July 18, 2025 • 29 mins
Today's Mystery: An insured man falls from a building ... or did he jump ... or was he pushed?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 30, 1958
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Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jack Edwards; Virginia Gregg; Jack Moyles; Tony Barrett; Parley Baer; Carleton G. Young; Lillian Buyeff
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 30, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jack Edwards; Virginia Gregg; Jack Moyles; Tony Barrett; Parley Baer; Carleton G. Young; Lillian Buyeff
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you this week's episode of Yours truly
Johnny Dollar. But first I want to encourage you, if
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
First.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well now from March thirtieth, nineteen fifty eight, here is
the Killer's list.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Manner from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar Hat
Cummings in a allied life. All right, Pad, what's new
with you? Johnny here of Everett Benton. No, I'm afraid
not investment.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Firm down in New York, real estate, oil mining, this
and man.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
We're carrying one hundred thousand dollars life policy on him.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So the last night he fell out of a fourteen
story window Oh, that's too bad. Accident Pada was a suicide.
Maybe neither. I think he got pushed. I'll be right
over Bob Bailey in The Exciting Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expense a cob America's Fabulous Freelance
Insurance Investigator, or as Turlie Johnny Dollar expense account submitted
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by a special investigator Johnny Dollar, to the inter Allied
Life Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut, following his account of expenses
incurred during my investigation of the killer's list matter. Expense
account had of won a dollar twenty for a taxi
from my apartment to the offices of inter Allied Cat
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Cummings look worried. You got straight to the point.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I don't know, Johnny. Maybe a Benton wasn't pushed out
that window. But there's something about this dealer just doesn't
smell right to me.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
What can you tell me about this man? Benton?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Everett Benton forty five years old, doing very well in
business as far as we know. Last night about ten
o'clock he fell or jumped or was pushed out of
his office window.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
This policy on him. Who's the beneficiary? His wife, Claire?
What's she like about twelve years younger, redhead. I see, Yeah,
well what do you think? I think I better have
a talk with Missus Benton. Idam two fourteen dollars forty
cents transportation and incidentals to New York City. The Benton's
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apartment was on age sixty seventh, very fashioned, more very expensive,
and Claire Benton looked right at home in her surroundings.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Do you mind if I extensive drink, mister Dallas.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Not at all.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Missus Benton has been a pretty wearing day.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I imagine it has police questions reported.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, sorry to be throwing more questions at you at
a time like this.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I'm used to it by Now here's your drink?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Thanks? Cheers, Yeah, cheers. You know you certainly seem to
be bearing up very well.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yes, I suppose so, mister Dollar.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I think it would save time and embarrassment if we
had a few.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Things understood, such as you've heard of the ideal marriage. Well,
Everett's and mine was not it.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Oh naturally, I'm very sorry he did what he did.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Well, we weren't exactly happy together.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I take it you think he committed suicide, Missus Benton.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Is there any doubt about.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That apparently not in your mind, none at all. If
it was suicide, why did he do it?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I wouldn't know. Everett hadn't confided in me for some time.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
We haven't been very close recently.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, missus Benon. Just suppose it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Everett had no enemies that I knew of.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I see about the insurance policy.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Yes, about the insurance policy, mister dollar one hundred dollars,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
That's right when you get ready to file acclaim.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I'm ten to in the morning, I see.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Oh and one other thing. It just so happens that
I have an alibi for last evening. Oh and it's
the nicest kind of alibi there is, mister Dallas.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It's air tight?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And that was Claire Bent, very calm and collected, and
incidentally anxious to collect. I thought her over all the
way to the office of Detective Lieutenant Tovitch of homicide.
That's side him three A dollar sixty care fair. Yeah,
I talked to her, Johnny. She's a hard one to
figure out. What do you think Tovich? Did he jump
or get pushed? You get any ideas? How about financial troubles?
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He was in the investment business if he looked into that.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
According to his lawyers, affairs are in good shape. Oh,
he'd made his share of poor investments over the years,
wild cat oil leases, stuff like that. But in general
he was doing okay, he was worth a lot of
doe Johnny.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Okay. Let's assume he was pushed out that window. What
was he doing in his office at ten pm? I
wondered about that too. Any indication anybody was with him?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
No, night watchman was in another part of the building
when Benton came in let himself in with his own key.
There could have been somebody else with him, all right.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But who Claire Benton says she has an alibi.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Yeah, I don't knows. I care for it much, but
I haven't been able to break it down.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Who is her alibi? Larry Santas Sandys runs a supper
club over in these fifties. Yeah, the Ace of Clubs.
He called Larry Sandys, thanks Tovich. So I went calling again,
But this time it was different from my visit to
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Claire Benton. In the first place, Satis didn't offer me
a drink, and in the second place, he wasn't very friendly.
Oh look, I already told the cops that Claire was
here in the club last evening, all evening until midnight,
out in the barn most of the time. What difference
does it make? How about the rest of the time
we were talking here in my office. Just the tools,
just the tool of us. And now, look, Dalla, what
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it boils down to is you've each got alibis for
one another. Huh, that's right. I look nosey boy, Claire
didn't kill Benon At the moment, I wasn't thinking so
much about her. Wait a minute, if you're trying to
pin this on me, you and Claire have been pretty friendly, Santas.
She benefits to the tune of one hundred grand by
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Benton's death. Look, you're blowing smoke in the wrong direction.
I like the arrangement the way it was. Why should
I try to change it? Well, that's a good question,
so just let it drop. You get me. You've got
nothing to worry about, Santus, if you've got nothing to hide,
I don't want this kind of publicity. It's bad for
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my business. You know what's wrong with you, Delly? You
got those trouble occupational disease. You'd better just get over it.
Sometimes it turns out to be fatal. Act two of Yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
In a moment, our flag now numbers fifty stars, and
behind each star there stands yet another flag, one for
each of the fifty states. Nevada state flag is a
sounded cobalt blue. In the upper left hand corner is
a five pointed star and closed by two sprays of sagebrush.
The state's flower above the star in a gold scroll
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is the phrase battle born, which refers to the state's
entry into the Union in the midst of the Civil War.
Nevada State flag, the flag of the thirty six state
to enter the Union, was adopted on March twenty sixth,
nineteen twenty nine, and now Act too of Yours truly,
Johnny Dollar and the killer's list matter. Looks like you
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didn't get any further with Larry Sanders than I did,
Johnny Looktovich.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Both Satas and Claire Benton had a motive for killing
her husband. Matter of fact, two motives, money and getting
Benton out of their way.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Johnny, I'm with you. We're not even sure yet it
was murder. We do have something that indicates somebody might
have been in Benton's office with him, though, Yeah, what
is it? I found a cigarette, but one of the
ash trays different brand than benton.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Smoke couldn't have been left there during the day.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Janitor's as he cleans out the ash treys about seven
in the evening.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Of course, he.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Could have overlooked one, so I don't know whether it
means anything or not. Excuse me, Yeah, on a Sidetovich,
Oh where, okay, I'll be right over, Johnny. Looks like
we've done ourselves a little epidemic.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
What do you mean? Have you hear of a guy
named Arthur Mayfield promoter? No? What about? They just found
him in an alley dead. Wait a minute, don't tell yeah, tell.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Out of a tenth floor hotel room.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well tennant Tilvich and I went over to the West
Side hotel where Mayfield's body had been discovered. There was
nothing in this room to indicate anyone had been there
with him. As a matter of fact, there was nothing.
Curian write him for a dollar ready care fait to
Claire Benton's apartment to dollar.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I really don't see the point of this. I told
you twice that I did not know this Arthur Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Did you ever hear your husband mention his name.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I've never heard the name until.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Now from you, missus Benton. Mind telling me where you
were last night around midnight?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I take it that's when Mayfield died.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Approximately. I suppose you have an alibi.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You suppose correctly you know something.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I wouldn't be at all surprised if you were about
to tell me you were with Larry Santis again, and
you know somethings.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Todell, That's exactly where I.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Was last night. I know toovich. I know it could
be just a coincidence. The two guys fall or jump
or get shoved out of windows within twenty four hours.
But I got a hunch of some kind of connection between.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Them, could be Johnny, But so far we haven't been
able to find it.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, how about their past the armed forces? Maybe I've
already checked that out. Answer is no. Could they have
been involved in any sort of business deal?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
I asked Benton's attorney about that. He's checking through all
of his papers. He's promised to call me, and.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You haven't been able to find any organization they both
belonged to, any situation in which they could have been
thrown together, not so far. Unless they serve in a
jury together or something like that. Well, don't laugh. That
could be it, and they might have convicted somebody who
took this way of getting revenge.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Yeah, check it out in courty if we find a connection.
But don't count on it, Johnny, don't count on anything.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I went back to my hotel room and stretched out,
I'm on a brad. While I rehashed the whole deal
in my life, I thought about Claire Baton Larry Sadus.
I didn't trust either of them. Why does Telvich had
pointed out, it was another thing to prove it. Okay, okay,
coming yeah, mister Dollar, that's right.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
You're investigating the murders of Benjamin Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't think they've been officially described as murders, but
they are, mister Dollar, I'm certain of it. Who are you?
Speaker 9 (12:30):
My name is Alvin Whiting. I have some information that
may be of value to you. May I come in,
Come in, come on, thank you. If you don't mind,
I'd like to look out the window a minute.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You're being followed. I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.
What is this information you have? Mister Whiting? A couple
of years.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Ago, three men got together and bought an oil lease.
My man named Tom Nolan. Did you ever hear of that?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
No?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
He was a very eccentric man, hot tempered, violent. He
needed the money badly, so he sold the lease, which
then was a little bit of than workless. Benson and
Mayfield were in that deal together.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I say, but I still don't understand what that has
to do with their murders.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
I'm convinced their killer is Tom Nolan getting revenge on
them in his own warp way.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Revenge for buying a worthless oil these from him.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
Last week, oil was discovered on that property, a lot
of it. The property is now worth millions.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
I think that Nolan, with his twisted way of looking
at things, probably feels that he was cheated out of
that property.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You're suggesting that this Nolan isn't quite all there. Huh exactly.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
That's exactly what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
What's your connection with all this, mister Whiting.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
I'll tell you what my connection is, mitter Dollar. I
was in on the deal with Benon and Mayfield. I
was the third man.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Ah.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
So you see, if my suspicions are correct, if Nolan
is the killer, then I'm the next man on his.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
List, Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment,
many of you know the old saying that goes or
what of a nail a shoe was lost? Or want
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of a shoe a horse was lost? Or what of
a horse a rider was lost. We don't use horse
cavalry units any more in military skirmishes, but the saying
means that a regiment, a battle, and a war can
be lost if one little thing goes wrong, if one
man forgets his code of conduct and doesn't do his job.
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During World War II, Private Frank Sigler knew what could
happen if everyone, including himself, didn't do all it was possible.
In March nineteen forty five, while serving with the fifth
Marine Division in the assault in Ejima, when his squad
leader became a casualty, Private Sigler took command and led
his men on a furious charge on a gun installation
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that had held up the advancement of his company for days.
He personally annihilated the entire crew, although severely wounded. On
his next charge against enemy troops concealed in caves high
up on the cliffs, Sigler killed many of them, then
crawled back to his squad position and directed intense fire,
which blested most of the enemy positions out of action.
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He disregarded his personal wounds and the heavy barrage of
enemy fire bursting around him while he carried three wounded
squad members to safety and medical treatment behind the lines.
Then Sigler returned to continue the fight with renewed determination. Soon, however,
by strict orders and against his will, he was forced
to leave the battle to receive medical attention for his wounds.
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Who knows.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
If Frank Ziggler had not been present and had not
acted with exemplary conduct according to his code, his company
might have been lost, the battle might have been lost.
His grateful country awarded Private Frank Zigler the Medal of
Honor for valorous action and fortitude at the risk of
his own life. And now Act three of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar and the Killer's List matters.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I took Alvin Whiting down to Lieutenant Tovich's office and
he told his story again. I could see that Tovich
felt the same way I did, that at last we
were getting someplace.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Matter of thank Johnny, I was about to call you.
Benton's lawyer just turned up police agreement linking Benton Mayfield
and mister Whiting.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Here. Question is, where's Tom Nolan.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
I don't think I'll draw an easy breath until he's
been found and arrested.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
We have a bullet out on him, mister Whiting. One
thing we found out about a year ago he served
time for assault and battery. Oh, mister Whiting, I suggest
you take every precaution until we pick up Nolan.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
Don't worry, Lieutenant. I propose to remain in my apartment
until you apprehend him.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I'll post a man in the building to look after you.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'm Sidetovich. Oh what's the address? All right, thank you.
We've located the little hotel where Nolan's been staying.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Come on, Johnny, that's mister Nolan's room at the end
of the hall.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
They'll tell him. Okay, Clerk, is he in? I don't know.
I really haven't seen him since he rented the room
from me. How long ago was that? About a week ago,
mister Dollar. He's going out? Since then, it must have
been at night when I was off duty. We are
I try your pass key quietly? Right? Well, gone bagging baggage? Yeah,
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room's been used recently though, Hey, in the sash tray cigarette.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
But same brand we found in Benton's office. Doesn't prove anything,
but it might tie in.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, Tom Nolan could be here. Boy, But where is he?
You say he rented the room from you, clerk? What
do he look like? Oh? Middle aged as I remember, bushy,
hair of the wild look to him fits the general
description Alvin Whiting furnished and the mugshot I pulled out
of the files.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Well, all we can do now is rig a steak
out for him here and then.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Wait, Lieutenantvitch posted a couple of men in Nolan's rum
and we went back to headquarters. While I was getting
out another bullet and I went through Nolan's record a
Sultan battery resisting arrest. There was no doubt he was
a violent sort of guy, and with the indication wedding
had given us that Nolan was a little unbalanced, the
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weird revenge motive might fit. Then something in the records
caught my eye. I went back to the office of
Larry Santus at a supper clevel. Oh, look, I told
you the last time you were here. I got a
few things to tell you. Santas the two murder victims.
Mayfield and Benton went in on a business here with
a man named Alvin Whiting. All right, so I bought
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an oil least from Tom Nolan. All of a sudden
last week that least got real valuable. Alvin Whiting figures
that Nolan's the killer. He says he's not all there,
and he was trying to get his own strange kind
of event. Look, Dollar, what's all this got to do
with me? That's what I want you to tell me. Look,
I don't know anything about any of them. Last year,
Nolan was arrested for a suthern battery. According to the
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police records, the man who put up bail for him
was you, okay, okay, So I put up bail for him. Look,
Tom Nolan's my uncle, Dolly. Sure, he's off beat, but
he's harmless. A sultant battery harmless. So he beat up
a guy, That doesn't mean he'd kill anybody. How did
he get mixed up with Benton, Mayfield and Whiting. Well,
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he was broke. I asked Benton's wife to get her
husband and the others interested in buying Time's least to
get him some dough. I didn't know the least, it
turned out to be valuable. After Nolan got out of jail,
he left Tom moved to Coopersville. It's upstate. Yeah, well,
he's had a room right here in the city for
the last week. I didn't know that. Believe me, I
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didn't look. I haven't heard from him for six months.
That's the truth, Dolla. I've told you all I know.
I still didn't trust status, but decided to follow up
the lead he'd given me about Coopersville. Maybe Tom Nolan
had gone back there. I called Tovich to tell him,
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and he had a nasty little surprise for me. Alvin
Whiting had disappeared from his apartment. I didn't know whether
Tom Nolan had gotten the Whiting or not, but I
didn't know. I had to find Nolan in a hurry.
My high tailored to Coopersville. Was a small town with
half a dozen hotels and rooming houses. I mean the
rounds flashing Nolan's picture. Finally I struck.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Peter Well, yes, I recognized that picture. It's Tom, all right,
but he told me his last name was Niles.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You say he roomed here, missus Carr.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Yes, kept to himself mostly, but he didn't make no
trouble for anybody, as far as I could see.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I didn't hear about six months ago, on the end
of September.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It was.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Last week he left us.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Sure he probably found out they'd struck oil and moved
into the city.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
You don't understand, mister Dowler. When I say he left us,
I mean it last week. Tom Niles died.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And there I was, But all of a sudden the
deal started adding up in my mind. It was after
dark when I got to the graveyard and my flashlight
picked out the simple headstone Tom Niles. Yeah, Tom Nolan,
resting in peace right where he'd been all through the
murders he was supposed to have committed. The shot knocked
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the flashlight out of my hand. I hit the dirt,
but the flash had pegged the gun for me. Well, well,
Alvin White, Oh don't worry. I'll get you at doctor Whiting.
I want you to be in good shape to stand trial.
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How'd you work hire some drifter to rent that room
back in New York under Nolan's name, some character you
picked up in the park.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
You've got You've got to understand that I had to
have the money I was, I was.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
You almost got the money too, didn't you. Yeah, it
almost worked. You rigged the story that Nolan was the killer,
that you were on his list of victims. That way,
you end up in sole possession of the oilies. If
I'd only known he was. Yeah, never try to frame
a guy who's already dead. Expense account total one forty
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six dollars fifty cents remarks I turned wedding over to
the police, and he made a full stick. Yeah. His
motive was money. He was in the hole gambling debts
and bills. High cost of living, you might say, But
I guess he knows now it's still a real bargain
compared to the high cost of dying. Yours truly, Johnny.
Though our star will return in just a moment.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states.
Missouri's state flag is a horizontal tricolor of red, wive
and blue. In the center is a circular device bearing
the state coat of arms, an eagle symbolizing the superior
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authority of the nation, a grizzly bear representing Missouri chosen
for his size, strength and valor, and a crescent moon,
symbolic of the shield carried by the second sun, Missouri
being the second state carved out of the Louisiana territory.
A belt encircles the coat of arms with a motto
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inscribed United We Stand d did We Fall? Atop the
flag is a cluster of stars representing the Union, with
a larger star for Missouri as she surmounts her difficulties
and assumes her rank among the states. The state motto
is also inscribed on the flag, salows populi suprema lex
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esto the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.
Surrounding the device is a group of twenty four stars.
Missouri's state flag, a flag of the twenty fourth state
to enter the Union, was adopted on March twenty second,
nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Now Here is our star to tell you about next
week's story. Next week, Dame Nature takes a hand and
helps me solve a crime. Join us, won't you yours
Trulee Johnny Dollar Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,
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originates in Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
Today's story was written by Robert Wright. Heard in Our
cast were Virginia, Greg Lillian Bayer, Jack Edwards, Jack Moyles,
Tony Barrett, Harley Bear, and Carlton G. Young. Be sure
to join us next week, same time and station for
another exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. This is
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Dan cubberly speaking. This is the United States Armed Forces
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Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Welcome back. It's really great to get Robert Roth writing
Johnny Doller, and this is such a good efficient script.
You've got a solid mystery, a great list of suspects,
a few red herrings, and a bit of gunplay. We
also got his use of deal back. For those of
you who haven't been listening for a while. This was
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very common in his Dangerous Assignment script, where Steve Mitchell
would repeatedly refer to each case as a deal, and
it was in all of his early Johnny Dollar scripts
before disappearing. But it comes back this week with a vengeance.
But for a good script, I won't fuss too much
about the writing tics, all right, Well, now we turn
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
First.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well now from March thirtieth, nineteen fifty eight, here is
the Killer's list.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Manner from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar Hat
Cummings in a allied life. All right, Pad, what's new
with you? Johnny here of Everett Benton. No, I'm afraid
not investment.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Firm down in New York, real estate, oil mining, this
and man.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
We're carrying one hundred thousand dollars life policy on him.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So the last night he fell out of a fourteen
story window Oh, that's too bad. Accident Pada was a suicide.
Maybe neither. I think he got pushed. I'll be right
over Bob Bailey in The Exciting Adventures of the Man
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with the Action Packed Expense a cob America's Fabulous Freelance
Insurance Investigator, or as Turlie Johnny Dollar expense account submitted
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by a special investigator Johnny Dollar, to the inter Allied
Life Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut, following his account of expenses
incurred during my investigation of the killer's list matter. Expense
account had of won a dollar twenty for a taxi
from my apartment to the offices of inter Allied Cat
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Cummings look worried. You got straight to the point.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I don't know, Johnny. Maybe a Benton wasn't pushed out
that window. But there's something about this dealer just doesn't
smell right to me.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
What can you tell me about this man? Benton?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Everett Benton forty five years old, doing very well in
business as far as we know. Last night about ten
o'clock he fell or jumped or was pushed out of
his office window.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
This policy on him. Who's the beneficiary? His wife, Claire?
What's she like about twelve years younger, redhead. I see, Yeah,
well what do you think? I think I better have
a talk with Missus Benton. Idam two fourteen dollars forty
cents transportation and incidentals to New York City. The Benton's
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apartment was on age sixty seventh, very fashioned, more very expensive,
and Claire Benton looked right at home in her surroundings.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Do you mind if I extensive drink, mister Dallas.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Not at all.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Missus Benton has been a pretty wearing day.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I imagine it has police questions reported.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, sorry to be throwing more questions at you at
a time like this.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I'm used to it by Now here's your drink?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Thanks? Cheers, Yeah, cheers. You know you certainly seem to
be bearing up very well.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yes, I suppose so, mister Dollar.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I think it would save time and embarrassment if we
had a few.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Things understood, such as you've heard of the ideal marriage. Well,
Everett's and mine was not it.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Oh naturally, I'm very sorry he did what he did.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Well, we weren't exactly happy together.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I take it you think he committed suicide, Missus Benton.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Is there any doubt about.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That apparently not in your mind, none at all. If
it was suicide, why did he do it?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I wouldn't know. Everett hadn't confided in me for some time.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
We haven't been very close recently.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, missus Benon. Just suppose it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Everett had no enemies that I knew of.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I see about the insurance policy.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Yes, about the insurance policy, mister dollar one hundred dollars,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
That's right when you get ready to file acclaim.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I'm ten to in the morning, I see.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Oh and one other thing. It just so happens that
I have an alibi for last evening. Oh and it's
the nicest kind of alibi there is, mister Dallas.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It's air tight?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And that was Claire Bent, very calm and collected, and
incidentally anxious to collect. I thought her over all the
way to the office of Detective Lieutenant Tovitch of homicide.
That's side him three A dollar sixty care fair. Yeah,
I talked to her, Johnny. She's a hard one to
figure out. What do you think Tovich? Did he jump
or get pushed? You get any ideas? How about financial troubles?
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He was in the investment business if he looked into that.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
According to his lawyers, affairs are in good shape. Oh,
he'd made his share of poor investments over the years,
wild cat oil leases, stuff like that. But in general
he was doing okay, he was worth a lot of
doe Johnny.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Okay. Let's assume he was pushed out that window. What
was he doing in his office at ten pm? I
wondered about that too. Any indication anybody was with him?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
No, night watchman was in another part of the building
when Benton came in let himself in with his own key.
There could have been somebody else with him, all right.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But who Claire Benton says she has an alibi.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Yeah, I don't knows. I care for it much, but
I haven't been able to break it down.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Who is her alibi? Larry Santas Sandys runs a supper
club over in these fifties. Yeah, the Ace of Clubs.
He called Larry Sandys, thanks Tovich. So I went calling again,
But this time it was different from my visit to
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Claire Benton. In the first place, Satis didn't offer me
a drink, and in the second place, he wasn't very friendly.
Oh look, I already told the cops that Claire was
here in the club last evening, all evening until midnight,
out in the barn most of the time. What difference
does it make? How about the rest of the time
we were talking here in my office. Just the tools,
just the tool of us. And now, look, Dalla, what
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it boils down to is you've each got alibis for
one another. Huh, that's right. I look nosey boy, Claire
didn't kill Benon At the moment, I wasn't thinking so
much about her. Wait a minute, if you're trying to
pin this on me, you and Claire have been pretty friendly, Santas.
She benefits to the tune of one hundred grand by
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Benton's death. Look, you're blowing smoke in the wrong direction.
I like the arrangement the way it was. Why should
I try to change it? Well, that's a good question,
so just let it drop. You get me. You've got
nothing to worry about, Santus, if you've got nothing to hide,
I don't want this kind of publicity. It's bad for
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my business. You know what's wrong with you, Delly? You
got those trouble occupational disease. You'd better just get over it.
Sometimes it turns out to be fatal. Act two of Yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
In a moment, our flag now numbers fifty stars, and
behind each star there stands yet another flag, one for
each of the fifty states. Nevada state flag is a
sounded cobalt blue. In the upper left hand corner is
a five pointed star and closed by two sprays of sagebrush.
The state's flower above the star in a gold scroll
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is the phrase battle born, which refers to the state's
entry into the Union in the midst of the Civil War.
Nevada State flag, the flag of the thirty six state
to enter the Union, was adopted on March twenty sixth,
nineteen twenty nine, and now Act too of Yours truly,
Johnny Dollar and the killer's list matter. Looks like you
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didn't get any further with Larry Sanders than I did,
Johnny Looktovich.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Both Satas and Claire Benton had a motive for killing
her husband. Matter of fact, two motives, money and getting
Benton out of their way.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Johnny, I'm with you. We're not even sure yet it
was murder. We do have something that indicates somebody might
have been in Benton's office with him, though, Yeah, what
is it? I found a cigarette, but one of the
ash trays different brand than benton.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Smoke couldn't have been left there during the day.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Janitor's as he cleans out the ash treys about seven
in the evening.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Of course, he.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Could have overlooked one, so I don't know whether it
means anything or not. Excuse me, Yeah, on a Sidetovich,
Oh where, okay, I'll be right over, Johnny. Looks like
we've done ourselves a little epidemic.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
What do you mean? Have you hear of a guy
named Arthur Mayfield promoter? No? What about? They just found
him in an alley dead. Wait a minute, don't tell yeah, tell.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Out of a tenth floor hotel room.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well tennant Tilvich and I went over to the West
Side hotel where Mayfield's body had been discovered. There was
nothing in this room to indicate anyone had been there
with him. As a matter of fact, there was nothing.
Curian write him for a dollar ready care fait to
Claire Benton's apartment to dollar.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I really don't see the point of this. I told
you twice that I did not know this Arthur Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Did you ever hear your husband mention his name.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I've never heard the name until.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Now from you, missus Benton. Mind telling me where you
were last night around midnight?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I take it that's when Mayfield died.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Approximately. I suppose you have an alibi.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You suppose correctly you know something.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I wouldn't be at all surprised if you were about
to tell me you were with Larry Santis again, and
you know somethings.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Todell, That's exactly where I.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Was last night. I know toovich. I know it could
be just a coincidence. The two guys fall or jump
or get shoved out of windows within twenty four hours.
But I got a hunch of some kind of connection between.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Them, could be Johnny, But so far we haven't been
able to find it.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, how about their past the armed forces? Maybe I've
already checked that out. Answer is no. Could they have
been involved in any sort of business deal?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
I asked Benton's attorney about that. He's checking through all
of his papers. He's promised to call me, and.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You haven't been able to find any organization they both
belonged to, any situation in which they could have been
thrown together, not so far. Unless they serve in a
jury together or something like that. Well, don't laugh. That
could be it, and they might have convicted somebody who
took this way of getting revenge.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Yeah, check it out in courty if we find a connection.
But don't count on it, Johnny, don't count on anything.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I went back to my hotel room and stretched out,
I'm on a brad. While I rehashed the whole deal
in my life, I thought about Claire Baton Larry Sadus.
I didn't trust either of them. Why does Telvich had
pointed out, it was another thing to prove it. Okay, okay,
coming yeah, mister Dollar, that's right.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
You're investigating the murders of Benjamin Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't think they've been officially described as murders, but
they are, mister Dollar, I'm certain of it. Who are you?
Speaker 9 (12:30):
My name is Alvin Whiting. I have some information that
may be of value to you. May I come in,
Come in, come on, thank you. If you don't mind,
I'd like to look out the window a minute.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You're being followed. I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.
What is this information you have? Mister Whiting? A couple
of years.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Ago, three men got together and bought an oil lease.
My man named Tom Nolan. Did you ever hear of that?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
No?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
He was a very eccentric man, hot tempered, violent. He
needed the money badly, so he sold the lease, which
then was a little bit of than workless. Benson and
Mayfield were in that deal together.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I say, but I still don't understand what that has
to do with their murders.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
I'm convinced their killer is Tom Nolan getting revenge on
them in his own warp way.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Revenge for buying a worthless oil these from him.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
Last week, oil was discovered on that property, a lot
of it. The property is now worth millions.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
I think that Nolan, with his twisted way of looking
at things, probably feels that he was cheated out of
that property.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You're suggesting that this Nolan isn't quite all there. Huh exactly.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
That's exactly what I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
What's your connection with all this, mister Whiting.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
I'll tell you what my connection is, mitter Dollar. I
was in on the deal with Benon and Mayfield. I
was the third man.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Ah.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
So you see, if my suspicions are correct, if Nolan
is the killer, then I'm the next man on his.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
List, Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment,
many of you know the old saying that goes or
what of a nail a shoe was lost? Or want
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of a shoe a horse was lost? Or what of
a horse a rider was lost. We don't use horse
cavalry units any more in military skirmishes, but the saying
means that a regiment, a battle, and a war can
be lost if one little thing goes wrong, if one
man forgets his code of conduct and doesn't do his job.
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During World War II, Private Frank Sigler knew what could
happen if everyone, including himself, didn't do all it was possible.
In March nineteen forty five, while serving with the fifth
Marine Division in the assault in Ejima, when his squad
leader became a casualty, Private Sigler took command and led
his men on a furious charge on a gun installation
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that had held up the advancement of his company for days.
He personally annihilated the entire crew, although severely wounded. On
his next charge against enemy troops concealed in caves high
up on the cliffs, Sigler killed many of them, then
crawled back to his squad position and directed intense fire,
which blested most of the enemy positions out of action.
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He disregarded his personal wounds and the heavy barrage of
enemy fire bursting around him while he carried three wounded
squad members to safety and medical treatment behind the lines.
Then Sigler returned to continue the fight with renewed determination. Soon, however,
by strict orders and against his will, he was forced
to leave the battle to receive medical attention for his wounds.
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Who knows.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
If Frank Ziggler had not been present and had not
acted with exemplary conduct according to his code, his company
might have been lost, the battle might have been lost.
His grateful country awarded Private Frank Zigler the Medal of
Honor for valorous action and fortitude at the risk of
his own life. And now Act three of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar and the Killer's List matters.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I took Alvin Whiting down to Lieutenant Tovich's office and
he told his story again. I could see that Tovich
felt the same way I did, that at last we
were getting someplace.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Matter of thank Johnny, I was about to call you.
Benton's lawyer just turned up police agreement linking Benton Mayfield
and mister Whiting.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Here. Question is, where's Tom Nolan.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
I don't think I'll draw an easy breath until he's
been found and arrested.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
We have a bullet out on him, mister Whiting. One
thing we found out about a year ago he served
time for assault and battery. Oh, mister Whiting, I suggest
you take every precaution until we pick up Nolan.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
Don't worry, Lieutenant. I propose to remain in my apartment
until you apprehend him.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I'll post a man in the building to look after you.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'm Sidetovich. Oh what's the address? All right, thank you.
We've located the little hotel where Nolan's been staying.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Come on, Johnny, that's mister Nolan's room at the end
of the hall.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
They'll tell him. Okay, Clerk, is he in? I don't know.
I really haven't seen him since he rented the room
from me. How long ago was that? About a week ago,
mister Dollar. He's going out? Since then, it must have
been at night when I was off duty. We are
I try your pass key quietly? Right? Well, gone bagging baggage? Yeah,
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room's been used recently though, Hey, in the sash tray cigarette.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
But same brand we found in Benton's office. Doesn't prove anything,
but it might tie in.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, Tom Nolan could be here. Boy, But where is he?
You say he rented the room from you, clerk? What
do he look like? Oh? Middle aged as I remember, bushy,
hair of the wild look to him fits the general
description Alvin Whiting furnished and the mugshot I pulled out
of the files.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Well, all we can do now is rig a steak
out for him here and then.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Wait, Lieutenantvitch posted a couple of men in Nolan's rum
and we went back to headquarters. While I was getting
out another bullet and I went through Nolan's record a
Sultan battery resisting arrest. There was no doubt he was
a violent sort of guy, and with the indication wedding
had given us that Nolan was a little unbalanced, the
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weird revenge motive might fit. Then something in the records
caught my eye. I went back to the office of
Larry Santus at a supper clevel. Oh, look, I told
you the last time you were here. I got a
few things to tell you. Santas the two murder victims.
Mayfield and Benton went in on a business here with
a man named Alvin Whiting. All right, so I bought
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an oil least from Tom Nolan. All of a sudden
last week that least got real valuable. Alvin Whiting figures
that Nolan's the killer. He says he's not all there,
and he was trying to get his own strange kind
of event. Look, Dollar, what's all this got to do
with me? That's what I want you to tell me. Look,
I don't know anything about any of them. Last year,
Nolan was arrested for a suthern battery. According to the
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police records, the man who put up bail for him
was you, okay, okay, So I put up bail for him. Look,
Tom Nolan's my uncle, Dolly. Sure, he's off beat, but
he's harmless. A sultant battery harmless. So he beat up
a guy, That doesn't mean he'd kill anybody. How did
he get mixed up with Benton, Mayfield and Whiting. Well,
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he was broke. I asked Benton's wife to get her
husband and the others interested in buying Time's least to
get him some dough. I didn't know the least, it
turned out to be valuable. After Nolan got out of jail,
he left Tom moved to Coopersville. It's upstate. Yeah, well,
he's had a room right here in the city for
the last week. I didn't know that. Believe me, I
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didn't look. I haven't heard from him for six months.
That's the truth, Dolla. I've told you all I know.
I still didn't trust status, but decided to follow up
the lead he'd given me about Coopersville. Maybe Tom Nolan
had gone back there. I called Tovich to tell him,
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and he had a nasty little surprise for me. Alvin
Whiting had disappeared from his apartment. I didn't know whether
Tom Nolan had gotten the Whiting or not, but I
didn't know. I had to find Nolan in a hurry.
My high tailored to Coopersville. Was a small town with
half a dozen hotels and rooming houses. I mean the
rounds flashing Nolan's picture. Finally I struck.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Peter Well, yes, I recognized that picture. It's Tom, all right,
but he told me his last name was Niles.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You say he roomed here, missus Carr.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Yes, kept to himself mostly, but he didn't make no
trouble for anybody, as far as I could see.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I didn't hear about six months ago, on the end
of September.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It was.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Last week he left us.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Sure he probably found out they'd struck oil and moved
into the city.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
You don't understand, mister Dowler. When I say he left us,
I mean it last week. Tom Niles died.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And there I was, But all of a sudden the
deal started adding up in my mind. It was after
dark when I got to the graveyard and my flashlight
picked out the simple headstone Tom Niles. Yeah, Tom Nolan,
resting in peace right where he'd been all through the
murders he was supposed to have committed. The shot knocked
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the flashlight out of my hand. I hit the dirt,
but the flash had pegged the gun for me. Well, well,
Alvin White, Oh don't worry. I'll get you at doctor Whiting.
I want you to be in good shape to stand trial.
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How'd you work hire some drifter to rent that room
back in New York under Nolan's name, some character you
picked up in the park.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
You've got You've got to understand that I had to
have the money I was, I was.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
You almost got the money too, didn't you. Yeah, it
almost worked. You rigged the story that Nolan was the killer,
that you were on his list of victims. That way,
you end up in sole possession of the oilies. If
I'd only known he was. Yeah, never try to frame
a guy who's already dead. Expense account total one forty
(22:39):
six dollars fifty cents remarks I turned wedding over to
the police, and he made a full stick. Yeah. His
motive was money. He was in the hole gambling debts
and bills. High cost of living, you might say, But
I guess he knows now it's still a real bargain
compared to the high cost of dying. Yours truly, Johnny.
Though our star will return in just a moment.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states.
Missouri's state flag is a horizontal tricolor of red, wive
and blue. In the center is a circular device bearing
the state coat of arms, an eagle symbolizing the superior
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authority of the nation, a grizzly bear representing Missouri chosen
for his size, strength and valor, and a crescent moon,
symbolic of the shield carried by the second sun, Missouri
being the second state carved out of the Louisiana territory.
A belt encircles the coat of arms with a motto
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inscribed United We Stand d did We Fall? Atop the
flag is a cluster of stars representing the Union, with
a larger star for Missouri as she surmounts her difficulties
and assumes her rank among the states. The state motto
is also inscribed on the flag, salows populi suprema lex
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esto the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.
Surrounding the device is a group of twenty four stars.
Missouri's state flag, a flag of the twenty fourth state
to enter the Union, was adopted on March twenty second,
nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Now Here is our star to tell you about next
week's story. Next week, Dame Nature takes a hand and
helps me solve a crime. Join us, won't you yours
Trulee Johnny Dollar Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,
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originates in Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
Today's story was written by Robert Wright. Heard in Our
cast were Virginia, Greg Lillian Bayer, Jack Edwards, Jack Moyles,
Tony Barrett, Harley Bear, and Carlton G. Young. Be sure
to join us next week, same time and station for
another exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. This is
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Dan cubberly speaking. This is the United States Armed Forces
(25:54):
Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Welcome back. It's really great to get Robert Roth writing
Johnny Doller, and this is such a good efficient script.
You've got a solid mystery, a great list of suspects,
a few red herrings, and a bit of gunplay. We
also got his use of deal back. For those of
you who haven't been listening for a while. This was
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very common in his Dangerous Assignment script, where Steve Mitchell
would repeatedly refer to each case as a deal, and
it was in all of his early Johnny Dollar scripts
before disappearing. But it comes back this week with a vengeance.
But for a good script, I won't fuss too much
about the writing tics, all right, Well, now we turn
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to listener comments and feedback, and we go to our
listener survey and Karen writes, love the old time radio detectives,
especially Johnny Dollar. With Bob Bailey, Sam Spade and Candy Matson. Well,
thank you so much for taking time to fill out
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And now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of
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since June of twenty fifteen, currently supporting the podcast at
the rookie level of two dollars or more per month.
Thank you so much to Doug, one of our platinum
Patreons who've been supporting us for ten years or more
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enjoy the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast
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with another episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller. Tomorrow join
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us for the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio and
Cloak and Dagger, and we'll have more details on the
top of programs that you'll be hearing on Saturday. But
in the meantime, what you'll hear tomorrow is.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
Hotel Carla, mister Wearing, Please, Michael Wearing, Hello, mister Wearing.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's right, my name is Bruce Graham. Bruce Graham, you
don't know me, but but you feel it might be
worth my while if I did.
Speaker 12 (28:50):
Yes, I lived for twenty seven Cholston wist. That's what
I'll pick it today. How soon can you be over?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Not so fast? What's this all about?
Speaker 12 (28:57):
It's about something you should be interested in with a
Medican intelligence, don't you.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
How did you find that out.
Speaker 12 (29:03):
The same way I found out you were staying at
the Carlisle.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Which of course tells me nothing.
Speaker 12 (29:06):
It was meant to. I'll fill you in on with
details as soon as you get here, but it's got
to be before nine.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
This is all kind of vague, fella. I don't think
I can make it. You've got to You don't understand.
Excuse me? Who is it?
Speaker 12 (29:20):
But what are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You said hello Graham?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You so I hope you'll be with us then in
the meantime. Send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives
dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and
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