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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lansing Fraud Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0976) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  on with Part three and Part four of the Lansing fraud matter from Hollywood.
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  It's time now for Johnny Doller. Missus Armen Kennedy, you called my home
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  at the Dollar Oh yes, Missus Kennedy. I'm with Universal Adjustment Bureau.
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  We're investigating the matter of James Lansing's death. You're what, We're investigating your
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  brother's death before we take action on your claim as as beneficiary. Under the
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  circumstances, we have to do this, Missus Kennedy, I'd like to talk
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  to you about it if I may. How would you like to talk to
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  my lawyer, Missus Dollar, Sure, if you think it's necessary, I'd
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  rather talk to you first. Why, Well, frankly, the insurance company
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  isn't satisfied that this is a legitimate claim. You mean you're not satisfied?
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  All right, then I'm not satisfied and I represent the company in this matter.
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  Look, we won't get anywhere this way, Missus Kennedy, if you
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  just tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures The Man
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  with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Freelance insurance Investigator as truly Johnny Dollar.
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  Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Tucson, Arizona,
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  to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
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  an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the lansing fraud fifty thousand dollars worth
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  expense account continued Item six ten dollars. Car rettle to get to Catalina Vista,
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  where Arlene Kennedy maintains a fifty five thousand dollars home. It was a
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  warm, sunny day, incredibly clear. I enjoyed it, and I drive.
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  However, I can't say I enjoyed Arlene Kennedy. That's as far as
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  you need to come. You must be the mister dollar I spoke to on
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  the phone. You didn't get the idea on the phone. I'll tell it
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  to you again. I don't want to talk to you now. Please get
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  away from my home. We'll have to talk sometime. I don't think so.
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  I know so, Missus Kennedy, I must ask you to take your
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  briefcase and get out of him. Mister Dollar. Now, I'm sorry you
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  feel that way. Look, my brother Jim drank himself to death. I
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  don't know why. I just know he did it. He's dead. I'm
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  his beneficiary. Why don't you pay me what you own me? We will,
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  Missus Kennedy, if the circumstances are right. So far, though,
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  we have reasonable doubts and this investigation is for your benefit as much as it
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  is ours. I can hardly believe that when we've satisfied ourselves one way or
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  the other, your claim will be settled. The whole situation's cut and dry.
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  I'm afraid it isn't. It's a dollar. I've had enough of this.
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  I'll turn the matter over to my attorneys. Missus Kennedy. I don't
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  carry this briefcase to impress anybody, but I thought it might interest you.
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  I haven't had a copy of the physical examination your brother took two years ago
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  when he applied for his insurance policy. I have a copy of the coroners
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  the report, and the results of the autopsy. I don't care what you
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  have. Then maybe you'd just be interested in the conclusion. We have to
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  discredit one item or the other. That's why we can't take any action on
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  your claim yet. Goodbye. Wait, what is good you want to know?
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  I haven't seen my brother in well over two years, three years.
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  I can't tell you a thing about him. Were you on good terms with
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  him? Of course I was. I was the only one he had in
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  the world. He left me his insurance money, didn't he Did he leave
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  you anything else? He didn't have anything else. I understand there was a
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  trust in the family he spent is a long time ago. I understand you're
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  a widow, Missus Kennedy. I don't see what bearing that you have any
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  dependence, no children, that's what you mean. The money from the policy
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  would have gone to you alone. Let me correct you. The money will
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  come to me alone. I don't know what you people think you can do
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  trying to weeezle out of this payment. But I've already spoken with my attorneys
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  and they've advised me to sue for an immediate settlement and damages. Perhaps I
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  can save you some fees and your attorney some time. Missus Kennedy, Where
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  can I contact them? Never mind, you'll find out soon enough. I
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  hope you won't allow them to go so far as a courtroom without speaking to
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  me. We'll see about that too. I don't need your advice. Oh
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  look, I'm going to tell you exactly what I'd tell them. You can
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  pass it on to them. Your brother could have died quietly in his bed
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  one night, and any doctor would have pronounced him a heart failure, and
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  your claim would have been honored without delay. But James Lansing made the mistake
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  of dropping dead on a public street, and the police took over and before
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  he was properly identified and autopsy had been performed. And I intend to sue
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  the city for that kind of liberty. They had no right there. They
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  had every right an unknown man dead on the street from unknown causes. And
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  I don't be childish. Was of that a tupsy? We know your brother
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  couldn't possibly have passed an insurance examination two years ago or ten years ago,
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  not with the amount of bad health heath collected. But he did pass it.
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  The insurance company accepted him as a client. They issued a policy,
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  and you can't deny it. Jim came to me the day after he took
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  out that policy and told me I was his nifisy. You said you hadn't
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  seen him for well over two years. He took the exam a year ago,
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  last July. All right, I saw him at one time. Look
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  only it right on the line, Missus Kennedy. We don't think your brother
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  ever took that physical examination. What someone else went up to doctor Mayhood's office
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  and took it for him, someone who could pass it. Missus Kennedy,
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  We aren't fools, and we don't like to be fooled, and we're going
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  to find out who that someone was and how it was done. We're used
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  to all sorts of tricks in this business, and all sorts of bluffing tool.
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  You can sue us for a settlement. You can sue us all over
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  the place with what I have right now. I'd be willing to meet you
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  in a courtroom. I'm talking facts to you, missus Kennedy, and I
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  wish you'd talk him to me. Get out of here. Get out of
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  here, you cheap snooper. Before I called the police and have you thrown
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  out some more expenses. I had them seven six dollars a lunch, but
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  Jim Cutter myself repassed the kream Giant. Thanks. Well, what do you
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  think, Jim? This is Kennedy. Yeah, it's hard to say.
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  She's gonna make it as tough as she can for us, judging from her
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  attitude towards you this morning. How does the Commission feel? Well, I
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  feel very badly that something like this come up. They requested us to act
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  with discretion and to act swiftly. They're certainly the entire matter can be settled
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  without legal action. Are they going to cooperate? Aren't going to do anything
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  until we show cause? They did mention that their action will take place in
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  ten days, So that means we've got ten days to write such a statement.
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  Tell me what you've learned about missus Kennedy. Well, she was a
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  widow five years ago. Or husband was a lawyer. He left her forty
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  thousand insurance of fifteen thousand debts her family, the lancing has had money at
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  one time. And also that she gets one half of one to the one
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  percent of an oil company out on the coast. It phays her about seven
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  fifty. She managed to clear her house out in Catalina Vista and drive a
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  Cadillac. But she could use fifty thousand dollars. Of course, she could
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  use fifty thousand dollars. Everybody could, Johnny, what are you going to
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  start on the insurance agent, Hillary Franks? I've already started. If I
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  know my Missus Kennedy, she won't call it a lawyer or anybody else.
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  Right now. She'll talk to her agent, mister H. Franks, and
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  he'll have to come to what. I don't have to go to him,
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  Johnny, When you buy a radio and it goes bad, you called up
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  the store. They didn't manufacture the set, but you complain to them.
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  Just the same same thing with insurance. You don't call up the company.
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  You caught up the agent who sold it to you. Hillary Frank has to
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  call me Jim, just to look legitimate. I hope you're right, kiddo.
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  After lunch, I went back to my hotel room and open up the
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  file Jim Carter had collected on Hillary Franks. Hillary Franks stage fifty six,
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  college graduate, married, two children, wife, deceased, income good.
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  No record of any kind for any offense had he thought up by Worldwide Insurance
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  officials. The seventeen years with the company started god, he started as an
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  agent when he was thirty nine. This is Henry Frank's, mister duller.
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  Yes, sir, I understand your account. A little investigation for the home
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  office. I wonder if we could have dinner. As a matter of fact,
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  I was going to call you, mister Franks. The policy I'm working
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  on was written by you. Yes, I understand that. Missus Kennedy,
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  the beneficiary called me today seemed very upset. I thought perhaps we could discuss
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  it over dinner. Anything wrong with right now at your office. What kind
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  of thing. I suppose you're a mister Dollar. Yes, Maria, that's
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  my sacred to miss over to Dawn for the day. Sorry you had to
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  wait so long. Mister Hillary Franks looked straight Life Insurance from the top of
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  his iron gray hair at the tips of his polish brown shoes. He had
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  a quiet manner about him and a pair of large brown eyes that look wide
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  open and honest. Come in, give me in, mister Dollers. Thank
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  you very much for coming over. I was surprised when missus Kennedy called me
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  about this and matter today, surprised to learn that you were in town.
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  Where are you? She said, you'd been over to her home this morning?
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  That's right, Well, just what is this all about? We have
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  reason to believe missus Kennedy is a party to an attempted fraud. Mister Franks,
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  I gathered it was something like that. I've been writing policies for Worldwide
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  Insurance for seventeen years, mister Dollar, and this is the first time anything
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  like this has ever happened on one of them. I believe you're mister Franks
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  and your record, but there's a first time for everything. Yes, I'm
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  here to find out all I can about the circumstances under which you sold the
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  policy to Missus Kennedy's brother. Nothing unusual about it, mister Della. I
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  think there was. James Lansing was a bachelor. He lived in a fairly
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  nice apartment on the other side of town. No dependence. And what made
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  James Lansing a prospect for life insurance, mister Franks, Well, it's more
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  of a personal thing, really. I suppose my wife and I were interested
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  in buying a home a couple of years ago. There was one we liked
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  in Cataline a Vista. The real estate agent happened to be James Lansing.
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  That's how we first became acquainted. Huh. Missus Franks and I saw Lansing
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  oo two three times at dinner together, you know, and I managed to
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  sell him the policy. I understood he was an engineer, he had been
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  at one time in Los Angeles, and he was only engaged in the real
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  estate business here a very short time. Really mattered for a few months,
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  I see. Did he do very well at it? I don't think so.
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  I don't think he worked hard at it. You see, he had
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  a fairly comfortable income him from money left by his father. You didn't buy
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  the house from him? No too much, No, missus. Franks died
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  rather suddenly about that time, and I had no need to buy home.
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  But out of the association you interested lancing and buying insurance from him. He
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  is What kind of a man was he? What do you mean? Well,
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  just your opinion, mister Franks. Well, just a client, mister
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  Dalla. I looked at him and treats him just the same as in the
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  other client. But you saw him socially several times, had dinner with him.
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  Do you do that with all your clients? I might I remember he
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  was trying to sell me something too sure? How do he look, hail,
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  fam I mayciate it? What? Oh he looked fine to me.
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  Did he drink much? Oh? I don't recall. Think it's important.
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  Well, I don't recall, then I'll recall for you. Mister Franks,
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  Lancing did drink a lot on those occasions. As a matter of fact,
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  he was soaked up most of the time. That's not true, mister d
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  You know as well as I do. He was an alcoholic in Los Angeles,
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  and he was an alcoholic here in Tucson. He died of malnutrition,
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  a direct result of his alcoholic condition. I'm not a doctor. I had
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  no way of ascertaining that you don't have to be a doctor to smell booze.
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  Mister Franks, did you ever meet his beneficiary? Do you mean his
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  sister, Missus Kennedy. No? No, I think I told you she'd
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  telephoned me today. Never met her at all. No, mister Franks.
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  I'm going to leave you for a while, and I want you to think
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  about all we've discussed. When I come back, I might ask you the
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  same questions again, and I'll expect some different answers. Anything you say,
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  mister Hillary Franks seventeen years insurance broker was a bad liar. He was worse
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  than that. He was a stupid, awkward, unprepared liar with no idea
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  of what he was up against. He knew I was going to get him
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  and get him good, and he didn't know what to do about it.
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  I almost felt sorry for him. Johnny Doller, Jim Carter, Johnny,
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  Hi, how'd you make out with Hillary Franks? The agents have sold the
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  policy. He's worried, he's scared, and he's already doing everything wrong.
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  I left him about an hour ago to think things over. Ah, Missus
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  Kennedy's fighting back. What do you mean Her lawyers served notice that it was
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  an hour ago to pay up on the policy or else just a bluff.
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  Yeah, but this wasn't. She got a corn order and made the coroner
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  release her this body. She took it right to the crematorium. Exhibit A
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  is a pile of ashes. By now, our next step is to contact
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  the State Insurance Commission and have them order us to pay off for show cause.
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  We'll have to act fast. Maybe I'd better go back to see mister
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  Hillary Frank's expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Tucson, Arizona,
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  to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut. The following
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  is an accounting I've expended Juris during my investigation of the lansing fraud. Fifty
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  thousand and by now I was sure it was frauds expense account out of number
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  eight five dollars stenographic services. I dictated a hastily composed letter to the State
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  Insurance Commission advising them that Worldwide was withholding payment on the claim of Missus Arlene
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  Kennedy, pending a complete investigation of the circumstances of our brother's deck. I
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  enclosed copies of the origin physical examination and the coroner's autopsy findings, pointing out
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  that, in our opinion, it was impossible for James Lansing to have successfully
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  passed an insurance examination in the first place. I enclosed copies of statements from
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  the examining physician, Doctor Mayhood, and the members of his office staff,
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  all of whom were unable to identify the body of James Lansing. Expensive con
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  item nine fifty two cents postage. I sent the letter to the State Capitol
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  special delivery and the hope it would arrive there before missus Kennedy's lawyers took the
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  anticipated action. After that, I drove back over to the office of Hillary
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  Franks. He was the same as I left him an hour before, a
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  little shaken, but still unable to realize quite what was happening. Yes,
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  mister Dillon, mister Franks, I wonder if you've got anything to say to
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  me. Nothing, mister Diler. I was hoping you might want to make
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  a statement about what missus Kennedy's attempting to defraud your insurance company. I don't
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  know what you're talking about, mister Dollar. I sold her brother an insurance
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  policy. I don't even know, Missus Kennedy. There are a lot of
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  things about this. You say you don't know. You want me to lay
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  it on the line if you'd like. All right, someone else had to
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  take that physical examination for James Lansing two years ago. I think you are
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  arranged for someone to do it, or you helped Missus Kennedy arrange it.
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  I think James Lansing was insured on that basis. I think he was insured
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  with a clean intent to defraud. Lansing's health wouldn't permit that kind of insurance.
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  Right now, our Los Angeles men are looking into Lansing's activities there Somewhere
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  along the line, they're going to turn up a medical history that will show
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  Lansing was already dying when he came to Arizona two years ago. Now,
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  do you have anything to say as to Frank's no? I think it being
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  very foolish if it isn't clear how serious this can be with you. It's
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  noted that you were arranged for Lansing's physical examination. There's nothing incriminating in that.
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  How well do you know doctor Mayhood slightly? The physicians supposed to be
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  an impartial Third parton when a client has to be examined by a physician for
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  insurance purposes. I sent him to doctor Mayor. That's all doctor me who
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  sends me a Christmas card to the year I sent James Lancing to him,
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  just like any other, Just like any other. Oh you worry me,
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  mister Franks. You don't object to my questions or get ruffled when you're caught
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  lying. I've given you time to think and time to make a statement regarding
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  your part in this matter. I resentful this, mister Doner. I've been
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  an insurance broker for a good long time and no one has ever questioned my
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  integrity. And I think that's what you've been banking on, mister Franks.
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  Your reputation, well, I've been questioning it ever since I got here,
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  and I still questioned it. You couldn't have known James Lancing without being aware
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  of his drinking habits. I'm sorry for you, Franks, but there had
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  to be collusion here with a beneficiary, Missus Kennedy, and you're the logical
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  party will arrange for someone else to take that examination for lancing somebody who could
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  pass it. I've given you a chance to talk to me, but you
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  refuse. Now we'll see how you like talking to the police about it.
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  Well, I'm going to swear out a warrant for your arrest. Are going
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  to charge you with attempted thought and collusion, and I'm gonna swear out a
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  warrant for missus Kennedy too. You're going to check hole. In the three
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  minutes it took me to recover from the blow from the paperweight and get my
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  break in side of me and my pet under me. Hillary Franks was well
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  out of the way and out of sight at that time. Jim PRETI walked
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  in, Hey, what happened to you? Hillary Franks? We get scared.
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  He swung a paperweight at me and pet it. If he's playing rough,
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  I don't want to take any chances. No, I'll put that phone
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  down. He hasn't admitted anything yet. S Marking you on the side of
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  the head is admittance enough for me. No, I want a statement.
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  I think I can get one. You have to find him first, and
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  he's running. He won't run far, Jim, but makes you so sure?
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  Hillary Franks doesn't know how to run. It was exactly three o'clock in
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  the afternoon. Then at three twenty five I was back out and kettling up
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  Vista, knocking on a familiar door, and the same familiar things began to
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  happen all over again. What do you want? I'm here to tell you
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  about the trouble you're in, Missus Kennedy. Hillary Franks gave it all away?
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  Dave what away? Who's Hillary Franks? What are you talking about about
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  that insurance policy that was written up and issued in your brother's name. You're
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  the one who stood to gain most by your brother's death after having someone else
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  taken insurance examination for him. But you had to have help to pull it
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  off. Hillary Franks helped you. For what reason or how you got him
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  to do it? I don't know, but I do know a man with
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  a seventeen year record as insurance broker is ruined. You're crazy. I don't
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  know anybody named Hillary Franks. Now get out. Oh stop it, will
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  you? I told him how he stood in this matter a half hour agoe.
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  He shocked me with a paper away and beat it. I've had about
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  enough. He isn't gonna run far, principally because he doesn't know how to
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  run, Missus Kennedy. He'll cool off and he'll begin thinking about all this
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  business in a new light. A few minutes to go, it dawned on
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  him what he'd done. He kicked his whole lifetime right out the window.
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  He'd been found out. He's lost all around, and he's going to be
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  mad about that. And you're the one he's going to be mad at because
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  you got him into it. I told you I don't know anybody named Hilary
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  Franks. That's the last time i'll say it. He'll probably want to kid
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  you, missus Kennedy, what I said. He'll think about all this and
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  he'll probably want to kill you. Do we talk now. I don't see
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  why I've done nothing wrong. What did you get to take that physical for
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  your brother? I don't know what you're talking about. It got your brother
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  drunk enough to sign the insurance papers, didn't show you. I had nothing
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  to do with my brother taking out life insurance and naming me his beneficiary.
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  That was his business. Now that he's dead, it's my position to receive
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  the payments. That's all, okay, Missus Kennedy, we'll get it all
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  from Hillary Franks. Yes, why don't you do that? In the meantime,
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  I hope you sleep well knowing what you've done. You'll never be able
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  to prove any of these things you're saying. Never. And for twenty four
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  hours it looked as if missus Kennedy might have been right. There was no
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  way to involve her unless we had a statement from Hillary Frank's and he was
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  still missing. I set up a watch on missus Kennedy's house and Jim Karda
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  kept an eye on Hillary Frank's place. About ten o'clock that night, Jim
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  Krda to up Hi, Hi an the action. Now, missus Kennedy has
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  been in all the night. No one showed up. How about Frank's place?
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  Well, no one there when I left an hour ago. You'd think
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  he'd come back for a suitcase or some money or something. Yeah, Johnny,
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  I call him the police. They have a worldwide I filed charges of
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  attempted fraud and collusion against him. They usued have warn a half an hour
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  ago. He's on an APB and all the local bulletins. Well, I
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  suppose you had to do it him. Yeah, we'll let the police analyst
• 23:21
  part from now, how about missus Kennedy. They'll keep an eye on her
• 23:25
  too. Did you find any charges against her? Not yet. We need
• 23:29
  a statement from Frank's Jim. Yeah, what would you do if you were
• 23:34
  Hilary Franks? I'll try to grab an airplane, maybe Godana, the Gallas
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  across the border. Look up, a friend burows some money, they get
• 23:47
  out and keep traveling. What he won't do anything like that, won't he?
• 23:52
  You'll find himself a place to sit down and think. In the end,
• 23:56
  the cops won't find him. He'll find us one a bit. By
• 24:06
  the next morning, the police had still been unable to locate Hillary Franks.
• 24:10
  I left Jim Canter in the room on a long distance called in the insurance
• 24:12
  Commission, advising them of the events up to date. Drove out to Hillary
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  Frank's office. I noticed two police officers loitering across the street as I walked
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  in the front door. Yes, how do you do? Are you another
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  policeman? No? No, I'm not. Have they been bothering you alone?
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  If you aren't a policeman and you know all about this, what do
• 24:34
  you want? I want to help mister Franks? If I can. I'm
• 24:37
  Johnny Dollar, Universal Adjustment Bureau. You're a secretary, yes. How long
• 24:42
  have you worked for him? Twelve years? Do you like him? He's
• 24:48
  always been a fine man. I don't believe any of these things about him,
• 24:51
  and I don't think I think, he said, Maria, Maria Vanno.
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  Maria, I'm not going to ask you any questions about mister Franks.
• 25:00
  I know enough about him now for my purposes. The rest he can tell
• 25:03
  me himself, Maria. I may be able to help him stay out of
• 25:07
  jail. I can do that if I talk to him. My name's Johnny
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  Dollar. I'm at the Pioneer Hotel. Remember that, whether he's phoned you
• 25:17
  yet or not, a man like that's going to need help money. I'm
• 25:21
  not asking you if he's contacted you, but listen to me carefully. If
• 25:25
  he does phone you or contact you in any way, ask him to phone
• 25:29
  me. If you ever respected him, or if you want to help him
• 25:33
  now, please ask him to telephone me. Thanks. I drove back to
• 25:42
  the hotel and waited for results. Another twelve hours went by. Hillary Franks
• 25:48
  was still missing, and missus Kennedy was still refusing to admit anything find me
• 25:52
  about eleven o'clock that night. My phone, right, Johnny Dollar at all,
• 26:00
  This is Hillary Franks. Where are you? Never mind? Tala?
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  They know all about me back at the Home office. I suppose yes.
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  I'd like to explain some things to you so you can pass them on.
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  I'd like the people back there to knew why I did it well before I
• 26:18
  leave town. You won't get far. The police are looking for you.
• 26:22
  I can get away, all right, mister Franks. Worldwide doesn't want to
• 26:26
  prosecute the notoriety be bad for them. If you'd make a statement, sign
• 26:30
  it, I think I could talk them into dropping the home matter. Maybe
• 26:33
  we'd better get together. Come on over. Oh no, no, I'm
• 26:37
  not that crazy. Do you know how to get to the send? Have
• 26:41
  your mission? I can find it in fifteen minutes, right and ta,
• 26:47
  Yeah, it's right out in the open. If you bring the police,
• 26:52
  I'll use it. I bought one this morning. All right, mister Franks.
• 27:14
  There'll be another intriguing episode of the Lansing fraud tomorrow. Tomorrow, fifty
• 27:18
  thousand dollars worth of murder Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny
• 27:25
  Doller? Yours truly Johnny Doller is storrying. Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood.
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  Written by John Dawson, it is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
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  Be sure and join us tomorrow night at same time and station for the next
• 27:42
  exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dolly, Roy Rowan speaking, welcome back,
• 28:45
  Well, this situation has definitely gotten out of control. It's amazing to listen
• 28:52
  to us, uh go Downhill, and this one definitely has a much more
• 29:02
  businesslike feel to it. I think, particularly through to part three and you
• 29:10
  know, really focusing on the business end of this whole fraud issue. I
• 29:15
  don't remember for sure exactly how this ends. There are a couple on one
• 29:19
  of them. I may have the plots mixed up in my mind, but
• 29:23
  I have a feeling this is definitely not heading to end well, and I
• 29:27
  don't think that's much of a spoiler, but we'll find out how it does
• 29:32
  end. On Friday. Join us for the final part of the Lancing Fraud
• 29:36
  Matter and tomorrow our second to last Yearlock Holmes podcast. I'll be sure and
• 29:41
  listen to that. You can follow us on Twitter Radio Detectives and become one
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