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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Imperfect Alibi Matter, Parts One and Three (EP1209) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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All right, well, this is the last of the Johnny Dollar cereals that
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have a missing episode in it, and the missing episode in this week's cereal
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is in part two. This is probably one of the most significant plot points
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to be missing, so you'll want to be sure and listen when I explain
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what happened in part two, using as my resource John c Abbott's book The
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Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter, which is an extra we have available all year.
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and that's at Support dot Great Detectives dot net. But now that said,
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let's take a listen to the Imperfect Alibi Matter, Part one from Hollywood.
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It's time now for Johnny Deller. This is Joe McNabb Northeast Indemnity. Hi
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Joe, good to hear your voice. It's not mutual, Jenny, and
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I always thought you cared. Whenever I hear your voice, it's because I'm
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in trouble. Oh what is it this time? Here of Harvey Stone?
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Sure, the Stone Corporation and Stone Enterprises and the Stone Foundation. Sounds like
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he's a foundation himself. Practically late thirties. Bachelor took over the management from
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his father E. J. When the old boy got crippled up with us
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right his last year. So the total amount of insurance we're carrying at him
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is over one hundred thousand. So he lives in New York, Westchester County.
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Last night he was driving along a road in the country. Small object
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hit his wind shy, Oh luck show, don't tell me you want me
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to investigate a claim for a broken windshield. Sure though, Jenny, that
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small object was a bullet. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey in
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the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous freelance
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insurance Investigator Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny
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Dollar to Northeastern Demnity Associates, Hartford, Connecticut, following as an account of
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expendit yours during my investigation of the imperfect alibi matter expense account Adam one one
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dollar even taxi to the office of Northeaster Indemnity where Joe mcnah was waiting for
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me. It's kind of a complicated situation, Johnny. Yeah, well,
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it usually is when people get shot at Joe now mine. We're not sure
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the bullet was meant for Harvey Stone to brush the whole thing off. I
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think somebody might have been doing a little target practice in the woods stray shot
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Huh, how it could be, yes, yes, but with the kind
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of insurance was carrying out. Yeah, better give me a rundown on him.
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Harvey's father, e J built up the business Widwall two years ago.
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He remarried last year he had retired. He's in a wheelchair now, I
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see well. Now Harvey is running things. Lives with his father and stepmother
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in a big place in Westchester County, but he also keeps a small apartment
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on East fifty seventh in Manhattan. Any trouble in the family, anything like
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that. Harry has been running around lately with the supper club singing named Helen
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Barrett. I gather he's thinking of marrying. I also gather his family as
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bitterly opposed to the idea. How about Harvey's business affairs? Could he have
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made any enemies? There? One at least? Oh Dutch Krieger name,
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yeah, I sure do. A gambler with a lot of Doobe behind him
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and a couple of Gunzeles in front. That's the one. How come he
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get mixed up with a character like Kreager? He didn't refuse to coming in.
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Krieger's put on a big act about going legitimately. Young Stone was negotiating
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a sizeable real estate transaction. Recently found out that Krieger was one of the
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associates in the deal. He threatened to call it all off, made the
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other associates kick Kreeger out Dutch wouldn't forget anything like that, No, he
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wouldn't. Who's the beneficiary on Stone's insurance policies? Father and stepmother jointly,
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Johnny, I smell trouble. I want you to get down there and nose
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around, see which you can turn up and do me this life? Sure?
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What is it? Keep Harvey Stone alive with him expense account Adam too
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twelve dollars and fifty cents transportation and incidentals to the Stone of State in Westchester
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County. It was one of those massive, dignified looking places and listening comfortably
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in about ten acres of bronze. The butler showed me into a room only
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about half as big as Grand Central Station. So I wandered around, inspect
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the paneling and the Italian works of art. Then I zeroed in on one
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of the paintings and involved a luscious lady, a bunch of grapes and a
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pool of water. Nice, isn't it? Yeah? The painting, I
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mean quite nice, isn't it. Oh? Yeah, if you like grapes,
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you must be mister Stone, mister Dollar, Daphney Stone, missus.
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I didn't know the wedding had taken place, my you are behind the times.
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It took place two years ago. I'm missus E. J. Stone.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Well, is your steps on the here?
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Harvey? He should be back any minute. He had to run into the
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city. But let me give you a tip, mister Dollar, don't call
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Harvey my stepson in front of him. Oh you see, he and I
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are just about the same age. And he said, yeah, okay,
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I'll remember. How about Harvey's father? Is he here? Yes? My
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husband ready along in just a moment. He has to get around a wheelchair
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now, but he's very stubborn, won't let anyone push him. Well,
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of missus Stone, I think you know why I'm here. Yes, of
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course. About that absurd thing that happened to Harvey last night? Absurd?
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Isn't it ridiculous to think that it was an attempt on his life? After
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all, he will go tearing around these roads at night in his sports car,
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probably someone out hunting. Is that what you think, Missus Stone?
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What else could it be? Nobody has any reason to cure Harvey. Everything
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harmony is here at home, I suppose, of course. How about Harvey's
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plans to marry Helen Barrett? Oh, yes, that that mister Dollar.
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Say, I'm getting a little weary of that name. It's Johnny, isn't
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it he? Yah, m Daphne, Johnny, let me give you another
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tip. You seem to be full of them. What's this one, Daphney,
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I wouldn't man to Harvey's fiance to his father. Oh, mister Stone
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is quite violently opposed to the match. How about you, Jefney, how
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do you feel about it? Anything Harvey wants? Oh, Edward, this
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is mister Dollar. Yes, yes, I know I do all. Mister
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Stone. That idiot McNabb from the insurance company phoned me about your dollar worries
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like an old woman. Seems to think that full accident Harvey had last night
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was an attempted murder. Oh, he's just taking normal precautions. Mister Stone
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recautions well, just as well. I suppose Harvey could use a nurse maid.
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He always manages to get things fall up somehow. Now, Edward,
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I see my orchids. Dollar. Of course you do this way out in
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the selarium. Okay, Oh here, let me push you. Never mind,
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I can manage. Oh my good advice. This way, Dollar.
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I'll have a drink for you when you're ready. Johnny. Thanks. Uh,
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here we are. Oh, some kids will cares about orchids. Just
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wanted to talk with you. Well, what do you make of his business
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dollar? But Harvey, I mean that bullet and his windshield last night.
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You really figure somebody's trying to kill him? Well, I don't know,
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mister Stone, That's what I'm here to find out. Well, I don't
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know who would be. Harby's not a bad sort, really terrible business man.
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Oh how so I could run the Stone Corporation better than he does for
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my wheelchair? He doesn't do things your way? Huh not things like it
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used to be. Everything's done differently now maybe it has to be has to
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be business is business? Yeah, well, how about his fiance? I
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suppose you disapprove of her too, Helen Barrett. No, by, golly,
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I got a headed to Harvey. There. Don't quite know how we
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managed to land someone like her. Wait a minute, you mean you're not
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opposed to his marrying her? More power to him. Chip off the old
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block. I guess what's that mean? Or did the same thing? That's
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what picked himself a Broadway girl? You mean missus Stone dafning right out of
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musical comedy. I see. How does she feel about Helen Barrett? I
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don't seem to warm up to her. Oh, well, how can you
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figure out a woman? Yeah, Jenny, so it's definitely the disapproves of
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Helen. That's very interesting. Interesting, it's a nuisance drink, Johnny.
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Oh, oh, thanks, Jevane. I'm mister Stone. You're not having
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any oh a full doctor of minds us No, Edward, you look tired.
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Perhaps you'd better rest tired. Who's tired? Well? Then just one
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more question, mister Stone, What is it Do you know of anyone who
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might want to kill Harvey once in a while? I sure would, Edward,
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I tell you, when I think of how he's running that business into
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the ground, I could I could wring his neck. Edward. It's no
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time for jokes, Johnny. This whole thing is ridiculous. Harvey hasn't an
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enemy in the world. Well have you gotten me nicely taken apart by now
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people? Harvey? Dear? What that mean? Father? This is Dollar
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Harvey Jimmy, isn't it? Johnny? Yes, I heard mister Dollar was
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coming. Man. Why how are you look tired? Have you let me
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fix you a drink? Thanks darling, Thanks darling, you know, Dollar,
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sometimes I wonder which one of us was married to Daphne. That was
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a perfectly charming thing to say, Edward. Yes, father, you seem
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to be an unusually good form tonight. This is for the benefit of our
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guest, no doubt. Look, if I could just talk to you for
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a moment, Harvey. Oh, don't mind these little exchanges, Johnny.
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If you're around this place very long, you'll get used to them. Good
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Night, good night Father, like a drink now, Harvey, Oh,
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never mind, Daphne, I can manage all right. I'll go on up
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then. I hope we'll be seeing you again, Johnny. Oh, you
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probably will. Good Night. I am. I'm sorry about that business with
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father. Just now, Johnny. Most of the time he thinks it's fine
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that Daphnie and I get on so well together. That sometimes he doesn't.
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I suppose now he's in the wheelchair, he feels the difference in their ages
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even more. Yeah, and ever since I've taken over the management of the
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corporation. Well, oh, I'm sure he must have made it very clear
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he doesn't approve of my policies. And he's probably right. Oh well,
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my heart's not in it, really, But somebody had to take over.
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Look, Harvey, you said you knew why I was here. Oh,
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sure about that silly business. Last evening? What exactly happened? Well,
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I have a new sports car that I'm fond of. I went for a
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drive. No, there's some pretty good country roads around here, and I
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slowed for a sharp turn and I heard what I thought was a backfire,
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but M winshield shattered. It was a bullet. I want you to do
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that. I stopped to warn whoever it was to keep away from the roads.
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It didn't occur to you that somebody might be trying to kill you.
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Oh what good lord? No, Look, Johnny, I used to roam
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these woods when I was a kid, taking pop shots at fence posts.
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That's obviously what happened last night. You didn't see anyone when you started.
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No, it was probably some kid. He's probably still running. And you
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can't think of anyone who might want to kill you. How about Dutch Creagerkriger
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the gambler. I understand he was involved in a business deal you were thinking
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of making. You refuse to go through with it until his associates dumped him.
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Of course, after all, the name Stone does have a pretty honorable
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history. I couldn't very well have a connected with somebody like Krieger. Well,
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Dutch wouldn't forget a thing like that. Look about your fiance, Helen
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Barrett, Johnny, I suggest you can find your question to subjects not quite
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so personal. All right, So I sound nosy, but you're heavily insured,
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Harvey, and that bullet last night could have been meant for you.
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My job is to find out if there's anyone who could possibly have any reason
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to kill you. There isn't. Do you know of anyone who's opposed to
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your marriage? I told you I'd rather not talk about that anyway. There's
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a good chance there isn't going to be any marriage. No, what do
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you mean? Look, Johnny, I have a good idea. It's almost
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time for the last train into the city. You did the station a polite
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but firm message that the interview was over. Harvey got called at the phone,
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and I went outside to wait for him. Daphnie lied when she told
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me Harvey's father opposed the marriage. The nightclub singer Helen Barrett. It was
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Daphne who didn't like the idea. She and Harvey seemed pretty chummy and the
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old man didn't seem to like that. Harvey had crossed a rough boy named
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Dutch Kreeger and a business deal unless a sense. Dutch didn't like that.
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And now Harvey just told me there might not be a marriage, which indicated
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some kind of trouble air. All in all, it looked like a cozy,
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little powder cake. Then as I started for Harvey's car, the keke
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exploded right in my stomach in the form of a fist. I couldn't see
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who they were, but the two of them really knew their business. The
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way they worked me over, hard enough to hurt, it's not hard enough
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to put me out. Finally, I guess he got bored. One of
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them did me a favor. He put me away. Now here's our star
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to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story. Tomorrow. Well,
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look, you should never get in a card game of the professional gambler.
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He can need you any card he wants, even the Ace of Spades,
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the death card. Join us, won't you yours? True Johnny Dollar,
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welcome back. Well, as I said, part two is missing, and
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it was pretty eventful. First Johnny called in the uh really The book says
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the fight but really it was an ambush and tells Joe mc nab to go
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ahead and sign Johnny up for a policy given how the case is going,
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and he suspects a Dutch creaker goes and sees him and Johnny spots him.
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Dutch admits that he knows him, and then there's some threatening talk. Then
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Johnny goes to see Helen Barrett at her club and she expresses concern about Harvey
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because of the whole thing with Dutch, and she also says the wedding has
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not been canceled, just postponed, so add that to the conflicting stories Johnny
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had received already, and Johnny double checks on the health of the organization,
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goes back to his hotel and then gets a call from Helen, and Helen
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says that Harvey had called wanted to talk about the wedding, and she gone
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back to pack by call apparently meant called at her apartment. She went to
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pack well, Harvey made a call make a reservation to go to Mexico,
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and then she came back and Harvey was dead, and Johnny called Lieutenant Ristelli
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and gave him the information. Went to see Dutch, but Dutch says he's
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got an air tight alibi. He was at the club all night, and
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then as Johnny was leaving, he spots a picture of Daphney signed to Duchy
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with all my love. So that's what happened in part two. And I
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have to say, of all the parts that are missing, this was probably
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the most inconvenient. But there you go. We're going to go ahead and
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pick it up with part three of the Imperfect Alibi Matter from Hollywood. It's
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time now for Johnny Dollar. Joe was STILLI at homicide, Johnny, I
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was out. When you call anything new on the Harvey Stone killing Joe a
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thing, but maybe we've already got all we need, Meaning Helen Barrett,
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we're Joe. I don't think she did it. Oh, I know it
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all adds up to her, but we'll just call it a hunch. Hunches
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are fine, Johnny, but facts are better. You want to hear some
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fact. I'll be right over tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey and
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the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Free
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Lance Insurance Investigators Truley Johnny Dollar expense Account submitted by special Investigator Johnny dollar to
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the home office Northeastern den to the associates Hartford, Connecticut assignment the imperfect alibi
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matter location, New York City. Expense account continued, idam made a dollar
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forty can't fare. The police had caught us in my hotel to talk to
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Lieutenant Ghoris Deli Son. Johnny, thanks, facts, you said, Facts
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number one. Harvey Stone was shot on the left side of the forehead at
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close range with the thirty eight caliber Smith and West, and the gun was
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near the body any prints on it. All was clean, but Helen Barrett
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had glows with him. Helen says she left Harvey's apartment and went to her
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own to pack up. They were going to a lope. When she got
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back to his apartment, he was dead. So she told me, Johnny,
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I'd like to believe her too. She seems like a pretty nice kid.
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But but what not enough facts in her favor? Who saw or leaves
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Stone's apartment? We can't find anyone who did What time she leaves? She
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can't remember, did anyone see her return? What time? That's a lot
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of questions not to be at answer. Johnny, Yeah, yeah, I
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know. What was the time of death? Medical examiner figures it's somewhere between
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eleven thirty midnight. Oh, Helen told me she thought it was about eleven
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when she left Harvey's apartment and about midnight when she returned. Yeah about even
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if she did leave, she only lives a few blocks away, and there's
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a lot of time on accounted for it, Johnny. Yeah, better fill
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me in on what you know. Well as I get it. Harvey Stone
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took over the management of his father's corporation when Old EJ. Took to a
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wheelchair about a year ago. Yeah, I know. Two years ago,
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Old EJ married an next chorus girl named Daphney. Yeah. Yeah, well
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she's about Harvey's age. The two of them were apparently pretty friendly, and
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the old man was bothered by it occasionally. Incidentally, he and Daphney are
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joint beneficiaries on Harvey's insurance policy one hundred and fifty thousand worth. Sounds like
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you're trying to tie the old man into the killing. He quite a stretch,
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Johnny, from his wheelchair up in Westchester County, the Harvey's apartment on
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East fifty seven. I know, but right now I'm more interested in Daphney.
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Oh, I told you last night. I thought Dutch Krieger was mixed
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up in this. I went to his office afterward and spotted a picture of
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Daphney's stone on his wall, inscription, all my love sign Daphne. You
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think Daphne got Dutch to do her in himself a favor? Huh that's a
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possibility, isn't it. Sure? Sure, it's a possibility. Trouble is,
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there are all kinds of possibilities right now. I gotta stick with a
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probability. Helen Barrett, Uh huh? How are you doing on motive for
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her? Not good? Not bad? You know, there was some question
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as to whether they were going to be married or not. Helen says the
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hesitation was on her part, but suppose it was the other way around.
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Harvey decided not to go through with the marriage. Yeah, getting cut out
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of the stone money would hurt some girl's plenty. Maybe this was her way
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of getting even with him for breach of promise. You know, Joe,
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for a guy who loves facts, seems to me, you're edging over into
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hunches tool. I admit it isn't a closed case by a long shot.
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So let's get back to facts. Harvey was shot in the forehead with a
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thirty eight Smith and Wesson sometime between eleven thirty. Excuse me, Rostelli speaking?
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Who what about? Oh? I'll send him in. Somebody wants to
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see me about the killing? Oh you, Lieutenant Rostelli's right, you're hand
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on the Stone killing trying too. I want to talk to you about it.
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Sit down, thank you. What's your name? Gentry? Alvin Gentry?
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So what about the Stone killing? I killed Harvey Stone. Let's have
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that again, I said, I killed Stone. I want to make a
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statement. Why did you kill him? Making a play for my girl?
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I didn't like it? Your girl? You mean Helen Barrett? Who Helen
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Barrett, Harvey Stone's fiance. Oh, I don't know her. I mean
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my girl dars a hat? Check girl at Barney's. Well, go on,
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go on. The Stone was on the make for every time he came
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in Barney's to make a play for. I told him to lay off,
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and he wouldn't. It's going to go away with him. I went to
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apartment. I killed him. How'd you kill him? You shot him where
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I told you? In his apartment? I mean where did the bullet hit
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him? Oh? In the chest? What kind of gun do you used
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for cold. What'd you do with a gun? I threw it in the
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river? Okay, gentry, get out? Why I said, get out?
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But I told you, yeah, you told me. All right now
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I'm telling you get out. Look, I don't understand. I'll tell you
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what you do. You just go on out of here and think it over
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when you come back with a few facts straight facts, yeah, like the
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caliber of the gun and where Stone was shot in the location of the gun.
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You get the facts straight, and I'll be glad to listen to you
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and I'll get out. Okay, confess and Sam number one, Yeah,
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it's always a streamp. That's one reason we don't usually release the caliber of
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the gun to the papers to help weed out these confess and Sam won know
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why they do it. A psychiatrist was explaining it to me once, something
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to do with repressed He leans of guilty, I think he said. Next
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one will probably say he stabbed Harvey Stone with a letter opener. Yeah.
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Well, I'm going to run on and have a talk with Daphne Stelly speaking
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All right, now, Look, Mike, you take the statement. Huh,
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thanks, Well I was wrong about the letter opener. Johnny, Oh,
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we've got a guy now who claims he used a razor on Harvey slid
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his throat from me the ear. As I left, I spent about three
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minutes feeling sorry for Estelly in his crank confessions. But then I dropped that
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routine and started feeling sorry for my own problems. The case against Helen Barrett
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looked pretty bad, but I still kept thinking of Daphne Stone's picture in Dutch
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Creager's office expense account out of nine three twenty transportation to the Stone estate in
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Westchester County. I was shown into the king sized drawing room again to wait
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for Daphne. But then I saw a very interesting sight that wipe Daphne out
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of my mind for a moment. It was old EJ's wheelchair at the door
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of the Solarium, and what was unusual about it was that it was empty.
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I edged toward the door. Then I got a glimpse of EJ puttering
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around his orchids. He spotted me, though, and hobbled quickly to his
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wheelchair. With an abrupt wave, he wheelded the hall and out of sight.
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A couple of minutes later, in came Daphne. Hello, Johnny Tephany
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Well you said it was important that you talked to me, but I really
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don't feel much like talking after what's happened. I'm sure you understand, I
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think. So, how's EJ taking it? My husband is reacting as I
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suppose any father would who had just lost his son be willdered and hurt.
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You didn't tell me EJ could navigate without his wheelchair. I saw him a
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minute ago inspecting his orchids. The wheelchair was parked near the door. I
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didn't think it was important, Johnny. It's true he can be out of
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his chair for short periods, but it's rather uncomfortable for it. Out of
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his chair for how long? Not long enough to get into New York and
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back, if that's what you're wondering. Thanks. You told me it was
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EJ who was opposed to Harvey's plans to marry Helen Barrett. But I found
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out that you were the one who was fighting it. I suppose it was
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fully shot me to pretend otherwise. Yes, I just didn't want you to
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get any wrong ideas about what about the reason I opposed it? What's the
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right idea? The name of Stone means something, Johnny, dignity, tradition,
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breeding. I doubt if someone like Helen Barrett, and entertainer nice as
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she is, could keep that tradition alive. Are you kidding? I'm completely
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serious. Something like this happened once before with Harvey's secretary Martha Winters, and
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you stopped it, just like you were trying to stop him from marrying Helen.
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Don't like the way you put that. I merely persuaded him to think
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of the family name. You know you kill me, Daphne? What do
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you mean by that? This does a blue blood you picked up? Aren't
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you a Daphne? Come lady yourself? How dare ej told me he lifted
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you out of a chorus line when he married you? How about it?
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Yes, it's true? So why do you get off with this? Don't
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suppose you'd ever understand this, Johnny. There are chorus girls and chorus girls.
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Best I know, I had to support my mother somehow, But all
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the while I knew that life wasn't for me, And when I got a
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chance at this life, I took it. And since I married Edward,
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I've lived the way anyone with the name of Stone should live. I've put
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my past behind me, even Dutch trigger Yeah, yeah, I saw your
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picture on his office wall. He was part of the past. It doesn't
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exist anymore, Isn't it kind of a coincidence. He tried to worm his
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way into one of Harvey's business deals. I had nothing to do with it,
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and Harvey acted correctly in refusing to have anything to do with Dutch.
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I see, then, you opposed Harvey's marriage to Helen to protect the family
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name. Ah, just as I opposed the previous attachment to his secretary.
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Sure it wasn't because you didn't like the idea of competition. It's a It's
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a pretty low thing to say under the circumstances. Well, just what are
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the circumstances. It's very simple. I've lost someone who was very dear to
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me. Even though I was Harvey's stepmother. We were practically the same age.
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Sure, I know people talked about it, made crude jokes about it,
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but I didn't care because I found in Harvey something I'd never had in
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my life before. Oh what was that? A friend, Johnny, A
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real friend. I went back into the city. If I could only find
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somebody to establish the time period Helen had been away from Harvey's place. I
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went over to her apartment. I was figuring, there's always one tenant who
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knows everybody else's business. Five door bells later, I found the one.
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I had to come in late, but I don't remember just what time.
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I was watching a program on the TV. There was this old man and
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woman. Yeah, yes, yes, you're sure. It was Helen Barrett
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who came in. How to be sure? She lives right under me?
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Besides, he was waiting for him. They had a talk. I couldn't
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quite hear what they were saying. She kept telling him to quiet down.
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Well, I mean, well, I wasn't really saying any attention. It
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was no, no, of course not you said he was waiting for who
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do you mean? Friends Lisa used to be she used to go with.
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Happen to remember his name? Sure, Gentry, Alvin Gentry, Alvin Gentry.
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It was Alvin Gentry who'd made the fake confession in Rosselli's office. At
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the time, there had been nothing to tie him into the case. But
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now, according to missus Carson, he was a friend of Helen's. My
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hunch about her innocence took a nosedive. Yeah, that confession he tried to
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make could be his way of trying to protect her, and that would add
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up to just one thing. Helen was guilty after all. Now here's our
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star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story. Tomorrow up Pops
30:53
and eyewitness and drives the final nail into the wrong coffin. Join us,
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won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar starrying
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Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Robert Rife. It is produced
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and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night, same
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time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy
31:41
Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, I appreciated that twist with the confessing Sam
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really adding a sense of mystery around that. And we've got quite a few
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suspects, and you see that, Johnny, And this one's definitely got a
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suspe you know, properly suspicious, even of the guy in the wheelchair when
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he sees him out of the wheelchair. So I think pretty intelligent and we
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can look forward to we'll hear the resolution to this case on Friday. We'll
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give you both parts four and five, so be sure and listen to that
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all right. Listener comments and feedback, and received a comment from Gary,
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who says, Hi, Adam, I love listening to your podcast. Nick
33:21
Carter and Johnny Dollar are my favorites that you are running at this time.
33:24
However, my all time favorite is Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
33:30
I'm very interested in taking a tour of Dragnet when you start that sequence.
33:35
Again, thank you for all the great background information you provide. An
33:39
awesome job, keep it coming. I access the podcast on iTunes. I'd
33:45
like to switch to my Android machine, but I do not know how to
33:47
get similar access to that platform. Any tips that you could provide would be
33:52
appreciated. Well, Gary, there's a couple of things you could do.
33:58
First, if you have a if you have a podcast podcast catching device app,
34:12
and there are several for the Android. I'm not sure which would be
34:15
best, but if you just searched the Android store, you should find a
34:21
podcatcher app where you can download podcast and then just put our feet in.
34:25
The Other option is you go through the Amazon App Store, which is available
34:30
for Android, and you purchase the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio app and
34:37
then that'll have all the shows on it, so those would be the two
34:39
options that I could provide on that. And I am definitely a fan of
34:45
Basil Rathbone and Nijea Bruce. I was kind of surprised when we did the
34:51
Planet again that nobody actually emailed in asking for him, but as of course,
34:57
the listener listener driven, and they definitely have a place in my heart.
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And have I ever played anything Holmes related? I think it would be
35:07
their run on the series that are the last one for Harry Allen Towers.
35:12
That one was pretty classy. But thanks so much for your comments and your
35:15
support. Gary. And then this comment from Katie or from Thomas, I
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enjoy listening to the Johnny Dollar episodes. Well, thanks so much and we'll
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keep them coming all right. Well, as I said, join us on
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Friday as we will wrap up the Imperfect Alibi matter. But coming up tomorrow
35:35
it's the Casebook of Gregory Hood. In the meanwhile, if you have a
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