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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Clinton Matter, Part Five and Dr. Tim Detective: The Guest in Number Two (EP1051) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise Ota. This is
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at support do Great Detectors dot net. All right, well, now it's
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time to wrap up the Clinton Matter, and then after that we'll introduce you
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to doctor Tim Detective. But here now is the Clinton Matter Part five from
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Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Deller Toby O'Brian. Johnny, I heard
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you had a run in with Sheriff Doherty. They say you gave it little
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sundown to resign his office. Yeah, I don't think he will, though,
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you'll have to do something close to it. I got some information on
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Richard Hobb, the building inspector who was murdered. Yeah, Ob deposited twenty
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thousand dollars in the bank last year. What's that? I'll wait. Hobb's
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salary is city building inspector was seven five hundred perannum. The twenty thousand went
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in in four or five thousand dollars. Dear Holy and I'll wait this more.
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Those deposit dates coincide with Okay's hobmade on the school building. He was
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paid off after each inspection. Johnny, we got it on paper. We
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got some other things on paper too, Toby, hold on, keep digging
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tonight and every weekday Night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigator, Yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location, Clinton,
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Colorado, two United Adjustment Bureau, four eighteen West sixty first Street,
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New York City. The following is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation
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of the Clinton matter. Expense account Adam fifteen forty five dollars for photostatic copies
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of deposit slips and the account of Richard Hobbe, building inspector lately murdered furnished
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by one of my operatives, Toby O'Brien here. Okay, I got a
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feeling his whole town's coming. Apart of the seams, Johnny the sheriff threatening
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you openly. Everybody who's anybody around here is trying to cover up the school
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burning down and the way it was built. I think I can hurry up
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the process. You be careful. These people seem to play for keeps.
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They've got to realize we do too. These photo stants are the first real
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bit of presentable evidence that the building was constructed under fraudulent circumstances. Hey,
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take it easy now, you keep the originals, mail them ount to the
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office. The post office is still pretty honest. Yeah. Also let it
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out that we have the information wherever you go. I want them to get
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worried and steamed up and start acting dumber than they already have. And okay,
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might scare Dougherty and Handley a little bit. That Vickery seems like a
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different proposition. I don't think he scares I drove my rented car over to
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the hull of his grieving wood. Oh. She answered the door with tears
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and both eyes and bourbon over the rocks in one hand. She wore a
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black dress, black and satin and tight, low cut, not exactly Emily
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Post for morning, but as I say, it was black. A black
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lace handkerchief waved in the air. Oh, mister Dollar, I'm glad you
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came by. I'm so unhappy and lost. Yeah, I can see that.
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May I come in? Why not? The sheriff hasn't done anything about
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thought Richard's murder. I wouldn't rely too heavily on Sheriff Dougherty. Missus Hobb.
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I don't think he will do anything. No, oh no, look
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so surprised in your hour of bereaveming, Missus Hobb. You know he won't
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do anything. I don't know anything of the kind. Why don't you sit
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down and let's talk. I want you to help me. I'm not sure
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I can't help you. I'm so broken up. Oh no, if you're
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not careful, you might drown in those tears. Why do you try?
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Relaxed, Missus Hobb. All right, so I can't really cry about Richard.
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I never have, but I thought it was expected of me. Some
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people might expect it. I don't. Oh, Look, this set up
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creaks from top to bottom. Your late husband made seventy five hundred a year
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and deposited twenty thousand dollars and six months here figure. I don't know anything
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about his money. All I know is the bank told me he had only
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three hundred dollars left. What did he do with it? What do you
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think he spent it on other women? Then? Why the tragic act?
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I'm not very good at it, am I not the best? And it's
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funny, Johnny, because I really mean it. Oh, I know how
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foolish I look in these clothes. I wanted to cry because well, I
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really loved him once and he loved me. But we kicked it away because
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we both wanted more excitement than this town or his salary could give us.
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He was always out spending his money on other women, being a big shot.
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What about the money he got it for falsifying the inspection papers? Didn't
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he? Yes? Who gave it to him? Missus Hobb? I don't
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know, probably Roy Vickery. What do you think killed him? I don't
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know that either. What do you know, Johnny? He didn't leave insurance,
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and I have to live the best way I can. If I stay
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in this town, I have to keep friends. If I don't want to
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keep them, I have no choice but to move, and that takes money.
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I wonder what could possibly be going on in your mind? Your company
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handles insurance, doesn't it, two hundred and sixty three different kinds? Are
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you particular? What kind of premiums you collect? Well, we pay off
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on a lot of things. Just what kind of insurance were you thinking about?
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Two thousand dollars endowment? Got your pen? No, but my words
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go to the cashier's cage. What do you got? And I'm trusting you.
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Richard got that twenty thousand dollars from the Clinton Gravel Company. Her service
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is rendered. No. Who owns the Clinton Gravel Company? Roy Vickory.
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That's close enough. Last night, after you were here, Richard came back.
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I told him what you'd said to me. He said, Vickery and
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the others were going to make a pat see out of him, so he
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left to see you and got shot up. Hey, wait, wait a
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minute. Vickory was outside your house when I left. He might have done
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it himself. That's all I can tell you. Now do I get my
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insurance if what you say is true, Missus Horb, I'll have to check
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first, you'll find out. See where do you come from anyhow? Hartford,
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Connecticut, Connecticut? See I got an idea. What's the housing situation
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in Hartford? Rough for you, missus Harber, very rough. I finally
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tore myself away from the grieving widow and headed back to the hotel. On
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my way down the main street of Clinton, someone with a wrinkled coat and
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bourbon on his breast stepped out and stopped me. David Baines, the architect,
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Well, hi, yeah, I told you I was got to stick
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around and do something brave. Oh, finally got up. Courage. You
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have to do something decent, decent for me anyway, anybody else it'll be
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too low to talk about. I was not much of a lawyer. But
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they say there's a statute in the books that says a private citizen may commit
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a crime to prevent a greater crime from being committed and still go free.
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That right, I wouldn't know. Well, I committed a crime. Two
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crimes dishonor to my noble character, disappointing the trust of a young woman.
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That was the first one. Then an engineering a theft. I'm a Fagan,
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That's what I am, under the guise of loving a young female secretary
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eternally. I have well here the purchase orders from Roy Vickery's office, the
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actual purchase orders for the school. What she stole them for me, for
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you? With my best regard, I looked at them. They were as
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advertised purchase orders, complete down to the last tenpenny nail expense, a count
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item sixteen forty eight cents postage. Not being a technical expert, I sent
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them down to Denver for perusal by the original brokers. Fourteen the Verdi came
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back in along telegram the materials used in the school construction were not passable.
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The insurance company would never honor the claim of the city of Clinton. This
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text I turned over to Frank Ibsen, publisher with the Clinton Times. He
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promised it would be in the late afternoon edition. There were other developments.
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Toby O'Brien again, Yeah, Toby. We located two witnesses to the Hob
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shooting. Vickery put Hobb out of the way himself, get their statements and
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get him on a train to Denver right away. Then you better gather up
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the rest of the boys and come over here right expense account adam seventeen ten
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cents. One newspaper, the afternoon edition of The Times, which carried a
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complete story of the insurance investigation up to date, naming Vickery is the perpetrator
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of the school fire and involving Sheriff Dougherty and Chief Handley. I phoned Frank
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Ibsen and explained his next edition could carry the story of Hobb's murder by Vickery.
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Ibsen said he'd make up an extra for that. I'd no sooner hung
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up the phone than I had visitors with particularly, who are you, Deputy
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Eganjriiff Doherty wants to talk to you. I've already said all I want to
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say to him. Get out, guys, strictly no contest. I walked
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out of the room with a deputy on each side of me and Egan behind
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me. We were in front of the hotel when I saw Tobyo, Brian
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al Davis and John Newton coming toward the enflance. I kicked out at the
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nearest man and yeo for help. A few of the local citizens joining the
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fighting Sheriff Dougherty's three deputies got the worst of it. We took them all
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back up to my room. Shit down, all right, Egan, you're
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going to be arrested for this delic Where were you going to take me?
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Where? Place on the edge of town Clinton Gravel Woods. Why Doerty Torty
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said to bring you back? He he wanted to see you? Was there
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with him? I don't know. The Clinton Gravel Works was a large building
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of tall chef sat on the edge of a frozen lake. Parking Near the
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entrance was a long black limousine such as a well to do contract in might
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drive, a white super charge sedan such as a fancy Western sheriff might dus,
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and a red sedan unmistakably belonging to the fire chief. We covered all
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the exits and Toby O'Brien and I went in the front way. They were
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halfway up the steps when things began to happen. You all right, yeah,
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come on, wow, lot dollar, lie still, Vickory. I
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stayed still for you. Tool. We should have put you out of the
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way the same as you put hob out of the way. Better this one's
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gone. Who is he? Fire Chief Hanley Victory where's Dordy is out shooting
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his gun some more Dollar. I hope it gets you too. He's backstairs,
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Johnny. Yeah, stay away from the dollar. The place is surrounded,
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throw it down, the gun and walk out with your hands behind your
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head to me. I'll get on the front way. Get the guys to
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step around through the shad. Right, you're coming out, Dorty, you're
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coming out. No, do you want to go over a place good?
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Before? You think? I got a man trapped? Dollar? Your trap,
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Sheriff matter. I'm okay with you, and you're the one I want.
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I told you, I kidd you. I still got my gun in
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my hand. Nickery had his gun and so did Hanley. Look at them.
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You did pretty well. Made it look like they shot each other.
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And now it's your turn. Dollar. No, get back, okay,
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Johnny, just nick Hey, get a doctor with you. Well, sure,
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I guess, I guess I kind of forgot. Yeah. What's that
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quite about about? Have fallen awf among thieves dollars? That was Sheriff Doewardy's
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last statement. He died on his way to the hospital. Roy Vickery recovered
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and was arraigned on charges of murder, conspiracy, twenty eight counts all told
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Chief Hanley was dead. Expense account out of eighteen sixty two dollars board in
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room, I had them nineteen fifty eight dollars miscellaneous. I had him twenty
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one hundred and sixty four dollars transportation back to Hartfred. Total expense account two
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thousand, three hundred and eighty five dollars and three cents. Yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell you about next week's exciting
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story. Next week the johny Roger fraud matter. And yeah, that means
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piracy of a kind that would have made Captain Kidd look like a bungy amateur.
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Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours truly?
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Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by
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John Dawson, It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in this
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week's cast were Jeanette Nolan, Lucille, Meredith Carlton, Young, herbellas Jack
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Bertruzzie, Bob Bruce, Herb Butterfield, Paul Richards, Edgar Berrier, Russell
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Thorson, Jack Boyles, and Frank Gerstaal. Musical supervision by A Marigo Marino
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sure to join us on Monday night, same time in station for another exciting
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story of yours truly Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back again. You
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have to love the supporting cast that they're able to put together for each Johnny
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Dollar Show. Now, it's remarkable when you listen to it. When radio
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was at its peak, you could not have gotten that many actors together at
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a you know, at such a re you know what would probably be a
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reasonable rate, because even you know, with that quality of talent, it
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would cost you. But with radio decline and production cost down, this was
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something that they were able to manage, and it's one of the big highlights
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of the show. We do turn out to get into listener comments and feedback.
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By the way, I will say this was a you know, a
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classic, a classic hard boiled Seeing that scene between Johnny and the widow,
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I think just very well done, and you left wondering just how sincere she
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was at all, but because it was clear that what she wanted at this
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point was the money, all right. Well. A comment regarding the plantagent
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matter w Blaine Dollar Rights on Facebook. Awesome start, perhaps a bit familiar,
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but so well done. I don't care if this is a case of
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script reuse, since it's clearly been expanded to fit the format. Anyway,
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Thanks why, and I appreciate that I should. I forgot to mention where
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last week's show, The Plantagent Matter was actually borrowed from a couple of Richard
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Diamond strips. One was the Lady actually borrowed just from Richard Diamond Lady in
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Distress from nineteen fifty two. Today's script was based Today's program was based on
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two different scripts. One was from an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,
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an Edmund O'Brien episode from April fourth, nineteen fifty called the Story of
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the Big Red Store Schoolhouse. It also borrowed from the Adventure of Adventures of
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Sam Spade, one of the later episodes from April thirteenth, nineteen fifty one,
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the title The Civic Pride Keeper. So that on the origins and the
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reuse of scripts, and it's amazing what you can do with these scripts when
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you've got just enough time to really develop the prop the plots. We have
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one other Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Email Justin writ said, Hey, Adam,
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I love the show. I just wanted to know why the Edmin O'Brien
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version of Johnny Dollar is thirty minutes long compared to fifteen minute version of Bob
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Bailey. Also, was John Long the Johnny Dollar before Bob Bailey? And
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lastly, is there any other radio shows of Bob Bailey besides George Valentine?
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Because Bob Bailey was amazing as Johnny Doller? Okay, well, I'll go
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ahead and take those questions. The thirty minute format. The reason that the
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ed Ment O'Brien shows were thirty minutes long was thirty minute long shows had become
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radio's dominant format, and then it happened kind of in the middle forties that
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that became the standard. CBS really was committed to the idea that they wanted
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to do a fifteen minute mystery serial. And I'm not certain why it is.
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I would speculate that it was because a lot of the soap operas were
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still doing okay programs like Maul Perkins and One Man's Family. The radio soaps
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would stay around into the late fifties and early sixties. A lot of other
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programs were being canceled. If you could get an audience hooked and interested in
20:06
the storyline, then you could keep them listening and be able to strengthen the
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value of the program. And they actually tried three different other shows. Two
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made it to air. They did a fifteen minute version daily version of Mister
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and Missus North, They did a fifteen minute daily version of Mister Keens Tracer
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of Lost Persons, and they also recorded a pilot with Jack Moyles for a
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new fifteen minute version of Rocky Jordan. None of those made it. The
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one that did ultimately make it was Bob Bailey as Johnny Doller. And yes,
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John Lone was Johnny Dollar before Bob Bailey. And there was not any
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radio show that Bob Bailey started in regularly other than other than Let George Do
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It as George Valentine. There were certainly shows he guest starred on, and
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we highlight those in our Listener in our ab extras from time to time,
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but in terms of starring roles, that was it. He made appearances,
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We featured Cavalcade of America some other wartime programs, but those were his main
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starring roles that he's most remembered for, and they're both incredible. The Bob
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Bailey roll lasted more than six years let George do it, and then five
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years on Johnny Doler. So not a whole lot of starring roles, but
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he definitely made the most of them. All Right, Well, now we're
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going to turn to Doctor Tim Detective and we'll have some more listener comments after
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that. Not a whole lot is known about Doctor Tim Detective. It was
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not in the encyclopedia of Old time radio program we know it was a syndicated
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show. It was put out by Monarch the radio disc that it was found
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on, according to Radio gold In exportated in nineteen forty eight. I will
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warn you in advance that this program is targeted to a more juvenile audience.
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It combines education, detective, mystery, and a little bit of medical drama.
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I find it a fun package. I know some listeners may not enjoy
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something that's got a more juvenile tent, but just by advised. So we're
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going to go ahead and present today's episode of Doctor Tim. And this is
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the third of thirteen episodes in the set. The title is the Mystery of
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the Guest in number two. This is Doctor Tim Detective. To bring you
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by a transcription, the Mystery of the Guest in number two being a combination
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of doctor and detective gets be rugged sometimes and this was one of those times.
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All Right, the guest in number two, we called him Jill.
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That's my nine lady's daughter first calling to my attention. Mom's just standing number
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two. You know, the room on the second floor to the duck.
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This guy, m I remember you thought I was the dog gone this guy
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when I moved in here and set up a laboratory for crime detection and medical
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work. Well, the Sandy thinks so too, don't you standy, Yeah,
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I think maybe he's a criminal in hiding. I'm afraid you kids have
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developed unnatural suspicions from helping me out with some of my cases. Well,
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anybody that says his name is Jones? Oh now look, some people really
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are named Jones, several hundred thousand of them, I presume. And babit
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is that's his name? And why are our suitcakes mark with R W M.
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Sure every one of them stands in gold letters? None of our business
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kids, your mothered skin? You alive, Jill if she knew you were
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prying to the luggage of a paying customer. And as for you, master
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Sandy, it might be smart for you to confine your detective work to your
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own premises and not in other people's houses. Right right? Oh, okay,
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I guess, but I still think it's sorry. I wish now i'd
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paid more attention to Sandy and Jill in the matter of the stranger in number
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two. But you never know until it's too late. Anyway, nothing happened
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to break the routine of my laboratory week for a couple of weeks. Then
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late one afternoon, just before dinner time, I was cleaning up my life.
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See Jacky Camp, You don't mean as jack are full of real blood,
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bloods and people exactly that. Jill. What do you do with it?
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Ooh, A lot of things. Blood's a pretty useful thing, a
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lot more so than most people realize. When you get it from the bank.
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Chill the blood bank, and that's just what it actually is. All
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over the country. These banks keep blood for use whenever and wherever it's needed.
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Sure, but what are you doing with it? Well that's a long
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story, Sammy, but it amounts to this. For years, doctors have
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known that the blood isn't just one thing. It's lots and lots of things,
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and each one of those parts or fractions of the blood can be separated
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from the other parts, and these are used to cure people. I'm trying
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to find some new blood parts or some new uses for the old ones.
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That's why there's always blood samples in the laboratory refrigerator. Catch Bill, I'm
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all cleaned up here at last. Now, what's the news, month said,
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I get it. Cannot and see you a professional visit. She called
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it. Oh, feels so good today. Symptoms Well, I didn't get
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to take my stomach, my eyes hurt, and I feel all kind of
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worn out personally. I think she's just trying to get out of doing homework
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and I am not. Well. Let me take a look, chill,
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I stick out your tough uh huh they are, Ah, Sandy, Yes,
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doctor Tim, hand me that thermometer will sure, thanks. Yeah,
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keep in your mouth for a while, jo, doctor Tim. Yes,
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you know that guy Jones upstairs. Oh, I wouldn't say I know in
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Sandy, we've spoken in the hall. Well, I know you told us
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to lay off. But the dog honest thing happened just a few minutes ago
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while I was waiting by the stairs for jill Ah. The curse of an
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overactive imagination go on anyway, he came in with this other man right behind
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him and doctor Tim. I'd swear that other guy had a gun in his
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overcoat pocket was pushing it right up against this Jones guy's back. They didn't
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see. I didn't have time to laugh, because just at that moment,
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from right overhead came the sound of a fight, and then something else a
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shot. For a moment we stood paralyzed. It wasn't until I heard a
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crash of glass and saw a figure hurtle past my window and spreak it over
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the back fence and up the alley that I could move. And by the
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time we reached the upstairs room and looked as if we'd arrived too late,
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the mysterious mister Jones was lying on the floor with a pool of blood beside
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him. He'd been shot, shot right through the back. Looking back on
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it afterwards, I don't know what I'd have done without those kids. There
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wasn't anybody else in the house, and if I ever needed six hands,
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I needed them then. Sick as she was, Jill just golped and said,
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holy gee. OK. If head he wasn't quite it was a matter
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of moments. Gunshot wounds can be pretty nasty. Where there's loss of blood,
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you always have shocked to contend with, and shock can be mighty serious
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in itself. Sandy didn't have to be told. In a flash, he
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was downstairs and back with my medical bag. One word to jail, The
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word police sent her flying to a telephone, and I knew an ambulance and
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help would be on the way at once. Meantime, the mysterious mister Jones
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was in the hands of God and I doctor. I hoped I was a
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good doctor. I remember asking God to help me out on that score.
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Jones was dying fast. Then I remember that blood in my laboratory downstairs.
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In the lab, Jill and I worked as we'd never worked before, while
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Sandy kept watched upstairs over the wounded man. We didn't talk much, Jill
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and I, just a few quiet questions and answers. Here's a Microsoft right
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atter, you are you going to get in the translation? Yes, have
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to check his type of blood first with a microscope. He used the wrong
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kind of blood and it would kill him. Good thing, I have whole
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blood on hand for those experiments. He wouldn't last until they could get some
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here. Now that's solution. Please y ah, this one seems to match
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his blood. Quick hand me that bower, Mark Typo, Now go to
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the stem. Twenty minutes later, the ambulance arrived, two squad cars and
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a dozen or so police were scouring the neighborhood for some trace of the man
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who had tried to murder the mysterious mister Jones. And as for Jones,
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I had blood that saved his life, had replaced the vital fluid, the
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blood cells, and all the other chemical elements so necessary to keeping the life
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of a man going. Jones was still unconscious, of course, and would
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be for a long time. Yet his condition was so serious that he couldn't
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even be moved to a hospital. Would have meant sure death from more loss
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of blood and shot. The case was out of my hands now, but
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I'd done my best, and I hope my best was good enough. I
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sank down weekly in a chair in my laboratory, and it wasn't until I
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noticed Sandy and Jail, big eyed and bursting with excitement that I remembered the
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other side of the affair, who had shot Jones, and why maybe I
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could help there too. But one look at Jill and I knew her heart
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was going to be broken. Well, this was one case where she was
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going to be out of the running. I spoke quietly, chilly, you're
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going to bed, Oh, doctor chill, hate to do it to your
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girl. If you remember that little examination we were making as your doctor,
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Manham, I order you to bid you have measles. A few minutes later,
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the house had two bed patients, one a very sad young lady with
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measles, the other a man nobody knew who had almost been murdered. A
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third patient, Sandy, was standing up bravely under a light while I stood
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over him with a hypodemic syringe for the stuff. Well, believe it or
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not, Sandy, it comes from blood too. It's going to keep you
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from cat Jill's measles, or at least it'll make certain that you have a
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very life case and protect you for a long time afterwards. What do you
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call them? Immune serum globulin. Let's skip that one. Huh. Where
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you see this stuff is one of those blood parts fractions. I was telling
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you about it. When you take blood from people who have had measles and
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separate it into its parts. There's globular. Hey, how that one?
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Well, g l O b U L I N it works wonders to keep
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people from getting measles from other people. I'll take your word for a doc.
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Go ahead and shoot. Okay, I didn't even feel it. Am
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I safe? Now? Perfectly safe? Roger Tim Yes, No, I've
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been watching that guy Jones, the one was shot. I can tell you
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something about him. What he's leaning? You know what he does? No,
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he collects rocks, believe or hunt just calmon old rocks. Well that's
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a harmless pastime. Sure got him in a mess of trouble. Maybe you've
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got a point there, Sandy. Why would anybody shoot a man for collecting
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rocks unless, well, unless they were gold or something. Whoever shot him
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was after those rocks, all right? When you left me alone with mister
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Jones the room upstairs, I sort of well sought to notice that several of
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his suitcases been busted open. There were rocks was labeled on him, scattered
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all over the room. I'd sure like to know why. It must have
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been midnight when I decided I couldn't get to sleep, might as well do
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a little looking around. After what we'd all been through, I wanted to
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forget the mystery and relax. The police could carry on from here, but
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I couldn't, so I went up the stairs to where the mysterious mister Jones
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hovered between life and death. I motioned the nurse to be silent and carefully
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examined the room. Samdy was right. There was nothing of interest except the
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rocks. There were hundreds of them, all sizes, in all shapes,
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and all neatly labeled with cryptic little stickers which said northwest one hundred day or
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south G eight, preferring, no doubt some location on a map where they
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had been gaped. I took a couple with me to examine at leisure in
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the laboratory and started downstairs when I noticed a light coming from under the door
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to Jill's room. Here. Well, sort of late for a sick girl
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to be reading, isn't it. Well it's lights out now, doctor's orders.
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Okay, how mister Jones dim? I wish I could tell you,
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Jill the use of bloods giving him a chance. First the transfusion, then
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letter. Maybe you need plasma there. Well. Plasma is another part of
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blood, Jill. It can be stored indefinitely and won't spoil as quickly as
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whole blood. You use it when you don't need the red cells of the
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blood, just the liquid part. Gee, bloody you wonderful stuff. Mm
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christ daty Kim. What are you doing with those rocks in your hands?
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All these well they're from mister Jones room. Seems to be a lot of
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them up there. Are there anything? I don't know? Jill Sandy mentioned
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them, and then how did I know what they are? A paper in
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that everybody's out looking for for well, gosh, I Forgail. What you
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call it? The protect You go out with some kind of a left machine
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and I I just stood there with my mouth hanging open. What I dopeied?
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Then it took two kids to tell me what I should have seen from
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the very first moment. Without even saying good night to Jill, I dashed
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down the stairs, picked up the telephone and called a Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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This was a case for the g MAT. It took a couple of
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weeks before the case was cleared up. My hunch, thanks for the work
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of Sandy and Jill, had been right. Jones had been prospecting for uranium,
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the vital mineral for atomic energy and research. Jones told us the whole
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story later, how he was prospecting for the government badly needed new supplies of
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uranium, how he'd been forced at the point of a gun to give up
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his map and then brutally shot. The two men caught the man all right,
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but never gave out the whole story of who was behind the robbery and
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the attempted murder. But there wasn't anyone working for the good of this country.
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Jones had really found uranium too, and the mine is being worked today
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thanks to Sandy to jail and to a mysterious substance known for thousands and thousands
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of years as blood. This is doctor Tim Detective saying, so long until
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next week at the same time when Sandy, Jill and I will dip into
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my casebook and bring out a brand new transcribed story, the Mystery of the
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Man from Trouble Creek. Welcome back. Well, a pretty educational program,
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and I thought fairly well done. I know that we have many educated listeners,
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and if there is something that's wildly, wildly inaccurate, I'll certainly be
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glad to hear any objections or corrections. But it sounded, you know,
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just to work in a lot of lessons to the course of the dialogue and
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through the story, and a little bit of the Cold War at the end.
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