shores, is also inscribed on the flag, Liberty and Prosperity.
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This flag was displayed proudly before the combined American and French armies at the
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surrender of Cornwallis's army at Yorktown. New Jersey state flag, the flag of
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the third state to enter the Union, was adopted on March twenty sixth,
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eighteen ninety six. Now Act two of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and the
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Wayward Truck matter missing a twenty thousand dollars truck from the Marlow Copper Products Company
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of East Los Angeles, also missing it's cargo of copper tubing, insured for
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ninety five hundred dollars, also missing, also insured the driver one Jackie mcatty.
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And when I found a big, ugly looking character going through Jackie's furnished
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room, I jumped him. And who does it turn out to be?
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That's right, Jackie McCatty. Boy, say this buddy, you sure handie?
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What your dukes for? A skinny guy? Hey? Who are you
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anyway? Johnny Dollar insurance investigator? And look, I'm sorry I must jump
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insures. Why, well, I came here to find out what happened to
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you and the truckload of copper tubing that never got to built an aviation over
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in Victorville. We are talking about it. Courses did and of course not
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well why because the shipment was called off That's why. Why. For sure
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it was supposed to go out Wednesday night, right after midnight, and it
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did at least they left the warehouse. That's where you're wrong. Because me
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and Betsy, we was gonna take it. Betsy, Yeah, Betsy,
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you know my truck only the order got canceled out the office. The office.
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Well, how should I know? Well, I know as I was
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here in my room getting ready to go over and pick up Betsy in the
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tubing and phoning wrong with the girl from the offices, the shipman is canceled
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out. What girl do you know? I don't know? Some girls says
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she was in the office as all. You know, one of the girls
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like they've always giving out the orders, you know, And she told me,
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the boss says, and a count of there ain't no more trips for
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me this week. I can stop my vacation right away instead of next week.
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But you don't know which girl in the office told you that. I
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told you, I don't know. I told it. Tell mister Mordow,
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thanks, that's all. Why didn't she tell him? Where have you been
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since Wednesday night? Well? Donald san Diego is staying at my sisters and
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doing some yellow tail fishing while I was there. You know, I don't
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have sent Clement the island boy ain't pulling a big Yeah, there was one
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on our party body. Hey, wait a minute, what do you mean
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the shipman went out just that on schedule. A little after midnight. I
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told me. It hasn't been heard of since you mean it went out in
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my truck in Betsy, who took it? According to everything we know you?
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Oh no, sir. By midnight Wednesday, I was halfway to San
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Diego my car. Look, you asked my sister down there. I got
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there before one am. Call up and asked, go ahead, calla you're
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sure of that? Who? Sure? I'm sure? And if some dirty
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guy took my bets yet, I'll kill him. Nobody write Betsy but me.
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All were you doing when I came in here packing those bags in such
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a hurry? What hor my vacation? What's the matter? Don't you hear?
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Good? Hey, well, look mister, if somebody took my truck,
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okay, Jackie, okay, calm down and come along with me.
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We're going back to my little Copper Products to talk with a couple of people.
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Maybe do a showdown. Jackie. With a name like that, I'd
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pictured a slim, wiry little fellow, not this big gorilla. And but
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what he'd said and what he told me on the way back to the Marlo
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warehouse, I was convinced he was telling the truth about his whereabouts the night
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of the robbery. But then who could possibly have been a close enough double
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for Jackie to fool a watchman, or had the watchman been trying to fool
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me and the police, and why? Or could Milo himself have somehow contrived
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to But again why? And if Malo was up to something, well,
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he'd have been smart enough to put or at least keep Jackie out of the
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way. I was a dollar. Did you find it? Jackie? Hi?
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Boss? Hey? Hey, what's going on in Jackie? Thank heaven?
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Boy? You're all right? He thought you'd been killed or something.
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For me? Where'd you find him? Dollar? Where's the truck? Hey?
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Boss? That's what I've been trying to find out. Only all this
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guy here does is ask me questions. The important thing is, you're all
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right. I didn't tell you this before, Dollar, But he's as much
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a part of this business as I am. Come on, you started out
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with me in the beginning, when I didn't have a penny to my name,
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worked seven days a week, night and day, helping me build up
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this business. And you've kept him just a truck driver. What I means,
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just cut me a truck driver. That's why I like it. Oh
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yeah, even a big retirement. He made for me. I don't want
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that. I just want to keep on driving the truck just like I am,
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and maybe go fishing now and end. That's what I like. And
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I'm know happy and thank god you're still all right. People. What about
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Bessie, Yes, Dollar, what about the truck? Any ideas? And
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he leaves. Mister Molow, I want to talk to that night. Watch
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when he goes again. Willie, that's right. Let's just hope he hasn't
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skipped town skip town, you see, if you can to locate him and
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get him down here. Of course, do you think he was involved in
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the hijack on, Well, let's get him in here if we can,
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and we'll see something had just come back to me, something pretty damning.
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In so far as will he was concerned. It was the way he had
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answered my questions when I talked to him before. Was there anything unusual about
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Jackie when he came to pick up the truck, Well, not that he
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noticed, he said. Had Jackie pick up the truck alone? Well,
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he hadn't seen anybody with him? What had Jackie said? He hadn't heard
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anything, not one really positive answering a lot or to the other questions,
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i'd ask him. Much to my surprise, Marlow's phone call brought assurances from
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Willie. Did he come over to the plant right away? And I told
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him I'd get somebody else to fill in for him tonight because of the sleepers
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having to miss. Yeah, well tell me this, do you don't want
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you to carry a time cluck? That's right? There are punch key boxes
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located in a dozen or so of spots all over the warehouse, and one
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in this office. H They register on a paper dial on the time clock.
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That's right. That way, there's a record at what time he reaches
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every station on his nightly round. Would you get me that record for Wednesday
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night? Please? Of course. And while you're at it, I'd like
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a copy of the shipping order in the manifest for that truckload of copper tube.
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I'll have my secretary get them for you. By the time the secretary
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he dug the punch clock record out of the files, Old Willy arrived,
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looking somewhat the worse for lack of sleep, but apparently willing to cooperate in
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any way he could. I took him out to the watchman's booth, which
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was just inside the warehouse. Gate. Ye shame, mister Dollar. This
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year's my own private office every night. And this is where you were when
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Jackie mccannon came to pick up his truck Wednesday night. Well, nowhere else
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would I be. Well, now, that answer is just as different as
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the ones you gave me before Willie, and I won't do. I asked
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you if Jackie said anything that night that might have made you suspicious, and
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I told you not that I heard Nordre. Well did you talk with him
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at all? Well, no, no reason to. There were just a
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two of you here in the middle of the night, sure, and he
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didn't even say hi to each other. No, no reason. Driver comes
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around to pick up a ship and he well, all he has to do
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is shine up the maniverse the time he leaves. You knew what time he
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was to be here, didn't you sure? I mean be sure? We
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were right under ship and order, But you didn't see it. You didn't
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see him pick up the shipping order, or sign the manifest or drive out
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of here with his truck knowing he was coming. You left the gate open
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for him, or knowing somebody was coming. That's against the rules. Mister
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Leavin Knight. You weren't here when that truck went out. I didn't say
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that. I don't know. So far, you haven't said anything. You've
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just given a lot of evasive answers to all my questions. All right,
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all right, now, if you were here you were partner to the hijacking
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operation. No, you'd have had to be, because Jackie mccattyan didn't pick
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up his truck that night, as you'd have us believe if you were here
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at the gate that is. And that's something we'll find out right now,
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Jay, stretch out of my time class, right, and it's dated the
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night of May twenty second and twenty third. That's the night. Yes,
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Now, where's station one? Boy, that's that's right there on the gate
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there, and that's the key. I used to punch my time clock every
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single night, right on schedule. And I don't know what you're getting that
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joke. All right, just listen to me and answer my questions. Station
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number one was punched it eleven forty one. If that's what it says,
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that's what it was. I wears number two. Well, look, I
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don't wire is number two. It's your big double doors back in the warehouse.
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When you're right but now you look eleven forty seven, you must walk
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pretty slowly. Well, of course I do. I look around to make
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sure that everything's all right. Okay, now wears number five. Come on
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number five when the back gate way around the other side of the warehouse.
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Yeah, a good quarter of a mile from here, And according to this
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time clock record, that's where you were at exactly twelve o four that night.
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And brother, I'd like to see you do a quarter of a mile
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around these buildings in less than a minute to get back here at exactly twelve
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oh five when you claim Jackie signed out that truck. Well, all right,
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mister dollar, Yeah, which way am I right? I wasn't here.
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I left the gate open for him, like often done when I wouldn't
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be right there for a night shipment like you oftened it. Don't you see?
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Nothing Knights ever happened before. And when I seen his name on the
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manifest I know you weren't here when the truck went out, So you don't
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know a thing. I mean, I thought Jackie too good because I left
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the catch on the main gates orders looked like it was locked. You haven't
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done that before, not for Jackie. He was always too close to the
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boss. Were he and the boy all about that? But I have for
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the other boys. Yeah, day, You've left this whole place wide open
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for anybody who wanted to come in and take anything he could lay his hands
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on. And this time it was a twenty thousand dollar truck with a ten
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thousand dollars cargo. Willie, you're in trouble plenty. I questioned him further
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and got nothing more than a few tears and a plea for mercy, and
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then I turned him over to Marlin. Willie was his problem now, but
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my own was still far from solved. I wasn't any closer to the missing
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truck and its cargo than I'd been when I arrived Expencer Count Adam three two
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twenty lunch for Jackie McKenny and myself. At the lunch from around the corner,
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we were on our second cup of coffee. You boy, you know
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that was a good doughnut. That was so mister dollar. And the more
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I think about it, the more I say that outside of them pretty good
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in that boss's office, the only ones to be sure what time that shipman
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was to go out was Willie and Rid Kingsley. Kingsley. That's his car
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I used. Yeah, he asked the guy he's in charge of all the
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shipping. Well, how much you know about him? Well? I don't
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know. After all, you know, he's kind of over me. I
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thought your only real boss was mister Marlowe. Well he is, you just
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bet he is. And he's the best friend I ever had too. But
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if I don't keep my place around a plant, you know, keep support
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Nathan to the guys that are forming and stuff. And what do you think
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could happened to the morale a on a plant? Well? Tell me about
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right anyway? Hello, Well, I just got a call from the Sheriff's
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substation in Victorville. Yes, they picked up some of that shipment of copper
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tubing. You see, we put a staff on every piece. Then.
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Whoever, Hi, Jackson is already getting rid of me. Yes, but
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so far nobody's admitting where they got it. It's that Air Metals Company and
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Stress Products Incorporated, both near Victorville. You want to check on it.
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Use Kingsley's car again, right, Hey, Hey, do you want me
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to show you're out Jackie? Go to it, and believe me, we
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went. I don't know whether the police along the route had been alerted to
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let us buy or not, but we earned more than one speeding ticket before
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we hit the cutoff around Victorville, the cutoff that would take us on past
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Edward's Air Force Pays, where the plants we were looking for were located.
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All along the way, Jackie had carefully scrutinized every truck we passed going and
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either direction. No, no shame maker model. But she and Betsy.
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Oh, Jackie, don't you realize that truck of yours is, no doubt
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thoroughly disguised by now You think her father couldn't tell his own little baby,
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no matter how disguised there was. Maybe but a truck, Yeah, look
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at that one up ahead, you know, the one we're pulling up on.
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Also shame maker model, only this one's painted green. I wight to
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slough as we pass it. She ain't Betsy, even from here I could
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tell. What did he say? Well? I didn't quite. Hey wait
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a minute, that's Betsy. You're sure that paint Chobo's pretty cool? That's
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you? I know by a sound you're stopping block her off? Hey,
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Red, that's what he shot it. And this is Rip Kingsley's car.
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With a company name all over it. Yeah, that's why he thought we
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was read when we passed her shore. And look, look he's catching up
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on us. He sure knows we ain't read by now. Hey, look
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out peaking a piloto us peaking a rabbit? I know? Come on,
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has come? Look, I hate to keep slapping. You want to push
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this way? Come on? Oh it's okay, it's okay, all right,
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I'm over here. Yeah, your files up the road to that out
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of the truck. They had the sheriff's car up up There were a couple
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of thousand miles of copper pive spread all over the country sea. Oh yeah,
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I edged him off the highway and flicked over. Well, why did
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you do that? Why? I wait to hear those cops dot? Do
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you think I was a hero or something? Guys in the green truck rammed
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you off the road, didn't he That's right. Well, when the cops
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seen that happened, they tried to force the truck off. Mister. That's
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something like Clara Belle, Clara Belle. Yeah, that's what I call is
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tractor trailer rigamine. It's not the first time I've given the police a hand.
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Yeah, They've given a lot of people a hand. Those boys who
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drive the big interstate trucks and trailers, they're pretty fine bunch to have on
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the road. Well, I guess it's pretty obvious that Red Kingsley and Marlowe
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Shipping Department was back at the hijacking operation. The two who were aboard the
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stolen truck turned State's evidence and sang plenty and the courts will take care of
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them. Expense acount total in putting air transportation and incidentals back to Hartford five
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oh one oh five, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here is our
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star to tell you about next week's story. Next week. But if you
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think a certain case of complete amnesia is any fun, you're wrong, because
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it happened to me, john Us. Won't you yours truly, Johnny Dollar,
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Yours truly, Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey. Originates in Hollywood,
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which is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story.
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Heard in our cast were Boris Lewis, John Diner, Junius Matthews, Stacy
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is the and coverly speaking, welcome back.
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Well. I like the twist about the truck driver showing up at the
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end of the episode. This is an episode where, or in the middle
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of the episode. This was an episode where I think that probably the journey
31:29
was better than the destination, just because there were so many red herrings thrown
31:34
in there to get to the solution, but less of substance to the mystery
31:41
because people like the night Watchmen, or ultimately just a distraction. Well,
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now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we start with an interesting
31:56
note from a listener regarding episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller. Aaron says,
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well, listening to the Mad Hatter Man, I was reminded of Sherlock Holmes.
32:08
The story sounded a lot like the Adventure of the Retired Colored Men.
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An older man marries a younger woman. The younger woman isn't tossed away by
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a man of career. The husband murders his wife. It sounded so much
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like the last adventurer of Sherlock Holmes. Proofs that there's nothing new in this
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world, loving the podcast. Keep up the good work, thanks so much,
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Aeron, and I have to admit I think I had kind of a
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sneaky reminder of that myself, and that is a good imperence. And it's
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also an example of how mystery writers get inspired by other mystery writers. That's
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true for writers of all stripes. Some comments coming in on our Lost Episode
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podcasts, particularly the M and O'Brien episode. Pastor Lisa comments, I really
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enjoyed this episode. It was my first time hearing EM and O'Brien and he
33:02
was pretty good. I love Johnny Dollary, He's my favorite. I'm glad
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to get another day of him. Keep up the good work at him.
33:08
And Jeff comments listen to day then TCM ran it on EM and O'Brien day
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last week. What a treat, great work at him. Glad to know
33:17
that Turner Classic Movies is remembering the great work of EM and O'Brien. And
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one thing that is on my very long to do list is to go ahead
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Dollar before Bob Bailey, as well as a separate one for the serials so
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I appreciate your consistency and research. Those are key differences or differentiators from most
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