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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar :The Blooming Blossom Matter (EP1297) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar The Blooming Blossom Matter
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from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dillar, Paul Brennan, Inter Allied
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Insurance Company Johnny. Oh, hi, Paul, how's the world doing by
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you? I got troubles Paul, like what like Albert w Winkler. Winkler
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was he? Maybe? You mean who was he? Well, which is
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it? Well, that's a trouble, Johnny. We don't know. Huh.
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Well he's disappeared and with him a hunk of emerald worth exactly one hundred
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thousand clams. Well, sure, Bob Bailey. In the Exciting Adventures of
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a Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator as
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Trulee Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the inter Allied
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Insurance Company Dawson Building, Hartford, Connecticut, following as an account of expenses
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incurred during my investigation of the Blooming Blossom Matter expense account. I am one
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a dollar even taxi from my apartment to the offices of inter Allied, where
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Paul Brennan wasted no time in getting to the point. Albert Winkler was a
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partner and a small jewelry firm down in New York, real exclusive type place.
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Floyd and Winkler. Yeah, that's the outfit. Well, a few
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days ago they got hold of an emerald. It's called the Green Eye of
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Calcutter and Johnny the darn things big enough to choke a horse. Okay,
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Paul, Okay, I don't think you need to go any for it.
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No. Wait, they planned to put it on an exhibition at the Big
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International Jewelry Show in Chicago next month, and Winkler took it home to work
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on it. Oof in short for one hundred thousand, you said, yeah,
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and Winkler's insured for ten Okay, So who killed him and stole the
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rock? Listen? Will you go ahead? Was Sunday morning. His partner
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Blewett, tried to phone him at his apartment. No answer, so Blewett
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sauned it down to the office, thinking he might be there. But no
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sign um right, nor of the green eye of cal Cutter. Only a
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note Winkler left the night before saying he was taking a stone home to work
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on it. Well, it makes it look as though maybe Winkler listen about
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that time the phone rang there in the office. It was the police department,
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also looking for Winkler. Yeah, they'd been called by Winkler's landlord after
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a chamber made it found his apartment completely ransacked and the old boy missing.
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Who's working on it for the NYPD? I mean, sergeant Randy Singer eighteenth
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preestinct homicide offend you as I believe, Yeah, good man, has he
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come up with anything? Nothing? Well Johnny, sure, Paul. Now
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now I had them too. Another dollar for a taxi back to my apartment,
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where I slicked the stubble off my face, showered, dressed, and
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was about to head for New York. On the phone, range Johnny Dollar,
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Johnny Dalla that's right? Oh, well who is that? Oh?
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Yes, of course, mister Daller. I must talk with you, sir.
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It's important, very important. Well who are you? Eh? This
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is Wilbert again Worthy Blossom. Yes, and I must see you right away.
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Well what's this all about, mister Blossom? Did you say that's?
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How did you know that? Is this some kind of a gag? Certainly
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is not to think that now I'll be working with you. Oh it's wonderful,
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just wonderful. What are you talking about? Well, you don't you
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see? I follow every single one of your cases there, either in the
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newspapers, were on the radio. Oh, I'm your biggest fan. Is
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is that all you call to say? Mister Blossom? It is not.
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I'm calling about the mysterious disappearance of mister Albert week Winkler. You know something
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about him? Is whereabouts? I certainly do. Where are you, mister
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Blossom? Are you here at my house in New York? And I'll be
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waiting for you, sir, goodbye? No wait, give me your address?
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How could you know where to come of? I hadn't given you that?
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Having goodbye? The address man? The address, of course, it's
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eight twenty five East seventy third Street. I had him three nine dollars and
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twenty cents transportation and incidentals to New York City and eight twenty five E.
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Seventy third Street. It turned out to be one of New York's famous old
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brownstone houses, well preserved and wreaking of an era long pest when the city's
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wealthy and elite had built roll on row of these monuments to a now forgotten
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financial aristocracy. Oh, come in, mister Dollar, come in here.
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I'm will bitgin Worthy Blossom, and I cannot tell you how thrilled I am
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to be working with you on this. I don't know how to describe it,
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but I'll try the inside of Blossom's home was unbelievable. On a pre
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Victorian furnishings, heavy velvet drapery, huge lamps and chandeliers, gilt frame mirrors,
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even an ancient horsehair sofa. It was also filled with dusty piles of
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newspapers and magazines, hundreds of old books, travel books, mister Dollar and
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mysteries. Oh I just love mysteries. One corner of the high ceiling living
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room was piled with old trunks and handbags, an old carpet bag. Even
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boxes of tools and utensils were stacked about. An ancient victrolla beat up sewing
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machine. You just never know. I want to s something near old guns
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and pistols some of the museum pieces, a stringless tennis racker, a pair
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of rusty handcuffs locked at the base of a floor lamp without a shade.
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A broken bicycle park it's just in case I ever find a bicycle to go
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with it, you understand. Is Against one wall stood an old metal cabinet
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loaded with rusty surgical instruments and a worn out catchers met yet directly opposite it
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was a corner shelf full of priceless porcelain figurines and rare pieces of china.
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Some of the old clocks and jewelry on the mantelpiece were collector's items, fine
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original oil paintings lay among piles of old shoes. All in all, it
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looked as though the contents of half a dozen pawn shops had been dumped into
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it at auction's here's mister Dalla. Oh, I just cannot resist an auction
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seal or a bargain. But what are you going to do with all this
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stuff? Oh? Just keep it. I like it. I like a
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lot of things. So I see, including twelve girls, Suspenser's suberlative steel
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tipped shoelaces pattent at eighteen forty four, A bug, mister Dollar, just
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like all this fine artwork. Is Yeah, I'm sure some of my friends
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pampered me a bit though, you know, send me things they pick up
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and say. Yeah. Now look, mister Blossom, have you told me
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you know something about Albert W. Wint? Oh? Yes, isn't he
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well? And think of that magnificent Emerald God disappeared. Yeah, but now
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you say, and that poor Interlight Insurance Company. Oh my, that's how
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I knew you would be called on this case. But a hundred thousand dollars
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and ten thousand dollars on mister Winkler. Well, at least they're off the
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hook on him until he's proved dead. Ah, And that's where I come
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in with pof proof. What proof have you seen wink mister dolla? I
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had? Who is he? Do you understand, of course that I know
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mister Winkler very well because I've seen him at his office so many times?
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Okay, go on, Yes, Indeed, such beautiful, beautiful jewelry he
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had there, and of course he was always trying to buy some of the
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things out. What you say you've seen him where? Well, satur the
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Ey'd planned for a couple of old friends to with hinder Real auction that was
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a Canyon City and Metropolitan Railroad. Winkley was there at the auction sale.
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Oh yes, did you speak to him? Well? Why not? You
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said you know him? Well, I didn't go to the auction. I
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wasn't feeling very well that day. I had at a little car that was
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kind of like that. Then how do you know he was there? My
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friends went, and at least they talked about going, and I'm sure they
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did too, because they sent me something from and what do you suppose it
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was? I don't know, I don't care. And now look here you
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got it. It was the very thing that has solved this whole case for
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you. What and think of it? This dull, drab, dreary life
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of mine has suddenly become why. It's almost like a mystery story, isn't
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it? Adventure? And look, mister Blossom and being a detective, I'm
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working with my idol, the famous Johnny Dye. Oh mister Blossom, what
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did they send you that? Oh? Yes, of course here here it
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is. It's right here between the erector set and the golf clubs, this
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old trunk. That's right, great Scott, you think you do? First?
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Of course I thought of calling the police, but knowing all about you,
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the Blossom, let me see that. Excuse me. There are a
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lot of crumpled newspapers on top there I see, as old as the trunk.
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Good lord, it it isn't pretty. Sergeant Randy Singer homicide Randy Johnny
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Dollar gets somebody over the way twenty five E seventy third Street right away with
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your body of Albert Winkler. Randy got there and a matter of minutes got
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the same story from Blossom that I had. Then called for the lab crew
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to come and take over now who delivered this trunk, mister Blossom? But
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it was just just a delivery man. And you describe hi? Would you
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know him with your song? Yeah? Well he was big and strong.
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It was very distinguishing features scars or a limp or a beard or I told
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you, Johnny, he was big and strong. Well, I would say
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he was somewhere between twenty five and yeah fifty, Yes, I'm sure.
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Well that's a lot of help. Yeah, you better have those thick spectacles.
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Shame. But he was big. Yes, we know I'm strong.
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What about his truck? Oh, I didn't see that he left it outside?
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No, Now, look these friends of yours who did attend the auction?
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Who were they? Oh? Yes, now the investigation proceeds, Now
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the excitement? Were they? Mister Blossom? Oh well, there's a Randoms
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and christ Randy Singer took down the names of Blossom's three auction minded friends,
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laugh, drew a ride. Randy took off to dig up Blossom's friends,
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and I took a cab that signed him four eighty cents to the apartment of
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Elwood blew At, Winkler's partner in the jewelry business. Lou had lived alone
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in a modest but tastes mely furnished five or six rooms on East fifty second
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Street. Of course, mister Dollar, I'll be glad to help you all
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I can. Albert's death has been a terrible blow. Yes, well tell
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me this phase. Yes, did mister Winkler make a habit of taking valuable
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pieces of jewelry to his residence? Yes, Albert often took pieces home with
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him to work on them, clean, polish and so on. Wasn't that
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a rather dangerous practice, shankly, I always thought so, But he felt
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there was far more chance of being robbed if he were alone at the office
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than that is flat, where he wouldn't be expected to have anything of great
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value. Well, who was seeing the green eye of cal cut beside you
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and mister Winkler. I'm not sure, of course, almost anyone would have
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been able to recognize it because of the publicity and pictures when you brought it
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over here. Yes, come to think of it, Blossom and the kid
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he'd been much impressed with him, Wilburt Blossom. Yeah, you know,
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he's been in the office many times. He and Albert were always bickering over
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pieces that either recurring it well, it was really something of a joke.
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Albert always wanted some of Blossom's heirloom pieces, and Blossom wanted some of the
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finer things we had. Did he ever buy never? He always wanted us
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to put them up at auction or at a bargain price. Hardly our way
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of doing things. Needless to say, when did you last see Blossom?
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My last Friday? I was busy with an important client, and from the
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back room where Albert worked, I remember hearing Blossom insist that Albert show him
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the Emerald or did he I don't know. The silly argument got so noisy
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that I closed the door on them. Hm. Oh not wait, certainly
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you aren't thinking that, Perhaps, Wilbert, I'm not quite certain of what
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I'm thinking. Mister Bluett had five cents phone caller Rady Singer, other thing
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Johnny, one of the three names on Blossom's list is in Europe. The
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other two did go to the Railroad auction, but purchase nothing. Mandy,
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do a couple of things for me with you, like what phone whoever is
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stationed at Winkler's place that I want to look it over? Sure everything is
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just as it was, including the poker that would use to kill him.
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Also, I want to copy the picture of the trunk your lab boys took
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him the list of Blossom's friend. I'll have him waiting for you and post
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a man at Blossom's place. Keep an eye on him, yes, right
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away, Johnny, Have you learned something? No? No, just uh
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well, just for his protection, say, I'll talk to you later.
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Yeah, but bless, yeah less. Maybe I hadn't given enough thought to
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the strange little character right why the trunk with Winkler's body had been at his
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place? But if he were involved, why call me in? Cover up
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possibility? But Wilbert Blossom kill a man? Yeah, maybe he could,
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Maybe he did. I'd better see him as soon as I get through with
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the inspection on Winkley's apartment. Mister, Oh hi, I did Sergeant Singer
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call and tell you that he's on the ford here in the Winkler apartment now
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wants to talk to you, He says, it's very urgent, sir,
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Okay, thanks Johnny Dollar. Johnny, how did you know the man I
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sent to cover Bossom's house for you got there too late? What? Whoever
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got in and attacked the poor old code got away? Attacked Blossom. Yeah,
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I really did a job, Johnny. Okay, Randy, thanks Act
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two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in just a moment. Democracy,
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As everyone knows, democracy means many things self rule of the people,
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a higher standard of living, freedom of speech, press and religion, rights
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and privileges, liberty. But the most vital promise of democracy is mankind's right
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to dignity. For it is through the dignity of man that democracy has given
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mankind its greatest legacy of freedom. Now Act two of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar, and the Blooming Blossom matter. Expense account out of six two
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dollars and a quarter for a fast taxi ride to eighteenth Precinct Police headquarters.
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All right, as soon as I got your call, Johnny, I sent
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a uniform man over to Blossom's house. From the way you talked, I
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thought maybe you suspected him. Yeah, Randy, I'm afraid I didn't.
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The boy how wrong can you be? Anyhow, when he got there,
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he found the front door open and Blossom lying in the dark hallway. Where's
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Blossom now? Hospital? But he's okay, just bruised up a bit,
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letting him out finger prints, anything to go on? Labs checking on a
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prince right now, let me know, Yeah, anything else? Nope.
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So now let's find out who tried to put Blossom out of the way,
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and we'll have the guy who killed Winkler and stole one hundred thousand worth of
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Emerald, then shipped Winkler's body to Blossom. Oh, by the way,
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here's the picture of the trunk he asked for and the three names Blossom gave
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me, Harrison, Norton, and Scattered Day. What are you gonna do
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with him? Randy? Suppose the man who attacked Blossom is the one who
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did all the rest. You got a better suppose? Well, look,
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Brandy, whoever wielded that poker on Winkler couldn't have been very strong. I
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really have to wallop would have bented out of shape. And the lab agrees
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with you. But of course it didn't take much of a blow to finish
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of a full Winkler. He didn't weigh much over one hundred pounds, you
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know, Yeah, any strong arm could have finished him off easily and without
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messing up the whole apartment. And don't forget whoever did him and also put
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him in the trunk and delivered it to Blossom's house. But why yeah,
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yeah, and where's the emerald. That's what you should be worried about.
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One hundred grand worth of worry for your insurance company. Now, what are
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you going to do with that picture of the drunk and the list of Blossom's
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friends? Oh yeah, sure, I'll see you later. It am seven
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five dollars and a half for a taxi at the warehouse of the Canyon City
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of Metropolitan Railroad over in Jersey. There I finally managed to track down a
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man who knew something about their occasional auction sales of unclean baggage and stuff in
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insurance investigator. That's sorry, mister McKenny, one of those boys with a
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fancy expense County. Eh, that's a matter of Oknyon look, you had
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an auction sale here last Saturday, didn't you. That's right, handled it
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yourself. Want to know something about the somethingways sold off exactly? And I
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am your man. Always remember all about every single item, Mizelle, and
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who bought it, and all about him. That's fine, because I want
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to know if any of the names on this list brought from you on Saturday.
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Randolph Harrison, remember the name of Harrison by anything. No, how
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about Perceval Wentworth, scatter Day, Ellsworth Norton. You sure, mister mckennie,
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I'm sure. How uh? How about Blossom? That imagine me?
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Yes, Wilbert Blossom. Well, no, sure, nope, never heard
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of them. And like I told you, I never forget the stuff I
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seller the fellows, I sell her too white. This picture of a trunk.
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Have you ever seen this trunk? Will? Yeah? Did you sell
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this trunk on Saturday? His idea to home? Come on, man,
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it's important, well not real early in the sale, yeah, before most
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people got here. Ye bought this trunk and had its own to his apartment
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in New York. And his name, well it was a funny kind of
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name. Blinky or winky or no Winkler, Winkler, that was it.
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Albert Winkler. Ate two dollars two drinks for myself at the nearest bar.
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But they didn't have to kill my feeling of Out of frustration, I had
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him nine to five fifty taxi back to eighteenth Precinct headquarters in New York for
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want of a better place to go. It's about time he got here,
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Johnny. Oh, we matched up the Prince we found after Blossom was a
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tank. You know who made them? Yeah, here's his card, Carlo
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Bernisconi, and he reckoned a couple of a dozen arrests, only one conviction,
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anything to do with jewelry better accessory to a hijack operation a couple of
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years ago. He drove the truck. Hey, got a mugshot of him.
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We got him downstairs. Come on, I'll take you down, Randie.
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What's he look like? I could expect the truck driver to look big,
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husky brute. Has he admitted anything? All? The threat of a
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murder charge made him talk, all right, but none of it makes any
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sense? Of course it does. But he's our boil, all right.
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He killed Winkler, beat up Blossom. I thought your lab decided whoever killed
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Winkler was a small fellaw. Yeah, so the theory about the same man
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killing Winkler and beating up Blossom doesn't work. But Johnny, Holy, come
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on down. Let's talk to this Bernesscone after I make a phone call too,
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well, get me a man named McKenny. Kenyon City, a metropolitan
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railroad warehouse over in Jersey. Make it fast for yes, sir, Hey,
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you've been over there Johnny just before I got here, you find out
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anything? No, but I'm going to now, like what Randy, For
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the first time, this whole thing is beginning to make sense. Here's your
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buddy, mister mckennie. That's me, missus Johnny Dollar. Remember, sure
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do. I've been reading in the papers and you left here about that body
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found the trunk over there in New York. Yeah, well look in that
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scene is that same trunk? You know what you're asking about? Yes?
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Now, you told me that trunk was bought by a man who gave his
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name as Winkler. That's right. Do you remember what he looked like?
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Sure do? Why I can give it to you as accurat as if it
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was in the police file. Well, I probably fort nine, maybe nine
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to a half. Go on, wait, between one and fifty five and
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fifty eight. You see, when I was young and I worked with the
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Carnie Show, gets weight and height. If I didn't get it right,
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yeah, okay, okay, Now how about the color of the eyes when
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I knowed him? Because of the way he's whited threw them cold fashion steal
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glasses. Thanks Mac, I'm sending you a ten spot in the next mail.
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Will now well, Johnny, come on, Randy, let's go down
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and see this. Bernisconi. You find something out new? Yeah, and
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I don't like it. I don't like I look, Bernisconi, you're in
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plenty of trouble for the assault and Blossom maybe even more. But I'm the
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man who can save you from a murder rap if you'll answer a couple of
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questions. Sure, I told the car right, all right? Did you
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pick up and deliver a trunk yesterday morning? Sure? I told him for
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a guy named Wickler. You got the trunk from Winkling? Sure, at
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his apartment on Easy What did he look like? How? Tall? Maybe
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five eight chen Johnny? Light build or heavy or what i'd say a medium?
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Maybe one hundred and fifty pounds Johnny? I look, mister, wait
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a minute, you look. Did you deliver that trunk to a man named
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Blossom? Sure? Eight twenty five e seventy thirds? What did he look
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like? Them? I never seen? I know it's he allered from a
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window that the door was open and I should put the trunk in the living
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room. What a junk house. But you must have seen him later when
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he came back and assaulted him. It was night then when he come to
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the door, I just slugged him and let him lay there. Then I
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went inside where the lights was on, to look for well, look for
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the big rock I'd read about in the paper. Then I heard a prowl
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car coming, so I beat it. Trunk wasn't there anyway? Okay,
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bernasconey, see you later, ready, not just a minute? Hey,
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and what about me? He said it. I'm ten ninety cents taxi the
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wilburd Blossoms old brown stone house on he seventy third. Come in, Come
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in, Johnny. Thanks mister Bossom, all recovered from your beating, of
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course, I am here. Sit down, Sit down. You You said
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you wanted to help me on this case. Oh yes, indeed, why
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this chance to work with a man I consider the finest insurance investigator in the
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world. Yeah, that's why I called you when I got the trunk with
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mister Winkler's body, And mister Blossom, why don't you told my drab dull
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life. I wanted to be a detective and investigated, and this was my
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chance, my chance tell the truth? Did you say, mister Blossom,
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listen to some facts for a minute and see what conclusions you draw. From
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the ooh deductions like a detector to begin with. This house of yours so
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full of well junk, I told you, Johnny, I like things.
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I like things, but it also has a lot of fine painting, sculpture,
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china, jewey. Oh. I like all sorts of things, especially
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if they're fine and rare and bargains like the Green Eye of Calcutta. Oh,
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the most beautiful emerald in the world. And I would conclude that you'd
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do just about anything to have that stone, Yes, said Johnny. I'd
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reach the same conclusion. Okay, Now, when Albert Winkler and the Emerald
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disappeared, it was in the papers. The Inner Allied had written policies on
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them. Conclusion is, I would deduce that you would be called in.
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Wouldn't it be smart? Then? If the killer was afraid I'd eventually get
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around to him anyway. Wouldn't it be smart for him to call me in
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and offer to help me as a cover up for what he'd done. Yes,
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or at least he'd think it would. Oh, yes, I guess
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he thought it would. Another thing, mister boss, Oh what is it?
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Johnny? The body was packed in the trunk with old newspapers, like
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these you keep piled around. Oh, yes, and I would do obvious
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that both Randy Singer and I overlooked them completely. Where there's so many things
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piled around here, you couldn't be expected, Johnny, Yeah, what really
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made you decide that? Well? I'd like to know, all right.
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Albert Winkler was a fray little old man, about four eleven, not much
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over one hundred pounds. Yes, who are but the man who bought the
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trunk and had it sent to Winkler's apartment, who gave his name as Winkler.
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That man was about five nine, one hundred and fifty five pounds,
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and he wore a thick, old fashioned steel rim glasses. Johnny, I
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can't see without them. Then there's the truck driver. The man who ordered
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the trunk delivered to this house gave his name as Winkler too, But Winkler
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was dead by then, dead from a blow inflicted not by some big bruising
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but by somebody of say your bill. Well, that awful truck driver who
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thought the Emerald would be in the trunk and came here to steal it,
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and who beat me up? I suppose you want the emerald? Yeah?
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H M, here Johnny, I kept it in this little coffee pot that
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I picked up in an auction seal. Oh isn't a beautiful stone? Oh?
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If only mister Winkley would have sold it, had a bargain in it,
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then none of this would have happened. Well, I guess we gotta
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going on. It's such a silly thing, me trying to act like a
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detective. I guess I didn't even make a very good killer, did I?
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Why? Just this silver powering passion to have things? Maybe, or
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maybe it was just a reaction, a last desperate attempt to some way,
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anyway break from a lifetime of lonely, dull, drab idols. I don't
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know, but for some crazy reason, I feel sorry for the funny little
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low character who turned killer. Expense account total including incidentals and fairback to Hartford's
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sixty one dollars and fifty five cents. Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Now here is our star to tell you about next week story next week.
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A case so simple, so easy, so obvious, that it proves almost
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impossible to solve. Joy us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dell,
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Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood. It
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is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story. Heard
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in our cast were Howard mcneer, Herb Ellis, Herb Bigron, Junius Matthews,
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Herb Butterfield, Frank Gersell, and Johnny Jacobs. Musical supervision is by
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Jerry Goldsmith. Be sure to join us next week, same time and station,
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or another exciting story of yours, truly Johnny Dollar dan coverly speaking,
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Johnny Dollar has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed
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Forces Radio and Television Servants. Welcome back. I was not surprised that Blossom
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was the murder or you know that he was just really a bit scarily obsessive.
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Still, it was a good program, but just for the fine performance
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Howard mcneer and Bob Bailey given it and I also have to give credit to
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the show for at least giving us a few moments of doubt in this episode.
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And according to the Great Guide of the Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter,
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this is the first time that Johnny's cases are referenced as being published and even
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referenced as being on the radio, which was not heard too often in the
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Golden age of radio. I think it may may have been in some episodes
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of the Adventures of Sam Spade, though many of the surviving episodes ares and
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off hair recordings, so whether that it went on the air, who knows
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well. We turn now to listener comments and feedback from Jenny Klam, who
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writes on iTunes. I grew up on a military base in Germany between sixty
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three and sixty eight. It doesn't seem that long ago, but it was
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the only TV was in German and it signed off at two am with just
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two channels. I learned to speak German watching a dub Star Trek and The
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Avengers. Oh what amma peel? And are effects on a young man's raging
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hormones? Anyway? My alternative was AFN, the Armed Forces Radio Network.
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It wasn't an old time radio to me, it was what I regularly listened
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to. It's like I grew up in my father's generation. My favorite show
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was Johnny Doller. I was twelve years old and was transfixed by the stories
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and styles of Bailey. Currently I work as a voiceover artist and tribute my
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style to what I learned listening to the great actors of yesterday. In terms
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of the host's performance, it took him getting used to but what he lacks
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in style more is more than made up in his knowledge and enthusiasm. He's
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great and if he got a slightly better microphone and used a windscreen that would
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make for a better presentation. Just a suggestion, and please take it for
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that for what it is, just a bit of advice from a fan.
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Thanks well, I appreciate your comments and your longtime enjoyment a Johnny dawler.
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And also about getting a new microphone, that's something we tried around Christmas time
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and then after the listener support campaign, after the microphone I got for Christmas
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failed, And yeah, I'm going to try again because this one is a
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bit old, but I wanted to get a nice one, so maybe we'll
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try once again spend the wheel, roll the dice on a new microphone after
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this year's listener support campaign. That will do it for now. We will
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be back tomorrow with Police Headquarters and join us next Friday for another episode of
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. In the meantime, send your comments to Box
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thirteen at Great Detectives dot net and give us a call off if you'd like
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to leave us a voicemail to A eight nine nine one four seven eight three
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but from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Grahamson and off.