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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Todd Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0995) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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continue with the Todd Matter parts three am four from Hollywood. It's time now
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for Johnny Deller. This is doctor King Police Emergency Hospital, who left word
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for me to call you, mister Deller. Yes, sir, I'm with
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Sergeant Mapes. Has there been any change in mister Tierney's condition, No,
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sir, no, none. You think she'll make it, doctor, It's
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hard to say right now. Sometimes they rally, sometimes not at all.
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Doctor, It's very important that we see her. I don't know whether to
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do any good, mister Dollar. We want a question her. Yes,
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I know, I know. Oh, why don't you and Sergeant Mapes come
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on over to the hospital. All right, sir, We'll be right there
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tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expensive Count America's Fabulous freelance insurance investigator as Truly Johnny Deller.
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Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to four State Insurance Company,
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Wilmington, Delaware. The following is an accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation
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of the Todd matter, the burglary that resulted in a shooting. On a
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tip from an ex convict named or Advance, I came to New York to
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question one Glory Attorney. My information was that she had in her possession and
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expensive mink coats part of a seventy five thousand dollars burglary at the Todd home
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on Long Island. Glory Attorney was shot and seriously wounded by an unknown gunman
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before I was able to question her about the coat. A description of her
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assailant and how she had obtained the coat was still to be ascertained when Sergeant
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Dan Mapes and I arrived on the second floor of emergency hospital. Mister Dollar,
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yes, I'm doctor King. Oh, yes, this is Sergeant Maps.
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As she managed to talk. Yet doctor and she may not see before
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we go in. I hope both of you will carefully frame only your most
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pertinent questions. Two minutes is about all I can give you with her,
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sure, doctor, that will better put your cigarettes out in the Yeah,
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there you go, Uncle ab apple Storia said a tribute indo gencum plenarium on
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m on me pick up to empty concerted e spirits something amen? Alright,
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father? Yes? Is she conscious? Just a minute? Yes, she
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can hear you. I'm sure you want to go ahead? I suppose so
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it has to be official. Are you Gloria Tierney? Is Gloria Tierney?
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Your name? Ya? Do you understand that you're seriously hurt? Do you
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understand that? Yeah? Can you tell us how you came about these injuries?
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Miss Tierney? Miss Tierney? Bill? Bill? Bill? Shan't you?
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Yes? Well? What is Bill's full name? Where can we find
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him? Where can we find him? Whoisy fucker? Watch out, nurse
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and mid hippo quick, no might help? Oh sorry, fellows, nothing
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more I could do. Glori at Cherney died at three thirty five in the
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afternoon without revealing the full name of the man who had shot her the night
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before. Expense account item seven six bucks drinks myself and Sergeant Mapes. We're
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sure of two things. How Yeah, his name's Bill, and this is
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the worst whiskey I ever tasted. Uh, there ought to be a law.
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I think there is, Sergeant. I'm gonna ask you something, baby,
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Outside of the fact that that girl up there died a few minutes ago
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and was wearing a st in mink worth eleven thousand dollars that you've been wanting
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to get your hands on, what about her? How does it strike you
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She looked like a nice girl. Yeah, she looked like the best kind
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of girl ever made. What else? What would someone like that be doing
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in a stolen mink coat? Exactly? What would she be doing with a
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stolen mink coat? Outside of having herself a time with a guy named Bill
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who gave it to her, and call it having herself? At times,
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I'd like to get drunk every bumming pounds named Bill. This is being terrible?
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Why stuff, I have a drink? You can say that again,
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baby, Why stuff? I have a drink? Wait? Yes? Should?
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Yes? Should bring us two marrow a thing on they make him double?
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Yes? Should right away? Ship. I'm glad to see you aren't
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fussy. Dolly out of bits, not a lousy bits. You know.
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I looked at you when you came in my office, and I said to
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myself, I got a wise acre in my hands. I got a wailing,
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dealing wise acre who brought himself a little tip, and he's going to
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keep it all to himself. I said, why do I have to put
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up with this kind of trouble? Why don't I just pass this bum and
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the cooler and go about my business. I'm a copper, I got work
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to do. Why fool with an insurance stick? I said, but I
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am very happy to see you are at a fussy fellow beaker. Very happy.
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All right, you made a street stow all my one. Go ahead.
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Well, I stood in a hospital room and I watched a human being
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died. It was part of my job, putting a job too. But
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for myself, I don't like it. If I have to go into why
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every man's death diminishes me, I'm gonna fall all over myself because I never
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could go into that kind of stuff. Yeah, I know what you mean,
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but I'll say this. That girl had died in there was She was
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a kind of girl I could have kept right on scene. Yes, I'd
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like very much to have knocked on her door almost any all night sentence.
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I would have liked that more than I can Cander. She were a stolen
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mink coat, remember I remember, I remember? Well. I can sit
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here and feel bad about it, Cally, You sure can. I'll feel
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bad with you. Look at them early eaters, dollar coming in to drink
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their dinners. Don't change the subject. I have to What do you got
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work to do? Pal? Yeah? Here we are gentlemen, as long
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as it's here. Yeah, cheers, there's yourself. There ought to be
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a law. You've said that. I remained with Sergeant Makes the rest of
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the day, as he continued his investigation of the death of Gloria Tyrney in
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the todd Burglory, the apartment where she'd live, finally yielded some information.
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Here here it is let us from Robert J. Tyrney in Riverside, California.
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Looks like her father. Maybe, yeah, I'll have the business office
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down at headquarters notify him. Hey, what's this picture? Nice looking guy?
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Love Bill? He loved her all right? Anybody identified this year that
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missus Stromberg's supposed to be here right now? What time you got fast?
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She said, she'd be here at six. Hey, sergeant, did you
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get anything on the bullets? Only? Didn't check with anything in our lab.
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Ballistic says it was an army could old model pretty good for killing what
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gun isn't? You're right? Hello? Oh? How long, missus Stromberg.
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We've been waiting for you come in. Oh well, mister dollars,
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Hi, do I have to answer any more questions? Oh? A couple,
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if you don't mind, I'm just all worn out. I can't get
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over this terrible thing happening to Gloria. Did you ever find out about her
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family? We're going to contact them right now. Seems they live in Riverside,
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California. Yes, yes, I believe that's what she said. I
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want to ask you one question, Missus Stromberg. Take a look at this
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picture. Yes you know him? Oh? Yes, that's Bill, the
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man Glory Attorney's been going out with these last few months. Yes, the
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man who drives the black Cadillac. Yes, the cat like Oh I wish
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I could tell you his full name. Did he do this terrible thing?
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It looks like it, Missus strombergon, Oh, dear, have you arrested
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him yet? We haven't found him yet. Well, I hope you do.
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I hope you clear this up for for the office to get me here.
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What about her things? Her family will probably take charge as soon as
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they're contact. Oh poor girl, poor girl, so alone now? Yeah,
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and missus Stromberg. Did Gloria Tyrney ever mention to you that she'd been
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married? Married? Gloria? Yeah? Why no? She never mentioned it
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was she married in the state of New York in nineteen fifty one, divorced
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in nineteen fifty three. Routine check of ital statistics. What was her husband's
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name, Bill Bill Powers? Sergeant Maps requested immediate file checks on William B.
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Powers, the ex husband of Gloriattorney Romney, learned he had no criminal
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record in the state of New York. His home address was up in Westchester
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County, one of the suburbs of the big city. I drove out there
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with Sergeant Maps. Oh what's this all about? You know a woman named
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Gloria tyr name is to Powers. Well, sure we will married once?
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Why she was shot to death last night? Mister Powers, Glory? Yeah,
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are you sure we're sure? Shot? Oh? What what happened?
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How could a thing like that happen? That's what we're trying to find out.
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Mister Powers, I can't believe it. Glory, have you seen it
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lately? Have you back? Yes? I saw her last week. We
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had a drink together. Are you sure it's Glory? We'd make sure before
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we came here with news like that. That's right, mister Dollar here isn't
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a policeman. He's an insurance investigator. Miss Turney was wearing a stolen mink
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coat when it happened stolen? Are you sure? We're sure? We checked
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everything. Glory would never steal anything. She was a fine girl, wonderful
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girl, full lever. Let marriage go on the rocks. Can you come
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with us, mister Powers. We'd like an identification? Well, oh uh,
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yes, of course, I'll get my cold. Excuse me, I
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want to smoke, Jenny. Yeah, thanks, Well he isn't a burden
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the picture, Jenny, Nah, not at all? Still he what is
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it? Jenny? You check the driveway out there? No, take a
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look the side window. Oh yeah, fifty five Cadillac coup de Ville.
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Sure as such a from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Deller, long
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distance operator Wilmington, Delaware is calling you. Okay, go ahead, please,
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Johnny, I do well, this is Don Freed. What's happening there?
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Your expenses are running away up and we haven't gotten a report from you.
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I haven't too busy. What's that supposed to mean? That's supposed to
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mean that the tip I got was good and it was bad. Yes,
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Gloria Tierney one two or three one, he's fifty seventh Street, had a
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mink coat that was stolen from the Tata State. No, she didn't tell
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me much about it because she got herself shot down on the street last night.
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Yes, I'm working with the police here trying to find out how she
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comes by the coat. I listen. An hour ago, I went out
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to see an ex husband of hers. His name's Bill Powers, and he
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seems to be the bird we're looking for. You know what he did.
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He cried and blubbered all the way down to the morgue, and he's in
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there right now. I'm making a positive identification. I don't blame him for
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crying. So what's new with you, mister expense accountant? Boy? You're
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a real man easter today, aren't you? I sure I am? By
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tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the band
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with the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Os Trulli Johnny Dollar
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expense accounts of it of my special investigator, Johnny Dollar to a four state
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insurance company Wilmington, Delaware. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my
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investigation of the Todd Matter. Expense account Item A twenty cents aspirin. I
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brought them in a drug store across the street from the Morgue. I figure
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I needed them on the way down in the police car. The ex husband
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of Gloria Tierney gave us a very little information about our activities up until the
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time of a deck. After he made the identification, we all walked across
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the street. Expense account Item nine thirty cents three cups of coffee. Sergeant
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WAPs build Powers and myself Powers cried awhile then straightened out somewhat. I hope
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you get whoever whoever did this terrible thing, Sarge. I hope you'll get
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him real fast. Are you sure went to mister Powers? Why would anybody
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do that? To glory? Why? Maybe you can help us answer that?
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You hope you can, mister Powers. Oh you you're just interested in
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that coach she was wearing. Well, mister, I don't believe she was
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wearing the stolen coat. What do you think of that? I think that's
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a pretty fair way to think right now. But it's not very practical since
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we already have proof that it is a stolen for her and that she was
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wearing it. Yeah, how about some more coffee? That's cold? Oh
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no, Look, we're just trying for the facts of the matter, mister
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Powers. I saw a glory attorney. I know what kind of a person
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she was. We have to start somewhere. You can understand that. I
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suppose you told us you saw her last week for a drink. Head's right.
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Have you been seeing her right along? Yeah? Sure, even though
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you were divorced a year or so ago. Yeah, yeah. Did you
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know she's been going with someone else too? Yeah? Bill, Yeah,
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Bill Chambers. That his name, Bill Chambers. But yeah, I don't
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know him, but she talked about him a lot. Yeah, like a
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look at this picture? Is this him? Yeah? That's him? I
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thought you knew. You're sure this is him? Oh? Sure. The
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picture was in her apartment. I've seen it there. One day. I
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asked her who he was, and Gloria told me about What did she tell
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you about him? Just said she was going out with him. Oh,
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she told me that he asked her to marry him. She said he had
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a lot of money. Anything else. Oh, I don't know that.
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She haven't imagine where he works, No, what kind of work he does?
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Do you know where we can get in touch with? No? No,
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I don't know that either. I can't help you. I only know
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she's been going out with I don't get this. You and her were divorced,
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but you kept on seeing her because she got this new boy friend.
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And she told you things like that, Yeah, funny in it. Where'd
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you bust up? Oh? Oh, listen that kids stuff. I suppose
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spat over, well, listen that. I don't know what exactly. Anyway,
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we were going to straighten it out. We were going to be married
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again. Oh what about this billed Chambers. Oh, she didn't want to
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marry him. She wanted to marry me again. She told me when day
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before yesterday she said she said she would marry me. Now she's dead.
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You know what kind of a car Chambers drives? Oh? Oh, cattle,
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honey and all that. Oh, she told me about his car.
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Another thing. I went out and I bought one myself, just like his.
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I thought it might do me some good word or we were crazy WorldWind.
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Where were you last night? Home? Can you prove it? Oh?
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Yeah, oh all night? I was home while she was out getting
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herself killed. The name William Chambers was checked through the New York Police files.
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Twenty four persons more or less fit the general description of the suspect.
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It took two days for Sergeant Maps and his men to track down all the
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leads. Either Missus Stromberg or Bill Powers could identify any of them and all
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points. Bulletin was issue describing the suspect in this car, same results.
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Nothing. On the third day, the pawn shop detail turned up two items
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that had been taken on the todd burglary. There they are Jenny, uh
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huh watching a ring Todd lost a watch and a ring with a lot of
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other stuff based members in the watch. Check out the ring in Grave.
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Yeah? Why were they picked up shop on Third Street? The proprietor bought
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them yesterday. A man who signed the buye book used the name James A
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Jenny. Yeah. Given a dress on Polk Street that was phony too.
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We got a good description from the proprietor. It's Chambers right down the line.
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Oh. Then he was still in town yesterday yesterday. Yeah, but
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this that's been in a hot sheet for a long time. If he's had
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any experience at all, he knew he was taking a chance trying to unload
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it. Probably trying to raise money to get out of town. What I
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was thinking, if he keeps on trying to raise money and unload all these
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things, I'll have all the loud back. If he keeps on trying,
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We'll keep on trying. Jenny, We're gonna get this lady so I can
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mate where. Okay, he does need money. They found his car used
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carl Out up in the Bronx. He sold it at ten o'clock this morning,
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I think used car lot. We learned that the man answered the description
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of William Chambers had driven in that morning and offered a black fifty five CATALC
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for sale. He used Carlott manager had finally settled on a price and made
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out a check. He reported the Chambers seemed extremely nervous and anxious to make
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a quick deal. The car was impounded and examined. A full set of
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fingerprints on the steering wheel and dashboard gave us a positive identification on William Chambers.
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Oh what do you know? William Charles, William Carles, William Charles,
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Walter Cameron one, two, three, seven aliases, He'll name William
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Charles, male, Caucasian, age thirty three, one seventy eight six one
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let's see fourteen arrests, two convictions, both car sets. Quite a boy.
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Well, we got a real tag on him now. Shouldn't be long
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before he picked him up. Doesn't look like a killer, does he?
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Jenny, I don't know what's the killer is supposed to look like a search
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for William Charles continue associates and runs listed in this criminal four contacted and questioned.
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All denied knowledge of his whereabouts. In the meantime, two more pieces
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of stolen property connected with a Todd burglary were recovered by the porn shop.
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Two expense account adem ten three dollars. One telegram to four State Insurance in
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Wilmington, explaining our progress in the case and listing the recovered items. Johnny
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Dollar, you and just didn't find n Bill Charles? Who is this my
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name? Never mind? Do you want him? And don't sure I want
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him. I'm a traps restaurant on forty second off Broadway when you meet me,
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Yeah, fifteen minutes. I'm in a gray suit, pinstripe. I'll
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be sitting alone. I'll watch for you. Expense account atem eleven seventy five
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cents cab fare from my hotel to Shraft's restaurant. A small, pretty brunette
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woman in nice clothes was seated at the table all along. She looked more
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like a housewife on a shopping tour than someone who might be connected with a
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bandit and a killer. Sit down, mister dollar. Okay, sure,
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hiss. A reward posted for William Charles. Isn't there for that Todd matter?
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That's right? Five thousand dollars? Well, I get it if I
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turn him over to the police. Not all of it. Half of it
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goes to an ex convict or tipped me off in the first place. Yes,
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you don't seem very anxious to get in. We're anxious. That's the
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way it is. This other half of the five thousand spoken. I want
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to get something else straight. What happens to me? What do you mean?
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I've known he had a part in that Todd matter for a long while.
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I haven't said anything. Does that make me a party to it or
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something? I don't know. Well, this is going to get me in
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trouble. I have to spend the money for lawyers to keep out of jail.
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I don't want any part of it. All right, my company will
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cover that part now, worst Charls not's so fast. I'm got to have
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something in writing, something that says your insurance company will pay me a reward
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and give me help if I get in trouble. I'll talk to him.
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I'm thinking of the future. I'm gonna have one once this is over,
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are you yes, yes, I am. How long will it take you
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to arrange this? But I are I can do it by phone. I
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guess it'll be fine. Who are you, Melvill Charles his wife? Yes,
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that's right. Twenty five hundred dollars. Not much for a husband.
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He's not much of a husband. He was once then he had to give
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away a mink coat and spend time away from me. I see, I
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doubt it. You people hardly ever see anything we try. You make the
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arrangements. I'll meet you again and say two hours two hours. I gave
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her a fifty seconds start before I left the table. When I got on
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the street, I was just in time to see her climb into a cab.
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I was trying to hail one to follow her when a black coupe pull
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up to the curbing. Hey, mate, sit in the life change.
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That is Melvill Charles in that cab up there. Yeah, that's who she
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said she was. She wants to sell your husband for the reward. Doesn't
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she have what's a delay? She wants to be sure she'll be handled right,
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the money and all. See how to you get in on this very
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dirty trick? Baby? Everybody might men questioned about Charles mentioned your name,
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where you were staying in what interest the insurance company had in this matter?
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Somebody was bound to look up, especially missus Childs. So we've kept an
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eye on you. Now where are we searching? Her name was Melva Taylor
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before she married Charles. Her old man had a pot of money back in
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Minnesota, but she couldn't keep out of trouble and got herself disinherited money.
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He's always been a problem. It's not everybody's problem, not the way it
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is with her. You should see her record. How much offer half.
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They haven't spoken for twenty five hundred dollars. Charles is no good to her.
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Now if he sticks his head out, he get caught, so she
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might as well cash in what she can on him. Nice people, it's
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wow. Oh she's leaving a camp. Get out of the corner and part
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Can you see her? She went into the apartment building. Let's go which
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apartment? Johnny? There we go right? Oh? Where it's me just
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a minute time? Now? What Before I went down? I heard it
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go off for a couple more times. It must have been six inches from
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my head. My eyes couldn't see that, my feet couldn't move, but
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I couldn't hear Ny. Hold on, hold on, baby, There'll be
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another exciting episode in our story of the Todd Matter tomorrow. Tomorrow. Well,
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there are times when seventy five thousand dollars worth of stealing isn't worth a
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plug? Nickel, join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar?
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Yours Truly? Johnny Doller, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood.
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Written by John Dawson, It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
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Be sure and join us tomorrow night, same time and station for the next
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extciting episode of Yours truly Johnny Doller, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back will a
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fairly dramatic conclusion to part four, which definitely leaves me eager to listen to
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the next part. Just nicely down. I was kind of confused on who
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got shot, and I was first of all afraid it was the police sergeant,
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and then I turned out to be Johnny. So surprising turn of a
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and big cliffhanger, it does seem. I think this is the second time
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in thirteen or fourteen weeks the multi part serials that Johnny has been shot a
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much higher rate than during the regular week to week things, so these could
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be hazardous to Johnny Dohler's health. And also just all the realistic touches from
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the priest to the feel of the deathbed, just really everything continues to be
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done at such a great level. All right, Well, now we turn
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