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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The William Post Matter (EP1372) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to take a listen to another previously lost episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with
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John Lon. Today we'll be playing The William Postmatter. The William Postmatter original
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air date was September twenty second, nineteen fifty three. And before it was
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the second of two lost episodes. The The Austric Clark Matter that aired September
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fifteenth, nineteen fifty three, is still lost and we paid the episode prior
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to this, The Leicester Mattson Matter back on June the twenty second, so
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this were of twenty twelve, So this would have played in June or July
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from September twenty second, nineteen fifty three, The William Post Matter Wrigley's Spearmint
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all On, mister Kemper, are you available? Oh very much? So
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we ensured him. Missus William Post, New York City. She was killed
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last night, Yeah, how murdered a private detective named Paul Sachson, a
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lawyer named George Simon founder in her apartment. She'd been stabbed at it.
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Any suspects, Yeah, Her husband, William Post, Lieutenant Roseman of the
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fifth Precinct, is handling the case. Contact him you expect you, Oh,
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you will too. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dowler to Home Office,
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Columbia Risk Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting
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of expenditures during my investigation of the William Postmatter expense account Item one eighteen dollars
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and ninety cents train fare and incidentals between Hartford and New York City. I
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arrived in the afternoon, registered at the hotel, and rented a car,
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which I drove to the Fifth Precinct Police station, where I met Lieutenant Roseman,
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an old friend. I haven't seen you long term, Jenny. How's
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it going? Oh, can't complain. You're a lieutenant now you ain't getting
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up in the world. Hum, well, how about filling me in on
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this Post killing? Sure. A woman's name is Teresa Post Night of William
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post Bank him. She was found last night in her apartment, stabbed four
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times, gag shoved in the mouth, apartment rhymed. A private detective named
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Sachs founder huh huh and uh missus. Post Lawyer George Simon arrived both ride
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of the apartment about the same time. Both had appointments with the victim.
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They got worried when she didn't show up found the janitor in the open the
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apartment for them. They discovered her lying on the floor in the bedroom.
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All was missing, according to her husband, all her jewels, about fifteen
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thousand dollars worth, also a cloth coat. My boss said, you were
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considering the husband. Yeah, three days ago they had an argument, separated.
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The wife was filing for a divorce. She suspected post playing around for
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some time, so she hired Sax, a private detective. Sachs got the
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evidence and she confronted her husband with him. He moved out into a hotel.
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Saxon the lawyer were supposed to meet her at eight o'clock so that sax
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could turn over the evidence on her husband to the lawyer. Oh what makes
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you think it's the husband? Oh robbery looks phony. Jewels okay, But
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the coat, the cloth coat, the only item of clothing that was stolen.
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Yeah, there was a full length mink and a stole left in the
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closet. Oh mum hum. The husband got an alibi. Sure, the
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woman he was seeing, the one who busted up the marriage. Oh who
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is she? Well? Name? He Hughes. Jane Hughes lives at one
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o nine West sixty first Street, and she claims post was with her at
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the time of the murder. The victim had been dead about three hours,
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killed round five in the afternoon. Used woman Squear's post was with her all
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afternoon, from about one till late that evening. How'd the killer get into
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the apartment? That's another thing that makes me suspect the husband. No evidence
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that shows the killer broke in. No way he could get in a window
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the apartments on the eighth floor, and the fire escapes at the end of
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the hall. Well, I'd like to talk to the people involved. I'm
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not sure, Jenny. What do you want to start with the man who
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found the body of Sax's time? I'll take Sacks first. Rosamond gave me
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the address of the private detective and I drove over to fifty second Street,
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where I located my man, Paul Sachs was small, with a sour look
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and a wet handshake. What can I do for you, boy, I'm
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investigating the Post murder. Uh huh, that's so well. Well insurance man,
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Huh, that's right, she insured for much. I forgot to ask.
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It probably is old man's loaded. Boy. When did missus post retain
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you about a month ago. Well, the fifth, to be exact,
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wasn't too hard. The old man was pretty open about him. He was
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careful a right, you know, stayed to the more discreet places, but
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he was wall good to huggles. Fellas are last. That's one of the
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things someone's checking up, so they aren't as careful as they should be.
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I want to drink. I know, thanks, I was lucky, lucky.
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Yeah, made me up and full before the old man cut her up.
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Sure you don't want a little belt, I know it's don't blame the
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old boy much though. How's that? I mean a little bit of fluffy
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was chasing around with mighty nice Oh yes, they're mighty nice. Yeah.
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I got a couple of pictures here. Cops have got duplicates. I keep
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these for the family album. You think post killed his wife? Oh yeah,
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sure, he certainly had the motive, threw them out and was gonna
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take them for everything. I've been in on things like this. Boy,
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You know, man like me gets mixed up on all kinds of things.
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Murders like this, cut and dried. I'll tell you what he made his
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mistake by taking that coat and leaving the mink. Stupid mistake, stupid boy.
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The police say she was killed around five in the afternoon. Yeah,
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that's right, she was cut up something off. Where were you at five,
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mister Sacks me, Oh, nothing, personally, you'll buck it up
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the wrong private detective. Boy, I didn't have no motive. I was
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right here in my office. Didn't finish work around six. I've got other
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cases, you know. Can you prove you were in your office? Can
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I prove? Well? Boy, if I got to prove it, I'll
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prove it. But there ain't no motive. Boy, Why would I want
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to kill her? Huh? You ain't thinking. Boy. When you've been
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investigating as long as I have, you won't run around asking ridiculous questions like
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that. Yeah. I should be ashamed of myself. Well, mister Sachs,
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it's been a real pleasure. You've got to go. Boy. Yeah,
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I'm afraid so, but it's been charming. Good. You need any
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help, just give me a call. Oh, I'll do that, boy.
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My next stop was the office of mister George Simon, attorney at law.
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The surroundings were a little different from Sachs's private pig pen, a big
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suite of offices with a big suite of secretaries. George Simon greeted me with
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a professional smile and offered me an over stuffed chair. Yes, I arrived
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at missus Posts around five minutes to eight. My appointment was at eight shop.
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When did Sas arrive? He was already there waiting in the hall.
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He said he'd just come up in the elevator, but that Missus Post had
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not answered his ring, lovely fellow. You met him, yes, a
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few minutes ago. Well, we waited in the hall, thinking that missus
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Post was late and due to arrive at any minute. Ten or fifteen minutes
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later, I got worried. I knew how important the meeting was, and
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I couldn't understand why she'd forget it. I had talked with that afternoon.
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What time did that I talked to her? Oh? I say round three.
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She seemed all right. Well, she wasn't particularly happy about the situation.
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They'd been married for seven years, but other than that, nothing else
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seemed to be bothering. If it was, she didn't mention it. All
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right, You waited for about five or ten minutes, yes, yes,
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Then I located the janitor and had him unlocked the door. We found Missus
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Post in the bedroom. I called the police immediately. Did mister Post know
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that you were meeting with his wife? I have no way of knowing that.
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Do you think he killed her? No, I don't think he's the
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type to kill anyone. Missus Post was certainly going to get a sizeable settlement.
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She was going to ask for one, and mister Post knew that she
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was. I believe she told him. She mentioned to me that she had
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how large a settlement. We hadn't arrived at any figure. I was supposed
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to meet her and this private detective. I was supposed to look over the
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evidence, and then we were to discuss future plans. Where were you at
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five o'clock, mister Simon? Here in my office? I was here all
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day except for lunch. All right, sir, thank you very much for
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your trouble. Glad to help. But I don't think mister Post killed his
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wife. Well, I can't disagree with you. You don't think he did.
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I can't agree with you either. You see, I just don't know
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yet. See you later, mister Simon. The next person on my list
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was missus Jane Hughes. The reason for the marital riff between William Post and
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his wife. She lived on the seventh floor of an attractive apartment house on
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West sixty first Street, and when she opened the door for me, I
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can understand how any man might stray a little bit. Jane Hughes smiled at
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him once too many times. Hello, can I come in? You might
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if I knew who you were, what you wanted. The name is Johnny
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Dollar. What do you want, Johnny? Just a little talk any special
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subject? William Post? Goodbye Johnny and missus William Posts. Didn't you hear
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me, Johnny? I'm an insurance investigator. Oh, Lieutenant Rosmond thought I
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should talk to you. I thought you were a reporter. Now, how
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can I come in? Just put one foot in front of the oven?
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Well, thanks, I try it. I didn't mean to be rude,
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but you understand about reporters. Oh, you weren't rude. Thanks. Why
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are you investigating me, John Oh? Routine, that's all routine. I'm
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just going to tell you the same thing I told the police. All right,
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Bill, Mister Post was with me most of the afternoon. How long
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have you known, mister Post? About six months? We're just good friends.
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Yeah, I know, it's not like that at all. Mister dollar.
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We're just good friends. Okay, Oh that's a shame. I'm afraid
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you'll have to leave, mister Post, Would you mind going out the back
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way? Well, I've got to talk to him sooner or later. Make
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it later? Huh? Well generally i'm a but this time you'll make an
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exception might prove interesting. All right? Why don't you answer? You?
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Sure, mister Post? Who are you? Johnny Dolla? What are you
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doing here? Yes, mister dollars an insurance man insurance, I'm with Columbia
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a risk. Oh, I don't close the door. He wants to talk
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to you at my office, mister Dolla, goodbye. That's the way you
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wanted, mister Post, exactly. Now get out of here. You've got
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Johnny Dollard. On the police list, William Post was the number one
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candidate for the killing of his wife. On my list, he was just
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a wealthy banker with a dead wife, a seductive girlfriend, and a nasty
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personality. I'd run into many a nasty personality in my travels, so I
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let the incident roll off my back and drove over to the Park Avenue apartment
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where missus Posted and murdered. In the basement, I located the janitor,
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a bent little man who was working on the plumbing and singing a flat chorus
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at Dixie. Oh we got yep, pop pop Yeah? Are you the
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janitor? What's your name? It's Pete. Do you want to do me
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a favorite? Pete? Pete kill it. Who are you? My name
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is Johnny. When Johnny comes rightching home again, hurry Herrick and Jenny comes
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here Pete here head edited, Hey Pete, Pete, I want you to
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do something for me. I don't know you. I'm an insurance investigator.
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You got to pass Keith the number eight. Well have you number eight where
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the woman was murdered. Oh, I'm busy. And Jenny again ed,
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Hey Pete, Pete, I want you to let me in the number eight?
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What for? Because I'm investigating missus post murder. I can't. It's
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all right. I'm working with the police. My name is Dollar. You
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said it was Johnny. It goes in front, it's Johnny Dollar. Oh,
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Jenny, it's a funny. And Johnny comes to Mike. You know
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me, Henrick it yeah, there ain't nothing for you this see number eight.
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I just want to look over the place. I just want to take
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a look around. I don't want to go up there. Well and give
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me the case. I can't. I got ten dollars that says you can
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make it twenty and I'll let you look over number three. Folks are out
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of town for a couple of months. I just want to get into number
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eight. Okay, thanks, you opened the door last night for mister Sax
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and mister Simon, didn't you. Who? How long have you worked here?
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Oh? I don't know. I guess it worked here. Let me
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see now, my I just worked here. Oh for just a long time.
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I guess it's all you knew, Missus Post. Yes, yes,
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anyway, have you ever seen mister Sax or mister Simon before last night?
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Yeah? Who the man you let into missus posts apartment? I saw him
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last night. I never saw him before, not even once. I never
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saw Oh. I didn't like that one of them. Oh he that one
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with that squintid face. He squinted it all at me, those dirty teeth.
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Sex Who the one that squinted his face all out? Oh? I
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didn't like him? Well, thanks pet. I didn't like missus Post either,
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Why not? I just didn't like her shoe shoee cheer can. I
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let myself into number eight and took a good look over the whole place.
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There was still blood on the bedroom floor, but everything else had been cleaned
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up, and there was nothing that gave me any ideas The mink coat and
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store were still in the closet. I went back downstairs to give Pete's keys,
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but the funny little man wasn't around. I left the keys on a
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bench near the furnace, went back out to my car and drove to the
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hotel. I showered, shaved, wrote the first half of this report,
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and then started to go downstairs to have dinner. Johnny Daller Roseman, Johnny,
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you got something interesting on the postcase. Oh good. Somebody pourned that
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cloth quote late this afternoon. You know who it was. No, I'm
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just down my way down to the pawn shop to get a description from the
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pawn broken. You want to meet me? Where is it? Nine five
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East one and eighty fifth Street. I'll see you there. I climbed back
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into my car and drove uptown to the pawn shop. Lieutenant Roseman was already
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there talking to the pawnbroker, and the answers he was getting were very interesting.
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You remember the man who powned the cote. Oh yes, he was
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a kind of small, funny looking fellow. He didn't said much, just
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handed me to quote and took what I gave him. You know, I
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remember the cyclary. What you were saying seems strange a man like that having
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such a nice quote. I thought right away that was stolen. The man
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was small, Yeah, kind of stooped. Oh anything else? No,
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yeah, yeah, you had a habit of zinging to himself for the time
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under his breath the first good lead Rosemand and I drove back to missus Post's
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apartment, went down in the basement, where we found Pete Keller to sleep
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on an old cut Hey, Pete, Pete, Pete, come on,
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wake up? What do you want? You remember me? Should I?
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I was down there this afternoon? I guess you do you remember Lieutenant Roseman?
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What's he with you? Come on, Pete, We're going down to
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the station now. You pawned a coat late this afternoon, a cloth coat,
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the one that was stolen from Number eight, you ponded. I don't
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know nothing about no cold. Let's go, Pete right now, right now.
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Okay, but I ain't had much sleep. That plumbing and keeps a
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man awake all night. Just let me get my shoes, I get,
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Chee, you get, Oh God, chilling got you. He took Pete
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Kelly down to the precincts and questioned him for half an hour, but he
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refused to admit that he'd never pawned the code, or that he knew anything
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about it. The pawnbroker was sent for and we all went down to the
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line up for an identification. Pete Kelly was in the first line. Third
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man. I'm a free murder. I'm a free step out, i'mber free.
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You you number three, aren't you? Well? If you'd like me
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to be step out for sure? Is this okay? Just answer the questions
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you mind? If I said, just stand right there and face the front,
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answer your side. I'm awful tired. Plumbing keeps me awake all night.
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What's your name? I said, what's your name? Pete? That's
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the man. He is the one that porned the coat. Do you mean
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President Judge Hanley? Yes, number three, all for interrogation. Okay,
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you step back in line me? Yeah? You oh that you wanted to
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hear roll step My goodness. We had a positive identification. The pawnbroker had
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pointed out Pete Kellett as the man who pawned the coat. We took the
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little janitor down to the interrogation room and worked on him for five long hours,
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but he didn't crack. Pete. Mm hmmm, why don't you save
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us all a lot? Of trouble and admit it. I bet you killed
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missus Post. Do you want me to tell the truth, don't you?
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Pete? Yes, you did pull on the code, didn't you? Yes?
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Okay, where did you get it from? Missus Post? And you
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stabbed it? Then? How did you get him? Does she give it
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to you? You expect us to believe that? I'm sure. Why didn't
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you tell us this in the first place? I thought if you knew,
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you'd think just what you're thinking. She gave you the code? Yeah?
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When well, a couple of days ago you told me you didn't like her.
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I didn't. She gave you a nice code like that, but you
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didn't like her? No, then why did you take it? Why not?
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Now? Look? Yeah, come here, man, wid can I
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go? You move a muscle? No? Bust? Oh? I take
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you? Johnny? Yeah, yeah, I know. But after all,
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he's nuts. There's a more polite term for it. He's nuts and he's
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guilty. You want to find out if he is I know, I mean
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guilty. Find out and eliminate all this questioning. How he's scared of that
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room. He wouldn't take me up to number eight, although he gave me
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the key. I think we can scare him into a confession. I'll try
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anything. Of course, there's a chance he's telling the truth. If he
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is, I'll eat your shoulder. Host Well, turn him loose, send
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him back to his job. What's that going to do? You just hang
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around and watch? Roseman agreed to continue questioning Kelly for another half hour while
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I got things ready. Then release him and take them back to the Park
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Avenue apartment. I left the precinct and drove to Jane hughes residence on West
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sixty first Street. Oh you better leave. Look, this is very important.
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It's me and I'm coming in. No, you listen. I don't
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like you, mister folks, but I've got a chance to clear up this
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mess and get back to Hartford, so I'll be far enough away to keep
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from bellying you and the teeth. Now we think we know who killed your
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wife. Who is it? The janitor of the building, Old Kelleth.
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That's right, but we've got to prove it. I'll need your permission and
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Miss Hugh's help. I cannot Miss Hughes get involved in anything that might an
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anyway. Okay, I'll see you lady. Wait a minute, Johnny,
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what do you want me to do, Jane, It's all right. It's
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important to me. This hasn't been the most pleasant situation, Johnny. But
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regardless of what anyone thinks, I'm going to marry Bill. We're in love.
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I'll send you a box of rice if this works. What do you
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want me to do? I want you to be missus Post, the dead
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Missus Post. What let him finish? I want you to go up in
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that apartment, dress like Missus Post and call Kellyth the janitor. Tell him
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there's something wrong with a plumbing. Play it straight, as though nothing had
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ever happened. You out of your mind? You think police will be there.
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No, let's go, Johnny. I drove Jane Hughes to the apartment
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where Rosemond was waiting. She got dressed in one of missus Post's nightgowns and
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a robe, then buzzed the basement. What about my voice? Just keep
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it low? Hello? Hello, Pete? Who is this missus Post?
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There's something the matter with the plumbing. Will you come up and fix it?
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Pete? Did you hear me? Hey? Yes? Will you come
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right up? Yes? Here he comes? Hmm, Come in, Pete,
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what's the matter? You're dead? No, I'm not come in.
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Didn't I kill you? No, I'm all right, No, no,
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no, it's a thing's wrong. No, you're dead. Not being silly.
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Come in here. If he ain't dead, If I didn't kill you
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the first time, I'm going to do it now on the misuse. Put
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down that knife, Peter, Is it all right? Yeah? Yeah,
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yeah, you ain't Missus Post. No, but then she is dead.
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I did kill her, that's right, Pete. Oh, I feel better.
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Pete had the jewels hidden in a bucket of paint in the basement.
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He finally explained that he was in the process of robbing Missus Posts when she
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came home surprised him and he had to kill her. He didn't take the
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minx because he thought the cloth coat was pretty. I drove Jane Hughes back
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to her apartment, where a grateful William Post was waiting with open arms.
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And that was that. Expenser cont item two fifteen dollars and eighty five cents
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for a late dinner for Lieutenant Roseman and Mean, after which I retired to
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my hotel bed and slept for about ten hours. Expense a count items three
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and four thirty five dollars and seventy five cents, hotel bill and car rental
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item five sixteen dollars and fifty five cents trained fair and incidentals back to Hartford
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expense account. Total eighty seven dollars and five cents. Yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Remember friends. For refreshing taste plus chewing enjoyment, treat yourself
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to delicious Wriggly's Spearmint chewing gum. The taste of fresh spearmint is cooling and
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delightful, and there's lots of it in every stick of Wrigley's Spearmint gum.
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It freshens your mouth, helps keep your throat moist, and sweetens your breath.
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Besides, you'll enjoy the good chewing too, because Wrigley's spearmint is so
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smooth and pleasant to chew on, there's nothing else quite like it. Next
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time you're at the store, stop at your friendly merchant's display of chewing gum
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and get a few packages of good tasting Wriggly's spearmint gum. Always keep some
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handy for refreshing taste plus chewing enjoyment. That's Wriggly's Spearmint chewing gum. Healthful,
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refreshing, delicious, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, brought to you by
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Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum, stars John Long in the title role and was written
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by Blake Edwards with music by Eddie Dunsteader. Featured in tonight's cast were Jack
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Moyles, William Johnstone, Benny Ruben, Charles Davis, Mary Jane Croft,
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Hi Everback, and Howard mcneer. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed
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by him Delvae, the makers of Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum. Hope you enjoyed
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the night's story of Johnny Dollar and that you're enjoying delicious Wrigley's Spearmint Gum every
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day. This is Charles Lyon inviting you to join us again next week at
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the same time. One from Hollywood. John lond returns as Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar. This is the CBS Radio Network, Welcome Back Wallace. Somewhat
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a tassent episode, a somewhat typical episode of John Lone Johnny Dollar. Definitely
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in nineteen fifty three there was a strong focus on stories that had Johnny working
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with the police. I've nicknamed them sort of insurance procedurals and we see that
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at work here. This episode aired about six months after the CBS Police procedural
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the Lineup left the air, and I have to say that this episode Johnny
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often confronts or meets up with police characters played by William Johnstone. This episode
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comes the closest to be a Lineup meets Johnny Dollar episode. You had William
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Johnstone in this as a police lieutenant. You had a lineup with Jack Moyles
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as the sergeant running the lineup, and you had Howard mcneer playing the type
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of part he never played, a quirky eccentric. Of course, that's tongue
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in cheek. There was also if you listen to Eddie Dunsteader's music about twenty
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one minutes in, right after the lineup scene, there's actually a bit of
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music that sounds very much like some music from the lineup. So the character
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names are changed, but essentially this episode really does feel like Johnny Dowler meets
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the lineup. Well. Now on to some listener comments and feedback, and
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we have one comment here from Bobby Lee Walker who rits and simply regarding our
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San Antonio matter where we played the broadcast version after only having the rehearsal for
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so many years. I like the broadcast version better. I agree, and
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I'm so glad that people will now be able to enjoy that broadcast version in
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much higher quality so they can really get a feel for what a great story
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the San Antonio matter was. Well, this concludes our look at lost episodes
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of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. So we'll be back to just Johnny Dollar on
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Fridays and coming next Tuesday. Get ready for Larry Haynes in the series' Easy
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Money. It's going to be a fun four weeks. Well, we will
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be back tomorrow with the adventures of Philip Marlow In the meanwhile, send your
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