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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter, Parts One and Two (EP0999) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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you. All right, well, now we begin a new series. It's
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time for the Ricardo Amerigo Matter Parts one and two from Hollywood. It's time
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now for Johnny Dallam. John this is Harry Branson, a Philadelphia mutual.
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Harry, what are you doing in John? I'm not, at least not
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in your town. But you've got a case for me. Do you know
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anything about violins? Oh? On, tell me. So he opened up
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his fiddle case and out came a submachine gun, added John, That technique
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went out with prohibition. Now, seriously, this case contains a genuine Amati.
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Good what's in Amati? One of the fine this most expensive violin's ever
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made. This one was insured for thirty thousand dollars. Wise, yes,
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now someone has to find it for us. What's more? Okay, Harry,
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I'm on my way tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the
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Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Tact Expensive God, America's Fabulous freelance
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Insurance Investigator, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator
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Johnny Dollar to the Philadelphia Mitual Liability and Casualty Company. The following is an
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accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the Ricardo Amerigo matter. Expense account
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Item one twelve forty Train fair and Incidentals to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I took
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the train because Harry Branson didn't seem to be in any particular hurry, and
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I can't like a slow look at the countryside this time of year. When
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I got to Philadelphia, I checked in at the Bellevue Stratford, shaved and
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showered, then went over to Harry Branson's office and the Security First building on
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Walnut Street. You deceived me, John. I thought, when we talk
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long distance that you'd be here right away. But instead of flying down all
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the silversides, Branson hadn't changed a full time. I'd hear a little grayer
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than the last time I've seen him, perhaps from Amory's still the same serious
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lads. He always acted as though he was carrying the weight of the world
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on his shoulder. I feel a deep personal concern over the whole matter,
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because it was a man I put in this office myself, who issued the
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policies, both of them. Two policies on this fiddle you were talking about,
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No, John, one on the Amati violin thirty thousand dollars, yeah,
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and one on Ricardo Amerigo himself for twenty thousand dollars. Who is Ricky?
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Who wasn't that what you said? His name is. I'm sure I
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didn't mention anyone by the Oh oh oh Ricardo Amerigo. Yes, yes,
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well, uh, where's he playing a purple cat? Or maybe we Willi's
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join over, John, this man is a concert violinist or was? He's
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disappeared? Now, please more levity, Sorry, Eero, it's harrisome,
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sorry er all right, quite all right now, I realize that you have
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quite a sense of humor, John, But in a matter as important as
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this, Yeah, sure, Now let's have the story very well. A
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few years ago, Ricardo Amerigo was one of the world's leading concert violinists,
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as famous in London, Paris, Rome as in the concert halls of this
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country. Ah, such virtuosity, almost unbelievable. I shall never forget one
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evening here in our Academy of Music. He had just finished a perfectly brilliant
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Vinofsky, amazing technical performance. Yeah well, and from encore he played sarasat
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Sapatiado even more brilliant, Harry, But the audience wouldn't let him leave the
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stage. Ricardo Amerigo has disappeared. Oh oh, yes, and you're in
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a hurry to get all of the case. I'm sorry, and I thinking
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of his superlative performance that night carried me away. For yes, he's dead,
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disappeared in the violin no trace. He didn't say that before I know.
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You see, there's no proof of death. Nobody disappeared. Well tell
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let me shock your finer sensibilities. Harry murder. We had thought of that,
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of course, who's we the Port Marris Police Port Marris, New Jersey,
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that is aw. Yes, you see, since Amerigo's car went through
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the bridge rail, crashed right through it and plunged into the river. Trying
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to tie Harry down, the pertinent facts that would help me in my investigation
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was well feudal. At least three times during the next half hour he went
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off on glowing descriptions of violin recitals he had known II, fitz Selman,
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Chrysler, and so on. But he did come up with one or two
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things I wanted. First, Amerigo and his fiddle had been driving down from
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Philadelphia to some spot on the South Jersey Seashore, crossing an old wooden bridge
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over a little stream and inlet from the ocean. The car had smashed through
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the guard rail and gone to the bottom of the inlet. The car,
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of course, was found Amerigo and his violin no second, and just as
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important the name of the beneficiary of Amerigo's policies item too on expense account one
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dollar even taxi to the Harnell Building, also on Walnut Street, in the
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office of Peter Corbyn, Amerigo's booking agent. The building was plush, but
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Corbyn's office was about as bare as I'd ever seen. An old, beat
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up desk, a battered filing cabinet, a couple of straight chairs. That
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was it. Dollar commenced. Corbyn was chewing the stub of a cigar that
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he'd forgotten to relight for at least a couple of days. We made with
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the usual hotyds. Well, you men, Branson told you exactly right,
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Dolla. I'm Ricado and Murgo's sole and only beneficiary. Oh it has not
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a been unusual for a man's agent to be his air or was it because
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you were all personal friends. I'm going to give it to you straight.
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I brought him Marie Go over to this country myself, my own sole expense.
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I actually gave him the build up, I started his whole entire career.
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I kept him on top of all at my own expense. Why didn't
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you collect a regular agent's commission on his own shoe shore plenty more white kid
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about it. Sure, while he was working what's that supposed to mean?
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Bottle? What yees? Started hitting the bottle bad, not good, And
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believe me, the word gets her own fast instead of taking me money himself
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too, because he started costing me money. But you see, he never
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saved anything even when he was earning big You know how these artists. Yeah,
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well that's the same with all of them. He gotten that actually up
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to his ears and nobody no but no family, no relatives, nobody to
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pull him out. Nobody but me, big hearted Corby. So you had
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him take on a lot of insurance and name you as beneficiary, Well that
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was his idea. Actually, of course he always did have the amati insured.
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That's his violin. Oh you know about violence? No oh well,
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but the life insurance that was his own idea, double identity, all that
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sort of double Oh. Yeah, but guess who had to dig up the
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mula for the last couple of premiums, Big heart at Corbyn. You're right,
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not a bad investment though, wasn't. Well, hey, premiums and
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you stand to collect money if we can find proof that he's dead, and
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if we can't, I don't have bad Dollar. I don't either, cob,
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and it doesn't smell that. Oh you think me his own age can
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actually rig something like that for one of my best friends? You think that?
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Listen, wise guy. Even if I did have any any of us
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such idea, it'd be crazy. Anything actually is as obvious as that.
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Well, sometimes the most obvious is the best cover. Oh, get out
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of here, Dollar, unless you want somebody to start collecting on your assurance.
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Even if it isn't you huh, get out so help you? Yeah,
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pretty obvious, And every time you open your mouth you don't. Why
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is it that people who telegraph their punches are always the first to start swinging.
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Anyhow, I left Corbin to pick himself up and start thinking about some
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alibis he might need. And in the camp back to my hotel, I
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did a lot of thinking myself. Sure, the obvious, oft times is
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the best cover up, and yet it might be too obvious, far too
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obvious. Ns in here, Johnny Dollar here, Oh John good listen.
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At least there'll be no double indemnity to pay in the Amerigo madam for accidental
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death. That is, you see wait a minute. About an hour ago,
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you weren't even sure he's dead. Did somebody find the body? No,
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unfortunately, But I've just received a call from the Port Morris Police.
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They completed their examination of Amerigo's car after they pulled it out of the creek.
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Of course, I hope so, John, they found conclusive evidence of
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murder. Harry, I'll call you from Port Morris. Expense account adam two
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subway, ferry, train and bus fairs to South Final, New Jersey,
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South Finland because Ed Bulls lived there, and I knew that if anything,
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anything at all happened in the hardest sunny Southern Jersey, ad would know about
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it. Retired and raising some of those wonderful South Jersey sweet potatoes and peaches
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with plenty of hired help, he amused himself by mosing around, getting to
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know everybody and everything that happened in his section of the state. He had
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an insatiable curiosity and money enough to keep it satisfied. Hey are you conniving
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Chiseling son of a gun? I've been waiting for you to get here.
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What took you so long? And what was that conniving Chiseling cranks? And
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we're still on expense account, aren't you? Yeah, sure, it's helped
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me. Nobody in history ever had the neck of padding out an expense account
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the way you can and collect those fancy commissions on top. All right,
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When I was a private investigator who is retired, you call this retired two
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hundred and seventy acres of sandy soil from which to try to wrestle the poor
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living. Oh no, that Cadillac Eldorado out front that belongs to one of
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the hard hands nine hundred and eighty three peach trees. Isn't that a landing
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feel? I see out there through the window a lot of sweet potato land
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to be cultivated. Yes, hey, why didn't you fly down or let
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me know? And I had to pick you up. Look, with all
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the time I have thought you said you were Yah, how long you're going
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to stay? Try and figure out where we'll go, what we'll do that
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I'm on a case. Sure. Ricardo Amerigo and his priceless fiddle. Oh
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no, it was easy. When I heard about him going over the bridge,
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I contacted Barney Peters of the Port Morris p D. From Barney,
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I learned all about the next to Kin, his agent that is Pte carbon
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right, and that boy at Philadelphia Mutual Harry Branson, and I knew Branson
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wouldn't call anybody but you in on the case. So here you are still
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a private Iron said you got to have some way of killing time. And
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I suppose you have the whole case? Song hip. Well, according to
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Harry Branson, who heard from the Port Morris police just before I left Philly,
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it was murder. Oh you point killer. I thought i'd be the
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one to tell you that. Oh sorry, the cops know it. First
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second, I told him, huh yeah, I showed him where somebody used
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a hack saw on the steering arm of Amerigo's car when they dragged it out
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of the creek. So that was it, yep? And who wielded the
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hack song? Well, Pete Corbyn? Who else? Why? Who else
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should to benefit by Amarigo's sudden trip to the Great Beyond? No, no,
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no, it's too easy. What's more, he's the only one who
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had constant and complete access to Amerigo's car. Why he not only mothered little
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Ricky, clothed and fed him and kept him in booze, but he paid
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his rents, swept out his apartment, serviced his cars and Johnny. That
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car was even kept locked in Pete Corbyn's own garage. Corbyn had the only
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key. Where did you learn that Corbyn's landlord? By phone? Of course?
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He said he thought Corbyn did that so Ricky couldn't go out driving when
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he was drunk, and me, I think it was the other way around.
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He'd only let him drive when he was drunk, huh, instead of
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good chance of smashing up what would look like accidental death, so that Corbyn
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would collect the double indemnity. It's open and shut. And he proofed Sherlock,
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Ha, just get to Corbyn, throw it all at him and break
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him down. Maybe you'll even find a hack, so tucked up his sleeve,
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choicy, and he bets that it isn't Corbyn. Yeah, yeah,
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I'll bet you you name it my commission on the case, I'll match it.
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Oh and plus you're expenser car look ed. I want to see that
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car in the bridge and the creek, anything else I can find. Sure,
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I'll fly you down there. Then we can go on over to Atlantic
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City, hit some of the night spots your treat, you know, so
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we can build up the expense account enough for me to collect plenty, and
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Bulls had been a pretty good investigator in this day, seldom gone off half
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cocked. And all his evidence was purely circumstantial. And where was the body?
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What's more, Pete Corbyn acted anything but scared, or so I thought,
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until I put through a routine called Harry Branson. He was worried.
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He had a right to be. Pete Corbin had packed a bag, jumped
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into his car, it disappeared, Johnny Dollar. Sergeant Barnie Peters, Port
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Morris Police, Oh hi, sergeant, thought you and Adam Bowles were coming
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over here to look at the evidence and the murder of Ricardo Amarigo. You
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are it's not warming up his plane. That's why I answered his phone.
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We got a visitor here in Port Morris. The guy add thanks to the
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job, Pete Corbyn, Amerigo's booking agent. That's right in Port Morris.
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That's right. Well are you holding him? I can't no legal reason to
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in spite of ads suspicions. Well what's Corbyn doing there? I don't know
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unless that's right about him? Huh? And Pete knows you're on his trail?
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What's that mean? What couldn't mean? He's down here? Gunning for
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you. Expenserc counsubmitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, Port Morris,
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New Jersey. Following is in accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the
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Ricardo Emerigo matter. Item three one dollar even for whatever it was, the
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local druggists recommended to pull my stomach back together after the flight an Ad Bowl's
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private plane from AD's farm and south Ye under Port Morris. In a sense,
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I'm glad we flew in a car with that at the wheel. We'd
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have been all over the road. As it was, we were only all
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over the sky. A beautiful day for flying, isn't it, Johnny?
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Can't you hold a straight course? And what's the matter with this ship?
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And not a thing? I like? Two weave around a bit. I
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like the feel of it. You know all that power under your Yeah,
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sure you're not just trying to scare me into welchin on our little bet.
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I'm gonna win that bet, Johnny, your commission on the case, plus
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all that goes on that well padded expensive count of yours. You just get
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busy and find the body. Why don't you forget your dark past is a
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private eye and stay retired and leave an old friend like you floundering around with
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a case. It's hay. You don't watch your steering, will be floundering
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around, and those salt marshes down there. Sorry, but can't you see
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Johnny Pete Corbon, Amerigo's agent has to be the heavy. He's the beneficiary
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of Amerigo's policy. Amerigo him a lot him not too easy. And Pete's
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the only person we know of who was with Amerigo constantly. You got motive
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opportunity. Too easy, I tell you. But I wonder what under the
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sun Pete's doing in Port Morris that we'll be finding out. We'll land there
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in a couple of minutes. Now. The little town of Port Morris was
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set on the edge of one of the wide salt marshes that border a lot
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of the South Jersey Shore, just a vast expanse of salt hay, and
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that it with little coves and inlets, soggy swampy country. Ideal breeding place
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with the famous Jersey mosquitoes. And I guess for me, the ideal breeding
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place for trouble. Sergeant Barney Peter's met us at the mucky little landing stretch
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just outside town. And we headed out on a narrow, muddy road across
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the marshes. Yes, and mister Dollar, if how were you, I'd
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try to pin down this Corbyn. Where is he now? Back in town?
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Got alf McCracken keeping an eye on him, helps the boy. So
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I am Arigo Christ through the bridge that night. You know, Barney,
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I still wish you'd cooked up something to hold him. But what ed sure
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at every bit of evidence you think you've got on Corbin, it's purely circumstanced.
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What else have you got to go on? John boy? We'll see,
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we'll see after I have a look at the bridge Amerigo busted through in
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his car. It's just up ahead a bit acrosses the Lucky Hill Creek.
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I'd also like to know who could have well, I'd like to know what
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could have happened to his body to that thirty thousand dollars A muddy violin you
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see. Just keep in mind that there's a mighty big flow of water in
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the creek from the tide coming in and going out. MM tell me,
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serge Johnny, I checked it. Huh. Tide had just turned was on
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its way out to the ocean at the time. Amarrigo's car went the bridge
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right, Barney, that's correct ed right now, though it's probably about the
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lords of what's the matter? Just pulling over to let this car that's coming
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past us. Otherwise one of us might sheer off into the swamp. And
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these roads weren't meant for two way traffic. Who's coming pretty fast for a
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road like this, he isn't ky, Look Pennsylvania plates, huh, he's
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right, that's Corbyn's car carb huh. Swing across the road blocking wake the
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son of a gun and I was carbon, all right, Well, then
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swing around go after it on this road you'd slide off into the swamp so
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fast by the time we go on up to the bridge and turn, he'll
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be halfway back to Philadelphia, blasted where we had the bird in hand and
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didn't know it. What are you gonna do now, Johnny, say,
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just to exactly what we started out. You're losing valuable time now if I
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were still, why don't you stay retired? We drove slowly on up to
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the bridge, stopped and got out, and although the tide was almost low
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now, it was easy to see how that rush of water would easily carry
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a violin or a body or almost anything right out to sea or could it
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the tide was running the same way when it happened out, Yeah, and
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the current was a lot stronger than it is now, so you can imagine
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what it would Huh. Yeah, what's the matter, Johnny, Well,
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that's that big bird nest whatever it is, down at the side of the
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creek fifty sixty feet. Oh, that's just where the reeds and hey,
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you got mad at up? Does look like? Hey, yeah, that
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isn't a fiddle case propped up on top of it. It looks like sure
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it is. Sure the tide was higher than the fiddle stuck in those reeds.
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Wait here, Johnny, George, you'll come back here, doll it
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don it's like quicksands down it you. It was like quicksand too black,
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Chloe muck and I sank into it up to my knees. I almost had
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to swim through it, hanging onto it, pulling myself along with the reeds
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and pull rushes. But half this case hung on that thirty thousand dollars on
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mighty violin, and I wasn't gonna let it slip out of my hands.
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A couple of times I dropped in the soft holes, almost up to my
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shoulders. But somehow I kept going, pulled a fiddle case off the pilomatic
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weaves and started back view stuff. Most of my strength but only one hand.
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A pull is to pull myself along to add head. Honey, I
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at flying grabb this rope. Yeah, cats, breach, Johnny, use
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the violin case. He can float. Hi, I'll try chee here,
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Johnny, we're over again, guy y. I hadn't passed out, so
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help me. I hadn't, not entirely, that is, I never have
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been able to grab the line that ad bowls through to me. Needless to
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say, I took a lot of kidding from Adam Barney Peter's on the drive
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back of Fort Morris, especially since I didn't really know what had happened until
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I came to on the back seat of the car clutching the fiddle case.
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Shu, if you'd held out of the rope with a death grip you have
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on that violin case, we'd have got you out of that muck before you
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swallowed half the salt water in that inlay. Yeah. Sure, I'll see
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this, Roy, mister dollar, you don't give up easy. The fiddle
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The thirty thousand dollars money. At least I had half of this miserable case
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in hand. In my hands, there'd be no insurance collection on that violin
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and I saw it. What's the matter, Johnny? You passed out again?
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No? No, Ed, you should have cleaned me up before you
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put me into this car. Right? Look? Oh? What is it?
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Piece of shirt? Ricardo Amerigo's shirt. Look monogram in the pocket ra
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and what looks like bloodstains? You're right? Where'd you get that? I
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must have picked it up when I picked up the fiddle. Well, at
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least it proves that Amerigo went down with his car, no doubt of it.
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What I didn't tell him was that the piece of cloth from a kindo
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Amerigo's shirt was facet to the violin case deliberately put there but by home by
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Pete Corbyn. Johnny, that's your man. Are you listening? Yeah,
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I'm listening. Beneficiary confidante, caretaker of both Ricky Amarigo and his car.
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Who else could have saw it through the steering bar that made the car run
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off the bridge? And a guy who was smart enough to have it happened
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in this god forsaken saltnar just a minute. Okay, Barney in the heart
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of sunny southern Jersey, where he expected nobody to find car, or body
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or even the fiddle until long after the insurance claim was met thanks to a
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tide that carry everything out to sea. Indeed, my friend, if you're
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a deputy alf McCracken, hadn't actually seen Amrico's car slip through the bridge rail.
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Oh wait a minute, yeah, yeah. If Pete Carbon had planned
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this whole thing, he would have made sure the coppers dilect I would be
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found, Johnny. That's why he had the accident happened where somebody saw it.
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Yet that's somebody else. Mccrack and didn't see the fiddle float away.
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He didn't see the body float away from the car. Stop it, john
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boy. You know as well as I do that this whole thing was engineered
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by Cornar Right, tell me, investigator, what was he doing down here
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today? Lord knows, and I don't care, probably to plant that piece
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of shirt. Johnny. I've given you all the help I'm going on this
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case from now on. You either follow my tip and lose your bet to
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me, or you a don't and give yourself a black eye with insurance Johnny.
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Yeah, Barney, that's a good detective. He'd have to be to
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retire on that nice farm his over in South Fiman. Even broke a burglary
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case for me once in Port Marris, coupy year ago when I couldn't break
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myself a pastime. But you've got guts. I like you for it.
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Thanks a lot, and to me, the Pete Corbyn theory looks well too
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easy. Oh not you, barn. That's what I've been trying to praise
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to that stubborn egg head sitting beside you. I'll lend you a suit of
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clean clothes and you can chase this thing down the way you want to,
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without the dubious help of somebody who was just trying to win a bet from
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him, traitor. And if I were you, I'd had up a few
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other people who knew Ricky Amergo besides his press agent. Pete Corbyn, you
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are a minerator, gentlemen. I have only one thing to say, and
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Johnny, it's addressed to you. When you finally find that Pete Corbyn done
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it, you know where to send the check to me. At Port Morris,
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we learned that Alf mccrack and I lost track at Corban when the former
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dropped in at Osborne's oyster house for a dozen and a half shell. I
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hadn't even seen him take off in his car, much less leave in a
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hurry after spinning us on the road de Luckyhoe Creek. I took advantage of
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Barney's offer, borrowed a suit of his clothes, and accepted a ride from
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him to the crossroads of Woodvine, where I could get a bus back to
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Philadelphia. Sure, half my job was done. I'd recovered the thirty thousand
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dollars on money, Violin, but I could still hear the old so pleasant
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voice of Ed Bulls X investigator not so retired. You know where to send
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the check to me, Johnny boy expense account had him five four dollars and
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ninety five cents bus fair from Woodvine to Philadelphia, and believe me, it's
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a long bus ride. As soon as I got to my hotel and changed
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into my own clothes, I called Harry Branson at the insurance company. Mister
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Branson here, this is mister dollar. Mister Branson, Yes, mister job.
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Yeah, back of my hotel, music lover, and I've just won
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the thirty thousand dollars on money. What yeah, I got the fiddle for
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you. Well, thank heaven you recovered it. What if Ricardo Americo?
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Later do you want your money? I'll be right over. Where is it,
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John? Where is it? Right here? Harry? Right here in
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case bo and oh thank Heaven, And by some miracle, it's dry as
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a bone and all in one piece. Bla, oh, thank Heaven,
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John, John, what's the matter this? And amati? Oh no,
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oh no. Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of
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this week's story. Tomorrow the results of a poker game. And believe me,
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there are times when the cards gonna be really stacked against you. Join
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us, won't you? Yours tru Lee, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by Sam Dawson.
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It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us
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tomorrow night at the same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours
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Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well.
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I have to admit that that twist with the violin not being the not being
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the correct violin is an interesting one. I doubt since this is a mystery,
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that it's just a random violin, but there's a big question as to
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what exactly it's doing there, and and so this is starting off as a
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pretty good mystery. I also note the insurance representative here, and this is
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actually would be one of those recurring characters, and that was one thing that
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made the Johnny Dollar run different the Bob Bailey run because prior to Bob Bailey
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and what we've seen so far, all of the insurance investigation insurance guys,
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we're just totally random people, actors, grab a script, grab a random
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company name, Sam calling from this company when you come on out here and
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investigate. But we do start into some recurring insurance company representatives with the unique
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characteristics and temperaments. And he's a little bit fussy to start with, so
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but a great start here. We do have some listener comment and feedback,
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and have a comment here from Joan on podcast Allie Hi Adam, I really
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enjoy this show so much like Dragnet regarding the lineup, It's so nice to
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finally be hearing Bob Daily's Johnny Dollar shows again. I think he plays Johnny
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the best. I also enjoyed him and let George do it too. Hope
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you are well. Cheers from Joan in Southern Ontario, Canada. Also on
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podcast Allie, Thanks so much, Adam for all the hard work you put
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into a great podcast. From Pamla, Thanks so much, Pam. That
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will actually do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with mister Moto and
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then join us on later tomorrow when we'll bring you our one thousandth episode special.
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You'll want to be sure and listen to that. In the meantime,
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your host, Adam Graham signing off.