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  Well, now it's Tom for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller The Imperfect
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  Alibi Matter, Parts four and five from Hollywood. It's time now four Johnny
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  Dollar, Joe was Tilly a homicide? Returning your call, Johnny, I've
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  uncovered a couple of items on the Harvey Stone killing Joe Good. That's remember
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  Alvin Gentry Grank who made the fake and fish in my office yesterday. What
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  about him? Looks like he's not a psycho after all. What do you
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  mean. I just found out he's a friend of Helen Barrett's. Whoa what
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  do you know? Could be he was doing it the shielder. That shot
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  doesn't look good for her, Johnny. Yeah, I gotta admit my hunch
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  of out her innocence just took a nose diive. I also learned that Harvey
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  secretary Martha Winters used to be his girlfriend. Yeah, I'm up to date
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  on that. One. Matter of fact, Martha is in my office right
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  now. Oh says she wants to make a statement. You want to hear
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  it? You bet? I do tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey
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  in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's
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  Fabulous Freelance insurance investigator Ours Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
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  Dollar to the home office Northeastern Demnity Associates Hertford, Connecticut assignment. The imperfect
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  alibi matter location, New York City expense account continued, It am ten a
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  dollar forty camp from my hotel to police headquarters. Minda Winner's secretary to the
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  murdered man. Harvey's stone was in Lieutenant Jo Rostelli's office. She was a
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  blonde, and again I had to admire the dead man's tastes. He could
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  really picked them, Miss Windows. Would you mind telling mister Dollar here what
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  you've just told me? No, not at all, Lieutenant. You see,
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  mister Dollar, I have a small apartment in the same building as mister
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  Stone's apartment on East fifty seven. Yes, Harvey, as mister Stone transacted
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  most of the business at his apartment rather than the office when he was in
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  town. That's mainly why he kept the apartment, and we felt it would
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  be more convenient for me to be nearby. I see, well, the
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  night before last, the night of the Murderer. Yes, I'd been out
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  to a show. I got home about eleven thirty go on, I saw
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  Helen Barrett walking toward mister Stone's apartment. What are you sure about the time?
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  Well, not right down to the second, of course, but I
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  am positive was within five minutes of eleven thirty. I see, well,
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  why did you wait until this morning to tell us this? Well, come
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  on, let's have it, Miss Winners. Well, naturally, no one
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  likes to get mixed up in things like this, and I didn't want to
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  make trouble for anybody. Helen Barrett alway seemed like a nice person. But
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  mister Stone was my employer and my friend. After thinking it over, I
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  could see what my duty was. You say, Harvey Stone was your friend?
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  Was he anything more than that? I don't think I know what you
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  mean, mister Dollar. I think you do. I understand that at one
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  time you and Harvey were planning to be married. That's true, but that's
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  all in the past. Yes, we decided mutually that it was a mistake.
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  We've been friends ever since. But nothing more than that. I see.
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  Well, good enough, Johnny. Yeah, okay, Miss Winters.
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  That'll be all. Thanks for coming in. We'll get in touch with you
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  again if we need any further information. All right, any time, Lieutenant
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  Well Johnny. According to Martha Winter's statement, Helen Barrett was in Harvey's apartment
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  at the approximate time of the murder. We know it was somewhere between eleven
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  thirty and midnight. Helen said she left Harvey's apartment around eleven to go home
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  and pack. They were going to a lope. When he didn't come for
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  her, she got worried. She went back to his apartment around midnight found
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  him dead. But that story won't hold water if Martha's telling the truth.
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  Yeah, if you don't sound convinced, are you, Joe? I don't
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  know, Jenny, I don't know. It's a pretty nauseating shortage of facts
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  in this case. Nauseating is the word for it, all right now?
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  I mean literally, when I get one like this, my stomach starts acting
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  up. Joe, what have we got in the way of facts? Well?
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  Number one, Harvey Stone was shot in the forehead with a thirty eight
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  Smith and Wesson sometime between eleven thirty and midnight. Yeah, and even that,
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  in fact, got twisted around yesterday by Alvin Gentry when he made what
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  he called a confession. He said he shot Stone in the chest with a
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  cold forty five and through the gun in the river. Yeah, he told
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  me you'd found out he was a friend of Helen's. His confession doesn't look
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  good for her, believe me, I know, but I can't seem to
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  lose my hunch that she's innocent. Look, Johnny, I don't blame you
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  for trying at your job. What do you mean? Harvey Stone was ensured
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  for one hundred and fifty thousand bucks by the company you represent. Yeah,
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  that's right, Okay, His father e J. Stone and his young stepmother
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  daphnear the joint beneficiaries. Now, if one of them should turn out to
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  be the murderer, your company wouldn't have to pay a minute. Show,
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  Wait a minute, I think you know me well enough to figure out a
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  lot. Rather see that company pay through the nose than convict an innocent person.
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  Show. But just about everything we've got, points to Helen Barrass just
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  about, but not quite. For instance, for instance, Harvey's father e
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  J. Stone, he thought Harvey was running the business into the ground.
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  He didn't like it. He also didn't like the fact that Harvey and his
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  stepmother were pretty friendly man wheelchairs, liable to resent a lot of things.
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  Yeah, that's that's the point. E J. Can get out of his
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  wheelchair when he wants to. I saw him out of it yesterday. Sure.
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  Then there's Daphne herself. She opposed the idea of Harvey marrying. Helen
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  said she wanted to protect the Stone name. But that sounds pretty fishy coming
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  from somebody who used to be a chorus girl herself. Did you ask her
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  about that picture of her you spotted in Dutch Creeger's office. Yeah, she
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  said that was all in the past. But I wonder Judge got kicked out
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  of a business deal by Harvey. He wouldn't forget that, and he's a
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  tough cookie, and there still could be a connection between him and Dafty.
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  Here we go again, could be okay, okay. So I guess what
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  it all adds up to is just that I kind of got myself sold on
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  Helen. Sure, I've been sold on people too. Sometimes it's ended up
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  costing me. So now I just hold back and don't make up my mind
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  one way or another. All Right, it's turned out to be a pretty
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  good idea too. Why don't you try Johnny expense account out of eleven a
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  double martini for me? Well, I thought over what Joe Rostelli had said.
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  Sura was good advice not to get too sold on people, but it
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  didn't help me much At the moment. I still couldn't believe Helen Barrett had
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  killed Harvey Stone, but I had to admit that if she wasn't, the
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  killer had left a lot of things unexplained. For one thing, Alvin Jeffery's
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  fake confession, it sure looked like he was trying to shield her. I
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  checked and learned that he managed the Suffer Club where Helen used to sing.
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  I decided to have a talk with him. I found him on a corner
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  table. Yeah, I'm Johnny Dollar. Gentry. We we met in Lieutenan
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  Rostelli's office. Yeah, I'd like to talk to you. What about about
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  the Harvey Stone killing him? There's nothing to talk about. I don't agree.
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  I think there is. I made my confession. You guys didn't believe
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  me. Well, now that's because you got a few of the things wrong.
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  Gentry. One interest me now is not your confession, but the reason
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  you made it. What do you mean what you said? Harvey Stone had
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  been making a play for your girl A hatcheck girl, wasn't it. You
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  said that's why you killed him. So you said you didn't know Helen Barrett.
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  I don't, but you're lying. We found out you're a friend of
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  Helen. She used to go with her, and you were waiting in her
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  apartment the night of the murder when she left Harvey's and came home to pack.
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  Well, how about a gentry? Okay, so I do know Helen,
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  but she didn't kill Stone. How do you know she couldn't have.
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  She's not that kind. Oh sure, you were waiting at her apartment that
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  night. Why I wanted to see it? What about? She used to
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  sing here, she drew good crowds. I wanted her back. What kind
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  of a mood was she in when she got to her apartment? What do
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  you mean? Well, did she talk about Harvey Stone and he? Did
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  she seem mad or upset? I don't remember. Cut it out, Gentry,
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  I want straight answers. Well, I guess a a little argument.
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  What about I don't know? Anyway, it doesn't matter. Helen didn't kill
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  Stone. She was. She was with me. You mean for a few
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  minutes at her home. I mean longer than a few minutes. She was
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  with me at the time of the killing. Now, look, Gentry,
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  I know you're trying to help Helen, but believe me, this isn't helping
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  her. First, you make a phony confession, and now all of a
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  sudden you're giving her an alibi. I'm sure it was stupid of me to
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  make that confession. You can say that again, But I realized later it
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  wasn't necessary. I realized that Helen had been with me at the time of
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  the killing. You're going to stick to that story, I under oath under
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  Oh, perjury is a pretty serious thing, Gentry. Perjury is pretty hard
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  to prove. Dollar One thing seemed pretty clear. Alvin Gentry was apparently convinced
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  that Helen had killed Harvey Stone. He was doing everything he could think of,
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  even perjuring himself, to shield her. And I've already scrambled the worse
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  that began to look for her. Then two, there was the statement of
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  Martha Winters, Harvey's secretary, that she'd seen Helen returning to his apartment at
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  eleven thirty. That would put Helen back there during the time of the murder.
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  I still wasn't completely convinced that Martha Winters was telling the truth, so
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  I spent the rest of the afternoon checking on her to see what I could
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  find out. And a couple of things I found out were pretty interesting,
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  so interesting that I decided to try to run a little pluff on it.
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  Oh, mister Donner, Hello, Martha, I'd like to talk to you.
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  Well, I was just on my way out. This won't take long,
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  all right, Please come in. Thanks. Well, it's about that
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  statement you made to Lieutenant Rostelli this morning. Oh, well, I really
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  haven't anything more to add to with mister donnan. Look, I'm sorry,
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  but I have an engagement. Yeah, you told us this morning that you
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  and Harvey Stone used to go together, but you called it off and we're
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  just friends. I have to say that, Yes, that's right now.
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  Look, mister Dollar, that isn't the story I picked up at the office
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  of the Stone Corporation a while ago. Martha in the office, Now,
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  what right have you to go snooping around that all, Martha? But snooping's
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  my business, and you know you pick up a lot of interesting information that
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  way. But if you're going to listen to office and I found out it
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  was Harvey who called off the deal with you, no, and you've been
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  carrying a torch for him ever since. There's been a couple of nasty scenes
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  about it. That's a lot. Matter of fact. Once or twice he'd
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  almost made up his mind to can you, but each time he decided lies
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  lies, all of it. Okay, Okay, we'll let that go for
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  a minute. How about your statement this morning, mister Dollar. I haven't
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  time to stand here and repeat what I've already said. That's where you're wrong,
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  Martha. You've got time to hear this. You'll take time. Now.
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  What is it You said you saw Helen heading for Harvey's apartment at eleven
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  thirty? Yes, I did. Where were you at the time? Why?
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  Here in your apartment? Here? But you're a apartments around the corner
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  the hall from Harvey's. How could you have seen her from here? I
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  didn't mean I was in my apartment. I was at the entrance, just
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  coming in the front entrance. Yes, but Helen came in the side entrance.
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  You couldn't have seen her from the front, But she's lying anyway.
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  I hadn't reached the front entrance yet. I was outside. Sorry, Martha,
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  the dormant and the cop on the beat both would have seen her.
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  You'll lie, didn't you? No, you didn't see her at all?
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  Well, it had to be Helen. She's the one who killed him.
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  I know she did. You lie, didn't you, Martha? It hadn't
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  been for her. But it wasn't for her. Maybe you'd be missus Harvey
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  Stone. Huh. I didn't mean that. I meant Harvey to still be
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  alive. I just didn't want her to get away with it. You lied,
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  Martha, You didn't see Helen at all, is I like mister Stone,
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  I lie. Yeah, my bluff about the dormant and the cop on
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  the beat and Helen coming in the side entrance had paid off. Looking at
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  Martha, I didn't exactly feel like having three cheers about it. But one
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  thing was clear though. The Harvey Stone murder case had just busted wide open
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  again. Johnny Dellar, Joe was Delly at homicide Johnny Plant, you called,
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  Joe, got something new for you on the Harvey Stone murder case.
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  Let's have it. Yesterday, Harvey's secretary Martha Winters told her she'd seen Helen
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  Barrett approaching his apartment at just about the time he was murdered. Yeah,
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  she just admitted to me that she lied. She wasn't in position to have
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  seen anyone approaching the apartment at the time. Well, let maybe open things
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  up a little again. Yeah, I've gotten item along that line too,
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  Johnny. What is it? Harvey's young stepmother, Daphney up in Westchester Countie.
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  Oh what about her? I just found out she was here in the
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  city the night of Harvey's murder. What. Yeah. Expense account submitted by
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  Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Home Office Northeastern Demnity Associates, Hartford, Connecticut
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  assignment the imperfect alibi matter location, New York City expense account concluded Item thirteen
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  three to twenty transportation to the Stone estate in Westchester County to question Harvey's young
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  stepmother, Daphney Stone, as a suspect in Harvey's killing. Daphney was very
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  much alive again. Sit down, Johnny. Thanks nice out here. Drink
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  no thanks. As the investigation going, well, that's what I came to
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  talk about, Daphney, it hasn't been going too well. I was under
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  the impression that an arrest had been made. Helen Barrett's being hell, well,
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  then Helen Barrett could be the killer. A lot of things point in
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  her direction, but there are a few that don't. What do you mean.
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  Right from the start, you've been giving me incomplete answers or false senswers.
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  First, you told me it was Harvey's father e J who opposed his
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  plans to marry Helen. Then I found out you were the one who was
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  fighting it. Look, I explained all that it's because I didn't want you
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  to get the wrong idea. Oh yeah, yeah, so you said you
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  told me you posed it because you didn't think the Stone name should go to
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  a supper club singer like Helen. Yes, but you yourself used to be
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  a chorus girl. I explained that to you too, Johnny, Okay,
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  So you oppose the marriage for the dignity of the family and not just to
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  keep Hervey at home with you. That's a vicious thing to say. I
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  told you Harvey and I, being about the same age, were very good
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  friends, true friends. Is that what your husband thought? You forget?
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  Harvey's father is confined a wheelchair. Understandably, he might occasionally resent those who
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  can be more active. That's another thing. He didn't tell me, Daphne
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  that ej could get out of his wheelchair on occasion. I caught a glimpse
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  of him out of it the last time I was here, short periods only,
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  and with considerable discomfort. So you and Harvey were friends, like you
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  and that gambler Dutch creeker. Huh, Danny, my patience is running hot.
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  I explained that Dutch was in the past, completely in the past before
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  my marriage. But Dutch got kicked out of a business deal by Harvey,
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  and he wouldn't like a thing like that. Harvey acted perfectly properly. Really,
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  Johnny, I just one more thing, Well, what is it?
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  One thing more? You didn't tell me that you were in the city the
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  night Harvey was murdered there. Well, I should have told you that,
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  Johnny. I went into the city that evening because I knew Harvey was to
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  have a meeting with Helen later that night. I wanted to talk to Harvey
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  face what about I knew he was planning some definite action about her, So
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  you wanted to talk him out of marrying her, if you want to put
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  it like that. Yes, what time was that I saw him in his
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  apartment? About nine? I left before ten? Can anybody verify those times?
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  I don't know. I see what was the outcome of your talk with
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  Harvey? You assured me he'd break off with Helen. You sure about that?
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  Completely? Sure? I decided to stay at a hotel that night instead
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  of coming back home. I suppose that's how the police knew I was in
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  the city. It's Helen's story that when she saw Harvey later, they decided
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  to Elope if I believed that, But I don't. I think she's lying.
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  And how about you, Daphney, have you given me the whole truth?
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  Now, Yes, Johnny, the whole truth. Everything I've done has
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  been done solely to protect the family name. Everything right, then, I'd
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  have given a lot to know just what that everything involved, whether or not
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  it also included some weird idea of killing Harvey to somehow protect the family name.
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  Expense account. I am fourteen three twenty transportation back to the city.
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  I got permission from Joe Rostelli to talk to Helen Barrett. When they brought
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  her into the interrogation room, she looked pale and tired. Hello, Johnny,
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  Helen, several things I want to ask you about it. Sit down?
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  Sure? What Martha Winners who won Harvey's secretary? What about her?
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  Well, she made a statement that she'd seen you heading for Harvey's apartment around
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  eleven thirty, that it put you inside there during the time of the murder.
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  No, No, I'm sure it was later than that, almost twelve
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  when I got back there. Martha later admitted that she lied. But the
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  question is why still carrying the torch for Harvey? Yes, I guess she
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  was. Next item is about Alvin Gentry. Lieutenant Rostelli told me about that
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  confession. Alvin, mate, he got all the details wrong. Caliber the
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  guy. What do you mean, Well, he'd always made it clear how
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  he felt about me, but I didn't think he'd go that far. How
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  do you feel about him? I've always liked him very much. He used
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  to go with him so, but I stopped when I started seeing Harvey.
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  Did you talk to Alvin Long at your apartment that night? No, just
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  a few minutes while I was packing. You know, you just talked yourself
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  out of an alibi. What do you mean, Well, after Gentry's confession
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  didn't sell, he was willing to swear you were with him during the entire
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  period the murder could have taken place, Johnny. Why does an innocent person
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  need an alibi? It helps in courts, believe me. Well, how'd
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  you make out with Daphne and Helen? Johnny? Joe, remind me never
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  to get involved with show people again. They make their living putting on an
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  act, and I'm just country boy enough not to be able to tell a
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  difference once in a while. They both gave you nice straight stories. Eh
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  oh yeah, sure, real sincere. Iok me right in the eye both
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  of them, but one of them was lying. Huh. Daphne said Harvey
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  told her he'd break off with Helen, but Helen says the two of them
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  were planning to Elope. Of course, Harvey might have changed his mind after
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  talking to Daphney. Yeah, but that's something we're not going to be able
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  to confirm now. No, Johnny's since Alvin Jump is convinced that Helen's guilty,
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  I think he's holding back something. God doesn't stick his neck out that
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  far without a reason, I know, but I still don't dig her motive.
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  I suppose Daphnie's telling the truth that Harvey broke up with Helen. Maybe
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  she couldn't stand getting the brush of Yeah, could be all right. People
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  can do some strange things under the name of love, Johnny, particularly when
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  it turns to hate, and that can happen awful fast expenses items fifteen and
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  sixteen A dollar forty cab to my hotel, and a dollar even for a
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  pot of coffee in my room room. One hour I had three cups of
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  coffee and half a dozen cigarettes later, I was still nowhere. I was
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  beat. And then a weird little idea began pecking away. A couple of
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  things were Stelly had said suddenly started adding up to a pretty fantastic answer.
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  Maybe it wouldn't stand the latter day. But it was night now and it
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  was the only idea I could come up with. I decided to try it
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  on for size. I went to the club. Alvin Gentry managed, Oh
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  hello, Dollar, I was here to hope you'd be around again. Oh
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  yeah, I want to talk to you, but not now. It's almost
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  closing time. Stick around, will you. I waited at the bar while
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  the customers left. Twenty minutes later, Gentry and I were long. He
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  slid onto a stool beside me, drink No, no thanks. What's on
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  your mind, Gentry? Well, I've been thinking about what you said the
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  last time we talked about perjury. Huh. I decided you were right,
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  Dollar. I make it pretty tough on you for perjury. Yeah, they
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  do. I'm withdrawing my statement that Helen was with me at the time of
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  the murder. Well that's probably the smart thing to do, Gentry. Here,
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  what's the use I'm getting tired of being a sucker in this deal?
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  A fall guy? Oh goofed up confession I made. It was bad enough,
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  and I had to stick my neck out still further with that fake alibi
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  for her and for what. So you're withdrawing the statement, huh yeah,
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  that's probably what you came to see me about. Huh No, No,
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  that isn't why I came to see at all, Gentry. And I wouldn't
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  exactly call you a sucker. I think you're one of the smartest guys I've
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  ever seen, and a sort of weird and twisted kind of way. What
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  are you talking about? You played this whole del real cage right from the
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  start. Everything you did was supposed to look like a cover for Helen,
• 23:53
  but instead of that, you were really trying to put a noose around the
• 23:56
  neck. You're out of your mind, Dollar, And that confession you made,
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  Gentry, that's why I came to see you, to tell you.
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  It wasn't goofed up at all. You did kill Harvey Stone. You know
• 24:07
  you got a real weird sense of humor. Have I A couple of things
• 24:11
  Lieutenant Rostelli said added up in my mind a few minutes ago. Love can
• 24:15
  turn to hate fast, and you'd have to have a good reason to do
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  what you did. You wanted Helen bad when she told you that night she
• 24:22
  was gonna marry Harvey Stone. You couldn't stand the idea if you couldn't have
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  her, Nobody could. You're talking crazy. You went to Harvey's apartment and
• 24:29
  killed him, Then you made that fake confession to look like you were selding
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  her. Actually you were framing. No, you knew we wouldn't believe you,
• 24:36
  and we wouldn't believe that alibi you offered for her. It all made
• 24:38
  her look more guilty by the moment, Dolly, you're forcing me to say
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  something I didn't want to. Oh, what is it? Helen was mad
• 24:45
  at Harvey that night. I was worried. I followed her back to his
• 24:48
  apartment. When I got there, she was standing over the body with a
• 24:51
  gun in her hand. She said, why did I do it? She
• 24:52
  kept saying it over and over. That's why I made the fake confession to
• 24:56
  protect her. Sorry, Gentry, it's a little too late for that story.
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  Right now. I keep telling you that confession you made was legitimate.
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  Are you crazy? I didn't even get the caliber the gun? Right,
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  Yes, you did? What are you talking him? He made a mistake.
• 25:07
  Harvey was killed with a forty five cold just like you said, you're
• 25:11
  crazy. It was a thirty eighth Smith, Yeah, a thirty eight Smith
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  and Wesson. I know that, so did the police. So does the
• 25:21
  killer nobody else who was in the papers. No, Gentry, it wasn't
• 25:26
  in the papers. You're dead wrong, dollar, dead wrong. He kicked
• 25:32
  a barstool at me, and I dove behind the end of the bar.
• 25:34
  The lights went off. I had my gun out now, but I couldn't
• 25:37
  see anything in the dark. He couldn't get past me to the front door,
• 25:41
  but he could get out of the back. I had to locate him
• 25:42
  fast. Then my hand touched an ash tray at the end of the bar.
• 25:45
  I picked it up and tossed it toward the center of the room.
• 25:48
  I spotted the flash of his gun. Now I had him paid. I
• 25:56
  found a lamp on one of the tables. Tree was slumped in a corner
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  my shoulder. Help me. Don't worry, Gentry, You're not going to
• 26:07
  conk out. There's plenty left of you to stand. Trial. Final line
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  him on expense account twelve dollars and eighty cents, transportation and its the nettle's
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  back home. Total expenses one hundred and ninety two dollars forty cents. But
• 26:26
  still he arrived in response to my call and had Gentry cart it away.
• 26:30
  Alan Barrett was released from custody. Remarks here, I thought Dutch Krieger was
• 26:34
  the gambler in the case, but the little game of winner Take All that
• 26:38
  Gentry had been playing was just about the weirdest I'd ever heard of. I
• 26:42
  thought about him up there in the death house it sings sing, and realized
• 26:45
  that the big trouble with that kind of gamble that he was taking is that
• 26:49
  the losers seek can get awfully hot. Yours too, lean, Johnny Dollar.
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  Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week
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  one of the biggest, toughest, loudest characters I've ever met, a real
• 27:14
  two fisted terror, and her name is Meg McCarthy. Join us, won't
• 27:18
  you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar is starring
• 27:26
  Bob Bailey. Is transcribed in Hollywood, Written by Robert Ryth, It is
• 27:30
  produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard and our cast were Virginia Gregg,
• 27:34
  Tony Barrett, Shirley Mitchell, will write, Chat Stratton, ted Y Corcier,
• 27:37
  Barney Phillips, Lillian Baiaf and Harry Bartel. Musical supervision by A.
• 27:41
  Marigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same time and
• 27:45
  station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar Roy Rowan speaking welcome
• 28:00
  back. Well, I thought it was a pretty good episode. Johnny did
• 28:04
  use blosts in both part four and part five, but overall I thought the
• 28:11
  story worked. I think you know you use bloss when you've got a weekend,
• 28:15
  and I think that was certainly the case in this story. So not
• 28:19
  one of the greatest, but I thought it was pretty enjoyable all right.
• 28:22
  When I wanted to listener comments and feedback, and have this from Natalie who
• 28:32
  says, Hi, Adam, I thought I might buy your app. Is
• 28:36
  it available for Android? I can't seem to find it. Thanks so much.
• 28:41
  I'll i'll answer that first question before the rest of the email. To
• 28:45
  get the Android app, you just need to download the Amazon App Store onto
• 28:51
  your device, and it's available through the Amazon App Store for Android. She
• 28:56
  goes on to say, thanks for persevering all this time with your terrific project.
• 29:00
  I admire that you are doing something and I enjoy it too. I'm
• 29:03
  not sure, but I must have been listening to you for more than ten
• 29:06
  years. I used to download your shows on acoun actually in terms of how
• 29:11
  long we've been doing this, started the Old Time Dragging That show on March
• 29:17
  third of two thousand and and seven. So we are in our seventh year
• 29:23
  of podcasting, and or actually our eighth year in podcasting just started for Old
• 29:30
  Time Radio and our fifth year the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. And
• 29:37
  Natalie writes, Hi, Adam, I thought I might buy your app?
• 29:42
  Is it available for the Android? I can't seem to find it. Well.
• 29:45
  An answer to that part, Natalie, you just want to download the
• 29:49
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• 29:56
  app through the Amazon App Store. And she says, thanks for preserving all
• 30:03
  this, persevering all this time with your terrific project. I admire that you
• 30:07
  are doing something you so obviously enjoy, and I enjoy it too. I'm
• 30:11
  not sure, but I must have been listening to you for more than ten
• 30:14
  years now, have you been on that long? I used to download your
• 30:18
  shows on iTunes, but now I get you on Stitcher. Well, thanks
• 30:22
  so much, Natalie. In regards to how long we've been doing this.
• 30:26
  The first podcast of the Old Time Dragnet show was on March the third of
• 30:32
  two thousand and seven. So this is our eighth year of Old Time Radio
• 30:37
  podcast and our fifth year on the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio, and
• 30:42
  hopefully we have a few more years in us. Well, that'll do it
• 30:47
  for now. Oh we do have actually one quick review on iTunes, and
• 30:52
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  Let you live your life on the move and have some enjoyable fun.
• 31:00
  You're in my candy without the calories. Well, thanks so much. I
• 31:03
  appreciate your kind comments, and that will do it for today. Join us
• 31:07
  back here tomorrow for Police Blotter, and next Monday we'll continue with yours truly
• 31:14
  Johnny Dollar and Friday Manhunt returns next Friday, so be sure and listen to
• 31:18
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• 31:32
  Idaho, this is your host, Adam Grahamson and off