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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Forbes Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP0983) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Detectives dot net. Well, now it is time to get into today's episode
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  of Yours Truly Johnny Doller The Forbes Matter, Part three and four from Hollywood.
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  It's time now for Johnny Doller. Get Gumby Mitch Dollar, attorney for
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  Sheldon Forbes. Oh, how long, mister Gumby? How are you?
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  Oh? I don't know. The hearing has been set for two thirty this
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  afternoon. Okay, I'll be there, No need to particularly. I told
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  you yesterday he requested me to waive trial and plead Gilly Well, want to
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  be sentenced today. No, this is just a preliminary hearing. He'll probably
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  be sentenced before the week's out, though. The card will simply consider the
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  waiver and inform him of his rights today. Anything I can do, no,
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  I don't think so. I'm gonna try to talk to him again and
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  get him to reconsider the waiver. I doubt if I'll have much luck,
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  but I'll try. All he has to do is return the Moneys to Well.
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  Buck up, mister Gumby. If he won't return it, maybe someone
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  else will. What do you mean, I'm going to try and find out
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  what he did with it. My company wants it back, sure, but
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  we also want Forbes to have a fair chance. You're pretty decent, mister
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  Doller. Thanks tonight and every weekday Night Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of
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  the Man with the Action. Tacked expense account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator Os
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  Trulli Johnny Deller expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Deller the Continental Adjustment Bureau
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  for eighteen Elizabeth Avenue, Hartford, Connectic. Following is an accounting of expenditures
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  during my investigation of the Forbes matter embezzlement and a very frustrating case. Expense
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  account continued. I had him six three dollars and fifty cents lunch for myself
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  and a mister Arnold Haven, head of the accounting department for Century Styles Incorporated.
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  Mister Haven, a tall, balding man in a dark suit, had
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  ulcers. His poached egg and dried toast didn't interest him too much. And
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  what's going to happen to Oh? I don't know, mister Haven. That
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  depends on several things. Right now, I have to tell you that it
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  looks like he'll go to prison. Worse than that, it looks like he
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  wants to go to prison. He's wave trial prison. It's too bad,
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  too bad. I always liked Chowton Forbes. You hired him, did you,
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  mister Haven, Yes, I hired him. He was a good man
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  right from the start. He did his job, and he did it twelve
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  I ain't never had a complaint against Forbes. Why do you suppose he stole
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  the money You've got me, mister Dalla. We paid him the going rate.
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  That's a good salary for accountance. He seemed happy enough with it,
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  and he knew he was in the line for substantial raises. I could understand
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  it in a way if he had a family and heavy responsibility, or if
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  he played the market, or if he gambled. But Forbes, he just
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  baffles me. It baffles me too. Oh yeah, that's Good's well.
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  The people around the office there, they're pretty upset about this. Any particular
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  people, mister Haven. Everybody, but anyone in particular. A girl for
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  instance, Oh girl, yes, I see what. No, did he
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  go out with any girl in your office? No? No, most of
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  them are married. No, at least as far as I know, Forbes
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  didn't go with any of the girls there. He kept to himself. Oh
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  he might have lunched with one or the other now and then, but no,
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  no, he more or less kept to himself. All the reason I
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  asked you, mister hay And is that what little I've been able to find
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  out about his personal life isn't very helpful. My company wants the money back.
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  We're willing to give him a fair break if we can get it back.
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  He's pretty stubborn about cooperating. Yes, we know about that, mister
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  Duller. But how can we give him a break if he doesn't want us
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  to? And we can't find out anything about him. Look, if there's
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  anything you can think of, any reason he might have had for taking the
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  money, and I have wrecked my brain. I can't think of any reason
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  he No, wait a minute, just a minute. I didn't notice a
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  change coming Forbes. It was about a month or six weeks ago. Oh,
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  it was nothing, really, it was just I guess in anxiety about
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  him. Well, he took all the money within the last four weeks.
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  With that correspond roughly, yes, well that's a start, I hope.
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  I returned to the accounting offices of Century Styles with mister Haven. I spent
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  two hours questioning different members of his staffing. Sheldon Forbes, his habits and
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  his personality were pretty much the same as having himself had described expense account adem
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  seven four dollars gasoline. I put a tankful of gas in my rented car
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  and went over to an apartment on fifty ninth Street where Sheldon Forbes had lived.
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  According to the pencil note above the first store to the right of the
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  entrance, Missus Anastasia Knapka was the manager. Yes, what is pleased you
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  are, Missus Knopka? Yes, what do you want? Mister? I
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  understand mister Sheldon Forbes lives here. Is that right? Oh? Yes,
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  bed, I hear he's still moneys. He not in a jail. I
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  think, yes, I know about them, missus Knopka. I'm from the
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  insurance company and we're involved in this case. We're trying to recover some of
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  that money if we can. I wonder if you'd help me. I fixed
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  dinner for my husband, he's come home from work. It won't take long.
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  What I do well. I want to know about Sheldon Forbes. What
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  the works, missus Knapka. Did he drink gamble? They stay and nights
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  or go out, and he pay his rent. He always pay his rent.
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  You are policeman, insurance investigating. Please sometime else, maybe you speak
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  to my husband. He speak much better than me, but it's important now.
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  I talked to mister Forbes on telephone. He called me from jail.
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  He said, I don't have to answer any questions. You don't have to
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  answer any questions, Missus Kannapka. But I sure appreciate it if you would.
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  My husband home pretty so you ask him you can help him possibly?
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  Now would you like to help him in this trouble? All right? Mister
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  but how I know these things? You ask me about the men who live,
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  well, how about his friends who visited him? I cannot say,
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  no visitor. Was he a good tenant, no trouble like mister Sullivan and
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  third floor mister or Sullivan always drunk, called police twice. Mister Forbes,
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  not drink whiskey. Uh did you ever meet this girl? Girl? Sure
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  you had a girlfriend at me? Oh, I think you mistake? I
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  know you ever see a girlfriend here? All right? How long have you
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  known him? Five? Six year? Maybe ever since he moved in here
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  to this place. But no, girl, no hard he spend his time
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  work? He worked very hard. No, I mean besides working at the
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  office. How else did Forbes spend his time? I've been he poor feller
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  that one Huh. True? He steals money is but he poor feller.
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  Just the same for him, I feel. Yeah, mister Forbes he quiet,
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  and he thinks I know he lived up in that little room. Quiet
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  and think he does all time? Think no whiskey, no girls. Oh
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  he paints sometime, listened to music. Think o, my husband Dina Burns.
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  Please you go just a minute. I'd like to see his apartment if
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  I can. Oh, No, methics. Here you bring Becky please sure,
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  thank you, missus knaf Gan. The apartment Sheldon Forbes called home was
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  as dismal as the neighborhood. A tiny closet kitchen, a bed that came
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  out of the wall, and a pair of grimy windows that looked across the
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  court onto another pair of equally grimy windows. The furniture was threadbare and dusty.
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  A small ironing board and iron attested to the fact that Sheldon Forbes laundered
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  his own shirts. Other small evidences of frug gality were about the premises.
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  A hot plate and a can of souring cream. Two sants of clothes,
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  neatly brushed and pressed, but inexpensive. The record player in a collection of
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  a half of a dozen good albums, were the only sign of material accomplishment.
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  The painting materials, eazel canvas and oils were also inexpensive. No liquor,
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  no jewelry, no spencive clothes, nothing that costs four thousand, two
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  hundred and eighty five dollars or anything like oh here's your key, missus gonna
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  can thank you very much? Hey, thank you? Well, what you
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  think I think he's had a very lonely life here, yes, lonely's word
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  lonely? Wait? Has he got a car? Thanks? It was a
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  Ford Vantage of nineteen forty six, tightly locked up. The paint was skinning
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  away, the tires worn down, the mile age seventy seven thousand miles.
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  He certainly hadn't blown the money on a fancy car. Now I felt completely
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  frustrated. Expensivecount item eight seventy nine cents dinner. I had a neighborhood restaurant
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  called the seventy nine Er, a place I learned where Sheldon Forbes frequently took
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  his evening meal. The restaurant manager, a man named Alexander Duplas, remembered
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  Forbes. He liked him. A woman who ran a bakery shop across the
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  street also remembered him as the young man who bought a roll there every night,
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  probably the role to go with a lonely cup of coffee in his room
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  the next morning. She liked him too. All in all, I was
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  getting a composite picture of Sheldon Forbes that didn't look quite right. Whatever he
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  was to the people who knew him casually, he wasn't a man who ever
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  had any money to spend. I dropped in at the city jail about seven
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  thirty, and I was surprised to find lawyer Edward Gumby sitting on a bench
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  briefcase in hand. Come on, mister Gumby, nothing new. Huh that's
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  the Wayne Goes. I guess we had some action today. Yeah, the
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  hearing was this afternoon. Man from the district to turn his office. Took
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  about fifteen minutes to lay out the evidence against Forbes and make the charges.
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  Uh huh. I spent the whole time pleading with Forbes not to go ahead
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  with the waiver. Did I miss anything? No, he wouldn't open up
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  at all. He just said he'd spent the money. I couldn't talk him
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  out of the waiver, so it went through. When will he be sentenced?
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  They accept the date for Friday. I don't know whether they'll get around
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  to it or not. I'd like to talk to him again. Has he
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  been moved yet? Nope. I thought he'd be transferred to the Sheriff's office.
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  Well, ordinarily he would, but since he waved trial, they announced
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  bail. It's proper procedure in cases like this. Gives him a couple of
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  days to straighten out his affairs. Why somebody bail him out? Oh?
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  Has he left yet? Won't get out too late? Then's when the shift
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  changes. I think it's worth trying to see him. Yeah, I think
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  I'll stick around as to come be. I got to find out something about
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  this case. An hour later, when Sheldon Forbes emerged from the doorway and
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  turned right, I was following him when he caught a cab and headed uptown.
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  I caught one and stayed right with him. When he got out at
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  the Empress Theater and walked around to the stage door, I was standing by
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  the alley entrance. Ten minutes later, he came back out hailed a cab
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  once more, I followed it. This time I followed into his apartment on
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  fifty ninth Street. I waited fifteen minutes before I went in. Farbes,
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  Barbes, Hey, Farbes, it's me Johnny Dollar. I want to talk
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  to you. It took me a few seconds to understand what it was.
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  I got a couple of whiffs of it coming from under his door. The
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  room was accurate, stinging with gas fumes, and Sheldon Forbes was stretched down
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  on the floor of a six foot kitchen when I picked him up and carried
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  him out. I didn't know whether it was alive or debt. Johnny Deller,
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  this is the police operated. Are you the party you called for Nanu
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  Lence? Yes, didn't you get it? It's on the way, sir.
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  I'm calling to verify the circumstance attempt at suicide by guests. Yes,
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  sir, we have that. The victim's name, Sheldon Forbes, f L
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  R B. S. Forbes, and your connection, sir, relative perhaps
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  no no relation. Insurance investigator. I just found him. Would you please
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  remain there until the office is arrived. Are you kidding? I asked you.
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  Oh, oh well, thank you very much. Expense accounts submitted by
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  Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Continental Adjustment Bureau for eighteen Elizabeth Avenue, Hartford,
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  Connecticut. The following is the accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the
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  Forbes matter. Sheldon Forbes pleaded guilty to a four thousand, two hundred and
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  eighty five dollars and bezzling charge. He waved jury trial and was awaiting sentence
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  when he was bailed out of jail and went home and turned on the gas
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  thirty seconds after I dragged him from the apartment. I called the police emergency
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  squad. In a matter of minutes they arrived and a couple of interns were
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  working on fours with a full motor in that dingy, dirty, badly lighted
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  hallway. There was no telling how much gas Forbes had breathed in, or
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  for how long a period after he went into his apartment the gas jet had
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  been opened. Hand me let hypoel thanks, swab okay, he he alarmed
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  barely. You're the fellow found him? Mister, yeah, learn to say?
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  What can happen on these kinds? That shot I just gave him should
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  produce some reaction this year place. You know who he is. His name
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  is Sherman for Hims. Nice looking guy. Well i'll need that. Yeah,
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  thanks, I think we're getting somewhere now, Look can I help?
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  No, Hell, you better hand me one of those two live will be
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  pretty sick. Oh think good, he's he's catching on. Yeah, let's
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  have a little increase. Hell, I'll but just a little okay, hold
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  it there. The intern and his assistant worked quietly and methodically. There was
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  nothing I could do but stand and watch. After about a half an hour,
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  the color of forbe skin seemed to me a little more close to normal.
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  His eyes were still closed, though, when he showed no signs of
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  movement, I waited, Okay, I'll you can kill a pull mother.
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  I'm getting some posts now, perspiration too. What do you make it?
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  It depends, mister, he has any kind of heart condition, it'll be
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  tough. We can tell more when we get him into a hospital. Nothing
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  more we can do for him here. Okay, I'll have the boys load
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  him up. Let's get out of here. Well, mister, did you
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  say he's a friend of yours? Just someone I know? It's got you
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  to think Casey makes it, Morley b We'll take him over to Bellevue.
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  All attempt at suicide to get over there. I'd like to talk to him
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  when he comes around. Any idea when that'll be no telling? Better?
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  Phone in first. Please, don't want to talk to you. You give
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  identification of headquarters when you called in. Yeah, that's a third one tonight.
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  What is it? Welly, not for him. My job is to
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  handle them, but I wonder why they do it. Oh, this guy's
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  got a problem. He's out on bail and goes into court Friday to be
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  sentenced. In Besling chart seemed like a nice guy, good looking. I
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  think he probably is a nice guy. But I thought you said he was
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  new Bessling. I did, Yeah, be sure and call in. Yeah
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  sure, doctor, Thanks, good night. The uniformed officers outside the apartment
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  house questioned me thoroughly regarding the circumstances of the attempt at suicide. I told
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  him what had occurred and gave them my business address for reference. He asked
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  me to drive over to the station with him and verify the facts. I
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  did. All of that took about two hours. When I was finished,
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  I put in a call to Bellevue No change in Sheldon Forbes condition expensive count
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  item nine two eighty one theater ticket. That's what it cost me to see
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  the last fifteen minutes of a fairly bad musical play at the Empress Theater.
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  When it was over, I walked around to the stage entrance. Hey didn't
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  quite get dag, mister dollar dollar, Oh, mister darr Well, what
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  can I do for you? Between six thirty and seven o'clock to night,
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  a man came here to the stage entrance and talked to you. A lot
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  of people talk to me here, and there's my job talking to him.
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  One man in particular, his name is Sheldon Forbes. Don't remember nobody name
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  for well, maybe he didn't give his name. He was a tall man
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  about my size. It's thirty or so, dark hair, clean cut,
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  or a tweet suit and beach me. Did you come here to see somebody
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  in the show? Is that it? He might have? I don't know.
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  How do you know he came here? I followed him, I saw
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  him. It's a business, my business. I'm an investigator. Oh we
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  know? Did he have a hat on tonight? Oh? No, I
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  didn't, short haircut? Yeah, do you remember? Sure? Sure?
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  What she'd done struck me as a nice young fellow. He's been round here
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  a lot of times, Sheldon Barb. Yeah, yeah, I didn't recognize
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  a name approach. Would you mind telling me why he comes around here?
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  Comes here and she bets you. Walker one of the heroes in the show.
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  Let's see Walker. Is she his girlfriend? Oh? Don't think so.
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  It's like this. He comes here asking to see her and she never
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  sees him. Yeah, I suppose so? Who is she? Oh?
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  She sings here dance? Is a little pretty girl? Have you ever seen
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  him? Forbes? Whoa? I can't say, I guess not. Is
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  she still here, Betsy Walker? Is she still here? I'd like to
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  talk to her where she wouldn't be here this rate. She finishes her bit
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  in the second actor to tell me where she lives. Oh, I'm sorry,
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  boy, I can't tell you there? All right? Well where can
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  I phone her? Can't tell you that either? And now why don't you
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  drop around tomorrow? It's important tonight? Hey, Look, what'd you do
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  me a favor? Depends? What is it? Would you telephone Betsy Walker?
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  Tell him my business and ask her she'll see me? Who suppose I
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  can do that? All right, mister Dollar, take a chair there,
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  I'll see you what I can do for you. The doorman did all right.
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  Expense account adam ten two dollars and sixty five cents cab fair. I
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  gave up my rented car and had the cab driver find the addressed Betty Walker
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  at given. It was a rather nice apartment and a rather nice part of
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  town, and was almost one in the morning when I got there. She
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  met me at the door, wrapped in a chanel dressing ground with coal cream
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  on her face. Miss Walker, you must see mister Dollard. Yes,
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  now, i'd just wait a minute, do you mind if I see some
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  kind of identification or something like that. Oh no, no, yeah,
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  Hartford, Connecticut. Oh, you'd be surprised. It's some of the things.
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  And now I'll try come in. Please, thank you all. I
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  didn't quite understand Frank on the telephone. Frank, oh, the dormant at
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  the theater. Yes, I didn't know quite what to make of it.
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  Goodness, Are you really an insurance detective? Yes, and i'd appreciate you
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  letting me see you at night, Miss Walker? Sit down? Can I
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  think to you a drink? No, don't. Thanks. Frank mentioned something
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  about Forbes. You're here because of his Yes, Miss Walker, I understand
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  that you know Forbes. No, not exactly. That is, there's some
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  reservation on the way you say that, Miss Walker. You know his name?
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  Yes, I know the name. Can I ask you what this is
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  all about? Routine investigation? I'm curious, how did you get my name?
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  How am I connected with Sheldon Forbes? That's what I'd like you to
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  tell me. Well, first about my name. Forbes was at the theater
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  earlier to night asking for you. I understand he's been around there quite a
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  bit. Yes, I really don't know how to tell you this mister dollar.
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  I've only seen that name once in my life. Honestly, he's Oh
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  he's really quite impossible. I just dar, this is so embarrassing to try
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  to explain this. Maybe I can save you some embarrassment then if you'll answer
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  one question. Sure? Why not? Did Sheldon Forbes ever give you any
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  presents? Yes? What that cigarette box on the table there and the lighted
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  to go with it? Yphanice? Pretty? Aren't they very? Also expensive?
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  What else? Well? Let me think, Oh no, no,
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  that wasn't from him. Oh that was the lamp over there and a first
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  dole. May I seon, I'm afraid I gave that away? You did?
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  I gave it to my kids sister who was visiting me last week.
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  I already had one. Oh I see what else? Did he hear?
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  You? I think that's about it, except for orchids. It used to
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  come every night, a dozen orchids every night for the last month. You
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  only saw him once, and he gave you all these gifts, Dear,
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  I know how that must sound. I just look. It started a month
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  or so, I guess. I got a card in my dressing room one
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  i'd asking me to dinner. It was signed Sheldon Forbes. Well, I'd
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  never heard of anybody named Sheldon Forbes, and I just tore the card up.
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  But every night after that I kept getting orchid and the card, and
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  then the gifts started to come. The cigarette box first. That's when I
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  saw him. I didn't even die with him, mister Dollath. We had
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  one drink and I told him I had a headache. But the gifts still
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  kept coming, flowers, invitations. I ignored them. I tried to send
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  the things back and I didn't know where to send them. Some I gave
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  away and some I've kept. I didn't want his gift. He was nice,
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  but I well, I just didn't want anything to do with him.
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  When I did meet him, he was so different than what I had imagined.
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  I mean, well, gee, I've had my share of stage to
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  a Johnny's, but this man was well, he just couldn't say a word
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  without stumbling. He had no poise, no sophistication, nothing. All he
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  had was money. He told you that he didn't have to those kids.
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  Well he didn't have money, miss Walker. He worked for eighty two dollars
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  a week as a bookkeeper. You must be mistaken. I'm afraid not he
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  stole the money to buy you all these things well, for Heaven's sake,
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  For Heaven's sakes, and you caught him Forbes trying to commit suicide earlier,
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  this evening suicide. I'm sorry I had to come to you to get this
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  information. He's refused all along to tell anybody what he did with the money.
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  Will he go to prison? I'm afraid, song, Oh, but
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  it's crazy. We had nothing. He's just a name to me. He
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  means nothing to me, but apparently you mean something to him. There'll be
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  another intriguing episode in our story of the Forbes Matter tomorrow. Tomorrow proof that
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  four thousand, two hundred and eighty five dollars worth of unrequited love can spell
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  three years of prison. But sometimes there's an angle, in this case,
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  a rather startling one. Join us, won't you? Yours Truly? Johnny
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  Dollar? Yours Truly? Johnny Doller starrying Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood,
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  Written by John Dawson, It is produced and directed by Jack John Stole.
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  Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and station, or the
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  next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back.
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  Well, our mystery really is at an end at this point, so not
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  as much excitement going into Friday as brihas. We'ld like kind of an interesting
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  sociological experiment and a few really nice realistic touches when they were dealing with the
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  internal stone working on Forbes and really just kind of a sad case. You
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  all will have to respect the decency of Johnny Dowler really trying in spite of
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  Forbes to give him, to give him a break, but just not happening
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  at this point. But we'll see if we can get We'll see what the
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  bake surprise is on a Friday. Now we turn to listener comments and feedback.
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  Aiden says hello from the UK. I love the Side and the NFL
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  before and after the adventures. Is there any chance of uploading Paul temper Temple
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  mysteries to the Side in the future. All the best wishes, Aiden,
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  and also if you heard of TAF they are great radio shows too, well,
• 29:53
  Thanks so much, Aiden. I had not actually heard of palif I
• 29:57
  dated Google search found some information apparently created by John Creastly actually writing under his
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  own name and a very prolific with a total of fifty nine books in between
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  nineteen thirty eighteen seventy eight might might be worth a look in terms of the
• 30:30
  Paul Temple mysteries. In most British mysteries, the answer is probably not.
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  While I'm aware that Paul Temple's history on radio goes back quite a few years,
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  most of his earliest adventures are still under copyright in the UK, which
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  means they're still under copyright in the United States. The general rule with British
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  programs is that if it's before June of nineteen fifty seven, it's a public
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  domain. We can quiet. After that it's under copyright, and it will
• 31:11
  be under copyright longer than we're doing this program, unfortunately. And then I
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  have a listener comment from one listener some of them these have really bad audio.
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  There's a very strong echo to the point of ringing. I had to
• 31:30
  turn many of them off. Well, I apologize you've had that difficulty.
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  If you do have that top of concern, please email me what specific episode
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  you're talking about now. And I also have to say that you know some
• 31:48
  of these, You know, the Johnny dollars are all all I think,
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  in pretty good shape. But some of these the Sherlock Holmes is and the
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  mister Motos. You know, a lot of the shows we run on Tuesdays
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  and Thursdays, you know, are not very improved audio. It's one of
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  those things with listening to vintage audio. But you know, if there's specific
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  episodes you're concerned with, I can ask Andrew to take a look and see
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  if he can identify where any potential problems or opportunities life. But bad audio
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  is kind of part of the deal. And you know, as we've talked
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  it over with you know, listeners, it's come through that people that people
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  really want to hear the programs even if they're a little scratchy or echoe as
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  long as they're as long as they're understandable. So that's that's kind of how
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  we'll play it. But if you run into any specific problems, please feel
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  for to let us know. All right, well, that'll do it for
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  today. We'll be back tomorrow with Sherlock Holmes. In the meanwhile, send
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  com. Slash Radio Detectives from Boise Idaho. This is your host. Adam
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  Graham sent it off