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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fathom Five Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP1037) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Now it's time to continue on with the Fathom five man Or Part three
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and Part four from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dillar Bonnie Wilson.
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Oh morning, mister Wilson, say, on expense of God, don't you
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that's right? Good? I'm not How about buying me a lunch? You
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got a deal twelve o'clock here at my hotel's old found any more shoes?
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No, and nobody's not yet anyway, I'm amazed. It's find one thing
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you may be interested in. What's that We've got to lead on that license
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number you gave me last night. You were right. The car was bought
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from a deal about two weeks ago my home somebody named John Smith on the
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east out of town. That figures, well, maybe here's something that won't
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I checked the address this morning. You know what, sure a vagan lot.
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Well, now, how the devil did you know? See? At
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lunch mister Wilson's Tonight and every weekday Night Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of
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the Man with the Action Packed Expense account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators Truley Johnny
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Dollar Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Miami Beach, Florida
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to the home office till the liability Hartford, Connecticut assignment the Fathom five matter,
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a sunkend cruiser that refused to give up its debt. It am ten
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four dollars and eighty cents. Lunch with DA Deputy Barney Wilson, a man
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who'd made up his mind about the case before I'd even arrived in town.
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Murder, He'd called it. When the hired cruiser Fathom five burned and sank
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mysteriously a mile or two off shore, but nobody had been found yet,
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and I still doubt it very much in whatever would be, because I wasn't
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even certain that William Marky was dead. Wilson, of course, had different
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ideas. Yes, so, mister Dawler, it's the whole old story.
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Two men go out in the boat and only one comes back, no witnesses,
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nothing, And if that doesn't indicate murder, I say, past sugar,
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would you please sure here you're convinced it's murder, and you're convinced young
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Danny Haynes did it? Well? Who else? Well, that would be
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a fine argument to advance in court, wouldn't it. Ah, sure,
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certain conviction simply because you can't produce any other suspect. Well soon, I
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don't think there's been any murder at all. Now you can pass me the
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shirt, all right, Suppose you'll let me tell you how I figure it
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while I'm eating my dessert. Markey and his wife took a liking to this
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Haines kid and practically made him one of the family. And right there was
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their mistaken It usually is because Haines started getting ideas about his boss's wife.
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You have to admit missus Markey's a mighty pretty woman. O good to night.
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She's Haines's on age and her husband was older. So the kid in
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that bird brain is figured he had it all tagged, figured she actually went
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for him. I think he probably started bothering there, making a nuisance out
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of himself, and I'll lay you odd, she'll admit he did once she's
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convinced he's guilty. I got a sneaking hunch you may be right on that.
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Oh, thank you, thank you. So what happened? Marky finally
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noticed the kid was getting a little out of Lyne. Probably didn't even take
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it seriously at first, but eventually he must decided he'd better get Haynes straight
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out, so he took him out on that fishing boat in order to talk
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to him alone. Is that it not? You're with a dollar? But
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the thing backfired. Haines probably got mad, maybe started to fight, knock
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Markey out and let get him his big idea spur of the moment. Huh
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yes, sir, Now with the boss out of the way, he'd have
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a clear field with the widow. So you threw Markey overboard, set fire
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to the cruiser opened the sea cocks so to be sure and sink and then
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rode away in the dinghy. And how could he be sure the body wouldn't
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be found washed ashore by the currents Oh, he couldn't be sure. But
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what if it was there was a heavy fog, nobody saw what happened.
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He knew it would be mighty tough to prove anything on him. Oh,
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brother, that's an under statement. As a matter of fact, it'll be
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impossible to prove that story. Yeah. Well, once he's rested and interrogated,
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I figured he'll break down to us the whole thing unless he's completely simple
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minded. Nah, you haven't even got the shadow of a case, mister
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Wilson. All you've got is a while theory that doesn't even fit the facts.
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You got a better theory, I suppose, I think so. And
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would it be the kind that would take your company off the hook on that
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seventy five thousand dollars life insurance policy? By coincidence, it just so happens
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that it would. In fact, that insurance policy is the key to the
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whole thing. Yeh h. I sort of thought you might say that I
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didn't have any pet theory at first, but I do now I'm pretty sure
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this thing is an out and out insurance fraud and Danny Haynes is being used
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as the fall guy. Oh do tell and what are you finding fervidence,
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mister Dolling. Oh, A lot of little things that are sort of starting
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to add up. But one thing I got along telegram this morning from a
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firm of confidential investigators in New York. I forwarded a request through Hartford yesterday.
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Yeah, they turned up quite a lot on Marquee, such a its
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financial status. For the main thing, we'll go on, Well, when
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he and missus Markey were married three years ago, the firm was in first
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class shape. But they've been living high, living up his capital. If
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he got that content actually came down here after it, well it might have
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pulled him through. But he didn't get it. That result, he was
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flat broke. So what a lot of people have broken, but not many
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of them have a seventy five thousand dollars policy. I thought that's what you
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were getting at. What I am getting at is what I think happened.
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And I think Danny Haynes is telling the truth. I think Marky did send
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him off alone in that Dinghy then Marky fired the boat, opened the seahawks,
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and while she filled up and sank, he swam ashore in the fog.
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And he's waiting it out somewhere now until his widow collects the insurance.
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Oh, I don't see where you've got any more evidence than I have.
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Well, there's not much, I'll grant you, not so far, but
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what there is adds up. I guess I'm just stupid dollar. Oh I
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look, take missus Marky's attitude, for instance, She's trying hard to play
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the role, but it doesn't come off. How does she act to you
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like a four day widow? Well, she's got a lot of self control,
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I'll say she has. I tried to go to her yesterday. When
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I talked to her, came right out and practically and sullied her. And
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how did she reacts? Never took her eyes off that main chance. The
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seventy five thousand already know it's not exactly unheard of for a widow not to
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mind too much being a widow. Oh no, no, that's not the
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impression she gives. She's tense enough, nervous as a cat, but it's
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not because of grief or any feeling of relief. Either it's because she's afraid
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she might say the wrong thing and let her footslip. Well, everybody's got
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a right to their own opinion. Another thing is that Marky's body hasn't turned
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up now. I talked to the harbor master this morning. He knows the
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currents along this coast, backwards and forwards. He says, it's the only
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one chance in a hundred that Marky's body would have been carried out through the
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reef instead of thrown up on the beach about where you found that shoe.
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So this is the one time in a hundred that was a mighty valance,
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mister Dalla. We're gonna fight you, mister Wilson, if you petition the
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court to declare Marky legally dead. Yes, I sort of figured you would.
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Hensley and Davis phoned me this morning and said you'd retained them as counsel.
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That's right. Well I've been fought before. Expense account item eleven ten
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cents. Phone call to Edna Marky, widow of the allegedly deceased and beneficiary
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of his insurance policy. Hello, missus Markey. Yes, this is Johnny
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Dollar. Oh oh, I didn't recognize your boys. I wonder if I
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could ask a favor of you. Well, if it's something I can,
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I'd like to borrow a photograph of your late husband for a few hours.
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Well, I'll take good care of it, make sure he gets back to
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you. Well, the fact is I really don't have one. Oh,
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well, you must have forgotten. I noticed one yesterday afternoon on the mantle
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in your study will I I meant, not a good one. Well,
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that one will do fine, and thanks a lot. Has there something new
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come up, mister dollar? Yeah, she might say that. I'll send
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a messenger out to pick it up. Goodbye, missus Markey. I had
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him twelve three dollars and eighty cents messenger service. I had him thirteen a
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dollar and ninety cents TAXI fair to the used car lot of one truthful Tom,
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the dealer who'd sold a car to a man named John's, a car
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that had departed suddenly from the vicinity of the market beach house when its driver
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saw me come out of the house. I wasn't too sure whether Tom was
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truthful or not, but one thing was certain. He was typical. I
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notice you looking at that little great job friend, and I say to myself.
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Truthful, Tom, don't you go trying to get the best of that
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lad because he's walked right in here and spotted the best dog on buy on
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the lot before he's even turned around. Well, I wasn't really thinking of
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buying, friend, with the price I'll make you on that car, you
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can't afford not to buy. No, No, I'm not really in the
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market. It's an economic society, friend, We're all in the market when
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the price is right. Now. No, I just happened to notice that
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it looked like the car a friend of mine had stolen a few weeks My
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dear friend, I'll make you er. Did you say stolen? Or it
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may not be the same one. Of course, I've got papers on that
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car. I've got papers on every last car on this life. Did you
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have papers on the one you sold to John Smith two weeks ago? If
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he says I didn't, he's a liar and I can get a dozen witnesses
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to prove it. You remember him, then, well do you remember who
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luck? I'm a special investigator for the dull a liability. It's a frame
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up, that's all it is. Whoever it is says they got a hot
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car deal on this lot is lyon truthful. Tom never turned a dishonest pennion
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his whole dog onlike God, then we'll forget it. Any low down rat
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that says I did a two legged snake, and I what'd you say?
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I don't care anything about your deals? And trying to locate a fellow who
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bought a car from you? Well, friend, that puts a different light
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on it. John Smith, you said that's the name he used. I
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can't say I recollect anybody by that name. Here's a copy of the title
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registery on the car. Don't see No. Six eight or two dark green?
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Oh? That was that old clunker that? Of course it was well
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worth the price. I was asking you remember the buyer? You bet your
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life? You know why? Because he paid cash, not a check cash,
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I mean the real long green Missoula, which you recognize the photograph of
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him. Well I might if how was this shit? Well let's see now,
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well, no doubt of it. Friend, that's the lad, all
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right. You didn't mean missus Markey. I brought back the photograph of your
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husband. Oh there wasn't that much hurry about it. Did it help any
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quite a bit? Do you mind if I come in all right, of
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course, thank you. You know I've been trying to think all day long
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what you could possibly want of that picture. I still can't imagine. I
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can sit down, mister dollars. It's a terrible picture, of course,
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That's why I hesitated about giving it to you. Doesn't look a thing like
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him. It looked enough like him, missus markin enough like him. I
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don't think I know what you mean. Did you know your husband bought a
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secondhand car the week before his so called death? You must be mistaken.
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He'd have told me about it. The car dealer positively identifies as photograph.
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He was the name John Smith, paid for it in cash. What did
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you mean so called death when you, Markey isn't dead. I think we're
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both aware of that. Well, missus Markeye, aren't we? Do you
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mind telling me what you're talking about? It wasn't even a very smart scheme
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to start with. Your husband must have been really up against the wall,
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or he'd have known better than to try it. But I suppose he thought
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he had to in order to hang on to you. I imagine you're pretty
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expensive to support. I think you'd better leave right now. Actually it would
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serve you both right if I did, but I decided to give you a
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chance. I came here to let you know exactly where you stand and where
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is that If I may ask, one step away from prison. Take that
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step and you're in up to your next You and your husband both what step?
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So far, we have no case against you for attempt at fraud because
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you haven't filed a claim yet. But take my advice, missus Marky,
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don't file one, because the minute you do, we're going to hit you
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with both barrels. It got some pretty crazy ideas, haven't You've had fair
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warning? I've had one of the biggest bluffs I've ever heard about. Why
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you people would do anything, wouldn't you to keep them paying off on a
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pulp? Better talk it over with your husband before you do anything foolish.
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My husband is dead, mister Dollar. No one but you even doubts it.
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I'm a cynic. How much proof does it take to bring you to
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your sl This is Markey? Is this case stands right now? There's only
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one way you could convince me that William Markey is not alive. Show me
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his dead body, Johnny Dollar, It's just a moment, mister Dollar.
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Nice Johnny Dollar, Bonnie Wilson here, your hotel told me where to locate
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you. I'd rather you located that car. All the police agencies in the
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state have the license numbering description. It'll turn up. Well, the sooner
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the better. You'll take more than a car to prove William Markey is still
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alive. The dealer who sold it to him identified as photograph. All right,
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but he bought the car two weeks ago. We know it was alive
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at that time. In case you've forgotten, mister Dollar, the Fathom five
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saying only four days ago, that's when market was murdered. Okay, okay,
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we're not going to settle it by arguing. That's why I phoned.
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It's going to be settled to Maw Mormon. You petitioned for a hearing ten
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o'clock and Judge Campbell Chambers, you're making a mistake. See in court,
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mister Dolla from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Miami Beach to the home office
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Delta Liability, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Fathom five matter the case of
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a cruiser mysteriously sunk off the Florida Coast. I phoned the insurance company's legal
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counsel and told him that Wilson had petitioned a hearing to have William Marky declared
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legally dead. Then I rejoined missus Markey in the study. She was tense
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and on edge, pacing the floor and smoking nervously. I watched her a
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moment without saying anything, fully aware of her beauty and appeal, and fully
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convinced also that she and her missing husband were trying to swindle my company out
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of seventy five thousand dollars in life insurance. I felt a little sorry for
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Marquis. She must have been a pretty expensive luxury for a man who was
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going broke. But then I stopped feeling sorry. I remembered that they tried
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to set up young Danny Haynes as the fall guy for murder. Well,
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why don't you go ahead and say it? Say what whatever it is you're
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thinking. I thought i'd already said it pretty bluntly too. You made some
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wild accusations, not so wild. I've got some fairly solid facts to pack
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them up. Apparently the DA's office doesn't agree with you. Wasn't that mister
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Wilson on the phone, That's right? And didn't he say he would ask
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the court to declare my husband legally dead. He's going to try to or
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we'll stop him cold. He hasn't got a leg to stand on. Well,
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that's what you're hired for, isn't it to find some technicality so they
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can get out of paying off on a policy. Attempted fraud isn't exactly a
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technicality, Missus marquis. I'll repeat that advice I just gave you. Get
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in touch with your husband, tell him the scheme is off. It won't
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work, and don't file acclaim for that life insurance. You'd like that,
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wouldn't you. You'd just love to bluff me out of seventy five thousand dollars.
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No, No, I just kind of hate to see you go to
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prison, that's all. And that's exactly what is going to happen if you
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file it claim. You keep talking about some scheme, what scheme, mister
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dollar you wanted later right on the line, it's like to know what you're
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talking about and just how much I figured out? All right, all right,
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I'll paint it for you in black and white. Your husband was broke,
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flat broke. I'm not guessing there. I got a report on him
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from a financial investigator in New York. I knew nothing about his business affairs,
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and I wouldn't know anyway. He thought he saw a chance to pull
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off a swindle on the basis of the only thing he had left, that
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seventy five thousand dollars life insurance policy. So the two of you worked it
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out together. Did your financial investigator tell you that, or would you be
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guessing? Your husband bought a car under an assumed name and probably rented living
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quarter somewhere in the area under another assumed name. So it was all set.
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It was just a matter of waiting for a morning when a heavy fog
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was down. You have a fantastic imagination. Meantime, just in case the
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accident theory didn't go over, you kept playing young Haines along so it would
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seem as though he had a motive for murder, and that part was a
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since he was already halfway in love with you. You also have a rather
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nasty imagination. So finally, four days ago, conditions were just right.
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Your husband took Haynes out on that fishing trip and the Fathom five. He
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anchored the cruiser and sent Haines off along the reef and the dinghy. Then
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he set fire to the boat, open the sea cock so it would be
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sure to sink. He swam ashore and drove off in the car that he
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bought for exactly that purpose. As I understand it, mister Dolla, that
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cruiser was anchored a mile or two off shore. Are you actually suggesting my
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husband swam that distance? You mean that something else you supposedly didn't know about?
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What? All? That report from New York was more complete than you
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seemed to realize. William Mark he has been a member of the green Point
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Athletic Club for years. He won silver cups in the Long Island Sound Marathon
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swim three different times. I knew he belonged to the club, of course,
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but I assumed it was more social furs. He could swim that far
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that particular a talent was probably what gave him the idea for the whole thing.
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There's no proof, you know, not one bit of real proof.
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There will be if you try to collect that insurance, we'll turn up enough
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proof to reach all away from here to the state prison. So if you
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try to you excuse me, please, Yeah, sure, I'll be right
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back. I lit a cigarette and waited for wondering why I even bother to
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come here. I was fed up with it, sick of the whole thing.
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Fraud casesn't like that, messing dirty. You see people with a mask
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down, and you get a look inside, and you get there wondering if
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everybody's like that, wondering if you'd be like that yourself, maybe if the
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price were right, And if you are, you'll hope you'll never find it
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out. All I wanted at the moment was to leave the house, wind
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the thing up, and get out of town. I'm sorry, mister dollar.
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Was somebody looking for an address? I mean they had a wrong address.
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I see. Well, I think we at least understand each other.
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Now, yeah, I'm sure we do, and I can say only one
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thing. You're wrong. You're completely and absolutely wrong. Maybe I wish you
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weren't. I wish my husband were still alive, even under the circumstances you
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believe. Maybe I wouldn't be on the verge of a nervous breakdown trying to
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hold onto my sanity. Maybe I wouldn't be crying alone at night. You
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have my deepest sympathy, missus Markey, for everything you are going through.
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There's no use at all and trying to talk to you, is there not
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unless you care to tell me where to find your husband. Good night,
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mister Dollar. I left the house and turned down the dark road toward the
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Pompino Beach Hotel. I'd planned to pick up a taxi there, but after
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that unknown visitor came to missus Markey's door, I'd made a slighth change in
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the plans. Whoever it was hadn't been a stranger that I was sure of.
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She'd been too nervous when she came back into the room. It was
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someone she hadn't wanted me to know about, and I was pretty certain I
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could guess who you knew, mister Haynes. Oh you're mister Dollar, the
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insurance investigator. Mind if I come in? Well? All right? Sure
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you weren't asleep, were you? No? I I was just reading.
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Been here all evening? Yeah, sure I've been here. Why you haven't
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been out in the last half hour? I said, I'd been here all
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evening. You weren't down the road at the market place a few minutes ago?
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No, I wasn't. Now, Look, I've answered just about all
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the questions I'm going to to you or to anybody else So what are you
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trying to get at? What's the point? All right, forget it,
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Danny, sure, forget it. It looks like you're out to try the
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same thing Wilson's doing, trying to tag me on a murder rap, and
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you're trying to drag Edna into it, missus Marky. Oh, she told
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me how you talked to her last night, and I suppose you've been over
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there again this se evening. I'll tell you one thing right now. You
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better leave her alone and stop trying to push her around. She doesn't deserve
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it. She's had too much of that kind of stuff as it is.
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Oh from home, Danny, from Marky, that's from whom she tell you
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that. I suppose you'll claim she's lying. You think everybody is lying.
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But you don't know her like I do. She's a sweet kid dollar and
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she's had a raw deal out of life, such as Marky. The way
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he treated her things he made her do, Oh not when anybody would see
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it, pin it on him. He was too smart for that. But
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she told me about it, and there were plenty of times I could hardly
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keep from smashing him in the face. Oh, brother, she's got you
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really set up good What do you mean by that? If you talk this
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way to Wilson at the DA's office for two minutes, he'd slamp a murder
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indictment on yourself fast to make your head swim. I didn't kill Marky.
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Hating a guy is one thing, but I didn't kill him. Yeah,
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I know, I know, because he's still alive. Maybe he is.
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I don't know. All I know is what I saw out there that morning,
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and you saw only as much as he wanted you to see. Well,
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maybe so. But I'll tell you one thing. If he is trying
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to pull something crooked, he's doing it on his own. She's not in
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on it. It'd be a little hard for him to collect his own insurance,
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wouldn't it. Oh maybe he figured to get it away from her afterward.
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I don't know what he might be planning on, but I know she's
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got nothing to do with it. She's a great girl. I've never known
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anybody like her before. No, I don't imagine you have. I'd lay
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down my life for her if it ever came to that. And I imagine
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that's exactly what they were counting on. Good Night Danny expense account at himself
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sixteen a dollar ninety cents taxi fare the following morning from my hotel to the
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courthouse. I got there at nine thirty and went over the case with Jim
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Davis, local consul for the insurance company, and at ten o'clock the hearing
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on Wilson's petition was open a chamber session. Judge A. G. Campbell
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presiding. Judge Campbell kept the proceedings informal, and the whole thing moved pretty
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fast. Both sides presented briefs and additional evidence was introduced through verbal interrogation.
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Now witnesses were called. By ten thirty, the cases for both sides had
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been completed very well. There's no further evidence of factor rebuttal. The court
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will make its decision on the evidence at hand. Now. In cases of
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this nature, where it is requested that the fact of death be established by
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legal declaration, it has been generally held that the substantiating evidence was that request
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must be essentially unchallengeable. The presidents of law are too numerous to bother sighting.
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Now in the case we are considering here, it seems the court that
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the substantiating evidence is far from unchallengeable. In what a fact, it would
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seem that the bulk of the evidence indicates that William Markey may indeed be still
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alive. Oh, the Court would be powerless to act even in the face
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of a reasonable doubt, and the contrary evidence here is a good deal stronger
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than a reasonable doubt. Therefore, in the matter of the request made here
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in that William Marky be declared legally dead, it is the Court's decision that
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the petition not be granted. If new evidence becomes available at some future time,
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the petition may be resubmitted. The court is adjourned. Well, looks
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like you won, mister Dalla, I tells you what would happen? I
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sure do. I hate to see that kid get away with murder. And
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I forget it. Markey is walking around somewhere just as alive as you or
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I. Well, we've all got to write our opinions. Mister Dollar,
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I see he's floating around out there in Atlantic somewhere. That's what he meant
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for us to think. Maybe so. But I pardon me, mister Wilson,
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A message you has phoned in for you, but they wouldn't let me
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in the courtroom. Oh thank you man. Excuse me, mister Dollar,
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sure, go ahead and read it. Did I step out of that office?
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Somebody's born? The stars come, well, well, what's the matter,
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mister Dollar. The Coast Patrol hold a man's body out of the surf
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by an hour ago, been drowned, so they got a quick check on
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his prints. It's William Marky. Now here's our star to tell you about
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the final intriguing episode of this week's story Tomorrow. A dead man tells a
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tale, but not the tale he was meant to tell, and thereby hangs
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the wind up. Join us, won't you? Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar?
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood,
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written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be
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sure to join us tomorrow night, same time and station for the next exciting
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episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. There's so
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much to say. I love the interactions between Johnny and the district attorney.
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They have been priceless. I mean watching those two just go at it,
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it's really enjoyable. Sometimes people will talk about a movie or TV show being
29:55
just a bunch of people talking, and that becomes a problem when it's really
30:00
really boring. But when you get those two actors, you know, those
30:04
two characters together, it's just such an interesting dynamic as they make their case.
30:10
And a true tribute to the character actor Barney Phillips who played this role
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probably best known for his work on Dragnet, but played a ton of roles
30:21
on radio and really just does a great job creating this character. And the
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judge just a perfect performance that was by John Dayner, best known as the
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radio voice of Paladin from Havegun, Will Travel, But he's great as a
30:36
judge. In fact, he actually recorded an audition that will eventually play for
30:41
a detective series where he play a crime a crime solving judge, but really
30:49
just brought the perfect air of dignity. But of course it may appear that
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everything's moot with his latest discovery, and we have to find out is it
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a case of somebody getting nervous or was the district attorney right all a wrong
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and our hero wrong as he sometimes is. Well, folks, we will
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have to find out on Friday. It'll be the lind Up, so you'll
31:14
want to be with us. Then, well, folks, we now turn
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to some listener comments and feedback. Christine emails in from West Tennessee. I
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was listening to the Johnny Dollar podcast The Cavono Matter and listen to you read
31:29
a letter from a basketball coach. I'm happy to say that I had no
31:33
idea there were other young people out there that listen to this type of radio
31:37
programs. Some people think that these programs are boring or have no element of
31:40
surprise. What they don't know is that a lot of movies and television programs
31:44
are based off of these shows. I am thirty four years old and have
31:48
been listening to Johnny Dollar for about three years now, and I love it.
31:52
I actually got my same age fiance into it, and he bought me
31:55
a huge collection of Johnny Dollar this past Valentine's Day, which I'd on through
32:00
in about two weeks. Aha. I would like to say thank you for
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broadcasting this program as well as all the others. It's sad that some youngsters
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today are so technology driven that they have no idea how to use their imagination
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and see the story unfolding their own minds. Keep up the great broadcasting.
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Well, thanks so much. I really appreciate it. Christine and we do
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have younger listeners who are out there. People under thirty five. According to
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our Listeners survey make up about fourteen percent of the audience, and you know,
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we have quite a few in that thirty five to forty five bracket as
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well. I appreciate all of our listeners. I think if the show has
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one thing, it's making this available, making it easy to pass these shows
32:52
on because I think that, you know, sometimes I kind of you know,
32:57
I kind of hate to sound old before my time in world about imaginations
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because everything seems to be super spaed and a thousand tons of CGI graphics and
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so many things I think that are truly good and truly enjoyable can get stereotype.
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I thank everyone who's listening, regardless of their age, and we have
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just so many great listeners, and we're just going to continue to work to
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keep these great radio dramas alive and continuing to broadcast. All right, Well,
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that will do it for today. Tomorrow we're going to continue with the
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adventures of one Nicholas Carter, the greatest of all Manhunters, and then we
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will be back on Friday for part five of the Fathom five Matter. Follow
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dot com. Slash Radio Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your
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host, Adam Graham signing off.