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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
As Johnny Dollars. Rolph waiting again, Johnny, I'm gonna caut
you before you left.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's almost two hours before my plane leads. That's on
your mind.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The cable just.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Came in from Manila. The amount taken on the burglary
is roughly seventy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Five thousand dollars. It's dollars and that faces dollars.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, I mentioned that a quirk is dropped out of
site native an American named Blake, Daniel.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Blake, Blake, all right, and that's all so form. What's
your hotel of Manila? You know yet? Ah? Yeah? The
hotel Toando Tondo. Good, I'll get work. Are you there?
If I learn anything you can use, well come back
on the trip.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of the man with the
action packed Expencer can America's fabulous freelance insurance invest.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
To get her?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know it's truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Expenserunt submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office,
Columbia All Risk Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
an accounting of expenditship is during my investigation of the
Woodward Manila matter, Spence can item one eighteen hundred and
fifty dollars airfare and incidentals between Hartford and Manila.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Coming the AFI number one or three?
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Will you go to take release passer dollar from Incrson?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I'm his dollar, I was being paidd Oh, yes, these
juggles on a waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
This is mister dollar, sir.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Oh, yes, I'm employed McDonald. Mister Johan local manager of the
wood would come off. And this is Irving Morgan, my assistants. Morgan,
glad to meet you. I've made arrangements to have your
luggage sent to your hotel, and you like to do
it that way, Irving and I can drive you right in.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Fine, that's done, I said, Well, I know how it is,
least died on one a bother with details after a
long time like that.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Don't give me your luggage, Tex, sir there, I'm right
here ver much. Well, I think cars right outside. We
can give you the details of the burglary on the wind.
He told me very little that I didn't already know.
The story.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Managed one of Manila's largest hardware stores was part of
the American owned.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Wood would chain.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
He had discovered the loss of the seven five thousand
dollars himself Monday morning, when he'd entered his office and
found the safe open.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Actually, I feel very badly about it, but everything that
can be done is being done. I don't know who
the main office is blaming it on, but I think
you'll find that Floyd and I were anything but careless.
We've got five years a lot of loss minders to
prove that, and it only takes one phase you to
ruin a success.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, there's seventy five thousand. Do I understand that
it was all American current saying.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
No, No, it was made up a patios tool. I
stated the amount of dollars, and since when I reported
the loss, you.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
In the habit of keeping as much money as that
in your office safe.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
It wasn't my ideas, not to my liking. It was
because of a company rule. They were worried about conditions
on this side of the Pacific. In ordered us to
stop thanking our cash here. Instead of the usual yearly
transfer of our money, it has been going to the
States once a month.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
MM.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It didn't say much this time, not about this clerk
Dan Blake, Oh, don't get any started on him now.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
There's nothing proved yet, ir of me. What is it
going to take to open your eyes? Floyd?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
We don't agree on just what to think about Dan,
mister Donne in spite of the circumstances, I uh, but
I find it almost impossible to believe that Dan would
do this to me.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Could he have done it? Of course he could. He
had access to the office. He could have memorized the
combination of the safe.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Yes, yes, that's true. But you can't forget that he
was a very good friend of mine. He was like
a son to me.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Was he in any trouble that you know of or
any money? I hadn't heard of anything. He's been out
of site four days now. What kind of his search
has been made for him?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
And I understand that the police have been working very hard.
They trans him as the chief suspect.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Too as But you've uh got a real that the
Philippines aren't like the State Star.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's not a hard drop out of sight here. It's
a big world, I know, I just watched a lot
of it pass by. Well.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
As soon as my luggage arrives and and get into
a fresh suit, I'll contact the police see what they've
got spence countadem two three fifty, including tip a picture
of gimlets delivered to my room. While I waited for
my baggage to arrive, I relaxed in front of a window.
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My hotel was two blocks from Manila's Great Bay, in
a section called El Puerto. From my room, I could
see enough of the orient in the native craft working
the harbor to give even a common hardware store a
burglary an atmosphere of intrigue.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Expense count item three.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Eighty cents cappair of police headquarters, where I was shunted
into a side office to wait for the sergeant in
charge of the Woodward case.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
He finally showed up. Judge and malvar, you wait for me?
Speaker 8 (05:05):
Yes, my name is Dollar, And no you come to
talk of my bag. Larry, you are a policeman, not quiet.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I haven't hired by an inch Coamray'll learn what I
can about him.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What do you wish to learn from me?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Whether you've made any progress you got any place with
your search for Dan Blake?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Dan Blake, No, I do not look for him, now,
are you wrong? No? I have captured the tief. Uh
oh is it Miguel no Soleda. You've recovered the money.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
He will not say where it is yet, but he
will say tomorrow. Maybe what evidence do you have, Sergeant?
He cannot say where he was that night of the
bag Larry?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Is that all? He's by professional thief? He was arrested
while he was robbing another store last night. MM. Does
he speak English? Oh? Yes, What if I could talk
to him?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Maybe he's afraid to confess to the police, and maybe
I can get him to talk.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Oh right, you come with me. You do not stay long?
Only five minute? That's good enough. By gal.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Who are you? Why do you come here?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
How old are you? Mcgal? She's see where do your work?
No work?
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Get hurt in bombing?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
No work? You have any children?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
See two daughters?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Where do they work? Mm? Does he the one work
at the Woodwood hardware store?
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Work in preason?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Boss?
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Work in prison?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Sergeant Malver says, you stole some money from the Woodward store. No,
and you'll make it easy for yourself if you tell
the truth and give out the money.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
I don't cut money. If I got money, then why
I steal five presser a smarty place?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Why? Hey?
Speaker 9 (06:58):
You tell police? Why if I got lots of money,
where I steal a little more? Why because I don't
got lots of money.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
It's good enough for me. Again, Sorry, I took up
good turn. You do not stay long. I think he
wants to sleep. What would he say to you?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And he didn't do it out of his hand, You
wouldn't have caught him stealing five pacers because he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Have needed it. He need to kick in the head.
But his mind. You have any connection between him and
the Woodwood place? He tell you he got two daughters
in prisons. Yeah, he lies.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
They come out, but they do not go back to
him because he's steal their money.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh, the daughters of connection with wood Woods connection.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
If we need connection, we'll find one. No, right tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Maybe I had an idea Sergeant Malvo's philosophy, reason that
it was a lot easier to grill the wizen little
prisoner than it would be to continue the search for Blake.
But I left him to his own devices and cab
to the wood Would Store. I was told that neither
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Floyd McDonald nor Morgan were in, but that a secretary
would help me.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Oh, how do you do, mister dollar. I knew that
you were coming out. My name is Charlotte Page floodingc
Donald's my uncle.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
He had to go out to or meet it with
order for a house.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
It's being built there. Can I help you anyway?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I want to look at the office. Find out where
the safe way I can show you. Huh. I'll check
this store, Ard m good stout lock after a key.
It's the only actress.
Speaker 10 (08:29):
I the one went over there, but it's in a
blank wall.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Mister dollar, I know you've been here only a little while,
but have you learned anything?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Not much, but all of it looks bad. But Dan Blake,
I can't believe it.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
I just can't believe that Dan would do with in
my face.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
How well did you know it?
Speaker 10 (08:48):
Evidently not well at all. He stole the money.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
We're the same, aid found something in common working here together.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
I've had dinner with him occasionally going to beach.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No if he was in any kind of trouble that's
or anything. No.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
I thought he was very happy and comfortable here.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He seemed to be. Mm. Why is it safe now?
Speaker 10 (09:07):
He it's under the rug in the desk.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You have to lift the.
Speaker 10 (09:11):
Corner of the rug.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
H Uh. Did Dan Blake know where it was?
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Oh? Yes, everybody trusted him.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
He'd been here for years.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Did he know the combination?
Speaker 10 (09:20):
No, I I don't think so. Uncle Floyd handled the cash.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Could he have memorized it?
Speaker 10 (09:24):
I don't know that either. I hadn't give him a thought.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Hm.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
I guess when he put the rug back. Oh h,
Now I got to get Blake's address from the police.
You happen to know what it is?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Oh? Gotten?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
It's somewhere on Samplock. I can find it.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
The pay roller to be right here. It be too
easy to find him there, would it, mister dog?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Much too easy? But I might pick up a.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Crumber too them here it is three O seven Samplock Street.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Three h seven Samplain. Thanks tell us McConnelly was here.
What'd you please? And and I'll be in touch tomorrow.
There was a fair biography of Dan Blake in his rooms.
I learned that he was born in Duluth, Minnesota, twenty
six years ago, that his father wrote him occasionally, that
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he had sailed with the Merchant Marine during the war
and had made a few into island trips after that.
Boyd McDonald had said he was a student of the Philippines,
and that was borne out by photographs and receipts.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
From steamer and airlines.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I made a list of the places he'd visited, but
that was all I could do for that day. It
wasn't until the next morning that I went to police.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Headquarters and waited again. The sergeant malbar you'll come back again.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
We do very good without you.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, pardon me, I don't want to buddy in.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I just wondered if you knew that Dan Blake spent
a lot of time learning these islands. Oh do you
know that he'd spent some time in San Jose, on Mendoro,
Don Marron, Duke, and then Polo and Lady I did
not know.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I might pay you to check those places more too.
And here clear down to me in the now the
shirt he's finished. Huh, what do you mean? Then Blake
has been found. He was a drip and he dug
out on Taiova's way. He was taking aboard his ship,
and then he died and killed him. He was shut
many times. What about the money? It has not been found,
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not yet sure, But maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We'll return you to the second act of yours. Truly,
Johnny dollar In just a moment. With winter in the wind,
driving becomes more hazardous every day, not as much for
you in your car as for the people walking across
the street or along the edges of a highway. A
shoe touches a tiny strip of ice, someone loses his balance,
falls in the wrong direction, and there is sudden death.
(11:58):
Check your car carefully, make sure your brakes are good,
Make sure your tires have a heavy tread. Check your
steering wheel. Someone's life may depend upon the efficiency of
your automobile, upon the care of your driving. Now, with
our star Edmund O'Brien, we return you to the second
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act of yours, truly.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Jop Dollar.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Tajan Malvam and the police was again taking his inimitable
approach to a subject, believing what he wanted to believe.
When I asked him how he knew the body was
that of Dan Blake, he told me the captain who
had picked him up, said so, how did he know?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The man had mentioned the name before he died? That
was all, and it wasn't enough for me.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I put in a call for Floyd MacDonald, a wood
would company manage it. Mister McDonald's office is Johnny Donald's,
Miss McDonald as well.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
No, he stepped out for a moment.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
This is Charlott.
Speaker 10 (13:05):
There's anything I can do.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I'm calling from police headquarters. They uh have a body
down here, a body picked up by a ship someplace.
They claim it's Dan Blake, but there wasn't any identification
on him. You tell miss McDonald I want him to
come and look at him.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, he should be back any minute. I've got him
to come right down. When did this develop? Dollar? And
why wasn't I notified?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Nobody was notified Miss McDonald's meal wile was playing it
close to his chest.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Wherever is heart?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And Melba didn't tell me where he was going. He
left word that we could look at the body, and
he left. My name is Dona car from se You
doing thanks. I know this is unpleasant, but we have
to find that out. Good Lord, is this Dan Blake? Yes, yes,
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it's that cover him up priests. Where did they find him?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
A dugout canoe someplace called Tiabas Bay? I mean yes,
Diabas Bay, southwestern here? Who followed me? Man by the
name of Covia. He's the captain of an entire island schooner.
Could we leave here and sure what happened? Do you know, mum?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
On first time he shot in the back four times.
It was alive for a short time after Captain cover
I picked him up. The money has not been found.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I see then there's no explanation yet not but I
know h schooner is anchored off shore just south of
the Plazaic River. You know where that is?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yes, I'd like to talk to this COVID. I guess
I can hire a boat to take me out there.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'll uh drive you down to the docks. As a
matter of fact, I'd like to go with you. It's
a good idea. If you have the time, well, I'll
take the time. That's my car there. That must be
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the vote. You have seen him?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Is that the name that said skipper? That's the one there.
I've seen him. It's a little precious for a wreck
like that, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Some are even worse. I don't know how they stay abroad.
There's somebody on take How are you on? You? Captain?
Go on? You want to talk about the body it
brought in all this man is McDonald dan Blake worked
for it.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
They come him, can let him shovel?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, come on board. I'll put the latter over the
body watching that. She's not quite a bitch today. Go ahead, right,
have you got it? Yeah? My name is Dollar captain.
I'm working on the burglary for insurance company. Now, come
out of the cabin. I like to learn about that burglary.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
All that police sergeant would tell me is that I
got the money and I better give it to him. Well,
I'll take some door, eh, take the chairsure too, I'll
take the buck. He'll know what's this all about.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It's a little over seventy five thousand dollars missing. He
didn't have anything when I picked him up. He was
in a dugout canoe. That's right. Looked like a moral
craft to me. Oh, I see what you mean. I
was empty. I looked it over it. How long did
he lay? Oh, fifteen twenty minutes?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Maybe not that long. I don't think taking him aboard
didn't they good for him?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But I didn't know he's say anything about the shooting.
Nothing that I could understand. What did he say?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I told you I couldn't understand, just some noise, but
you were able to understand it. You're beginning to sound
like that police sergeant, mister, And I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I thought I was doing right when I brought that boy.
I wait a minute, Captain, we never left him there
the least right now. We're getting papers to search my ship,
and now go stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I'm not making any accusations, but you are the last
person to see him alive.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm interested in what he said.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Well, he said, Blake, Blake, that's all I can understand
that the truth.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I wish i'd left him there. Do you know what
I think?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
What's that if he went from Manila to someplace on
Tiobas Bay where he had his dug out, plenty could happen.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's about sixty miles. You heard about our Hucks, our rebels, Yeah,
I read about him.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
A bunch of cutthroats, scum, and they don't think twice
when they get the chance to kill an American seventy
five thousand dollars, so much the better.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
What do you think, mister McDonald? Well, sick with the
possibility the Hucks are acted? He guess it's not the
chance of putting our finger on it. That's what happened.
Not a chance.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Fine, and let's leave that possibility until the last I
wasn't sure of Captain Kova.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
If he was telling the.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Truth, he was doing so without tact and if he
was lying, he seemed to be doing that with complete confidence.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I didn't bother questioning his crew.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I knew that Sergeant malve if he hadn't already, it
would take care of them when he returned to search
the schooner. I spent the rest of the morning and
part of the afternoon and routine legwork on the case.
And at four o'clock I got the sergeant's report.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
There was nothing from one end of this ship to
the other end. My man, look, I know it is there,
but it was not found. Did you talk to the crew, Yes,
I took myself to them. They do not hear them,
Blake say anything. The captain is the only one who
hear him.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Why have you done with him? What is there? I
can do nothing.
Speaker 11 (18:44):
I leave his ship, and that is all now. But
now there is nothing now. So the hawks killed him,
then that is all.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I learned a few things about Floyd McDonald this afternoon.
So he's up to his neck and death.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Did you know that? So?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I don't know about the Philippines, but in the States
it's an old pitch to have a Patsy found full
of bullets, but without the missing money. I do not
know what to say, and maybe it looks like Dan
Blake is the thief when somebody else is. I haven't
able to find a reason for the kid who have
done this. Now I find that McDonald needed money.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
I did not know that it would not be wise
for me to question him in Manila, mister McDonald is
not the man to suspect.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He's known as a man with.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Ann Yeah, so I gathered that's probably why he could
get so far into debt.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I didn't think it would be wise at that point
for me to question. For a McDonald eid.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I waited until his store closed that evening, and until
his assistant, Irving Morgan, had got into his home. Good evening,
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mister Morgan, Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Hello, mister doller, I've been thinking about you. Come on in. Thanks.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Good, Hell, how's it going? It's how to telln from
what I hear, the money's gone, it's good. Did McDonald
tell you then?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah? Isn't that right? Maybe I don't make.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It a habit to go around switching the values of
national problems, but it's occurred to me that these hucks
could be pretty handy people that have around.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I don't get you.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I want to killing outside the city can't be explained
any other way.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
It's marked off to the Hucks. Oh you don't think
they shot Blake?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I'm not as sure that as everybody else seems to be.
Just what do you mean, mister Taller? How much did
you know about McDonald's personal life? Well, I I see
him socially. If that's what you mean, we're we're good friends.
Do he owe you any money? Seems to me that's
a very personal question. I have to ask that kind
once in a while. I've learned that McDonald knows a
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lot of money though a lot of people A thousand here,
fifteen hundred there, loans, gambling debts.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Uh, he'd be ruined, and this became common knowledge, mister Dollar.
He'd he'd lose his position everything. How far do you
think mcdonald'd go to save himself? Are you telling me
you like Floyd Arrange? This there?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, it's something to think about. And killed Blake to cut?
Oh no, no he didn't, you're sure of that?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Couldn't have.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
He's not that kind of man. He might be desperate, yes,
but he'd never do a thing like that would he.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Be at home now? MM? I don't think so. It's
it's only seven. He usually has dinner at the club.
What club?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
At the merchants Club? Uh, mister Dollar, don't question him
down there. Wait until he gets home, and I can
count on you not to tell him I'm waiting for him.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
He certainly can. I wanna stay as far away from
as thing as possible.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
An hour and a half later, a cab dropped me
in front of Floyd McDonald's home. The residence, at least
was a picture of propriety set in a fashionable suburb,
but was within me a shot of a bellboy somewhere
in the bay. I followed a sidewalk across a neatly
hedged lawn, and halfway to the house, I stopped to
watch a man come out of the front door.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Captain Kola, Cause what do you want? What are you
doing here? Forget it? I can't watch your part in this.
Never mind forget you saw me come here?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Cola, get up?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Hello, cover cover now you I didn't expect this. You
live here?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I came to talk to your uncle. Is he here? No?
And Captain Kova was with you.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Yes, Captain Koba was with me.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, hurt. What did he do to you?
Speaker 10 (23:04):
He hit me?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Why?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Because he's insane. He thought he had to hit me.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
He wanted the money, gave it to him.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You gave him the money, Yes, all of it, every.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Penny of it. I didn't want it anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's not what I mean. You were holding the money
that Dan blake for us.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
We were in it together.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Coba learned it from Dan before he died.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Yes, Dan kept calling for me while he was dying,
so this Koba thought he could like me on me.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
He thought I gave him the money.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
To keep him quiet.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Dan and I were trying to get away from this place,
have a life of our own.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Tried.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Oh, I don't care what happens to me.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
There's the telephone through that door, but you don't have
to call.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
I'll go to the police for myself.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I just wanted to wait Uncle Floyd got home.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I'm not worried about your personal problem, Sharlotte. That's not
my job. Covia, and that's seven five thousand dollars is
all I wanted. I had not to waste a minute
at the time, slipped by fifteen minutes on the phone
twenty five to get back him another. When Sergeant Nolda
finally arrived at the police doc a boat was ready
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for us.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Come as quick as I can. His ship is not
a thinker. I checked it. He moved out about twenty
minutes ago.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
We got him.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
He under that, he said, dark knight, Why do we
don't find him? He did not get out of the way.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Bat's there, Corregador are right now waiting. Hey girl, she
wasn't accomplished. She held him out. You though if he
was picked up, you couldn't prove possessions.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
She was gonna meet him later. Hey, hooks shocked him,
That's what Kova told her. No, but the hooks do
not kill him. What's that, police doctor? He said, Bullets
do not kill Blake. Blake shocked to death. I go,
I choked him to land the secret. I think we
can prove that, Sergeant. I getting more speed out of
this thing. Why must get the side out of the spray.
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That's twenty minute start as much. When a schooner with
the auxiliary power is matched against the police boat. With
our speed and the beams from four search lights spanning
out around us, we covered every possible course that Koba
could have said, it took us less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Come on already, well go watch it. Yeah, there she
is now I should these men. We are strong. What
are you more? Fire in front of me? I saw
you down?
Speaker 8 (25:49):
He gets me that the man when I shot you
ship na shut and marbody cuts back.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
What more?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Is she crazy? Got one of my light.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
We better dus the others before he smashed down.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But there you up and you up? It's crazy. That
depends on whether the doctors works for him or not.
All I can see is this way now, do not
get away?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
How you open my nebber got you up? He moving
right now?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Go on board started he's shouting something.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Come then, go on, there's no use to fight.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
We come on board. Sudden the cruise turning on him.
All right, go off.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
He's gotta be stopped.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Sageant, have your men stopping. Go there, he's running for
you are my witness. The officials do not like the
killing of baccidentals. I'm your witness. You'll put me aboard.
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I'd like to find that stolen money.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Expense count Item three two hundred and thirty dollars blanket
item covering hotel transportation, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Item four same as Item one. Expense count total.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Thirty ninety dollars remarks after the arrest of Charlotte Page.
The stolen funds were counted in plenty of witnesses and
the amount was not as large as it was claimed
by McDonald.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I don't know what you can do about it.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Everybody seems to be out after something these days. Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
As Johnny Dollars. Rolph waiting again, Johnny, I'm gonna caut
you before you left.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's almost two hours before my plane leads. That's on
your mind.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The cable just.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Came in from Manila. The amount taken on the burglary
is roughly seventy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Five thousand dollars. It's dollars and that faces dollars.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, I mentioned that a quirk is dropped out of
site native an American named Blake, Daniel.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Blake, Blake, all right, and that's all so form. What's
your hotel of Manila? You know yet? Ah? Yeah? The
hotel Toando Tondo. Good, I'll get work. Are you there?
If I learn anything you can use, well come back
on the trip.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of the man with the
action packed Expencer can America's fabulous freelance insurance invest.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
To get her?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know it's truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Expenserunt submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office,
Columbia All Risk Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
an accounting of expenditship is during my investigation of the
Woodward Manila matter, Spence can item one eighteen hundred and
fifty dollars airfare and incidentals between Hartford and Manila.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Coming the AFI number one or three?
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Will you go to take release passer dollar from Incrson?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I'm his dollar, I was being paidd Oh, yes, these
juggles on a waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
This is mister dollar, sir.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Oh, yes, I'm employed McDonald. Mister Johan local manager of the
wood would come off. And this is Irving Morgan, my assistants. Morgan,
glad to meet you. I've made arrangements to have your
luggage sent to your hotel, and you like to do
it that way, Irving and I can drive you right in.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Fine, that's done, I said, Well, I know how it is,
least died on one a bother with details after a
long time like that.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Don't give me your luggage, Tex, sir there, I'm right
here ver much. Well, I think cars right outside. We
can give you the details of the burglary on the wind.
He told me very little that I didn't already know.
The story.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Managed one of Manila's largest hardware stores was part of
the American owned.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Wood would chain.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
He had discovered the loss of the seven five thousand
dollars himself Monday morning, when he'd entered his office and
found the safe open.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Actually, I feel very badly about it, but everything that
can be done is being done. I don't know who
the main office is blaming it on, but I think
you'll find that Floyd and I were anything but careless.
We've got five years a lot of loss minders to
prove that, and it only takes one phase you to
ruin a success.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, there's seventy five thousand. Do I understand that
it was all American current saying.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
No, No, it was made up a patios tool. I
stated the amount of dollars, and since when I reported
the loss, you.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
In the habit of keeping as much money as that
in your office safe.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
It wasn't my ideas, not to my liking. It was
because of a company rule. They were worried about conditions
on this side of the Pacific. In ordered us to
stop thanking our cash here. Instead of the usual yearly
transfer of our money, it has been going to the
States once a month.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
MM.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It didn't say much this time, not about this clerk
Dan Blake, Oh, don't get any started on him now.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
There's nothing proved yet, ir of me. What is it
going to take to open your eyes? Floyd?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
We don't agree on just what to think about Dan,
mister Donne in spite of the circumstances, I uh, but
I find it almost impossible to believe that Dan would
do this to me.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Could he have done it? Of course he could. He
had access to the office. He could have memorized the
combination of the safe.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Yes, yes, that's true. But you can't forget that he
was a very good friend of mine. He was like
a son to me.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Was he in any trouble that you know of or
any money? I hadn't heard of anything. He's been out
of site four days now. What kind of his search
has been made for him?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
And I understand that the police have been working very hard.
They trans him as the chief suspect.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Too as But you've uh got a real that the
Philippines aren't like the State Star.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's not a hard drop out of sight here. It's
a big world, I know, I just watched a lot
of it pass by. Well.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
As soon as my luggage arrives and and get into
a fresh suit, I'll contact the police see what they've
got spence countadem two three fifty, including tip a picture
of gimlets delivered to my room. While I waited for
my baggage to arrive, I relaxed in front of a window.
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My hotel was two blocks from Manila's Great Bay, in
a section called El Puerto. From my room, I could
see enough of the orient in the native craft working
the harbor to give even a common hardware store a
burglary an atmosphere of intrigue.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Expense count item three.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Eighty cents cappair of police headquarters, where I was shunted
into a side office to wait for the sergeant in
charge of the Woodward case.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
He finally showed up. Judge and malvar, you wait for me?
Speaker 8 (05:05):
Yes, my name is Dollar, And no you come to
talk of my bag. Larry, you are a policeman, not quiet.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I haven't hired by an inch Coamray'll learn what I
can about him.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What do you wish to learn from me?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Whether you've made any progress you got any place with
your search for Dan Blake?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Dan Blake, No, I do not look for him, now,
are you wrong? No? I have captured the tief. Uh
oh is it Miguel no Soleda. You've recovered the money.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
He will not say where it is yet, but he
will say tomorrow. Maybe what evidence do you have, Sergeant?
He cannot say where he was that night of the
bag Larry?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Is that all? He's by professional thief? He was arrested
while he was robbing another store last night. MM. Does
he speak English? Oh? Yes, What if I could talk
to him?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Maybe he's afraid to confess to the police, and maybe
I can get him to talk.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Oh right, you come with me. You do not stay long?
Only five minute? That's good enough. By gal.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Who are you? Why do you come here?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
How old are you? Mcgal? She's see where do your work?
No work?
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Get hurt in bombing?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
No work? You have any children?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
See two daughters?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Where do they work? Mm? Does he the one work
at the Woodwood hardware store?
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Work in preason?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Boss?
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Work in prison?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Sergeant Malver says, you stole some money from the Woodward store. No,
and you'll make it easy for yourself if you tell
the truth and give out the money.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
I don't cut money. If I got money, then why
I steal five presser a smarty place?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Why? Hey?
Speaker 9 (06:58):
You tell police? Why if I got lots of money,
where I steal a little more? Why because I don't
got lots of money.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
It's good enough for me. Again, Sorry, I took up
good turn. You do not stay long. I think he
wants to sleep. What would he say to you?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And he didn't do it out of his hand, You
wouldn't have caught him stealing five pacers because he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Have needed it. He need to kick in the head.
But his mind. You have any connection between him and
the Woodwood place? He tell you he got two daughters
in prisons. Yeah, he lies.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
They come out, but they do not go back to
him because he's steal their money.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh, the daughters of connection with wood Woods connection.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
If we need connection, we'll find one. No, right tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Maybe I had an idea Sergeant Malvo's philosophy, reason that
it was a lot easier to grill the wizen little
prisoner than it would be to continue the search for Blake.
But I left him to his own devices and cab
to the wood Would Store. I was told that neither
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Floyd McDonald nor Morgan were in, but that a secretary
would help me.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Oh, how do you do, mister dollar. I knew that
you were coming out. My name is Charlotte Page floodingc
Donald's my uncle.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
He had to go out to or meet it with
order for a house.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
It's being built there. Can I help you anyway?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I want to look at the office. Find out where
the safe way I can show you. Huh. I'll check
this store, Ard m good stout lock after a key.
It's the only actress.
Speaker 10 (08:29):
I the one went over there, but it's in a
blank wall.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Mister dollar, I know you've been here only a little while,
but have you learned anything?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Not much, but all of it looks bad. But Dan Blake,
I can't believe it.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
I just can't believe that Dan would do with in
my face.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
How well did you know it?
Speaker 10 (08:48):
Evidently not well at all. He stole the money.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
We're the same, aid found something in common working here together.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
I've had dinner with him occasionally going to beach.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No if he was in any kind of trouble that's
or anything. No.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
I thought he was very happy and comfortable here.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He seemed to be. Mm. Why is it safe now?
Speaker 10 (09:07):
He it's under the rug in the desk.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
You have to lift the.
Speaker 10 (09:11):
Corner of the rug.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
H Uh. Did Dan Blake know where it was?
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Oh? Yes, everybody trusted him.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
He'd been here for years.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Did he know the combination?
Speaker 10 (09:20):
No, I I don't think so. Uncle Floyd handled the cash.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Could he have memorized it?
Speaker 10 (09:24):
I don't know that either. I hadn't give him a thought.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Hm.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
I guess when he put the rug back. Oh h,
Now I got to get Blake's address from the police.
You happen to know what it is?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Oh? Gotten?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
It's somewhere on Samplock. I can find it.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
The pay roller to be right here. It be too
easy to find him there, would it, mister dog?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Much too easy? But I might pick up a.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Crumber too them here it is three O seven Samplock Street.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Three h seven Samplain. Thanks tell us McConnelly was here.
What'd you please? And and I'll be in touch tomorrow.
There was a fair biography of Dan Blake in his rooms.
I learned that he was born in Duluth, Minnesota, twenty
six years ago, that his father wrote him occasionally, that
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he had sailed with the Merchant Marine during the war
and had made a few into island trips after that.
Boyd McDonald had said he was a student of the Philippines,
and that was borne out by photographs and receipts.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
From steamer and airlines.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I made a list of the places he'd visited, but
that was all I could do for that day. It
wasn't until the next morning that I went to police.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Headquarters and waited again. The sergeant malbar you'll come back again.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
We do very good without you.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, pardon me, I don't want to buddy in.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I just wondered if you knew that Dan Blake spent
a lot of time learning these islands. Oh do you
know that he'd spent some time in San Jose, on Mendoro,
Don Marron, Duke, and then Polo and Lady I did
not know.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I might pay you to check those places more too.
And here clear down to me in the now the
shirt he's finished. Huh, what do you mean? Then Blake
has been found. He was a drip and he dug
out on Taiova's way. He was taking aboard his ship,
and then he died and killed him. He was shut
many times. What about the money? It has not been found,
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not yet sure, But maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
We'll return you to the second act of yours. Truly,
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driving becomes more hazardous every day, not as much for
you in your car as for the people walking across
the street or along the edges of a highway. A
shoe touches a tiny strip of ice, someone loses his balance,
falls in the wrong direction, and there is sudden death.
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Check your car carefully, make sure your brakes are good,
Make sure your tires have a heavy tread. Check your
steering wheel. Someone's life may depend upon the efficiency of
your automobile, upon the care of your driving. Now, with
our star Edmund O'Brien, we return you to the second
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act of yours, truly.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Jop Dollar.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Tajan Malvam and the police was again taking his inimitable
approach to a subject, believing what he wanted to believe.
When I asked him how he knew the body was
that of Dan Blake, he told me the captain who
had picked him up, said so, how did he know?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The man had mentioned the name before he died? That
was all, and it wasn't enough for me.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I put in a call for Floyd MacDonald, a wood
would company manage it. Mister McDonald's office is Johnny Donald's,
Miss McDonald as well.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
No, he stepped out for a moment.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
This is Charlott.
Speaker 10 (13:05):
There's anything I can do.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I'm calling from police headquarters. They uh have a body
down here, a body picked up by a ship someplace.
They claim it's Dan Blake, but there wasn't any identification
on him. You tell miss McDonald I want him to
come and look at him.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yes, he should be back any minute. I've got him
to come right down. When did this develop? Dollar? And
why wasn't I notified?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Nobody was notified Miss McDonald's meal wile was playing it
close to his chest.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Wherever is heart?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And Melba didn't tell me where he was going. He
left word that we could look at the body, and
he left. My name is Dona car from se You
doing thanks. I know this is unpleasant, but we have
to find that out. Good Lord, is this Dan Blake? Yes, yes,
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it's that cover him up priests. Where did they find him?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
A dugout canoe someplace called Tiabas Bay? I mean yes,
Diabas Bay, southwestern here? Who followed me? Man by the
name of Covia. He's the captain of an entire island schooner.
Could we leave here and sure what happened? Do you know, mum?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
On first time he shot in the back four times.
It was alive for a short time after Captain cover
I picked him up. The money has not been found.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I see then there's no explanation yet not but I
know h schooner is anchored off shore just south of
the Plazaic River. You know where that is?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yes, I'd like to talk to this COVID. I guess
I can hire a boat to take me out there.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'll uh drive you down to the docks. As a
matter of fact, I'd like to go with you. It's
a good idea. If you have the time, well, I'll
take the time. That's my car there. That must be
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the vote. You have seen him?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Is that the name that said skipper? That's the one there.
I've seen him. It's a little precious for a wreck
like that, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Some are even worse. I don't know how they stay abroad.
There's somebody on take How are you on? You? Captain?
Go on? You want to talk about the body it
brought in all this man is McDonald dan Blake worked
for it.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
They come him, can let him shovel?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, come on board. I'll put the latter over the
body watching that. She's not quite a bitch today. Go ahead, right,
have you got it? Yeah? My name is Dollar captain.
I'm working on the burglary for insurance company. Now, come
out of the cabin. I like to learn about that burglary.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
All that police sergeant would tell me is that I
got the money and I better give it to him. Well,
I'll take some door, eh, take the chairsure too, I'll
take the buck. He'll know what's this all about.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It's a little over seventy five thousand dollars missing. He
didn't have anything when I picked him up. He was
in a dugout canoe. That's right. Looked like a moral
craft to me. Oh, I see what you mean. I
was empty. I looked it over it. How long did
he lay? Oh, fifteen twenty minutes?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Maybe not that long. I don't think taking him aboard
didn't they good for him?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But I didn't know he's say anything about the shooting.
Nothing that I could understand. What did he say?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I told you I couldn't understand, just some noise, but
you were able to understand it. You're beginning to sound
like that police sergeant, mister, And I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I thought I was doing right when I brought that boy.
I wait a minute, Captain, we never left him there
the least right now. We're getting papers to search my ship,
and now go stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I'm not making any accusations, but you are the last
person to see him alive.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm interested in what he said.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Well, he said, Blake, Blake, that's all I can understand
that the truth.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I wish i'd left him there. Do you know what
I think?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
What's that if he went from Manila to someplace on
Tiobas Bay where he had his dug out, plenty could happen.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's about sixty miles. You heard about our Hucks, our rebels, Yeah,
I read about him.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
A bunch of cutthroats, scum, and they don't think twice
when they get the chance to kill an American seventy
five thousand dollars, so much the better.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
What do you think, mister McDonald? Well, sick with the
possibility the Hucks are acted? He guess it's not the
chance of putting our finger on it. That's what happened.
Not a chance.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Fine, and let's leave that possibility until the last I
wasn't sure of Captain Kova.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
If he was telling the.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Truth, he was doing so without tact and if he
was lying, he seemed to be doing that with complete confidence.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I didn't bother questioning his crew.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I knew that Sergeant malve if he hadn't already, it
would take care of them when he returned to search
the schooner. I spent the rest of the morning and
part of the afternoon and routine legwork on the case.
And at four o'clock I got the sergeant's report.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
There was nothing from one end of this ship to
the other end. My man, look, I know it is there,
but it was not found. Did you talk to the crew, Yes,
I took myself to them. They do not hear them,
Blake say anything. The captain is the only one who
hear him.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Why have you done with him? What is there? I
can do nothing.
Speaker 11 (18:44):
I leave his ship, and that is all now. But
now there is nothing now. So the hawks killed him,
then that is all.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I learned a few things about Floyd McDonald this afternoon.
So he's up to his neck and death.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Did you know that? So?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I don't know about the Philippines, but in the States
it's an old pitch to have a Patsy found full
of bullets, but without the missing money. I do not
know what to say, and maybe it looks like Dan
Blake is the thief when somebody else is. I haven't
able to find a reason for the kid who have
done this. Now I find that McDonald needed money.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
I did not know that it would not be wise
for me to question him in Manila, mister McDonald is
not the man to suspect.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He's known as a man with.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Ann Yeah, so I gathered that's probably why he could
get so far into debt.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I didn't think it would be wise at that point
for me to question. For a McDonald eid.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I waited until his store closed that evening, and until
his assistant, Irving Morgan, had got into his home. Good evening,
(20:09):
mister Morgan, Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Hello, mister doller, I've been thinking about you. Come on in. Thanks.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Good, Hell, how's it going? It's how to telln from
what I hear, the money's gone, it's good. Did McDonald
tell you then?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah? Isn't that right? Maybe I don't make.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It a habit to go around switching the values of
national problems, but it's occurred to me that these hucks
could be pretty handy people that have around.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I don't get you.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I want to killing outside the city can't be explained
any other way.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
It's marked off to the Hucks. Oh you don't think
they shot Blake?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I'm not as sure that as everybody else seems to be.
Just what do you mean, mister Taller? How much did
you know about McDonald's personal life? Well, I I see
him socially. If that's what you mean, we're we're good friends.
Do he owe you any money? Seems to me that's
a very personal question. I have to ask that kind
once in a while. I've learned that McDonald knows a
(21:04):
lot of money though a lot of people A thousand here,
fifteen hundred there, loans, gambling debts.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Uh, he'd be ruined, and this became common knowledge, mister Dollar.
He'd he'd lose his position everything. How far do you
think mcdonald'd go to save himself? Are you telling me
you like Floyd Arrange? This there?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, it's something to think about. And killed Blake to cut?
Oh no, no he didn't, you're sure of that?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Couldn't have.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
He's not that kind of man. He might be desperate, yes,
but he'd never do a thing like that would he.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Be at home now? MM? I don't think so. It's
it's only seven. He usually has dinner at the club.
What club?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
At the merchants Club? Uh, mister Dollar, don't question him
down there. Wait until he gets home, and I can
count on you not to tell him I'm waiting for him.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
He certainly can. I wanna stay as far away from
as thing as possible.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
An hour and a half later, a cab dropped me
in front of Floyd McDonald's home. The residence, at least
was a picture of propriety set in a fashionable suburb,
but was within me a shot of a bellboy somewhere
in the bay. I followed a sidewalk across a neatly
hedged lawn, and halfway to the house, I stopped to
watch a man come out of the front door.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Captain Kola, Cause what do you want? What are you
doing here? Forget it? I can't watch your part in this.
Never mind forget you saw me come here?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Cola, get up?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Hello, cover cover now you I didn't expect this. You
live here?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I came to talk to your uncle. Is he here? No?
And Captain Kova was with you.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Yes, Captain Koba was with me.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, hurt. What did he do to you?
Speaker 10 (23:04):
He hit me?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Why?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Because he's insane. He thought he had to hit me.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
He wanted the money, gave it to him.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You gave him the money, Yes, all of it, every.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Penny of it. I didn't want it anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's not what I mean. You were holding the money
that Dan blake for us.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
We were in it together.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Coba learned it from Dan before he died.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Yes, Dan kept calling for me while he was dying,
so this Koba thought he could like me on me.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
He thought I gave him the money.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
To keep him quiet.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Dan and I were trying to get away from this place,
have a life of our own.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Tried.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Oh, I don't care what happens to me.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
There's the telephone through that door, but you don't have
to call.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
I'll go to the police for myself.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I just wanted to wait Uncle Floyd got home.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I'm not worried about your personal problem, Sharlotte. That's not
my job. Covia, and that's seven five thousand dollars is
all I wanted. I had not to waste a minute
at the time, slipped by fifteen minutes on the phone
twenty five to get back him another. When Sergeant Nolda
finally arrived at the police doc a boat was ready
(24:08):
for us.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Come as quick as I can. His ship is not
a thinker. I checked it. He moved out about twenty
minutes ago.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
We got him.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
He under that, he said, dark knight, Why do we
don't find him? He did not get out of the way.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Bat's there, Corregador are right now waiting. Hey girl, she
wasn't accomplished. She held him out. You though if he
was picked up, you couldn't prove possessions.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
She was gonna meet him later. Hey, hooks shocked him,
That's what Kova told her. No, but the hooks do
not kill him. What's that, police doctor? He said, Bullets
do not kill Blake. Blake shocked to death. I go,
I choked him to land the secret. I think we
can prove that, Sergeant. I getting more speed out of
this thing. Why must get the side out of the spray.
(25:14):
That's twenty minute start as much. When a schooner with
the auxiliary power is matched against the police boat. With
our speed and the beams from four search lights spanning
out around us, we covered every possible course that Koba
could have said, it took us less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Come on already, well go watch it. Yeah, there she
is now I should these men. We are strong. What
are you more? Fire in front of me? I saw
you down?
Speaker 8 (25:49):
He gets me that the man when I shot you
ship na shut and marbody cuts back.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
What more?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Is she crazy? Got one of my light.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
We better dus the others before he smashed down.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But there you up and you up? It's crazy. That
depends on whether the doctors works for him or not.
All I can see is this way now, do not
get away?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
How you open my nebber got you up? He moving
right now?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Go on board started he's shouting something.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Come then, go on, there's no use to fight.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
We come on board. Sudden the cruise turning on him.
All right, go off.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
He's gotta be stopped.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Sageant, have your men stopping. Go there, he's running for
you are my witness. The officials do not like the
killing of baccidentals. I'm your witness. You'll put me aboard.
(27:07):
I'd like to find that stolen money.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Expense count Item three two hundred and thirty dollars blanket
item covering hotel transportation, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Item four same as Item one. Expense count total.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Thirty ninety dollars remarks after the arrest of Charlotte Page.
The stolen funds were counted in plenty of witnesses and
the amount was not as large as it was claimed
by McDonald.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I don't know what you can do about it.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Everybody seems to be out after something these days. Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars Edmond O'Brien in the title
role and is written by Gil Dowd with music by
Wilbur Hatch, Edmond O'Brien's latest pictures, the Paramount Pictures production warpad.
Featured in tonight's cast were Bill Conrad, Lillian Bayeff, Robert Griffin,
Bill Johnstone, High Everbach, and Jack Krushan. Yours Truly Johnny Dollars,
(28:26):
produced and directed by him Do Vaier.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
This is Dan cubberly inviting you to join us next.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Week at this time, when Edmund O'Brien returns as.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yours Truly Johnny Dallas, you can.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Sing it again on CBS tonight for a whole hour
of fun, packed music packed entertainment, and maybe Dan Seymour
will be calling you the Saw, one of the tuneful
little riddle songs that lead to a chance at radio's
largest cash jackpie five thousand dollars plus ten thousand more
in wonderful prices. Allandale, Judy Lynn, Bob Hard, the Riddlers
(29:14):
and Ray Blocks Orchestra are on hand to sing and
play the riddle tunes leading up to Dan Seymour's Coast
to Coast calls. Be listening again later tonight when Singing
Again comes along on most of these same CBS stations. Now,
stay tuned for Bond Monrose Caravan, which follows immediately on
most of these same CBS stations. This is CBS where
(29:50):
you laugh with Lucille Ball and my favorite husband on
Saturday nights. The Columbia Broadcasting System
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