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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Patterson Transport Matter (EP0871) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Yours Truly Johnny Dowler, the Patterson Transport Man. Well, y'all listening on
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enjoyment John one as Johnny, Johnny, how fast can you get the Kansas
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City, Missouri? Why? Maybe you can stop a homicide? Oh,
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that sounds worthwhile. What do we UNDERRTE complete insurance coverage for the Patterson's Transport
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Corporation. They handle a possible delivery service to most of the department stores in
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town. Well, that should be profitable, but hardly deadly. There have
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been six bobberies and meetings involving your drivers in the past week, Johnny.
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Apparently one guy is responsible and he's gotten increasingly brutal when each hold him.
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How far has he gone? Last hold up for yesterday afternoon, he went
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to reserve the drivers from the hospital with five broken ribs in a fact in
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skull. If this guy hasn't caught a tony a question of time before he
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killed somebody, I'll take the first plane out. You know, many great
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men have attained the highest office in our land, the president of the United
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States? Can you guess the name of this man? In eighteen eighty four,
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with a limited education and practically no experience in national affairs, he was
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elected president at the age of forty eight. During his administration, an income
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tax was passed but declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and Coxey's army made
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its first march on the Capitol as a protest against unemployment. It was also
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during his administration that the Presidential Succession Bill was passed. It indicated the line
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of succession to the presidency from the president down through the cabinet. If you
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don't have his name by now here are two more clue. He was the
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first president to be married in the White House and the only president who served
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two non successive terms. Who was he? Rover Cleveland twenty second, twenty
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fourth President of the United States. His life is part of your American Heritors
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expense accounts submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to the home office Eastern
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Indemnity and Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of
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expenditures during my investigation of the Patterson Transport Matter expense account ATOM one seventy three
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dollars and twenty cents air fair and infidels between Hartford, Connecticut and Kansas City,
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Missouri. I was met at the airport by Walt Hendricks, vice president
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and general manager of Patterson Franchport. It's a rough one dollar six hold ups
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of the week, but we're thirty seven hundred dollars with cod money stolen.
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Read drivers and people so badly they can't work, one of them in hospital
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in critical conditions. Real rough one, I understand. One man has been
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putting the job to hender. Seems to stack up that way. So far
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we haven't been able to do a black thing to stop. How's the operating
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Well, it's like this. He buys something in a department store, as
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the package sent out cot to a macant apartment at a house. When the
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driver gets out there, he lowers the bull. What about the police?
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Uh? Since yesterday morning, they've had a plain clothesman riding the delivery trust
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with the drivers. Well, that should have bought results, and we thought
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it would too till last night. The driver that's laid up in the hospital.
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Yeah, he got it in his own garage, coming home from a
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movie with his wife. Hendricks dropped me off at the mule Back Hotel.
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He said the Patterson Transport Company would supply a car for my personal news,
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and it was there, ready and waiting. After I finished checking in,
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I drove over the police headquarters at eleven twenty five Roots, the street where
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Lieutenant Herman of the Robbery Division served me in. Well, there's a few
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things about this it makes sense. Tell not many, but a few,
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Like what Lieutella we operates for One as a definite pattern, every hold up,
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seather at the fire and the driver's root or the last stop or two
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before he checks him for the day. Sounds like he's pretty familiar with the
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delivery operation, and that's what we figure. Maybe from a Patterson transport him,
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maybe from a department store. Then another thing, he's almost sure to
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be a cycle. The ways man handled those drivers, there wasn't any reasons
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for beating him drivers all have orders not to resist. Gets increasingly brutal with
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every holdup. No sense to it unless he's a cycling any description on him,
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Yeah, partial always wears a blue bandanna hankertif over his face. But
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here's what we've got on I'm what it's worth sebout speak one hundred and ninety
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to two hundred pounds, very spout. Pat Baggy Gray's suit has a noticeable
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limp in the right leg. Well that's pretty general, but that limp might
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help time down. I've got the personnel managers of Patterson on the department stores
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going over there records on the basis of that description. So far they haven't
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up with anything. Well, here's another angle. Take a look at this
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matter. Yeah sure, Now at the first Robert took place out here for
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if they under Barkham senetor next here obsivation part one here on Cypers the next
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to thirty second Terror, then fifty fourth in Jackson. Well that makes a
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rough circle around the city. What's even doing moving from route to route in
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a definite pattern, I'd say, hitting one driver after another in turn.
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Well, then you should know who's wiable to be next on the list.
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We do driver by the name of Milton Spears got the Southwest Territory down here.
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If the man we were after follows this pattern, you'll get him.
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But if he breaked it like he did last night, Yeah, that's about
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all I can tell you now, Donna. Hoping this guy will try again
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with our men riding the truck our best bet for getting him. And even
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if he doesn't, maybe we can. Oh, hi, Grayson tells,
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So you just gotta report over and practice. Patterson Company Trucks is in the
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maxim Rounderson Avenue. What kind of accent? Apparently the truck got out of
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control, smashing of a parked car along the curved driver was killed. One
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about our man didn't have anybody as sided with truck. Ben him for a
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pair, I mean driver with just road testing. It doesn't sound like a
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Sizon with a hold up. Questions better Banks, Grayson, let me see
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the complete report, than me get it him say sergeants, Yeah, did
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you get the name of the driver who was killed? Yeah, we got
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it, just the name of Spears. No Spears. And we got to
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the scene of the accent. An ambulance and squad car were already there.
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One of the squad car men filled us in on what they'd learned. You
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hadn't eat the names here, lieutenant, And for some reason he sadden me,
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cramped the wheel of the right and plowed into that duke there at the
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curve. Must have been going in a pretty good clip, burned a lot
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of rubber up on the street when he swung in here. Yeah, what
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did the ambulance men have to say? He was dead when they got here.
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Didn't look as though the crash of the known impact wasn't heavy enough for
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that. I think you might have had a heart attack. Huh. And
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he witnesses no eye witnesses, Lieutenant. There's a lady over there wants to
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talk to you. Okay, as good to come over. And I haven't
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take the body down the more for an immediate autopic. I want the results
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on it as soon as possible. Okay, Then how does it hit too,
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Dona? And a couple of things don't quite add up well. Why
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he was road testing a truck on a quiet residential street. Why he was
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going fast enough to make heavy ship and had to happen to Yeah, maybe
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the autop they will give us something to go on. No, maybe it's
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the lady I was tony about Lieutenant. Missus Robertson, how do you do
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Missus Robertson, I understand you have something to tell us. I should say,
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how do you have something to tell you about chime? You police officers.
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They tell me you'll take the interests of US citizens. We've got right,
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you know, and it's you're do need to see that, but they're
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protected. I'm not sure I understand. No, I didn't think you would.
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Things have come to pretas when a caxpayer can't give the car parked out
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on the street but at some drunken fop typers splashing at the pieces. It's
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your doing to see that such ripless and competent time as it kept off our
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seats and highways. You're the owner of the buark that was hip, Missus
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Roburtson, Well, isn't that just what I've been telling me, young man?
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And believe me, somebody is going to pay for the damage done to
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my car and put the shock and damage cause to my words. Did you
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see the accident take place, Missus Robinson? No, I couldn't see it,
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but not that I had to. I was upstairs in my apartment over
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there, playing with some friends. Then, what makes you think the driver
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was drunk or irresponsible? Oh? Of course he was. What other explanation
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could there be smashing into a person's car like that in broad daylight on a
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quiet street, just off the straightest dolt. In my mind, both of
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them were drunk, and there was somebody else in the truck besides the driver.
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Of course there was. How do you know, Missus Robinson? Oh,
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because I saw him. That's why I looked out of my window and
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saw him. A big husky man he was. He got out of the
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truck right after the crash and went limping off down the street. Traditional questioning
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of the excitable Missus Robinson brought no further information. We got the same results
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from the other residents of Anderson Avenue. The men from the lab arrived and
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started working on the truck and buick for possible physical evidence, and we went
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back to the police headquarters. No neat view to stick around, Dollar if
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you want to, you won't. Beginning the arctopsy report on spears another hour
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or two. Well, I thought I might look over the driver's statements on
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the robbery for tennant. Maybe something will hit me. I'm sure I'll have
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Grayson big enough for you, Grayson, Will you get out the driver's statements
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in the Patterson Pansport files. If the dollar, I'd like to look him
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over, adding another reportable list. What's that called? The General Hospital driver
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who was beating up last night just died? I went over the driver's statements
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and the official investigation reports. Lieutenant Herman and his men had covered every angle
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I could think of, and a couple of I hadn't. When I got
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through. The autopsy on Milton's Spears hadn't been completed yet. So I drove
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out to the Patterson Transport Company in the Northeastern Duck Bill. I found Wald
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Hendrix and the off the company, which were located to one side of their
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busy garage. Oh, it's a terrible thing about Milk Spears dollar, a
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terrible thing. Man had been with us a fifteen years, perfect state new
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record, and it gets yourself killed in an actually that way? If it
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was an Actuly, well you think it's connected with the hold ups. We'll
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know more about it when we get the autopsy in the book. Well,
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I suppose it could guide according to the pattern, Spears was the next driver
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due to get hit? Sure? And if it had happened while Spears was
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out on the route, I'd say, okay, but he wasn't. Just
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what was he doing, mister hammocks While his truck broke down the clutch linkage.
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We sent a substitute out and the garage got through. Milt took the
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truck out to road tested. Anybody go with him? No, No,
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Milk was a good mechanic. Don't reapon send anybody along, and we don't
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allow our men to pick up any riders or hitch hikers. No, there
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couldn't have been anybody in the truck to him, or maybe he picked up
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somebody knew well, possibility, I suppose. I don't know. This thing's
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got me so busy, I can't think straight at all. I guess there's
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one consolation, though, Yeah, what's that If you count Spears, every
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driver in the organization has been hit by now, unless he starts over again,
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this guy has any place to go. I'll give you eight to five.
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He'll think of something. It was getting late in the afternoon, so
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I figured i'd pay one more visit the headquarters before going back to the hotel
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and knocking off for the day. As I walked into Lieutenant Hermann's office.
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He was just finishing a phone call report. I'll buy you a dinner someday
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if you're looking enough to catch up with me. All right, Dolla,
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I was dark Winter's autopsy surgeon. There was a twenty two caliber bullet Milton
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spears brain. Wow, nothing very accidental about that? Is it not likely?
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Fired? Close? Brains behind the right ear point of penetration was covered
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by hair. Bullet lies in the bone. That's why the ambulent attendant didn't
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catch him. No wonder he crushed the truck. You don't have ballistics examine
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the bullet. I don't know that they would go up with anything wrong.
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Well, it's been a long day. What do you say we go out
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and have a bike beat? Oh? Buy that? But come there's a
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good steakhouse right down for Dennet Herman. I remember, we'll be right there.
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That's rude, Dlan. What's up? Remember that missus Robertson, the
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woman who won him to smashed up? You work? Yeah? I just
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saw a man were after. He's out in front of her place. Right
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now? Mind if I cut into say something fellows, it won't take too
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way of life. And now, with our star John Lund, we bring
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you the second act of your truly Johnny Dollar. Well. Lieutenant Herman and
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I got out to the Addison Avenue address. Missus Robinson was waiting for us
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in the vestibule of the apartment building. Man, I tell you, the
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very sting man got out of the truck, is smashed my car, and
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I want you to arrest him at once. Do you hear he's a man?
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Well, arrest in, Missus Robbin. He's a man I ought to
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know. I saw him getting out of the truck and limped down the street,
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and I saw him again just before I called you. What was he
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doing, Missus robinon looking over my car? That's what a nerve of him?
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A criminal return into the chine of his crime. There's no doubt about
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the identification I told you there was who didn't die. A big, heavy
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set man dressed in a gray suit, walking with a limb. He's the
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man all right? Where is he now? Oh? Where would a man
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like Patty? I told him he was drunk when you smashed into my car.
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He went into that bar as a corner. There he is at the
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bar. Yeah. On the guy in the place answers the description. Do
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you want to take him over? There? He's got the places? I
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mean. Police officers keep their hands on the bar. What's going on here?
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Hands on the bar taking down? Yeah? Sure? What do you
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think they're doing? Mac? I ain't got no rout on me? How
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about it? He's clean, lieutenant? Sure, I'm clean. I told
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you I was today. What do you guys want with me? What's your
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name is? What's it doing? Your name? Westley? Joo? Westley?
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Where do you live? I ain't decided yet, just got in the
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town. What are you doing in this neighborhood? Look, you guys ain't
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got nothing on me. A guy's got a right to come in and have
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a drink without coppers hopping on over him. Why are the interest in the
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cart smashed up? Duet down the street? Who was interested in a smash
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buet? You were? You were looking at it? Why so? I
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looked at it very law against that man was killed when that car was hit
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Westley. So what's that got to do with me. We've got a witness
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who says you were involved in the accident, Yo, witnesses, nuts,
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All I was doing was walking down the street. I've seen the card took
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again. Er at it. You'll talk it over downtown Westley. They ain't
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nothing to talk I didn't have nothing to do with that car. Somebody getting
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bumped off. You heard the lieutenant. We'll talk about it downtown. Come
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clean, Wesley, make it easier on yourself. There's nothing to come clean
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about. I told you coppers that you ain't got nothing on it. Maybe
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we've got a witness and says different. I told you he's lying. I've
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never been in that neighborhood before. What did you do with the gun?
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What gun? The one you used to knock off Milton Spears. I never
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heard a gun and I never heard of the spears. Now, why didn't
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you guys lay off and let me out of here? Pretty good rockets you
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have, Wesley? How'd you happen to think of it? What rocket?
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The parcel? Deliver? A gimmick? You nuts to suthing? I didn't
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have nothing to do with them Patterson struts. We didn't mention the name of
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the outfit, Westley, so you didn't mention. And how do you know
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what we were talking about? I can eat the papers, can I?
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They've been full of them parcels, delivery stick ups. You know more about
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it the map. Come on, let's hop it, west I tell you
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nuts. I just got into town yesterday from where Californa wearing California bolts.
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And we can check on that, Westling. So check. You'll find out
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as black eyes, you ain't got a thing I meet. Copper is not
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a largi thing. Lieutenant Herman is done in a teletype request for verification from
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Polsom, along with telephoto copies of Wesley's prints for comparison. We got the
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answer back in an hour. Man, there it is Bella. Wesley wasn't
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sprung from Polsom until yesterday morning. Served his fool. Time. We made
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one more check. We had missus Robertson try to pick out the man she'd
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seen from a lineup including Wesley and six police officers. She made a positive
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identification of Sergeant Grayson. Expense to count atom two seventeen dollars and eighty five
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stents, dinner and drinks for Lieutenant Herman and myself. Afterwards, the Lieutenant
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called it quits for the night and I headed for the Patterson Garage. I
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wanted to talk with Walt Hendlicks again. Lucky to catch me in Dollar.
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I don't usually work this late, but it's different. What's different about it,
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Miss Sanders. I've got some drivers to get a couple of substitutes for
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those who are laid up. Two permanent, one yeah, yeah, Well
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I won't take up too much of your time. I just want to get
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a two things straight. Sure, it's pretty obvious that whoever we're after,
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who knows the operation of his business. That means he knew he wasn't going
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to get much of a take on those mornings dick ups, the drivers having
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time to collect many of CODs, nobody got over thirty seven hundred in the
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afternoon doing go along with that. I don't say there is but it's possible
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that money is only the frosting on the cake. Thinking that somebody might have
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a grudge against the outter, and now there's enough evidence to support it.
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The systematic way he's going after the drivers, the beatings, he's dished out
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for no apparent reason. Yeah, yeah, I've been thinking the same thing.
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Come up with any ideas? Be not a one company has always had
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a good labor record, remember any pots Swift competitors. I even checked with
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Missus Thompson about it. So's Missus Thompson or she worked here for him with
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twenty years as my assistant secretary, had an auto accident about six months ago
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after tripple. It's tough, yeah, but she knows the business as well
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as I do, so I thought maybe she'd come up with something have any
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luck. Nothing. I even talked to her husband about it. Did he
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work for the object too? No? No, but he got to know
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it pretty well through her, and he figured it the same way we do.
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But he couldn't come up with anything either. He did try to warn
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milk Spears though, how was that well? He had the guys patting to
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figured out too. A new Milk might be next, so all we wanted
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him to be careful. Missus Thompson's husband was here at the garage before milk
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Spears went Yeah, that's right. He drove up just a few minutes before
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Milk took off the road test the truck I went back to the hotel and
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put on a call to Tom Benson and Hartford in the company's interest. He
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was willing to bust up his bridge game and go down to the office.
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He called me back in about forty five minutes with the information I wanted.
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Accident took place last Christmas Eve. Johnny Thompson's were leaving a party at the
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Patterson Officis. Apparently the husband had a little too much to drink, drove
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out of the garage too fast, get into the in the street, and
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wound up on the wrong side. One of the delivery trucks were just coming
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in and met head on. Uh huh, what's the medical report day?
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Well, the driver the truck was killed out right. Missus Thompson suffered too
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broken vertebrae left her permanently crippled. We paid all medical expenses. It's gonna
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life income of a hundred dollars a month. What about the husband, he
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was in the hospital to do a couple of weeks ago. How to depressed
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skull practice back compound bat the right tibot. Outside of that, he should
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be as good as no help any Johnny. I wouldn't be surprised the thompson
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home was a modest frame bungalow on Prospect Avenue than a half mile from the
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Patterson arrived. I was met at the door by a practical nurse who checked
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with Missus Thompson and then let me into the bedroom to see her res.
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Awfully kind of you to call on me this way, mister Darling, And
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I want you to know that Charlie and I are very appreciative of everything or
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company is done for. You're only getting what you're entitled to, Missus Thompson.
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Well, perhaps it's when you've been used to making your own way of
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life, earning your own living, then suddenly find yourself in a position my
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time in. Well, it's awfully nice to know that there are people like
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you around. Well, thanks, Missus Thompson. Is your husband at home?
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I'm dreadfully sorry, but he left it a few minutes ago. And
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you did want to talk to him about those robberies, didn't you. What
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makes you think that, oh, mister him to be extold me you were
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in town. Charlie has been so interested in those hold up He just feels
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terrible about those poor drivers, you know, No, I didn't. Oh,
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yes, that's terrible. He's been so worried about them ever since the
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trouble began. But he even wanted to ride along with some of them on
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their route they sholt to protect them. Yes, he felt that way,
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you know, protective about them ever since that accident happened to us. Some
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man might have felt the driver was to blame that night, might have felt
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resentful towards them because of what happened to me, But not Charley. He's
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a wonderfully forgiving man. Mister Darler, where is your husband now? Yes,
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he even had a presentment about what was going to happen to them after
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the hold up started. He told me he was afraid that robber would go
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from one driver to the next be them. Perhaps he's been killing He even
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made a list of the one thing was afraid would Because where is he now,
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Missus Thompson. That's why he went out to night. Mister Dalla,
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he's did Truman. He won't let anything like that happened again. That's why
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he went out to protect him, to protect Wool the next one on his
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list. My foreman saw you, mister Hendrick. The poem was in the
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living room. I put in two fast calls the first the police headquarters.
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The second was to the Patterson Garage to Warren Hendricks. The garage was only
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a few short blocks away, and I made it before the squad guard did.
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There was a light in Hendrick's office, but it was empty. I
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tried to darken garage. Next, Compton, is that you Thompson? Tomptin?
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Going on out there? What's the shooting about? It's Dollar Hendrix.
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Dollar, Yeah, throw some lights on with him. Yeah, sure,
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going on here? Dollar? What do you do? Oh, Sharlie Thompson?
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Yeah, where were you in the back? Rule? But Sharley,
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what happened? Well, somebody had to stop him from protecting you. Expense
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account ittom three twenty two dollars and ten cents. Hotel bill and miscellaneans expense
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account ATOM four seventy one dollars and thirty cents. Air Fare back to Hartford
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expense account total one hundred eighty four dollars and forty five cents. Remarks when
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ballistics verified that Thompson's twenty two cold had killed Milton Spears, my official job
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was open. My unofficial one, informing missus Thompson wasn't nearly as easy.
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I guess I got a little confused. It's the only way I can account
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for the fact that she believes her husband died a hero getting the bandit single
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handed. You're truly Johnny Dollar, welcome back. Well, this episode really
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is one of those that when it was done as a five part matter with
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those fifteen minutes serials, and it really was flushed out quite a bit more.
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But overall I thought it was a pretty good mystery. And again I
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continue to be amazed by how much Johnny Dowler gets involved in police work,
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including being asked by policemen to search suspects. Now to listener comments and feedback,
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and we'll be on Twitter today, and Chuck b sent along a recommendation
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to his friends to listen to episode eight ten, The Berlin Mander. Then
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this comment from Brian annals it was on there and I've seen it, and
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I've kept forgetting to respond to it, but I'll respond today since we don't
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have any other questions. Are there any Doc Savage radio shows on podcast available?
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The answer is, as far as I know, no, the old
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time Doc Savage radio programs, and Savage did have programs in the nineteen thirties
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and forties. These are all lost the only surviving Doc Savage radio programs were
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those done over PBS in the nineteen eighties. It's a fine collection. I
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was able to listen to it. I've made the mistake of loaning it to
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someone in another state, so I don't have it anymore. But it is
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available on radio archives dot com. Very high quality audio and I think pretty
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solid production values. So I'd recommend refer you to radio archives dot com,
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and I think they hand posted a couple online that you could listen to.
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All Right, Well, that I'll do it for today. We will be
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back next week. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen Right
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