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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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our listeners at the Later on in the program, we will bring you the
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final part of the McCormick matter. But first I'm going to bring you something
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a little different. If we had more episodes of this program, we would
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air it on Saturdays, but there's only one episode in existence, and we're
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taking this time when we're doing the Johnny Dollars serials to play some of these
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rarer fifteen minute programs that are still intact. And this is certainly quite an
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interesting show. It aired over ABC in nineteen forty six and over Mutual in
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nineteen forty seven. Title was Policewoman, and it told the real life exploits
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and stories of Lieutenant Mary Sullivan of the NYPD. I'll tell you a little
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bit more about Lieutenant Sullivan after the program, or after this program. But
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here from June twenty ninth, nineteen forty seven is the case of the Scheming
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Ridegroom, Carter's Pills Present Police Walla Tonight the Case of the Scheming Bridegroom,
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based on an episode in the career of Lieutenant Mary Sullivan for thirty five years
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on the New York City Police Force. Lieutenant Sullivan. Yes, they told
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me to speak to you. Oh who are you, Biancriazzo? And what's
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on your mind? Well, you see, I want to get married.
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Well, what do you want a city hall, young lady. Not the
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police department. No, no, no, I do not make myself clear.
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Apparently not, will you see? I want to get married? So
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I read the ad in the Lonely Hearts magazine. Oh here city advertisement.
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Oh yes, sounds like most of the others. Oh no, this one
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is different. Then why don't you answer it? I should like to only
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I'm afraid, afraid, afraid of what this man who looks for the wife.
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I think he's a murderer. Before we continue with tonight's policewoman adventure,
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Now back to a policewoman. The case of the scheming bridegroom, Sargeant Clark
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is earlier. Today, Bianco Riozzo came in to see me. It seems
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she works as a maid in an apartment on Fifth Avenue. Oh, well,
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about six months ago, there was a cook in that house named Freedom.
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Both girls began answering these lovelorn ads. You know, the ones appear
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in certain magazines. Oh, your wife wanted so, yes, Well,
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Frieda answered an ad and then left for California. Yes, and I can
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guess the rest of it. Mary. The man who sent for her was
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a crop wanted to cheat her out of her life savings. Worse than that
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sergeant murder exactly. Now. Bianca gave me a full description, and I
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started calling the California police. I learned that a girl answering Frieda's description was
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found dead in Newtown, California, about six months ago. Everything checks.
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Did they catch the killer? No? All they have are some fingerprints which
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were left on Frida's handbag. Well, how come Bianca came to see you
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today? Well, last night she ran across another advertisement in this Lonely Hearts
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magazine. The ad was identical with the one that Frieda adds it. Oh,
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he shifted his operations from California to New York. Right? Does Bianca
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know that Frieda's intended looked like Yes, Frieda showed her a picture. That's
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all she knows. Well, it's a matter of the fingerprint. Yes,
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Now if I could get a sample, Mary, don't tell me you're a
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right sergeant. I need a husband desperate, so I'm answering that ad myself
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right away. Hello, Hello, Bianca, this is Lieutenant Mary Sullivan.
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Yes, I've received an answer. The man's name is Pete Milford. We
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have a date tonight at a bar at two four four five East fourteenth Street.
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You got that, yes, at eight o'clock. Now, I want
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you to come to that bar. If you recognize Milford, I want you
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to say, very hot tonight, isn't it? You get it? Very
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hot tonight? I can tell you, Mary, you kind of surprise me.
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I never thought you'd be such a pretty one. How paging that's a
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dead just dead like I tell him, Uncle, surety don't mind if I
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get hitched now, and I don't mind if she's pretty? Uh? Your
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uncle shoddy? Who see, he's my uncle on the mare's side for you
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and I can take the final steps. I guess I'm for sure he's going
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to have to prove. Yeah, suh, Pete. When we get hits,
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I mean if and when we get married, where are we gonna live?
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Huh well, I'll tell you, Mary, I gotta hunt the farm
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land out west. Soil is not so bad but needs improvements. Well,
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why haven't you made him got the money? Mary, you expect to get
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any Well, I thought maybe, Yeah, I get that I'm married,
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she'd have the money. Mind if I ask you, Mary, you're going
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to contribute something when we get to well, I mean if and when we
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get hitched. Huh well, yeah, yeah, sure, I went.
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I know you are sweet married. Hey, you know I don't even have
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no picture of you. Well, I got a little one here, Pete.
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If you liked it, Oh yeah, I get an enlargement. Major.
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Well, let me see it's my bag somewhere. Oh yeah, I
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heard them. Oh that's mighty pretty, marry. Yeah, it looks just
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like you. Give it back to me. Okay, but don't forget I
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want that enlargement. Sure. Oh look, Pete, there's a friend of
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mine, a girlfriend. Hey, Bianca Bianca. Come here, man,
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you imagine meeting you here? I want you should meet a friend of mine.
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Sure, in fact, you might say he's almost might bim s Oh,
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I'm so glad Bianca to see is the Pete Milford. Pete Milfort glad
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to meet you? Likewise, I'm sure can yester dame with it? No,
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I must be going right away? Oh come on, said a wow?
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How No I can't. I'm not feeling too well, very hot tonight,
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isn't it all right? Mary? Give me the door. I've just
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got a few seconds now, sergeant, so listen carefully. That picture of
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myself on your desk, it's got Pete Milford's fingerprints all over it. Now,
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I want you to develop the prints. And why are the complete sets?
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The Commissioner Williams, Newtown, California, got that? Have him?
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Wirebacker report? Where the day? Well, I've got to meet Uncle Shorty.
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Uncle Shorty, he lives out on Jamaica Bay. No, no,
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cut it off, Mary, I know everyone in your family. There's no
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I can't explain now. But after I see Uncle Shorty, I'll call you
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back. Mighty likable Galla Pete. I told you I can pick him up
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now, well you do stop that man too. Well, I'm happy for
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both you, Pete. If you want my blessing, you have it.
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Thanks Uncle Shorty. See when you planning tire? Oh pretty soon, maybe
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a couple of days. Then why wait, how about it open tonight?
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Yeah? Never thought of that. Listen, Pete, you're hitting back the
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farm after wed Night? Yeah? Uh huh. Then why don't you hit
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out west tonight? I know just as the peace crossed the state line.
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He'd marry in a minute. Then you go on the farm. Oh he
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that sounds of romantic. Yeah, I guess I like that idea, only
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Yeah, how do we do it traveling? I got a station wagon and
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I look, Mary, you head back to your house and get ready and
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come out here Jamaica Bay round eight to night. I'll get the car in
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condition. Kick you and Pete the parson. Well that's fine. On the
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I think we'd better make it tomorrow night. Should see Pete here. He's
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gonna meet the money for his farm, and well I got the money for
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him, steptin. It's in the bank and that's closed now. Oh I
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get you. Yeah, in the morning, draw the money out. What
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do you got to say to that? Seat. Mary. All I gotta
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say is that things are working out. Might have fine. Hello, sergeant,
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this is Mary Sullivan. Where were you all day yesterday? Mary?
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Well, just so happens. I was out at to make a bay and
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oh, by the way, I'm going back there tonight. You see,
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Pete Milford will be with me tonight and I expect the payoff. Yeah.
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Now, listen. The address is forty seven Front Street. You got that.
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Yeah, it's way out in Brooklyn. It's a lonely spot, just
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the house and water. That is, in case you're interested. I'm sure
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I'm interested. To listen, Mary, I've got news. Oh you have
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go ahead, got a report from California this morning. Well, don't keep
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me in suspense. The fingerprints found on the dead girl are not Pete Milford.
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Marry Mary is still there. Yeah, yeah, I kind of expected
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something else. Yeah, I know you still going to keep that date with
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pet Yeah. Oh this is a setback, I admit, but I can't
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drop Peete until I'm sure it's nice out here near the bay and the twilight,
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an't I'm Mary, I thought you Uncle Shorty was going to be waiting
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with his car. Uncle Shorty went down and rode for a while, pick
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up some tools. I'm kind of glad we're alone. Yeah, because we're
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going to be married. I think there's something you ought to know. Mary.
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Oh what's that? Pete? Well, you see, I'm not much
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for a book learning, Mary. In fact, I can hardly read and
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write. Well, I wouldn't hold that against the man. I wait a
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minute. You say you can hardly read a write. Yeah, I hope
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it makes no difference. Then who put that ad in the magazine and answered
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my letter? Huh? That was miuncle Shorty's doing. Pete, listening to
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me carefully? Did you ever advertise for a wife before? You didn't advertise
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six months ago? Get an answer and ask the girl to come to California?
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Not me? I ain't never been in California. You can trust me.
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Mary. Well, now, Pete, I've got something to tell you.
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You see, I happen to be a policewoman. What and I want
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to know the truth. Were you in California six months ago? No?
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No, Mary, not me. My My uncle Shorty was, but not
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me. I don't. Don't you know? It's not to keep your trap
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shut, keep your hands a policewoman. You know too much now, very
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smart scheme you cook up shorty six months ago, you placed an ad in
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a magazine under your nephew's name. It was answered by a girl named Frida.
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She came out west and you murdered her for a saving bread cover.
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You knew the blame would point to Peach. Oh what you're both in blow
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this town? We have other ideas. Coyea lucky, I didn't forget the
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address of this place. I was right outside. I saw and heard it
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off. Hey is it the guy who's been courting her? Yeah, that's
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me. Looks like you lost your wife. Yeah, but we caught a
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murderer in just a moment. Mary Sullivan in person will tell you more about
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Use arid to be sure, to be sure, to be sure,
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and now here is Mary Sullivan. Pete Milford was found to be the innocent
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dupe of his uncle and release uncle Shorty was executed for the vicious murder he
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committed. This is the last program of our current series, and I want
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to thank my many listeners from coast to coast for their kind letters of ventist
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and hope they've enjoyed the show as much as I have. Until we meet
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again on the air. This is Lieutenant Mary Sullivan saying AWA, thank you,
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Mary Sullivan. This program, as well as all other programs of the
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series, was based on an episode in the career of Lieutenant Mary Sullivan for
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thirty five years on the New York City Police Force. This is Dick Dunham
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speaking in the dramatic portion of tonight's Policewoman case. Leading roles were played by
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Betty Gard and Walter Vaughn. Policewoman is a Phillips h Lord production. This
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is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. Very interesting to hear
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Lieutenant Sullivan on this program. At this point she was retired. Hers is
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a remarkable story. When her husband died in nineteen o six, she found
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herself a twenty one year old single mother and she had to support herself as
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a traveling saleswoman. Then a friend suggested that she taken exam to join the
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New York Police Department as a policewoman. She did join in nineteen eleven.
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He had a great way with people and an ability to get them to open
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up and find out the truth. And she started out, as most of
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the policewomen did at the time, as a jail matron. And she also
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had a great knack for acting and out undercover work. She worked very hard
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at that. She created several undercover characters, and some of them, according
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to this website, included a trained nurse, a gangster's wife, a wealthy
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widow, a prisoner, and I madam looking for young girls to buy.
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And she really was a consummate actor and did a lot of this undercover work,
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and her real big case came in the Rosenthal murder case. She was
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a key to getting the went undercover and got the information to capture all four
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gunmen and led to their conviction. Nineteen eighteen, she was assigned to the
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NYPD Homicide Squad, which was another first for women, and then in nineteen
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twenty five she was or nineteen twenty six, she became the first Director of
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Police woman in the nation and held that job for twenty years. So we
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got to hear on the show the voice of a great pioneer and a heroine,
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Lieutenant Mary Sullivan of the NYPD. And if I ever find any more
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of those episodes, I'll certainly share them with you. Now it's time for
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today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dowler The McCormick Matter, Part five from the
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Hollywood. It's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny Doler. Ready with your
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party in Hartford, Connecticut. Mister Donner, go ahead, please, how
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a mister Barnes, This is Johnny Deller. Johnny, what's up? I
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listened carefully ed. I've just been shot. Oh it's nothing serious. I'm
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backstage at the Elmar Theater. And the Bronx. Johnny, I'm all right,
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now, listen to me. I got a tip from old Mike Karn,
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a convict, that a man named Joe Penny might have had something to
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do with the McCormick case a few years ago jewelry case hundred thousand dollars.
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Well, Penny's been murdered. I didn't get a chance to learn anything from
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him, but I have learned that Penny's ex wife is married to Julian McCormick.
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You've contacted our New York office. I've been trying to get your man,
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Frank Porter at his home, but no one answers. It's going to
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be pretty nasty for Allied Casualty if she pottered with this. Joe Penny to
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Rob McCormick. Yeah, do you want me to wait and let Frank Porter
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handle it? No? No, No, you go ahead. Somebody's throwing
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bullets around. They'd better be stopped before well, by me rather than Frank
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Porter. Huh Okay, tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the
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transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance
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insurance investigator, Yours Trulli Johnny Doller expense accounts submitted by a special investigator,
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Johnny Dollar to the Allied Casualty and Insurance Company Limited, Markham Building, Hartford,
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Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditure has incurred during my investigation
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of the McCormick matter. At am eleven seven dollars and a half one bottle
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of scotch, which I sent the stage doorman out to get while I was
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calling it barth an Allied Insurance. Apparently everybody in the neighborhood through thought.
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The exchange of shots between me and somebody in a long black coop were backfires.
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It was the dorman who dragged me back in the theater. You got
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yourself a boy, now, mister, it's just a grace. I shouldn't
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get you. Corner assures people anopoly. Somebody fires a gonn at you call
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a cop. Have another drink. That's the way. She's hey, hey,
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where are you going? You? She a doctor. Later, I
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went back outside in the alley with a shooting had taken place. Ten minutes
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of looking around, and I dug a pair of thirty eight slugs out of
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a tele vom Post expense account out of twelve four dollars and thirty five cents
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cab Fair Elmar Theater to Long Island. It was twelve o'clock straight up when
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I got to the McCormick home. There were no lights burning and apparently everyone
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had retired for the night. I checked the garage first, a fifty five
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Cadillac convertible and a four year old Jay. No warm motives, no black
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coops. I went to the house. Oh it's you, hello, missus
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mccar No, no, please, please, don't come in here. My
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husband. Oh please. I don't know who you are, but I remember
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meeting you at the hotel. The other I'm Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigating
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insurance. Oh well, there must be some way we can fix this up.
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Talk to me tomorrow. I'll meet you somehow. How can you fix
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up? Murder? Murder? What are you talking about? Joe Penny's dead,
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your ex husband. He was shot with a twenty five, just like
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the one you swung at me at the hotel. Oh no, you want
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to tell me about that, all right, I'll tell you. Joe was
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your husband once you helped him rob this house five years ago. He couldn't
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have done it alone. He wasn't that slick, He wasn't that good.
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He could steal a car, but a safe lock's different from ignition. Well,
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yes, as I helped him do it. He made me. He
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promised me if I helped him, I'd never hear from him again. I
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hope him the safe for him. But you were down to see him at
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his hotel the other night. You searched his room, searched his room.
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Yeah, well, I don't know anything about that. He called me,
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said he wanted money. I didn't know where he'd been for these last few
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years up the river. Oh well he wanted money. Oh, he wasn't
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there when I went there, and I was and a gun. I went
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down there to kill him. But I didn't see him, not then later
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somewhere. I haven't seen him at all. I'd tell you just talked to
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him on the phone. I don't suppose it did make any difference if I
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told you I had a good reason, if I told you I loved my
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husband very much, not likely. And view of the facts, you helped
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your ex husband rob him of a hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry five years
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ago. Oh, I can explain that. Joe came around when we got
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back from my honeymoon. It's an old story I passed, isn't all it?
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Well? Anyhow, Joe threatened to tell my husband about it unless I
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gave him money. I didn't have any, so I opened the safe for
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him that night. It was all I could think to do. Yeah,
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then you split with him later on. I told you I haven't seen him.
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Why would I want to do that. I have everything I want in
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life right here, mostly my husband. Well, it's still a policeman of
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missus McCormick. I spent a long time looking for you. Maybe you better
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get your caught iris. You'll remain exactly where you are, Julian, and
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so will you, mister Dalla. Julian, you heard what I said.
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Don't worry about it, my dear mister Dalla, I'm a gentleman, but
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this is a gun. I noticed a thirty eight. I got a couple
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of slugs in my pocket that came from it. Stand over there, Alice
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is pretty silly. You can put that thing away and we can settle this
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anyway. She has told you the absolute truth, mister Dollar. She's innocent
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of any wrongdoing so far as i'm concerned. Is that clear? It's pretty
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glib McCormick. She's accessory to one hundred thousand dollars heist and she hasn't done
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anything wrong. If she wanted to give them away my ex husband, to
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anybody that was her affair, I would not press charges. Well, that
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takes care of you. How are you going to square it with allied casualty
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in the state of New York? And you also forget a little matter of
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a dead man? But I haven't forgotten you who mister dollar? Julian,
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Please don't. I've caused enough trouble. Please calm yourself, my dear.
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This is the least I can do for you after what you've done for me
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just being my wife. Mister Dollar, will you accept money? Not enough
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for murder? Fifty hundred thousand? I'd hate to kill you, mister Dollar.
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You tried once tonight. You've referred to that before, but you weren't
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very good, and now you're even worse. You forgot to take the safety
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off that gun. Oh you've killed If you've killed ah, he's all right,
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Get out of the wayne. Let me see that gun. I wasn't
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interested in either one of them for the moment I was looking at the thirty
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eight I'd taken from Julian McCormick. There was a smear of cosmoline still inside
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the barrel. I sniffed it, checked it, found all chambers loaded.
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It was a brand new weapon and it had never been fired. Expense account
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item thirteen five dollars and a half cab fair again, this time from Long
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Island to an apartment in Queen's The man I wanted to see was Allied Casually's
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man, Frank Porter. He lived in a very polite neighborhood, that department
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three. But mister Porter's not into I'll wait for him, Yes, sir,
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it's all right if I sit in your lobby, isn't it. Oh,
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yes, sir, Yes sir. But I'd prefer that you waited somewhere
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else. He was, this is a rather exclusive apartment buildings, and we
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don't like people loitering in the lobby. Well, I'm on a pretty exclusive
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mission. But you don't like the mud on my clothes, in the terror
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on my coat. Are you a friend of mister Porter? Yeah, good
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friend. He wouldn't mind if I waited in his apartment. Of that's what
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you mean? No, sir, impossible, but a couple of bucks can
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do wonders. Sometimes. It was quite a layout, books, pictures,
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furniture and whatnots that make living at home pretty agreeable. I propped myself up
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on a stool at Frank's little bar, poured myself a drink and sat there
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waiting for him. I was like that. Half an hour later when he
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showed up, he looked a little unsteady on his feet. Je Wish,
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Johnny dark Hi, the last person in the world I expected to see that
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enlightened and let you in. I didn't think it mine, no, and
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not at all. I tried to phone you earlier tonight you were out.
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I'm sorry, Jeep Wish. What's on your mind, Johnny? I wanted
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to tell you I was shot at tonight. Well, I wanted to tell
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you I found out who Missus McCormick is and was. Since you were on
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the case first for Allied, I thought i'd tell you first. You wish
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say, this is a nice set up, falling nice things. I've been
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in places like this before, Frank. They usually started three hundred or better
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a month, but made service, phone service. All those things cost money,
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A lot of money. Don't they, Frank, cheap wish? When'd
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you tumbled to a Johnny? A little while ago, when I was out
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on Long Island, Julian McCormick made me a proposition. He finally offered me
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one hundred thousand dollars, a lot of money. He sounded like he'd had
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experience making propositions. I should have tumbled to it a couple of days ago
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when you phoned the parole office after I left you you use my name when
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you asked for Joe Penny's address. Yeah, I wondered if your tip was
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on the right track. I didn't figure Joe Penny was eligible for parole so
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quick. I had to get to him before you did. He wasn't the
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cay and keep his mouth shut? You shut it for him, didn't you,
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Frank? Mind if I said, I'm Johnny, now go ahead.
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They'll be strapping it down one of these days. No, one hundred and
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a half a week investigating claims by nice places like this. He was one
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of those lucky things, Johnny. When I was called along Island to investigate
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that heist five years ago, I met McCormick's wife. Happened to recognize her
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as Joe Penny's X, and you knew mccarmy mick was in love with his
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wife enough to pay you to keep quiet. Now I gave him service for
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your money. The cops would have broken that case in twenty four hours,
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but I covered up all the tracks I can find, and I made a
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real safe by seeing Joe sent up the river. How just tipped off the
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cops to some of his hot car deals, and he picked him up.
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He happened to be carrying a gun, so he got the works. Then
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you just sat around drawing blackmail from McCormick. Chiefs. Don't look at me
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like that, Johnny. Every guy has a price, how about you.
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That's the second offer I've had tonight. It's a good one. Joe Penny
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was a dumb guy. He picked up that jewelian win right down town and
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pucked it in a safe deposit box. He's been setting here all the time
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he was up the river. Still worth sorry, Frank? You sure?
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I'm sure? Chief Chief wis Johnny you are a good dick. You don't
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buy off. I just wanted to see. I get sure, Frank,
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Well do we go in quietly? You'd be surprised, Johnny, how quiet.
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You better diet for an ambulance if you want me to go to try
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on you. You're good at alley back at the theater to night, Johnny.
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When I tried to knock you off, ballot you all night looking for
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my chance, you nicked me twice. Diala duck, quick, quick,
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jeez, it hurts. He died right there without saying the disposition of the
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case and what to do about Frank Porter, an insurance adjuster who goes bad.
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There's a matter I don't have to handle, and I'm glad. Expense
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account Item fourteen hotel and board in New York City seventy dollars and thirty cents.
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Itdem fifteen eighty four dollars legal fees and incidental expenses involved in locating the
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widow of Mike cairns Or, which seems is still alive somewhere in Iowa,
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and will accept half the reward as promised. Item sixteen fourteen dollars even transportation
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back to Hartford. Expense account total two hundred and sixty five dollars and ninety
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one cents. Remarks she was yours, tully, Johnny Dollar. Now here's
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our star, Bob Bailey to tell you about next week's story. Thanks next
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week the story of a ship the Molly k Destination, Davy Jones Locker join
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us, won't you Yours Tully? Johnny Dollar? Yours True Johnny Doller is
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transcribed in Hollywood, written by John Dawson. The entire production is under the
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direction of Jack Johnstone Hurt In this week's cast where Mary Jane Croft, Virginia
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Gregg, Marvin Miller, Forrest Lewis, Frank gerstel Her, Butterfield her Belas,
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Tony Barrett Ken, Christie Jack Crushin and Junius Matthews. Be sure to
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join us on Monday night, same time and station for another exciting story of
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Yours Truly Johnny Duller, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. It's worth noting here
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he kind of took my away, my keen line. I'd like to come
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back and say gee wiz, but Bob Bailey I did it better than I
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could. This script was reused. John Dawson is actually e Jack Newman.
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I don't know why he took that non diplum for the radio job, but
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he was the writer of the script and it was adapted from an episode he
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wrote of Richard Diamond from May thirtieth, nineteen fifty two. The Carpenter Case.
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Just a great way to start off this series. And I love the
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twist at the at the end and kind of you know, the whole drama
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at the McCormick house and how Johnny was a little a little bit off but
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then he got it right the second time and leading to a very dramatic and
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powerful confrontation with the adjuster. And this that's just a great standard, a
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good solid cast of character actors, including the great Virginia Greig, and I
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think we've had fifty seven more weeks of this. This is just phenomenal.
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We now do turn to listener comments and feedbacks, and we just have one
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from Charles who says, I'm a big fan great entertainment always with the right
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moral values. Well, thanks so much, and you know, I definitely
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think in this episode this is one where Bob Bailey just stood out as absolute
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as Johnny Doller just now absolutely incorrupt, all which makes for a great story.
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All right, Well, we will see you back here on Saturday with
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the lineup, and we'll be back on Monday with yours truly Johnny Dowler.
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Next week we'll be starting the Carter Brown Mysteries on Friday. In the meanwhile,
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