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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Valentine Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0939) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller the Valentine manner parked one in part two from
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  Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollars New Britain Mutual. Johnny, Hi,
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  right, how would you like to try some creole cooking? Okay?
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  What's up? One of the bellhops Saint Agnes's Hotel in New Orleans had quite
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  a time last night. He opened the safe and walked up with seventy five
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  hundred dollars in cash and a diamond necklace with a cool twenty five thousand.
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  So help me, Roy, I didn't know bellhops had so much fun.
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  That isn't all. He also stole a station wagon belonging to the hotel manager,
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  not to mention the manager's wife. What do you want back? Mainly
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  that necklace. It's the property of one of our clients. She was stopping
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  at the Saint Agnes and had a stood in the hotel safe. Any line
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  on the bellhop not a trade so far? No, wife, don't be
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  funny. Can you have a plane down there and see what's happened for us?
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  Sure? Right? Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed
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  Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator,
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  Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
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  to the New Britain Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
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  an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Valentine matter. Expense account Item
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  one one hundred and seventy five dollars in no sense airfare and the incidental costs
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  it takes to get from Hartford to New Orleans. Once there, I was
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  more than surprised to discover the police had wound up the whole case. The
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  prodigal bellhop, along with the seventy five hundred in cash, the diamond necklace,
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  the station wagon, even the vantager's wife had all been recovered, everything
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  and everyone tearful, but intact. I reported this development to all parties concern,
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  phoned the airport for a reservation back to Hartford, which they said would
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  be the following afternoon, and then looked around for something to do. I
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  found a spot on Burgundi Street that seemed to be less crowded than the others
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  and settled down for the evening. That's where it happened. He was sitting
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  alone, tall, gray haired, rugged, a face full of some fifty
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  odd years. I guessed, and follow some other things no one could guess.
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  It was three drinks at the bar before I made out who he was,
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  who he had been, A man who was once big in a way
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  that only prohibition made them big. The seat taken, no mind? If
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  I sit down, mister Valentine, whoa you can't be that old? How
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  old? Old enough to recognize me? Recognize you from your picture a long
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  time ago. I'm I guess I could tell you more about that than anybody.
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  You're a cup. Nah, I'm an insurance investigating you were a cup
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  once once. Can I buy you a drink? Mister Valentine? Dan's enough?
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  Sure you're doing better than the boys in the force. I've been living
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  in New Orleans for three months now. Nobody's calling me. Any reason why
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  they should. No, No, there isn't. But then, no one's
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  ever figured out a way to stop a policeman from making a visit when he
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  wants. Nah, that's true. I had a funny thing. There's a
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  lot of policeman I've liked in my day visiting policeman. That is uncertain days.
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  You're too young to remember much about a dollar. But a long time
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  ago, a bunch of old women made a law called the Bolstead Act,
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  sure prohibition. Everybody heard about him, including the old woman who passed the
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  law. You see, this law was supposed to be for the other guy,
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  not for them. Anyhow, a lot of people started bottling up violations
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  of this Bolstead Act. Retired No, not a bit to him. Well,
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  I got me a lot of money and a lot of trouble thirteen years
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  income tax evasion, finally, and then just three months ago when I came
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  here to live happily ever after. Funny, No, New Orleans is a
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  nice quiet place to live. But it's still no one's bothering you. That's
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  the way I want to keep it. And they can pass a thousand stupid
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  laws, and I'm not going to fall for any of them. Everything the
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  book says, everything in order. That sounds pretty good. Do you believe
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  it? Yes? I do. Then I've got my point over. I'm
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  flattered that you recognize me. Dollar. I paid back ten days for everyone
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  I took. All I ask is that you don't ask the police to bother
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  me. Okay, as far as I'm concerned, Dan, you didn't even
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  have the dinner I'm about to buy for you dollar. It's nice to come
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  out of prison be recognized by a nice guy. Where'll we go to me?
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  Morams. That's where we went, and I was a swell dinner.
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  Only Dan Valentine didn't eat much of him. He tried to smile and cracked
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  wise, but there was a sadness about him that stood in the way.
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  I wanted to ask him more questions about those days back when, but I
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  didn't. We dropped into a couple of other places, the absentth House,
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  Joe Gorrioso's. We listened to some jazz and drank sasarex and walked along Canal
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  Street. Finally we shook hands and said good night. Expense account item two
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  twenty six dollars and twenty six cents, hotel board and miscellaneous. The next
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  morning, I packed my bags, checked out of my hotel and was about
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  to take a limousine out to Mobile. I report, Oh miss Donna,
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  yeah messy, Oh thanks. It was from a police officer on the New
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  Orleans Force and Inspector Tobacca because I dropped by before I left town. I
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  went right over and met Debacca, a tall, lean, gray haired man
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  with thirty years service who kind of puzzled me at first. Thanks for coming
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  bad, Donna, Sure, what's up the bellhop? Take back his confession
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  on that necklace? Stiff, No, No, there's something else, Donna.
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  Dan Valentine, Oh, you met him about six thirty last night.
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  You had two drinks with him, and he went over to Morans and had
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  dinner. He went to two other places. You left him at eleven thirty.
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  Yeah. I also brushed my teeth when I got back to the hotel.
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  But I bet you can't tell me what color my pajama. Take it
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  easy, Just take it easy. Maybe I'm saying this bad. He doesn't
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  know it. We've been keeping an eye on Danny ever since he showed up
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  New Orleans. So happened you were with him last night and you did business
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  with us here yesterday afternoon. So we want to know if you had any
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  business with Dan Valentine. Don't be funny, inspector. Okay, okay,
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  and I don't get huffy. Let me put it this way. Dan came
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  to New Orleans three months ago, bought a house out in Jefferson Parish.
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  He had a housekeeper, bought himself a little car, took up fishing every
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  offer, just walking. Nothing wrong with that, of course there isn't.
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  We liked it. Find the boys in the car. Driver by now and
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  then look at him. Just look. No questions, no knocking on the
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  door. When we see Danny in town, we turn the other way.
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  Just look. You see. Sure, Now he doesn't have any visitors.
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  The old pals from Chicago or New York or Detroit come to see him.
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  He lives alone and he likes it. That's what he told me. You're
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  his first visitor. Now, I just wonder you wondered wrong, Debacca.
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  Okay, okay, I had to ask about it. You know how it
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  is? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, right on, que your
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  pal just stopped a couple of bullets. Huh, Danny Valentine, come on.
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  According to the uniform officer who had put in the call, a newspaper
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  boy had found Valentine lying on the sidewalk and around the neighborhood. One of
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  the residents had carried him inside. The amulance crew stood by the bed as
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  we came in. Valentine was lying on his back, the white chinel spread
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  under him, changing to a deep read. Two bullets had ripped ragged holes,
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  and one shoulder through flesh and ball, but he was just as self
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  contained as efforts. I got the idea you were going to stay out of
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  trouble, Dan, I didn't know I was in any trouble. Are your
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  daughter? Okay? You went to the police after all. No, the
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  inspector called me in about you, Dan. But let's forget that for now.
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  How'd this happen? Yes, cleaning my gun? You're losing, Dan.
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  You're not supposed to have a gun. Oh you know me in the
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  law, we sometimes didn't hit it off. Odd? Where is the gun?
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  Gun? The gun you were cleaning when you were walking down the street
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  and shot yourself. I swallowed them. Now. Look, somebody's taking a
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  couple of shots at you, Dan. Nobody can tell us anything about it,
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  but you so far. We don't want you murdered. Well, okay,
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  boys, get the ambulance back. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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  Right, you're going to the police hospital. No, No, I've
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  served my time and I'm clean. Being shot at, even in this state,
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  doesn't make you a criminal. Dollar. Yeah, Dan, do me
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  a favor. Would you phone a private hospital and have me take him there?
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  Go ahead, Johnny, take it easy, Dan. I did as
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  he asked. A crew from one of the large private hospitals was out there.
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  In a matter of minutes, and an hour and a half later,
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  Dan Valentine was operating on and the bullet successfully removed from his shoulder. I
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  waited around until he was taken to a private room and inspected to back.
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  I waited with him. Dollar, Yeah, why don't you go back to
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  Hartford. This isn't any of your business. I know my plane takes off
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  at for I'll be on it. Why are you waiting around here? Oh?
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  To see how he is? I guess you balue you. I just
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  met him last night. You know that, But you're waiting around. Yeah,
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  you want me to tell you why you're waiting around. You want to
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  make sure he's okay. You met him last night, and outside of what
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  you ever read or heard about him, you don't know him from a load
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  of coal. But you want to make sure he's going to be all right.
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  Well, so do I. Because in that room, on that bid,
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  that's quite a man. I about summed it up no matter what he
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  had been or what he had done. Dan Valentine was quite a man.
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  It was the same thing that had caused me to go over to him the
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  night before and start a conversation, the same thing that caused me to believe
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  his plans for living a quiet life in New Orleans. He came out of
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  the anesthetic a half hour later and he sent for me. Hi. They
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  say it's gonna be okay. Oh sure, sure, this is nothing.
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  I just wanted to thank you for giving me a hand. Devaca could probably
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  help you more. All you have to do is tell him who shot you
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  and why I shot myself, and just for something to do. Look,
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  Dan, I have a fair idea of how tough things were for you and
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  how tough they can be now. But inspected Debacca understands it too. You'll
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  do everything he can to help you, but you have to help him.
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  Dan de Bucca is a good boy. You're right, you'll tell him who
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  shot you. If there was any way he could help me, I'd let
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  him know first. I'll handle this myself because you want to be getting your
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  airplane. Yeah, good luck, kid, same to you. I went
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  back to my hotel, picked up my bags and took a cab to Mobilan
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  Airport. My plane had developed engine trouble and there was going to be a
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  five hour delay. I killed time at the bar and in the restaurant and
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  just standing around looking at the field at night. By that time, the
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  newspapers carried the story of the attempt on Dan Valentine's life. It was as
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  skimpy as the story Dan had told himself, and it troubled me. Yeah,
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  I'm distant. Show a few from Hartford. You can take it right
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  in there. Oh thanks, Johnny Doller? Right? Nick? Is Johnny
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  a New Britain mutual lea touch him? Just waiting for my plane back to
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  Hartford. Now, this story about then Valentine's and all the papers up him,
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  have you ready? Yeah? I was in on it in a way.
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  Somebody shot at him today he won't tell who, says he'll handle it
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  himself. Can you find out, Johnny? I don't know all why we
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  carry a fifty thousand dollars policy on him. Somebody's trying to kill him.
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  We'd like to know all about it. You mean I can stay here and
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  work on this, yes, okay, Roy, Johnny Doller, This is
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  Johnny Debacca down at headquarter. He left called for me. That's right,
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  Inspectoria, But you went back to Hartford. Now the company I represent happens
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  to hold an insurance policy on Dan Valentine. They asked me to stay here
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  in New Orleans and look into this attempt on his life? Are they here
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  about it so fast? While I wasn't all the papers and on the wire
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  services. Valentine's always been New was ever since prohibition. Yeah, like him
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  would be, you know as much as I do, don and lead.
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  Yet he's still quiet about the whole thing. Yes, lack a mouse who
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  won't open except to see he'll take care of himself. Maybe it'll help matters
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  when he finds out the insurance company's interested. You know some I don't think
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  me, you, the whole Force insurance company, anybody else can keep that
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  bird alive unless he helps us. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
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  to the New Britain Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
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  an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Valentine matter. Expense account continued
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  Item three three bucks one telegram to Roy Vickers in Hartford requesting a copy of
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  the policy contracts between New Britain Mutual and Dan Valentine, plus the name and
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  location of the beneficiary and any other debt on the case. After that,
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  I walked over to the police station and looked up inspected to Bacca, sit
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  down. Thanks, I don't quite getness. Tell them what's your part?
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  Well, the insurance company would like a full report on everything that's happened.
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  That's all you can given that on the back of your thumbnail. Couldn't you
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  not quite inspector? Oh, you mean a separate report from what we have
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  something like that. Yes, they do. They can spend it anyway they
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  want to. I guess if there's any reason for them canceling the policy on
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  Valentine, they'll do it. The fact that somebody shot at him a couple
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  of times and came near killing him is one thing. The fact that he
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  won't open his mouth about it as another. Looking for a way, I
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  didn't say that. They just want to make sure about everything. That's all
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  an insurance policies a contract mutually beneficial of both parties. Both parties have to
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  keep the line of that contract. They don't figure Danny Valentine's run around shooting
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  himself. Insurance money inspected. They don't figure anything. Well, now that
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  you've been official, beyond official, what's your idea. Well, Valentine's got
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  a legitimate policy with a company. They don't want to see him kill.
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  They tell me to investigate the shooting. Actually, they're telling me to see
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  to it that he stays alive. And well, hell, that makes sense.
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  Good luck. If you'll sort of let me tag along on the case,
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  i'd appreciate it. We'll see what's the matter. Now. It just
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  good to me. Valentine bought our house out in Jefferson Parish three months ago,
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  a couple of days after he was released from federal penn He's lived there
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  quiet, minding his own business, keeping his nose out of trouble. Yeah,
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  as long as a man does that, even a man with a background
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  like Valentine, As long as a man does that, we don't bother him,
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  and he doesn't bother us. Well, so what happens yesterday? You
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  meet him and have a couple of drinks with him? Hello, goodbye?
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  Boom boom. You gets shot twice by somebody somewhere. You're a bad newsboy.
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  Now that's as wild as you can get we had nothing together except the
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  drinks. You sure, I'm sure, well, I'm thinking about it just
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  the same, Kim, be back in a minute. The bunky thick folder
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  inspected Tobaka shoved across the desk at me was marked Valentine Daniel. It started
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  nineteen fifteen and was fat with yellow clippings all the way through nineteen forty two.
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  It was a pretty good history of Dan Valentine and the age he lived
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  in. He was born in Ireland and had fought in the Irish Rebellion.
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  He was regarded as both hero and scoundrel. For his own good, he
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  came to America somehow. He started out on the wholesale drug business, and
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  understandably it was an easy step to making prohibition alcohol and an even easier step
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  to make prison on an income tax Evasian charge. The fullder mentioned a wife
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  and a daughter who seemed to have successfully avoided most of the newspaper headlines that
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  had involved Dan Valentine. There was one picture of Missus Valentine taking in nineteen
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  twenty eight. That's about as far as I got when Debacca came back into
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  the room. Not alone interesting stuff, very inspector very where is some more
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  interest? My men have been covering the neighborhood where the shooting happened yesterday afternoon.
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  This man's a witness. This mister Dollar is an insurance investigator, as
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  Willie Blakeley. Oh how do you do, sir? I hope you can
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  help us willing, well, I can. Crime. I really didn't see
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  too much. See, I was on my milk truck, and I saw
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  this fellow, this this big fellow, walking down the street. What's his
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  name, Dan Valentine? Yes, well, he was just walking, like
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  for an early morning walk. And then I saw this car come around the
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  corner and there were a couple of men in it. What kind of car?
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  I think it was a buick seed. Then I'm not sure it was
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  a black car. Having to get the license number. Now I'm go on,
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  Well, sir, this mister Valentine, he looked up when he saw
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  it coming and he stopped, you know, kind of funny. No,
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  I don't know, tell me, you know, like he was surprised.
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  Do you think he was surprised at who was in the car? Yes,
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  sir, that's it. He sort of smiled, not a hello kind of
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  a smile. It was sort of a sad smile, didn't wave, just
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  stood there. I couldn't see the men in the car by then, so
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  I don't know how they were looking at him. Did you see them as
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  they round at the corner, Yeah, just a couple of fellows, dark
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  coats and hats. Would you know them if you saw them again? I
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  don't think so, Kevin, Okay, two men, yes, suh?
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  So this this mister Valentine stopped and looked at him and and give him this
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  kind of smile. You recognized him, you think, Oh? Yeah?
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  And then I heard a noise, you know, something like whack whack,
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  and mister Valentine fell down and the card drove off. Did Valentine go for
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  a gun? Noser? What did you do? Then? I got out
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  of there. Why. I didn't know what was happening. I didn't want
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  to get hurt. He didn't even try to help him, Nosa. I
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  was scared. I didn't know what that whack whack was, Sir. It
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  took you all this time to tell us about it. Sorry, Kevin Darling,
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  Yeah, you got something to worry about. That noise he was talking
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  about didn't sound like regular gunshots, or he would have said so silencer.
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  What else inspected? Debaka continued to question the witness, trying to ascertain more
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  details about the shooting, the car and the men inside the car. Four
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  hours later, when I left, he was still at it some more expa
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  item four two dollars and a half cab fare from police station to hospital.
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  I thought i'd drop in and take a chance on Dan Valentine coming across with
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  some information. Sorry, no visitors, it's pretty important. I'm a friend
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  of his. I'm sorry one can I see him? It's hard to say.
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  Mister Valentine's condition is not too good. What well, nothing to be
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  alarmed about. He lost so much blood. He's in a weakened condition.
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  The doctor's ordered a transfusion. Oh you can phone in later, too light?
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  Excuse me, yes, ma'am, I should like to see mister Valentine.
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  Please. I'm sorry. I was just telling this gentleman that's impossible.
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  How is he? He needs rest? The doctor feels he'd be better off
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  without visitors at the moment. Thank you. I had a feeling about the
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  gray haired, well dressed woman, and I hurried after her down the long
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  corrit or outside the hospital. I was just in time to see her take
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  a cab that had been waiting at the curb. I managed to hail one
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  myself, and we tagged along Canal Street behind her until she paid off the
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  driver in front of the Roosevelt Hotel. I was right behind her when she
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  stopped in the lobby and got a key to room ten sixteen. I gave
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  her five minutes. Then I knocked on her door. Hello, missus Valentine,
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  my name's Johnny Doller. Anne Valentine looked at me for a long time.
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  I had to hand it to her. There were no tears, no
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  frowns or screams, just a wide, frank look from a woman who,
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  by any van's standards, had once been beautiful. I haven't been called by
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  that name for many years. You're a reporter, of course, No I'm
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  not. I'm an insurance investigator in a policeman's office. Today I saw one
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  of the few pictures ever taken of you at this hotel. I registered under
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  the name of Anne Ward. What is good enough for me, Missus Valentine?
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  May I come in? Yes? Now? What is it you want,
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  mister Dollar? Possibly the same thing you want to keep your husband alive.
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  I believe that's up to the doctor's isn't it not quite? If he
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  was shot at once and he won't help the police find out who did it,
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  there's a reasonable chance to be shot at again. Do you know who
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  did it? Well? Who it might be? Look, the police have
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  found a witness who describes two men as having done the shooting. Can you
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  add anything to that, mister Daller. I haven't seen Dan in over thirteen
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  years. I haven't written to him, talked to him, or contacted him
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  in any way, either while he was in prison or these last few months
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  he's been out. It was his idea, but he must have had a
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  reason he did. Our daughter, Oh, she believes that Ward was her
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  dead father's name. Do I make myself clear? Yeah? I read about
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  the shooting, and I caught the first plane here because I thought I might
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  help Dan. My daughter thinks I'm on a little vacation by myself. You
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  don't believe me, do you? Well, in view of what you've just
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  said about not having written to him for thirteen years, was the way he
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  wanted it. I was never ashamed of Dan. Never he was ashamed of
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  himself and how his activities might affect us. He gave me everything I ever
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  had out of life in New Salem. That's where we live and live very
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  well. Because Dan sort of that part of it before he went to prison.
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  We are considered very proper people Therese and myself. Dan sacrificed a great
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  deal for that consideration. I think that you sacrificed a great deal yourself,
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  Missus Valentine. When I go back to the hospital to see him tonight,
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  he'll probably tell me to pack my bag and go home, that there's nothing
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  to worry about. But there is something to worry about, isn't there,
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  Missus Valentine. He won't talk about it, and you won't talk about it,
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  and both of you know all about it. Oh, mister Dollar,
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  you're a very young man. I'm sorry. If I sound like I could
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  help you, I can't. Please go. I went back to my hotel
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  and had some dinner. Then after a while I put in a phone call
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  to the hospital and found out I could talk to Dan Valentine between seven thirty
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  and nine about Then a special delivery came for me. It contained the information
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  I wanted regarding the policy on Dan Valentine. I noticed that the beneficiary was
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  a jewel affair wife and daughter Ann and to race a wall. I had
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  to check with Inspector Tobaca just once more, no luck. He had been
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  unable to identify or locate the two killers described by the witness he was trying
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  to trace the car. Seven thirty on the dot, I was at the
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  hospital. The reception desk seemed reluctant to talk and referred me to the head
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  nurse, who happened to be out to dinner, who referred me to the
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  surgical nurse, who took me aside and told me to find a crystal ball.
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  Mister Valentine's gone. We have no idea why how could he be gone?
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  We started giving a transfusion, it jumped up, suddenly knocked down.
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  One of the male nurses, grabbed his clothes and ran out of the hospital.
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  Just as simple as that. I thought he was in a serious condition.
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  Keep your voice down. He was in a serious condition, and it's
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  going to be pretty good pretty soon, running round town bleeding from two bullet
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  wounds. If you want to keep him alive, mister Dollar, you better
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  find him and find him faced. I thought over what Dan Valentine had told
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  me in the hospital earlier about taking care of the matter. Himself, and
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  the more I thought about it, the more I realized he was going to
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  do just that, even if it killed him. There'll be another intriguing episode
• 27:40
  in our story of the Valentine matter tomorrow. Tomorrow What happens to a thirty
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  year old grudge when somebody explains it with bullets? Join us, won't you?
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  Yours? Julie, Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Doller starring Bob Bailey
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  is transcribed in Hollywood, written by John Dawson, It is produced and directed
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  by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time in
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  Station for another exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller. Roy Rowan speaking welcome
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  back, Well, no obvious ties to George Falentine and a very I think
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  a very human story so far and pretty well done here, a lot of
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  suspense. Will Johnny be able to save Van Valentine? Well, you'll have
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  to join us on Wednesday to learn more. Will we turn out? A
• 29:40
  listener comments and feedback and Kevin provides an answer to a question many listeners have
• 29:47
  been asking. Hi Adam regarding today's listener comment. In response, the music
• 29:52
  you use comes from the second movement of Symphony number one in F minor open
• 29:59
  snumber ten by Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich, I think s h O S T
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  A K O v I c. H AFRs sometimes use classical music clips to
• 30:15
  end their programs. This piece was used perhaps on several dramas. I can't
• 30:19
  remember where I first heard it, but it was something other than pat Novak.
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  I had heard it in its original symphotic context before, but had to
• 30:27
  search a bit to find the exact composition. You'll begin hearing the familiar strains
• 30:33
  of theme music beginning a minute into the second movement. Hope this adds to
• 30:37
  someone's trivial pursuit enjoyment. Keep it up, Adam, as always, I
• 30:41
  love it all. Well, thanks so much, Kevin, and I knew
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  it was something classical, but now at least I know how I've been adding
• 30:52
  about forty two seconds or well, maybe a little less of culture to everyone's
• 30:56
  lives. Here is every time we played the theme music, and we have
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  a review from the apps over on iTunes Walking in DC Roots. I've been
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  using this app since it first came out several years ago. Adam is part
• 31:12
  of my day every day. I love the show. Recently, the app
• 31:15
  stopped updating. I was surprised to see a tech support button, but I
• 31:22
  reported the problem and it was fixed within a few hours. Amazing. Well,
• 31:25
  thanks so much, and really when dealing with the app, that's the
• 31:29
  ideal way if you run into technical problems, to hit the technical support and
• 31:33
  length. While I'd be glad to help, most of the time, all
• 31:37
  I can do is report it to tech support. So that's definitely the way
• 31:42
  to go. And I'm glad you were able to find some quick resolution from
• 31:48
  the folks at a Wizard Media. They're the ones who actually manage the technicality
• 31:56
  of the app. All right, Well, that we'll do it for today.
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  We'll be back tomorrow with the adventures of Frank Grace and join us on
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  Wednesday for the next part of the Valentine Manner. In the meanwhile, send
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  at Radio Detectives, and please rate the show on iTunes. But from Boise,
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  Idaho, this is your host, Adam Grahamson and off