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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Money Matter (EP1633) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. The original air date April
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth of nineteen fifty eight, the title The Wayward Money.
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  Speaker 2: Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellard Nor Association.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Hello, brand. I haven't heard from you since that
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  Speaker 2: case down on Managua. Nikka Ugway got another nice long
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  Speaker 2: crip line up for me this time. But if you
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  Speaker 2: can leave right away, I wish you'd run on to
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  Speaker 2: Baltimore for us Baltimore. That depends depends on what how
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  Speaker 2: free I can be with my expense account and the
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  Speaker 2: seafood department. You can take oysters, soft shell crabs, terrif
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  Speaker 2: and soup.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny can get us off the hook on this one.
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  Speaker 4: I locate your.
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  Speaker 2: Expense account fly big one huh Oos murder Arson one
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  Speaker 2: even four hundred and twenty one dollars missing from a safe. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: and you're liable for it if it isn't recovered then,
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  Speaker 2: But who keep that much cash in a safe outside
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  Speaker 2: of a bank? That is trilling Tobacco Company for why.
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  Speaker 3: Let it get the details from August Trillingham.
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  Speaker 2: If you will take this on on a free winning
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  Speaker 2: expense account, Freddy, I'm your boy, Bob Bailey in the
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  Speaker 2: Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account,
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  Speaker 2: America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigators Truly Johnny Dollar expense account
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  Speaker 2: submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the Northeastern Indemnity
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  Speaker 2: Association Hertford, Connecticut, following us an account of expenses incurred
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  Speaker 2: during my investigation of the Wayward money matter expense account
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  Speaker 2: out of one twenty six thirty plain fair an incidentals
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  Speaker 2: Hartford and New York to Baltimore and a cab to
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  Speaker 2: the sherat in Belvidere. After all I could afford the best.
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  Speaker 2: I had him two atten cent phone call him, mister
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  Speaker 2: August Tillingham. He'd be glad to see him. Hmmm, somewhere
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  Speaker 2: that name rang a bell. It had him three a
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  Speaker 2: buck twenty for a cab to the Turningham Tobacco Company
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  Speaker 2: on Conway near Charles Street. It was a huge old
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  Speaker 2: brick building with what I guess you'd call a vaulted roof,
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  Speaker 2: offices at one end of it, and the rest looked
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  Speaker 2: like a kinda warehouse.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you could get here so quickly, mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Lass only a courred last straight you know well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Left Hartford the minute the insurance company called me. So
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  Speaker 2: somebody blew your safe and walked off.
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  Speaker 3: With the man of the safe, mister Dollar, and took
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  Speaker 3: over one hundred and five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: He always keeps that much cash on hand. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: because of the nature of our business. What do you mean.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the tobacco was grown by the farmers hereabouts, barm
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  Speaker 3: cured for a month or two or three, and then
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  Speaker 3: brought here, regraded according to quality and color, and tied
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  Speaker 3: into hands hands bunches of twenty or thirty leaves, depending
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  Speaker 3: on size.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I see.
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  Speaker 3: Then we pack it in hogsheads and ship it to
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  Speaker 3: the auction warehouses. We're kind of a middleman between the
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  Speaker 3: small farmer and the auction I said small farmer, mister Dollo. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the people for whom tobacco is only an incidental crop,
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  Speaker 3: there are a lot of them, since we buy from
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  Speaker 3: them outright, they want cash, not checks or payment do
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  Speaker 3: the first.
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  Speaker 2: Of the month?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? No cash?
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  Speaker 2: Oh I see. And you're always gambling on what you'll
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  Speaker 2: be able to get at the auctions.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: How's business, mister Tuna?
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  Speaker 3: Not as good as I'd like, of course, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure it'll pick up later in the year.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you ask, Oh just wondered. In a matter
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  Speaker 2: like this, I want to know all I can. But
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  Speaker 2: you said that as though you meant to apply that.
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  Speaker 2: Why am I meant to imply nothing? Look, you said
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  Speaker 2: that's safe, wasn't cracked? I said it was opened?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm sure I know by whom?
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  Speaker 2: What? What am why? I send for me?
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  Speaker 3: What I have for all the liability is now you're company?
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  Speaker 2: Well who did it?
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  Speaker 3: For years? We've had a bookkeeper, little pips creak of
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  Speaker 3: a man named Elma Cockerley. Well if he did here
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  Speaker 3: fifteen or twenty years, even before I bought.
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  Speaker 2: This business, you haven't always owned it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, I made my money doing the
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  Speaker 3: late twenties Florida real estate.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. Oh, yes, yes, seems to me. I've heard something
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  Speaker 2: about your success down there.
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  Speaker 3: I retired, traveled around till the mid forties, and then
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  Speaker 3: decided to get back into the swing of things, and
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  Speaker 3: I bought this business.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, Now about this Elmer Cockerley.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, a mile tibid, ineffectual sort of little man. I
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  Speaker 3: suppose after twenty or thirty years in this dull, routine job,
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  Speaker 3: after seeing and handling so much money all the time, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I see what you mean.
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  Speaker 3: Anyhow, at tax time I decided to have the accounting
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  Speaker 3: firm of Handley James Chadwick Kerhmer and Wormsbecker go over
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  Speaker 3: our books just as a matter of course. And it
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  Speaker 3: was then that Elmer Cockerley suddenly discovered that some of
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  Speaker 3: the records were missing. I see things balanced out at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the year, mind you, but those three
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  Speaker 3: or four months were missing. And it was during that
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  Speaker 3: period that Elmer had painted his whole bought a new car.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you investigate immediately? Of course? Seems to me it
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  Speaker 2: was then that you should have sent for me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, since our business is stickley cash, both in and outgoing,
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  Speaker 3: there was nothing we could pin on him. Once more,
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  Speaker 3: he was as concerned as I was, apparently, after all,
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  Speaker 3: since things finally balanced out. But I wonder now, I
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  Speaker 3: should think you would now, since he's the only other
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  Speaker 3: person who could open the city, what does he say.
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  Speaker 2: About this robbery?
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  Speaker 3: He didn't commit this faulting.
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  Speaker 2: I called his wife.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't seen him since he left for work yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Both you know where he lives. Yes, you have a
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  Speaker 2: description of his car license and so on? Yes, yes
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  Speaker 2: I have. Okay, mister Trillingham, I'll notify the police from
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  Speaker 2: here and I'm going out to his house to see
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  Speaker 2: what I can learn there. Now, use your phone. Of course. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't be the first time a timid soul had
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  Speaker 2: finally filled his oats had run off with company money,
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  Speaker 2: and usually that type was hard to find. The methodical
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  Speaker 2: mind always planned things well, including a getaway. I had
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  Speaker 2: him four or eighty cents taxi to a car rental agency.
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  Speaker 2: I had him five fifty bucks deposit, and I drove
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  Speaker 2: to Almer Cockerley's home a few blocks off Wilkins Avenue
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  Speaker 2: west of town. I wondered why the old fellow had
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  Speaker 2: done it. Sometimes the why can be the best clue
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  Speaker 2: is to wait a hunt for a man and you
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  Speaker 2: know something. A good part of the why became very
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  Speaker 2: clear when the door of our Olmer's house was open.
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  Speaker 2: Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar. In a moment,
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  Speaker 2: and now Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar, and
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  Speaker 2: the wayward money matters. Oh, yes, what do you want,
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  Speaker 2: Missus Cockley?
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  Speaker 4: I'm missus Cockley. Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar?
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  Speaker 4: Insurance investigator, insurance investigator. I haven't even filed a traim
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  Speaker 4: on Elmer yet.
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  Speaker 2: You think your husband is dead, Missus Cockley, of course
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  Speaker 2: he is.
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  Speaker 4: You think for a minute he'd walk out on me.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you think he's dead.
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  Speaker 4: Ain't that enough?
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  Speaker 2: You've talked with mister Trillingham this morning, of course I have.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted to know where Elmer was. I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: know where Elmer was, neither of us.
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  Speaker 2: No, So that was that.
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  Speaker 4: So when they find his body, I'll collect his insurance
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  Speaker 4: and that'll be that. And I won't have that helpless
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  Speaker 4: little worm around underfoot no more. No more having the
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  Speaker 4: baby and nurse him and tie his time and feed him.
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  Speaker 2: Missus Coley, sir.
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  Speaker 4: The only reason that little shrimp would dare not to
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  Speaker 4: come home is if somebody had done him in. And
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  Speaker 4: when you find him, you can come around and pay
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  Speaker 4: me his insurance and that's that.
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  Speaker 2: That's all you Just a minute, just a minute, Did
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  Speaker 2: mister Tillingham tell you that over one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: was taken for the safe of the office.
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  Speaker 4: No, Thelma didn't do it. I know he didn't, working
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  Speaker 4: his fingers to the bone year after year handling all
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  Speaker 4: that money, and him and me just scraping along. If
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't for beneficial finance helping us along now and then,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what we'd have done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I told him more than once.
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  Speaker 4: If he wasn't such a spinalist little mouse, he'd help
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  Speaker 4: himself to some of that money. They'd never miss it,
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  Speaker 4: being a cash.
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  Speaker 2: Business like it is.
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  Speaker 4: And the Lord knows he deserves some of it. What
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  Speaker 4: he say to that scared him made him angry. So
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  Speaker 4: I'd keep rubbing it eat he married you to. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: he'd scream and yell like a baby.
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  Speaker 2: She dared to scream at you.
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  Speaker 4: I'd let him.
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  Speaker 2: I got so sick of him.
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  Speaker 4: It did me good to see him Blowy's top. Believe me,
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  Speaker 4: I told him more than once. If I was in
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  Speaker 4: his place, I wouldn't hesitate. Well, go ahead, he says,
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  Speaker 4: go ahead, and he gives me go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: He says, she gave you what, missus Cockley, the combination
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  Speaker 2: of the safe?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, he did, so what of it? So maybe
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  Speaker 4: I went down there and robbed it last night?
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  Speaker 2: Well, how did you know it was last night?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't tell you that, all right, all right, maybe
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  Speaker 4: I did. I'd like to see you put it on me.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I will.
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  Speaker 4: You think I can't use that kind of money. You
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  Speaker 4: think I don't deserve it, after struggling all these years,
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  Speaker 4: caring for him, for nothing because he didn't have the
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  Speaker 4: gumption to get what he should up.
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  Speaker 2: You know something, missus cocklely, I doubt if you ever
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  Speaker 2: gave him a chance to show any gumption.
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  Speaker 4: Huh do you know Elmer? Did you ever see him?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: And look look at his picture here in the hall.
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  Speaker 4: All right, a baby, that's all he is.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you made with a lot of big noisy
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  Speaker 2: to me, probably most of it's a lie. I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe you'd live ten minutes with a man if you
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  Speaker 2: really felt that way about him. But there must be
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  Speaker 2: some reason for it, some reason for trying to make
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  Speaker 2: me suspect you.
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  Speaker 4: I told you maybe I didn't do it, did you?
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to see you prove it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think you did.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to see you prove that.
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  Speaker 2: I think all you're trying to do is cover up
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  Speaker 2: for him, protect him. And I'll say this, you're taking
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  Speaker 2: a mighty offy way to do it.
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  Speaker 4: He do you really think Elmer, little Elmer could have no? No,
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  Speaker 4: he really didn't have the comption, all right. Who Well,
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  Speaker 4: we couldn't have mister outside of his books and figures
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  Speaker 4: at that office, he he could hardly take care of hisself.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I needed me to tell him what to
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  Speaker 4: do and feed him and take care of him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is quite a change of case, missus cocker.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I did make him told the line, so what
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  Speaker 4: about it? He liked it. Some people are that way,
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  Speaker 4: just like me. I got to have somebody I can
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  Speaker 4: lord it over him. Anything wrong with that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't believe a thing you said. Oh you
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  Speaker 2: don't wor is he? Where is Elmer? I don't know?
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  Speaker 2: And if he didn't rob that safe, who did he couldn't?
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  Speaker 2: How should I know?
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you ask that August trilling him his fancy
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  Speaker 4: boss that's kept him and me diving all these years?
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  Speaker 4: Did you think of him?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's a suspect at the time, ye, friend, the boss.
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  Speaker 4: Used to go catfishing together up the creek. Great privilege
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  Speaker 4: for poor little Elma to go fishing with the boss
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  Speaker 4: who made all the money. It's where I thought he
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  Speaker 4: was last night when he didn't home to supper, when
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  Speaker 4: he wasn't home all night. Poor deed.
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  Speaker 2: All right, missus cockly, just quit acting at Somebody stole
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  Speaker 2: that money and apparently only three people knew the accommodation
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  Speaker 2: of that safe trilling him your husband, and you, I
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  Speaker 2: tell you go ask that trilling. Only one of the
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  Speaker 2: three has run out disappeared.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, I'll never believe that Elmer did it.
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  Speaker 2: He sure he caught. Anybody caught. Now worries he I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I think you do. No, and you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to protect him or are you waiting to hear from
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  Speaker 2: him so you can join him, him and the money.
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  Speaker 2: That isn't true, then why isn't he here if half
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  Speaker 2: of what you told me is because he Because I'll
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  Speaker 2: go answer the phone.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Yes, I'm herd. Who oh oh oh, just a minute,
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  Speaker 4: Sergeant Macklin, he says, no, the.
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  Speaker 2: Man I talked to it police, of course. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: nice Johnny Dollar. This is Macklin, mister. Yeah, it looks
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  Speaker 2: like it's all sold up. Yeah, who Elmer Cockerley driver's
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  Speaker 2: license identification. You found the money, Well it's left of it.
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  Speaker 4: They got the money, did they?
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  Speaker 2: You know what Cockley looks like. I've seen this picture.
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  Speaker 2: Well maybe you better come out here where Hans's Bridge.
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  Speaker 2: Hanson's Bridge. Yeah, I used to go.
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  Speaker 4: Cop fishing all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's about nine miles up the creek north of town. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you there. Yeah, I want you to see
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  Speaker 2: if you can identify Cockerly's body. Oh, I see Act
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  Speaker 2: three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar. In a moment, now
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  Speaker 2: Act three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar, and the wayward
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  Speaker 2: money matter. Without telling missus Cockerly what I'd learned over
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  Speaker 2: the phone, I took off in my rental car for
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: the creek north of town, for Hans's Bridge. Yeah, this
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: was a crazy case. If ever there was one. Elmer Cockerley,
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  Speaker 2: bookkeeper for the tobacco company, was the only real suspect
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  Speaker 2: in the one hundred and four thousand dollar robbery. And
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: where there's only one suspect, I always begin to wonder.
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  Speaker 2: But who else was there? His wife, maybe she'd done
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  Speaker 2: everything she could to confuse me, the owner of the company,
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  Speaker 2: turning him. Yeah, I thought of him too, until I
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: got the word from the police that they'd found Elmer
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  Speaker 2: Cockerly or what was left they found the money too?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: What was left of it? What's left of it? Is right? Dollar,
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid most of that one hundred thousand went floating
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  Speaker 2: down the creek when Cockley and his car rolled over
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  Speaker 2: into it. Hell, we'll see how much of the dough
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  Speaker 2: is still inside when we get the car up on
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  Speaker 2: the bank. How do you figure it happened? Sergeant? The
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: old boy was making his getaways, ah, going too fast
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  Speaker 2: when he hit the turn onto the bridge and PLoP
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  Speaker 2: o into the creek. H wouldn't there be skid mark,
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  Speaker 2: smack Rell, He wouldn't have to be going very fast?
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  Speaker 2: And look cars up on the bank. Now, come on,
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  Speaker 2: how do you know it's tell muc Cockley inside of
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  Speaker 2: him license number. And one of the boys dove in
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  Speaker 2: brought up his wallet. Here's here's sergeant high and yeah
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  Speaker 2: high and wet. Okay, let's we'll have a look a
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  Speaker 2: few small bills in there. The rest of the dough
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  Speaker 2: must be out in Chesapeake Bay by now.
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  Speaker 4: All right, boy, take a.
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  Speaker 2: Look dollar that's copularly in there. Yeah, yeah, that's all
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  Speaker 2: marn You think he drowned? Yeah, or banged around so
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  Speaker 2: hard when the car plunged in. I see the bruises
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  Speaker 2: on his face and chest. Mm yeah not pretty. And mac, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's that. Just one more who tried and didn't get
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  Speaker 2: away with it. I wonder when they'll learned that it
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  Speaker 2: just didn't m what's that A little scrap of paper
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  Speaker 2: out of his pocket, torn only part of it. See
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  Speaker 2: night hants Cat, Cat and Mac. Look here, Yeah, what
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  Speaker 2: this bruise? This mark on the back of his head.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: He really got banged around. Show me one thing in
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  Speaker 2: this car that could leave a mark like this, most anything,
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  Speaker 2: door handle, top of the steering pole, user. All the
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: other bruises are on his face, his chest, and there's
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  Speaker 2: only one thing I know that leasa mark like this.
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  Speaker 2: Better get the corner out here before you touch anything.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: See you later. Look where are you going? I'll see
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  Speaker 2: you later? Now what under the yes?
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  Speaker 3: I heard it from the police, Fop and mister Dollar,
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  Speaker 3: and I well, in spite of what I told you earlier,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to believe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 3: He's been such a loyal soul all those years. And
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  Speaker 3: I suppose all that cash, and it was a bit
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: more than we usually kept the safe. I suppose it
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: was just too much of a temptation for him.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Offer any other man, even you, for instance, What are
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: you joking?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: So it's not funny?
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: So business has been pretty bad lately.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't say that, mister Dollar.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I merely said that I know what you said. Tolling him.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: And I remember now what i'd heard about your big
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: success in Florida real estate back in the twenties. Well,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I don't see what you were one of those guys
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: who sold a lot of swamp and youngle some of
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: an underwater the suckers from up north.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I was young an opportuitist to you were a crook.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: You're a crook now and a killer natural to hang
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: it on poor timid little Elmer Cockerly, Sure, why not?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: He'd be the natural suspect in anybody's book. You realize
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: what you're going fishing catfishing tonight at Hans's Bridge. Only
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have put it into a note to him
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: what no one I found on his body? So you
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: met him there, You slugged him, put him behind the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: wheel of his car, then ran it down the embankment
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: into the creek you thought they're rolling over. Would a
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: come for any bruises he'd get, But not that mark
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: on the back of his head, the one made by
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the butt of a thirty eight special. I've seen too
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: many of them, telling him, Oh, I see you still
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: have it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: That's right, and I use it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: You didn't get away with murdering Elma. You'd never get
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: away killing me.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I could go a long ways and one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars and before I let you.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Stop me, please told me, poor.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 4: You did it twice. I don't know how, but you've
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: killed him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'll do it myself, old Buster.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah he did it, Missus Conckly, and believe me, he'll
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: pay for it. Well, so ends another dirty chapter in
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the history of crime. I hope the insurance on Elmer
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: makes up in some small way for Missus Conckerly's loss
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: of him. Well, I was going to say husband, but
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I guess Elma was kind of a baby to her
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: to manage, to brawl, beat and to love. Expense acount
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: total including transportation back to Hartford one hundred and four
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  Speaker 2: dollars seventy cents. Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, our star, will
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: return in just a moment. Now here is our star
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to tell you about next week's story. Next week a
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: fishing trip to Lake Mohave Resort. Fishing that is for
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: a thief. Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar?
• 20:40
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• 20:44
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• 20:47
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• 20:51
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• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, a nicely written story really thrived on
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: some misdirection, getting us to have our first suspicion on
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the boss and then throw it onto the wife when
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: it actually turned out to be the boss involved, of course,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Alan Reid appearing just a few years before he would
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: get the role of the lifetime as Fred Flintstone. Now
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: we do turn to some listener comments and feedback. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: do want to address folks who noticed that there was
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: an issue with last week's recording, and yours truly, Johnny Dowler. Yeah,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: it just does appear to have been a I really
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: am sorry about the issue. It does just appear to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: have been a one time fluke, probably something with the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: recording conditions that I didn't account for. But hopefully we'll
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: have smooth sailing from here on out. Also, we did
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: receive a really good listener question from James who writes,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: are there other British detective radio shows in the style
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: of Pursuit? Well, of course Pursuit was not technical. It
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: was an American show about Great Britain in the detective
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: series over there that was set over there, and there
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: were not a whole lot of American shows in that style.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: One that does stand out, and unfortunately there aren't any
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: episodes in existence is Basil Rathbone starred in a radio
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: series called Scotland Yard, and he was actually very skeptical
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: of that series. Before taking it on, because he took
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: this on the season after he had finished playing Sherlock Holmes.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And he said, you know, I've spent the last six
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: years making Scotland Yard look foolish, and you're wanting me
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to go and play it on the air. But the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: money was right and he went and he did it,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and it lasted for one season, and like I said,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: unfortunately there aren't any episodes. If there were any, I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: would love to bring them to you, believe me. All Right, Well,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: thanks so much, good question, and that will do it
• 25:16
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• 25:22
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