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Well, folks, it's time now for us to first conclude Matter of Reasonable
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Doubt and then later on in the in the show where we will wrap up
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our Carter Brown series Belladonna was poison. But here now is the Matter of
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Reasonable Doubt, Part five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellar.
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This is missus Grimley, mister Dollar. Oh good, I understand you were
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trying to reach me. I just told you, nephew Walter that if he
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didn't have you on this phone within three minutes, I'd be out there at
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the ranch with a pose police Oh, I'm afraid there's some mistake, mister
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Doller. You see, I told Walter I didn't wish to talk with you.
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You what. I admire your persistence, young man, But are you
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seeing this? If your own free will, you're not being forced? Ridiculous?
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Who's there with you? Just my nephew, Walter, his wife Hilda.
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Sure, I'm coming out there, missus Gramley, mister Dollar, you
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were sent out here from Hartford to investigate an insurance trust I was arranging for
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my granddaughter. Well, I've decided not to set up the trust, so
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there's no further reason to involve yourself in my affairs. Good night, mister
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Dollar. Hello, Hello, where have you got cooking with the Gramleys?
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Anyways? Shut up, Nikki, let me think toodnight and every weekday Night,
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Bob Bailey. In the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed
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Expense Accout America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. From
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Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location in Las Vegas to the home office Amicon Northern
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Trust Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the matter of Reasonable Doubts Expense account
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Final page, Item twelve seventy five cents. I had a pint of black
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coffee sent in for Nicki Vernon, girlfriend of missing casino operator Deuce McCoy.
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She'd been overworking a bottle of Scotch, and I figured the coffee would help
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clear the fumes, and it might have if she'd drunk it. No,
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take it away. I don't want any coffee. I couldn't figure that phone
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call from missus Greenway. She knew her nephew and his wife had been stealing
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from her, That's why she'd started to set up the trust to save the
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estate from them and turn it over to a young granddaughter, Susan. And
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she knew also. I've told her that Waller and his wife had probably contrived
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the auto accident that had killed Susan's parents. And yet now she seemed to
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have reversed her whole attitude. Maybe Jonas Parks had been right. Maybe there
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was a reasonable doubt as to a sanity, maybe a lot of things,
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But all of the answers were out there at that ranch. She's to blame
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for it. Things were all right with Deuce and meals she came messing around.
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If it hadn't been hild it it would have been somebody else. I'll
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lot you know about it. Oh, why don't you drink some of that
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coffee, Nicklas, I don't want to cough. Okay, okay, suit
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yourself, go ahead and enjoy your broken heart. Then kill the rest of
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that bottle. If that's what you want. Cry up a storm, live
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it up, wallow in it. I'll get that. Dame's the last thing
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I ever do for. What you want to thank her for getting that rat
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off your neck? What you have to turn him in for? Wos never
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did anything to you? You never had the chance. Oh what's he supposed
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to have done it? So hard? Well? What he tried to do?
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Oh? Sure you happen to know young Susan Grimley. Yeah, I've
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seen the kid. Why well, your lover boy phoned her out at the
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ranch earlier this evening disguise. His voice said he was a friend of mine.
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He tried to get her to meet him on the old Bowlder cutoff out
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of the middle of the desert. If you think Deuce would try to date
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up for a sixteen year old kid, you're crazy, Nikki. I think
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he was going to kill a sixteen year old kid. Her fault, Hilda
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gramly she and her sneaky little henpeck husband got Douce mixed up in something I
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don't imagine. He was very hard to mix. Dame's been asking for it
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for a long time, I know, and you're about ready to give it
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to her. Well forget it, sober up, find the nearest exit,
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and then run like the devil. I want deuce so to the police,
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and they're the ones who are going to get him. They're covering the airport
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now, the deepo, all the highways. Vegas is a tough town to
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get away from. He hasn't got a chance. Just as much your husband's
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fault. Why didn't he keep her home? Why did he? Oh,
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for the love of you, keep on playing that same old record, You're
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gonna wear a groove right through your brain. Maybe, so, look,
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I got things to do. You're gonna be all right here alone. I'm
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just fine. I never felt better in my life, and you've already got
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it halfway made. So why don't you double up and get even try some
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of that coffee. You're a real busy guy, mister dollar. You put
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the finger on a man with one hand, and it's the same time you
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try to soak up his girl with the other. Sure, and if I
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had a brumont sweep to the office, whether why don't you go be busy
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someplace else. That's exactly the idea. All right, kids, you're on
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your own. Good luck, Nikki, good luck. What do you care
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what guy of luck I have? Oh? I don't know. I picked
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up my car and drove out across the desert toward the front rock ranch.
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I couldn't quite imagine Missus Gramley being intimidated. The idea of Walter and Hilda
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standing over, holding a gun at her head and making her say things against
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her will was pretty unbelievable. Face with a threat like that, she'd probably
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say, shouldn't be blasted. It just didn't make sense. Apparently she really
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had reversed her field. But I had to hear it from her face to
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face. Johnny Dollar, open up, I said, open up. What's
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the idea? Missus Gremley told you to stay away from here, didn't she?
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No? No, there was static in the phone. I want to
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hear her say it again. You going on? If you're doing coming in
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all right, water, let's go talk to missus Gremley. Look, Dollar,
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you haven't got that much weight to throw. Aron, suppose we get
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it straight right now and save a lot of time. I came out here
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to talk to missus Gramley, and I'm gonna talk to her now. If
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you want to go out a ben knuckle, let's get started. Or if
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you're thinking of that gun routine again, go ahead and pull it. I'm
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packing one myself. And if you're not gonna make any kind of a move,
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and then you just stand right there with your face hanging out while I
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go on in and talk good eating Missus Gremley. Dollar won't take no for
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an answer. He just forced his way in. I'm glad to find you
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looking so well. I thought I'd made myself clear on the phone, mister
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Dollar. Really, come on, let's go on into the living room where
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we can all be more comfortable. Come back here, I must insist that
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you leave at once. Who wasn't the door? What are you doing here?
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Well, if it isn't Hilda, the lovely lady who likes money,
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gifts and excitement, fine, fine, that's why I came out to stir
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up a little excitement. I think you're taking a good deal upon yourself,
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mister Dalla. You know I'm a little surprised at you, Missus Greeley.
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I thought you wanted me to follow the case through. There is no case.
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Oh since when you heard what she said, that's what you came for,
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all right? Now beat it down, Walter, Missus Gremley, are
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you telling me you're going to drop this whole thing? Let this pair here
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edge you out and Susan along with you, and take the whole estate.
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You can put any interpretation on it you like, just as long as you
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leave this house at once, and please don't come back. You have no
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right to interfere. And what about your son and his wife? Have you
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forgotten that those two leeches there kill them? You're out of your mind?
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Am I? What do you think, Missus Greeley? Am I out of
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my mind? I'm I'm afraid you are. My son and his wife were
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killed in an automobile accident, A terrible tragedy, but unavoidable. Sure it
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was after Walter and Hilda here set it up. Will you please leave now?
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They threatened you? Is that it? Are you scared to talk?
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Because if you are speak up, I imagine I can handle them. You're
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being quite ridiculous, mister Dollar, will you now go please. It beats
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me, It really does if I hadn't all answer it. Hello. If
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that's for me, you better let me take it. They know I'm here,
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all right, take it. Nobody's stopping you. It was Will Connor's
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on the phone. He'd been keeping in close touch with the police, and
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he was calling to tell me what had happened. Deuce McCoy had been arrested.
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He'd been picked up at the airport trying to board a plane and was
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being taken to the city jail. I hung up the phone and told the
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three of them, what will it said? That touched off the fuse?
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Arrested? Deuce has been arrested the airport. I don't get it, but
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you will get it. While e Deuce will talk, he'll spill the whole
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thing, and I think we'll be able to make a case against you and
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Hildy even without Missus Gremley's testimony. Susan was she with him? Is she
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all right? Missus Gramley? Susan has been in my hotel room with Will
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Connors for the last so that was the hole they had over you. They
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told me this man Deuce had phoned her and tricked her into meeting him.
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Susan doesn't trick so easy. She called me in her hands up. Dollar.
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Oh no, it's a little late for a gun, Walter. You
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won't find it any easier to run the doucetead. He's right, Walter,
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Let me think it must Let you think. That's what I've been doing for
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the last ten years. And you thought us right into this at the airport.
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You know what he was doing. He was running out. The kid
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didn't show he knew something had gone wrong, and he was taking a potter
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and not even telling me. There's no time now, just here holding the
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bag. And now you say, let me think, why didn't you think
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before it was your idea cutting him in on this? She's got a lot
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of cute idea, Nicky, she's a real little brain. What the here,
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slumming, mister Dollar? The door was open, so I walked in.
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You mind, Look whoever you are, watchsucker. I've seen guns before.
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Why didn't you use it on them when they were playing you for their
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number one Patsy about Deuce McCoy and that little sneak you're married to there.
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I mean, you still don't know, don't you wish I was they had
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you right in the middle, sucker. Deuce was taking it away from me
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on the tables, and little Hildy was getting it back from him after hours.
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I bet they got a lot of laughs out of it. Better hand
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over that gunwater. It's true, isn't it. Hilda of course not take
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a gun to him. Huh. Well, maybe it's not too late,
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Walter. What are you going to do? Give me the gunwater? Sure?
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Why not? I don't need it now. He killed her, his
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own wife, right there and shut her down in cold blood. You call
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the police, Missuscreamy, Yeah, tell him to hurry right out. They
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can take me in on a real charge. Now, I didn't mean for
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her to get killed. You know something, dollar, No, suppose you
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tell me that's the first big move I've made in the last ten years,
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And Hilda didn't plan. Expense account I am fourteen three hundred and five dollars
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and twenty cents hotel and incidentals in Las Vegas and transportation back to Hartford expense
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a count total five hundred and ninety six dollars and forty five cents. End
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of account remarks, Well, I can't figure out why she had to go
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messing around that way when she already had a man of her own, her
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husband. Of course, he didn't amount too much, but not many men
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do. Would you expect to find in this world pearls and all the oysters
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a turkey in her soup? Well that was nicky, and that's the report,
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man, That's life. To think of it, though, what isn't
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yours truly? Johnny Dollar? Now here's our star to tell you about next
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week's intriguing story. Next week, Indestructible Mike, the most amazing character I
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ever met, a man with nine lives. At least join us, won't
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you yours truly, Johnny Dollar? Yours truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey.
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Is transcribed in Hollywood by Les Clutsfield. It is produced and directed by
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Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Susan Whitney, Richard Crenna, Jeannette
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Nolan, Foris Lewis Inga Adams, Paul Richards, and Gene Tatum. Musical
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supervision by Amrigo Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join us on Monday
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Night, same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny
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Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking Carter Brown Mystery Adventures in Excitement and Suspense, based
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on the best selling novels by the slick storytelling sensation Carter Brown. Any actor
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worth is sould is generally nervous before performances do to begin, but this performance
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was something extra special. So with the butterflies in my stomach. Because this
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program of There's No Future in Murder, which starred me rock Stone as television's
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inspector. Rock Stone, was going to be devoted to disclosing the murder of
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Hannah Vogue. I hope that was my only part of the show had been
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planned the early part. The rest of it had to be an impromptu affair,
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with me in charge and with music improvised from the orchestra whenever I gave
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the signals. The signal was to be each time I sketched my ear.
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I only hope the viewers wouldn't think their favorite carp had suddenly gone deaf.
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Ten seconds, everybody quiet. I watched our sponsor old As Lacey, bracing
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himself as he faced number one camera. The orchestra leaders stood with his bat
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or raised as a second sticked away. Then the show's underway, as the
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music had its familiar theme. I knew the title cards would be flashing under
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the screens of a million TV sets. I mentally crossed my fingers. My
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name is Oldest Lacy. I have the privilege to night of introducing a special
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program of There's No Future in Murder. As sponsor of this series, Lacey's
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Departmental Store is proud to align itself with just disloving people everywhere in an effort
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to solve a terrible crime, the murder of Hannafold, whose body was found
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in our special display window last Thursday morning. From then on things went smoothly.
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This was the part that had been planned reversed. Autographs flashed under the
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screen of the window with the body in it. I did my commentary and
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hurried over to Set one to reenact the finding of the body with Arlene Moldon
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and Sheep, the storm manager. Then I scratched my ear for the orchestra
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leader while the orchestra added some grim ominous music. I raced over the camera
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outside Set two, Inspector Rockstone's office and faced it ready for the red light.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you've seen the discovery of the body of Hannah Fog
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in my office, which I shall enter. In a moment. A group
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of people have been gathered, I shall interview them. You've seen me do
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this many times, but I asked you to remember that to night. I
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am not an actor playing a role. I am a man, a citizen
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trying to solve the murder of a beautiful girl. I am really you,
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a part of you. I am a conscience yours and mine, the conscience
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of a city raising its voice to the man that justice should be done and
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the evildo are brought to a reckoning. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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all know what has happened. I am going to question you about the murder
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of Hannah Vogue. I know I have already asked you many questions in the
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last few days, but this time I shall be asking them in an effort
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to build up a pack a picture of Hannahvogue's life, and perhaps because of
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that, a picture of her death, of why she had to die.
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Westley, mister Lacy, me you are oldest Lacy managing director of Lacy's departmental
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store. Of course I am you knew the deceased Hannah Vogue. Yes,
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I know. How much were you paying a month for the rental of her
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part. There is no point in hiding this, mister Lacy. You freely
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admitted to me in your office that you had been interested in the girl,
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oh much two hundred dollars a month. You knew she was an unsuccessful actress.
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Yes, did you order Sam Long, the writer of the series,
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to see she was engaged for one of the shows? I don't see.
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Please answer the question, mister Lacy. Well, I suppose if a man
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sponsors the show. What's wrong with seeing that someone's interested in? Get to
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chain nothing? Mister Lacey, did you think there was the night before her
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body was found in the window Wednesday night? Did you see her that night?
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We had dinner and then she had to leave. You didn't go with
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her? No? Thank you, Miss Shaw. Please. Yes, Inspector
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Stone, your name is Lowash Shaw and you were a friend of Hannah Hold.
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That's correct. You were staying at her apartment the night before the murder?
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Yes, I was. When did you last see her alive? That
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evening? She left about six thirty. She said she was going to dinner.
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She never came back. Thank you, miss Shaw. Mister Lacy,
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this girl was living in an apartment rented by you, knew you very well,
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well enough to realize you had a secret. He found out that secret
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when you discovered she found out I. I had no secret. I had
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nothing to be ashamed of till we kept hiden, didn't ju Lacy? Suppose
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I would remind you of an investment you made a year ago, a short
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term investment with high returned, an investment placed in the hands of Tony Saguera
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advised her to a group of men commonly known as the Syndicate, an investment
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with no papers signed and paid back to you capital and interest only last month.
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Wasn't that what you wanted? Kept quiet that a supposedly respectable businessman like
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you had invested money in the Syndicate? Well, why should I want to
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keep it quiet? Come, come, mister Lacy. Even a child has
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some idea of what the name syndicate means. Today? That was your secret,
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wasn't it? The secret? Had of old discovered the secret which cost
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her her life? I didn't kill her. I didn't kill her. Oh
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A few questions for mister Long. Okay, you are Sam Long, the
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writer of There's No Future in Murder? That's right. Wasn't Hannah Vogue the
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name your wife used as an actress. Yeah, but you and your wife
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quarreled and she left you some time ago. Why because I wouldn't chisel her
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apart on this program, That's why. And then some months later, Lazy
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ordered you to find her a part in the show. Yeah, me,
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the guy she was married to who lost her because he wouldn't do just that.
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Did you ever see your wife again? Once? Last Tuesday night,
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after last week's show, he came to see me. Told me she'd found
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out something about Lazy, but she was afraid. He knew she'd found out.
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She asked me for advice, said she was scared, and what did
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you do? And what did you tell her to do? She was still
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my wife. He'd drawn out on me. She was living in an apartment
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paid for by another man. He got him to get her into the program,
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and then she came running back to me and asked me what she should
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do. I told her to get out of my apartment and never come back.
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That's what I told her to do. That was the last time I
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saw her. A line I see. Thank you, oh mister sheep.
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Yes, inspector, you are the manager of Lacey's departmental store. Yes,
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yeah, that's right, inspector, mister Sheep. When you helped mister Lacy
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carry the corpse into the stall window, did you take the head of the
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feet? Well, mister Sheep, Oh, the shame of it. I've
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worked for the Laceis for thirty years. I've never had anything but respect and
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admiration and loyalty for them. He swore to me he hadn't killed her,
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but if the body were found in his apartment or his car, it would
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have been ruined for him, for the store, all the employees. I
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had to help him for their sake. So you broke open the steel shutter
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on one of the loading docks to get in. No, No, that
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that was only to pull the police. We use my keys. I knew
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where the watch them would be. It wasn't hard to avoid them. Oh
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the shame of it, yes, mister Sheep. The shame of it when
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honor citizens stand a crime. But I noticed the shame is only felt when
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you're caught. I'd like to make a statement, if I may, Yes,
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Michare, go ahead. You must be wondering in speaker Stone just where
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I fit into all this. I have been puzzled by it. Mashare my
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real name is Lois Berkenshaw, and for the last three years I've been employed
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by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. You're an FBI agent. Yes. The
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Bureau has long suspected that prominent businessmen all over the country were investing money in
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the local organizations of the syndicate. This practice was not only a moral but
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near criminal, was also defrauding the inland revenue of taxation on the profits.
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I'm one of the agents whose task it was to obtain evidence of this in
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the hope of standing out the practice. So that's how you knew about Kathy,
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Yes, miss Maldon. That's how I was able to furnish Inspector Stone
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with the details of mister Lacy's dealings with the syndicates through mister Seguera. It
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was part of your job to get close to the syndicate. Yes, and
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I also became friendly with Hannah Vogue in an attempt to pin the charge on
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all the slaty. Thank you, Miss Berkenshaw. I would better clear up
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something with Miss Maldon. Yes, Inspector you are Aline Mauldon, the producer
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of the show. Yes, the name you mentioned a moment ago, Kathy
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was the the name of your sister, who has recently found drowned in San
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Antonio. That's right, isn't it? The fact that your sister had been
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living under the protection of oldest Lacey. Yes, what right had You'd thrown
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her over? And she wrote your letter saying she knew something about him and
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intended to make him pay for it. Yes, you destroyed that letter and
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said nothing about it in the coroner's court for lack of proof and to avoid
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scandal. That's correct. No, it's a lie, you which, you
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lying devil. Take it easy, Lacy. You're going to need all your
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strength for the trial, all right. It's true. Part of it.
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Kathy did find out about the money I'd put into the syndicate. I killed
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her. I was desperate. We went swimming and I held the head under
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the water. But when I got back here I had a visit from her
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sister, from Arlie Marlen with the copy of a letter from Kathy giving her
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the story. What you didn't destroy the letters, and you didn't tell me
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about the most important one because she wanted to use it for blackmail. I've
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been paying her a thousand dollars a month to keep her from showing that letter
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to the San Antonio Polle. It's a lie, it's a fantasy. I
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never took a set from him my life. The account is in the Carli
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branch in a different Port bank and the name of Arlan Strike. What about
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Hannah Vaul she found out too. Finally went out of my mind. I
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couldn't kill again, but I couldn't afford to pay two lots of blackmail.
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I told Ali Mouldens. She'll laugh that, call me a spineless weekly.
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He's making it up. He killed head of Bog and he's trying to fix
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it on you. You won't get out of it like that. You told
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me to bring her over to your apartment that Wednesday night. You made me
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make an excuse to leave her for half an hour. When I came back,
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Hannah was dead. You poisoned her. That's when you got cheap to
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help. You put the body in the window before thinking you a better way
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of disposing on it. Yes, I wish I did, mister Lacy,
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I prophesy you'll get your wish and Miss Moulden will be right alongside you.
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That's ridiculous. He got no proof. Lacy's lying his head off. I
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don't think so, and that letter he spoke of, the copy which you
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showed him must still exist in the original and the police will find it.
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And I think, ladies and gentlemen of our audience, is the finish of
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this program. There's no future in murder. I have only one announcement to
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make. I said before that I was an actor man who's conch was part
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of your conscience, those of you who are watching me now, this program
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was brought to you tonight by your own faith and honesty, sponsored by your
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pride in your city and its people. Something like this program tonight can happen,
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and does Oursidy is a good place to live in. Good Night.
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I nodded to the awkard to leader for the closing theme music of the show,
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and suddenly the police appeared, would Inspector Jakes in charge, and Arlene,
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Lacy and Sheep were taken off, and Sam was at my elbow.
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Nice work, Rock. He wrote a good script and off the cut better
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than I could have done. Now it was a colossal show. Yeah,
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hey, don't you realize what I've done. I've just sent my sponsor to
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the electric chair. I wouldn't worry too much about that. If those phones
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aren't running hot with prospective news sponsors. I'll go back to writing copy for
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commercial. Hey, I never thought of that. Now, what do you
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know? Arleen always wanted this show to get top rating, and it took
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a murder. She committed herself to do it. This is Carter Brown.
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Well, I guess after that story, nobody's going to want me to write
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for TV. But you know, I agree with my hero. There's no
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future in murder except in writing about it. And it's fun too. I'll
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be back again with another story for you, Court Hazard in Hong Kong,
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and the hero's name is Turney Masters, or at least that's the name he
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finds himself settled with. If you're listening, you'll find out why. Meanwhile,
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this is Carter Brown saying so long for now be singing in Belladonna was
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poison? You heard our star Frank Waters as Rock Spoke, A Carter Brown
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mystery theater based on the best selling novels by Carter Brown, is dramatized and
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directed by Morris Travers for Grace Gibson's Radio Productions. Welcome Back. Well,
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I kind of figured from the get go with her hesitation that the whole reason
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the grandmother was trying to call Johnny off was because of the granddaughter that I
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think would be the only thing that would really get her scared. I definitely
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missed having the granddaughter in the episode. She was the highlight of the whole
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serial, but I understand the way that it worked out. Still, the
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granddaughter would have been nice to have her. I also thought it was interesting
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to have Nicky kind of deliver the closing lesson to the story. While she
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wasn't a particularly nice person, she was a little bit more normal and a
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little wiser than the main character's Johnny encountered in the rest of the story.
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All Right, well, now it's time for us to take a listen to
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Belladonna was poisoned part for Welcome Back. So our story comes to a close,
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and I have to admit that this was probably my least favorite of the
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Carter Brown stories so far. I think the concept was interesting, but that's
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really about as far as it went. The way they kind of brought it
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about it was a little ludicrous, but that could have worked. Often the
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Carter Brown mysteries have had somewhat have had someone over the top conclusions which,
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while not dramatically perfect or certainly interesting, to listen to this one, it
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just felt like the end it was just kind of a light down the wave
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that it came through. A lot of things just stand up not making sense.
31:07
The big thing is that with both the producer and the sponsor connected to
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the murder, both of these people were the ones that approved the special episode,
31:23
which raises a big question as to why they would do that. Now,
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there are two possibilities. I think it'd be fair for them to expect
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that rock Stone would not capture them, But if that didn't happen, then
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it would be a pretty big embarrassment for their series when their brands in which
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they're invested. If, on the other hand, he somehow managed to catch
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them, well, it would be the death penalty. So why do you
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go ahead and encourage and act like it's a good idea? But beyond that,
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you know, and to me, it may just be the radio adaptation
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of the Carter Brown Mystery. Since we don't really have the book handy,
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we can't really judge whether it was a bad book from the start or just
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poorly adapted. But poorly adapted in the sense that, unlike other characters,
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we didn't really get a feel for what this guy was about. You know,
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there's a lot that could have been done dramatically and comedically with this actor
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having to play a detective the role that he actually played on TV. In
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the end, we just don't get any of that. But hopefully we'll do
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better with our next serial, which will actually be the one they announced next
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week, We'll bring you The Lady was Lethal. Now we turn to listener
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comments and feedback, and I have a review of the iTunes app by Brian
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hates Ducks in the iTunes Store. Great app. I love old time radio
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detective shows, and Adam's hosting is a perfect compliment to them. Not many
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of my friends or people I association with like old time radio like I do.
33:17
Adam almost makes me feel like I have a body to talk to about
33:22
them with. Well, thanks so much, And I think that's definitely one
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of the benefits of the hosting because so few people remember this or remember it
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to the same degree. You know, some people have memories of the Shadow,
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you know, just vague cultural references of that, but all the other
33:46
things, mister Moto, a life in your hands forget, and Johnny Doller
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hard to find. So I'm glad that we've got the Facebook page, and
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we also just have the show so we can kind of connect together and enjoy
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them together. Thanks so much for the comment, Brian. And finally we
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have a comment on podcast only. Great show and great host who has a
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lot to the shows. Well, thanks so much. All right, well
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that will do it for today. Join us back here on Monday when we
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start another Johnny Dollar Cereal Friday. We begin The Lady Was Lethal, which
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will hopefully be better than this week, and then then be sure and listen
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tomorrow as we bring you the line up. In the meantime, send your
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Graham signing off.