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Johnny Doller. This one is called the Berlin manor one as Johnny Doller,
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Dave Hopkins, Johnny damsin Life of Fability go to German Visa Well I sleep
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with an under by fellow. Dady. If you want Berlin your next port
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of call, want us what's the story, Daby? It's like this Johnny
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a client of Samihar category fifty tho W he paid life a couple of years
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ago. Hobby went to Berlin as an insulting an emperor of machine tool firm
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six months ago. Up in policy from ten to fifty docks. Good ahead
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on the shoulders. Huh. Also we changed beneficiaries from his mother to a
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woman he married over there. Well, that's allowed, isn't it, Davy?
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Maybe maybe not. Yesterday we've got a caver from Berlin police. Here.
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Sam Hobby is newly dead in the Rhineland. Well, Johnny, okay,
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Dave, you named it Berlin. How about taking a minute or so
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to talk about seals and fish that have some connection with the government of the
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United States. Now that isn't as strange as itself. You take the matter
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of seals, for example, there are two types of seals that are the
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responsibility of the Secretary of State. First, there's the Great Seal of the
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United States, which is stamped on all official documents. The Secretary of State
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make sure it's always on hand when it's needed. The other kind of seals
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he takes care of are the ones that swim in the ocean. Since it's
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up to the Secretary to work out agreements with representatives of other countries and let
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them know how many seals can be caused in what is called international waters,
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and when the Secretary of State works out similar deals for the catching of fish
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and lobsters. Because these agreements are actually treaties, before they can be put
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into effects, they have to be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
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As a matter of fact, any time our government wants to work out a
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deal with a foreign country on trade, mutual assistance, fish, seals,
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or lobsters, it's done by treaties. And all treaties are as signed by
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the President, though some of them aren't drawn up until after the Secretary of
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State has worked over the rough spots in order to pave the way for prompt
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ratifications. So Jeff remembers, the Secretary of State is a mighty important wheel
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in the machinery of your United States government. Expense accounts submitted by a special
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investigator, Johnny Dallars to Home Office, Camden Life and Fidelity Company Limited,
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Camden, New Jersey. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
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of the Berlin matters. Expense account Item one five hundred forty six dollars and
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seventy three cents air fare and incidentals to Berlin via New York City. Item
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two three dollars and ten cents cap fair Temple half airport American Zone to the
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Waldenstern Hotel when I registered, sent my luggage to my room and went on
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to the red granite pile called police headquarters on the Wilhelm Stator. Here a
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sub lieutenant saw my credentials, listen to my story and ushered me to the
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proper ober Lieutenant Leis Jenni Hill mikes Man, I'm Johnny Comer. Would you
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wish to know the death of Sam Harvey? Know everything you can tell me?
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So last Tuesday the body of her Harvey was found in the Harpers.
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They had people's carry. It made possible his identification with his being an American
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nationals. Therefore proper authorities would notify it has been a proper information on proper
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forms as well as can I see these forms as a tenant of course,
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yeah, as a seas Thank you says here his body was found just north
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of spand out where's spanned out was kind of British zone or what would Sam
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Harvey be doing there? Please? Well it says here Sam was employed by
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Knig Machine Tool, which it also says here is in the American zone.
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So I'd like to know the tenant if you have any idea what he was
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doing. I had to show you something if they think easier dress map for
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DeLine French on readis on American rock uh huh? And here is funda on
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the harbors there above it nor French zone. So my guest is your Sam
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Harvey died somewhere on the French zone or thrown into the harbor of river which
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current carried him down to here to the harbors there where he was found.
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But that's only a guess an official officials it would be written down, but
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it is not. Why do you make a guest like that, Lieutenant.
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We'll see here the suburb Eagle and the French zone. It is tract What
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does that mean? Rock? Sam Harvey is certainly not the first man who
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was dumped into the harbor river dumb dump means murdered and pushed. Lieutenant murdered
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and pushed. Okay, what else be here? The file positive identification made
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by Paul Turner was Paul Turner a spend with her hobby. He samed the
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bodies and buried it. Also, he took it upon himself to notify her
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hobby's wife. Why does it say wife? O there? But I recalled
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her? Turner said, well, hobby was in Vienna and that he would
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inform herse the death of her husband. No, I think that's real friendly,
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don't you? Please? Never mind? Well, thanks, lieutenant?
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Can I do something for you in return? A beer or something? Expensive?
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Gut items three ninety cents for two rounds of brown deer with my newly
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found friend, Lieutenant Willie Meisner at the beer stuba across the street, where
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I told him all I knew about Milwaukee and got an return a promise of
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continued cooperation. Expensive goud item for one dollar and twenty cents. The number
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fifteen tendons saw us in the American zone the address of Paul Turner. That's
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right, doll right identified him? Who killed him? Mister Turner, y'all
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not listen, don't get kg with me and say who killed him? And
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leaned closer to me to see if I'm gonna go to pieces. I didn't
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even know he was killed. He was pushed into a river. Listen,
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there was a beard festival up in the French zone last week, tagging a
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suburb. She didn't figured it. Sam got drunk and fell in the river,
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not push. That's the way I rated. Did he ever say anything
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to you about all that insurance he carried? No tit a lot of the
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verst. It was ten and a while, backing up to the fifty thousand.
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That's right. Oh, she's worth it. Cool, Paul's wife worth
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every nicolae. Which comes to a question, I mean where is she?
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I mean where is she? She'll be here. Her husband's been dead for
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four days. Well, she's in Vienna. I must take all the old
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three hours flying time to get here from Vienna. Listen, Dollar, I'm
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going to tell you something. Don't ask questions with raised eyebrows like everybody's lying
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or covering up. A guy named Sam Harvey died and there's been a lot
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of tears on account. That's so gentle you weigh around him. I will
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make the questions come out polite. You know, I'm gonna try that good,
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good. What are you doing here in Berlin? I have a civision
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job with the army. I interpret? Oh, how do you like it?
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Nice? So, yeah, we can get along if we try.
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How come Paul's wife hasn't showed up for four days? I have a wire
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here, Clennon. I'll read it. Dear illness gone harah, Tempelhof Airport
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this evening, eighteen hours Elsa. Let me see him. We'll read German
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Johnny. Oh, no, are you gonna meet him? Right? Should
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be glad to have along, Johnny, be nice, fine like friens To
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got adam five three dollars and forty cents full tank of peptol for Paul Tunner's
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Volkswagen. He had his hand trapped in his hants. Fucking. We had
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a little time before else's playing landed at Temple Huff, so we rode around
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Berlin a three zone. The fourth didn't incurred sight seers at a little.
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The fourth, sixth we got the Temple Huf noon, what he all the
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why? Well, she's a little ahead of schedule. Yeah, you'll know
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missus Harvey when you're here. Now, you asked polite that you don't listen.
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Polite Johnny kids. I told you Sam's why is it worth every penny?
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The fifty grand? You say lectures? No? What I say a
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thing like that? If I didn't know her when I saw him? Why
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you haven't mentioned h before he married O. The three of us went around
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a bit in a Thensam married her and Elsa's stayed in there. I haven't
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seen it since six months. Why did she say it must be black dress?
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Petty black veiled, black love, lastly dressing at all? Yeah,
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come on, help us, help Paul Turner, Elsa, don't you remember
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sail I released? Oh hey, little sorry, it's been a long time
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since we were together. Else a long time. I'm sorry, Oh thank
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you. My husband's close friends is a friend's pard. I'll listen, Harvey,
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I'd like to reduce myself. I'm Johnny's dollar insurance investigator. Insurance investigator
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means that I was sent here to investigate your husband's death for my company.
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Boy, it means he's got fifty thousand dollars by el so the perfect got
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a mist a gentleman speech. I'll have to ask you where you were when
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your husband died Indianna? Why did you live in Vienna? Missus Harvey and
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your husband in Berlin. I have bought you danna work. I can at
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least we've got a prete commission. Tom had depress here. We did it
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as we wanted and that we needed. You have finished me for Bella.
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Well no, I'm not quite finished. You finished dollars for now. Come
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on, I'll get your through customs. Expensive count Adams six two dollars and
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twenty cents cab Back to the vaulting Stern Hotel, Item seven one dollars and
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fifty cents. Supper knock worse than sour crop, washed down with black beer,
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after which ten hours sleep with no dreams. Oh dollar, oh yeah,
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yeah, this is Johnny dollars. This is mine. Oh good by,
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Willie, good bye, willing, Oh do not leave me here?
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Dollar? Well, all right, Willy, you want a chat? Yeah,
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I would like it. However, this is off. Would apologize for
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avating you. I am just relieve the words of the bully. The buildings
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are about. What about the bad a barge in the bard, the liver,
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bad sleep power a bahamas there there such as pelves and sputa. You
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will cop Wait a minute, Willy, I like you, Okay, we'll
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be outside your hotel. You will have ink on cop yeah yeah, and
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the bad dollar come here, yeah yeah. Only yesterday it was William's journey.
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What tepp I, I'm with the pilot tabin in her dolla? Wow?
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Who is he? The man who is dead with a bullet in the
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nape of his neck? Yeah? That one, good houseman, captain pilot
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of this bad ob doll wife under death under his arm, Come to clothes
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with me. A letter a pilot houseman has begun to write. It is
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a pros in German. I will send place if you wish of Sam Hardy
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to know. Come you to the bath now I will move his arm.
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You see to whom this letter is addressed to me? To you, Johnny,
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dolla, what do you say to that? You know? Many great
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men have attained the highest office in our land, the presidency of the United
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States. Can you guess the name of this man? He was the second
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vice president to become president. The son of a poor family, he was
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indentured to a clothmaker as apprentice at fifteen, and when he was nineteen he
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bought his freedom for thirty dollars. As a congressman from New York in eighteen
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thirty seven, he opposed the entrance of Texas as a slave territory. During
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his administration, the country was strongly pro slavery, and as a protest,
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. The anti slavery group in his party
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strongly resented his signing a bill which penalized anyone who refused to return runaway slaves
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to their rightful owners. If you don't have his name by now, here's
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one more clue. His administration saw California's entrance into the Union. Puasi Millard
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Fillmore, thirteenth Presidents of the United States. His life is part of your
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American heritage and now of our star. John Lund, we bring you the
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second act of yours, truly, Johnny dollars her Dollar. Since you have
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arrived, you have talked with people with me, the Paul Turner, a
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templehold adroom with a widow. What word did you speak to them, Johnny
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Dollar? That makes this man dead? Reread it this way, Willie.
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I'm a job insurance investing I into the dying of Sam Harves, into the
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murder of Sam Harley fifty thousand dollars worth. So perhaps you have discovered a
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thing which I too should know of the death of Sam Harvey, which will
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explain this death? Pett is so and tell me so far I found nothing.
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Nothing you don't know already, not one things I tell you, Ida,
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I believe you. Wow, you got away with your willing Uno Dunker.
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Do you want to tell me things now? Happily I do this,
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Kurt Houseman, who is he? Pilots of a river bud what else past?
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Petty also granted what else? Before he grew out of it a black
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market here and after that was smuggler on west to the east zone also by
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surds, very rich and still you let him get what pree go ahead for
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a husman. Besides what he was was also an eel, you understand,
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a slippery eel, many times arrested, many times released insufficient evidence, an
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eel. And he's murdered on the Harbor River and found it spanned down near
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the here the French zone where also was found the body of Sam Harvey.
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There cleves forgive me near the French zone where also was found the body of
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Sam Harvey. And he begins a letter to me saying, if I want
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to know about Sam, which will become an exhibit on the official files,
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which figures he knew something about Harvey's death. I would say so. Then
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someone stopped him from getting the letter to me. I would say so,
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And that's all. No. Who to the friend, A beloved friend?
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Whether Mary Fuller? She came with a troop four years ago to entertain your
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occupation forces. She entertained them. When they left, she stayed. Unto
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the Linden was what she wanted. She says, Where do I find her?
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Where do we find her? Hey? Are you and me? Where
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a Zealand dog? There's a carnival their acronival. Yeah, Bax works the
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pulla dancers night. Fraus fur line, Mary stand in the front, beckons
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soul and we just better see this frau line. Willy. Yeah, after
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the events have taken away the body of the house. Mom, this is
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riding side. We gotta sake come in, we gotta here's the yankee dude
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if I ever saw one, and Danny him and look who you've gotta be
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with. But I'm away, Willy, I'm an a living It is necessary
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to talk to you, you too, It'll be my pleasure. Duh.
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Something else happened? Fred I'm of course what about him? He's dead?
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But I'm a body. Sometimes it's the governments stary on me. There's a
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bench over there, he's a bott You know that, don't you? Sure
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you know that? But I'm please thank you? Willie Rick die? Will
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he buy a bullet in the back of the neck? Would he die?
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He was writing a letter to me when he was shot. Oh, why
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would he be doing a thing like that? Who are you, Johnny Dobber?
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I'm an insurance investigative? Why, I mean, why why are you
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here now talking to me in front of a tourist trap with Willie here?
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What's happening? Just take it easy, that's the latest word. Just take
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it easy, all right? Okay? Great smile? How is it fine?
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Great? Questions for that? I an whenever you're ready. Do you
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know who kills goot no b Ion? Five days ago an American by the
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name of Sam Harvey were found in the hobby of there Brown. Did you
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know him? Old Sam? Hold Sam Harvey? What about him? You
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can see how the bar on the river Kurk Barnes. Sam owned it with
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kirks. Anything he'll eagle it to be done on the river smuggling black market.
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Name it anything from popped them and up picknals all the way to Hamburg
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if it was illegal and could be carried by barge. My Kurt and good
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old Sam Harley. I thought Sam was a machine fool engineer only when the
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barge business was slow? Did you know his wife practically? What does that
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mean? I was a shopper. Sam would give me money and say buy
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for Elsa presents, silk stuff they make open the French zone, whether from
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the British zone. Lots of these ceramic ear rings, see like I'm wearing.
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Yeah, real name. Let's makes them for Pierce. Serious Dam showed
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the pair of him the Kurt, and the Kurt made me pierce my ears
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so I could wear them too. Yeah. Sam would get me to buy
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sweaters and woolens for buy them and send them to her Susanna. Sure one
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more thing. You know a lad named Paul Turner. No, do you
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want me anymore? Really? Thank you? Hey't my hair from my n
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Come on in, come on here. I asked Willy to drop me off
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at Paul Turner's in the American Zone. There, I asked Turner the address
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of Sam's widow, Elsa Harvey. He sent me to the Tyrol Hotel or
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on the third floor. Rear Elsa opened the door to me, What do
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you wish here? To make an apology? Missus Harvey, consider you have
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done so good day, and to do another thing. To give you the
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papers you'll need to sign so you can get that fifty thousand insurance of your
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husband. Come in, just talk to me. Sure, take your time
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about a Missus Harvey. Freedom over. I'll wait to get Fish the messenger
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with Greenston to you. Yeah, sure you will, Missus Harvey. Yes,
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you're a very beautiful woman. Thank you, very beautiful. You always
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wear your hair like that, long falling to your shoulders. Do me a
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favorite, right, put your hair up for me? Which night? I
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don't understand you. Oh please, let's see how you look. I've been
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wondering. Yeah, yeah, like that. Fuck don well, I've already
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said it. You're a very beautiful woman. You met school, sure be
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the dame. How's interesting here? Don expense account adamate one dollar and thirty
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cents. Cabs are to the small carnival and Zealendorff and a girl who stood
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there and dared people to come in to ask her for an address. I
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guess she must know. She'd sent so many presents to it. Expense the
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count at of nine sixty three dollars ninety five cents air affair and incidentals,
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touvienna, expense the count atom ten cabs there one dollar even to a red
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brick apartment building five stories high and a black square. How Harvey, that's
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right? Yes? Is Harvey step when yesterday morning early listen? Did she
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get a wire from Berlin last Tuesday? Yeah, yes she did, but
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of course she could not debat it. I gave it to the other lady.
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Quite other lady, her friend who lives across the horse, who was
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kind to her, to care for her, who pays for the funeral,
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and who moved out right after it was over. Yes, how do yep?
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Oh the widow Harvey inside Paul, Uh huh, you answer a doll
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for her now? So I have to get past you to speak to her.
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ELSA, Yes, sir, it's Johnny Dollar. Come on it hello
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for Harvey. Yeah, Dollar, I had signed him. Oh fine,
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thank you? What have you tooy? Staring paper? You're going crazy?
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Dollar? No, No, I always care of policies this way, Paul.
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What is the meaning of this? What's your real name? My name?
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Honey? This dollars no slab? How much do you know? A
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dollar? All of it? For instance? Well, I just got him
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from Vienna. A girl dived there. Sam Harvey's wife. Yeah, I
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told you wasn't any slab money. She was sick when she died, her
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husband's I shouldn't I have the money in the policy? I could care.
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I'm not legal, that's all right. How could no point? How could
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you by a stupid little slip fear rings for pierced ears like Sam's wife hadn't
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like you don't, which made me go to Vienna to make sure. And
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I did, And I'm sure, okay, dollar, okay? What you
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tore up the policy? Blow? Paul. You knew this girl was a
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phony right away at the airport. Thought you went along with him? I
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asked myself why he got an answer. You're trying to hide something too.
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Murder is Something's gotta give Sam's murder. Carl. You know what you know,
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and I know what I know. One of us has gotta go kill
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Sam because you want it in on a barge. Business, the smuggling,
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the black market. But Carl, why Carl, Paul, Why did you
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kill him? He didn't want me so bad, he didn't want me any
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threat. When they get to you, they almost did. You almost got
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out of Germany dollar But no, I don't know, mister Dula. Yeah,
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I have no one. I took care of her when she was sick,
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even when she died. I take to bear her. I took a
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chance and I lost, mister Dulla. Who can't say, I harn't anyone.
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And in Vienna it's not very pleasant, okay, not for me to
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say. For another fellow name of Willie nice Man, very nice expensive con
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Adam eleven fifty seven dollars and seventy cents, hotel bill and incidentals well in
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Berlin and Vienna expense account total of six hundred and ninety three dollars and three
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cents. Yours, Truly, Johnny Doller. Yours Truly Johnny Doller stars John
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Lund in the title role, and was written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin,
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with music by Eddie Dunsteader. Featured in the night's cast were Benny Ruben,
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Edgar Barrier, Jerry Gaylawer, Hal March, and Virginia Gray. Yours
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Truly, Johnny doller is produced and directed by him d'alvai. This is Charles
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Lyon inviting you to join us again next week at the same time when from
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Hollywood John Lund returns as yours truly Johnny Dollars, welcome back. All out
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in Millard Fillmore too. I'd read man about him and indentured servitude, but
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I'd forgotten it. So that was I think an interesting show overall. Heading
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over to of course postwar Berlin. Berlin now at this point about a little
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less than nine years after the war was over all, right, well,
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that will do it for today. If you have a comment, email at
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