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the five part Yours truly Johnny Doller Programs, and we're starting right at the
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beginning. The two episodes we're gonna listen to today are at October the third.
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In October the fourth of nineteen fifty five. So after years of requesting,
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we're finally bringing it to you. Here is Bob Bailey and Yours truly
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Johnny Doller run Hollywood. It's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny Doller.
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Mister Dollar, this is father Taggart. I'm calling you from Austin Ing.
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I'm one of the chaplains here at Sing Sing. Oh, yes, sure,
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what can I do for you? Finally, nothing for me, mister
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Dollar, but possibly for someone else. Michael Kairn, one of our inmates,
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asked me to contact you. Michael, can you remember him? He
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wasn't sure you would, old time grifter and con man who got tied up
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with an insurance fraud a few years ago. Blonde fellow. Yes, Michael
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wants to see you, mister Dollar. Would you possibly find the time to
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come up here? Oh? I don't know, father, Is this something
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important? It is to Michael? Oh? Well, look, I'll be
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in New York sometime next month. Maybe I'll get a chance to stop off.
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Well, couldn't you possibly make it sooner? What's the rush? She's
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going to be there quite a while, isn't he not very long? I'm
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afraid Michael is dying all right, father, you can expect me. Welcome
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to Johnny Doller, beginning tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the
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Transcribed Adventures of the Band with the Action Packed Expense Account Alberica's fabulous freelance insurance
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investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account 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. Attention at barth Controller's office. This is an accounting of expenditures
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during my investigation of the McCormick matter. Though you didn't authorize the investigation,
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and I'm sure that once the facts are out, you will honor the following
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expense account Item one seven dollars and ninety five cents train fare and incidentals Hartford
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to Austin in, New York. I was admitted inside the prison and greeted
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by Father Tech. He's a tall, mild looking man, a jesuit.
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I believe he had a pass already for me, and he led me straight
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to the prison infirmary. Just him here. Michael will certainly appreciate your coming,
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mister Dollar. I hope it satisfies whatever's on his mind. I can't
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imagine what it would be. You know, it was my investigation testimony to
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put him in here. Father he told me all about that, and I'm
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sure it has nothing to do with why he wants to see you. See
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as a long started to go about two years ago and there's just been no
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way to arrest the condition. Does he know how close he is is?
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And he's not afraid to die? Here? We are mist a dollar?
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Oh what? Hardly the same man? I remember father, and he's had
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it bad lately, lost a great deal of week. Yeah, let's sleep,
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yes, Michael, Michael, Oh, y, father, I brought
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someone to see you. What do you say? I am Mike. Oh,
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thanks for coming, Thanks Johnny, Thank father Taggart here. He's an
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all right guy, Johnny, he's just like you. I always said you
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were the best insurance cup. Yeah, what's all this? I'm kicking out?
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Johnny? Didn't you tell him? Father? He told me Mike in
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case I didn't live right, I'll be back in the a while. Thanks
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for you. Take it easy, Mike. A loudly place to die in
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prison. But I ain't got my choice thanks to you. Well, it's
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just that you picked to do a couple of things that the law and some
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insurance companies didn't agree with. Mike. I know whold none of that against
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you. A guy does what he does. I don't know how to tell
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you this. Maybe I better get the doctor. You shouldn't be talking so
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much. Oh no, wait, Johnny, Look you know I'm no cry
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baby. When the doctor gave me the news, I got to thinking I
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educated to blow out. You understand. I know, Mike. I know.
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It's just I had a wife once, a long time ago, when
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I started out. Yeah, then I just kind of drifted out of her
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picture one day he got a cough drop baby. Yeah, I guess it
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wouldn't ture what I got anyhow. I got to do something for before I
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well, Jhnny, I lay here and I get myself an idea. Yeah,
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Mike, Johnny, if there was some really easy money lying around,
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would you pick it up for me? Depends on how clean it is,
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Mike, and where it's lying. Yeah, sure, sure, but it's
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clean, all right. You can find that out for yourself, all right.
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Listen. Till they moved me down here in the infirmary, I roomed
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upstairs with Jojo Penny. You know him. No, I don't believe I
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do. And Carthy from the Hay stage. You've got his sabbatical three weeks
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ago, Parold what I've been in the camp with a lot of guys but
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Jojo Penny takes the cake. He's got a little five year trick to put
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in, and it's Jojo. He does it like a vacation, you know,
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a real picnic. Every time he gets a chance out in the yard,
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he's taken son. So we don't get the color she yeah, yeah,
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when they push him in with me, I noticed this, and I
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get the going over in my head. Yeah. Why does a guy whistle
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in a cell block, Johnny? Why is he treating it like a rest
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home short term? He's got something outside waiting Eh. That' see it,
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baby, He's got something waiting for him outside, something that he knows he'll
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keep safe. Money. Thought you said this was legitimate, Mike, it
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is it is now. Wait. I didn't ask Jojo anything about this.
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No, I figured out myself. Then A couple of times I hear him
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yelling in his sleep, mccarmick. Ye else, mccarmick makes sense now,
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Johnny, not the big heist, Johnny the big heist. A few years
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ago, a rich guy named mccarmy got on Long Island. There's someplace like
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that gets turned over for a hundred thousand dollars with the jewelry. You remember,
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vaguely. Yeah, well, I'm thinking that Jojo Panny was in on
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it somewhere else. Why would he be singing and whorstling and cheering himself around
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this fly trap for five years? Else? Why would he be talking about
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that when he's sleeping. Mccarmick, mccarmick, Maybe you've got something, Mike.
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I know I got something, Johnny, and you got something too it.
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Mike, I'm alright, I'm alright. Don't you see the insurance company
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must have a reward out. They always do a reward. But Mike,
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well, I tell you joe Joey is the ginzo that done the job,
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or he knows who did it. So you look into it, work on
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it. Maybe turn up the stuff and get the reward. Good clean coin.
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Yeah yeah, send half of it to my old lady. Will you
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keep the rest yourself? Who'd you say? The god? Apostolia said?
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Interviewed gym my cairn done three hours later. The last living thing he did
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was wink at me. Expense account item two fourteen dollars and twenty cents.
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Train fair and incidentals austening to New York. I arrived at two fifteen,
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dropped my bag off at the New Western and went over to the Metropolitan Police
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station to find out what I could about the McCormick matter. It was all
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pretty much as all Mike Altoli, a Julian McCormick living on Long Island had
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suffered one hundred thousand dollars jewelry burglary in nineteen fifty one. Twelve suspects had
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been arrested and released. The case was marked open and unsolved. Allied Casualty
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had been the insurance company involved. This is the Adjustment office, Frank Porter
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speaking. My name's Johnny Doller. Mister Porter, I'm an investigator. Oh,
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I think I've heard of you, mister Dolly. Yeah, I wonder
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if you could give me a little information about acclaim your company handled in nineteen
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fifty one a man named Julian McCormick out on Long Island. Jeep will Long
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TI. I'm a goal what about the McCormick. I might have some information
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on it. I don't know yet. It's a long chance. I'm at
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police headquarters and I notice you investigated for the insurance company. I'd like to
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talk to you, sure, but it's kind of late to day tomorrow,
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Okay, Well, you can tell me this right now? Is there any
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reward being offered? Chief Whisk kind of folds my sales that we're asking about
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a reward. You sound like you can make full recovery and want to make
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sure that you will be paid for it. Well, I said it was
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just a long shot. How about the reward, Well, that's pretty standard
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with us on cases like this. Yeah, I think it's seventy five hundred
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something like that. I'm not sure where he's staying New Weston. Well,
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I'll look it up, get the exact figure and call you there. How'll
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that be fine? Thanks, that'll be fine. Before I left the police
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station, I turned out a mug on Jojo Penny. He was a big,
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broad shoulder lad with plenty of beef and a list of petty convictions,
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four of them in New York State. The last one was for carrying concealed
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weapons. His parole status was good, though, and the parole officer furnished
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me with his home address, the Allen Hotel. Right, stay a week
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a month, one hundred and fifteenth Street, open, it's open. Come
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on in HI looking for Joe pant Yes, sir, that's me. My
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name's Johnny Doller. Yeah, I just came down from Austining. I saw
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a friend of yours up there, Joe. Who was that Mike Cairn?
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I was Mike. Not so good? He died today. It's too bad.
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He was a nice old coot. Kind of liked him. Said if
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I ever saw you to say hello. Huh he didn't give you my address?
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No, I got it from the parole office. Use some kind of
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cup. Now I work for an insurance company. Oh why you drink?
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Sure? Why not expensive cold? I had him three four dollars even for
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drinks. I wanted to look at Joe, Joe Panny, and talk to
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him and figure out how I was going to go about getting information from him.
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And the more I saw and the more he talked, the more I
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wondered if whatever he might have said about the mccarmick case in his sleep happened
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to some other mccarmick. After all, a man with a long list of
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petty thieveries is hardly ever involved in a slick, big time safe cracking job
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that takes another kind of talent. And when I was sure that Jojo didn't
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have so, I'd just been taking it easy and looking around, I figure
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I can get a job pushing a truck or maybe a cab. If I'm
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lucky, I got to get something to do for all. Office is kind
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of hard nosed about things like that. Yeah, drink up one more?
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Oh no, no thanks, please, my limit like to keep in shake.
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Sure, say you got anything to do? Nothing special? Why I
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thought I might go out to Long Island later on tonight sailo to an old
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friend of mine. If you haven't got anything to do, come on along.
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You're okay, bub sure? Why not this friend of yours he's an
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ex con too, No, he never did any time, Just a friend.
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I want to sailos all rich fellow. His name's Julian McCormick. You're
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very big with a hellos around here today? Aren't you anything wrong? Joe?
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You probably are? Why do you say that? Nothing? Have I
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known anyone named McCormick. I knew a guy named Arnie McCormick once back in
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Salt Lake City. We were pals for a while. Oh yeah, Arnie
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was killed in the war. He'd got himself drafted in the infantry. Maybe
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he's related to my friend Julian McCormick out on Long Island. He wasn't related
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to anybody not that bird. I'm leaving. I want to get up early
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tomorrow. Why not come with me? Thanks for the drinks. He drifted
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off down the street and left me standing there. And one thing I was
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sure of. He had the name McCormick on his mind. Whether it was
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the right mccomick or the right case, I didn't know anyhow, he was
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my one big lead. So I was back at his hotel early the next
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morning and talking to the disc click any did you say room took Tanya?
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That's right, I moost what you left bag and baggage last night? Well
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where did he go? What's his forwarding address? He didn't say, just
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left. Johnny Deller, Frank Porter Allied Casualty. Yes, mister Porter,
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call me Frank. Johnny, you phoned yesterday about the mccarmick matter. I
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got all the stuff about the case on my desk here, and we're still
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offering seventy five hundred dollars reward. Thanks for confirming it, Frank. Sure
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you got a tip for something. An old con named Mike Karen gave me
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a tip about a guy named Jojoe Penny. I'm working on it, need
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any help, I'm not yet I might Jojo pulled out of his hotel last
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night, bag and baggage. What are you going to do? I'm on
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my way to Long Island. I want to talk to McCormick himself. Oh,
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Johnny, yeah, let me give you a tip for your own good.
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Don't bother Julian McCormick unless you've really got something. Could be dangerous.
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I think I've got something. Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator, Johnny
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Dollar, to the Allied Casualty An Insurance Company Limited, Markham Building, Hartford,
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Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the
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McCormick man. Item four ten dollars deposit on the car I run it to
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drive out to Junior McCormick's home on Long Island, and, judging by the
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looks of the place, a safe full of a hundred thousand dollars worth of
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jewelry would feel right at home. It was a mansion and the rugs and
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the floor were an inch thick. I'm sorry I've kept you waiting, Missus.
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McCormick and I were packing for a little trip to Europe. Sit down
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please, thanks, Going to be gone along oh. We usually spend several
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months a year over there for a bit late this year. Our reservations are
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for next week. I envy you, mister McCormick, dollar the name,
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that's right. Forgive me, but I don't seem to recall having heard of
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you before. It's okay, we never met. I'm an insurance investigator.
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Oh really, Am I being investigated or something? No, No, nothing
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like that. It's just that I might have a lead on that jewelry that
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was taken from your home a few years ago. Well that's wonderful. You
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must tell me about it and I make your drink. No thanks, you're
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from the insurance company I like casual game. No, No, I'm not.
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I'm an independent investigator. Oh why should anyone feel it necessary to call
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in a Oh oh, I see there's a reward, of course, that's
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right, yes, bo. But now tell me how can I help you?
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Well, I'm just checking a few things, mister McCormick. I haven't
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even gone over it with a man who handled a case for Allied. Possibly
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I have run into something that'll help. I don't know. I'd like you
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to tell me what happened. My safe was opened and my jewelry taken.
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I mean how it happened. Well, it was right in this very room.
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That's the wall safe there. Missus McCormick and I had just returned from
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our honeymoon five years ago. It was yeah. All I know is that
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when I stepped into the library here that morning, the safe was open and
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everything was gone. Whoever did it was extremely clever and quiet, I must
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say. Was the safe crack? No? No, no, it was
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just opened. Someone figured the combination or something like that. Well who knew
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the combination at the time. Only myself, mister Dallan is sure of that.
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Why, of course I see. I reported it to the police right
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away here on Long Island, and some men from New York City were here
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too, and your insurance company. I reported it to my insurance company immediately.
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They had a man on the scene as soon as a police. Mister
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Porter, Frank Porter, Yes, you know him. I've talked to him
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on the phone. I haven't met him. A very nice chap. He
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worked very hard trying to recover it. I'm sure he did. Did they
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have an adjuster his? How much did you collect it? If you don't
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mind, not much? What do you mean, Well, it was unfortunate.
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By keeping that much Julie in a small house safe. It seems I
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violated the clause in the contract. It should have been kept in a safety
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deposit box or some such. Consequently, the matter went into litigation. I'm
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afraid the court found me at fault. I collected only a part of the
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insured value twenty thousand dollars, so you can see I'd certainly welcome a recovery.
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Sure the Julie was in the family a good many years. I had
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given it to my wife and I well, a man hates to lose things
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he loves. Yes, I understand, was missus McCormick here the morning it
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happened here. I'd like to talk to her. She's terribly busy, but
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if you think it's sufficiently important, I'll call her. No, never mind,
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I'm curious, mister Dalla, this case has been closed a long time.
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At least no one's contacted me or asked me for any information about it
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for at least four years. What opened it? A man named Might can
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Well, who's he? An all convict of an aussening who shared a cell
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for a while with a man named Joe Penny Can died yesterday. But before
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he died, he told me he thought Penny had something to do with it.
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He'd heard him mention your name. Well, it seems to me you
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should talk with this Joe Penny. I did, and I will some more
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as soon as I locate him again. Right now he's missing. I'm sorry.
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Well, thanks for the time, mister McCormick. You let me know
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if you'll learn anything. Sure do you honestly think you can recover that jewelry?
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But then he luck at all that would be wonderful. Wonderful you think
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so? Why? Yes, of course, missus McCormick might be glad to
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know about it too. You said it was her jewelry. I don't know
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why I said that to him, just a sudden impulse. But he wasn't
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smiling when he walked me to the door, shook my hand and patted me
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on the shoulder. I had a funny feeling that mister Julian McCormick was scared
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like a rabbit of me. I drove back to the city, had lunch
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at Walgreens, and dropped into Allied Casualties New York office to pick up the
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folder on reward information. I met Frank Porter and liked him right away.
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A big, redheaded man in a tweet suit. Johnny, it makes me
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feel older than ever doing this. How come? Well, I weighed fifteen
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pounds less when this case June. Ah, here we are. These are
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pictures of stuff. Huh. Now that one they called Tierra del Quago some
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necklace. Yeah, And this one was called Imperial in the royal family of
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Rush at one time. And this is the other one. Placid and beautiful
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stuff. Oh you can say that again. That all, Well, that's
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about the size of a Johnny one hundred thousand dollars gone. Yeah, help
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me sure. It's nice to know what I'm trying to find. Well,
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I hope you have better luck than I did. Yeah. Say, who
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was the police officer on the case, Uh, Martin duels Martin not a
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central Yeah. We ran down every lead we could find, big and small.
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The final said you made twelve aruss you know, something like that,
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But not one of them panned out. I had to let them all go.
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Martin requested pickups on every big time jewelry man in the country. No,
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I don't think one of them was overlooked. Well, no, Johnny,
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somebody just simply walked in that house, opened the safe as needed,
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you please, and walk right out with all of this very slick job.
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Had to be an experienced man. It might have been a first job for
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someone just starting in. They got lucky. Yeah, we thought of that,
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and we didn't think much of it after a while. Je, where
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is Johnny? You know nobody could be that lucky case the house knew exactly
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where the safe was, know what was in it, get in, open
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it up, and get out without anybody servants, the mccarmicks or any of
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their friends even seeing. Yeah, well that wasn't even the hardest part.
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You see, not one scrap of this stuff has ever turned up anywhere anywhere.
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Now, what did whoever took it do with it? Did he break
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it down, sell it overseas? What? Not a trace of it?
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Imagine that? You know what? I think? I think the guy who
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swiped all this stuff still hasn't. I think he's sitting around waiting for it
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to cool off. Could be, but it's never going to cool off.
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Johnny. There isn't a city in this country or across the ocean that isn't
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on the lookout for these pieces. I suppose now sooner or later, hot
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boy or a lucky boy, well, whoever he is, will make a
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move. Meantime we just wait unless, of course, so you've got something
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for us to look into. Not yet, Frank, Yeah, Well when
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you have to be right with you all the way, Cord good. How
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about a drink? Take a range chick. Okay, but remember we got
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a whole floor full of lawyers upstairs. They can get up warrants, rich
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seizure orders, anything you might want. You just let me know when you
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get somewhere and we'll go to work. I'll do that, Frank. I
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left Frank Porter and went back over to the Pole office to see what had
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developed with Joe Panny. After all, if he didn't report in, he'd
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be in violation of his parole, be in real trouble. But nothing had
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developed. He hadn't put in a change of address. Nothing. So I
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went back to my hotel and had some dinner. Then I shaved, changed
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my clothes, expense account item five dollars and a half cab fair. I
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garage my Reddit car, went back to Central Police Station and pulled out the
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mug on Joe Panny once more, hoping to get a line on some friends
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or relatives of his where he might be staying up to Lynn. Things had
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been going pretty routine. Then a clerk from the parole officers stepped across the
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hall. Hi, mister Dollar. Hi, I thought it was you I
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saw in here. I wasn't sure. How's it calling? Fine? Fine
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dark your friend Jojoe Penny? Yet not today? Why it seemed awful anxious
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to talk to him as all I am. Why don't you go see him?
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We're playing games. I've been trying to find out where he is all
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day and I already told you you watch your I give it to you half
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an hour ago in your phone when who phone? Sure? About half an
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hour ago? Look Joe Panny calling and told me his address? Yeah?
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I no, sooner sat down a phone and you call in and said,
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this is Johnny Dollar. If you heard from Joe Panny. Why, I
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said, yeah, and I told you his address? It's all what address
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to just say? The Allan Hotel on a one hundred and fifteenth Street,
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same place he was before. It's the matter, you forget. It took
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me ten minutes to get from the police station over to the Allen Hotel.
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Ten minutes of wondering who'd put in that call and use my name. I
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went up the stairs two at a time, up to the second floor,
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and right at the top of the landing, I bumped into a darkhaired woman
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wearing a silver fernie. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see all right,
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you heard no, not at all. Please let me go past.
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I'm in a hurry. Yeah, i'd be in a hurry too. What
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do you mean gun? You should carry it on the inside of your purse.
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Oh, I suppose I take it. Give it to me, all
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right, take it. She'd given it to me all right, right on
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the side of the head. It didn't knock me out, but it didn't
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knock me off balance. So I tangled up at the hall table, and
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that gave up plenty of time to scurry down the stairs while I got out
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of the furniture and back on my feet. By the time I got down
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the stairs and out on the street, she was nowhere in sight. No
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one yelled I'm shot. No one did anything but what they were already doing.
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A right, where were you just now? You weren't here at the
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front desk. He got back eating my dinner. White. Nothing you happen
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to see that woman who just ran through here. No tall, dark haired
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woman about thirty wore a mixed stole me. Yeah, oh your kidding in
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this Jake, He's still looking for Joe Penny. He lives here again,
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doesn't he? Yeah? Have you seen him? Where is he out?
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I sat down myself and waited. Half an hour later, when the clerk
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went back to finish his dinner, I stepped over to the desk and borrowed
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his pass key and went back up the stairs to room two ten. Wow,
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I didn't need the pass key, and I didn't need to doubt the
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clerk. Joe Penny wasn't there, but all of his things were. The
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curtains were drawn and the windows closed. Every drawer had been pulled out of
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every dresser. The mattress on the bed was slipped from top to bottom,
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and the rug had been ripped and turned over. Expense account item six one
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dollar, one drink for me. I left Joe Joe's room, went to
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the nearest bar, sat out and had a drink. A scared victim,
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a missing con, a dark haired woman wearing a mink and a gun,
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and other things. Right then and there, I decided that Mike Cann's tip
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had been pretty good at that. Now here's our star Bob Bailey to tell
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you about tomorrow's episode. Thanks Tomorrow, A slight case of mayhem when the
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right guy turns up in the wrong place, Johnnis, Won't you yours Truly?
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Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly? Johnny Duller is transcribed in Hollywood, written
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by John Dawson. The entire production is under the direction of Jack Johnstone.
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Be sure to join us tomorrow night, same time and station for the next
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exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Duller. Roy Rowan speaking, Well, we
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will see and follow up on the missing convict on Wednesday, so join us
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for the third part of that one. Definitely off to a really strong start.
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Well, we now do turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
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start off with Bill, who says Johnny Dowler is my favorite. Patrick commented,
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and with agreement from Bobby as well, John Allan grew on me.
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He was a very good Johnny Doller. Why did he leave the show at
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that time? What happened to his career after the show ended? Thanks Adam,
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Well, thanks Patrick, and this is probably something I should have addressed.
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A couple of Fridays ago, but better late than never. What happened
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to him after yours? Truly, Johnny Doller or I guess we'll start with
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why did he leave? With most of these radio programs, it's usually not
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the actor's decision. In this case, CBS at this point was kind of
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pulling back from its from its a lot of its crime drama programs, and
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the shows that had running in the nineteen fifty four season that was looking at
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were things like Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons and Mister and Missus North
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with a strong appeal to a female audience, so it was more of that.
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In terms of John Lunn's career, he continued to act for several years,
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he didn't for whatever reason he didn't. He never got into television acting,
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but he did continue to appear in movies, last one being in nineteen
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sixty two, and then he officially retired in nineteen sixty three to focus on
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running on running his local local businesses. Before he retired, he did a
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lot of radio as well, and for those of you have the premium side,
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we've played some episodes of suspense he did up into the late nineteen fifties,
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but in overall. He actually, even though his performance career was somewhat
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cut short. He basically retired at the age of fifty two. He had
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a pretty good life, married to the same woman for nearly fifty years.
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He lived at the rob old age of eighty one, and apparently enjoyed a
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success after Hollywood, though a pretty good outcome, particularly with the allinges of
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Hollywood and the era and even just the amount of smoking. He did very
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well to live that long and actually was the last Yours Truly Johnny Dollars star
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to pass away, nearly thirty years after the show went off the air.
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All right, well, that will do it for today. Join us tomorrow
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for the adventures of Frank Race, and then be sure and listen to Doors
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Truly John Johnny Doller on Wednesday, as the McCormick matter continues. Sand your
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