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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Primrose Matter, Part Five and Manhunt: The Surgery Slaying (EP1231) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and coming up later on it's an episode of
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Manhunt. But here now is The Primrosematter, Part five from Hollywood. It's
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time now for Johnny Dollar. This is calm Irvin state belief. Well,
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Lieutenant, they found you in a hurry. Sure, I was home in
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bed, where any decent person would be this hour of the night or morning
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or whatever it is. You'll get no sympathy from me. I haven't even
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been to bed. You doing, Dollar, living in a tree up there
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and using that forest service phone for your own private exchange. More or less,
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I've got another body for you, Lieutenant. That's a happy good morning.
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Who's this one? An next Chicago hood named Spade Killer. What did
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you do? No? He fell over a cliff in the manner of speaking.
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That's three of the gang dead now. The only one left is Jibernitzen
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himself. Have you found him yet? No, but I think I will
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in the next hour or so. Dollar. I can't hold my men out
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of there any longer. I gotta move in. Give me till noon,
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lieutenant. If I can take myself, it may save an innocent person's life.
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He's a three time killer already, I know. And you've been selling
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me that story for the last twelve hours. That's what's helped me back.
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But I've gotta have more detail, all right. A friend who's with me.
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A prospector named Jed Marsh will meet you here at the Forest Service phone
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in an hour. He'll be in a green station wagon. When did you
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get a hold of a green station wagon? We haven't yet. We're about
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to steal it. So on Lieutenant Tonight and every weekday Night, Bob Bailey
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in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expensacut America's Fabulous Freelance
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Insurance Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location Primrose
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Camp, Santa Rida National Forest, Arizona to the home office mid State's Industrial
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Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, Assignment the Primrose Matter expense account final pay.
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The jibber Nitsen gang had held up an armored truck in Kansas City,
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killed two guards, and fled with one hundred thousand dollars payroll covered by insurance.
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I'd finally track them down in the Santa Rita Mountains of southern Arizona.
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Three of the gang were dead now, and only the jipper himself was still
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unaccounted for. But he was close around that I was sure of somewhere near
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the Primrose tourist camp where I was staying a lonely layout on a dead end
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mountain road run by old Pomp Bardell and his wife and their daughter Jenny,
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whom I still hadn't seen. It was nearly dawn when Jed, Marsh and
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I got back to the camp. There was no sign of life. We'd
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taken the keys to pop station wagon from the dead gangster's pocket. Jed got
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into the station wagon and waited until I was over at the cabin, then
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started the motor. I was counting on the sound of the motor to bring
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somebody out into the open, and the plan worked. Pardon me, but
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it wasn't The jui showed. It was Pomp Bardell? Hey, what are
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you doing? Where you go? He came running out of the living quarters
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behind the souvenir shop, tugging at his suspended He didn't notice me until I
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walked up behind him. What to do? Would you do enough? I'm
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an early riser. Anything wrong, mister Bardell? Wrong? Why? No?
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What do you think be wrong? I don't know, but I thought
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you seemed a little upset about something. Well, did you happen to notice
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who was driving my station wagon? Mister doner? I can't say I particularly
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noticed. I imagine it was your nephew, wasn't it. No, I
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didn't get out in time to see. Well, who else would it be?
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Your daughter? You told me, isn't Tucson. There's nobody else here?
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Is there except you and your wife? No, no, nobody else,
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sir. I just thought maybe I retton it was him, all right.
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He don't seem to be around. Is he in the habit of taking
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your car without telling you, mister Bardoner, No, of course not.
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He was just going after something. He would be back in the little world.
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Well, it seems funny him having the keys to it. He's kind
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of taken over your place here, hasn't he. Who do you mean?
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Well, taking your car the way just did. And yesterday evening when I
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wanted to rent a cabin for the night, you claimed they were all full,
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weren't going to let me have one until he stepped in, And okay,
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well he's my nephew. One of the families somehow, though, I
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can't quite picture you as a man who led any other member of his only
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run things, unless, of course, you happen to be in a position
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where you had no choice. What are you talking about? I think you
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know of course I got a choice. Why wouldn't I have? Not one
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though that you'd probably care to make if I've got the set up your tag
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right, You ain't no tourist dollar, and you ain't here looking for uranium.
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Who are you anyhow? I'm a special investigator for an insurance company,
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the company that ensured that one hundred thousand dollars payroller was stolen in Kansas City
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by Jipper Nitzen and his gang. What set got to do with anything good?
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Primrose? Quite a bit, mister Bardell, because this is where the
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gang hold up. The two of them were left after they shot their way
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through that roadblock down on the Nogalles Highway. You're crazy. I'd know it
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if there was any strangers around here, you did know it. One of
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the two is the man you claim was your nephew. No, no,
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wait a minute, Actually he was a gangster by the name of Spade Keller.
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He's dead, by the way, he's dead. Yeah, that's right.
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It wasn't either took your station wagon. It was a friend of yours.
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Jet marsh j What what's he aiming to do? Meet the police on
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the road down below, Tell him what the setup is? Here and stall
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them off if he can long enough for me to have a try at taking
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Nitson without giving him a chance to hurt your daughter. What do you mean
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by that? Last night? Your wife told me Jenny was in a row
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ill you said she was in Tucson. One thing, Sure, she wasn't
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around here anywhere, Neither was Jipper. I think he's been holding her as
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a hostage to keep you and your wife in line. That's why you had
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to let Spade Keller pass himself off as your nephew. That ain't true.
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You're out of your mind, am I? Jenny's in in Tucson? Like
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I told you? Your wife said she was here? Who she was upset?
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Sure? Sure she was because of the danger to her daughter, the
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same reason that's got you upset. Don't She'll have a lot better chance if
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you cooperate with me. He's get out of here. Leave us a low.
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It wouldn't change things if I did. The police are going to move
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in at noon with fifty men and start a search. Chip is a three
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time killer already. One more won't matter to him. My kid help,
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you'll, please don't ask me to. He'll use her as a hostage a
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shield and try to shoot his way. She won't have a chance. Your
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best hope is to tell me where he is, help me get to him
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without arousing a suspicion. I can't do it. I can't take the change.
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Yes, you can, Hira warning missus Mindell. He's a special investigator
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by her. He knows the whole thing. He says, yes and listening.
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I heard what he said, and he's right too, My Phila Ninsen
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said, if we will know what he said, if we read one word
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to him being here, to anybody to kill Jenny first and then us.
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And I heard what mister Dawlad just said too, and he's right. We
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gotta take the chance for Jenny's sake. It's all we can do now.
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I don't know. I just don't know. With the police coming in like
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the arts out of our hands. Now, She's right, mister Mandell,
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you can't do anything about the inevitable. It's a matter now of doing what's
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best and save us for your daughter. What else you suppose I've been thinking
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of for two days. It's still the only thing to think of. If
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I didn't agree with you, I wouldn't be here. I turned my information
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over to the police and let them go ahead and search the area. They
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get nts and all right, but not before he kill her. But I
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think I can prevent that. The chip it doesn't know me as far as
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he's concerned, I'm just another Eastern tourist wandering around the mountains here, and
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because of that, I think I can get a lot closer to him than
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the police can without putting him on guard. Provided you'll help. He's right,
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we gotta do what he says. He's hold up in an old tunnel
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about a quarter mile back up the canyon. There they took some silver out
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in the old days. Not many folks even know about it. And your
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daughter's there with him, yes, more, and he's been taking food to
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him twice today, making sure she's all right, and she has been.
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I guess he knowed that's the only hole he had old. Haven't been there
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yet this morning, have you. No. He don't expect us for around
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ten or maybe by that time. If things go all right, he'll have
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more to worry about them, whether he gets his breakfast or not. What
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are you raiming to do, mister JOHNA make an early morning prospecting trip up
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that canyon. I'll take a pic, Geiger counter, anything to help look
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apart not hear. I'll leave my gun with you, mister Bardell, and
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my watt. You're going up there without no gun. Sunday Prospectus from the
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east. Don't carry them. Wish me luck. I laughed. A little
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while later, with a complete kit and dressed to fit the parts, even
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including a couple of sandwiches and a canteen of water to show I was planning
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to spend a full day in the hills. At the end of an hour,
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I was working my way down the canyon, shipping rock samples here and
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there, testing with a Geiger counter, apparently without a care in the world.
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The brush covered entrance to the tunnel was only a few yards ahead of
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me, but I made a point of deliberately ignoring it. Finally, the
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mouth of the tunnel was only a few feet away. I pushed aside the
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brush as though to get at the canyon wall, then pretended to see the
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tunnel for the first time. I pushed aside some more brush, and I
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stepped inside. After a moment's hesitation, I fished out my flesh like I
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started walking back in from ants. I hadn't gone far before I got results.
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I went out like a light. You didn't have to hit him.
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He's just some prospector who stumbled in here accidentally. Relaxed kid is just knocked
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out. You didn't have to hit him like that. I can't afford to
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take chances going out of the entrance to make sure it was a lone.
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He comes till you call me. The blow had been sharp, but without
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much force. I was out only for a matter of seconds, but I
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went on playing possible. I waited now until he was out to be a
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shut Jenny. You're conscious, you know you get easy. I don't want
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him to hear his Who are you? What are you? Never mind,
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there's no time. Just don't worry. I'm here to get you out of
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this. But how he's a killer, a gangster, I know who he
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is. Look has he got that money here with him? But he stolen
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Kansas City? Yeah? I sent some canvas sacks back inside the tunnel farther.
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What difference does that make, Wney, That's what I was hired to
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recover. Hired. I don't understand. I'll tell you later now, if
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you'll keep your head and give me a little help. We've got a good
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chance of getting you. He's coming back, all right, listen, went
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over him four or five yards away from me with his back turn and keep
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him that way for just five seconds. I'll do the rest, got it?
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Yeah, I don't know if, I don't mind the if, just
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do it all right, don't let him know I'm conscious. Guys still all
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yeah? I think maybe he's dying. Then let him go on, get
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away from him, living on. It's in human to treat anybody that way.
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Oh, shut up, I got problems on my own. How much
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longer are you going to keep me here? I get a hunch if something
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is wrong. Things just don't feel right this morning. So I thought this
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guy is something that the way I asked you, how much longer? And
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I said, shut up? How'd you like to make me shut up?
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How do you mean I suppose you come here and find out? Well,
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no, it took you two days with you finally stating his soft and up.
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My hand closed over a rock almost as big as a baseball, weighing
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over half a pound, and I came slowly to my feet. Chipper whorld
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around, going for his gun. What's the devil? I aim for?
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His head. All right, Jenny, he can pick up his gun.
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How he's bleeding him? No, No, I haven't killed him, but
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I imagine the state will expense account at him twelve three hundred and nine dollars
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and forty five cents incidentals in Arizona and transportation back to Hartford expense account total
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nine hundred and fourteen dollars and fifteen cents. Remarks the state eventually did kill
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him. I mean yours truly, Johnny Dell. Now here's our star to
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tell you about next week's story. Every chase a phantom. Well, believe
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me, I have, and I will next week in the phantom chase matter
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Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Deller? Yours truly?
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Johnny dollar Is starring Bob Bailey. Is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Less
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Crutchfield. It is produce directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard and our cast were
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Marvin Millard, Junius Matthews, her Ballads, D. J. Thompson,
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Herb Butterfield, Tony Barrett and Barbara Eiler. Musical supervision by A. Marigo
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Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday Night, same time and station,
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or another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking
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welcome back. You have to love how on task Johnny Dollar is. You
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know, he's lying there on the cave, an armed man who could easily
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kill him is only seconds from getting back, and he takes time to ask
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the hostage if she knows where the money is. Never let it be said,
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Johnny lose his sight of business. I also kind of wondered about,
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particularly in this part. I was iffy on it in part three, but
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in part five, when we really know what's going on for certain and there's
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no information to be garnered by beating around the bush, would have made sense
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to say, Okay, look sir, I know what's going on. The
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hood who was pretending to be your nephew died, rather than making the guy
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tell a couple three more embarrassing lies. But other than that, I thought
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this was a very good serial, and I appreciated Johnny's courage and his willingness
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to go into the cave and risk his life definitely outside the function of his
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job, but really just goes to say the top of person he is,
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and that really makes the show so worth listening to. Now it's time for
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this week's episode of Man Manhunt. Excuse me between last week's showing this week
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there were four lost episodes, and the title of today's episode is the case
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of the surgery slain from April first of nineteen forty four. Man the glue
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of the surgery lane. Let's do and no crime has been committed yet,
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No murder has been done. Yes, no man hunts as the gun yet
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and it's sad. A good Ministers emergency like in the corner. Doctor,
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bring it here quickly, he If the electric plug is still in the socket,
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hurry, please, I think something happened to patient. I'm placing the
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wire. Doctor, the plug is still in the sockett. It's not strong
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enough. You'll operate, cry pull it over the patient when you please.
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Hm. There won't be any need for an operation. Our patient has been
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sad to death. Man Hunt and the glue of the surgery place a con
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he says, who's corn I got tired of waiting for a phone call in
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my office, so I come in here deeply touch jail seven. Why isn't
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the velvet carpet laid out to the head of the homicide department. Oh,
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sorry about that, Jill, But there were a couple of jitterbugs until a
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while ago. Yeah, what about him? What do you see? They
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were cutting a rug? Okay, I'm sorry, what kind of a cl
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is taking down? Well, you know, George William's the guy we've been
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dieted down. Well. Our key witness against him is a fellow named Britt
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Mars. He's being operated on this morning, and you can't question him until
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after the operation. Waiting for a call from the hospital. Waiting for a
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call from the hospital, he says, No, I'm expecting a spirit message
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from an old ghost. I used to know so Nurris his testimony to predictably,
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Yeah, and he taught Williamson figure and get them twenty years. I'm
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dying to question that Norris. That may be my call now I've got it
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down. Hello, Yes, just a minute pause, Yeah, all yeah,
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Walton's swigging Alan hospital. Yeah, yeah, O, Dave, you're
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right down operating noble bell. Yeah, it's over all right the hard way.
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Bert Norris was murdered on the operating table. If I stabbed to death,
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I gotta get the hospital. Wait for me, bel I'm going to
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the hospital with what for? You're looking for a way to kill time?
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How bell, I'm gonna look for a murderer who picked this time to kill.
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What's the use pens on the knife? I've questioned everybody, And what
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do I find a well? For one thing? Though, if the operating
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lights went out because the switch outside the door was drown but I'll agree with
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you that anybody could at turn the twitch off. Yeah, and George Williams
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was here at the hospital this morning. Like I said before, he's the
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guy who had a reason to kill Norris. I'm going up and see him
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just a minute, if you don't mind, Okay, they'll going up and
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see Williams. I'm gonna stick around here for a while. Stick around here,
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he says, so sick who cares? Yeah? Okay, though,
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oh there's Sampton. Just to check my note. You will always assist doctor
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robertson this operation, Yes, I do. We generally have the same as
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soon as far as you know that he's a doctor Roberts or doctor Stone,
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no man named George Williams. Doctor. I'd rather last after robertson. All
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right, will where can I find him? His office across the hall?
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May I go now? Yes, yes, of course. So I'll be
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a nurse if you want. Yeah, is doctor Roberts office directly across the
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hall. Yes, okay, I guess I'm a good enough detective to find
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that all right this morning, I don't ye sor the police. I couldn't
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they ever find out that iron. Oh he's gonna laugh for me, George,
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and I've tried to. Yes, if you must know, I am
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moving my nerves. I hope you'll excuse my breaking in like this, doctor,
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I'll populater goodbye. That's all right, Stephen. I couldn't help overhearing
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my telephone conversation. That's the difference. I was about to call headquarters and
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contest anyhow. Oh, you killed Bertnard, that's about it. No,
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I didn't. But well, Robert isn't my name. It's Williams. George
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Williams is my brother. Oh, that keeps the whole thing in the family.
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Darius's testimony could have convicted your brother, and you were operating on him.
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That's kind of a sweet setup. Yes, I knew the police would
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say that, only you're overlooking this fact. Norris's testimony might also have cleared
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George, and I wanted that more than anything. That might have a pretty
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big word. I understand the light over the operating table went out when the
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switch outside the door was gone. Your brother was in the hospital, but
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he had gotten that close to the operating room without being seen. I don't
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know as telling name we could have. You think we had it arranged that
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he was to throw the switch and I was the sad Norris. I don't
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think anything, but it could have been done that way. You don't give
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me credit for very much intelligence, mister Stephens. When the investigation disclosed the
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fact that I was William's brother, wouldn't that be pretty obvious? Yes?
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If it would tell me something? Though, did your brother have thrown the
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switch outside the door and entered the room sad nurse and left before the emergency
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light was working? There was time enough for that, That's what you mean.
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That's all I've got to tell you, except that it didn't have to
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see my brother. It could have been anybody a mister X crazy. Yes,
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it could have sage more than seeing your brother and now seen the cool
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that's the hat school figure out that Norris is murderer. I hope you'll find
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your mysterday. Yes, me too. But until we find them, all
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we have now is a mystery. I'm saying, William, you had every
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reason in the world to kill Norris, and all the opportunity to. Why
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don't you get lost, Sergeant. You can't prove a thing except circumstances.
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Circumstances, he says. Guys have gone to the chair on circumstances evidence.
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A whole lot more have gone free. All right, I was in the
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hospital. Why shouldn't I been. I'm out on day. I can go
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where I like. Yeah, I want to take me downtown. All right,
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I'll go. You better have a reason for booking. I'll book you
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on suspicion, and I'll have you right where I want you. You're gonna
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have me right where I want you. I'll set up a yell that I'm
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being persecuted. That will take you out of plane, colsed into a uniform
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so fast you won't know what hit you. Okay, don't think you're scaring
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me. I'm not scaring Begging you to arrest me, begging me to arrest
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him, he says, I got a good imagine you had a good mind.
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You get out of here. You know I can't rupert take the conditions
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on the whisperg nor side. I understand the students doctor Robertson's in the operating
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room. Now, doctor Stone, your messages. They're waiting for him.
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How long has doctor Stone been at the hospital, nurse, I don't know,
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many years, I imagine. I'm relatively musier. Doctor Robertson and I
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came here together about six months ago. Where did he come from? Middle
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town upstate? He was doing general practition work to get experience. Actually got
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out of medical school. I was a minister my hometown. You came here
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with him? Why? Doesn't make much difference during this work student, there
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was a job somewhere for us to do, and doctor Robertson and I got
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on very well back home medical course, of course. So we're going to
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the operating room. Is that the room right through the swinging door? And
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that switch there in the wall? Who pulls the operating right? Yes,
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it is right. Let's go in and nurse in. As much as there's
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no social association between you and doctor roberts you better close the locket ask him,
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awfully, quit liceness of your caring air. Shall we go? Yes,
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I'll hold the door for you, Oh, doctor roberts Doctor, do
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you know what I'm trying to douse? Gentlemen? Yes, you know.
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All right, then, well you'll please take the positions we were in when
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the light went out during the operation on Britain Earth. I was standing right
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here at the head of the table. When I was on this side taking
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the pace full, I was about here on the way to the off.
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Does that check with everybody? I know it's the wire from the lamp goes
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into the wall pocket the massive switch outside off of the pa. Mm hmm,
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all right, now you please go through whatever routine you were doing when
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the light went out. See, doctor Stone had just told me the patient's
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post is normal. That's right in the doctor yes, And I asked Nurse
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Stanton to check the oxygen. All right, all right, I did that
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out then on my flash or what next, doctor, I don't know.
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I think I asked doctor Stone to find the emergency light in the corner against
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the wall and asked Nurse Stanton to see if the plug had come out of
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the socket. Is that correct? Then the plug had not come out of
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the socket. NuRD Santon, Well it has now I kicked it out.
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Now I'll just put it. Doctor Roberts, pick up the telephone. Doctor
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Roberts, will you please pick up the telephone. Let would be my wife.
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She always posed at this time. I'm sorry to Saton. Sorry,
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I have got to arrest you for the murder of Bert Norris william So only
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the two doctors and the nurse could have killed North. Why just tot Williams
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he could have done it, thrown the switch and found his way to the
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table in the dark door. I got it. No, it had to
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be one of the other three. But they were all in the operating room
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and the had thrown you. Oh, here's what happened. The nurse kicked
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the plug out of the light, just as I did, and then she
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sabb North. It took only a second nicle outside the door. I throw
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the twitch back in, Okay, but the plug was still out. Yeah,
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that's the first thing she did at Doctor robertson quest to Kee if the
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plug wasn't well, it wasn't. Of course, he put it back in.
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The light didn't go back on because she had thrown the switch. It's
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fine, But why did she do it? Well, she was in love
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with doctor Roberts. That's why he told me that. Now. See,
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she had threatened him that unless he divorced his wife and married her, she'd
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ruined his career. Well, even if he couldn't place the blame for narses
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murder on Robertson, the notoriety wouldn't have company motive. Well that's the payout,
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huh. If Norris was knocked up by him? What's the name again?
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Drew nurse? Nurse and she says not to you too, what's the
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name name? Welcome back? Well, this was an interesting setup, and
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I think that the solution definitely made sense. If it had been the surgeon
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who had committed the crime, I think it'd be more reasonable to expect that
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we would have a less obvious method of killing that was done because there would
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have been ways to commit the crime while the guy was out in a way
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that wouldn't make it look like the doctor was guilty. So it makes sense
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that that would be one of the intents. All right, Well, listener
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comments and feedback, and we start with an email from Joan Jones says,
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I just wanted to tell you I enjoyed today's story on Manhunt. I found
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it interesting and there was a little comedy in it too. I hope this
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is going to be become one of the new shows with more than a couple
30:18
of episodes. Well, it's not going to be one of those that was
30:22
extremely short, but there are only so many episodes. We have a grand
30:29
total of fifteen episodes, so we have enough episodes for two more Johnny Dollar
30:37
serials, and then once those are done, we will have two weeks where
30:44
on Monday we'll have two episodes of Manhunt to round out the series before we
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get into Pursuit. But we have six episodes left. And Joan goes on
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to say it was too bad Frank Lovejoy's Here Comes mcbrian has so few episodes
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Anything with Frank Lovejoy in it I really enjoy, such as Not Beat,
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which I've listened to most of the episodes in the show. It is a
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really good program if you tend to air at anytime. Thanks so much,
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Joan, and we definitely intend to air it. And in some ways it's
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a good thing that Here Comes McBride didn't work out and become a show that
31:19
lasted a year or two. I believe it at least did last the summer,
31:25
but that it didn't last beyond that is good because then Frank Lovejoy was
31:30
available to do Not Beat, which was a far better program, and it's
31:34
one of those shows that has so many episodes in it. It's in the
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same class as Casey Crime Photographer and Sam Spade and The Falcon and Rocky Jordan,
31:48
where we just have to find enough space for it. But it's one
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that I would look forward to doing, and I definitely enjoy Frank Lovejoy's taking
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that series. Gary comments, Hi, I'm nice April Fool's Day routine.
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You got me with that one. I didn't realize that what you were doing
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until you disclosed the spoof at the end of the podcast. Nice work,
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Thanks so much. Gary. Actually, this is two days after that I
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uploaded the podcast, and that's the first comment I heard back on it.
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At least that's when it's being recorded, so we'll see how many folks actually
32:30
caught it. But I appreciate your comment. And then we have some comments
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from Facebook. Laurie says, I watched the Columbo series pilot Prescription Murder tonight
32:40
and Virginia greg was in it. It is so cool to see her in
32:45
person. She did her best work probably over radio, but she was just
32:51
a true professional and everything she did. And then a comment from Travis,
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I'm an improviser studying the Second City in Chicago, and I started the podcast
33:00
well at work to pick up on the lingo and style. Now without a
33:05
doubt, hooked on Johnny Dollar. My posture literally tenses up during the intense
33:09
moments, and I'm sure the people working next to me wonder what on earth
33:14
I'm listening to keep up the great work. Well, thanks so much,
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Travis, and good luck on that training. I love improv and try to
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get to the local comedy, sports, family friendly improv here in Boise at
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least once a quarter. And it's just it's wonderful entertainment. All right.
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Well, that will actually do it for today. Join us back here tomorrow
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for police headquarters and we will resume on Monday with another Yours truly Johnny Dollar
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