August 1, 2025 • 29 mins
Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Baltimore to investgate $104,000 being stolen from a tobacco company's vault.
Suspicion falls on a timid little bookkeeper.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 13, 1958
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Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Edgar Barrier; Alan Reed; Vic Perrin; Frank Nelson
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Suspicion falls on a timid little bookkeeper.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 13, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Edgar Barrier; Alan Reed; Vic Perrin; Frank Nelson
Welcome to our latest platinum Patreon ... Joel
When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com
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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
you are enjoying the podcast, to follow us using your
(00:50):
favorite podcast software. I want to go ahead and acknowledge
our latest latinum Patreon, and I want to go ahead
and thank Joel. Joel has been one of our Patreon
supporters since August of twenty fifteen. He's currently supporting the
podcast at the Shawmus level of four dollars or more
(01:12):
per month. Thank you so much for your support, Joel. Now,
from April thirteenth of nineteen fifty eight, here is the
Wayward money.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Matter, Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's time now for.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Johnny Deller written, Oh hello, Bran, I haven't heard from
you since that case down' Anagua, Nicaragua. Got another nice
long trip lined up for me this time.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
But if you can leave right away, I wish you'd
run down to Baltomore for us.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That depends depends on how free I can be with
my expense account in the seafood department, chickatique, oysters, soft
shell crabs, terrapin soup.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Johnny, and get us off a whole on this one.
I located your expense account.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Fly big one over on USand murder arsony one dollars
missing from a.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Saint Wow, and you're liable for it if it isn't recovered.
But who keep that much cash is safe outside of
a bank?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That is trilling Tobacco Company? Why how to get the
details from August Trillingham?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
If you'll take this.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
On on a free winning expense account, Freddy, I'm your boy,
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expenser. Cord America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
(02:44):
Ours Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by Special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to the Northeastern Indemnity Association Hertford, Connecticut. Following
is an account of expenses and occurred during my investigation
of the Wayward Money matter expense ac count out in
(03:06):
one twenty six thirty Plaine fair An incidentals Hartford.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
To New York to Baltimore and a cave to the
sherat in Belvidere. After all I could afford the best.
I had him two a ten cent phone, called him
mister August Tillingham, he'd be glad to see me.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Hmm, Somewhere that name rang a bell.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I had him three a buck twenty for a cab
to the Turllingham Tobacco Company on Conway near Charles Street.
It was a huge old brick building with what I
guess you'd call a vaulted roof, offices at one end
of it, and the rest looked like a kind of warehouse.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
I'm glad you could get here so quickly, mister Dollar.
The loss only occurred last night, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well, I left Hartford the minute the insurance company called me.
So somebody blew your safe and walked.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Off with the land of the safe, mister Dollar, and
took over one hundred and four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You always keep that much cash on hand.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Yes, yes, because of the nature of our business. What
do you mean, Well, the tobacco was grown by the
farmers hereabouts, bond cured for a month or two or three,
and brought here, regraded according to quality and color, and
tied into hands and a bunches of twenty or thirty leagues,
depending on size.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh I see. Then we pack it in.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Hogsheads and ship it to the auction warehouses. We're kind
of a middleman between the small farmer and the auction
I said, small farmer, mister Dollo. Well, the people for
whom tobacco is only an incidental crop. There are a
lot of them, since we buy from them outright, they
want cash now, checks or payment do the first of
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the mordent?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
For who no cash? Oh? I see?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
And you're always gambling on what you'll be able to
get at the auctions.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's right. How's business, mister Tillian?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Not as good as I'd like, of course, but I'm
sure it'll pick up later in the year.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Why do you worse? I just wondered in a matter
like this, I want to know all I can because you.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Said that as though you're meant to pla Why I
meant to imply nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Look, you said that's safe, wasn't crank? I said it
was opened?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
And I'm sure I know by whom?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What them? Why I send for me? After all?
Speaker 6 (05:13):
The liability is now you are company? Well, who did it?
For years we've had a bookkeeper, little pipscreak of a
man named Elmer Cockerley, Well he did there fifteen or
twenty years, even before I bought this business.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You haven't always owned it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Oh no, no, no. I made my money doing the
late twenties Florida real estate. Oh oh yes, yes, seems
to me. And I've heard something about your success down there.
I retired, traveled around till the mid forties, and then
decided to get back into the swing of things.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I bought this business. Yes, okay, Now about this Helmer Cockerley.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Oh, a mile tiddied, ineffectual sort of little man. I
suppose after twenty or thirty years of this dull, routine job,
after seeing and handling so much money all the time, yeah,
I see what you mean, Lenny Howard, tax time, I
decided to have the accounting firm of Handley, James, Chadwick,
(06:08):
Kerhmer and Wormsbecker go over our books, just as a
matter of course. And it was then that Elmer Cockery
suddenly discovered that some of the records were missing. I
see things balanced out at the end of the year,
mind you, but those three or four months were missing.
And it was during that period that Elmer had painted
(06:30):
his whole who bought a new car.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Didn't you investigate immediately? Of course? Seems to me it
was then that you should have sent for me.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Well, since our business is stickley cash, both in and outgoing,
there was nothing we could pit on him. What's more,
he was as concerned as I was, apparently, after all,
since things finally balanced out.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But I wonder I should think you would.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Now, since he's the only other person who could open
the safe. What does he say about this robbery? He
didn't come in this bailting. I called his wife. She
hasn't seen him since he left for work yesterday. Boy,
you know where he lives? Yes, you have a description
of his car license and so on?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yes, yes I have.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Okay, mister Turlingham, I'll notify the police from here, and
I'm going out to his house to see what I.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Can learn there, and I use your phone of course. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It wouldn't be the first time a timid soul had
finally filled his oats and run off with company money.
And usually that type was hard to find. The methodical
mind always planned things well, including a getaway. I had
him four eighty cents taxi to a car rental agency.
I had him five to fifty bucks deposit, and I
drove to Almer Cockerley's home, a few blocks off Wilkins
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Avenue west of town.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I wondered why the old fellow had done it.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Sometimes the why can be the best clue is to
wear to hunt for a man, you know something. A
good part of the why became very clear when the
door of Elmer's house was open.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Act two of Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
In a moment, A job is something that has to
be done, no matter what the work may be. The
truck driver continues to drive his truck and the mechanic
keeps it in repair. The chef continues to cook and
the waitress serves the food. Whatever the work, it must
go on. It is a part of the existence of
human beings, and so it is with a work of soldiers, sailors,
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and airmen. Corporal later Captain Douglas T. Jacobson of the
United States Marine Corps worked a lot harder than most men.
On the twenty sixth of February nineteen forty five. He
did it not only for himself, but for the survival
of the men around him. While serving with the fourth
Marine Division in a heroic assault on Ewojima, Corporal Jacobson
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picked up the berzuk of a fallen fellow marine and
promptly destroyed a twenty millimeters at of aircraft gun and
its crew. Using his weapon with deadly accuracy. In the
face of heavy enemy fire, Jacobson destroyed and turned two
machine gun nests, a large fortified block house, and an
enemy pill box, killing its five men crew. Fighting desperately,
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he moved forward and wiped out an earth covered perimeter
of rifle emplacements. Nothing could stop him. A tank tried,
and Jacobson blew it to Kingdom come. Then he went
on in another single handed assault to put a second
heavily armed block house out of action, permitting his division
to occupy the position. By his dauntless skill and valor,
(09:35):
Corporal Jacobson destroyed sixteen positions and annihilated seventy five of
the enemy. For conducting himself according to the Code of
American Fighting Men, and forgetting the job done, Corporal Douglas
Jacobson was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the wayward money matter.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yes, what do you want, Missus Cockley?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I'm missus Cockley, who are you.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Johnnie Dollar insurance investigator?
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Insurance investigator. I haven't even filed a claim on Elmer yet.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You think your husband is dead, missus cockly, of course
he is.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
You think for a minute he'd walk out on me.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That's why you think he's dead.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Ain't that enough?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You've talked with mister Trillingham this morning?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Of course I have. He wanted to know where Elmer was.
I wanted to know where Elmer was. Neither of us knowed.
So that was that.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
So when they find his body, I'll collect his insurance
and that'll be that. And I won't have that helpless
little worm around underfoot no more, no more having a
baby and nurse him and tie his time and feed him.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Missus cockly, sir.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
The only reason that little shrimp would dare not to
come home is if somebody done in. And when you
find him, you can come around and pay me his insurance.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
And that's that.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
That's all you Just a minute, just a minute, adress
trilling him tell you that over one hundred thousand dollars
was taken for the safe of the office.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
No Elma didn't do it. I know he didn't. Working
his fingers to the bone year after.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Year, handling all that money, and him and me just
scraping along. If it wasn't for Bennet, finish your finance,
helping us along now and.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Then, I don't know what we'd done.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Yeah, I told him more than once, if he wasn't
such a spinalist little mouse, he'd help himself to some
of that money. They'd never miss it, be in a
cash business like it is, and the Lord knows he
deserves some of it.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
What he say to that.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Scared him, made him angry.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So I'd keeping married you two.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Sometimes he'd scream and yell like a baby.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
She dared to scream at you.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I'd let him.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
I got so sick of him it did me good
to see him blowy top. Believe me, I told him
more than once. If I was in his place, I
wouldn't hesitate. We'll go ahead, he says, go ahead? Did
he give me go ahead?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
He said?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
She gave you what missus coggle the combination of the safe?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Yes, yes he did.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So what of it?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
So maybe I went down there and robbed it last night?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, how did you know it was last night? I
didn't tell you that.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
All right? All right, maybe I did I'd like to
see you put it on me.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Maybe I will.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
You think I can't use that kind of money.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
You think I don't deserve it, after struggling all these years,
caring for him for nothing because he didn't have the
gumption to get what he should have.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
You know something, missus coggle.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I doubt if you ever gave him a chance to
show any gumption.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Do you know, Elma, did you ever see him?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
No?
Speaker 7 (12:49):
And look look at his picture here in the hall time.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
A baby, that's all he is, all right, A lot
of big noise. He took me probly, most of it's
a lie. I don't believe you'd live ten minutes with
a man if you really felt that way about him.
There must be some reason for it, some reason for
trying to make me suspect you.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I told you maybe I didn't do it, did you.
I'd like to see you prove it.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I don't think you did.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
I'd like to see you prove that.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I think all you're trying to do is cover up
for him, protect him. And I'll say this, you're taking
a mighty offy way to do it.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You really think Elmer, little Elmer could.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Have no No, he really didn't have the compition, all right?
Who else he couldn't have? Mister outside his books and
figures at that office, he he could hardly take care
of hisself. That's why I needed me to tell him
what to do and feed him and take care of him.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, this is quite a change of pace, missus Cockerle.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
So maybe I did make him told the lion, So
what about it? He liked it. Some people are that way,
just like me. I got to have somebody I can
lord it over it. Anything wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, I don't believe the thing you said.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Oh you don't, I wor is he?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Where is Elma?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And if he didn't rob that safe? Who did?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
He couldn't? How should I know? Why don't you ask that?
Speaker 8 (14:11):
All this trilling him, this fancy boss that's kept him
and me diving all these years?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Did you think of him?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Everybody's a suspect at a time, like yeah, including his friend.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
The boss used to go catfishing together up the creek.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Great privilege for poor little Elma to go fishing with
the boss who made all the Money's where I thought
he was last night when he didn't home supper, when
he wasn't home all night.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Poor all right, missus cockly just quit acting act.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Somebody stole that money, and apparently only three people knew
the accommodation of that safe Trillingham, your husband and you,
I tell you go ask that trilling Only one of
the three has run out disappeared.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
No, No, I'll never believe that Elmer did it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
He could, sure he could, anybody could. Now worries he
I don't know. I think you do.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
No, you're trying to protect him or are you waiting
to hear from him so you can join him?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Him and the money.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That isn't true, then why isn't he here if half
of what you told me is true? Because he because
I'll go answer the phone.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Hello, Yes, I'm herd. Who oh oh oh, just a minute,
Sergeant Macklin, he said.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
The man I talked to? What police? Of course, it's
nice Johnny Dollar, this is master. Yeah, Mac looks like
it's all sold up. Yeah, who Elmer Cockerley driver's license identification?
You found the money? Well it's left of it.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
They got the money, did they?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
You know what? Cockerley looks like. I've seen his picture.
Well maybe you better come out here where Hanson's Bridge.
Hans's Bridge.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Yeah, he used to go to fishing all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It's about nine miles up the creek north of town. Okay,
I'll see you there. Yeah, I want you to see
if you can identify Cockerly's body. Oh, I see.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Act three of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
Alaska's state flag is dark blue, the blue of the
clear Alaska sky, and the forget Me Not the state flower.
Upon it shines eight golden stars forming the Big Dipper
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or the Great Bear, a symbol of strength. It points
toward the north Star, representative of our northernmost state. Alaska's
state flag, the flag of the forty ninth state to
enter the Union, was adopted on May twenty second, nineteen
twenty seven. Now Act three of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar
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and the wayward money matter.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Without telling missus Cockerly.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
When I learned over the phone, I took off of
my rental car for the creek north of town, for
Hanson's Bridge.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, this was a crazy case.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
If ever there was one Elmer Cockerley, bookkeeper for the
tobacco company, was the only real suspect on one hundred
and four thousand dollars robbery.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And whether there's only one suspect, I always begin to
wan day. But who else was there? His wife? Maybe
she'd done everything she could to confuse me, the owner
of the company, turning him.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, I thought of.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Him too, until I got the work from the police
that they'd found Elmer Cockerley.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Or what was left of it? They found the money too,
or what was left of it? What's left of it
is right dollar?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I'm afraid most of that one hundred thousand went floating
down the creek when Cockerley and his car rolled over
into it. We'll see how much of the dough is
still inside when we get the car up on the bank.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
How do you figure it happened? Sergeant?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
And I'm the old boy was making his getaways, Oh,
going too fast when he hit the turn onto the
bridge and plopp o into the creek.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
H wouldn't there be skid mark? Smack?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Wouldn't have to be going very fast? Look cars up
on the bank. Now, come on, how do you know
it's Elma Cockley inside? Of him license number, and one
of the boys dove in brought up his wallet.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Hell is here, sergeant High and yeah high and wet. Okay,
let's we'll have a look a few small bills in there.
The rest of the dough must be out in Chesapeake
Bay by now. All right, boys, take a.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Look dollar that cockerly in there.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's Elmer. Do you think he drowned?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Yeah, or banged around so hard when the car plunged in.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
See the bruises on his face and chest? Mm yeah,
not pretty?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
And Mac well, that's that. Just one more who tried
and didn't away with it. I wonder when they'll learn
that it just didn't.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
What's that a little scrap of paper out of his pocket,
torn only part of it?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Sea Night, ants, Cat, Cat and Mike.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Look here, you know what this bruise, this mark on
the back of his head.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
You really got bang around. Show me one thing in
this car that could leave a mark like this, most anything,
door handle, top of the steering pole, ulser. All the
other bruises are on his face, his chest, and there's
only one thing I know that.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Leaves a mark like this. Better get the corner out
here before you touch anything.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
See you later. But look where you're going. I'll see
you later, now what under the yes?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I heard it from the police, Pop and mister Dollar,
and I, well, in spite of what I told you earlier,
it's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah it is. He's been such a loyal sold all
those years.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
And I suppose all that cash, and it was a
bit more than we usually kept the safe. I suppose
it was just too much of a temptation.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
For him offer any other man, m even.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
You, for instance, What are you joking? So it's not funny.
So business has been pretty bad lately. I didn't say that,
mister Doller. I merely said that I know what you
said tilling him. And I remember now what i'd.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Heard about your big success in Florida real estate back
in the twenties.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Well, I don't see what.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
You were one of those guys who sold a lot
of swamp and jungle, some of an underwater the suckers
from up north.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I was young, an opportunitist to know you were a crook.
You're a crook now, and a killer, mister Doll.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I'm natural to hang it on poor timid little Elmer Cockerly.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Sure why not, it'd be the natural suspect in anybody's books.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You realize what you're cold fishing catfishing tonight at Hans's Bridge.
Only you shouldn't have put it into a note to
him what no one I found on his body? So
you met him there, You slugged him, put him behind
the wheel of his car, then ran it down the
embankment into the creek. You thought they're rolling over with
a comp for any bruises he'd get. But not that
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mark on the back of his head, the one made
by the butt of a thirty eight special.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I've seen too many of him telling him, Oh, I
see you still have it. That's right, and I use it.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
You didn't get away with murdering Elma. You'd never get
away killing me.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
I could go a long ways and one hundred thousand
dollars and before I let you.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Stop me, please told me, poor Elma. You you did
it twice. I don't know how, but you killed him.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Oh I'll do it myself. Or yeah he did it,
missus cockerly, and believe me, he'll pay.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
For him well. So ends another dirty chapter in the
history of crime.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I hope the insurance on Elmer makes up in some
small way for missus Cockerlely's loss of him. Well, I
was going to say husband, but I guess Elma was
kind of a baby tour to manage, to browbeat and
to love. Expense account total, including transportation back to Hartford
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one hundred and four dollars seventy cents yours, truly, Johnny.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Dollar, Our star will return in just a moment. Many
times in the history of mankind, nations have pooled their
(22:57):
forces to exert a greater strength against an aggressor. This
happens not only in the face of a world war,
but between such giant holocausts, as during the Boxer Uprising
in China in nineteen hundred six, nations combined their forces
to come to the aid of their citizens in the
thick of the fight, undotted by devastating enemy fire. Chief
(23:21):
Bosun John McCloy of the United States Naval Contingent distinguished
himself by meritorious conduct above and beyond the call of duty.
For his valorous action, he was awarded his first Medal
of Honor. But a man of action doesn't get the
job done because of possible awards. It is the spirit
of his code of conduct that guides him. John McCloy
(23:44):
was guided by that code again and again in June
nineteen fourteen during the Mexican Campaign, when the government of
the United States was put upon once more to aid
its persecuted citizens. Chief Bosun John McCloy was constantly risking
his life. Our landed troops were in danger of being
annihilated on the beach at Vera, Cruz when McCloy voluntarily
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filled three picket launches with riflemen and led them along
the seafront to draw the enemy fire. Though badly wounded,
he remained at his post and gallantly directed his part
of the campaign. For this action, Chief Bosun John McCloy
was awarded a second Medal of Honor, but he hadn't
been concerned with medals. His only concern was conducting himself
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as a man should, and that is according to the
code of the American fighting man.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Now here is our star to tell you about next
week's story.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Next week a fishing trip to like Mohave Resort, fishing
that is for a thief.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Join us, won't you yours? True? Johnny Dollar? Yours truly?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Johnny Dollar starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is
produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story.
Heard in our cast were Virginia Greg, Ed Greberrier, Alan Reid,
Vic Perron, and Frank Nelson. Be sure to join us
next week, same time and station for another exciting story
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
This is Dan Cubberly speaking.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Welcome back. I enjoyed this one. It does show the
strength of Johnstone's writing, which is not plot. I guess
the owner was the thief pretty early on. That was
my first instinct. I think the wife did give me
some doubt and really created some confusion as to what
she was doing. But to me, this episode was carried
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by good characterization and good acting, particularly by Virginia Greg
kept me interested despite some of the weaker points in
the plot. Well, now it's time for listening, comments and feedback,
and we go to YouTube where Terry comments regarding the
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Cloak and Dagg are where.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
Yeah, it's all right, I want to missus the minute.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Well we're gonna do for you.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
I don't know that I can see. My husband's disappeared yesterday.
He hasn't been home all night.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
No, why not?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And d.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
I know something happened. I would like to say that
because you haven't done anything like this before, any reason
why you should now. No, it was quite spoilers. No,
we never clout. It's been unusual couple.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Were they doing anything?
Speaker 7 (29:04):
How do you mean that? How do you think?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Right?
Speaker 10 (29:08):
You've seen some good but there was really nothing to
it with her. I mean I think you might have
run away with her. I tell you to write something
terrible must have happened to item obsessed with that idea.
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Speaker 3 (29:41):
Sign and off.
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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per month. Thank you so much for your support, Joel. Now,
from April thirteenth of nineteen fifty eight, here is the
Wayward money.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Matter, Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's time now for.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Johnny Deller written, Oh hello, Bran, I haven't heard from
you since that case down' Anagua, Nicaragua. Got another nice
long trip lined up for me this time.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
But if you can leave right away, I wish you'd
run down to Baltomore for us.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That depends depends on how free I can be with
my expense account in the seafood department, chickatique, oysters, soft
shell crabs, terrapin soup.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Johnny, and get us off a whole on this one.
I located your expense account.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Fly big one over on USand murder arsony one dollars
missing from a.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Saint Wow, and you're liable for it if it isn't recovered.
But who keep that much cash is safe outside of
a bank?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That is trilling Tobacco Company? Why how to get the
details from August Trillingham?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
If you'll take this.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
On on a free winning expense account, Freddy, I'm your boy,
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expenser. Cord America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
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Ours Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by Special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to the Northeastern Indemnity Association Hertford, Connecticut. Following
is an account of expenses and occurred during my investigation
of the Wayward Money matter expense ac count out in
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one twenty six thirty Plaine fair An incidentals Hartford.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
To New York to Baltimore and a cave to the
sherat in Belvidere. After all I could afford the best.
I had him two a ten cent phone, called him
mister August Tillingham, he'd be glad to see me.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Hmm, Somewhere that name rang a bell.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I had him three a buck twenty for a cab
to the Turllingham Tobacco Company on Conway near Charles Street.
It was a huge old brick building with what I
guess you'd call a vaulted roof, offices at one end
of it, and the rest looked like a kind of warehouse.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
I'm glad you could get here so quickly, mister Dollar.
The loss only occurred last night, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well, I left Hartford the minute the insurance company called me.
So somebody blew your safe and walked.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Off with the land of the safe, mister Dollar, and
took over one hundred and four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You always keep that much cash on hand.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Yes, yes, because of the nature of our business. What
do you mean, Well, the tobacco was grown by the
farmers hereabouts, bond cured for a month or two or three,
and brought here, regraded according to quality and color, and
tied into hands and a bunches of twenty or thirty leagues,
depending on size.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh I see. Then we pack it in.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Hogsheads and ship it to the auction warehouses. We're kind
of a middleman between the small farmer and the auction
I said, small farmer, mister Dollo. Well, the people for
whom tobacco is only an incidental crop. There are a
lot of them, since we buy from them outright, they
want cash now, checks or payment do the first of
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the mordent?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
For who no cash? Oh? I see?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
And you're always gambling on what you'll be able to
get at the auctions.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's right. How's business, mister Tillian?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Not as good as I'd like, of course, but I'm
sure it'll pick up later in the year.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Why do you worse? I just wondered in a matter
like this, I want to know all I can because you.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Said that as though you're meant to pla Why I
meant to imply nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Look, you said that's safe, wasn't crank? I said it
was opened?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
And I'm sure I know by whom?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What them? Why I send for me? After all?
Speaker 6 (05:13):
The liability is now you are company? Well, who did it?
For years we've had a bookkeeper, little pipscreak of a
man named Elmer Cockerley, Well he did there fifteen or
twenty years, even before I bought this business.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You haven't always owned it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Oh no, no, no. I made my money doing the
late twenties Florida real estate. Oh oh yes, yes, seems
to me. And I've heard something about your success down there.
I retired, traveled around till the mid forties, and then
decided to get back into the swing of things.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I bought this business. Yes, okay, Now about this Helmer Cockerley.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Oh, a mile tiddied, ineffectual sort of little man. I
suppose after twenty or thirty years of this dull, routine job,
after seeing and handling so much money all the time, yeah,
I see what you mean, Lenny Howard, tax time, I
decided to have the accounting firm of Handley, James, Chadwick,
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Kerhmer and Wormsbecker go over our books, just as a
matter of course. And it was then that Elmer Cockery
suddenly discovered that some of the records were missing. I
see things balanced out at the end of the year,
mind you, but those three or four months were missing.
And it was during that period that Elmer had painted
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his whole who bought a new car.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Didn't you investigate immediately? Of course? Seems to me it
was then that you should have sent for me.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Well, since our business is stickley cash, both in and outgoing,
there was nothing we could pit on him. What's more,
he was as concerned as I was, apparently, after all,
since things finally balanced out.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But I wonder I should think you would.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Now, since he's the only other person who could open
the safe. What does he say about this robbery? He
didn't come in this bailting. I called his wife. She
hasn't seen him since he left for work yesterday. Boy,
you know where he lives? Yes, you have a description
of his car license and so on?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yes, yes I have.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Okay, mister Turlingham, I'll notify the police from here, and
I'm going out to his house to see what I.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Can learn there, and I use your phone of course. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It wouldn't be the first time a timid soul had
finally filled his oats and run off with company money.
And usually that type was hard to find. The methodical
mind always planned things well, including a getaway. I had
him four eighty cents taxi to a car rental agency.
I had him five to fifty bucks deposit, and I
drove to Almer Cockerley's home, a few blocks off Wilkins
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Avenue west of town.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I wondered why the old fellow had done it.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Sometimes the why can be the best clue is to
wear to hunt for a man, you know something. A
good part of the why became very clear when the
door of Elmer's house was open.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Act two of Yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
In a moment, A job is something that has to
be done, no matter what the work may be. The
truck driver continues to drive his truck and the mechanic
keeps it in repair. The chef continues to cook and
the waitress serves the food. Whatever the work, it must
go on. It is a part of the existence of
human beings, and so it is with a work of soldiers, sailors,
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and airmen. Corporal later Captain Douglas T. Jacobson of the
United States Marine Corps worked a lot harder than most men.
On the twenty sixth of February nineteen forty five. He
did it not only for himself, but for the survival
of the men around him. While serving with the fourth
Marine Division in a heroic assault on Ewojima, Corporal Jacobson
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picked up the berzuk of a fallen fellow marine and
promptly destroyed a twenty millimeters at of aircraft gun and
its crew. Using his weapon with deadly accuracy. In the
face of heavy enemy fire, Jacobson destroyed and turned two
machine gun nests, a large fortified block house, and an
enemy pill box, killing its five men crew. Fighting desperately,
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he moved forward and wiped out an earth covered perimeter
of rifle emplacements. Nothing could stop him. A tank tried,
and Jacobson blew it to Kingdom come. Then he went
on in another single handed assault to put a second
heavily armed block house out of action, permitting his division
to occupy the position. By his dauntless skill and valor,
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Corporal Jacobson destroyed sixteen positions and annihilated seventy five of
the enemy. For conducting himself according to the Code of
American Fighting Men, and forgetting the job done, Corporal Douglas
Jacobson was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the wayward money matter.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yes, what do you want, Missus Cockley?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I'm missus Cockley, who are you.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Johnnie Dollar insurance investigator?
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Insurance investigator. I haven't even filed a claim on Elmer yet.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You think your husband is dead, missus cockly, of course
he is.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
You think for a minute he'd walk out on me.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That's why you think he's dead.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Ain't that enough?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You've talked with mister Trillingham this morning?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Of course I have. He wanted to know where Elmer was.
I wanted to know where Elmer was. Neither of us knowed.
So that was that.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
So when they find his body, I'll collect his insurance
and that'll be that. And I won't have that helpless
little worm around underfoot no more, no more having a
baby and nurse him and tie his time and feed him.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Missus cockly, sir.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
The only reason that little shrimp would dare not to
come home is if somebody done in. And when you
find him, you can come around and pay me his insurance.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
And that's that.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
That's all you Just a minute, just a minute, adress
trilling him tell you that over one hundred thousand dollars
was taken for the safe of the office.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
No Elma didn't do it. I know he didn't. Working
his fingers to the bone year after.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Year, handling all that money, and him and me just
scraping along. If it wasn't for Bennet, finish your finance,
helping us along now and.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Then, I don't know what we'd done.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Yeah, I told him more than once, if he wasn't
such a spinalist little mouse, he'd help himself to some
of that money. They'd never miss it, be in a
cash business like it is, and the Lord knows he
deserves some of it.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
What he say to that.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Scared him, made him angry.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So I'd keeping married you two.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Sometimes he'd scream and yell like a baby.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
She dared to scream at you.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I'd let him.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
I got so sick of him it did me good
to see him blowy top. Believe me, I told him
more than once. If I was in his place, I
wouldn't hesitate. We'll go ahead, he says, go ahead? Did
he give me go ahead?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
He said?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
She gave you what missus coggle the combination of the safe?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Yes, yes he did.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So what of it?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
So maybe I went down there and robbed it last night?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, how did you know it was last night? I
didn't tell you that.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
All right? All right, maybe I did I'd like to
see you put it on me.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Maybe I will.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
You think I can't use that kind of money.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
You think I don't deserve it, after struggling all these years,
caring for him for nothing because he didn't have the
gumption to get what he should have.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
You know something, missus coggle.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I doubt if you ever gave him a chance to
show any gumption.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Do you know, Elma, did you ever see him?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
No?
Speaker 7 (12:49):
And look look at his picture here in the hall time.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
A baby, that's all he is, all right, A lot
of big noise. He took me probly, most of it's
a lie. I don't believe you'd live ten minutes with
a man if you really felt that way about him.
There must be some reason for it, some reason for
trying to make me suspect you.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I told you maybe I didn't do it, did you.
I'd like to see you prove it.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I don't think you did.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
I'd like to see you prove that.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I think all you're trying to do is cover up
for him, protect him. And I'll say this, you're taking
a mighty offy way to do it.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You really think Elmer, little Elmer could.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Have no No, he really didn't have the compition, all right?
Who else he couldn't have? Mister outside his books and
figures at that office, he he could hardly take care
of hisself. That's why I needed me to tell him
what to do and feed him and take care of him.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, this is quite a change of pace, missus Cockerle.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
So maybe I did make him told the lion, So
what about it? He liked it. Some people are that way,
just like me. I got to have somebody I can
lord it over it. Anything wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, I don't believe the thing you said.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Oh you don't, I wor is he?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Where is Elma?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And if he didn't rob that safe? Who did?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
He couldn't? How should I know? Why don't you ask that?
Speaker 8 (14:11):
All this trilling him, this fancy boss that's kept him
and me diving all these years?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Did you think of him?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Everybody's a suspect at a time, like yeah, including his friend.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
The boss used to go catfishing together up the creek.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Great privilege for poor little Elma to go fishing with
the boss who made all the Money's where I thought
he was last night when he didn't home supper, when
he wasn't home all night.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Poor all right, missus cockly just quit acting act.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Somebody stole that money, and apparently only three people knew
the accommodation of that safe Trillingham, your husband and you,
I tell you go ask that trilling Only one of
the three has run out disappeared.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
No, No, I'll never believe that Elmer did it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
He could, sure he could, anybody could. Now worries he
I don't know. I think you do.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
No, you're trying to protect him or are you waiting
to hear from him so you can join him?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Him and the money.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That isn't true, then why isn't he here if half
of what you told me is true? Because he because
I'll go answer the phone.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Hello, Yes, I'm herd. Who oh oh oh, just a minute,
Sergeant Macklin, he said.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
The man I talked to? What police? Of course, it's
nice Johnny Dollar, this is master. Yeah, Mac looks like
it's all sold up. Yeah, who Elmer Cockerley driver's license identification?
You found the money? Well it's left of it.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
They got the money, did they?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
You know what? Cockerley looks like. I've seen his picture.
Well maybe you better come out here where Hanson's Bridge.
Hans's Bridge.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Yeah, he used to go to fishing all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It's about nine miles up the creek north of town. Okay,
I'll see you there. Yeah, I want you to see
if you can identify Cockerly's body. Oh, I see.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Act three of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
Alaska's state flag is dark blue, the blue of the
clear Alaska sky, and the forget Me Not the state flower.
Upon it shines eight golden stars forming the Big Dipper
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or the Great Bear, a symbol of strength. It points
toward the north Star, representative of our northernmost state. Alaska's
state flag, the flag of the forty ninth state to
enter the Union, was adopted on May twenty second, nineteen
twenty seven. Now Act three of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar
(16:49):
and the wayward money matter.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Without telling missus Cockerly.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
When I learned over the phone, I took off of
my rental car for the creek north of town, for
Hanson's Bridge.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, this was a crazy case.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
If ever there was one Elmer Cockerley, bookkeeper for the
tobacco company, was the only real suspect on one hundred
and four thousand dollars robbery.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
And whether there's only one suspect, I always begin to
wan day. But who else was there? His wife? Maybe
she'd done everything she could to confuse me, the owner
of the company, turning him.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, I thought of.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Him too, until I got the work from the police
that they'd found Elmer Cockerley.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Or what was left of it? They found the money too,
or what was left of it? What's left of it
is right dollar?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I'm afraid most of that one hundred thousand went floating
down the creek when Cockerley and his car rolled over
into it. We'll see how much of the dough is
still inside when we get the car up on the bank.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
How do you figure it happened? Sergeant?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
And I'm the old boy was making his getaways, Oh,
going too fast when he hit the turn onto the
bridge and plopp o into the creek.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
H wouldn't there be skid mark? Smack?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Wouldn't have to be going very fast? Look cars up
on the bank. Now, come on, how do you know
it's Elma Cockley inside? Of him license number, and one
of the boys dove in brought up his wallet.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Hell is here, sergeant High and yeah high and wet. Okay,
let's we'll have a look a few small bills in there.
The rest of the dough must be out in Chesapeake
Bay by now. All right, boys, take a.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Look dollar that cockerly in there.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's Elmer. Do you think he drowned?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Yeah, or banged around so hard when the car plunged in.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
See the bruises on his face and chest? Mm yeah,
not pretty?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
And Mac well, that's that. Just one more who tried
and didn't away with it. I wonder when they'll learn
that it just didn't.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
What's that a little scrap of paper out of his pocket,
torn only part of it?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Sea Night, ants, Cat, Cat and Mike.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Look here, you know what this bruise, this mark on
the back of his head.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
You really got bang around. Show me one thing in
this car that could leave a mark like this, most anything,
door handle, top of the steering pole, ulser. All the
other bruises are on his face, his chest, and there's
only one thing I know that.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Leaves a mark like this. Better get the corner out
here before you touch anything.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
See you later. But look where you're going. I'll see
you later, now what under the yes?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I heard it from the police, Pop and mister Dollar,
and I, well, in spite of what I told you earlier,
it's hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah it is. He's been such a loyal sold all
those years.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
And I suppose all that cash, and it was a
bit more than we usually kept the safe. I suppose
it was just too much of a temptation.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
For him offer any other man, m even.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
You, for instance, What are you joking? So it's not funny.
So business has been pretty bad lately. I didn't say that,
mister Doller. I merely said that I know what you
said tilling him. And I remember now what i'd.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Heard about your big success in Florida real estate back
in the twenties.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Well, I don't see what.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
You were one of those guys who sold a lot
of swamp and jungle, some of an underwater the suckers
from up north.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I was young, an opportunitist to know you were a crook.
You're a crook now, and a killer, mister Doll.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I'm natural to hang it on poor timid little Elmer Cockerly.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Sure why not, it'd be the natural suspect in anybody's books.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You realize what you're cold fishing catfishing tonight at Hans's Bridge.
Only you shouldn't have put it into a note to
him what no one I found on his body? So
you met him there, You slugged him, put him behind
the wheel of his car, then ran it down the
embankment into the creek. You thought they're rolling over with
a comp for any bruises he'd get. But not that
(21:15):
mark on the back of his head, the one made
by the butt of a thirty eight special.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I've seen too many of him telling him, Oh, I
see you still have it. That's right, and I use it.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
You didn't get away with murdering Elma. You'd never get
away killing me.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
I could go a long ways and one hundred thousand
dollars and before I let you.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Stop me, please told me, poor Elma. You you did
it twice. I don't know how, but you killed him.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Oh I'll do it myself. Or yeah he did it,
missus cockerly, and believe me, he'll pay.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
For him well. So ends another dirty chapter in the
history of crime.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I hope the insurance on Elmer makes up in some
small way for missus Cockerlely's loss of him. Well, I
was going to say husband, but I guess Elma was
kind of a baby tour to manage, to browbeat and
to love. Expense account total, including transportation back to Hartford
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one hundred and four dollars seventy cents yours, truly, Johnny.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Dollar, Our star will return in just a moment. Many
times in the history of mankind, nations have pooled their
(22:57):
forces to exert a greater strength against an aggressor. This
happens not only in the face of a world war,
but between such giant holocausts, as during the Boxer Uprising
in China in nineteen hundred six, nations combined their forces
to come to the aid of their citizens in the
thick of the fight, undotted by devastating enemy fire. Chief
(23:21):
Bosun John McCloy of the United States Naval Contingent distinguished
himself by meritorious conduct above and beyond the call of duty.
For his valorous action, he was awarded his first Medal
of Honor. But a man of action doesn't get the
job done because of possible awards. It is the spirit
of his code of conduct that guides him. John McCloy
(23:44):
was guided by that code again and again in June
nineteen fourteen during the Mexican Campaign, when the government of
the United States was put upon once more to aid
its persecuted citizens. Chief Bosun John McCloy was constantly risking
his life. Our landed troops were in danger of being
annihilated on the beach at Vera, Cruz when McCloy voluntarily
(24:07):
filled three picket launches with riflemen and led them along
the seafront to draw the enemy fire. Though badly wounded,
he remained at his post and gallantly directed his part
of the campaign. For this action, Chief Bosun John McCloy
was awarded a second Medal of Honor, but he hadn't
been concerned with medals. His only concern was conducting himself
(24:30):
as a man should, and that is according to the
code of the American fighting man.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Now here is our star to tell you about next
week's story.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Next week a fishing trip to like Mohave Resort, fishing
that is for a thief.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Join us, won't you yours? True? Johnny Dollar? Yours truly?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Johnny Dollar starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is
produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's story.
Heard in our cast were Virginia Greg, Ed Greberrier, Alan Reid,
Vic Perron, and Frank Nelson. Be sure to join us
next week, same time and station for another exciting story
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
This is Dan Cubberly speaking.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Welcome back. I enjoyed this one. It does show the
strength of Johnstone's writing, which is not plot. I guess
the owner was the thief pretty early on. That was
my first instinct. I think the wife did give me
some doubt and really created some confusion as to what
she was doing. But to me, this episode was carried
(26:48):
by good characterization and good acting, particularly by Virginia Greg
kept me interested despite some of the weaker points in
the plot. Well, now it's time for listening, comments and feedback,
and we go to YouTube where Terry comments regarding the
Denver dispersal matter very enjoyable. Thank you well, Thank you
(27:11):
for commenting over on YouTube. Now it's time to thank
our Patreon supporters of the day, and since this is
not only the first day in August, and we thanked
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our Patreon supporters of the day who have been supporting
the podcast for five years this month, and I want
(27:36):
to thank Christine supporting the podcast at the Shawmas level
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since August of twenty twenty. Thank you so much for
your support and that will do it for today. If
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tomorrow for the great adventurers of old time radio and
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Cloak and Dagg are where.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
Yeah, it's all right, I want to missus the minute.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Well we're gonna do for you.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
I don't know that I can see. My husband's disappeared yesterday.
He hasn't been home all night.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
No, why not?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And d.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
I know something happened. I would like to say that
because you haven't done anything like this before, any reason
why you should now. No, it was quite spoilers. No,
we never clout. It's been unusual couple.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Were they doing anything?
Speaker 7 (29:04):
How do you mean that? How do you think?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Right?
Speaker 10 (29:08):
You've seen some good but there was really nothing to
it with her. I mean I think you might have
run away with her. I tell you to write something
terrible must have happened to item obsessed with that idea.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I just want I hope you'll be with us then
in the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at
Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives,
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Speaker 3 (29:41):
Sign and off.
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