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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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our listeners, and I want to especially thank Marie who actually mailed in a
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donation. And before we do get started, I did want to clarify a
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couple of things regarding these Johnny Doller episodes. First of all, Monday,
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we will always have for the next fifty eight weeks in app two episodes fifteen
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minute episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Doller. Wednesdays and Fridays. Usually this
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will be the format, two on Wednesday and one on Friday. Now there
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are a couple there are four serials where one part is missing. In those
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cases, we'll just have two on Monday and two on Friday, with a
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special on Wednesday. In addition, there is one six part serial and so
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we'll have two on each day. Also, a lot of these Yours Truly
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Johnny Doller. Five parts were were serialized from previous episodes of not only Yours
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Truly, Johnny Doller, but other programs such as C. M. Spade
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and Richard Diamond. So I will actually mention if I know and I have
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the information what script it was based on. I've got a couple of places
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on the internet. So if you're thinking now, hold your answer until after
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Friday, because I may already have the info. All right, Well,
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now it's time to get into today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Yawler. It's
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time for the McCormick matter, Part three and Part four from Hollywood. It's
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time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny Deller. This is Dule's Martin. Lieutenant
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Martin, Yeah, that's right. I got a message. You called while
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I was out left this number. Yeah, I want to talk to you
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about the mccomick case. Lieutenant McCormick, hundred thousand dollars burglary out on Long
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Island back in nineteen fifty one. I was the officer in charge. Who
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are you, insurance investigator? I got a tip to the next convict name
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Joe Penny might have pulled it. I'm at Penny's Hotel. Well, let
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me know how you make up. Say listen, his room has been torn
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apart, every inch of it's been searched. And when I came here tonight,
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I got sucked by a woman with a gun. Give me that address
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tonight at every weekday night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous freelance Insurance Investigator, Yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar did the Allied Casualty
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and Insurance Company Limited, Markham Building, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
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an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the McCormick matter. Expense account Item
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seven two dollars two drinks for myself for Lieutenant Jules Martin, NYPD, a
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big, swarthy man who seemed to know what he was about. Martin looked
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over the damage done by the unknown rant sacker of Joe Penny's room, questioned
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the clerk, who was unable to furnish any helpful information. Then, because
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Joe Penny was officially a parole violator ordered to general pick him, he should
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be able to get our hands on him pretty soon, Duller, I hope
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it's that easy, Lieutenant. Any reason why it shouldn't be fairly routine,
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No, just a feeling, I guess. I don't know. This whole
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matter has been flimsy. The tip was weak, but it seems to be
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paying off. I think fits, though I don't quite get all this dollar.
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How'd you come in on this? Old Mike Cairn died up at Sinxing
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two days ago. Before he went, he told me he believed Joe Penny
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might have pulled him a comick burglary. It didn't seem likely then, Penny
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being a small time auto thief and whatnot, but now it does. And
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view what's been happening lately, somebody sure warns something Penny might have. Judging
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from that room, I never saw one taking a par better an expert search
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job. Yeah, hey, lieutenant, when you picked Joe Penny up,
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I'd like to be in on it. He's my only lead in this case,
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and I want to talk to him again. And that's not asking too
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much. Now, Daughter, about this woman you saw pretty about thirty,
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dark hair, good dresser and wore a silver mink stole the gun. She
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sacked me with was a little one twenty five or maybe thirty two automatic.
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You think she might have done the searching in Joe's room? What do you
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think she was flustered and upset when I bumped into We're anxious to get away
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from the place, and of course the gun in her hand. Yeah,
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she sound familiar to you in this neighborhood. No, No, it could
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be anybody. Yeah, well that's about it, lieuten Yeah? No,
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I oh thanks. I suppose you talked to McCormick, got the full story
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of the burgery from him almost first thing. Yeah, and I remember him
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when it first happened. Nice enough, but strange. I thought it's business
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about somebody phoning the parole office ahead of you to get Joe. Penny's a
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dress that stops me, though. That's hard to figure. You're telling me
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everything. Sure, I'm sure that part sounds crazy. Not if somebody knew
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I was looking for him wanted to get him first. But who how should
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I know? Well, we'll see what we will see. Can I drop
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you anyway? No, thanks, I'll walk. You'll let me know when
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you pick him up. Sure. Two days passed and I didn't hear from
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Lieutenant Martin. I finally phoned in and a supplementary had turned up no leads.
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Martin had men watching Joe's hotel. His former friends and acquaintances were being
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checked. Meanwhile, I decided to try and find out who the dark woman
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in the first stall had been. It seemed pretty obvious that she had just
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come from Joe's room, that she knew him or was connected with him in
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some way, So once more I combed over Joe Panny's filet headquarters, this
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time looking for a woman's name. The only one mentioned was an ex wife
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who had divorced him six years before. Her name was Iris Carter at the
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Bureau of Vital Statistics MARGE certificate and record of divorce proceedings gave me a composite
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picture of an unhappy and turbune a three year marriage. It also gave me
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a general description of Iris Carter that could very well fit the woman I had
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seen briefly in the hallway outside Joe Panny's hotel room. There was a six
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year old address to start on that. Un I think that you, no,
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ma'am, I'm not unus. Oh no, her I don't know,
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I really don't know her. Oh, well, what do you want?
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I'd like to talk to the manager. I want some information. What's your
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name, Johnny Doller? What kind of information are you looking for? Are
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you the manager yesterday? I am Well, I'm trying to locate a woman
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named Iris Carter. She might have used the name Iris Panny. She was
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married once to a man named Joe. Panny lived here about six years ago.
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Were you here then? That was? Did you know her? I
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did? Did you know him? Yeah? To jail? Does she live
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here now? She don't? Do you have any idea where I can find
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her? I don't, Well, do you happen to know if she ever
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worked her? Just to talk to her? When did she move on?
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Oh? Long time ago? Five years? Maybe? What's your business?
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Insurance? Oh? Oh, nobody around here buys insurance. We don't have
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to go into that. If you can think of any place I might get
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a line on her, I'd appreciate it. It seems to me she worked
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at a bookstore down the street, down what street? Out there? Block
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or two down that way? I think she worked there. I don't know
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who. You can try? Thank you? I will you pried? You
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dip your head, so tell me? Do you remember what she looked like?
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Sort of yeah, well, oh not as tall as I am.
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Nice pretty girl, blonde to brunette, dark here almost black. Know any
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of her friends when she lived here? No, No, I couldn't tell
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you that. Why Oh, I might look up one of them and ask
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her about her. That's all you asked. That bookstore. I think she
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worked there. The bookstore Iris Carter Panny had worked in was as dismal as
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the neighborhood. The proprietor and missus Oles yielded a little more helpful information than
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Iris Carter's former landlady. Yes, Iris had worked there for about six months.
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She'd quit almost five years before. No, she didn't know where to
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find her expense account item eight, one dollar and two cents lunch. I
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had it in the neighborhood diner called the Shoppel, a place where missus Oles
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said Iris Carter had frequently eaten. The restaurant manager remembered Iris vaguely. She
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also remembered Iris's boyfriend. I asked for a description. She did better than
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that. She gave me his name, occupation, and address, an old
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rehearsal hall two blocks away. The five man combo working there was really putting
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it up. Yeah, And the minute I saw him, I knew the
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boy wearing the trumpet was the one I was looking for. Just good looking
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and smooth enough to go with a girl. Iris Carter Sondifi trumpet too.
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Okay, guys, take five. I'm looking for Jack Lang. I'm Johnny
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Dollar. Can we talk a minute. It's about all I got, mister
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Diller. We'll smoke nothing. Oh Man gets real tired out about this time
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of day. Yeah, imagine it does the way you put it out.
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Well, everybody to his own racket. What's yours insurance? Investigating? Okay?
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Now what Well? I've been asking around the neighborhood, and they tell
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me you once knew a girl named Iris Carter or Iris Penny, Iris Carter
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going. I'd like to find her and talk to her, and I thought
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you might be able to help me. Going. I want to talk to
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her ex husband. Most of all, I thought somehow she might know where
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to find him these days. He's in the can he was released three weeks
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ago. Any ideas, No, I thought finding her might be a shortcut
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to him. I wouldn't think so. They were all washed up when I
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know her? Why was that five years ago. She hadn't seen him for
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over a year. Then he didn't have much use for him. I don't
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blame him. How long did you know her? No, we went together
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for a while while she worked at some crummy bookstore, and she moved away
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and I didn't see her after that. I think she said something about going
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back to Ohio. Do you think I don't remember? Off. Let me
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put it this way. As far as I know, she's in no trouble.
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The one we want is a rex husband. You'd be helping a lot.
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If you could tell me where to find her. I don't know.
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I honestly don't know, and I sure wish I did. I'd like to
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find her myself. Why. Well, when she went with me, I
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wasn't any good. I think she just walked out because she was tired of
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losers, sick up to here, you know what I mean. I can't
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blame her. He gave her a pretty bad time. I didn't do much
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better. But now I got something. It's just a little five piece out
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but not much, but something. I'd like to show it to her and
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say, iris is his mind? You kind of had it bad? Huh
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bad? As a guy like me can get it. I know I'll probably
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never see her again as long as I live by. If never another one
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like or ever shows up, I'm going to be ready dead. Let me
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see. No, she must have been something. Take a look nice?
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Yeah, I take it back. What about seeing her? I've seen her
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when two nights ago, in the hallway outside Joe Penny's robe. You sure,
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I'm sure she hit me with a gun before she left. The picture
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he had flipped out of his wallet was old and well thumbed. It showed
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a sultry kind of face that could have been twenty or thirty or forty,
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a wide frank's smiling, happy mouth. Not the kind of girl I would
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imagine could ever be married to a Joe Penny. But there was no doubt
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about it. She had been married to him, and I had seen her.
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On my way back to the hotel, I dropped into check with Lieutenant
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Martin. Hi, Hi, doing any good? And he lead on Joe
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Penny And I think, so far this may take longer than I thought.
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At first, Well, I'm not looking for his ex wife. I didn't
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find her, but I found a few people knew her. She was the
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one at his hotel. The other night. Name's Iris Cardiff. Sure positive,
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I saw a picture. We better try to pick her up too.
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I'll put it out right away. Fine, well, I'll keep it.
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Wait a minute, don't go. We had some action here today. Sit
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down. Thanks. Julian McCormick called up reported you. He said you came
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out there bothering him a couple of days ago. He said he doesn't want
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to be bothered. Well, I only talked to him to get his story
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on the burglary, and I told him, as long as you didn't break
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the law, there was nothing we could do to stop you from investigating.
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But he didn't like it. He seemed perfectly willing to cooperate with me when
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I talked to him before. Yeah, it was sometime. He's rich.
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Excuse me, Martin here, that's right. How long ago? Okay,
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Well they found your boy Joe Penny. What. Yeah, he's on his
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way to the Morgue Harbor Patrol picked up his body a couple of hours ago,
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loaded down with slugs, some case. And that ain't all Johnny Huh,
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his feet were burnt. Johnny Deller, Frank porter An allied casually.
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How's it going, kid? I don't know, do you ever find Joe
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Penny. The harbor patrol found him floating around the harbor. He'd been shot
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and his feet were burnt. Was torture? Well, what can I do
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to help find a girl who was once married to him? Joe pay He
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had a wife? Yeah, she wears a mink stole these days and carries
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a gun. She's tied up with it somewhere. Her name's Iris Carter,
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Iris Carter. You met her just long enough to get slug with a gun?
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Well, wait a minute, that I'd like to get it all straight.
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Can I come over? I'll be here tonight and every weekday night.
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Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of a Man with the Action Packed Expense Account
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America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by Special Investigator
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Johnny Dollar the Allied Casually and Insurance Company Limited, Markham Building, Hartford,
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Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the McCormick
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matter. Expense account Item nine fourteen dollars even secretarial services, I dictated a
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detailed report of one hundred thousand dollars McCormick case. I did it for two
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reasons, One to make certain that Allied and the New York Police were thoroughly
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informed of my part of the matter, and two to review the case for
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my own benefit. One of the key figures, Joe Panny was a murder
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victim. Attached as a copy of that report. I tried to cover as
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closely as possible my conversation with Mike care And at Sing Sing when he tipped
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me off that Joe Panny had something to do with the McCormick burglary of five
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years ago. Also one conversation with Joe Panny, his subsequent disappearance and murder.
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I had a copy for Frank Porter when he showed up at my room.
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He read it from top to bottom. Geeve whit, Johnny? If
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this isn't something you come here for. Joe Panny, it looks like he
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did the McCormick job. Now I did. You're stopped. What can you
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do? Find his wife? Maybe you're doing this at your own expense,
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aren't you? Oh? I think your company will pay for it in time.
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You have to recover the stuff. I know you think you will.
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I think so. Yeah, your key man's dead. You have to start
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all over again. Maybe not. I don't really know whether Joe Penny was
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my key man or not. I still can't see a small time auto thief
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working a big, slick safe burglary. Every indication is that he was the
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one I know. I'd like to find that girl, Iris Carter and talk
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to her about it. She's connected with it now from what you say on
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the paper, Yeah very much. Oh, jeep was I feel like a
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fifth wheel. I'm not helping you a bit. You know. I handled
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this case for the company when it first broke. I worked with a Lieutenant
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Martin for six months on it and we didn't turn up a thing. You're
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on it three or four days and you have all kinds of action. Oh,
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I must have stepped in at the right time. Yeah, Johnny,
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somebody gunned Joe Penny down. I know you like to work alone, do
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things your own way, but be careful if you stay on this. I
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get worried when somebody starts shooting. Oh sure, I didn't get that though,
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But if I keep on this, I wouldn't let it go. Now
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if my life depended on it. I'm going to find that woman, and
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I'm going to find the stuff sure, well, geeve wh don't let anything
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happen to you. I won't. I talked some more with Frank Porter about
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the case. He repeated his offer in the name of Allied casually to help
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if he could. I told him I'd take it up on it if anything
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came up at all. He left. I was at Central Police Station ten
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minutes later, and five minutes after that, Lieutenant Dules Martin was calling for
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the medical examiners report on Joe Penny's death. A uniform man brought it in.
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Martin shoved it across the desk at me them. He says, Joe
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Penny's been dead about forty eight hours or longer. Two twenty five slugs right
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through the chest, penetrated both lungs, one through the neck. It's a
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very neat shooting at that range. What range or at least twenty feet maybe
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longer. Not many people shoot twenty Five's that? Well, it's a little
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a woman's gun. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Now,
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let's talk about that woman you saw around there that night. How you say
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it was Penny's X Yeah, I risk connor. I don't know whether her
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gun was a twenty five or thirty two. Well think I have Look,
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don't get sore with me. It's just that she looks like better than ever
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for opening this case up. I put her on in all points. Sorry
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I got wrong, That's sorry. Now the enemy thinks that Penny was killed
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before he was dumped in the water, possibly ambushed by someone he didn't know
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or didn't trust. If he's right about the range that had fit in,
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someone who knew him would do it close up. Yeah wait, you said
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his feet were burned. Yeah, I got the pictures here to prove it.
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Theyn't take a look, and these are the glossies. Uh, these
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are the burns here right here, here and here. Yeah, then he
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wasn't ambushed exactly. Look I don't know what he was, but this is
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the crazy part. He was already dead when this happened. No rope marks
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on his legs or wrists. You don't sit still for burning, no matter
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how tough you are. It's fascinating. Now someone shot him down then tried
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to make it look like he was tortured for information. First cover up.
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He's supposed to look like he knew something or had something, And maybe he
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didn't know or have anything at all. How do you feel, wows he?
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If the burning was cover up, then maybe the big search of his
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room was cover up too, to throw us off, to throw you off,
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not me, I wasn't in on it. Then yeah, well,
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one thing that's genuine? What's said the corpse? An hour and a half
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later, a witness was delivered to the office of Lieutenant Martin. His name
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was Edmund Thompson. He sold papers in the dock area. Both Martin and
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I looked at him twice, and I could tell both of us were doubting
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that theredulity of anything he might have to say. Hi, Hi, my
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name's Martin. This is mister Dollar. Yes, sir, glad to know
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you both. Now, would you mind telling us everything you saw the other
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night? Tuesday night? It was Tuesday? Sure? Why not? I
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saw this guy dumped in the water. We understand that. Can you tell
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us the circumstances. It's against the will of God, as it certainly is
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against the laws of nature too. What did you see, mister Thompson?
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I prayed for him both. You tried, Dollar, When did you pray
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right after? I saw, yes, sir on the street. Huh,
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Nope, I was on the vacant lot. I was cutting across towards or
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dark. Oh. Then I see this car, pull of long black car,
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a lot of chrome on it. This fellow jumps out and goes around
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at the back. He opens the trunk and he pulls this other fellow out,
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hoists him up, and he carries him over the dock. Then he
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just lets him go. Then you pray. Then I prayed. I was
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a little too scared to do anything else. This car, the man had
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a long black one, a lot of chrome. Sedana cope, what's the
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difference? Two seats in one seat? One seat? Happen to get the
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license number? All right, all right, let that go. How about
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the man? Can you describe him? He stood there and looked down at
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the water and started himself as a cigarette. Well what kind of a face
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did he have? Dark light? A mustache? What a devil's face?
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Saw Now, what does that mean? The devil? Mister Thompson, Do
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you understand that we want to apprehend this man, that he's responsible for one
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man's death and then he might harm someone else. I'll pray for him,
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pray for him. All Well, how was he dressed? Didn't notice hatt?
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But he had a long black coupe. Do you know the make?
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Nope? Would you know him if you saw him again? Noop? Look
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when you saw him dump a body into the water, Why didn't you notify
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the police. Why it's police business. Let them take care of their business.
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I'll take care of mine. Any of you fellows got a cigarette and
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I left Lieutenant Martin brooding over his witness went out for a white at dinner.
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When I called him later, he hadn't learned anything more. So I
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decided to call it a night and went back to my hotel. I found
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a note waiting for me from Jack Lang, the band leader friend of Iris
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Carne, said he got a tip she'd worked a one time at the Elmar
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Theater and the Bronx. If I learned anything, please let him know he
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was still in love with her Elmar Theater. I decided my night was far
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from over. You buy a tick it off front if you want to look
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at the I only want to see one. Her name's Iris Carter. Does
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she work here? I just told you go buy a ticket off front.
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Just tell me this. Does Iris Carter work here? Is the name familiar
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to you? Have you ever seen her or heard of her? You give
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me any more trouble, Clark, I told you to go off front.
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Can't you answer a simple question. I'm looking for Iris Carter, Iris criters
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you never heard of? Call me a cop, glorious boy. Never mind,
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I'll take care of him. Come on you, Iris Carter? Is
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that what you said? Yeah? I got a change. You gotta get
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back on in five minutes and I'll talk to you later. Even got to
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say stick around, I'll change back the screen. Okay, I'm glory you
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would. Who are you? Johnny Dollar? Well? You want with Irish
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Scott it? I want to see her and tell her something. Tell me,
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well, for one thing, her ex husband's dead. What got to
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watch that screen? Oh? Say that again, Joe Penny? Her ex
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husband's dead? Oh kid, not no good? Bombas really dead? Yeah?
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Where can I find her? She don't work here, no more has
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worked here in four five years? She quit? Where is she? You
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took over from the old man out there when you heard me mention her name.
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You've satisfied yourself that I'm really looking for, So suppose you go with
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me, mister. I'm not satisfied about anything. Where is she? She
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got herself married to a nice guy. But for her? Is she in
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town? Sure? You just want to see her and tell her Joe's dead,
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That's about it. I thought maybe she might be able to help me
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and the police find out who killed him. He was killed two days ago
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on his body today. You know about that? Are you a cop?
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I'm an insurance investigator and you have to see her? You want it put
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in writing? Don't get a half what I'm getting at is this quick change?
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Huh? Now listen, Iris is good, you know what I mean.
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And she's married to a nice guy. Now, want you this make
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a trouble? Not if she hasn't done anything wrong? Well I can tell
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you she hasn't, but does make trouble. It'd be a shame. She
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said, up nice and I like to see a girl, said, well,
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don't you. Certainly I haven't seen her almost since she left here.
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But oh, you look like a right kind of guy. I believe you.
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Thanks Gloria. She lives out in Long Island now. Her name's McCormick,
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Iris McCormick. By the time I said goodbye to Glory and walked out
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the stage door and got out into the alley, I thought I had most
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of it figured the ex wife of an ex con married a wealthy Long Island
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her name McCormick. When the honeymoon was over, the safe was robbed.
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Walking out that alley. I was wondering whether to phone the police. Are
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allied casually first shooting? You've been hit down. It isn't bad. Did
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you see him? Nobody in the car? See the car, the one
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that just gone out o the car? We had a long black coop a
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lot of chrome. Fellow didn't have his lights on it. Hey, that's
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against the law. Hey, you need help, mister, No, no,
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I'm at now Here's our star Bob Bailey to tell you about tomorrow's episode.
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Thanks Tomorrow. The end of the trail of a thirty eight caliber slug
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johnas want you Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Doller is transcribed
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in Hollywood, written by John Dawson. The entire production is under the direction
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of Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and
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station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller. Roy Rowan speaking
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Welcome back. While a couple of things to note about this serial. The
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first thing that stands out to me is they do a really good job of
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finding believable ways to recap the story for the listeners now oftentimes particularly you know,
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when we listen to the Superman serials, which were also done by Jack
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Johnstone, they would often have it'd be somewhat clunky, unbelievable as they managed
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to retell the whole story over the course of two episodes. One other key
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difference here that I should note is with the Superman serials over on the Old
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Time Radio Superman Show, I actually kind of make it a secret, not
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something I will reveal on the air as to how many parts there are in
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a serial as to not spoil the suspense. You know, there there's a
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couple that are like two or three parts, though some of them can extend
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up to twenty. I think some close to thirty parts. This one is
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a lot less variance. Most of these serials are going are were five partters.
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There was one six parter and one nine partter. A whole lot more
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dependability. They were also seeing a great quality of storytelling and acting. They're
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really getting a chance to develop the story without getting something that sprawls a whole
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lot. It was noting it this point It's kind of an ideal time to
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have a show like this because there were a lot of misty dramas had made
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their way to television. They were pretty simple. These were half hour programs,
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all resolved in a single part. But you have here, over the
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course of five days, is a full fledged kind of radio mystery movie that's
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playing out for us and isn't far from the length of the nineteen seventies NBC
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mystery movie Wheel films. So we've got some great complexity also just some great
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acting. Now, I listened once all the way through all of these serials.
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I don't remember all of these solutions, but I do remember the one
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to this one. You'll definitely want to listen on Friday when we will bring
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you the climax. It really is a bit of a surprise, or at
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least it was to me, just the way the way it ended. Well,
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we do turn to listener comments and feedback and iTunes for from Harry,
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who says, I really like this podcast. I'm twenty years old. I
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remember my dad would listen to old radio or watch old movies. Back then,
33:07
I really didn't enjoy them. Now I can't get enough of them.
33:10
My favorite show is Johnny Doller featuring John Lynn. I can't figure out why
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so many people just like him. I think he's the best Johnny Doller.
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My second show is How to Save a Life. Really disappointed this over skipped
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ahead just to listen to it. Still a little bit hind but casting up
33:25
fast. Wanted to say thanks and keep up the work. Amazing work.
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PS. Really like your commentary. I think it was referring to a life
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in your hands. I'm glad you're enjoying it. The thing I think that
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makes John Lunn and to a lesser extent, the pre Bailey Dollars not viewed
33:49
as well, is a lot of people were first introduced to Johnny Doller through
33:54
Bob Bailey. I knew a gentleman from work who he grew up, you
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know, in the you know, in the nineteen fifties, and he listened
34:05
to Bob Bailey is Johnny Dowler on the radio. And you know, in
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terms of radio detectives, it was for most of which run the not only
34:15
the main game, but pretty much the only game in town in terms of
34:19
regular detective shows. And I think that you know, you take take a
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listen to the quality that you know that we're hearing here in the growing complexity
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of the plots, particularly facilitated by these fifteen minutes serial formats. And I
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think that if there was any virtue or any benefit in playing all of the
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John Lan Johnny dowlers, it's what and Edmund O'Brien and Charles Russell for that
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matter, is that I hope it built some appreciation for the talents and abilities
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of those actors who don't brought their own unique spend to Johnny Dowler. And
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we turn out actual written letter from Marie who says I've had many hours of
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entertainment from Dragnet and great detectives. Thank you and thank you Maria. Truly
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appreciate it and appreciate your support of today's program. Finally, Clark says,
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Hello, my name is Clark from Alberta, Canada. I'd just like to
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say I'm twenty seven years old, been listening to old radio shows since I
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was a little boy. In this app is so awesome. Now I can
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listen to old time radio whenever I want. Thanks so much, well,
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thanks so much for listening over there in Alberta. Clark, and that will
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actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with Sherlock Holmes.
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Then join us on Friday. We will play Policewoman for you, and then
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we'll bring you the thrilling conclusion to the McCormick matter. In the meanwhile,
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