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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mojave Red Sequel (EP1711) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 1: The original air date is July the twentieth of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight and the title is the mojave Red Sequel
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: It's time now for Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Is your number in Kingland, mister Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you ever one moment j Johnny Dollar, jacib.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny, So you found out I was right?
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  Speaker 2: You left our affairs date of Arizona and gone back
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  Speaker 2: to Hartford. Wrong?
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  Speaker 3: You mean you're still at Lake mahalave Our.
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  Speaker 2: I sure am, and I am still betting.
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  Speaker 3: That you haven't found anything to indicate Elmer Hobbs' death
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  Speaker 3: wasn't bacci dential round it, Jake, So your.
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  Speaker 2: Expenses will have to come right out of your own pockets.
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  Speaker 4: Instead of the company.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, as for that crew.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about eating, how do you want it?
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  Speaker 5: Cook?
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  Speaker 2: Listen with you? What have you mailed any insurance claim yet?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just about to run it over to the post
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  Speaker 2: office when your call came in. Tear it up?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: Because Jake Elma Hobbs was murdered.
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  Speaker 7: While Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
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  Speaker 7: the Action Packed Expenser, caud America's fabulous Freeliance insurance investigator
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  Speaker 7: is truly Shohnny.
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  Speaker 2: Doll expense accounts submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar
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  Speaker 2: the Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company Kingman, Arizona office,
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  Speaker 2: following as an acount of expenses incurred during my further
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  Speaker 2: investigation of the mohave Red matter expenser count out of
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  Speaker 2: one twenty cents for the phone called to Jake Kessler
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  Speaker 2: and Kingman. I made that call in the office there
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  Speaker 2: at Lake Mohavee Resort, and needless to say, Jake didn't
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  Speaker 2: quite believe me at first. Murdered Elmer Hobbs was murdered, Jake,
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  Speaker 2: I'd bet my last buck on it.
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  Speaker 3: But Johnny, the.
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  Speaker 8: Police spent two or three days over there, investigating the
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  Speaker 8: coroner two and they all reported no evidence of foul play.
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  Speaker 8: That's simply because they didn't know where to look. What
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  Speaker 8: do you mean, You know Red Barrett, the old fishing
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  Speaker 8: guide over here, I've heard of him. Well, Red found
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  Speaker 8: the boat that Hobbes used that day was lying on
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  Speaker 8: the bottom of one of the coves up in the
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  Speaker 8: Big Basin. Sure because of the storm that drowned Elmer Hobbs,
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  Speaker 8: because somebody sank it. That boat had a couple of
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  Speaker 8: air tanks on it that would keep it a float
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  Speaker 8: even if it was swamped. But Jake, those tanks were
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  Speaker 8: cut open by whoever killed Hobbs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but who did it, Johnny, That's what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: find out. I'll call you later.
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  Speaker 4: I hung up on.
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  Speaker 2: Jake Kessler then walked on back to the dock, where
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  Speaker 2: I found Red Barrett and Buster Favor waiting for me.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get your call the Kingman two? All right, Johnny?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Right, Jake Kessler's holding up the claim on Elma Hobb's insurance. Good,
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  Speaker 2: that's good. Did you tell Buster what we found.
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  Speaker 5: Up the lake, sir, Yeah, Johnny, he did. It's like
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  Speaker 5: I said in the beginning, I just didn't see how
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  Speaker 5: a man like mister Hobbs could ever get himself capsized
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  Speaker 5: up in the big base, no matter how bad a
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  Speaker 5: wind came up.
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  Speaker 2: Buster was the only one that agreed with me. Johnny, Well,
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  Speaker 2: quite frankly, I don't see why everybody wasn't suspicious when
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  Speaker 2: Hobbs' boat wasn't found after the.
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  Speaker 5: Storm, right, Johnny. But now that you and Red found
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  Speaker 5: it sunk in the bottom of that cove and with
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  Speaker 5: a flotation tanks cut open, yeah, it sure looks like murdy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh That's what I thought from the first.
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  Speaker 5: Buster.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I telephoned all the way to Hartford get
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  Speaker 2: Johnny out here. But who could have wanted to kill him?
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  Speaker 2: Any ideas bust him?
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  Speaker 5: No, sir, Johnny, I certainly.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't sure there was nobody here at the resort who might.
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  Speaker 5: Have wanted him out of the way, Johnny. The other
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  Speaker 5: folks who were here at the time had happened, but
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  Speaker 5: they didn't even know. Mister Howe. You sure, absolutely see.
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  Speaker 5: He wasn't much of a mixer. He stayed by himself
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  Speaker 5: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Johnny. Elmer used to go out fishing first
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  Speaker 2: thing in the morning, and he'd be the last to
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  Speaker 2: come in at night. He'd go to his room, cookie
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  Speaker 2: supper and then go to bed. All right, Listen, he
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  Speaker 2: was killed just before or during the big storm. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's right. Who else was out on the lake at
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  Speaker 2: that time?
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  Speaker 5: Nobody? Nobody from here, that is, all our people, all
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  Speaker 5: our boats were back here at the landing. They'd got
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  Speaker 5: the storm warning.
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  Speaker 2: So, don't you see, Johnny, it must have been somebody
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  Speaker 2: from up the league. What do you mean, from one
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  Speaker 2: of the other landings. What other landings, Cottonwood Emories, anyone
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  Speaker 2: of them? Yes, sir, somebody sank his boat and tried
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  Speaker 2: to sink his body with.
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  Speaker 5: It, But we found that his body washed up on
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  Speaker 5: the vody. Sure you found it, red.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I did. My best friend I drove down to
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  Speaker 2: that boat, Buster, and I found not only the bashed
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  Speaker 2: in floatation tanks. Why the ankle line had apparently been
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  Speaker 2: lashed around the body to hold it there. And you remember, Buster,
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  Speaker 2: the rope marks we found on Elmer's body.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but the police, Sheriff Corner and the Red what
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  Speaker 5: did they say he probably just got tangled up in
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  Speaker 5: that rope when he was fighting the storm. But they
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  Speaker 5: were wrong? Yeah, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say that, Johnny, Well, because so far
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  Speaker 2: this evidence of murder is well, it's all circumstantial. That's
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  Speaker 2: for motive.
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  Speaker 5: Motive. Well, I hadn't thought of that.
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  Speaker 2: Red. Well, the main thing is that that cut and
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  Speaker 2: open the flotation tanks was done with some kind of
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  Speaker 2: a nag. I was asking about motive. And I know
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  Speaker 2: that Elmer didn't have any axe on that boat.
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  Speaker 5: Do you find the axe, Johnny?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, Red, And I'll tell you what he had
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  Speaker 2: in his boat beside his clothes. I mean, let's cover
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  Speaker 2: this motive. Thing. He had to anchor, of course, that
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  Speaker 2: went with the boat. He had a nice new sil
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  Speaker 2: of flex rod with a Mitchell three hundred on it.
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  Speaker 2: He had a long handled neck that he picked up
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in LA and an old beat up McKinney tackle
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  Speaker 2: box full of plugs and spoons.
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  Speaker 3: And the fish.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and that was all Johnny, No, axe, that was
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  Speaker 2: all he had read. That bush you're beating around is
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  Speaker 2: getting pretty big. Well, Johnny, I don't know what you mean.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I asked you.
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  Speaker 2: About possible motive, and so far all you've done is
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  Speaker 2: evade the question. Now why should I do that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I want to find out. Well, now, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: you know of anyone who might have wanted mister Hobbs dead?
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  Speaker 2: You say you know him pretty well and I did, yes, sir, Well, no, sir, no, sir,
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  Speaker 2: I certainly don't. You're sure? Well Elmer, Well, he when
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  Speaker 2: nobody could want to kill a fine man like him, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: he was one of my best friends. Yeah, at least
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  Speaker 2: whatever he was here. I mean I never knew anything
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  Speaker 2: about him in LA. I mean he was in business
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  Speaker 2: back there, I understand. That's right where the man he
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  Speaker 2: called Stu Men. Wait a minute, what is it, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going back to the office and called Ja Kessler again. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: Helmer was my best friend. Come on, come on up
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  Speaker 2: to the office with me.
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  Speaker 5: Buster, you can use the phone here on the dock, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, come on, Red, We'll see you later.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be here, sir.
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  Speaker 5: He looked like you just got hit with an idea, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I'm afraid it isn't a very pretty one.
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  Speaker 5: Oh what is it, Johnny?
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  Speaker 3: The early fishermen come in here.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yes, sir, mister Carson, and they picked up some
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  Speaker 5: nice bass up above the power line crossing.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I was thinking of going up that way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, good luck. Now what were you gonna say, Johnny?
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  Speaker 2: We're Red and mister Hobbes such really good friends.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're always together when he came here. Of course,
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  Speaker 5: they were always fighting like cats and dogs over some
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  Speaker 5: silly thing or other, but didn't mean it. Oh no,
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  Speaker 5: wait a minute, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Why was Red alone when he found Hobb's body.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he brought it back here.
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  Speaker 2: But now, look, there weren't any other boats up the lake.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah there were, but Red was searching that particular part
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  Speaker 5: of the shore alone.
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  Speaker 2: But surely you don't think think Kessler told me something
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  Speaker 2: about Hobb's insurance policy. But not quite enough, Johnny, listen,
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  Speaker 2: come on, let's get to that phone.
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  Speaker 3: Well. I don't you think you ought to call in
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  Speaker 3: the police.
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  Speaker 2: No, if you're right, that is no, let me handle
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  Speaker 2: this alone. For the moment I listened, Jake, didn't you
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  Speaker 2: tell me that the insurance claim was filed by one
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  Speaker 2: of hobbs beneficiaries plural?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, by his business partner in LA.
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  Speaker 2: Who were the others?
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  Speaker 3: Just one other? If you take time listen to listen,
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  Speaker 3: you were saw fired up and I drove you out.
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  Speaker 2: What is this other beneficiary?
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  Speaker 5: Jake?
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  Speaker 3: You're still sure Hobbes was murdered.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, I'll bet on it.
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  Speaker 3: And now you're looking for somebody with a motive.
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  Speaker 2: Huh the beneficiary, Jake, Like I told.
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  Speaker 3: You, one of them was his business partner, Jase George Manly.
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  Speaker 2: And the other read.
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  Speaker 3: Red yeah, red barret.
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  Speaker 7: Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 9: In the moment, our flag now numbers fifty stars, and
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  Speaker 9: behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one
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  Speaker 4: Illinois's state flag.
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  Speaker 9: Uses many of the symbols of our nation's Great Seal.
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  Speaker 9: The Eagle, the symbol of our national strength, rests on
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  Speaker 9: a shield representing the states, indicating that the states and
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  Speaker 9: the nation are bound together or immunity, there is strength.
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  Speaker 9: National Union, a reminder of the greatness of the State
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  Speaker 9: of Illinois and its pride in being a member of
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  Speaker 9: the United.
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  Speaker 4: States of America.
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  Speaker 9: Illinois state flag, the flag of the twenty first state
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  Speaker 9: to enter the Union, was adopted on July sixth, nineteen,
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  Speaker 9: one hundred and fifteen.
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  Speaker 7: And now that too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
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  Speaker 7: the Mohave Red Sequel.
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  Speaker 2: Two people who I knew stood the game by the
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  Speaker 2: death of ELM. Hobbs won his business partner, Chase Stuart
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  Speaker 2: Manley in Los Angeles. The other Red Barrett, fishing guy
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  Speaker 2: at Lake Mohave Resort, who said he'd found his body,
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  Speaker 2: who professed to have been his best friend. I wanted,
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  Speaker 2: I said as much to Buster Favors, who sat there
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  Speaker 2: in the office of the resort.
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  Speaker 5: Red Deer, thing like that. I won't believe it, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: But he's the one person who could have engineered the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing busting.
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  Speaker 5: But why then would he lead us to the place
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  Speaker 5: where mister hobbs boat was sunk and find up the
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  Speaker 5: factor was deliberately sunk and an attempt made to saint
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  Speaker 5: Hobbs's body with it. Oh, there's a cover up to
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  Speaker 5: make him look clean.
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  Speaker 2: Ah n, Johnny, Well, the boat would have been found
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  Speaker 2: in that cold sooner or later.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, I tell you you wrong. If you just suspect Red,
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  Speaker 5: look of Hobb's business partners a beneficiary too, Why don't
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  Speaker 5: you look him up?
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  Speaker 2: I fully intend to unless Red did do it and
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  Speaker 2: I can prove it. No, Johnny, let's go back to
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  Speaker 2: the dock so I can talk to him again.
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  Speaker 5: And see Buster.
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  Speaker 2: I just oh, hello, Johnny, I suppose you've heard him?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, Red told me you're quite short with murdered. Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry, listen Buster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ham As manager of this resort, you know Red
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  Speaker 2: pretty well.
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  Speaker 10: I sometimes wonder That's what I came up here to
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  Speaker 10: ask you about.
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  Speaker 4: Buster. Huh did use the name? Skiding out of here? What?
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  Speaker 5: We just left him down at the dot?
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  Speaker 4: You mean you didn't see him tearing out of here
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  Speaker 4: in the pickup truck a few minutes ago, A Red?
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  Speaker 2: Where'd he go?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, but he certainly left in.
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  Speaker 5: A hurry, Johnny, Yeah, no, I still can't believe it.
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  Speaker 4: What are you boys talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing? I Ham is our car on here I can
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  Speaker 2: use sure, take mine keys, thanks light Lee.
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  Speaker 4: Buster.
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  Speaker 10: I was poking around where Red kept his fishing tackle,
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  Speaker 10: trying to find that riky Bard for me last week.
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  Speaker 2: What did you find him?
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  Speaker 4: I thought Buster might know?
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  Speaker 10: And the old code got hold of that new spinning
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  Speaker 10: outfit silent flex row what yeah, and the bran spanking.
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  Speaker 2: New Mitchell reel.
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  Speaker 4: Oh he is?
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  Speaker 2: Oh now all right, ham Buster, you just sit tight.
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  Speaker 2: If Red comes back here before I do. Him comes back, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: say nothing to him about what we've learned. Just keep
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  Speaker 2: him here and tell him, tell him I'll return to
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  Speaker 2: talk with him later. Nothing else, John No, No, do
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  Speaker 2: as I say, Bo, what's going on? I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now, journey.
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  Speaker 2: Red was one of Elma Hobb's beneficiaries. He was the
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  Speaker 2: one who'd found the body. He had the fishing tackle
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  Speaker 2: that had belonged to Hobbs, and when it was discovered
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  Speaker 2: by Ham Pratt, he'd left.
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  Speaker 5: In a hurry.
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  Speaker 2: All pretty incriminate, which is not why I took off
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  Speaker 2: in Ham's car west on seventy seven South on ninety five,
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  Speaker 2: and west again on sixty six. I had him for
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  Speaker 2: a buck, even for a sandwich in a coke and
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  Speaker 2: bar store. I had him five pour eighty for a
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  Speaker 2: tankful of gas with the sign of the flying Red Horse.
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  Speaker 2: Then Westwood again, and always with an eye out for
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  Speaker 2: Red in the old pickup drug. Finally, as the sun
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  Speaker 2: was disappearing over the edge of the Pacific, I pulled
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  Speaker 2: into Los Angeles. The real estate office of Manley and
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  Speaker 2: Hobbs was closed. A directory at the nearest phone both
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  Speaker 2: gave me j. Stewart Manley's home address thirteen oh eight
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  Speaker 2: Pandora Avenue, in the residential section called Westwood. The neat
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  Speaker 2: white stucco house was dark, the garage empty. I let
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  Speaker 2: myself in through a back door by slipping the lock
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  Speaker 2: with the aid of one of my business cards. It
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  Speaker 2: was hard to see inside, but I didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: turn on any lights. And that was a mistake because
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  Speaker 2: as I quietly rounded a corner and started toward the den,
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  Speaker 2: I guess wrong. Somebody was at home. Wasn't that den
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  Speaker 2: behind the now closed door? And then somebody knew that
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  Speaker 2: I was in the house. There was only one thing
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  Speaker 2: to do to bow my way through. Well, mister Manley,
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  Speaker 2: you're just you kill up him? Read eh, Johnny Dollar, Well,
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  Speaker 2: it kind of kind of looks like I made a
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  Speaker 2: mistaken Yeah, Red, the biggest mistake of your life, Act
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  Speaker 2: three of your truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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  Speaker 6: A question that has been asked many times is at
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  Speaker 6: what age does a boy become a man? It isn't
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  Speaker 6: when he reaches the age of twenty one, but when
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  Speaker 6: the qualities of grit and determination within him make him
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  Speaker 6: face up to the responsibilities of a job to be done,
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  Speaker 6: no matter what the difficulties. On May twenty first, eighteen
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  Speaker 6: sixty two, during the Civil War Battle at Corinth, Mississippi,
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  Speaker 6: William H. Horsfall was serving as a drummer with Company
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  Speaker 6: G of the first Kentucky Infantry. During the furious and
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  Speaker 6: deadly engagement, he saw his captain fall wounded between the lines.
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  Speaker 6: Although as a non combatant, Horsefall was supposed to stay
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  Speaker 6: out of the range of fire, he rushed bravely forward
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  Speaker 6: at the risk of his own life to aid his
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  Speaker 6: wounded captain, ignoring the fact that they were in the
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  Speaker 6: midst of a continuing and deadly hail of fire from
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  Speaker 6: both sides. The courageous drummer dragged the wounded officer to
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  Speaker 6: a place of safety, thereby saving his life. Later on,
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  Speaker 6: Horsefall grabbed a gun and some ammunition and went into
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  Speaker 6: the fight, but his commanding officer finally sent him to
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  Speaker 6: the rear, recommended him for the Medal of Honor, and
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  Speaker 6: gave him a furlough gallant. As the drummer's valorous actions
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  Speaker 6: were the officer felt that fourteen year old William Horsfall
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  Speaker 6: was still too young for battle. But Horsefall's personal code
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  Speaker 6: had all ready he proved him a mad and.
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  Speaker 7: Now act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
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  Speaker 7: mohave Red sequel, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what common sense tells me? Read what Johnny, that
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: you and j. Stewart man they were in cohotes and
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  Speaker 2: the murder of Elmer Hobbs. Oh no, so you can't
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: believe that you told us that Hobbs had a Sila
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: flex rod a Mitchell wheel in his boat. Yes, sure
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: he did, just like the refound him. Read among your
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: things back at the lake, or you found mine, Johnny,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: That Elmer gave me the match his Look, look what
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I found here in the man was closet This was
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Elmer's rotten reel, Johnny, what all strung up with the
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: warble right spoon on it, just just the way he
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: fishd with it, and he could cast so accurate. You're
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: sure this was his. Here's his initials ride on the
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  Speaker 2: butt and scratched on the reel too. E h.
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  Speaker 4: If you'd have looked, you.
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  Speaker 2: Have found my initials on the rod there at the lake.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: But look, look here, Look what I found the corner
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: of this closet, all wrapped up like to hide it
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the acts. And I'm no detective, Johnny, but just look
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: at these marks like it was used to hack in
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: some kind of thin metal the flotation tanks on that boat.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe you are a detective, Red and a good one.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Why did you come tearing in here to la in
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: the hope, Johnny, i'd find these things. I thought from
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the first that Manly might be the one Elmer never
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: did really trust him. He told me that many a time,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: But you didn't accuse him. When I talked to you
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: at the lake, I wanted some prove Manly not only
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: get a hunk of Hobs insurance, but the share of
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: the business. That's right, sir, oh I pulled a little
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: trick on him too. What do you mean? Well, I
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: stopped along the way and I phoned him to make
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: sure that he wouldn't be here for a while. Well,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: what did you tell him? I disguised my voice, Johnny,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: real good, that voice of yours. I told him that
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: this was a friend. I said that I thought he
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: ought to know that you were working on the cave,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that if he'd left any evidence at Lake Mohave, he'd
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: better get there and steer you away from him, Red.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: And that's the way I got him away from here
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: so I could find this stuff. But if he's gone
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to Lake Mohammed, oh, I knew you could take care
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: of him. And if I did find these things like
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I did, I was going to phone you there to
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: be ready for him. Well, and why did you attack
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: me when I came in here? Sorry, Johnny, but I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: thought maybe he'd got wise and come back and maybe
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: recognize my voice after all. Exactly what happened?
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Reddy?
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  Speaker 2: Mister Manley, Sir, that's right, j Stewart Manley.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: This is my wife, mister Deller.
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  Speaker 5: Red.
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  Speaker 4: Kill them, Stuart. They're burglars, don't you see. And we
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: caught them robbing.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: The house all right, Mary, I suppose that means we
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: were right that you did kill your partner, Elmer Hobbs.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: That stupid old man fishing all the time instead of
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: tending to the office taking all the money.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: But now we'll have some money for a change own
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the business.
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  Speaker 4: Up.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I see you found old Elmer's things.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: No surf, this fishing rod is here's not you?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Oh put it down. Pretty foolish here to bring that
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: stuff here, Manley, especially the acts. I'm sure any good
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: police lab will find traces of aluminum from the boat
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: on it. Kill him start they're robbins.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Their fingerprints will be all over.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Mary's right, your prowlers ransacking my house, and I can
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: see the bulls of your pistol. Dollar, So when he
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: caught in the land, up, hold my right to kill
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: you and self defense and dollar you go first.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: You think you can shoot as straight as I can
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: cast a fishing plug? Huh like this? Oh no, no,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: get back, he says Manley. I'd hate to have to
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: sock a woman. You heard him, Yeah, as badly as
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: he heard him a horse.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: Look that horrible fishing plug. The look to rip his handle.
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: But it's blazing redheaded old fool throwing those.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Jesus do it right.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: There was a beautiful piece of casting. He almost tore
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: his hand off of that plug. Well, Johnny, it was
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: with Elmer's own rig. I think maybe he would have
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: liked that. I hope so. But you know what I
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: hope the most, Johnny, what read that the fishing, That
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the fishing is real good up where Elmery is now
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Manley and his wife, Yeah read it? Figured right the
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: morning of the day that Hobbs was killed. They'd rented
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: a boat out of Cottonwood, landing a few miles up
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the lake, then ambushed him there in the big basin.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Bob Cold of Cottonwood had noticed the new rod and reel,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and they'd come back off the lake just before the
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: big storm. Had noticed the axe too when he wondered
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: about it. Now he knows so from here on in
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: it's aft to the Sheriff's office in the Courts thanks
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to acount total including a return of hans car, a
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: few days of fishing in the trip back to Hartford
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: three hundred and seven dollars. Even yours, truly, Johnny.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: Dollar, Our star will return in just a moment. Our
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star there
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: stands yet another flag for each of the fifty states.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: New Mexico's flag is an ancient zea sun symbol, a
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: red circle on a field of yellow, radiating from four points,
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: which we might indicate as north, east, south, and west
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: our four parallel lines. Four was a sacred number of Zia,
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: the number most often used by the giver of all
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: good gifts. The earth had four main directions, each with
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: its own gifts. The year had four seasons, each with
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: the different offering for mankind. The day had four faces sunrise, noontime, evening,
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: and night. Life had its four divisions childhood, youth, manhood,
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: and old age. Everything in life and nature was bound
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: together in a circle, the circle of life.
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: And love, without beginning and without end. And in this
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: great brotherhood of all things, man had four obligations. He
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: must develop a strong body, a clear mind, and a
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: pure spirit. Fourth, and most sacred, he must devote unselfishly, body, mind,
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: and spirit to the welfare of his people. From this
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: simple symbol, the Zia sun, we read the legend of
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: a wonderful philosophy. The flag's colors of flaming red and
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: golden orange represent the banners of Ferdinand and Isabella, which
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: were carried by Columbus across the Atlantic. New Mexico's state flag,
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: the flag of the forty seventh state to enter the Union,
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: was adopted on March nineteenth, nineteen twenty five. Now here's
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week,
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: some of the funniest old characters I ever meet, and
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: a ten year old boy solves the case. Join us,
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: won't you yours truly Johnny Dollar?
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Yours truly Johnny Dollar is stirrying. Bob Bailey originates in
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: also wrote today's story. Heard in our cast where Virginia Gregg, Harley,
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Bear fors Lewis, Barney Phillips, Alan Reed, and Russell Thorson.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Be sure to join us next week's same time in
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: station for another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
• 24:44
  Speaker 12: This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is the United States
• 25:13
  Speaker 12: Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: This is Andrew J. Graham, author of the web surface
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: series Oh and a Man and his Wife.
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: You're listening to the great detectives of Old time radio.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back, Red, wasn't a great candidate to become a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: suspect in this case, but there wasn't much else, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I have to admit I do like the fact that
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: he achieved one of the most unusual methods of defeating
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the villain through fly casting. All right, well, now we
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: do turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: this comment from over on Facebook, and the comment is
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: from Martha who says, I listened to Johnny Dollar for decades.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: There was an old time radio on Wisconsin Public Radio,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and apparently Johnny Dollar is one of my favorites. Who
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: knew there was so much insurance fraud and how cheap
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: it was to get a cab to the Hartford Airport. Well,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: remember I got a just for inflation, and then it's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: not quite so cheap, particularly when the Charles Russell Johnny
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Dollar was handing out or tips to everybody. That actually
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: was a lot of money.
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: Hi.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: The New Mexico flag, by the way, which was mentioned
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in this episode, is actually still the same today. In
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: a two thousand and one survey of the North American
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Vexiological Association said that it had the best designed flag
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of any US state, territory, or Canadian province. So definitely
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a design that has some great support out there. All right, Well,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: that will do it for today. If you do have
• 28:36
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