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today's episode, The Amy Bradshaw Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny
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Dollar Elson Teller Police Dquartered Johnny, Yeah, hear what happened at the Criterion
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theater after the show last night. I was off duty when you called,
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but Sergeant Rodgers gave me a fill in this morning. So somebody tried to
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drop a sandbag on Amy brad show Banks day. Yeah, a real near
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miss. You still think these attempts on our life for publicity stunts. It
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looks like your hunch was right. I'll have a couple of my boys keep
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an eye on Amy. Thanks, Johnny. You wanted to know the whereabouts
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this guy Bill York, the husband Amy separated from What have you got on
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him? Mal seven sixty eight West fourth Street down in Greenwich Village. Thanks,
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I'll check it tonight and every weekday Night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed
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Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous freelance insurance investigator
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as Turley Johnny Dollar New York City Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Doller
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to the home office Northwestern Indemniny Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
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an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Amy Bradshaw matter. Expense account
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out of eight two seventy five taxi from my hotel at Greenwich village to try
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and locate a writer named Bill York, who had separated from Amy six months
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ago. Amy was a good actress, but she couldn't hide the fact she
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was plenty scared by the attempts on her life in the last three days.
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My hunch was it was someone close to Amy, and Bill York was very
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much on my list. After all, he was the beneficiary on her life
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insurance policy. I hadn't been to this part of the village in two or
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three years, but from the looks of it, it hadn't changed. The
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bits defiantly shabby and run down. A few beards here and there, a
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few gals with long straight hair, bookstores and bars side by side. I
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checked at the address Ali Sintella had given me. It was a beat up
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old rooming house. You come down here to interview the famous writer something like
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that. Not exactly too bad here, I thought you wanted to carry my
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message to America. Now, I'm afraid that's a little out of my department,
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mister York. Amy did mention that you were a writer, and tell
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you exactly what she said. She said, you know, Bill's a writer
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a sort right well. As a matter of fact, Amy always feel it
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necessary to apologize for me. There was one thing about our marriage that was
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always so charming. Well, look, I didn't come here to discuss your
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marriage, York. I don't know what you's a bitter about. Its none
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of my business. But what do I have to be bitter about here?
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I am an artist living an unfettered life of freedom in Greenwich Village? What
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more could I ask? I guess I haven't read any of your books.
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Don't worry about it. You're in good company. You win the publishers.
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It's too bad, must make a little problem in the grocery department. Oh
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that doesn't worry me. You see, one can always manage to live comfortably
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in huck h and if one is willing to huck his soul, of course
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the returns are much greater. I don't get you. That's self surprising,
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because nobody else but me would call it my soul. It's just the manuscript
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for an unpublished novel, for years of work and sweat and pain. But
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my clever pawnbro mister Pomeroy has a fair idea what it means to me.
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Mike Pomeroy Amy's agent, Tommy cham quite trude. In other words, if
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you could raise some money, you could get this brainchild of yours out of
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hawk from him. Tell me how long has it been since you've seen Amy
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several months? Why you haven't been uptown near her apartment of the last few
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days? Huh? No? Are you sure? Of course? Anything else?
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No? Not for now. We will continue with the Bradshaw matter.
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In a moment, I was getting nowhere in my attempt to find out who
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was gunning for Amy Bradshawn, I know it. I called Mike Pomeroy,
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her agent, but he was out, so I took the next name on
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my list, the producer of Amy's play, Emery Taylor. Expense a count
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of nine one seventy five cab fair to Taylor's apartment of the mid fifties,
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near the Museum of Modern Art. Taylor wasn't in, but his wife,
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Dora was. She was sleet looking and a little on the brittle side.
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She was sitting behind a small bar on the den, and she looked quite
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at home there. Drink thanks, Would your husband be back soon? Missus?
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S Tailey? Who knows? Yeah? Oh, thank you? What
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do you want to see him? About Amy Bradshaw? What about Amy Bradshaw?
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I wanted to ask him if he knew of anyone who might want to
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harm Amy for any reason. Well, I could answer that better than Ema
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Ray. There is someone there, certainly is who me. Why would you
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like it if your husband was knocking himself out for your work for a younger
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woman? Well I wasn't that part of the business, is it? That's
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not all Amy's heard plenty of people getting where she is. Do you think
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your husband's one of them? I hope not. Who has she heard missus
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telling? Do you know Dave Coleman, her director? He has very much
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in love with Amy? A few months ago? Oh, I see,
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I don't like to see someone I like get the way he was one night
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here he had a couple too many said if he couldn't have her? Funny
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how quick he got over it, though, never says anything about it anymore.
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Huh, not a word? What about Portcane? Oh, you've met
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him? Is he one of them that Amy's hurt? No? No,
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he's not in that category. Whatever happened to hurt him must have happened about
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the age of five. What do you mean, Oh, isn't that when
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most of our trouble stuff? I wouldn't know. I once paid a psychiatrist
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five hundred dollars to tell me that's when mine started your troubles. Sure,
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can't you tell mister Dollard, I'm the mixed up type, aren't we all?
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Missus Stelling? I left her still sitting behind the bar, and somehow
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I felt sorry for her. But she had given a new lead, David
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Coleman, Amy's director, who had had it bad for him. He just
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a few months ago and had now completely recovered. Maybe I made a mental
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note to have a little chat with Coleman at night. Then I put in
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another call to Mike Pomeroy. This time he was in and I finally talked
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him into meeting me in a little bar on West forty fourth near the theater.
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But when I got there, I could see that he wasn't feeling very
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cooperative. Look, Dollar, I suggested once before, nice and polite,
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that maybe you should try minding your own business. I got the message,
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all right, Pomeroy, and now I've got one for you. I am
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minding my own business. This is what I was hired to do. The
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insurance company. I represent holes of pretty hefty life insurance policy on Amy and
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if she's in any danger. They want to know. But I told you
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before I think this whole thing is pretty silly. I had a talk with
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bill Yorke the right of this morning. Even though he and Amy are separated,
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you know, he's still the beneficiary on pomas soul. So he says
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he's in hock to you. He's a bum. He wasn't doing Amy any
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good. She was worrying about him when they split up. I told him
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as long as he stayed away from her, didn't write a see her,
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I'd keep him in groceries. I see. But naturally I wanted some security.
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The manuscript of his book, for instance, so great Unborn American Novel.
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And apparently that manuscript means a lot. That's why I figured it'd be
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good security. It's a mind of dollar. You look like you smelled something
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bad? Do I am? What? Am? I supposed to be a
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philanthropist? Let me make one thing, Claire Pomeroy. As far as the
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kind of loans you make, I agree with you. It's none of my
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business. But maybe I just got a sensitive nose. Yeah. Anyway,
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now I want my doll back. Is anything wrong with that thing? I've
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got a play land up. I know we'll go over big. I want
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to produce it. York's tab was run up to several thousand bucks. Now
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I could use the money, I see. The stupid part of the whole
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deal is that York could pay me back within a couple of months if he
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wanted to. Sure, it's a lot of dough floating around to be made
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in television these days, but that Prima Donna thinks he's way above that sort
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of thing. This play you want to produce Pomeroy? Will it star Amy?
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No? She lamented, Oh well, thanks for the information be seen,
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I doubted. On my way over to the Criterion Theater, I thought
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about Pomeroy a rugged customer, and I felt he was one more who wouldn't
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let anyone stand in the way of anything he wanted to do. After the
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show, I picked up Amy backstage and took her back to her apartment.
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She looked very tired and didn't say much. We said good night at the
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front entrance, and I started walking along the sidewalk. Then I spotted somebody
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in the shadows across the street. Again watching I could tell from miss hat
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and coat he was the same one who had been there the night before last.
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I kept on walking until I reached the corner, and then circled halfway
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around the block to an alley and edged up on him from behind. He
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didn't see me until I dove at him. Well, Bill York, what
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are you doing here? So? You haven't been there Amy for a long
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time? Huh? Except tonight and the night before last, watching her apartment.
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Come on, New York, start talking and it better be good,
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Johnny Deller alson Teller Police Headquarters. Johnny better get over here to my hotel
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Romel. I've got company. Who is it? Bill York, Amy Bradshaw's
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ex husband. Right? I caught him watching her apartment half an hour ago,
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and he's the one who was watching it the other night. This time
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I had better luck catching him. Has he opened up yet? No,
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but he will. Johnny, take it easy with him. I think he's
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got plenty to tell us. Looks like he's the boy we're after all.
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I'll be right over New York City. Expense accounts submitted by Special investigator Johnny
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Dollar did the home office Northwestern Indemnity Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The following
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is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Amy Branshaw matter. Amy
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star of a Broadway play, and somebody was out to get her expense account
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Item ten three dollars repairs to one coat sleeve torn in the process of inviting
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build York up to my hotel room. Look, dully a goodness right to
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drag me a pitio room this way, York. You're gonna sit right here
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until you open up and tell me all about the attempt on Amy Branshaw's life.
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You come in, Oh, well, Hi, Johnny York. This
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is Detective Lieutenant Elson Teller. Look, and what's this all about? Well,
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I kind of thought that's what you'd tell us, mister York. This
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is crazy. Why would I want to kill Amy? You're aware that you're
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still a beneficiary on Amy's insurance policy even if I show you need money,
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and you need it bad. You're several thousand bucks in debt to Mike Pomeroy,
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Amy's agent. He's been pressing you for it lately, and I know
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you can't get the manuscript of your novel Lot a Hawk from him until you
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pay off. You've got two strikes against your York motive and opportunity. Opportunity
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sure, but motive no dollar. I've never had any reason to kill Amy.
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It's truci and I couldn't make it together. But I guess that was
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more my fault than hers. Go on. You see, Amy's never let
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anything stand in the way of what she wanted. What she wanted I didn't.
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I guess we just lived in two different worlds. What do you mean.
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She's always been a success and I've always been a failure. You still
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haven't explained why you're lying to me, York. When I talked to you
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this morning, you told me you hadn't been near Amy for a long time.
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But when I caught up with you in front of her apartment tonight,
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I realized you were the same one who was watching a night before last.
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How about that, York, You fellows don't believe me much? What do
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you mean? Sure, once in a while I go stand outside her apartment
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house, look up at the light on the window, maybe think a little
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about how things might have been. That's all. Maybe you'd better come downtown
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of New York. We'll check your story further. If you're clean, you
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got nothing to worry about, all right, Lieutenant sorrygant take mister York down
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to the car and wait for me there, Johnny. Who else had he
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talked to everybody close to her, But the one who interested me most is
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a agent, Mike Pomeroy. He'd be a pretty rough customer when he wants
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to, and he thinks Samy's standing in the way of a career for an
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actress he's currently interested in. Let's talk about somebody else for a moment.
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Oh you, Johnny, I think you're getting a little bit out of love.
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What do you mean? Down at police headquarters, we got a little
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black book. It tells us what to do and what not to do.
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It doesn't say anything about insure its investigators dragging possible suspects to their hotel room
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to question them. Listen, now, when I'm assigned to a case,
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I usually try to break it anyway. I can't. I know. It's
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just that I think you're taking this case pretty big. Meaning yesterday I told
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you that if I didn't know you better, I'd think you were falling for
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Amy a little yourself. Think it over, Johnny. We will continue with
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the Bradshaw matter in a moment. Expense account at am eleven four dollars drinks
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for me. I thought about what else and tell it said the possibility I
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was falling for Amy. Bradshaw thought about it for two hours. Finally I
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decided I had to find out if he was right. I went over to
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Amy's apartment. It was good of you to come over, Johnny. This
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can't seem to sleep lately. Yeah, I noticed there's a policeman on duty
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down in the lobby. Well, tennants and teller arrange for then. It's
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funny. It should make me feel better, but it doesn't. Just keeps
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reminding me of it threat on my life. I'm glad you're here, Johnny.
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It's am awfully glad. Maybe I shouldn't say that, but do you
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hear any objections? Now? Who could excuse me? Yeah? Sure?
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Hello? Yes? Oh? Porter? What? No, I'm sorry?
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No, really, Porter's out of the question. No, good night Porter
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kaye huh. Yes. I suppose he means well, but he can be
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rather annoying. Do you have a cigarette? Johnny? Thanks? You seemed
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rather quiet tonight. Oh, just thinking. I guess, Funny, I'm
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meeting like this. Yeah, just a few days ago, I didn't know
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you at all. Now I know what I don't know, Johnny. I
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don't know Amy. It's a mistake. Johnny, I'm sorry, wasn't it?
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Yes, Johnny, I'm afraid I've heard a couple of people in the
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past. I don't want to hurt. You, don't worry, you want
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And that's the wonderful thing about being an actress. You play so many parts.
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The kiss I was playing a part. Huh. Even if it weren't,
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Johnny, be no good, it would always be something between us.
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It's right over there in the mantle the clock. Yes, we can't turn
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it back. If i'd met you a long time ago before, Mike,
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or but I didn't. No, so is the clock so bad? Amy?
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It is? To an actress sometimes I pretend it isn't there. You
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ever do that, Jenneral It doesn't do any good. But you can try.
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You can live a whole life trying. Isn't that really what we all
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do? I don't know. We go along, playing our parts, doing
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what we have to do, pretending the clock isn't there all the while it
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is, And though we keep on fighting against it, we know we can't
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turn it back. We can't even stop it. One thing I'd accomplished,
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I guess I decided I wouldn't be seeing Amy anymore after this case was wound
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up. Winding it up, though, was another question, and I was
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still as far from home as ever on it. But I couldn't seem to
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get port of Kine and his quaint little hobby of collecting things out of my
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mind. Well, good evening, mister Dollar. Almost Kane, come in,
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come in. Thanks. I know it's late. I'm sorry, not
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at all. As a matter of fact, I was hoping i'd see you
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again. I don't want to keep you. I see your hat and cold.
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Now I'm not going out. I have just commit. Oh you said
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you were hoping you'd see me again. Yes, I enjoyed our other little
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chat very much. I suppose you came to talk some more about Amy Bradshaw.
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A matter of fact, mister Kane, I came to talk about you,
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splendid about your hobby, collecting a fascinating hobby, mister Dollar. You
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take it pretty seriously, don't you. I've devoted most of my life to
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it, and I may say that I've succeeded rather brilliantly with it. Each
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item in my collection is in comparable, without equal. Yeah, one of
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a kind, And that, of course is precisely why Amy is necessary to
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complete the collection, the crowning and final addition final. Yes, for your
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information, mister Dollar. When I've acquired Amy, I intend to cease my
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hobby. She will complete my collection without her, though it is still incomplete
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mine. If I ask you a couple of questions, mister Kane, not
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at all. You seem to have been pretty successful with your collection. Have
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you ever run up against an item you wanted but couldn't get? Of course,
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not that just doesn't happen. Has it ever happened? I can't remember
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that. Yes, as it did happen one when I was nine years old,
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playmate of mine at a lollipop that I admired greatly. He wouldn't give
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it to me, and he wouldn't sell it to me. What did you
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do? I did the only logical thing there was to do. I smashed
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the lollipop, mister Dollar. Johnny Dollar will be back in a moment to
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Amy Bradshaw Matter. Tomorrow, Well, it's the wind up and a pretty
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Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written by
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Yours Truly. Johnny Deller, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, there's
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probably a big leap from smashing a lollipop when you're nine years old, or
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threatening you want to threatening a woman who refuses your advances is what we assume
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to be middle aged adult. I know it's not Vincent Price, but the
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guy who does the voice of this King character has a sort of Vincent Price
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field though. I think in some ways it's kind of allusion to Charles Foster
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King, who of course collected many many things, as could be seen in
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the movie Citizen Kane and hurry up and get your giant animals. I'll be
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happy when that promotion's over all. Right, Well, now we turn to
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listener comments and feedback, and we have this comment from John regarding the Local
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Diamond Matter. I was little put off by the supposed Dutch diamond dealer who
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kept using German words in a mock German accent. The writer's research didn't provide
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him with any Dutch verse to use things for things like no goodbye or other
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simple terms. Well, thanks so much for the comment. John. Now,
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I've been a couple of weeks since I listened to this serial, but
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as I recall it, the firm, the local diamond firm, was Dutch.
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But use jogging my memory and using John Abbott's book The Who Is Johnny
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Dowler Matter as a kind of guide to that, I don't believe that the
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agent of the local diamond company said he was Dutch, only that the local
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diamond company was a Dutch firm and he was named Zindorf Jan Zindorf. Now,
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it's best I can tell. I've done some research and Zindorff appears to
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be an Austrian name, and Jan could be any number of countries as a
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male name. So it seems to me like while it's a Dutch company,
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that Zindorf was a national of another country, probably Austria, working for the
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Lorco Diamond company, or they just totally messed up on the research one or
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the other, but I'll kind of lean towards the other. I think that
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particularly for whatever reason around that time Hollywood, I had a lot of folks
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who could do really good German and Austrian accents, perhaps because of the war,
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and those accents tend to be a little more recognizable. So that's my
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hunch. There may be an expert out there who thinks I'm totally wrong,
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and if so, I'd like to know it. Email me at Box thirteen
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