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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Killer’s List Matter (EP1621) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. The original air date March the thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight, and the title is The Killer's List
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  Speaker 1: Matter from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: It's time now for Johnny Dollar Hat Cummings in a
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  Speaker 2: Allied Life. All right, Pad, what's new with you Johnny
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  Speaker 2: have here of Everett Benton. No, I'm afraid not investment firm.
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  Speaker 3: Done in New York real estate.
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  Speaker 2: Oil mining, this and that. What about it? We're carrying
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars light policy on him.
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  Speaker 4: So the last night he fell out of a fourteen
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  Speaker 4: story window.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's too bad. Accident. PATA was at suicide Maybe neither.
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  Speaker 2: I think he got pushed. I'll be right over Bob
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  Speaker 2: Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of a Man with the
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  Speaker 2: Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator as
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  Speaker 2: true Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar to the Inner Allied Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 2: following as the account of expenses incurred during my investigation
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  Speaker 2: of the Killer's list matter expenser con I'd have won
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  Speaker 2: a dollar twenty for a taxi from my apartment to
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  Speaker 2: the offices of Inter Allied. Pat Cummings look worried and
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  Speaker 2: got straight to the point. I don't know, Johnny.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Benton wasn't pushed out at window. But there's something
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  Speaker 3: about this dealer just doesn't smell right to me.
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  Speaker 2: What can you tell me about this van Benton.
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  Speaker 3: Everett Benton, forty five years old, doing very well in
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  Speaker 3: business as far as we know. Last night about ten
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  Speaker 3: o'clock he fell or jumped or was pushed out of
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  Speaker 3: his office window.
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  Speaker 2: This policy on him. Who's the beneficiary?
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  Speaker 3: His wife, Claire?
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  Speaker 2: What's she like about?
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  Speaker 4: Twelve years younger redhead?
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  Speaker 2: I see?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I think I better have a talk with missus Benton.
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  Speaker 2: I had him two fourteen dollars forty cents transportation and
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  Speaker 2: incidentals to New York City. The Benton's apartment was on
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  Speaker 2: East sixty seventh, very fashioned, more very expensive, and Claire
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  Speaker 2: Benton looked right at home in her surroundings.
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  Speaker 5: Do you mind if I excess a drink, mister.
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  Speaker 4: Dallas, Not at all.
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  Speaker 5: Missus Benton pretty wearing day.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine it has.
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  Speaker 5: Police questions reporters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry to be throwing more questions at you at
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  Speaker 2: a time like this.
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  Speaker 5: I'm used to it by. Now, here's your drink?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks? Cheers, yeah, cheers. You know you certainly seem to
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  Speaker 2: be bearing up very well.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I suppose so, mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 6: I think it would save time and embarrassment if we
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  Speaker 6: had a few things understood such as you've heard of.
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  Speaker 5: The ideal marriage. Well, Everett's and mine was not it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh naturally, I'm very sorry he did what he did,
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  Speaker 6: but well, we weren't exactly happy together.
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  Speaker 2: I take it you think he committed suicide, Missus Benton.
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  Speaker 5: Is there any doubt about that?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently not in your mind, none at all. If it
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  Speaker 2: was suicide, why did he do it?
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't know. Everett hadn't confided in me for some time.
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  Speaker 5: We haven't been very close recently.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Missus Benton, just supposed it wasn't suicide.
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  Speaker 5: Everett had no enemies that I knew of.
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  Speaker 2: I see about the insurance policy.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, about the insurance policy, mister dollar, one hundred thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 6: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: That's right when you get ready to file a claim.
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  Speaker 6: I'm into in the morning, I see. Oh and one
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  Speaker 6: other thing. It just so happens that I have an
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  Speaker 6: alibi for last evening. Oh and it's the nicest kind
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  Speaker 6: of alibi there is, mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: It's air tight?
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  Speaker 2: And that was Claire Bent, very calm and collected, and
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  Speaker 2: incidentally anxious to collect. I thought her over all the
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  Speaker 2: way to the Office of detective Lieutenant Tovitch a homicide.
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  Speaker 2: That's item three a dollar sixty care fair.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I talked to her, Johnny. She's a hard one
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  Speaker 4: to figure out.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think Tovich? Did he jump or get pushed?
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  Speaker 4: You get any ideas?
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  Speaker 2: How about financial troubles? He was in the investment business.
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  Speaker 2: Have you looked into that?
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  Speaker 4: According to his lawyer, his affairs are in good shape. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: he'd made his share of poor investments over the years,
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  Speaker 4: wild cat oil leases, stuff like that, But in general
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  Speaker 4: he was doing okay, he was worth a lot of dough, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's assume he was pushed out that window. What
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  Speaker 2: was he doing in his office at ten pm?
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  Speaker 4: I woundered about that too.
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  Speaker 2: Any indication anybody was with him?
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  Speaker 4: No, night watchman was in another part of the building
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  Speaker 4: when Benton came in let himself in with his own key.
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  Speaker 4: It could have been somebody else with him, all right,
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  Speaker 4: But who?
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  Speaker 2: Claire Venton says she has an alibi?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know who. I care for it much,
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  Speaker 4: but I haven't been able to break it down.
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  Speaker 2: Who is her alibi? Larry Santis Sandys runs a supper
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  Speaker 2: club over in these fifties. Yeah, the ace of clubs.
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  Speaker 2: He called Larry Sandys. Thanks Tovich. So I went calling again,
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  Speaker 2: But this time it was different from my visit to
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  Speaker 2: Claire Benton. In the first place, Satis didn't offer me
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  Speaker 2: a drink, and in the second place, he wasn't very friendly.
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  Speaker 7: Oh look, doll, I already told the cops that Claire
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  Speaker 7: was here in the club last evening, all evening until midnight,
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  Speaker 7: out in the bar most of the time.
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  Speaker 4: What difference does it make.
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  Speaker 7: How about the rest of the time we were talking
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  Speaker 7: here in my office.
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  Speaker 2: Just the tools, just the tool of us. Now, look, Dalla,
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  Speaker 2: what it boils down to is you've each got alibis
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  Speaker 2: for one another. Huh that's right.
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  Speaker 4: I look, nosey boy, Claire didn't kill Benton.
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  Speaker 2: At the moment, I wasn't thinking so much about her.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, if you're trying to pin this on me,
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  Speaker 2: you and Claire have been pretty friendly, Santas she benefits
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  Speaker 2: to the tune of one hundred grand by Benton's death.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Dalla, dell a, you blowing smoke in the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 4: I like the arrangement the way it was.
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  Speaker 2: Why should I try to change it? Well, that's a
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  Speaker 2: good question. So just let it drop. You getting me,
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  Speaker 2: You've got nothing to worry about, Santas, if you've got
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  Speaker 2: nothing to hide.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want this kind of publicity.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad for my business.
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  Speaker 4: You know what's wrong with you, Dolly.
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  Speaker 2: You got those trouble occupational disease. You better just get
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  Speaker 2: over it.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes it turns out to be fatal.
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  Speaker 2: Act too, if yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment,
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  Speaker 2: and now act too, if yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and
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  Speaker 2: the killer's list matters. Looks like you didn't get any
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  Speaker 2: further with Larry Satis than I did, Johnny Looktovich. Both
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  Speaker 2: Satis and Claire Benton had a motive for killing her husband.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, two motives, money and getting Benton out
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  Speaker 2: of their way.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny, I'm with you. We're not even sure yet it
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  Speaker 4: was murder. We do have something that indicates somebody might
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  Speaker 4: have been in Benton's office with him, though, Yeah, what
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  Speaker 4: is it? If I had a cigarette but one of
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  Speaker 4: the ash trays different brand than benton smoke, could it
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  Speaker 4: have been left there during the day janitor's as he
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  Speaker 4: cleans out the ash trays about seven in the evening.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, he could have overlooked one. So I don't
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  Speaker 4: know whether it means any or not. Excuse me, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: homicide Toovich? Oh where, okay, I'll be right over, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like we've done ourselves a little epidemic.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: Have you hear of a guy named Arthur Mayfield? Promoter?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 2: What about?
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  Speaker 4: He just found him in an alley dead.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, don't tell me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, fell out of a tenth floor hotel room.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Telvich and I went over to the West Side
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  Speaker 2: hotel where Mayfield's body had been discovered. There was nothing
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  Speaker 2: in this room to indicate anyone had been there with him.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there was nothing Curian. I
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  Speaker 2: had him for a dollar? Ready, care fora to Claire
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  Speaker 2: Breton's apartment to dollar.
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  Speaker 6: I really don't see the point of this. I told
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  Speaker 6: you twice that I did not know this Arthur Mayfield.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever hear your husband mention his name?
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  Speaker 5: I've never heard the name until.
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  Speaker 2: Now from you, missus Benton. Mind telling me where you
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  Speaker 2: were last night around midnight?
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  Speaker 5: I take it that's when Mayfield died.
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  Speaker 2: Approximately, I suppose you have an alibi.
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  Speaker 5: You suppose correctly, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know something I wouldn't be at all surprised if you
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  Speaker 2: were about to tell me you were with Larry Santis again.
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  Speaker 5: You know somethings, Todell, That's exactly where I was last night.
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  Speaker 2: I know Toovich. I know it could be just a coincidence.
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  Speaker 2: The two guys fall or jump or get shoved out
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  Speaker 2: of windows within twenty four hours. But I got a
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  Speaker 2: hunch of some kind of connection between them.
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  Speaker 4: Could be Johnny, But so far we haven't been able
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  Speaker 4: to find.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how about their past the armed forces?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I've already checked that out.
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  Speaker 2: The answer is note, could they have been involved in
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  Speaker 2: any sort of business deal?
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  Speaker 4: I asked Benton's attorney about that. He's checking through all
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  Speaker 4: of his papers. He's promised to call me.
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  Speaker 2: And you haven't been able to find any organization they
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  Speaker 2: both belong to. Any situation in which they could have
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  Speaker 2: been thrown together.
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  Speaker 4: Not so far. Unless they serve on a jury together
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  Speaker 4: or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, don't laugh. That could be it, and they might
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  Speaker 2: have convicted somebody who took this way of getting revenge.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, check it out in courty if we find a connection,
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  Speaker 4: But don't count on it, Johnny, don't count on anything.
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  Speaker 2: I went back to my hotel room and stretched out
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  Speaker 2: on the bed while I rehashed a whole deal. In
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  Speaker 2: my mind, I thought about Claire Benton and Larry Satis.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't trust either of them, but as Tovich had
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  Speaker 2: pointed out, it was another thing to prove it. Okay, okay, coming, yeah, mister,
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  Speaker 2: that's right.
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  Speaker 9: You're investigating the murders of Benjamin Mayfield.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think they've been officially described as murders,
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  Speaker 2: but they are, mister Dollar, I'm certain of it. Who
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  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 9: My name is Alvin Whiting, and I have some information
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  Speaker 9: that may be of value to you. May I come in,
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  Speaker 9: Come in, Come on, thank you. If you don't mind,
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  Speaker 9: I'd like to look out the window a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You're being followed. I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 2: What is this information you have, mister Whiting?
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  Speaker 9: A couple of years ago, three men got together and
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  Speaker 9: bought an oil lease a man named Tom Nolan.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever hear of it?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 9: He was a very eccentric man, hot tempered, violent. He
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  Speaker 9: needed the money badly, so he sold the lease, which
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  Speaker 9: then was a little better than worthless. Benton and Mayfield
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  Speaker 9: were in that deal together.
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  Speaker 2: I see, but I still don't understand what that has
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  Speaker 2: to do with their murders.
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  Speaker 9: I'm convinced they're killers. Tom Nolan getting revenge on them
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  Speaker 9: in his own warped.
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  Speaker 2: Way, revenge for buying a worthless oil ease from him.
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  Speaker 9: Last week, oil was discovered on that property, a lot
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  Speaker 9: of it. The property is now worth millions.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 9: I think that Nolan, with his twisted way of looking
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  Speaker 9: at things, probably feels that he was cheated out of
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  Speaker 9: that property.
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  Speaker 2: You're suggesting that this Nolan isn't quite all there.
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  Speaker 9: Huh, exactly, That's exactly what I mean. What's your connection
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  Speaker 9: with all this, mister Whiting. I'll tell you what my
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  Speaker 9: connection is, mister Dollar. I was in on the deal
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  Speaker 9: with Benton and Mayfield. I was the third man.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 9: So you see, if my suspicions are correct, if Nolan
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  Speaker 9: is the killer, then I'm the next man on his list.
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  Speaker 2: Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment
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  Speaker 2: and now Act three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar and
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  Speaker 2: the killer's list matter. I took Alvin Whiting down to
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Tevich's office and he told his story again. I
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  Speaker 2: could see that Telvitch felt the same way I did that.
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  Speaker 2: At last, we were getting someplace.
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  Speaker 4: Matter of fact, Johnny, I was about to call you.
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  Speaker 4: Benton's lawyer just turned up the lease agreement linking Benton
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  Speaker 4: Mayfield and mister Whiting. Here.
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  Speaker 2: Question is, where's Tom Nolan.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think I'll draw an easy breath until he's
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  Speaker 9: been found and arrested.
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  Speaker 4: We have a bullet out on him, mister Whiting. One
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  Speaker 4: thing we found out about a year ago he served
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  Speaker 4: time for assault and battery. Oh, mister Whiting, I suggest
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  Speaker 4: you take every precaution until we pick up Nolan.
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  Speaker 9: Don't worry, Lieutenant. I propose to remain in my apartment
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  Speaker 9: until you apprehend him.
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  Speaker 4: I'll post a man in the building to look after you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a Sidetovich. Oh what's the address? M all right,
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  Speaker 4: thank you. We've located the little hotel where Nolan's been staying.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Johnny, that's mister Nolan's room at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the hall.
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  Speaker 2: They'll tell him.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, quick, is I ian? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I really haven't seen him since he rented the room
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  Speaker 2: from me. How long ago was that? About a week ago,
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  Speaker 2: mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 4: If he's gone out since then, it must have been
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  Speaker 4: at night when I was off duty. Here we are,
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  Speaker 4: try your pass key quietly right?
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  Speaker 2: Well gone bagging baggage.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, room's been used recently though, Hey cigarette, But same
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  Speaker 4: brand we found in Benton's office. Doesn't prove anything, but
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  Speaker 4: it might tie in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tom Nolan could be our boy. But where is he?
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  Speaker 2: You say he rented the room from you, clerk.
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  Speaker 4: What do he look like?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Middle aged, as I remember, bushy hair, sort of a
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  Speaker 4: wild look to him fits the general description Alvin Whiting
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  Speaker 4: furnished us and the mugshot I pulled out of the files. Well,
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  Speaker 4: all we can do now is rig a steak out
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  Speaker 4: for him here and then wait.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Tovitch posted a couple of men in Nolan's rum
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  Speaker 2: and we went back to headquarters while he was getting
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  Speaker 2: out another pullet, and I went through Nolan's record assaultant battery,
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  Speaker 2: resisting arrest. There was no doubt he was a violent
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  Speaker 2: sort of guy, and with the indication wedding had given
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  Speaker 2: us that Nolan was a little unbalanced, the weird revenge
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  Speaker 2: motive might fit. Then something in the records caught my eye.
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  Speaker 2: I went back to the office of Larry Santus at
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  Speaker 2: the supper clevel.
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  Speaker 4: Oh look, doll, I told you the last time you
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  Speaker 4: were here.
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  Speaker 2: And I got a few things to tell you, Santus.
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  Speaker 2: The two murder victims, Mayfield and Benton, went in on
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  Speaker 2: a business here with a man named Alvin Whiting. All right,
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  Speaker 2: so I bought an oil least from Tom Nolan all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden last week that at least got real valuable.
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  Speaker 2: Alvin Whiting figures that Nolan's the killer. He says he's
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  Speaker 2: not all there, and he was trying to get his
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  Speaker 2: own strange kind of revenge.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Dolla, what's all this got to do with me?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want you to tell me.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I don't know anything about any of them.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, Nolan was arrested for a Sulthern battery. According
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  Speaker 2: to the police records, the man who put up bail
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  Speaker 2: for him was.
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  Speaker 7: You okay, okay, So I put up bail for him. Look,
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  Speaker 7: Tom Nolan's my uncle, Dalla. Sure he's offbeat, but he's armless.
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  Speaker 2: A Sultan battery, harmless, soule.
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  Speaker 4: He beat up a guy, that doesn't mean he kill anybody.
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  Speaker 2: How did he get mixed up with Benton, Mayfield and Whiting?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he.
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  Speaker 7: Was bro I asked Benton's wife to get her husband
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  Speaker 7: and the others interested in buying Time's least to get
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  Speaker 7: him some dough.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know the least.
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  Speaker 7: It turned out to be valuable to Nolan got out
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  Speaker 7: of Jailly.
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  Speaker 2: Left, Tom moved to Coopersville.
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  Speaker 4: It's upstate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's had a room right here in the
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  Speaker 2: city for the last week.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know that. Believe me, I didn't look. I
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: haven't heard from him for six months. That's the truth. Dollar,
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: I've told you all I know.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I still didn't trust Satus, but decided to follow up
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the lead he'd given me about Coopersville. Maybe Tom Nolan
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: had gone back there. I called Tovich to tell him,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: and he had a nasty little surprise for me. Alvin
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Whiting had disappeared from his apartment. I didn't know whether
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Tom Nolan had gotten to Whiting or not, but I
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: didn't know. I had to find Nolan in a hurry.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: My high tailored to Coopersville. Was a small town with
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: half a dozen hotels and rooming houses. I mean the
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: rounds flashing Nolan's picture. Finally I struck.
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  Speaker 8: Peter Well, Yes, I recognized that picture. That's Tom all right,
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: but he told me his last name was Niles.
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  Speaker 2: You say he roomed here, missus Carr, Yes.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: Kept himself mostly, but he didn't make no trouble for
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: anybody as far as I could see. We didn't hear
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: about six months ago. How the end of September. It
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: was then last week he left us.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Sure he probably found out they'd struck oil and moved
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: into the city.
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: You don't understand, mister Dawler. When I say he left us,
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: I mean that last week Tom Niles died.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: And there I was, But all of a sudden the
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: deal started adding up in my mind. It was after
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: dark when I got to the graveyard and my flashlight
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: picked out the simple headstone Tom Niles. Yeah, Tom Nolan,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: resting in peace, right where he'd been all through the
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: murders he was supposed to have committed. The shot knocked
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: the flashlight out of my hand. I hit the dirt,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: but the flash had pegged the gun for me. Well, well,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Alvin Whiteing, oh my god, Oh don't worry. I'll get
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: you at doctor Whiting. I want you to be in
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: good shape to stand trial. How'd you work hire some
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: drifter to rent that room back in New York under
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Nolan's name, some character you picked up in the park.
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: You've got You've got to understand that I had to
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: have the money I was in that I was.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: You almost got the money too, didn't you. Yeah, it
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: almost worked. You rigged the story that Nolan was the killer,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: that you were on his list of victims. That way
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: you end up in sole possession of the oilies. If
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I'd only know he was. Yeah, never try to frame
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: a guy who's already dead. Expense account total ony six
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: dollars fifty cents remarks. I turned Whiting over to the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: police and he made a full statement. Yeah, his motive
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: was money. He was in the hole gambling, debts and bills.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: High cost of living, you might say, but I guess
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: he knows now it's still a real bargain compared to
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the high cost of dying. Yours Truly, Johnny Doll, our
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: star will return in just a moment. Now here is
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Dame Nature takes a hand and helps me solve a crime.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Today's story was written
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: by Robert Wright. Oarcast were Virginia, Greg Lillian Bayer, Jack Edwards,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Jack Moyles, Tony Barrett, Harley Bear, and Carlton G. Young.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Be sure to join us next week, same time and
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  Speaker 2: station for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: This is Dan Cumberly speaking.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: This is Andrew J.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Man and his Wife. You're listening to the great detectives
• 22:17
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• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: This plot is a very strong mystery plot, very different
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: than a lot of the Johnny dollars we've gotten from
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: this era. In fact, it calls to mind some of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar from the late
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: O'Brien and early John Lund era, where there would be
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: this story where Johnny would start out on one path
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to solve the case and really really hit the suspects hard,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: thinking that he was on the right trail, only to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: turn out that he that there was something totally unrelated
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: going on. It's a good twist since we haven't had
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: it in a while. During the O'Brien and Lunn era,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: it seemed like that happened every week, so it got
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: kind of repetitive. But here it works great. Well, now
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: we do turn to listener comments and feedback and mighty
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: hokey tweets in Adam, Why were fifties radio shows so
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: hesitant to say Soviets instead of you know, who were
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: they fighting Voldemort? Well that's a good question. Well, as
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: far as I know, they weren't fighting Voldemort. The best
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: explanation I can come up with, and there may be
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: others out there who know more about this is differing views,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and I should say it is differing views on how
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to deal with programs that may speak to international lifetions.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: You know, if there is a situation where the United
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: States and the Soviet Union are intense situations, do you
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: really want to run a bunch of programs that could
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: make people even more suspicious of the Soviets than they
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: actually are. Could that have some sort of destabilizing effect?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Certainly this was not a universal rule. I mean, I
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: was a Communist for the FBI was made no bones
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: about the fact that, yes, we're talking about the Soviets okay,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: But obviously standards varied from program to program, and there
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: were certainly activists even in that time who didn't like
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a hostile posture towards the Soviets, And so I would
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: my best guess from the information I have and what
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I've read, is that that's the reason. If there's any
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: other interesting knucket, I would sure like to hear it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Other more listener comment this one from over on Facebook
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  Speaker 1: of Johnny Dowler, Michelle Wright's best series ever. Keep up
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the great work only way I make it through my workday. Well,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: thanks so much for the comment, Michelle, it's truly appreciating.
• 25:13
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• 25:36
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