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But now let's get into today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller The Fathom
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five Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar, Ralph Steedler,
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Johnny Della Liability. Oh hi, am Ralph? What's on your mind?
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Poetry? You? Philisine? The Bard's immortal words? Which words full fathom
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five? Thy father? Lies of his bones are Carl's made? And those
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those are pearls that were re ign. What's the case, Ralph Robbery?
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A pearl necklace? Life insurance seventy five thousand dollars worth of bones down on
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the bottom of the deep blue sea, or so they say. So,
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who say the insurance wife, the insurance best friend. Oh, they're quite
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positive about it, which you're not? Is that in, Johnny? If
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I'm going to be stuck for seventy five gees, at least I had to
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get the straight dope. Shouldn't I all right, I'll get it for you.
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Give me the who and where it happened in Miami Beach check with the
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d's office there. The insured was a man named William Marky, and the
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beneficiary his wife, poor wretch. How you're biased, Ralph. Sure,
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I'm paying alimony. So look it over, Johnny, and keep in touch
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tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expenser out America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator as t Lee Johnny
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Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home Office Delta Liability Hertford, Connecticut.
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The following is an accounting of expended yours during my investigation of the Fathom
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five matter Item one one hundred and forty three dollars and forty cents transportation tips
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and Incidental's Hartford to Miami. Purpose of assignment aside from a chance to get
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a look at the sun, to check into the death of one William Marky,
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or to find out if there was a death and how it happened,
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and where was the body and if not, why not and if so how,
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or rather to determine well anyway, the deputy investigator from the DA's office,
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a man named Barney Wilson, was at least as confused as I was,
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and he'd had a two day head start. Now we're going on assumption,
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of course the man is dead, but legally, you understand the fact
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hasn't yet been established, meaning exactly what mister Wilson was pretty strong evidence,
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but no corpus delictai, not so far. Anyway, maybe you'd better start
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at the beginning, and that would be where mister Donna, how much do
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you know about the case, Well, very little. The dead man,
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if he is dead, was named William Marky. He was forty six years
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old, owner of a consulting engineering firm in New York. He'd been married
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to his present wife for three years. Her age is thirty, and she's
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the beneficiary of his insurance and of my dad. A charming and lovely young
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woman. They've been on here for about a month and three days ago Markey
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was killed or allegedly killed in an accident, drowned as I understand it,
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when a fishing launch sank a mile or two off shore. And then but
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you can take it from there, mister Wilson. Now your responsibility in the
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case is primarily to the insurance company, Is that right, mister Donna and
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Charlie? Not primarily? Why? What do you mean? And it would
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be to the company's advantage. If Markey's death were not legally established, they
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wouldn't have to pay the claim. If that's what you mean, then it's
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reasonable to dispose, since the whole case is a pretty vague at present,
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that your efforts will be devoted to creating doubts as to whether Markeys really did
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Mister Wilson, I think it's reasonable to suppose that I can't very well answer
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your questions without knowing exactly what has happened. All right, then, briefly,
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this is it. Apparently Markey came down here to bid on a construction
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job manufacturing plant. We didn't get the job, but he stayed on.
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He and his wife and the young fellow that was with him. What a
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young fellow name of Danny Haynes. He worked for Markey, a draftsman or
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engineer, evidently a personal friend of the Markeys. The three of them took
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the house down the beach south and spent all the time together night clebn one
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thing and another I see anyhow, well, three days ago, Markey and
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Young Haynes went out fishing together. Hired a charter boat, a small cabin
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cruiser named the Fathom five, and headed south Long Coast, working the offshore
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banks. Whose idea was the trip Markeys, according to Young Haynes. In
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fact, all the rest of the story is according to Haines. Nobody else
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saw what happened, and what did happen well, Haines says, they anchored
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off the reef and both of'em fished from the dinghy for a while.
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Then Marky decided he'd go back to the cruiser and fix some breakfast. Haines
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put him aboard and took the dinghy out alone. He says he fished along
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the reef for about thirty minutes before he looked back and saw the cruiser was
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a fire. It was nearly a mile away, according to his story,
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and by the time he got back, the boat was a pillar of flame.
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He didn't see any sign of marking, no, he says not.
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He couldn't get aboard because of the flames, and a few minutes later the
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cruiser sank. No one else saw it. There were no other boats around,
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no it was early morning and there weren't many others out. It had
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rained during the night, and there was a fairly heavy fog. They're only
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a mile and a half or so off shore, so Haines rowed in with
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the dinghy and reported it. Tell me what was the depth of the ocean
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where the cruiser sank. Oh, only about fifty feet. I've got a
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salvage company working out to raise it, to get a diver down. Yes,
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but he didn't find out much. He couldn't get inside the hole.
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That's about the size of it. Hum m m. It is until they
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get that cruiser rays so we can take a look at it. And of
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course it may not tell us a thing. What about the currents along the
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reef where that boat went down, Oh, they're pretty bad, strong and
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erratic. A body could be carried through the reefs and on out to see
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you'll never be found. Well, I was thinking more of the possibility of
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a good swimmer getting into shore. You said they were anchored only a mile
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and a half out. Yes, well, it's possible, but not very
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probable. You'd have been seen by Haines or somebody else. There was a
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heavy fog, wasn't there fairly heavy and of course Haines could be lying.
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Maybe he did see him. I said it was possible, But that's not
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the line I'm planning to take, mister Doll. I'm sewing yet. They'll
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bring that hull to the surface some time tomorrow, or maybe we'll have some
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evidence. Then maybe Marky's body'll turn up in the next forty eight hours.
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And if not, then, mister Dolla, I will petition the probate court
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to declare him legally. Did I suppose you've got some reason for all this
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rush? Yes? I want the fact of death established in order to file
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a murder charge. Danny Hanes, who else? It's the old old story,
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isn't it. Two men go out and only one comes back unwitnessed accident.
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Nothing new about it. No, No, that's never been an easy
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one to prove. Well, it'll be a lot tougher a year from now
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if you people put up a fight and force the decision up to the superior
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court. Suppose Haines himself. I wish you'd try the next thing to an
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admission of guilt. Oh, missus Markey, she has legal status in the
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case. She could do it, but you won't. You're probably right,
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she wouldn't be likely to throw away seventy five thousand dollars. Well, I
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can't tell you what we'll do yet, mister Wilson. I'll have to look
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around first, talk to the people involved. Get my feet on the ground.
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Fine, would you just do that? He I'll give you the addresses.
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Missus Marky is still at the beach house. Young Haynes has moved into
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a hotel near there. All right, thanks? Say how did the three
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of them get along during the month they've been here? Luck peas in the
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pod? From all appearances, of course, what was going on behind the
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scenes might have been another story. Usually. I think that's where we'll find
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the motive. Not that Missus markey encourage changed at all. She's a fine
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woman, I know, and she's beautiful, and this is the South.
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How's that so long, mister Wilson. I'll keep in touch. Expense account
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Item two, three dollars and thirty five cents Telegram to Hertford requesting an investigation
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of the market firm's financial status, both currently and over the past three years,
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and a similar check of Marky's personal financial status. Item three, four
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dollars and ten cents taxi to the Pompado Beach Hotel to talk with the DA's
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prime suspect, Danny Haynes. Look, mister Dollar, I've been over the
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whole thing with the police a half a dozen times. I'd still like to
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ask a few questions. If you don't mind. They've got the whole story
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all I know about it. They had a stenographer to take it down.
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Why don't you go them with your questions? Maybe I got different questions.
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I told him everything I know about it. Look, Danny, you don't
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have to talk to me, but if you're smart, you will. Why
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so because the police already have their minds made up, or at least Bartie
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Wilson has sure he's out to prove I killed mister Markey. Well, look,
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my mind isn't made up yet, so you can't lose anything by talking
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to me, unless, of course, you did kill him. It happened
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exactly the way I told him. All right, what do you want to
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know? How long did you work for Markey? Two years? You get
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along with him? All right? Sure there was a good job, no
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complaints. You got to be pretty close personal friends. I understand. Well.
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I used to go to their apartment in New York once or twice a
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week for dinner drinks. And then the three of you came down here together
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on a vacation. It wasn't a vacation. Mister Markey came down to bid
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on a job. Did he need you along for that? Well, he
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thought there might be some sketches or plans to draw up and were there.
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Well, no, as it turned out, they weren't necessary. Funny Marky
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wouldn't know that ahead of time, being an engineer. Well, actually it
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was sort of Edna's gestion of missus Markey. I mean, I see,
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yeah, no, I see now. Look, don't get the idea there's
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been anything between us. She's been swell to me. She's well, she's
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just wonderful. That's all right, all right. So the three of you
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came down on business and within a few days the job contract was awarded to
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another firm, but you still stayed on for three more weeks. That was
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Marky's idea. I don't know why exactly. I know he'd counted a lot
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on getting that job, But I was getting a free vacation. Why should
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I argue? So I love you, adjust relaxed and lived it up.
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Yeah, that's about it, mister Marky too, no apparent worries on his
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mind. Well, he was moody sometimes went off by himself, but that
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wasn't too unusual. He was like that quite a lot. He and his
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wife seem to be getting along hard sure as far as I noticed. Why,
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well, let's talk about that accent for a minute. Danny. Whose
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idea was it to go on the fishing trip? Mister Marky's. He woke
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me up at five in the morning, said he'd already phoned and hired the
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boat, the Fathom five. Yeah, the same one we'd had a couple
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of times before. Well, I wasn't much for it. It was missing
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out with a heavy fog, but he was real hot on the idea,
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and I couldn't very well argue he was the boss. Was missus Markey up
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when you left? No, but she knew we were going. She'd packed
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the lunch. I guess they talked about it the night before, all right.
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She took the boat out then and followed the reef south. And what
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happened, Well, we anchored as close as we could get to the reef
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and went out in the dinghy for about an hour. No luck at all,
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then, mister Marky decided he'd go back on board and fix something to
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eat. I let him off and then rowed back along the reef. I
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figured, as long as I had had to come, I might as well
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try for a striker to at least and a while after that, I looked
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back and saw the cruiser was on fire. Was it still foggy then?
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Yeah, about the same. I could just see the glow. I couldn't
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even be sure what it was until I get close. I tried to get
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on board, but the flames were too high. I kept yelling, but
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there was nobody around, and you didn't see or hear any sign of mark
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No. I guess he was already dead. Then not more than five minutes
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later, the cruiser sank. Danny, do you have any theory as to
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what caused the fire? Well, it was a hot plate on board,
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a gasoline pressure rig. It was an old one in pretty bad shape.
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We talked about it before. I think it may have leaked into the bulkheads
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and the bills, and when mister Marky went to light it to fix breakfast,
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the whole boat just went up in flames. Let's see. Tell me
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something, Danny. Do you think Marky could have committed suicide. Suicide?
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Why for what reason? Oh? Maybe losing that contract you said it was
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pretty important to him. Or maybe he thought he was losing his wife.
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What do you mean, Well, maybe he misinterpreted your friendship with her.
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Dan, You're crazy. You're in love with her, aren't you? That's
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my business. I told you there was nothing between us, all right,
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But didn't Marky know that. Look you're the same age she is, and
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he was fifteen years older. A man like that might get to wondering.
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Knock it off, Dollar, nobody's private life is going to be dragged into
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this. You better stop and think, Danny while you still got time.
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A defendant and a murder trial doesn't have any private life, Johnny Dollar.
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Bonnie Wilson, mister Dollar, Special deputy with the DA's office. I understand
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you talk to Danny Haynes. You've got a good grave mind, mister Wilson,
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Oh, tolerable. Well what do you think? Well, I'll go
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about sixty five. He hasn't murdered anybody. Oh, well, that's close
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to even money, So you're not too sure. No, I'm not too
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sure. But then I'm not even sure yet that Marky is dead. Remember,
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well, maybe we can settle that question this season. What do you
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mean? The salvage boys have finally got grapple lines on that boat. They
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figure to bring it up to the service. Around eight o'clock, I'm going
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out in one of the Harbor launchers. You'd like to come along. My
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company's got a seventy five grand stake and they're sure i'd like to come along.
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All right, you meet me at Harbor Police headquarters at seven thirty.
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I'll be there good. I'll introduce you to the late William Markey. Somehow
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I started doubt that, mister Wilson. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
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home Office Delta Liability, Hartford, Connecticut assignment the FEDOM five matter location,
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Miami, Florida expense account continued, Item six three dollars and eighty five cents
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taxi fair to the Marquis Beach house occupied for the past three days now by
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his wife since William Markey's accidental death. According to all reports, a very
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beautiful woman. The reports were correct, won't you command, mister Dollar?
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Thank you come this way. I've been practically living in here in the study
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since I just haven't had the heart to even look at the rest of the
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house. Yes, I imagine it's been quite a shock for you, missus
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Markey, Yes, terrible. No one knows sit down with thank you.
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I really don't know very much about these matters. If there are papers to
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sign, maybe I should have a lawyer so that won't be necessary for the
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present. There's nothing to sign. But aren't you with the insurance company.
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I'm working for them at the moment as a special investigator. I'm to supply
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them with a full report of your husband's accident. They have to have that
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before they can do anything about paying off the policy. Where couldn't the police
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give you all that? And there's a mister Wilson I think his name is
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who with the I've talked to mister Wilson. He's cooperating in every way possible,
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But some of the details I have to get from you. Have you
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talked with Danny Haynes? Yes, Well, didn't he tell you what happened?
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He gave me a statement, yes, but only covering the details he
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actually knew about. Well, I'm sure there's nothing I can add, mister
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do I wasn't even there, as you know, of course, I know,
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missus Marky I'll get all of those details elsewhere. Then I don't see
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why you come out. I'd like to know a few things about your husband,
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things you know better than anybody else, his actions and behavior during the
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last few weeks, his mental attitude. I see you think maybe he committed
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suicide. Is that it I don't think anything. I'm just trying to find
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out. But that's what you're driving at. Suicide. It's a possibility,
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of course, And of course your company isn't liable. I suppose if it's
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suicide, it's still be liable, but only to the extent of twenty five
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thousand dollars under the particular terms of the policy, not seventy five thousand.
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I see. Is that all, mister Dollar, I don't think you do.
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See. Look, I'm not claiming it with suicide. I have no
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reason to think it was. But these questions are going to be raised by
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the Claims Board when they meet to consider settlement, and they're not going to
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pay out any money until they have the answers. So that's why I'm here,
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missus Marky, to get those answers ahead of time. Now you can
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help or you can hinder, but I think you ought to realize that you'll
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be mainly hindering yourself. It was not suicide. Bill wasn't that kind.
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You didn't know him. I resent your imprecation, mister Dollar. He'd never
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do a thing like that, I said, I have no reason to believe
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that he did. Please forgive me. I guess I'm sort of living in
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a state of shock. I'm not like this really suspicious belligerent. Well,
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sure, I understand, and I'm sorry to have to bother you this way,
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but there are certain questions. I know these things have to be done.
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It's all right. Would you like a drink, mister Dollar, not
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unless you're having one? Yes, I think I would like something that case,
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I'll have a scotch on the rocks. Please, oh here, let
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me fix it. Thank you? Make mine the same. I guess it
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was the mention of suicide that set me off. Bill and I were married
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for three years. We were completely happy, every minute of it. Nobody
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in the world had less reason than Bill to do a thing like that.
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What about financial problems? None that I knew about. Did you work before
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your marriage, missus Marky, I was an entertainer chorus. Yes, I
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suppose that gives you the usual impression. Do I seem like a visiting fireman?
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I just thought you might have been a dancer, because you carry yourself
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so well, lithe and graceful. Well, I've been away from it for
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quite some time. It doesn't show. Here's your drink, thank you.
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Maybe it'll help me relax a little. I think it might tell me,
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missus Marky, how did your husband and young Haynes get along? Well,
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that should be obvious. We brought him down here with us, had him
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living here in the house for a month. But I understood that was primarily
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your idea. Who said that? Did you suggest bringing Haines along? Or
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was it your husband? I might have, I don't remember how it came
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up now, but Bill was all for it. Otherwise he'd have put his
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foot down any possibility that he resented Haines's presence but kept it to himself,
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of course not Why should he? I don't know. Well, if you're
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trying to imply something, I'm just asking. I understood your husband had spells
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of brooding during the last few weeks, and I was trying to find out
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the reason for it. If he did, I'm sure I didn't notice it.
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What are Danny Haynes's feelings towards you. I think you're pretty insulting.
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I wasn't intending to be well, what would you call it? Just another
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routine question. I wasn't meaning to imply that you encourage him in any way.
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I certainly didn't. But he's young, impetuous, you're very attractive.
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Maybe he cooked up crazy notions without any encouragement. He thought of me as
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a friend, that's all. No attitudes on his part that your husband might
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have misinterpreted. I don't believe I care to answer any more questions like these,
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mister Dollar. Look, I'm not just asking them for my own pleasure.
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Missus Marky, I'd a lot rather not ask them, but I've got
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a job to do well. I fail to see why it's necessary to probe
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into our private life. I don't tell you why your husband supposedly died out
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there beyond the surf when a cruiser burned and sank. Do you mean supposedly
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his body hasn't been recovered so at present, the evidence of his death is
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purely circumstantial. In fact, there isn't much evidence one way or another.
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Who could possibly doubt it? The insurance company will doubt it, Missus Markey,
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and they'll hold up processing any claim for payment until one of two things
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happens. Until I turn up sufficient proof of death to convince them, or
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until a court declares your husband legally dead. I didn't. Arnie Wilson from
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the DA's office, for reasons of his own, is going to file for
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an immediate court decision. I'm pretty sure of that. But as things stand
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now, my company will fight it, and with no more evidence than Wilson
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has, they'll be able to fight it successfully. What all those questions?
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What was the point? What were you driving at? Your husband's death had
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the result from one of three possible causes one an accident, two suicide,
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three murder murder, but there was there was no one with him except do
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you mean Danny? That's one possibility, one out of three. No.
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I have no reason at the moment to give it any more weight than the
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other two. But there is one thing certain, Missus Markey, and view
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of the circumstances, not one set of insurance is going to be paid until
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one of those causes is proved. What can I do? I don't know
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anything about it. Maybe you don't, or maybe there's something you've forgotten don't
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think is important or something you haven't wanted to talk about. I don't know,
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of course, but it might be worth thinking about. It was nearly
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dark when I left the house, and I wouldn't have noticed the man standing
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under a palm tree by the driveway if he hadn't made a sudden move to
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get out of sight. Then when I walked toward him, he scurried out
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of the drive and slipped into a car parked of the street. I could
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see it was an old model, but I couldn't identify the make. I
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caught the last three numbers on the license plate before it disappeared around a bend.
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I couldn't quite figure it. It might have been Haines or some Ghouli
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swindler who was scared off when he saw the widow wasn't alone. The numbers
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were six four to two expense account item seven three dollars and seventy five cents.
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Taxi back to my hotel. I'dam eight six dollars in a quarter dinner
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and incident there A nine am nine a dollar and forty cents taxi again to
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the waterfront headquarters of the Harbor Police. Thirty minutes later, I was in
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a police launch with Deputy Agent Parney Wilson, several miles down the coast,
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skimming across the water toward a bright cluster of spotlights where a salvage barge was
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working into the night to raise the burned hulk of the charter cruiser Fathom five.
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You still got your mind set the same way, mister Dollond. What
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way was that that there hasn't been any death, there any murder? Oh,
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come now, mister Wilson, you're mistaking an honest, scientific skepticism for
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a set of mind. Well that's very pretty, mister Dollar. What does
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it mean. Well, I haven't taken any definite position yet, but I've
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got to see more evidence before i'll consider proof of debt to be established without
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a question. That means you'll file a demurr against declaration by the courts.
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Not up to me, it's up to the company. But I can tell
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you right now that if you petition, they'll move to blocket. You have
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no real evidence, mister Wilson. I'm getting it though. Piece by piece.
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The sea is starting to give up its pray. Mister Dollan, what
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do you mean the boys found his shoe late to south, washed up in
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the surf, just about way you'd expect to find it if it had been
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carried in by the current identifiable from the same New York shop that Markey's other
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shoes came from, same size, same stole. Well it's something, all
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right, but it's still not conclusive. For he asked, if Markey walks
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up and tells you he's dead, No, I guess I'd settle for just
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seeing him that way. Oh, by the way, I wonder if you
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could have an auto license check for me, a partial license on a used
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car Florida plates. The last three numbers are six four to two. Well,
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I didn't mind take a while with no more than that to go on.
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Well, I've got an idea that car may have been purchased within the
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last three weeks or so. Maybe that'll narrow it down. You got an
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idea, it may mean something. Look, I have no idea at all.
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I'm just playing the hunches. But it's about time something in this case
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started meaning something. We edged the launch up the side of the barns,
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tied up to a stanchion, and climbed on deck. The power winches on
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the derreks were still grinding away in the sunken hull of the Burn Cruise.
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It was nearing the surface. A crew of men waited with salvage pontoons,
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ready to float the supporting cradle into place as soon as the water logged hulk
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was raised. Wilson and I stood by the rail, watching, not talking,
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wondering, I suppose what answers the wreck might supply us. With the
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taut steel cables inched their way slowly up from the depths, and finally the
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boat itself broke the surface of the water. Then the men moved in with
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the pontoons. Another crew members dropped the suction holes into the water filled hull
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and started to pump to empty. Finally the whole thing was high enough so
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we could see that the cabin and the deck were badly burned almost to start,
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but strangely enough, the hull itself seemed to be undamaged. Then Wilson
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and I both noticed something at the same time, a solid column of water
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spotting from a round hole near the keel of the boat, and we both
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realized what it meant. Look dollar, look there. Somebody opened the seacocks,
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somebody left them wide out. One thing certain it wasn't an accident.
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She was sunk deliberately. That's exactly what I've been trying to tell you right
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from the store. William Marky was murdered. Now here's our star to tell
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you about Tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week story Tomorrow, A photograph, a
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silver cup, a harried widow, and the dead begin to stir with life.
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Join us, won't you? Yours Truly? Johnny Daller. Yours Truly
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Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Less Crutchfield,
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and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us
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tomorrow night at same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar. This is Roy Rowan speaking Welcome back. You know,
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there's a certain attitude where it comes to radio where it's kind of thought of
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as just kind of a nostalgic, uh trip, but down memory lane lane
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without a whole lot of oomph to it or any sort of cultural value.
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And uh, this this episode I found interesting in so many ways because you
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begin off with with a quote from Shakespeare and then you have that one line
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where where he where the district attorney talked about the sea giving up its victims,
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and I'm, you know, I think people would not expect radio characters
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from the nineteen fifties to talk like that, but there really was I think
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a certain elegance I think, particularly in this show. And plus, really
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Bob Bailey just does a great job in those moments that call for every range.
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And in these two we got to see a really good picture of Johnny
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Dowler as just the insurance professional when he was talking to the wife who he
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was talking to the friend. I thought that was, you know, just
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an incredible job there. So I am really, you know, as always
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really enjoying these series the second time through with the five parters, and now
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it's time to turn to listener comments and feedback. Cynthia Lynn Taylor writes,
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I'm really enjoying these Sherlock holmes from May. The Sherlock is a bit different
32:07
from the earlier ones, and I really like that no more Sherlock being so
32:10
down putting of Watson. However, I've always enjoyed the Sherlock's all the Sherlock
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home stories that I've heard. Loving the five part Johnny Dollers weighing in on
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the differences between actors for him, I can't honestly tell a huge difference.
32:23
The five partiers are awesome and their ability for storytelling, the ability to bring
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out the emotions as in the Valentine series, it almost had me in tears.
32:32
The thirty minute shows are awesome in that it must have taken a really
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good writer to get the emotion and story into that small time space. As
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far as listening to them altogether, that has never bothered me in the least,
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and I really like how you put them together. But I seem to
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have a really good memory and emmy unique Thanks Adam for putting this all together.
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I'm an enjoying spending my summer catching up on all the podcasts that I've
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missed the last few months. Well, thanks so much, Sinday, and
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appreciate it. And I hope we've gotten good balance after we went and we
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switched from Johnny Dollar second to Johnny Dollar First on Fridays. Have not gotten
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a whole lot of complaints about the arrangement you know we've had We've still had
33:17
file issues happen every now and again, but no complaints about the arrangement.
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So I'm glad we've got that going well, and then we have a comment
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from Pastor Lisa Martin in Boston. Pastor Martin writes, I just found your
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podcast this past week when I graduated from a BlackBerry to an iPhone for us
33:36
on my birthday last week August eighth. I've really been enjoying it very much
33:40
and I'm hooked. I look forward to tuning every in every day. And
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she also goes ahead and comments, I came on this series starting this past
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Monday, and I was intrigued. I love Johnny Dollar. The inding was
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a twist, and that's regarding the uh Quabono matter. So thanks so much,
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appreciate you listening in, Pastor Martin, and hope you continue to enjoy
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the series. All right, Well, that will actually do it for today.
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We will be back tomorrow with the last episode of Mister Moto. Be
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sure next week, whether you've enjoyed Mister Moto or not, to tune in
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