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I haven't heard from real fast like well, I never know you to
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be in a hurry. J It's a firebug, Johnny four fives four weeks
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total claims to date ninety five thousand skeeps up. I ain't got no job
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left. You just gotta get out here tonight. You're kind of rushing things,
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aren't you? They meet Johnny or it's the firebug? Who'd you'd like
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to be here? When number five goes up? That means you're going to
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be in on the ten o'clock flight. Don't tell me he works on schedule
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chew a stick. You'll like it. You really will. Expense accounts submitted
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by a special investigator, Johnny Dalla to Home Office Eastern Indemnity and Fire Company,
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Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
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of the Antillius firebug matter. Expensive count at one one hundred and thirteen dollars
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and twenty cents airfare between Hartford and Dallas, Texas. You're Southwestern States Manager
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Jeff Cunners met the ten o'clock flight at Love Airport and drove me down to
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your offices on South Aycard Street. There they are Johnny number one, candy
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store out Northwest, number two, two family residents on east Side, three
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small factory out on Commerce Avenue. Four garage and repair shop out Southwest Grand.
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Total claims is ninety five thousand, and it's all yours. These all
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follow the same time pattern. Everyone comes Tuesday night around eleven o'clock and that
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firebugess naturally lights up all new policies Jeff written within the past six weeks to
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two months. It's right. I think hardly gets cold on the premium checks
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when it gets all hotted up again, all the claims, any connection between
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the policy holders. Can't find one of thre hall in different businesses, different
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parts of the city. The whole thing just don't make sense. It does
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if the bug is in your own organization. Yeah, that's what Lynn Borchardt
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says. Who's Borcher, Detective Lieutenant Arson Division. He's been working on it.
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How's he making out well? I got ten men out in the field,
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two gals in the office here, lots of alibis to check out.
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It takes time. So far, there's no reason to suspect anybody. Those
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fires are reason enough. But man, why do anybody want to do anything
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like that? Well, when it comes to firebugs, who knows, could
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have a grudge against you or the coming, or maybe it'd just like to
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see them flame shoot up. H that's as good a reason as any.
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Well, whatever it is, we sure got to get this boy, Johnny.
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This kind of thing keeps up, I'll be losing my job, my
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home, my wife and everything else. I M, what's the time,
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Johnny? It's uh forming us after eleven? Wouldn't want to lay a little
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bit while this phone's ringing at this time of night? Would you? Eastern
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Ademnity? Connors M? Yeah, that's figured. Where'll I get that address?
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That's uh, wait a minute, that's seven two five East Westchester.
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Yeah, I got it? Yeah, thanks, Lieutenant? Be seen it
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number five? Yep, big apartment building out in Westchester. You're sure it's
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one of yours. Wrote the policy on it myself four days ago. Well,
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let's get out there and have a look. Huh man, that's sure.
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I'm gonna yeah, there's another one you're gonna write off. You can
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say, oh, oh, there's Lynn bartchit over there. Didn't I be
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down here so quick? Let's say what he's got to say. Yeah,
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sure, I had, Lieutenant, we got down here right five be readonable
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film with Connor. Not much I do coore she cooled down. I won't
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be before morning. I lying going to meet Johnny Dalald. Lieutenant Well,
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i'll investigators release Johnny this lieutenant land boyt let An. Everything looks like our
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firebug didn't waste any time showing himself off to you, mister Dollard, No
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question about it being taught well that guy said, I won't be able to
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get in there until morning. But when you figure the pattern where that fire
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rolled up in the pole, no doubt in my mind. Who reported it?
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Fellow my name and Henderson at the second four apartment West called in from
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a hallway telephone. What kind of a story did he give him? He
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didn't got trapped up there on the second floor, suffering third degree burns and
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shocked. He's not in any shape to talk to anyone. You don't know
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that I care to be around when he is fit to talk, though,
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always as his wife and two kids, they're still in that fire. Someone
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Jeff Connors went back to the office to wire his preliminary report to Hartford,
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while I stayed around to see if anything would turn up. By one thirty
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am, the only thing we'd learned was that our only possible witness, Hendrickson,
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had died en route to the hospital. A preliminary check of the record
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seemed to indicate that the fire had started in the basement, but it was
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still too hot to check into thoroughly, so Lieutenant Borcher drove me back downtown.
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I'll dig into it in the morning, Dollar, but I can tell
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you right now, I'll find Oh, what's that, Lieutenant, There'll be
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four or five hot spots indicating the use of kerosene gasoline, something like that
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amount of paraffin drippings. Sounds like a candle's used for a slow fuse.
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That's what we figured. Found the same drippings in all the other fires.
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Any idea how slow a fuse it is, looks like an hour and a
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half two hours. He gives a bug plenty of time to get away,
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fix himself up in Alibis somewhere, Conna says, you think it's someone in
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his organization. Old pattern points that way. Haven't been able to run him
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down, though takes a lot of legwork. Connas has been a big up
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go operating right down the line, knowing him a long alan, oh four
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or five years off the line. He's a good man. Yeah, he
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doesn't seem to be letting his personal trouble to interfere with his work any What
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personal troubles are those? Well, he's been pretty broke for the last six
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months or so. Wife's been sick, run up a lot of doctor in
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hospital builds, had to buy a new home recently. Oh, why's that
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last one burned down? Lost his eight month old son, and that fire's
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been pretty rough going for him. Yeah. Well, when we get this
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firebug pinned down, might help him some take some of the pressure off or
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leave his mind. Maybe he are dolla? Oh thanks the tennant It checked
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with me in the morning, Dollar, and think over what I've been saying.
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Maybe something will come to mind. Yeah, yeah, I'll think about
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it. I had Bocher dropped me off at your office, Billy. I
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I figured i'd pick up my bag and talk things over with Jeff before checking
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into a hotel. I let myself in with a key Jeff had given me
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and headed for his inner office. Wow, good morning. Oh are you
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Johnny Dollar mean anything to you? Johnny Dollar. Oh and you're that insurance
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investigat mister Connis that was coming up from the east. That's right. Well,
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I'm plenty happy to hear that. You gave me a pretty bad stop,
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mister Dollar. I'm sorry. I'm Sally Martin, mister Connor's secretary.
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And the rest of it. Well, you mean what I'm doing up here?
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Well, I'm as curious as the next guy. What I promised to
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have the material ready for mister Conners in the morning. I let their office
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to night in such a hurry I forgot it and we'll just drop fire to
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get it ready for him. You're a pretty conscientious employee, miss Martin,
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getting out of bed at two in the morning to come down to the office
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or something like that. Oh, No, wasn't that way at all?
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Oh what way was it? Well? I had a date this evening dinner
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theater and the club Romulo is down the street. Stopped up here on my
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way home. M Is this cterial mister Connors wanted ready in the morning.
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Yes, it is comprehensive fire policy on the property at seven twenty five East
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Westchester. That's right. That's pretty coincidental, isn't it? Or maybe you
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didn't know that there was a fire out there tonight, Piet Oh, no,
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any idea why mister Connors wanted this particular policy out. I think if
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you have any more questions to ask, mister Dollar, mister Connors should be
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here to answer them personally. That sounds reasonable, and maybe we should ring
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in Lieutenant Borchard too. Lieutenant Hey, Sally, what's keeping you so long?
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Oh? Hi, didn't know anyone else was up here with you.
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Well, this is Johnny Dollar, one of our investigators. Bill, mister
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Dalla, this is Bill Friendly. Well, Glad, I know you're mister
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Dollar. I was telling mister Dollar about the wonderful time we had tonight dinner
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in the theater and being at the club Romulo until just a few minutes ago.
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Huh oh yeah, yeah, that's right. We did have a swell
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time. But honey, it's getting late, so if you were ready,
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let's run along. Okay, Bill, good night, mister Dallas. Glad
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I met your dollar. Hope to see you again sometime. Being a firm
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believer in the ability of my subconscious to resolve any knotty problems, I checked
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into the Baker Hotel for the night. The bed was very comfortable, but
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my subconscious didn't come up with a thing. Expensive. Guy had him two
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three dollars and seventy five cents Texas style breakfast, including steak and fried potatoes.
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That supplied me with enough energy to walk over the City Hall and looking
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on Lieutenant Fortune. It was a little hit and run accident corner of Westchester
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and Gates by nine o'clock last night. Dolla. It's just half block away
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from where the fire was. Seems a fifty three Ford stand park down the
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street there suddenly took off without lights, spun around the corner and throw the
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fender off another car coming up the street. Do you think there's some tie
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in between that and the fire, Well, one of the boys in traffic
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thoughts. So, after witness gave him the license number the Ford, he
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checked it through motor vehicle who was a registered to Jeff Connors friends. No
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And now, with our star John Lund, we bring you the second act
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of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. The Traffic Divisions report of the hit
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and run accident on Westchester the night before added nothing to what Lieutenant Borchhold had
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already told me. Jeff Conner's Ford had been parked halfway down the block at
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approximately nine to five PM, had roared away from the curb without lights,
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turned the corner on the gates, smashed into the side of another car.
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Some ten feet from the intersection and kept right on going. That'd be some
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reason for Connor's being there just two hours before the fire, and for taking
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off from such an old fire to hurry that way without light. Well,
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let's get Jeff's side of the story before we jump to conclusions. Listen,
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I don't believe much in coincidence, mister dollar. Time element checks out two.
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The two hours between the accident and the fire. We know those candle
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uses burned an hour and a half two. Leaving here at nine gave him
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plenty of time to ditch the corn meet you at the airport with a pretty
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clean alibi. He wasn't driving a forward when he picked you up, was
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he? No, it was a plymouth coop. Maya. Well, that's
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his wife's car. And what if you're done about getting him in But he's
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not at home, he's not at his office. Nothing else I could do
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but send out a pickup on him. Leave word for me at the Baker
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Hotel when you're getting with him. Sure thing, mister Donner, I know
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how you're feeling about it. I'm sure sorry. Expensive can at him three
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two dollars and twenty five cents cab fare out to the modern subdivision where Jeff
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Connors had his new home. Missus Connors turned out to be a sweet,
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nice looking young woman whose recent illness was still apparent. I'm sorry you had
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the long ride out here for nothing, mister dogger. Jeff's not home.
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He left early to get his car fixed or something bad. You didn't call
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first. Oh that's all right, Missus Kenners. It's you I wanted to
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see. Oh yeah, well, I rather guess I knew that it's about
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Jeff, isn't it. Those fires? That's right? And you've noticed it
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too. Terrible things were in Sir Can due to a man. Wow,
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until six months ago, Jeff was the happiest man I'd ever known. Then
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a lot of world just fell apart. That's when your home burned, Missus
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Kenners. One lost that time. Something happened to Jeff, then don't happened
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to me too. I broke down. I had to be hospitalized with with
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Jeff, Well, that was different. How do you mean he bottled everything
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up inside it and refused to let it come out and never even talked about
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it. A person can't do that, mister Donna. You mentioned the recent
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fires, Missus Kenners, any particular reason why, Yes, that's why has
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me worried so ever since they started, he's become terribly depressed. I'm afraid
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he's going to break down under the stream. That's the only reason you mentioned
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them. Yes, And I decided to depressing my power to help him.
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I thought, perhaps if we moved away from Dallas at night help but he
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wouldn't do that. And I tried to get him interested in sports. That
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brought the first encouraging sign I've had in six months. Oh what was it,
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missus Connors. Well, usually on Monday and Tuesday nights, Jeff brings
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work home with him, all the mail that's accumulated over the weekend, the
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new premiums and renewals and so on. Uh huh. Well, for the
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past five weeks, mister dollar, believe it or not, Jeff has gone
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bowling every Tuesday night. He's become so infused about it, like he hasn't
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come home before midnight on any Tuesday evening since. Now, don't you think
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that's encouraging, mister dollar? Expensive cont item four fifteen dollars and seventy five
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cents cab fair in and around the city of Dallas I sent the rest of
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the day checking the neighborhoods where the fires had occurred, talking to policyholders,
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neighbors, anyone who might give me a new or different slant. I came
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up with nothing. Around five o'clock I called in to Lieutenant Borchard. Still
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the same man said, mister Dollar, the neighboud picked up Conna. Yet
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we checked out Sally Martin and Bill Treandler. Though anything there there in the
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club rhyme like, they said, yeah, I see, While it looked
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like something might have tied in. Grandler used to work for Connor. You
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know. Trandler was with Eastern Indemnity until about two months ago. We have
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left the town of business of his own bowling alley expensive count item of five
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a dollar and sixty cents cab fair to Trendler's bowling him for him on East
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Gotto Street, five alleys and a drink and sandwich bar. Fundler was keeping
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score for a couple of high school bobby suckses over on Alley number three.
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Don't let it get you down on it happens to the best of us.
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Take off one of them anyway, and I talk to you for a minute.
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Mister Trendley. Oh, it's you, the insurance man, Johnny Dollar,
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isn't it. That's right? What's on your mind? Dollar? I'd
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like to talk to you for a minute about the fires. Yeah, take
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over for the girls gym. I'll be right back. Let's go on the
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office. Dollar, Let's have a dollar. He used to work for Jeff
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Connors at Eastern Yeah, sure, up until two months ago. Why did
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you quit? I just wasn't cut out to be a good insurance salesman.
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So you open this bowling alley? Anything wrong with that? Well? They
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tell me it takes money to open these things. I had a few bucks
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saved from not being a good insurance salesman. Why the interest in my fiens
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at a dollar? Oh, I'm just curious. She's curious about something else.
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Huh. Okay. Did Jeff Cunners ever come bowling here? Yeah?
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A couple of times. Jeff's wife says he's been bowling every Tuesday night.
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I wouldn't know. Last time I saw him was four weeks ago. Last
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night. Any idea where he might have been those other Tuesday nights? Why?
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I'd asked Sally Martin what she got to do with it? She's a
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secretary. She was with him the times he came here. Maybe they figured
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out something better to do with their Tuesday nights. She was out with you
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last night, yep, every minute from six o'clock for two fifteen dinner theater
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Club Romulo. Well, you can always walk out of the theater before the
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final curtain, and a ten dollar bill can make a nightclub way. They're
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pretty confused about time. Be kind of hard to prove anything like that,
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wouldn't it. Dollar, Well, there's no law against trying expense account at
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them. Six one dollar and eighty cents cab fare back to your hosses.
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They were closed for the night at the Baker Hotel. I would a call
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into Sally Martin's apartment and got no answer. When I was trying to figure
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out the next move, Lieutenant Borchard called and made up my mind for me.
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Yet up front. In two minutes, Dollar, I'll pick you up.
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Where are we going? Tennant under the viaduct over the Trinity River?
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What's out there? Another fire? Nopef Connor's Ford, looking twelve feet of
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water. Took about an hour for amobile crane to get there, and another
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thirty five minutes before the grappling hooks, got a solid hold and swung the
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car up on the dry land. Butcher and I were beside the car almost
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before the crane put it down. Well that's a big help. Disappointed lieutenant
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would have helped if he'd been in the car. Cost money to drag a
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river like this. I don't think you'll find him down there, and we've
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got a look. On his way back to City Hall, Butcher dropped me
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off at the hotel. On a hunch. I went across the street and
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had a little talk with a night elevator man in your office building. Well,
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well, let's see. Seems to me somebody went up to eaton indemnity
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since closing time. Yep. Here Dars checked in at eight seventeen. Out
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again in eight twenty three. Sally Martin was anyone with her? Come to
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think it was fellow waiting outside in the car? Say no, I'm just
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wondered it was mister Connors himself expensive con at him seven six dollars and ninety
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cents for a fast cab ride out to Sally Martin's apartment. The extra five
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was for the speed. Yes, mister, where is he? Sally?
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Where's who? Jeff Connors. Is he still here? Then you know that
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he was hiding here today Let's say I guess, all right, where is
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he? I don't know what now. Look, there have been five fires
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and three people are dead. You're hurting my arm, mister Dowler. I
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want to know what you were doing up at the office and where Jeff went
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when he left here. We went up here to get a list of the
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new policies. It came in to day. Why what did Jeff want with
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him? I don't know. Well, there was some reason. What was
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it? I tell you, I don't know. I got back here to
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night and told him Missus Connors had called about the new policies. Made me
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drive right down. I've called the office. Well, Missus cons always did
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double check the policies with me because of the files he kept at home.
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What was different about her call this time? Well, nothing except the day.
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Maybe she always called on Tuesday. There wasn't any real reason for her
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to call to day. Only one new policy had come in fire policy,
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Yes, on an apartment building out on the West side. Where is it,
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mister Dollar. I know what you're thinking, But Jeff didn't have anything
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to do with those fires. Believe me, where's the policy? Sally over
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there on the table expensive count animate seven dollars and fifty cents cab there with
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speed to the newly insured a private building on the west side. I called
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Lieutenant Orchard from Sally's and he was there waiting for me. In spitted him
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yet, Lieutenant, Yeah, talking miss Martin's car back in the alleyway.
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What are you gonna take him? We'll just wait for you. Okay,
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let's go there it is, Donna. Yeah, keep your hands on the
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wheel. Connor, don't worry, Lieutenant. I won't try anything you're expecting,
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as Jeff, No matter of fact, I was hoping you wouldn't show.
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Johnny, I wanted to handle this myself. You've been handling it that
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way too long. Connors, Yeah, I guess I had. I wasn't
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really sure till I saw the car last night. You read about the hit
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run of the morning papers. Is that why you're dumped it in the river?
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Didn't make much sense, I guess trying to cover up that way,
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just getting kind of desperate. Where is she, Jeff, buy your wife?
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Where is she in the basement? Yes, she must be through by
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now. I was waiting for it to come out, trying to delay it
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all the last minute. I guess I'll have to get it. Kind of
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you, he'll treat it gently, won't you, Attendant, I'll worry.
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I'll treat her gently. Sally Martin's not mixed up in this Johnny boy.
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She was just trying to help her boss out of a jam. Didn't even
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know what it was. Don't worry about it, Jeff. Doesn't make much
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sense, does a Johnny my old wife Firebug. I suppose maybe it was
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our home and a boy. I don't know. It doesn't make much sense.
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She was a lovely girl, Johnny, but was she'd noted he was
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such a lovely good Expense account atom nine thirty seven dollars and forty cents.
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Hotel bill and miscellaneous expensive count atom ten one hundred and nineteen dollars and ten
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cents. Air Fare back to Hartford expense account total three hundred nine dollars and
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twenty five cents. Remarks. I've seen fires burn everything from blocks of tenements
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to a hole in a rug, but this is the first time I ever
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saw one actually burn the heart out of a man. I don't ever want
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and for real chewing enjoyment. Next time you're at the store, get some
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Wriggly Spearmint chewing gum. Enjoy its refreshing flavor and good pleasant chewing often every
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day. Remember that's Wriggly's Spearmint Chewing Gum, healthful, refreshing, delicious,
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yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Brought to you by Wriggley. Spearmint Chewing Gum,
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stars John Lund in the title role and was written by Sydney Marshall with
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music by Eddie Unsteader. Featured in tonight's cast were Hal March Barney Phillips,
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Jean Bates, Sam Edwards for Jim Gregg and Jim Nusser. Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar is produced and directed by Him Delvai, the makers of Wriggley's Spearmint Chewing
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Gum. Hope you enjoyed tonight's story of Johnny Dollar, and that you're enjoying
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delicious Wriggley's Spearmint Gum every day. This is Charles. I'm inviting you to
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join us again next week at the same time when from Hollywood John Lund returns
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as Yours Truly Johnny Doller. This is the CBS Radio Network Welcome back,
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well somewhat a good twist on a somewhat sad ending as the insurance agent who
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was suspected ends up dealing with this a lot of grief here. You can
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really empathize with this very painful, very difficult situation that went through some good
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human drama here. Believe it or not, this episode has actually been used
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for mislabeled programs. Some have tried to pass this off, believe it or
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not, as a Charles Russell episode. The first Johnny Doller from January seventh,
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nineteen fifty the title of that episode, it was nicknamed The Firebug Hunter
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matter the title that he gave in Charles Russell, Johnny Doller sort of ways
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press out my it's best those dinner jacket mother, I'm going to smoke.
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And usually when these sort of counterfeit shows are posted, I probably shouldn't say
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counterfeit, but mislabels shows, there's been some intentional doctoring to make it seem
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plausible. They cut out the Wrigley Spearman ads, they cut out the parts
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that announced who the star is, and they distort the sound so you think
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it doesn't sound like Charles Russell because of the fact that the sounds disordered.
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But it doesn't sound like Charles Russell because in fact it's John Lutt, you
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know. And I think when you run into these mislabeled shows, it's not
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always a situation where you know somebody is trying to literally actually cheat on the
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end the person you buy from. Because a lot of these a lot of
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websites that will sell these radio programs, they have sixty thousand or one hundred
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thousand separate shows they're showing, so they don't have time to be able to
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listen to them all Unfortunately, as a consequence of that, there have been
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times when the when cannons of radio programs have been corrupted in so the result
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of that is that some very dubious or mislabeled stuff ends up in circulation.
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All right, well, listener comments and feedback. We begin with Bobby who
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said we started listening out to listening to yours truly, Johnny Doller, and
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we and we are now addicted. Thank you for all the work you do
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finding these Thanks so much, Bobby, and Genevieve says so much fun listening,
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which I do through iTunes makes the most dreary housework enjoyable. Enjoy your
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comments and like that they are sequential, so I'm not so I'm not listening
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to the same ones. Please keep them coming. Would be great format for
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other genres of old time radio. Keep it up, thanks, Genevieve,
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and I agree about other formats. I've often thought it'd be nice if there
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were a show like this for comedies or for family dramas like Doctor Christian Family
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Theater. But I've even thought of doing them myself. That you know,
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issue comes into play, and so I just hope someone else is able to
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take up that idea because there are a lot of interesting possibilities comedies, great
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comedians, sitcoms, why a variety of different topics could be done. Andrew
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Ryans adds some insight about music he wrote in the Syndicated Radio Programs. He
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writes, from my understanding, they still do this today with a show that
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is syndicated, and everyone was listening to the same show, but local ads
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needed to be added. The music lets them know they can still run ads
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today. They do this and may include show's name and return time. Most
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stations shows today use one sound or song on a loop, so when the
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sound engineer here's a change, he can end the commercial and bring back the
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show at the same time as all other shows around. And that's some interesting
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insight because I've often been listening to a radio program and they'll off either in
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the middle of commercial or middle of the host talking to go over to the
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commercials. So kind of understanding the synchronization of that definitely helps. And that's
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got to be challenge more challenging when you're dealing with a live show as opposed
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to something transcribed. All right, well, that'll actually do it for today.
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I do want to let you know we just passed our eight hundred and
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fiftieth episode mark, so on Sunday, we're going to bring you a special
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a little bit after the eight hundred and fiftieth show on Tuesday, So join
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us for episode eight fifty four s on Sunday Tomorrow is the lineup, and
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join us back here on Friday for yours truly, Johnny Doller. In the
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meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow
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