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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Emily Braddock Matter (EP1366) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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a listener, Samantha, and she asked me to go ahead and send along
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a birthday wish to Brett Corbyn. Well, happy birthday Brett also, and
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I hope you have a great one. And also today's programs brought to you
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by the financial support of our listeners, and I want to thank Kirk so
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much for his support. Well, we now return to newly discovered episodes of
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar from the John Lund era. This time it's one
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we've never played before, and not just one we played as a rehearsal.
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Today's program is the Emily Braddock Matter, and it was actually the only lost
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episode in a sixteen week span from March seventeenth to June thirtieth of nineteen fifty
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three. So now that whole block is complete. This episode originally aired on
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May the nineteenth of nineteen fifty three, and the program that was before it,
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the Rochester Theft Matter, aired on March, was one WE broadcast on
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March the ninth of twenty twelve, so this would have appeared probably about March
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sixteenth. Anyway, to reiterate the bar a cast date here from May the
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nineteenth of nineteen fifty three is the Emily Braddock Matter. The wbbm Are Theater,
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As, Johnny Dollar, Hi Johnny Frank, Preston all them all? Liability?
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Oh, hi Frank? How's it going? Okay? I guess Jenny,
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say you tied up? No? Not at the moment. What is
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it? The bad check on us out on the West coast has been giving
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us a lot of headaches lately. Hotel of Monterey, another one at Santa
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Cruz, and this morning had a wife from one of our clients who runs
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a place in Santa Barbara forty five dollars worth of claims already and all in
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five five days. Sounds like a very busy man. That's something else.
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It isn't a man, it's a woman. A woman, and you've got
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Healthful, refreshing, delicious expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dawler to the
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The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Emily Braddock matter.
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Expense account Item one one hundred and fifty eight dollars and sixteen cents Plain
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Fair and Incidentals, Hartford to Santa Barbara. My mid morning arrival was timed
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for the sun and the sea to show off a sizable and pleasantly crowded harbor,
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some sprawling hotels, to lush, green golf courses, acres and acres
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of snug expensive homes. At the police station, my contact, the Sergeant
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Lopez, was out, so I went over to the Harbor Inn and met
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the victimized hotel operator, Glenn Sheridan, Tall, gray haired, slacks,
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sports shirts, sun tan, and sandals. On the face of it,
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you'd think I'd been in the hotel business twenty minutes instead of twenty years.
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The way that woman took me, well, she's done the same thing in
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several other nice hotels up and down the coast. If that's any comfort,
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well it isn't. I suppose the thing that bothers me most is that if
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she walked through that door right now and told me none of it was true,
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I'd probably believe her. She was that good, mister Dollar. She
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was the best. She pranced in her as big as life, and I
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probably didn't have a nickel in her purse once more. For the whole four
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days she was here, she didn't break her stride once. What do you
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mean, well, only the best of everything. Well, she gave you
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a check for eight hundred and thirteen dollars a rightfully right, and I took
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it no questions. Every night in the dining room she'd order champagne, special
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dishes. I've seen my share of grifters and bad check artists, but she
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chopped them all. Perfume, clothes, luggage, conversation and a very pretty
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woman. Dollar beautiful. In fact, she checked in alone, registered as
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missus Robert Payne, Beverly Hills. Right. The strike you is odd that
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a woman would check into a place like this, a resort hotel, alone.
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No, she wasn't alone long. She met other people, became friends
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of at least half a dozen guests in the place. Uh huh, the
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way she was throwing my money around. Why not she picked up all the
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tabs. Well, ordinarily I'd have been suspicious under those circumstances, mister dollar,
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but she threw me off right from the very start. How's that missus
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Shadow? Well, she showed up about midnight, came in a cab that
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was just loaded down with expensive luggage while they wrote a bad check for that
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someplace. Yeah. Probably. She came swinging in the lobby with a cabby
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following her and told the night clerk she wanted to see me. When I
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came down to the desk, she yelled, Sherry ran up and kissed me
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and asked how my wife was. Can you beat that? Nope? She
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acted as though we knew each other, and one of those tricks your mind
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plays on you in this business. I actually thought I remembered her from some
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place. I see she registered is missus Robert Payne said she was on her
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way back from Lake Tahoe, wanted to rest up something about just getting a
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divorce and being awarded three thousand a month alimally. That impressed me. Well,
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I didn't impress anyone, Missus Sheridan, and I did make a check.
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She gave her home address as Beverly Hills, and there was Robert Pain
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listed there. Later on I found out he's in Europe with his wife and
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children. But his name was in the book, and that was enough for
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me. She had a wonderful four days here, I'll say that for her.
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Getting back to that part about her looking familiar, there's nothing in that
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dollar. I did think I had seen her before, and of course she
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helped me think it, but I was too embarrassed to press the matter with
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her. I guess if you have a copy of her hotel account, I'd
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like to look it over. Now, Hey, police have the check she
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gave me. It was drawn on a bank in Beverly Hills. Was it
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personalized? No, maybe I should have thought something of that. Eh,
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well, here's this much. I can't stand and look it over. It
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makes me kind of sick. Eight hundred and thirteen dollars. I spent another
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hour with mister Sheridan as he distastefully covered the items on the bills she'd paid
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with a bad check. Later that afternoon, I met with Sergeant Lopez,
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who reported a woman answering the same description had passed bad checks in Burlingame.
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Santa Maria and OHI Expense account Item two one hundred and fourteen dollars eighty five
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cents transportation to my Ray and Santa Cruz, where I interviewed the other two
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clients who had filed claims. Their stories were much the same as Sheridan's.
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Expencer count item three four dollars fifteen cents long distance phone call at you,
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Johnny, Yeah, Frank. All the claims are pretty solid. The police
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have no line on this. Come home, Oh hop down a Malibu beach,
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she's done it again, and a place go for sea side in.
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The guy who runs it found out it was bad fifteen minutes after she left.
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That was this morning. I don't expect any miracles, but if you
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get down there right away, maybe you can get on her trail. Well,
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we'll try it. Expenser count item four thirty eight dollars even transportation Santa
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Barbara to Malibu. I didn't even bother to listen to it as grundled hotel
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proprietor repeat a story I knew so well, but went directly to the Sheriff's
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station and Sergeant Pell's well, that's about the picture. She was at the
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inn for four days and checked out this morning. She used the name Bradley,
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Ellen, Bradley. She can't be too far ahead of you now,
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Now there might be a break on this one too. While she was at
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the end, she took up with one of our local residents, a man
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by the name of Garland, lives over in the colony. He drove her
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into town this morning. Have you talked to him? I can't find him
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anywhere. He has a house over in the colony. Colony, Yeah,
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that's down the road, apiece. They call it that because a lot of
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movie stars both beach homes there a long time ago, movie colony. Oh
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yeah, this Garland an actor. Yeah, when he gets work, which
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isn't very often, I guess mainly he keeps sun tanned. And we're trying
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to look at him now. As soon as we do it, I'm sure
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the sergeant pells, yeah right away, Garland's home. Now. I went
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with Sergeant Pearls to talk with Garland, who was in trunks and sunglasses in
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front of his house. A healthy, muscular, handsome man in his mid
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thirties. He was a little stunned by the news we brought him Ellen and
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phoning sergeant, are you sure about this, Well, you can ask the
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man at the Seaside and he got the check, and mister Dolla here has
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been looking all over the state for her. Well, come, well,
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let's cope into the house. All right. I thought I knew her pretty
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well. Did you meet her out here? That you know her? Before?
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I met her at the Seaside Inn the first night she was here?
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All right, thank you? I said, oh, like something to drink?
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I know, thank you? Not now? Thanks? I understand you
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drove her into Los Angeles, that's right. I took her in this morning.
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Where did you take it? Beverly Glen Hotel? Did she check you
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in there? No? She just dumped all her luggage. She told me
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she didn't know whether or not she'd have to go to Chicago tonight, something
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about a house she owned there that had to be rented us solely. Did
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you leave her there? No? She made a phone call, said she
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had to meet a lawyer. She saved. Where. Yeah, a bar
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in Hollywood, top her on Conger. So I drove her over there and
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left her. When was this, oh, three hours ago? About one
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o'clock. I guess how is she dressed? A black strapless job? Did
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she mention any names, tell you anything about herself. Yeah, she told
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me that six months ago her little two year old boy was killed in an
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anomobile accident. She said that was the thing that broke up her marriage to
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this Bradley guy. Uh huh, said she needed to believe in something again,
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that she needed someone to believe in her. Well, I figured her
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for a pretty nice person, just having a little fling, even with what
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you've told me. I believe that, bottom Why because she told me,
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and she cried little when she was telling me. Oh, I don't care
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how you look at me. I don't think anyone could invent a story that
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tragic without some sort of basis. Well maybe you've got a point, Golan,
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But a good liar can see a story in a newspaper adapted to his
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own needs and maybe even cry a little about it. All. I still
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believe it, you know, mister Donne, You ought to try believing that
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people tell you sometime. Yeah, I'll try it next time. I have
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two weeks off in my business. They call that a vacation. Well,
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well, pay Gent's police. I'm like to talk to the man who was
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on Judy here at one o'clock this afternoon. Oh that's me, sergeant.
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My name's Lenny Pollard. Anything wrong now, just routine? Well can I
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get you something now? Thank you. We're trying to locate a woman who's
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been using the name Ellen Bradley. We were told she was in here around
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one o'clock today. I don't recognize that name. About five or five,
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dark brown hair, brown eyes, or a black strapless summer dress when last
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scene thirty year under it. No, No one like that one o'clock.
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It's a pretty quiet time. In fact, all afternoon's been quiet. No
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woman like that's been in hum at all. Have you been here all the
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time? Yeah, on duty since eleven o'clock that's when we open. Are
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you sure this is the right place? The top it? Sorry, wish
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I could help you. When we got to the Beverly Glen Hotel, a
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worried clerk was still wondering what to do with the fourteen pieces of luggage Ellen
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Bradley had left there earlier. No, she hadn't phoned in and given them
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any instructions. No, she was not registered at the hotel. Sergeant Pell's
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made arrangements for a man to cover the lobby in case she showed up to
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claim her things. By eight the next morning, the Central Identification Bureau and
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Sacramento made a positive identification on a thumbprint taken from her room at the Seaside
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Hotel. She was identified as Emily Miles Braddock. Her nearest living relative was
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a sister, Elaine address twelve East Orange Avenue, Los Angeles. You you're
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on there? Yes? Who are you looking for? Elaine Braddock? Are
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you miss Braddock? What do you want? I'd like to talk to you
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for a minute. I'm not selling anything. I'm an insurance investigator. You
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sure you have the right party, Elaine Braddock? Come on, I miss
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it. Just open the door and come on. Kimani and Kimanian want to
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see me here? I am What do you want to see me about?
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The gray haired woman who had cackled at me from the second story, who
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was sitting in a wheelchair by the window. My name is Johnny Dollar.
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I'm here about your sister, Oh, Emily, huh, Yes, we're
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trying to find her. Has she been around here? We know she's in
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the Los Angeles area. Emily was here a little bit yesterday afternoon. Where
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she's gone now, I don't know, have no idea. How long was
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she here? Oh? She stayed maybe two or three hours. I hope
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I don't ever see her again. She's no good. Well how did she
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get here? By car cab? I don't know, just standing at the
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door yesterday, the same as you all of a sudden. Well how did
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she leave? Walked? Tried to borrow some money from me, but I
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wouldn't give her nothing, so she had to walk. Did she make any
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phone calls or see anybody else while she was here? She made a call?
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Any idea who it was? No? Did you happen to hear anything
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she said on the phone? No? Showing up here just like that,
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after not writing and letting me hear from her all the time, she was
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away getting herself in trouble with the police, being in jail ten years ago,
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when I got hurt, she promised she'd take care of me. Look
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how she's done it. I have to live on the county. You know
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that. I got to live on the county and nobody cares about me.
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Is she in bad trouble? I'm afraid so. Well. How bad is
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it? Mister? Oh? Ten years? Maybe ten years? Ten years
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two was bad enough, but ten what'd you say your name was Dollar,
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mister Dollar, I hope you don't catch her. Even if she kills someone,
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I hope you don't catch her. And I hear you're only young a
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little while and that's all you got ten years in prison, and she'd she'd
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you the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. That afternoon of
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follow up came on Emily Miles Braddock. The completed folder included a mugshot that
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showed a woman of thirty years with dark brown hair, wide set eyes,
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a well formed nose and mouth. I took it with me when I went
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back to see Tom Garland. Oh, hi, hi, mind if I
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come in? What now your friend? What about her? I've been thinking
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about what you told me about her yesterday. That's nice. Here, take
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a look at this. That's her, isn't it? Yo? Yeah,
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that's sir. Can we talk now? Okay, come on. Her name's
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Emily Braddock, not Ellen Bradley hop. Until two months ago, she was
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in the State Correction Home for Women, serving a two year term for grand
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theft. Yeah. Take your picture of that. I'm not pushing my weight
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showing it to your Garland. But you're a little stubborn about what you want
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to believe about her. She lost a baby, as she told you,
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she was in prison when it happened. I thought I'd better prove this live,
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all right, So you proved you mind if I sit down. Thanks,
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Well, do you have anything else to tell me? Oh? I
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suppose I do, since you don't want to seem to You just don't seem
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to want to tell me anything. I've been on this case almost a week
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now, and that time I've talked to eight different men who have met Emily
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Braddock and one woman who knew her by her real name and for what she
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really is, Garland. Every one of those people came out on the short
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end of things with her just a minute time. I've looked at this mugshot.
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I've heard these men describe her, and I think I can understand why.
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It's not hard to imagine this face set off with a nice hairdoo,
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some ear rings, makeup, and the works. This sister of hers I
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met this morning lives in a very crummy neighborhood, a family home. She's
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all Emily has left. Oh vice versa. Emily walked out on her.
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Well, it's as bad as you say it is. Why shouldn't she?
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For one reason, her sister is a hopeless cripple, But even she would
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protect Emily. You're my only hope what this woman can get away from us
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right now? She's smart and clever. She can go right on doing the
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same things she's been doing all along. Oh, she'll get caught eventually.
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But because I know her and she passed a few bad checks doesn't mean that
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I'm responsible in anyway. You know that you're right, It doesn't. But
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you're involved just the same. You're different from a hotel man who's been tilted.
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You're a boyfriend, true, just a four day boyfriend. But a
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woman like that can do a lot of damage in four days time. Why
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you're here, dollar, what do you want? I'm here to disillusion your
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garland because I don't think you're disillusioned enough right now. No, wait a
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minute. I you're a perfect stranger to me. I don't know you from
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a grand rapid's chair, but I'm doing you a favor telling you that Emily
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Braddock is a crook and a thief and a forger, and that everything she
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ever told you was a lie. Now and then, a woman walks into
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a man's life that he'd sell his soul for. But don't ever do any
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business along those lines with this baby, because all she'll do is give you
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a bad check for it. She's troubled in a great big way, Garland,
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and you know it as well as I do. What do you want
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me to do apologize for meeting her? I'll be satisfied if you tell me
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why you lied, Garland. Emily Braddock never went to that bar you were
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talking about earlier. You didn't drop her off there. No one there had
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even seen her. And she's the kind who could walk into the World Series
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with fifty thousand other people around and still be noticed. Where is she now?
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I don't know. I won't buy that not from you. Now,
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let's try once more. Where is she? What did you do with her
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after you dropped the luggage off at the Beverly Glenn Hotel? Where did you
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take her? She phoned you from her sister's house yesterday afternoon, didn't she?
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Right after I'd been here with Sergeant Pals Garland. You should see that
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sister Ellen's in Cinta, Monica where at a little hotel called el Tonquees.
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She's registered. There's Evelyn Brady. Where's your phone? It's over there Operator
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Sheriff's office. Please thank you? Dollar? Yeah, dollar could have been
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fixed so that she wouldn't know that. I told you could be all of
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us beats me. I don't understand it. What oh, what you've told
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me is true. I know. Ago she called me up and said,
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Tom, I love you. That sounded true too. I told her I
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loved her. Now I'm turning her in. Kind of a crazy world do
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we live in? Twenty minutes later, Sergeant Pells and I were in the
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rick of the elevator and the El Tanqui Hotel. A place is dingy and
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old is the Spanish name. It born a little different from the swank hotels
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where our suspect had lived. So Gaily Pells was thinking of it too,
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some joint this is yeah, what was it? Five eighteen? Yeah,
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it's down this way. I think this one kind of harpoons you a little.
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Eh, Yeah, I suppose. So. There are a lot worse
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things than passing bad checks and telling lies. The way she handled it.
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No one even raised an eyebrow. Yeah, I hear it is yes,
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Emily Braddock. Beg your pardon, I said, it's your name, Emily
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Braddock. You must have the wrong room. My name is Evelyn Brady.
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Sorry, miss, you're the one we want. I'll have to change into
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address. I'll check the room. Excuse me, what's this all about?
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I think you already know. I have no idea. What is it all
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about? Bad checks? There must be some mistake, all right, miss,
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go ahead and change. We'll wait out here. Thank you. I'm
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sorry. We'll have to keep this open a little bit. Oh you can
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dress behind it if you want. If that doesn't suit you, way,
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we'll take you down like you are. Thanks again. I had two windows
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on the outside, no ledge, fire ladders across the court, and he
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lugged a little makeup kit Tella. Yeah, now that you've seen him,
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what do you think? Well, I'm only a human. Too bad,
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she's a crook. Emily Braddock was held at the Sheriff's office in Malibu.
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The officers who questioned her reported that she steadfastly refused to admit any part of
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some sixteen counts that have been filed against her. I wasn't surprised to learn
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this, but I was surprised when she sent word that she'd like to see
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me before I left town. Hi, here, you're about ready to beat
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it. Uh huh. You're the one who talked to him, aren't you
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talk to who? Tell me? Garland? He told you where I was,
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didn't he? YEA, sure he did. I thought you wanted to
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tell me something you thought wrong, the same as all these others around here.
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I'm not going to tell you or anybody else anything. Police are like
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hotel man. You figure out their little system and then you beat it.
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If you say so, I don't have a lot of time. We could
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be pretty good friends. You and I at the saidd and come up,
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I mean a drink or something together. We did it look nice, Emily.
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You're the one who got him to tell where I was, and he
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asked you to fix it so I wouldn't know. Oh yeah, tell me
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you do that. I know. What I don't know is what you said
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to him. How did you get him to tell? Is that all you're
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interested in. It's not asking anything. I told him just what you are,
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A thief, a crook that sold him. Well, he told me
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where to find you. I guess it did. Hm. I must be
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slipping. He slept a long time ago when you walked out on that sister
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of yours, when you thought you could talk and look your way into anything
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you wanted. I didn't know I thought that. But if you say so,
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whatever I've got, it's worked, has it? Two years? The
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last time? Whatever you get. This time will be longer, no matter
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what you say or don't say. I'm not in the courtroom yet. That's
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where it happens, not in a lousy jail. We'll see about that.
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You're just as bad and just as dumb as the worst of any day.
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You believe that. Like it says in the manual, when a woman's suspect
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is to be interrogated, remember that the strongest appeal to her is in her
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family connections and moral outlook. Question her regarding these dinking cops, just stinking
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cops. You never give up to you, hardly ever. Stinking cop.
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Emily Braddock goes to trial next month. Won't be there, but six clients
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of Baltimore Liability will be Expense account Item five miscellaneous two hundred and sixty five
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dollars. Item six same as Item one transportation back to Hartford expense account total
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seven hundred and thirty eight dollars and thirty two cents. Remarks The next time
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I go after a check artist, I hope it isn't a good looking woman
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who feels that there's no one in the world she can't dominate. This last
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one scared me, even if she was behind bars, Here's truly Johnny Dollar.
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Jack Newman with music by Milton Charles. Featured in Tonight's Cast where James
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McCallion, John McIntyre, Bill Conrad Stacy Harris, Jeannette Nolan and Joan banks
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Charles Lyon inviting you to join us again next week at the same time when
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from Hollywood, John Lund returns as yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is
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the CBS Radio Network, Welcome back. While I always chair for finding lost
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episodes, but there is that occasional lost episode that, after listening to it,
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not so sure you're glad was found. Such is the case with the
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Emily Braddock matter. Be clear, I want the whole Johnny Dollar cannon,
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complete, good, bad and ugly, but this one was really, probably,
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to be honest, one of the worst of the pre Bailey Johnny dollars.
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Elements of this story were combined with the far better John Long's story,
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the Thelma Ipsen Matter, to produce the Broaderick Matter, one of the finest
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Johnny Dollar stories ever told. And you can't help, or at least I
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can't help listening to this compare it to the emotional power and clever storytelling that
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made that such a compelling drama, and this has none of it. We
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basically have Johnny on the hunt for a con woman, which and she's Her
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simple trick is to tell people lies, and they that are concocted, and
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they believe them. It may be realistic, it's not terribly interesting, and
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there was no surprise in finding the criminal. We find Emily Braddock, a
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female sociopath, and we find she's a sociopath. And probably the thing that
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did it most for me was Johnny and his closing remarks indicating that he was
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scared of her. Oh yeah, I'm not even sure I can find words
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to describe that. With all the things that Johnny faces on the show,
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what really scares him is a seductive bad check artist good gravy. And again,
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it's just shocking that an episode like this could provide any creative input for
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an episode that was so much better in the broader matter. But at any
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rate, onto listener comments and feedback, and we turned to a comment from
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Tim regarding the Michael Meani mirage manner. It says there are different kinds of
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noise heard on today's OTR recordings, the melancholy memory Matter had the distinctive underwall
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in quality I recognized as digital sub sampling. Many of the MP three's we
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listened to on Your Show are copies of copies the original performance, added rattling
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script pages, coughs, and off stage sirens. The transcription disc cut during
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the performance may have been clean and clear daring rebroadcasts, but with age and
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repeated replane many now sound like snamp, crackle and pomp. In the seventies
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and eighties, many discs were copy to set tapes in the original disc thrown
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away, adding tape hiss to the mix. Many rare Doctor Who or Gene
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Shepherd episodes are only available today because some listeners illegally recorded them off their radios
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on to reel tape, preserving the radio static. When the music world adapted
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CDs as the standard, music producers could go back to the vaults and make
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fresh mixes from master tapes of classic albums optimized to take advantage of CD clarity.
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The OTR world was not so lucky. In the nineties, I converted
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many vinyl albums and cassettes on my underpowered three eighty six PC. The key
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operation is analog to digital conversion. Changed the signal from vibrating needle to a
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digital wave file by sampling forty four thousand times a second, then convert the
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six hundred and fifty megabyte wave file to a reasonably sized thirty megabyte MP three.
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My cheap equipment and primitive algorithms couldn't always keep up with the data flow.
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I'd get bored with the slow conversion process and open up a new window
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to read noosesnet all while downloading MP three's from Napster. The CPU and the
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file bupper couldn't keep up and would start subsampling, grabbing samples whenever it could.
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It made a wave file alright, but with an unintentional variable bitrate.
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During the MP three conversion, the algorithm looks for any frequency it can to
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fit through the reduced number of samples, and often locks onto a very low
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frequency. This leads to the rumbling, muffled underwater sound we heard on the
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Johnny Dollar episode. Most of the radio episodes from the otl R group are
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don rtight direct from transcription disc using the finest equipment, but others were done
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by amateurs like me with more enthusiasm than talent. Well, thanks so much
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for those insights, Tim, and you really do kind of see a mix
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of good and bad with the ot r R recordings. They have some very
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talent people who work on these disks and work on these sets to get the
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best sample they can and to use original transcription disc if they can. But
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in some cases original material is gone and all we have are corrupted recordings from
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one source or another. And while I prefer the higher quality sound, I'm
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of the mind that something is better than nothing. If say, all of
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the missing episodes of Johnny Dollar and Dragnet were available with the same sound quality
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as the Michael Meani mirage matter, I'd say, good deal, and we
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would obviously play them and enjoy them as best we can. Obviously I love
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the better sound quality, but when we're dealing with old time, radio is
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just not an option. And it happens because of the short sidedness of many
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people on the radio industry who never imagine that people would want to listen to
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their shows later. It's why programs such as Boston Blackie and Box thirteen tend
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to have at least decent recordings around, because they were syndicated shows in tended
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to be re aired, but programs like Johnny Dollar just weren't particularly initially,
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and a lot of these programs, as you notice, come from the Armed
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Forces, radio and television services that continue to reuse and play these programs into
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the sixties and even the seventies. Well, that will actually do it for
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today. We'll be back with one more episode from the John lond Era and
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tomorrow join us for the adventures of Philip Marlowe. In the meantime, sendra
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Slash Radio Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam
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Graham signing off.