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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Sarah Dearing Matter (EP0865) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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of Yours Truly. Johnny Doller, the Sarah a Daring manner, But you're
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listening Enjoyment, John lund As, Johnny Girls, Johnny he No, I
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just finished the case. I'm gonna help you. I'd like you to fly
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to California. Tom on California. Let's to keep the death of a woman
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who was reported to a Paris in a fire h Sarah Hearing, Sarah Daring.
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Her name has a familiar ring, the silent movie star. Oh yeah,
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but she retired and the funnies didn't at the pink of her career.
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Our company carries a hundred thousand dollar policy on her life. And there's a
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rumor in Toma that Sarah steering step was not due to the fire. Oh
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yeah, we got the tip from a news item in the local paper.
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In the pomen who benefits by her death? He reste. We have no
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way of learning who she appointed as executor of her estate or who's the beneficiaries
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might seem. But I claim for one hundred thousand will undoubtedly reach us before
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long. Meanwhile, I am to investigate this rumor. Yeah, I'll send
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you are a file on sarah'teering and the You know, many great men have
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attained the highest office in our land, the presidency of the United States.
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Can you guess the name of this man? During his fifty years of public
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service, he held almost every office the public could give him. He was
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born in Virginia in seventeen fifty eight, and at the age of eighteen,
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when he left college to enter the army, is to cat Habinett vosted the
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names of such distinguished Americans as John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun.
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When he was re elected in eighteen twenty, he carried every state in the
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Union and won every electoral vote except one, which was cast for John Quincy
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Adams. If you don't have his name by now here are two more clues
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during his presidency, the first public high school was started, and the first
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teamship crossed the Atlantic. Who was he? James Munroe, fifth President of
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the United States. His life is part of your American heritage. Expense accounts
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submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dallars to Home Office Federal Licensurance Company,
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Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the Sarahdeering matter. Expensive count Item one one hundred and fifty three dollars plane
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fare and incidentals from Hartford to International Airport in Inglewood, California. I rented
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a convertible and drove to Palma, a little village perched high in the Santa
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Rosa Mountain, overlooking a thousand square miles of Mohabi desert. I registered at
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the town's only hotel, then dropped around the offices of the Palma News.
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Oh, hello, can I help you? I'm looking for the editor,
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Lacy M. Lacy's I'm lazy imagination the editor the editor? You're kidding.
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I wish you salesman would think of a new approach. I'm just a little
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weary excusing the fact that I'm not a grizzled old paraster would drink sink in
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its coffin. And I've got all the print supplies I need. I'm sorry,
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happy next time you back through. I'm here to talk about a news
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item is placing? Which item? This one? Oh? What about it?
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Well? It says that there are some rather peculiar circumstances h quote surrounding
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the recent death of Poma's most famous citizen is Sarah Bearing. These circumstances were
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discovered by the Palmer News and brought to the attention of Dan Cox County Sheriff.
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As of this writing, Sheriff's Cox has chosen to ignore the evidence submitted
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by the news. Why unquote you're right that, yes, and you submitted
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the evidence to the Sheriff's car. Yes, I did what sort of evidence
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basing? No, I'm not sure as any of your business. Mister Dollars,
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Johnny Dollar, my credentials, Oh insurance investigators for Federal Life. They
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ensured Sarah Deering for one hundred thousand dollars. Who's the benefitture in mister Dollar?
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Her state? The executor hasn't contacted my company is yet. In fact,
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we don't know who he is or where to reach him on good thousands,
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you say, just waiting to be claimed. That would explain why she
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is What did you say Sarah Deering was murdered, mister dollar. I'm almost
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positive on you better explained, miss Laser. But as you know, Sarah
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Deering was burned to death in her bed at least that's for the county car
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and the certified accidental death due to fire of unknown arts. But you would
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disagree, and I'll show you why. I found this in the ruins of
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her bed. Them a medicine babel when the label was burned. What's this
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stuff take from the bottom? Let see the local pharmacist analyzed it forming it's
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what's less of a very powerful sedative. Is this the evidence you're submitted to
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the shore and he said it wasn't anything to be concerned about. The listeners,
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Dona, But stuff in this bottle can only be purchased by prescription,
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and it wasn't purchased here in Palmer. So so I think those two men
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brought it. I think they drug Sarah Deering and then rigged up some kind
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of contracionate which start of fire in her bedroom after they got out of town.
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Hey, hold on, he left me with two men? What's two
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men? The ones who come to see Sarah during every year on the same
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day. Who are they? Nobody seems to know. They usually come together
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on the noon bus and lead town on the six twenties. I took a
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photograph of them last year, trying to do a story on them. Sunday.
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You know of from the angle of mysterious admirers make yearly pilgrimage to the
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ex movie queen It is huh And these men appeared on the day of her
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death, that's im six twenty and the fire was discovered at eight Any idea
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where they come from? Holly would? I checked with the bus stop.
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We've done a very thorough job as racy. Sarah Doering has been my eye
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ever since I was old enough to dream. I read everything ever written about
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her. Was a wonderful woman, Yeah so I've heard. I understand she
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was a recluse. What woman wouldn't they after the heartbreak she's had? You
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know she died Brooke mister dollar except for the insurance policy. Did she owe
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anyone? No? No, there was just enough left in her bank account
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of pay her a few deaths and healed his wages who's killed her. He'll
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the bower her crystal maids and with her ever since she started in pictures.
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Well, thanks for your helpless I see, I'll keep in touch. I
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found Kelly Sherriff Dan Cox, seated behind a well ordered desk in his well
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ordered office. He listened carefully while I explained the purpose of my call,
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and when I finished, he wagged his massive shock of silver white hair.
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Mister Doller, I'm afraid your company has been misled by an over zealous newspaper
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woman Sarah during his death was accidental? What about the sedatives part of her
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room? Sheriff Maggie Lacy claims they were prescription drugs not purchased here in Palmer.
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Then mister Darring must have purchased the months where or a close who hadn't
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been offer estate for twenty years older brow or her maid went lots of places
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from this Dring. How about the two men who called on her to day
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have a death? Old friends, mister Dollar came seem as doing every year
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on her birthday. You know them, Sarah? Yes, you care to
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give me their name? I wouldn't care, mister Dollar. They were friends
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of a very fine lady. I know she wouldn't want them to be annoyed
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because of some Polish rumors about her death. You seem very certain that it
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was accidental, couldn't have been anything else. Daring didn't have an enemy in
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the world. I get the impression that Junior, or rather well, we
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were close friends. Mister Darling. I see, suff did you consider the
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possible suicide impossible? A woman who enjoyed living as much as she did doesn't
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take her own life. Yet she shut herself away from the world, and
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why not? Her fame had brought her most of what the world had to
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offer. She preferred solitude. Was she in good health? Sheriff? Sarah
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Daring was always indelicate health, though she'd never admit it, especially to herself.
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I see, was there an autoping? The county coroner felt the circumstances
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didn't warrant an autot sea and you agreed. Naturally, mister Dollar, I
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happened to be sheriff and county coroner. I drove to the outskirts of town
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and located Sarah Deering's rambling Spanish villain, where I found Hildebrauer, an enormous,
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fearful woman. It was my evening out fame as every surs and it's
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a dollar. I go to early movie. I'm home at eight. I
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sent smoke. It comes from her bedroom. There's final I try to reach
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your what's the flame? It's all right, you said, what's your cud?
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I'm sure? Excuse I am not myself? You understand? Who are
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the two men who visited this sing that day? Two men the ones who
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came every year on her birthday? I do not know any men, Hilda.
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I know you're upset. I cannot tell you anymore. I don't know
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anymore their names? Are they? I anymore? Please go away now,
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I'm my best play with the dollars. Wow, Sheriff carr Ill. They
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can't tell you any more than I've already told you. Cases closed. Why
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persistence stirring up ugly rumors. I've got a job to sheriff. You've done
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it now, Why not leave us some feet. I'll be going when I'm
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satisfied. That's your privilege, sir. Meanwhile, don't trespass on this property
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again. Yes, as you say, cheff, goodbye. Sheriff Cox didn't
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bother to see me out, so I had a chance to pause in Sarah
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during his living room and study some photographs which you caught my eye earlier before
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them, all enshrined in gold frame, all of the same handsome young man.
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The face was weak mouthed, without character, and vaguely familiar. I
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don't know, mis Dollar, thanks so soon, any luck? I don't
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know yet. I see, I mean, I see the photograph of those
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mysterious this is you showed me before. Of course you are. You've gotta
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lead, mister Dollar, I think so. You see this man, the
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tall one, Well, there are four photos of him in Sarah Daring's living
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room. Were they autographs? No, but they were framed in enough gold
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to indicate he must have held a very special place in her life, because
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he's a lot older in this photograph. How about his pudgy little companion here?
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Apparently he didn't write in shoement only the tall one made the hall the
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same. Weird, it's lazy. Are you absolutely positive these two men visited
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Sarah during the day she died. Oh, yes, that's thanks. I'll
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borrow this photo if you don't mind, get back tomorrow. Johnny Wade,
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Yeah, where are you going? In such a ladder? The Hollywood Public
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Library to find a name for this space. If you think the person in
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this photograph was an acting as the daughter to teach your name, undoubtedly the
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catalog in the Player's Directory or prior to nineteen thirty seven started Casting Directory Well,
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however, and there's been no approximately when he was actuting. May be
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in for a very long series. Oh. A new edition of the directory
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has published two times a year. Each contains hundreds of performing I see well,
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dust off the nineteen twenty three editions. I'll work my way forward four
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hours and what seemed to be four hundred thousand spaces later. I found my
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man in the nineteen twenty eight edition of the Standard Casting Directory. He was
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Neville Thomas, represented by an agent named Matty's Freeman. A phone called to
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the Artist Manager's Guild disclosed that Freeman has gone out of business ten years ago.
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He was not owner of Mattie's Steakhouse and Expensive eithery on last Yanaga Boulevard,
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Hollywood's restaurant role at the bar, I was about to relieve my aparts
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groat when who should approach but the pudgy little man and the photo of Maggie
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Lacey had loved me. Oh, I'm Maddie Freeman, the head we said
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you want to see me. Yeah, that's right. I didn't take your
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name, mister Dollar. Johnny Dollar insurance is best to get it. Yes,
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Can I do for you? Well? I was looking for an actor.
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You used to represent Neville Thomas, but uls were fine for now.
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I don't understand the photo. Give you a hint. Neville taken him Palma
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last year. What is it? That's not why I'm here to talk about,
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mister Freeman. Okay, so you've got a photograph. I had a
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witness who saw you and Neville Thomas and Palma a few hours before Sarah Dring
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died. I don't know what you're talking about, mister Dollan. I feel
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a few listenment. What is it you mean to say that you've never heard
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of Sarah Dring? Was my probleship be in the business when Sarah Dering was
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making motion picture history? Well? Feeling the way you do it seems to
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mean you do willing to cooperate. How explain what you were doing in Palmer
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that day Sarah Daring died? Why should I explain anything? He I just
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thought maybe you'd like to clear yourself. What suspicion of Sarah Deering's murder having
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a pipe bringing dollas Sarah Dearing died on a fire. Okay, then let's
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move on to Neville Thomas. Where can I find him? I wouldn't know.
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All right, have it your way. I'll find Neville Thomas with or
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without your help. My company can usually get police cooperation. I'll see you,
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mister BigMan one second dollar. Yeah, I just want to pleach cooperation.
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Imply all a statewide alarm for Neville Thomas wanted for questioning in connection with
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the death of Sarahdering. The sheriffet promise certified a death with accidental the matter's
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code. Any matter of murder can always be reopened. It'll be messy,
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lots of newspaper publicity. But I'm going to find Thomas Bee around. Yeah,
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never commiss in my office. Mind if I break in here for a
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moment to say a few words. Just the other day, I was having
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lunch with a group of newspaper reporters. We were talking about the government and
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what goes into its operation. When a thought struck me. It's a funny
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thing, I said. They call one branch of the government, the State
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Department, when it handles all of our foreign affairs. Can any of you
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fellows explain that? Well, one of the reporters who write political news piped
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up and said, actually, the State Department does more than handle foreign affairs.
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It also publishes all of the laws that have been passed by Congress and
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issues all the passports and visas for anyone traveling outside the United States. Well,
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just then the waitress brought us our coffee and she entered the conversation.
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Don't forget, she said, if you were ever on a quiz show,
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you can maybe win a trip to the moon by telling them that the State
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Department has the job of making sure the Great Seal of the United States doesn't
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get lost, and it acts sort of like a governmental Emily post too.
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While she was making out our checks, she added this bit of information.
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Did you ever hear of the Division of Protocol that's part of the State Department.
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Two, it's the outfits that make sure foreign diplomats who visit America get
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introduced the way they should and get seated in the right places at official dinners
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and things like that. Well, after she gave us all that information,
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we tipped her and went back to work. And now I think it's time
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we got back to our program. And now with our star John Land,
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we bring you the second act of yours, Trulie. Johnny Dollars. Mary
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Freeman led me back to his office with all the grudging grace of a kid
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surrendering a stolen apple. The man he introduced his, Neville Thomas, was
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still handsome, but branded with a bitter down at the mouth expression. You
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asked me if I you Sarah Dearing, why I was a leading man in
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five pictures, mister dollar. She was a vixen, temperamental, the most
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exasperating woman in the world. I had a great gift, cavil gift was
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stealing scenes. Yeah, when was your last say, mister Keller. Yes,
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all right, e shit mere and morning out side. I know you're
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a corperate with mister Doller. Neville, don't worry, Marry. My excagion
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stole me blind when I was on the top of the heap, and I
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drop around here once in a while to admire the house my money building.
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Let's get back to Sarah Daring. If you insist, why did you see
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her last? Not since her last picture? Oh that's not true. No,
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he saw her the day she died. I must say you're mistaken,
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mister Dolla. You are positively identified by whom by someone who's seen you in
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Palmer every year on Sarah Deering's birthday. Fantastic. Take a look at this
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photograph. Care to reconsider your answer only to this extent, mister Dollon,
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I'd admit I did visit Sarah during occasionally, as seldom as possible, and
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only after she besieged me with letters and phone calls. You see, Sarah
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was in love with me. I had been for many years, and you
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I am afraid I didn't share Matty's adoration for her. Mister Donnan. A
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pity is the nicest word to express my eating dessied. I see what do
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you know about the real cause of her death? All right? Red that
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you died in the fire, has there been some further development? You were
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seen leaving her home less than two hours before the fire was discovered. It's
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impossible I can prove I was here in Hollywood. It the apartment of a
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friend who Mattie Freeman. Well, it didn't take a mental colossus with the
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Jews that Thomas and his exasn't had rehearsed their alibi before I ever set foot
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in the steakhouse. The clincher, if I needed one, came as I
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pulled out of the parking lot. I spotted Mattie talking to someone in the
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parks today and for someone obliged by striking a match to his cigar, which
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revealed that it was Sheriff Dan cut Right. Then I decided to call it
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a day. I registered at the plaza, took an ass him, a
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hot shower and a sleeping tablet in that order. M h oh huh h.
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Hello Johnny, any can account thank you for Fnny? Located you?
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Oh, lucky you, lucky you wherever you are, Maggie, lazy Johnny,
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I've got to see you right away. For the baggy. It's two
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o'clock in the morning. I'll drive down first thing tomorrow. I'm not voting
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from Palmer, Johnny. I'm here in Hollywood, Bama. Bobby in five
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minutes. Oh oh, Maggie, Oh hell you baggy Johnny. Oh you
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look awful. Oh. I told Joe I took a sleeping heaven. Oh
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it's a blockbuster. I mus feel like sash weights. Come here. Let's
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se John over here. Okay, Well, when I make at the library.
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I decided to do a little research on Sarah Deering. But I have
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a wonderful Sarah Doering scrap up with all her new photos and clippings. I
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borrowed it. Hey, hey, these agonized eyes deceive me or the people
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in this photo. Read the caption Johnny reacting with missus Sarah Deering beside her
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Hollywood swimming pool at the four Lucky People to whom the motion picture star will
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someday leave her mother million dollars state. They are left to write miss Hilda
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Brower, or personal maid to Matty freemanan our agent, Neville Thomas, our
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current leading man, and Dan Cox, her attorney. Think of it,
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Johnny Sheriff Cox, the man who insists her death was accidental, is one
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of her airs who were surprised. I'll see you on the morning. What,
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Junny Waite, aren't you going to do something? Yeah? Yeah,
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I'm going to point you toward the y w c A, then send a
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wire to my company. Really wait quietly for answer. Oh no, Johnny,
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do get Bruce? Johnny? Oh, Hello, what time is it?
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I'm here? Thanks? Where you are? Oh no, yeah,
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I got your wire? What are you doing in Hollywood? Owning you on
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COMA last night. I'll explain later, mister Gross, Say how about Sarah
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Doings insurance? Anybody claim one hundred thousand years? Yeah? I got a
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Richard third letter yesterday. They two days ago from the Executive Reiversity. Yeah,
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who is he named? I checked out of the plaza, I expense
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a count item three twelve dollars and was halfway to Palma before I realized I'd
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forgotten to pick up Maggie Lacy. But I quieted my conscience by making a
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mental promise that she get an exclusive story on Hilda Brower's confession. At this
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point, confronted with all the information I had, I figured Hilda would be
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the easiest of the four heirs to break. I learned how wrong a guy
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can be when I pulled into the drives and Sarah Deering's villa and discovered I
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was expected member. Mister dollars, Well you do get around? Sure is
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you too? So? Fortunately your moves are fairly predictable, so you're here
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to see that. I don't talk to Hilda again. Hilda is ill.
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She can't be disturbed. Let me read you a caption on an old newspaper
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photo. The last thing with the Sarah Daring beside her Hollywood simming boar,
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the four lucky people to whom the motion pictures start will someday leave her mother
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a million dollars estate. They are that's the right, Hildebrower, Matty Freeman,
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Are you able to go on? Mister Dollar, I see what you're
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driving it. Do you think the four of us murdered Miss Daring for her
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insurance? While it's the most logical theory today, Sheriff, especially since you
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happen to be the executor of the estates, mister Dollar, Sir, during
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was not murdered, However, I will admit that she did not die as
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a result of the fire. He was dead when the fire was started.
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Started who was the firebout? Kilda? She came home found this Daring dead,
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an open bottle of set it is beside the bed. Suicide. That's
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what Hilda thought. You must have gone out of her head with grief.
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She told me later that her only thought was to protect Miss daring name from
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the shame of a suicide death. So she set the fire to the start
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of evidence is and to second vent the suicide cause and darings policy? What's
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the policy is? Not payable if the insured dies by her own hands.
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Share your tone implies that I was unaware of that site, mister Dollan,
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I'm not interested in one way or the other. My job is finished.
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I'm recording death by suicide to my company. Who ever heard the full story,
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mister Dollon as more, Sir, Daring was not a suicide. She
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just said she was. I said still the thought she was. Get to
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the point. Chair. After Matty Freeman and Neville Thomas paid miss during their
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usual birthday visit, she had another caller who he's down the hall in the
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study this way. Because of yours skepticism, mister Dollar, I had to
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request the state police to get the man you're going to meet. While the
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hunt was going on, I knew you'd be tracking down Matty Freeman and Thomas,
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but to dig into this Daring's past find things which would be misleading.
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Well, the maneuvering is over. Now this gentleman can tell you the real
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truth about Sarah during death. Mister Dollar. This is doctor James Harding.
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Oh your Dara, that's right. You've called a lot of troubble. Dollar
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broke up a first secation I've had in ten years. I'm sorry, but
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there's a matter of one hundred thousand. I've got to be back in Beverly
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Hills by noon. You're patients waiting, and then get to the point.
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All right, all right, I've got a little hide off in the desert.
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I'd rather say police found me. I was on my way there.
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The day started. During died, I had the pastoral Palmers well, I
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stopped off the season. Doctor Harding was her physicians and a very old friend.
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I was about seven when I drove up. I found her alone.
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It had a sudden attack. She was dying, dying, Sarah during its
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been dying for years of fada. I won't do under the medical details,
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the fight of to say, her courage couldn't hold off the inevitable any longer,
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as she was feeling fast and great pain. Oh you gave her the
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senator. Yeah. He died quietly, and Jim came down to my office
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to report her death. I was out on the car. I didn't want
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to wait, so I filled out a death certificate, left it with a
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noo, Damn's death, and rob out of my desert place. Meanwhile,
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Hilda returned home from the movies found as doing dead and the bottle of sedatives.
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GM had forgotten the rest, you know, mister Doller. Well,
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it's none of my affair or my companies. But just for the record,
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why did you report Sarah Deering died as resulted the fire. If I had
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reported the real truth, then I would have had the charge of very devoted
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servant and companion with arts. But Hilda did set the fire, Sheriff and
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arson is a crime, mister Dollar. Do you think Hilda committed a crime?
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Well, legally yes, but morally well, As I said, it's
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none of my affair. Isn't goodbye, gentlemen, it's goodbye. Mister bellers
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a gun adam number four five dollars to check out of the Palmer Hotel room.
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I never had the chance to use item five fifty one dollars and seventy
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five cents gas oil and rattle on the convertible idem number six, one hundred
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and fifty dollars playfair and incidentals back to Hudford expense account. Total three hundred
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and seventy two dollars and twenty five cents heres thirty Johnny dollars. Welcome back.
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I have to say that the sheriff in this particular episode, may be
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one of the most maybe the most arrogant, non corrupt law enforcement people that
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our hero has ever come up against. We get to the end of this
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case, which has been this long drawn out a fair requiring this investigation by
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Johnny due to the fact that the sheriff has covered things up and he's still
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getting arrogant about Johnny. You know you follow you were following leads that we're
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going nowhere, but now because I am able to set you straight, because
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I'm the one who started the whole thing, and it's a somewhat the whole
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process is somewhat remarkable. The question of whether to prosecute the servant or not
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would not typically be the sheriff's decision to make, of course, end up
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in the hands of a prosecutor. Just because you technically did commit a crime
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doesn't mean that you have to be prosecuted. If in the judgment of officials,
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they declined to prosecute. It almost feels like sheriff went to all this
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trouble as much to fill the power and authority of his own office as anything
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else. And Johnny, who gets a sleep deprived night and they still have
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to pay out the insurance money. Is just the poor guy who got taken
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along for the ride. But we do turn to listener comments and feedback,
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and we have this from Adam Stone over on Facebook. This was the first
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Johnny Dollar story I listened to, Very enjoyable. I especially like the framing
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of the narrative with item list of detective expense report. Thank you, and
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that was in regard to the Punk Tillius Firebug Matter episode eight fifty three,
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And of course, thank you so much, Adam. And it's a good
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reminder that even the shows that are perhaps best known by old time radio fans
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and aficionados, it's still it's still obscure to a lot of people. So
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we have an opportunity to introduce some great stuff to folk, and it'll of
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course be getting even better as we get into the Bob Bailey era and just
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the next couple three months. All right, Well, we'll be back tomorrow
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with the lineup and then join us back here next Friday for yours truly,
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Johnny Dowler. The Meanwhile, Sandra comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot
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Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam graham Son and off.