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Today's MysteryJohnny is hired to protect a leopard in animal show.
Original Air Date: December 10, 1949
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
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it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
The original air date is December the tenth of nineteen
forty nine, and this one is the Circus Animal Show matter.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They say big game honey is a sport only for
the wealthy. Well, it didn't cost me much except almost
my life.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. At insurance Investigation, Johnny Dollar is
only an expert at making out his expensive ob season Absolute.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Genius spens account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar two
Home Office, Britannia, Underwriters Association, Hartford Connecticuts. The following is
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an accounting of my expenditures during my investigation of the
unscheduled performances in Maximilian Sandrose Animal Show. Or all I
needed was a clown and then I showed up. Or
I once thought I'd run away with a circus. This
one I wanted to run away from. Spencer counts item
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won seventy dollars and twenty one cents train in cab
fare from Hartford to a vacant lot just outside Brunswick, Georgia,
the winter quarters of Maximilian Sandrose Animal Show. The first
animal to show was an elephant. Hey, mister, where can
(03:56):
I find Maximilian Sandros Hey?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I want to ask you a question?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Play she's not so loud, you upset the planks.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I'm gonna try to teach her an aria for the
next season.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
An Aria. I'm actually set opera back san ys.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Ah, I swee.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
That's the only music for elephant.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
It's the word the fucking well.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Look, I'll stop interrupting rehearsal if you'll tell me where
I can find your boss, maximualium Sandro my boss. Yeah
it is I.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I am Maximilian Sandra.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh good, I'm Johnny Dollar from the insurance coming.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Oh let's make it something else.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Blank you arrest.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'm gonna come back when I'm through with mister.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Dollars as I understand that mister Sandra. No, that's a poor.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Blind and she'ldn't like to see me go.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You know, she's a lot of fun. It's for me,
but this is the new Black Lefford. That's the beginning of.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
All of my trouble.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I'm gonna show you to her. Someone is to try
to steal her, and that's what I don't want to
mister doll.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Since Britannia underwriter's insured if for twenty thousand, that is
what they don't want.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
That costs me too much to get her from Africy.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
To lose her.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
That was the ruin of my financials everything.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
That was the goal.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Ah, this is my mom cheese.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah a look, mister Sandra, how does anybody go about
stealing a neat little package like a black leopard? And
why why?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Because she's a very special leopard. She's a very big,
very shiny I'm gonna name her Ashanti. She's gonna be
my price attraction. There's a lot of animal shows would
like to have with her.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh you suspect your competition? When was the attampt made.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
One night last week they make with the truck They
tried to pull her cage away and we's say for
just in the time. See its my finches, the parakeets
and the cook can and this.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Is my crawl.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, very nice, colorful. Did you try and trace the
truck man.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
No, so no, it's a trade.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
They went away, wush, no lights.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
And this is something else that's not right at all.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So yeah, what's that.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I'm gonna make a pet plan. I'm gonna get all
the money. I'm gonna put a hand hunt to buy
her from this amount, attacks Randall. And and now he
said the money that was enough before is it not enough?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Now?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He thinks you cheated me.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
To sir Randal, Well, I like to help you with
that too, mister Sander, but I'm afraid that's your problem.
My job is to see that your leopard isn't stolen.
I see.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I know.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You get to pay for your job, or you do it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And that's on.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
There is a shot.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
There is my leopard.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I guess somewhere, way down on the tap roots of
my family tree, there probably was an ancestor with a
low forehead, bearskin overalls, and a club who went into
an unpleasant double take when he found himself face to
face with a leopard. Another feeling I had when I
saw a shanty was inherited from somebody. My feet wanted
to run, but my eyes wouldn't leave her.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
As she paced back and forth in.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
About a twelve by twelve cage, baleful yellow eyes, set
and a sable black face, ears laid back, and tail
lashing and anger and lips that drew up, showing the nastiest.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Set of choppers I've ever seen. It was beautiful al right,
but my vote would have gone to the iron bars
that separate. They were downright God wasted.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
The time was gonna walk her back?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Can afford?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You? Be good?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Girl?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Pretty soon you and me would be good friends. You
see mister dollar right now, chanty, she's a very angry.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
She's a boiled inside.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
But I'm gonna know my animals, so not long.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
She's gonna eat out of my hat.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Air well, she looks like you make a meal lot
of it right after the elbow.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Oh, oh you, who's this umbrey?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
This is mister Dollary's come from the insurance company.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Well hardiness, I'm text Randall.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
This is the man I tell you about that?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I mean you capture this thing?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I brung her in from the Togu territory in West Africa.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I thought my ranker was tough. Sometimes, what do you is?
Cat him?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Nope?
Speaker 7 (07:57):
I dug me a bit covered her with a man
and some dirt, put me a fresh killed goat in
the middle, and when the cat fell in and got
some ropes on her and crushed heruugh, will you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Make it sound simple?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Oh see, somebody could sound so simple?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And why does it cheat to me?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Why doesn't stay with the first deprise?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
And now you take a listen to me, samdro I
told you I'd give you your money back and sell
this cat somewhere es else. The pip costs more than
I thought it would, and I'd about to lose door on.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It just to make you hap.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Sometimes I'm a thing to you don't talk straight. I'm
gonna go back to my elephant now, mister.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Dollar, okay much sa I'll check with the water.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
He spent too much time talking to critics. He don't
make no sense out of nothing. Right, I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Dollar.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
I ain't been twenty yards away from this cat since
I've got it here, been bunking in that sleeping bag
every night, right close to the cage.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Now maybe I can get a break.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, then you must have done here the night somebody
tried to put the slash on her? Did you spawn anybody? Nobody?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I could be sure that maybe the little blonde guy
he left me something to remember him by, Will I.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Pull my shirder?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Look you there, look you there on my back.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Just took the sticks out today out out.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
He's right, little runt cut me half in and half out.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I'm a sleeping bag.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Doc says, if that knife blade had gone in another
hair's breadth, I'd have been spilt.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And without happy thought. Tex Randall, a hard man to kill,
left to go into town. I watched a chat he
turn into enough raw meat to keep a kennel of
great danes happy for a week, and to which he
settled down for what you might call the original catnapp.
Sandrose elephants settled down to a short vocal lesson, and
I settled down for a game of mumblety peg. But
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before I could get warmed up, I had a visitor.
No wow, Eve, a gardener type with darker hair and
olive skin. You look as though you produce some company,
mister d Well, who couldn't. I was beginning to think
the only females around here walked in all fours. I've
heard the same feeling about the males. Then he didn't
mention me.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Who fuck the boss.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh no, No, Sander didn't mention much of anything but
his black leopard. Well, I'm Angela, his daughter. Oh see, family,
forgot to mention you on purpose, hoping to keep my
mind where it belongs, on my work.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But that's what I came to talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What can you do? You can't stay with the shandy
for the rest of your life, can you? Before I
found out about you, I would have said, no, please
be serious, all right, there's only one thing to do.
If the leopard isn't safe here, and from what I've
seen it heard, I don't think she is. I'll just
have to take her someplace else. And so this is
all cleared up, take her someplace else. They would break
Dad's heart. It would break the heart of the company
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that hired me if a shanty turned up missing. Look,
he can't take her on the road until next summer.
We'll keep her safe until then. I'm sorry, but it's
all I can do for Dad. He's going to hate
you for it, you know, Oh well, that I can stand.
But there's no sense you are wasting our time feeling
the same way. I didn't say I would do that.
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As a matter of fact, I was going to stay
right here until you asked me out to do it
or something. Oh well, let's not worry stick around. I'll
figure out where to invite you when I know you better.
And there, during the waning hours of the Georgia day,
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I learned that up to a point, Angela was an
easy girl to know. She liked cocktails, dinner, and dancing.
So that's the schedule we set up for later as
soon as text Ranald showed up to temporarily.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Relieve me of my duties, as Leopards said, But.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
At Martini time, I was still sitting and may I
say that the cocktail hour spent in the middle of
a menagerie is not the RESTful period it's supposed to be.
As soon as the sun dropped, the noise rose, wild
brains and caged bodies, reacting to the night, instinctively telling
the countryside that whether they were free or not, this
was their hunting time. I only felt my tarzan of
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the ape side. It felt uneasy, Shanty complained to me.
A light from somewhere behind me glinted in my eye,
then disappeared as she started a back and forth pacing again.
Sounded like she was trying to tell me something she
was I was too stupid to understand it. Oh whatever
hit me from behind in the lad hard enough. I
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stayed on my feet with a pair of strong hands,
twisted my arms behind my back hand pushed my wrists
into a double hammer lock. The point of a knife
was tapping in my back and started moving me forward
toward the cage. The lepard started pacing as she saw
me coming. She reached out between the bars for me,
her great paw spread claws extended. The last thing I
saw was her smelling face and the floor reaching And
(13:12):
there was a lunch behind me, and something hit my
head again. The cocktail hour was over. I'd passed out
without a drink.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Johnny Dollar, but first, last week, Von Monroe's
Caravan saluted the Rose Bowl team.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Tonight, Bond will play the favorite.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Songs of Louisiana stays in to Oklahoma the Sugar Bowl Team.
Lawd's Caravan will also bring you the five top tunes
of the week as chosen by Variety, and later, Geneoffrey
will be here with his Western music and cowboy humor
Roll Caravan and The Gene Offrey Show, our regular Saturday
evening features of most of the same CBS stations. Now
(14:09):
with our star Charles Russell, we returned to the second
back of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well, Sir, I don't know how I lived through that one,
but as it turned out, I did. When I opened
my eyes, I was still in Georgia, but that condition
was about all that hadn't changed. For the worse, my
head was not only aching in the back, but a
new lump had been born above the bridge of my nose.
But nothing else had been added. When I finally got
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to my feet, I saw that only a trace was
left of a shanty, the Black Leopard, a pair of
ruts in the dirt made when a wheeled cage had
been hauled away. I started out to find Sandro on
a telephone, but one of my feet found something else
before I taken three steps. I didn't know how he
had gotten where I was supposed to be, but he'd
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made it. Text Randall, his neck twisted in the marks
of claws on the side of his battered head.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Police Department, Central Precinct, Sergeant Miller.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Hello, my name is Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator. I'm
calling from the winter quarters of the Maximian Sandro's Animal
Show from the owner's trailer. I'm want to report two things.
Wait a minute, there's a body out here that your
corner to take a look at, either accidental or murder,
grand larsony. Somebody stole a black leopard.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Oh, listener, this is your idea of a joke.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Too late to joke, sergeant, Just send some men out.
I'll give him the rest of the story when they
get here. Joke yet, what passes for humor in Georgia? Anyway, Hey, Sandro, Sandra,
come home. Nobody answered me but an old live band lion,
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so I shut up. I browsed around Sandro's trailer when
I was waiting for the police. I wasn't looking for anything,
but I found it. On a table, there was a
small Christmas tree that had been transformed into what is
commonly known as a friendship tree, meaning that about a
half a dozen Christmas cards were hung on with cellibane tape.
There was nothing else to read, so I scand through
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those and the third one I opened opened my eyes.
It was inscribed, sorry I can't be with you, greetings
from San Francisco, your loving daughter Angela. Before I could
fully digest that tidbit, I heard a shoe strape on
the steps outside. Then the trailer door opened.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Where here he is been?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I told you we'd find him here.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Very good, my dear. A man with the Angela by
whom I had so recently been taken in looked fiftyish, capable,
sun tanned, and well armed.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Well well, well, mister Della, you don't appear to be
surprised after what's happened already tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I wouldn't be surprised if General Sherman dropped in on
his way back.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Let see splintered spl I admire a show of courage,
a sense of humor at the point of a gun.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Oh, think nothing of it. Sometimes my jokes are so
funny they kill people. I think we'd better get him
out of here, Ben, I don't think it's safe.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Yes, you took the woods right off the tip of
my tongue my death. Shall we go, mister Della?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Should I ask where and why I've taken a small
place in town?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
There is our leisure.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
We shall discuss a fascinating subject, namely, the whereabouts of
a splendid black leopard. Move right ahead, mister Dolla. Oh,
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my dear, run up to Harold's room, fetch him down.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I may need.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Him into this room, mister Dolla, and please be seated.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
If you don't mind my asking, Ben, how do you manage?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Just sir?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
It does so happens that my full name and title
is Sir Bennett Mountfort. The term of familiarity betten, is
to be used only by my closest friends. Now, if
you will capture a question properly or.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It wasn't important? I just wondered, since that gun seems
to be so much a part of you, how do
you manage without shooting yourself while shaving?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
You've already wit, haven't you. I know the proper time
and place for a weapon, my boy, I've learned from experience.
I chose early, and you is my advocation the hunting
of Big Gate. If you had faced the last desperate
charge of a wounded lion or a maddened rhino as
I faced them, you too would realize that a good weapon,
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properly aimed is man's best friend. Which brings us to
the subject of our mutual interest, the black leopard. Where
have you hidden her?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What makes you think I have.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
No no, no, no, let's have no deception, sir. The
report brought back by my charming accomplice, who so ably
posed as the daughter of that stupid showman mister Sandro,
is that you made no secret of your plan to
carry off the cat to a place of safety.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You will not deny that. Why should I? You wouldn't
believe me if I did.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
An admirable attitude said, now, once more, where is the leopard?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Have I told you? It wouldn't be worth much as
a hunting place, would it?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
If you do not tell me, sir, your life will
be worth very little. Come now, perhaps your loyalties are misplaced.
What did that market hunter mister Randall tell you about
the cat?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Not much, except that he got a knife in the bank,
put there by somebody who was trying to steal her.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Well, then, sir, I'll spin you a taiale that'll set
your blood to pounding. What would you say, my boy,
if I told you that that black leopard is worth
a king's ransom?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Oh no, I'd probably ask why?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
She is so?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
And I'll tell you why she was captured in the
Togo territory of West Africa. I am quite familiar with
that section. I've heard it. There a district par excellence
for elephant, buffalo and citutanka. It's a matter of fact,
I was there before and shortly after Randal's infamous trapping
of that fine beast.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Did he tell you that, Well, he did, didn't make
any impression. I hear there are a lot of people
in Africa.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Well, to continue, The Togo territory is inhabited by the
Away tribe, a group of long headed, patrilineal people whose
most interesting characteristic at this moment is the fact that
they are animals worshippers. Now does the point sink home.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Vaguely that leopard Randall snagged is important to them?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Is that it precisely you've struck it, and they'll pay
a veritable fortune for a return one hundred thousand dollars.
Now that I've let the cat out of the bag,
so to speak, you have a price in mind in
return for which you will share with me the hiding
place of the animal.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, you go on back to Togo and I'll cable
you the address.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
It's obvious said that you are not in full command
of your senses.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Lul lul, yeahs Old. You know, Lord, if Harold is
your violence department, Ben, you can save your breath and
his muscles. I'm not having any stay where you are hurt.
I give you a fair warning. Unnuts to your fair warning.
If you want to find that black leopard, and I'm
the only one that knows where she is, You're not
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going to do it by puncturing me.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Come back, come back here, thinke it easy, Ben, I'll
get him from the stairs.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
That's fall enough, mister Dolla.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You better call off your infantry.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Ben all right, wise guy, get it, come t wait.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Let didn't go? What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
You crazy?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You me?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
That didn't go?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Less rand the upper hand?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh brother? As I went out, I caught a glimpse
of the man Mountford to call Harold, the same little
blonde Randall had talked about. That wrapped up the question
of who had played tick tac toe with a knife
on the Texan But ten yards of Sir Ben's front
walk later, I suddenly remembered Mountford's last words, lest Randall
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have the upper hand? He said, it sounded like he
didn't know Randall was dead, which shook my head, and
in a strictly nonsense Agoway made sense. There was only
one place for me to go, So that's where I went,
some Max million Sandrose animal show. When I got there,
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I was awake, but all the smart animals were asleep
except for one's the dollar Max a million. Sandra hailed
me from the least side of a tent.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Come here with the door into the shadows.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
The police is by my trailer. Where have you been, Sandra?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I was a hiding, but I worry so much about you.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
When I come back where you are?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You're not there?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
What do you mean by your black levert's cage? I
left and place had unpleasant memories for me.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Oh see see meet I'm a sad is when I'm
see that man Horando is a push you to the
cage you would a knife.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I'm gonna go crazy. I'm a nothing.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I'm ana run up and a push, so then you
follow You hit your head in the bottom of the
cage and then a shanty.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
She hit Durandal instead, and I'm so sorry. Oh, I
don't bother with an apology to me. You no, no, no, no,
you don't understand.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Look, I'm gonna commit the murder.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Would this too hands, I'm gonna push him on the leopard.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
All this such a thing as justifiable homicide. You were
saving my life, so let's not worry about it until
he gets the court if it does. Where did you
take your cat? Oh? You know that nobody else has her,
so you must you were at the right place at
the right time to hol her away.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
All right, I tell you true.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
See, I take her away where she's a safe I
keep her where she isn'tntil this trouble?
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Is he no more?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Listen to me, Sandro. I know how you feel. But
I've met the people who were after your leopard. They
say they can get one hundred thousand dollars for her
back in Africa. Hundred thousand dollars, of course, the question,
but that kind of money, they'll never stop looking for.
The only way to stop them is to let them
find her, and then we'll try and wind this thing up.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Wind up?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Is it me?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
In Finnish?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've been followed here. Now will
you take me to the hideout? I'm not so these people.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
They follow your day.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I'm gonna like that. I don't need a Sandro. One
hundred thousand dollars worth of cheese would even make a mouse.
Sandro is a hard man to convince. I wasted more
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words than a Republican campaigner, and then I used blackmail.
Then I told him I'd turn him in for Randall's
killing and testify against him instead of for him. He
saw things my way. The leopard's layer turned out to
be an abandoned barn five miles farther out of town,
to which we went in the truck that Sandro had
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driven into that jungle type vacant lot, not cotton. This
is okay, it's a little aside. A door Chouty was
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performing that old dance of hers again, pacing the length
of her cage back and forth, her head swinging rhythmically
each time she turned. We'd made ourselves easy enough to
follow on the way out, but my neck was getting
stiff from helping my eyes follow the leopard's movements. Before
I heard a sound outside the door. It sounded like
a bolt jamming a shell into the chamber of a rifle.
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And that's what it was, because a rifle was what
Sir Bennett Mountford was carrying when the trio came in.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Close the door hurdle, I just did you, my dear
stay here of.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
The palms way. Yes, I'll be all right.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Well, mister dullah I would say that the long stock
is successfully completed.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
The search ended quite a hotter Mountford. Somebody should crown
you with a coonskin cap with a raccoon still living
in it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
It is.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
I'm glad to see you enjoying yourself, sir, since the
time for levity is on the wing, so to speak.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Harold, Yeah, name it.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Keep these two on your sights with a ready finger
on the trigger. I'll set about putting this vicious cat
out of existed.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
But no, he is not.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Shoot to my chanty man for you crazy, put the
rifle down, Get up, dollar, you aren't running.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
If that cat's worth a hundred grand alive?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Why killer, because we shall realize a much greater profit
with her death, namely a half million of uncut diamonds
that are hidden on the floor.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Of her cage. Diamonds. Well, they couldn't have been safer,
could they?
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Decisively Randall's idea when he put them there in Africa?
Now stand aside her. I don't wish to fire through
you ahead, but I will if I must. No, no
is not shoot to my Shocknia can't gonna let that
cat o it don't move, no, shan't you rather to
run for your life.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Mountford had a lot of guts, but sometimes luck helped,
and that night he didn't have any. A shanty sprang
straight to the little door of a cage. She was
still in the air when she went past him, head high,
and as she did, one of her fatal front paws
reached out for him. It looked almost delicate, but the
force of the blows sent Mountford clear across the barn,
and when he landed he didn't move. A shanty street
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toward a square of night sky showing through a window,
and she was gone.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
A shanty, A shanty calm the back.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I turned back away from the window to check on
the rest of our guests, but they were gone. Apparently
there was something about a leopard on the loose that
have made a half a million dollars in diamonds not
as important to Harold and the phony Angela as distance
between them and at Farn. So there I was suddenly
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left with nothing to worry about. If you can call
enough diamonds to stock the Kimberly mines. Nothing expense accounts
Item two. Item two A case like this, and I
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haven't let up a cent. Oh well, Christmas is coming.
Item two three dollars cab fare from Brunswick Police headquarters
to a hotel. After giving them my statement, which they
didn't believe until they saw those diamonds. Then they sent
out a three state alarm to pick up the phony.
Angela and Montford Shiveman Harold expense account Item free seventy
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dollars and twenty one cents Trey and cabfair Brunswick to
Hartford O and this advice I'll toss in for free.
At last report, a shanty was seen head west toward
Okie Pinocchi Swamp and Sandra was organizing a group to
go after her. My advice is this, don't ensure the
lives of those men. If you want to throw your
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money away, throw what to me. See. Expense account total
one hundred and fifty two dollars and seventy cents Signed,
Yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Frank Buck Dollar, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Stars Charles Russell. Tonight's script by Paul Dudley and Gildod
was produced and directed by Ralph Rose. Featured in the
cast were Lynn Allen, Larry Dobkin, Bill Conrad, and Parley Bear.
The special music is written and conducted by Leith Stevens.
You're announcer, Bob Stevens, be sure to be with us
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at the same time next week when another unusual expense
account is handed.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
In by yours truly honey Dollar.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Teamwork. That's the American way, working together to produce.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
More per man, per machine, per hour so that everybody
on the team benefits. The American economic system is geared
to benefit all of the people. Under this system, everybody
moves together toward the common goal of better living. The
better we produce, the better we live. For your pre
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Times Square station, New York City. They June now for
Vaughn Monroe's Caravan, which follows immediately on most of these
same CBS stations.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
This is CBS where yours cruely Johnny Dollar meets adventure
every Saturday night the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Threatening to falsely accuse someone of murder is just a
bit of handed to get cooperation, but Johnny did get
the job done. The expense account on this one is
interesting just because this version of Johnny Dollar tends to
be the one who pads it the most, and I
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don't know if it were flecks a whole lot about
his character, but it does reflect the challenge of the format,
which if you want to tell a story, you have
really to stick with the original Johnny Dollar format. You've
really got to come up with stuff that will fit
for expense account entries. And I do think that for
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some riders this could be a bit of a straight jacket,
and that might be one reason why when you get
into the later Bailey and the Retick and Kramer episodes,
you see Johnny getting away from a long detailed expense
account reports, often including reports the item miscellaneous, so that
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all that doesn't need to be otomized. All right, Well,
some listener comments and feedback, Now Joey rides this version
of Johnny dollars probably the funniest fun of itself. Really well, thanks, Joey,
I appreciate your answer. I do want to go ahead
and let everyone know that this particular take on Johnny
Doller will be moving away from in two weeks we'll
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be getting into the edm and O'Brien episodes. Now we'll
mention that there is a Christmas episode, which we're not
playing right now, but we will play a little closer
to the holidays. It's the only Johnny Dollar Christmas episode
until the Jack Johnstone years, so it'll be interesting to hear.
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I don't have great memories of it, but it's a
Christmas episode and it's going to be close to Christmas,
so we'll kind of circle back to that. But we'll
be switching to edm and O'Brien in just a couple
of weeks as our main Johnny Dollar for the next
year and a half.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
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it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
The original air date is December the tenth of nineteen
forty nine, and this one is the Circus Animal Show matter.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They say big game honey is a sport only for
the wealthy. Well, it didn't cost me much except almost
my life.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. At insurance Investigation, Johnny Dollar is
only an expert at making out his expensive ob season Absolute.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Genius spens account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar two
Home Office, Britannia, Underwriters Association, Hartford Connecticuts. The following is
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an accounting of my expenditures during my investigation of the
unscheduled performances in Maximilian Sandrose Animal Show. Or all I
needed was a clown and then I showed up. Or
I once thought I'd run away with a circus. This
one I wanted to run away from. Spencer counts item
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won seventy dollars and twenty one cents train in cab
fare from Hartford to a vacant lot just outside Brunswick, Georgia,
the winter quarters of Maximilian Sandrose Animal Show. The first
animal to show was an elephant. Hey, mister, where can
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I find Maximilian Sandros Hey?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I want to ask you a question?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Play she's not so loud, you upset the planks.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I'm gonna try to teach her an aria for the
next season.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
An Aria. I'm actually set opera back san ys.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Ah, I swee.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
That's the only music for elephant.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
It's the word the fucking well.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Look, I'll stop interrupting rehearsal if you'll tell me where
I can find your boss, maximualium Sandro my boss. Yeah
it is I.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I am Maximilian Sandra.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh good, I'm Johnny Dollar from the insurance coming.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Oh let's make it something else.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Blank you arrest.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'm gonna come back when I'm through with mister.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Dollars as I understand that mister Sandra. No, that's a poor.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Blind and she'ldn't like to see me go.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You know, she's a lot of fun. It's for me,
but this is the new Black Lefford. That's the beginning of.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
All of my trouble.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I'm gonna show you to her. Someone is to try
to steal her, and that's what I don't want to
mister doll.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Since Britannia underwriter's insured if for twenty thousand, that is
what they don't want.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
That costs me too much to get her from Africy.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
To lose her.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
That was the ruin of my financials everything.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
That was the goal.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Ah, this is my mom cheese.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah a look, mister Sandra, how does anybody go about
stealing a neat little package like a black leopard? And
why why?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Because she's a very special leopard. She's a very big,
very shiny I'm gonna name her Ashanti. She's gonna be
my price attraction. There's a lot of animal shows would
like to have with her.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh you suspect your competition? When was the attampt made.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
One night last week they make with the truck They
tried to pull her cage away and we's say for
just in the time. See its my finches, the parakeets
and the cook can and this.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Is my crawl.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, very nice, colorful. Did you try and trace the
truck man.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
No, so no, it's a trade.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
They went away, wush, no lights.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
And this is something else that's not right at all.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So yeah, what's that.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I'm gonna make a pet plan. I'm gonna get all
the money. I'm gonna put a hand hunt to buy
her from this amount, attacks Randall. And and now he
said the money that was enough before is it not enough?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Now?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He thinks you cheated me.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
To sir Randal, Well, I like to help you with
that too, mister Sander, but I'm afraid that's your problem.
My job is to see that your leopard isn't stolen.
I see.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I know.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You get to pay for your job, or you do it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And that's on.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
There is a shot.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
There is my leopard.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I guess somewhere, way down on the tap roots of
my family tree, there probably was an ancestor with a
low forehead, bearskin overalls, and a club who went into
an unpleasant double take when he found himself face to
face with a leopard. Another feeling I had when I
saw a shanty was inherited from somebody. My feet wanted
to run, but my eyes wouldn't leave her.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
As she paced back and forth in.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
About a twelve by twelve cage, baleful yellow eyes, set
and a sable black face, ears laid back, and tail
lashing and anger and lips that drew up, showing the nastiest.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Set of choppers I've ever seen. It was beautiful al right,
but my vote would have gone to the iron bars
that separate. They were downright God wasted.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
The time was gonna walk her back?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Can afford?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You? Be good?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Girl?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Pretty soon you and me would be good friends. You
see mister dollar right now, chanty, she's a very angry.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
She's a boiled inside.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
But I'm gonna know my animals, so not long.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
She's gonna eat out of my hat.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Air well, she looks like you make a meal lot
of it right after the elbow.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Oh, oh you, who's this umbrey?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
This is mister Dollary's come from the insurance company.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Well hardiness, I'm text Randall.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
This is the man I tell you about that?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I mean you capture this thing?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I brung her in from the Togu territory in West Africa.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I thought my ranker was tough. Sometimes, what do you is?
Cat him?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Nope?
Speaker 7 (07:57):
I dug me a bit covered her with a man
and some dirt, put me a fresh killed goat in
the middle, and when the cat fell in and got
some ropes on her and crushed heruugh, will you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Make it sound simple?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Oh see, somebody could sound so simple?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And why does it cheat to me?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Why doesn't stay with the first deprise?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
And now you take a listen to me, samdro I
told you I'd give you your money back and sell
this cat somewhere es else. The pip costs more than
I thought it would, and I'd about to lose door on.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It just to make you hap.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Sometimes I'm a thing to you don't talk straight. I'm
gonna go back to my elephant now, mister.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Dollar, okay much sa I'll check with the water.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
He spent too much time talking to critics. He don't
make no sense out of nothing. Right, I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Dollar.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
I ain't been twenty yards away from this cat since
I've got it here, been bunking in that sleeping bag
every night, right close to the cage.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Now maybe I can get a break.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, then you must have done here the night somebody
tried to put the slash on her? Did you spawn anybody? Nobody?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I could be sure that maybe the little blonde guy
he left me something to remember him by, Will I.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Pull my shirder?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Look you there, look you there on my back.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Just took the sticks out today out out.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
He's right, little runt cut me half in and half out.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I'm a sleeping bag.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Doc says, if that knife blade had gone in another
hair's breadth, I'd have been spilt.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And without happy thought. Tex Randall, a hard man to kill,
left to go into town. I watched a chat he
turn into enough raw meat to keep a kennel of
great danes happy for a week, and to which he
settled down for what you might call the original catnapp.
Sandrose elephants settled down to a short vocal lesson, and
I settled down for a game of mumblety peg. But
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before I could get warmed up, I had a visitor.
No wow, Eve, a gardener type with darker hair and
olive skin. You look as though you produce some company,
mister d Well, who couldn't. I was beginning to think
the only females around here walked in all fours. I've
heard the same feeling about the males. Then he didn't
mention me.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Who fuck the boss.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Oh no, No, Sander didn't mention much of anything but
his black leopard. Well, I'm Angela, his daughter. Oh see, family,
forgot to mention you on purpose, hoping to keep my
mind where it belongs, on my work.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But that's what I came to talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What can you do? You can't stay with the shandy
for the rest of your life, can you? Before I
found out about you, I would have said, no, please
be serious, all right, there's only one thing to do.
If the leopard isn't safe here, and from what I've
seen it heard, I don't think she is. I'll just
have to take her someplace else. And so this is
all cleared up, take her someplace else. They would break
Dad's heart. It would break the heart of the company
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that hired me if a shanty turned up missing. Look,
he can't take her on the road until next summer.
We'll keep her safe until then. I'm sorry, but it's
all I can do for Dad. He's going to hate
you for it, you know, Oh well, that I can stand.
But there's no sense you are wasting our time feeling
the same way. I didn't say I would do that.
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As a matter of fact, I was going to stay
right here until you asked me out to do it
or something. Oh well, let's not worry stick around. I'll
figure out where to invite you when I know you better.
And there, during the waning hours of the Georgia day,
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I learned that up to a point, Angela was an
easy girl to know. She liked cocktails, dinner, and dancing.
So that's the schedule we set up for later as
soon as text Ranald showed up to temporarily.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Relieve me of my duties, as Leopards said, But.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
At Martini time, I was still sitting and may I
say that the cocktail hour spent in the middle of
a menagerie is not the RESTful period it's supposed to be.
As soon as the sun dropped, the noise rose, wild
brains and caged bodies, reacting to the night, instinctively telling
the countryside that whether they were free or not, this
was their hunting time. I only felt my tarzan of
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the ape side. It felt uneasy, Shanty complained to me.
A light from somewhere behind me glinted in my eye,
then disappeared as she started a back and forth pacing again.
Sounded like she was trying to tell me something she
was I was too stupid to understand it. Oh whatever
hit me from behind in the lad hard enough. I
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stayed on my feet with a pair of strong hands,
twisted my arms behind my back hand pushed my wrists
into a double hammer lock. The point of a knife
was tapping in my back and started moving me forward
toward the cage. The lepard started pacing as she saw
me coming. She reached out between the bars for me,
her great paw spread claws extended. The last thing I
saw was her smelling face and the floor reaching And
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there was a lunch behind me, and something hit my
head again. The cocktail hour was over. I'd passed out
without a drink.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Johnny Dollar, but first, last week, Von Monroe's
Caravan saluted the Rose Bowl team.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Tonight, Bond will play the favorite.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Songs of Louisiana stays in to Oklahoma the Sugar Bowl Team.
Lawd's Caravan will also bring you the five top tunes
of the week as chosen by Variety, and later, Geneoffrey
will be here with his Western music and cowboy humor
Roll Caravan and The Gene Offrey Show, our regular Saturday
evening features of most of the same CBS stations. Now
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with our star Charles Russell, we returned to the second
back of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well, Sir, I don't know how I lived through that one,
but as it turned out, I did. When I opened
my eyes, I was still in Georgia, but that condition
was about all that hadn't changed. For the worse, my
head was not only aching in the back, but a
new lump had been born above the bridge of my nose.
But nothing else had been added. When I finally got
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to my feet, I saw that only a trace was
left of a shanty, the Black Leopard, a pair of
ruts in the dirt made when a wheeled cage had
been hauled away. I started out to find Sandro on
a telephone, but one of my feet found something else
before I taken three steps. I didn't know how he
had gotten where I was supposed to be, but he'd
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made it. Text Randall, his neck twisted in the marks
of claws on the side of his battered head.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Police Department, Central Precinct, Sergeant Miller.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Hello, my name is Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator. I'm
calling from the winter quarters of the Maximian Sandro's Animal
Show from the owner's trailer. I'm want to report two things.
Wait a minute, there's a body out here that your
corner to take a look at, either accidental or murder,
grand larsony. Somebody stole a black leopard.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Oh, listener, this is your idea of a joke.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Too late to joke, sergeant, Just send some men out.
I'll give him the rest of the story when they
get here. Joke yet, what passes for humor in Georgia? Anyway, Hey, Sandro, Sandra,
come home. Nobody answered me but an old live band lion,
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so I shut up. I browsed around Sandro's trailer when
I was waiting for the police. I wasn't looking for anything,
but I found it. On a table, there was a
small Christmas tree that had been transformed into what is
commonly known as a friendship tree, meaning that about a
half a dozen Christmas cards were hung on with cellibane tape.
There was nothing else to read, so I scand through
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those and the third one I opened opened my eyes.
It was inscribed, sorry I can't be with you, greetings
from San Francisco, your loving daughter Angela. Before I could
fully digest that tidbit, I heard a shoe strape on
the steps outside. Then the trailer door opened.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Where here he is been?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I told you we'd find him here.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Very good, my dear. A man with the Angela by
whom I had so recently been taken in looked fiftyish, capable,
sun tanned, and well armed.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Well well, well, mister Della, you don't appear to be
surprised after what's happened already tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I wouldn't be surprised if General Sherman dropped in on
his way back.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Let see splintered spl I admire a show of courage,
a sense of humor at the point of a gun.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Oh, think nothing of it. Sometimes my jokes are so
funny they kill people. I think we'd better get him
out of here, Ben, I don't think it's safe.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Yes, you took the woods right off the tip of
my tongue my death. Shall we go, mister Della?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Should I ask where and why I've taken a small
place in town?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
There is our leisure.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
We shall discuss a fascinating subject, namely, the whereabouts of
a splendid black leopard. Move right ahead, mister Dolla. Oh,
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my dear, run up to Harold's room, fetch him down.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I may need.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Him into this room, mister Dolla, and please be seated.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
If you don't mind my asking, Ben, how do you manage?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Just sir?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
It does so happens that my full name and title
is Sir Bennett Mountfort. The term of familiarity betten, is
to be used only by my closest friends. Now, if
you will capture a question properly or.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It wasn't important? I just wondered, since that gun seems
to be so much a part of you, how do
you manage without shooting yourself while shaving?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
You've already wit, haven't you. I know the proper time
and place for a weapon, my boy, I've learned from experience.
I chose early, and you is my advocation the hunting
of Big Gate. If you had faced the last desperate
charge of a wounded lion or a maddened rhino as
I faced them, you too would realize that a good weapon,
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properly aimed is man's best friend. Which brings us to
the subject of our mutual interest, the black leopard. Where
have you hidden her?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What makes you think I have.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
No no, no, no, let's have no deception, sir. The
report brought back by my charming accomplice, who so ably
posed as the daughter of that stupid showman mister Sandro,
is that you made no secret of your plan to
carry off the cat to a place of safety.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You will not deny that. Why should I? You wouldn't
believe me if I did.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
An admirable attitude said, now, once more, where is the leopard?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Have I told you? It wouldn't be worth much as
a hunting place, would it?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
If you do not tell me, sir, your life will
be worth very little. Come now, perhaps your loyalties are misplaced.
What did that market hunter mister Randall tell you about
the cat?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Not much, except that he got a knife in the bank,
put there by somebody who was trying to steal her.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Well, then, sir, I'll spin you a taiale that'll set
your blood to pounding. What would you say, my boy,
if I told you that that black leopard is worth
a king's ransom?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Oh no, I'd probably ask why?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
She is so?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
And I'll tell you why she was captured in the
Togo territory of West Africa. I am quite familiar with
that section. I've heard it. There a district par excellence
for elephant, buffalo and citutanka. It's a matter of fact,
I was there before and shortly after Randal's infamous trapping
of that fine beast.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Did he tell you that, Well, he did, didn't make
any impression. I hear there are a lot of people
in Africa.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Well, to continue, The Togo territory is inhabited by the
Away tribe, a group of long headed, patrilineal people whose
most interesting characteristic at this moment is the fact that
they are animals worshippers. Now does the point sink home.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Vaguely that leopard Randall snagged is important to them?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Is that it precisely you've struck it, and they'll pay
a veritable fortune for a return one hundred thousand dollars.
Now that I've let the cat out of the bag,
so to speak, you have a price in mind in
return for which you will share with me the hiding
place of the animal.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, you go on back to Togo and I'll cable
you the address.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
It's obvious said that you are not in full command
of your senses.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Lul lul, yeahs Old. You know, Lord, if Harold is
your violence department, Ben, you can save your breath and
his muscles. I'm not having any stay where you are hurt.
I give you a fair warning. Unnuts to your fair warning.
If you want to find that black leopard, and I'm
the only one that knows where she is, You're not
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going to do it by puncturing me.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Come back, come back here, thinke it easy, Ben, I'll
get him from the stairs.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
That's fall enough, mister Dolla.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You better call off your infantry.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Ben all right, wise guy, get it, come t wait.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Let didn't go? What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
You crazy?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You me?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
That didn't go?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Less rand the upper hand?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh brother? As I went out, I caught a glimpse
of the man Mountford to call Harold, the same little
blonde Randall had talked about. That wrapped up the question
of who had played tick tac toe with a knife
on the Texan But ten yards of Sir Ben's front
walk later, I suddenly remembered Mountford's last words, lest Randall
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have the upper hand? He said, it sounded like he
didn't know Randall was dead, which shook my head, and
in a strictly nonsense Agoway made sense. There was only
one place for me to go, So that's where I went,
some Max million Sandrose animal show. When I got there,
(23:16):
I was awake, but all the smart animals were asleep
except for one's the dollar Max a million. Sandra hailed
me from the least side of a tent.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Come here with the door into the shadows.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
The police is by my trailer. Where have you been, Sandra?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I was a hiding, but I worry so much about you.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
When I come back where you are?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
You're not there?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
What do you mean by your black levert's cage? I
left and place had unpleasant memories for me.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Oh see see meet I'm a sad is when I'm
see that man Horando is a push you to the
cage you would a knife.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I'm gonna go crazy. I'm a nothing.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I'm ana run up and a push, so then you
follow You hit your head in the bottom of the
cage and then a shanty.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
She hit Durandal instead, and I'm so sorry. Oh, I
don't bother with an apology to me. You no, no, no, no,
you don't understand.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Look, I'm gonna commit the murder.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Would this too hands, I'm gonna push him on the leopard.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
All this such a thing as justifiable homicide. You were
saving my life, so let's not worry about it until
he gets the court if it does. Where did you
take your cat? Oh? You know that nobody else has her,
so you must you were at the right place at
the right time to hol her away.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
All right, I tell you true.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
See, I take her away where she's a safe I
keep her where she isn'tntil this trouble?
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Is he no more?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Listen to me, Sandro. I know how you feel. But
I've met the people who were after your leopard. They
say they can get one hundred thousand dollars for her
back in Africa. Hundred thousand dollars, of course, the question,
but that kind of money, they'll never stop looking for.
The only way to stop them is to let them
find her, and then we'll try and wind this thing up.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Wind up?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Is it me?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
In Finnish?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've been followed here. Now will
you take me to the hideout? I'm not so these people.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
They follow your day.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I'm gonna like that. I don't need a Sandro. One
hundred thousand dollars worth of cheese would even make a mouse.
Sandro is a hard man to convince. I wasted more
(25:30):
words than a Republican campaigner, and then I used blackmail.
Then I told him I'd turn him in for Randall's
killing and testify against him instead of for him. He
saw things my way. The leopard's layer turned out to
be an abandoned barn five miles farther out of town,
to which we went in the truck that Sandro had
(25:51):
driven into that jungle type vacant lot, not cotton. This
is okay, it's a little aside. A door Chouty was
(26:14):
performing that old dance of hers again, pacing the length
of her cage back and forth, her head swinging rhythmically
each time she turned. We'd made ourselves easy enough to
follow on the way out, but my neck was getting
stiff from helping my eyes follow the leopard's movements. Before
I heard a sound outside the door. It sounded like
a bolt jamming a shell into the chamber of a rifle.
(26:36):
And that's what it was, because a rifle was what
Sir Bennett Mountford was carrying when the trio came in.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Close the door hurdle, I just did you, my dear
stay here of.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
The palms way. Yes, I'll be all right.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Well, mister dullah I would say that the long stock
is successfully completed.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
The search ended quite a hotter Mountford. Somebody should crown
you with a coonskin cap with a raccoon still living
in it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
It is.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
I'm glad to see you enjoying yourself, sir, since the
time for levity is on the wing, so to speak.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Harold, Yeah, name it.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Keep these two on your sights with a ready finger
on the trigger. I'll set about putting this vicious cat
out of existed.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
But no, he is not.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Shoot to my chanty man for you crazy, put the
rifle down, Get up, dollar, you aren't running.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
If that cat's worth a hundred grand alive?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Why killer, because we shall realize a much greater profit
with her death, namely a half million of uncut diamonds
that are hidden on the floor.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Of her cage. Diamonds. Well, they couldn't have been safer,
could they?
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Decisively Randall's idea when he put them there in Africa?
Now stand aside her. I don't wish to fire through
you ahead, but I will if I must. No, no
is not shoot to my Shocknia can't gonna let that
cat o it don't move, no, shan't you rather to
run for your life.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Mountford had a lot of guts, but sometimes luck helped,
and that night he didn't have any. A shanty sprang
straight to the little door of a cage. She was
still in the air when she went past him, head high,
and as she did, one of her fatal front paws
reached out for him. It looked almost delicate, but the
force of the blows sent Mountford clear across the barn,
and when he landed he didn't move. A shanty street
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toward a square of night sky showing through a window,
and she was gone.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
A shanty, A shanty calm the back.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I turned back away from the window to check on
the rest of our guests, but they were gone. Apparently
there was something about a leopard on the loose that
have made a half a million dollars in diamonds not
as important to Harold and the phony Angela as distance
between them and at Farn. So there I was suddenly
(29:13):
left with nothing to worry about. If you can call
enough diamonds to stock the Kimberly mines. Nothing expense accounts
Item two. Item two A case like this, and I
(29:38):
haven't let up a cent. Oh well, Christmas is coming.
Item two three dollars cab fare from Brunswick Police headquarters
to a hotel. After giving them my statement, which they
didn't believe until they saw those diamonds. Then they sent
out a three state alarm to pick up the phony.
Angela and Montford Shiveman Harold expense account Item free seventy
(30:03):
dollars and twenty one cents Trey and cabfair Brunswick to
Hartford O and this advice I'll toss in for free.
At last report, a shanty was seen head west toward
Okie Pinocchi Swamp and Sandra was organizing a group to
go after her. My advice is this, don't ensure the
lives of those men. If you want to throw your
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money away, throw what to me. See. Expense account total
one hundred and fifty two dollars and seventy cents Signed,
Yours truly, Johnny.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Frank Buck Dollar, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Stars Charles Russell. Tonight's script by Paul Dudley and Gildod
was produced and directed by Ralph Rose. Featured in the
cast were Lynn Allen, Larry Dobkin, Bill Conrad, and Parley Bear.
The special music is written and conducted by Leith Stevens.
You're announcer, Bob Stevens, be sure to be with us
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at the same time next week when another unusual expense
account is handed.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
In by yours truly honey Dollar.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Teamwork. That's the American way, working together to produce.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
More per man, per machine, per hour so that everybody
on the team benefits. The American economic system is geared
to benefit all of the people. Under this system, everybody
moves together toward the common goal of better living. The
better we produce, the better we live. For your pre
copy the booklet The Miracle of America right box ten
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Times Square station, New York City. They June now for
Vaughn Monroe's Caravan, which follows immediately on most of these
same CBS stations.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
This is CBS where yours cruely Johnny Dollar meets adventure
every Saturday night the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Threatening to falsely accuse someone of murder is just a
bit of handed to get cooperation, but Johnny did get
the job done. The expense account on this one is
interesting just because this version of Johnny Dollar tends to
be the one who pads it the most, and I
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don't know if it were flecks a whole lot about
his character, but it does reflect the challenge of the format,
which if you want to tell a story, you have
really to stick with the original Johnny Dollar format. You've
really got to come up with stuff that will fit
for expense account entries. And I do think that for
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some riders this could be a bit of a straight jacket,
and that might be one reason why when you get
into the later Bailey and the Retick and Kramer episodes,
you see Johnny getting away from a long detailed expense
account reports, often including reports the item miscellaneous, so that
(33:49):
all that doesn't need to be otomized. All right, Well,
some listener comments and feedback, Now Joey rides this version
of Johnny dollars probably the funniest fun of itself. Really well, thanks, Joey,
I appreciate your answer. I do want to go ahead
and let everyone know that this particular take on Johnny
Doller will be moving away from in two weeks we'll
(34:12):
be getting into the edm and O'Brien episodes. Now we'll
mention that there is a Christmas episode, which we're not
playing right now, but we will play a little closer
to the holidays. It's the only Johnny Dollar Christmas episode
until the Jack Johnstone years, so it'll be interesting to hear.
(34:32):
I don't have great memories of it, but it's a
Christmas episode and it's going to be close to Christmas,
so we'll kind of circle back to that. But we'll
be switching to edm and O'Brien in just a couple
of weeks as our main Johnny Dollar for the next
year and a half.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
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