August 5, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dallas.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello, Dollar, this is Carter Down, a tri state insurance.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, I've heard of it. How are you Bill Fair?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Listen, we have a vice president down here who has
an idiot cousin selling insurance for us in New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well he's done it again.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You call me for advice and sympathy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He just sold a fifteen thousand dollars policy covering a
pair of antique pistols for the trip from here.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
To a fire in Boston.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Some of those old weapons are worth it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, he must be.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That's why I want you to see that they get there.
According to Leonard Bonnie, who brought the pistols this far
from England, somebody tried twice to steal them. That we
learned after he bought the policy.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Did you take the job?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Bill and h When can I talk to this Bonnie?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
He's at the.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Doctors, but he'll be back in my office in an hour.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Doctors.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Yeah, the last.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Time the ducks jumped him, they put a knife through
his arm.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Edmund O'Brien, in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to home
office KRI State Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, Attention, William Cartner.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
The following is an.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Accounting of my expenditures during assignment on the Queen Anne
pistol Man.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Expense account.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
IDEM won a dollar in seventy five cents.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Caffare from my apartment of your office.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
When I was introduced to.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Leonard Bonney, a tallish bad list portion man whose tasty
complexion was just a shade darker than the sling that supported.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
His left arm.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, it's a pleasure, mister Dollar, a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
You've had a pretty rough go of it, that's right,
and it's the truth it.
Speaker 8 (01:56):
I'm glad to see somebody who's talking the responsibility.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You were might tell me to door about these attacks.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
An you hold your happy happy to mister Carter.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
The first time was in Liverpool, before I board a
ship to come across. They came out from between two
buildings near the wharf, three of them. They handed me
a whack on the bean and that's the truth. And
before they could lay another hand on me.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I raised doorf did you have the pistols?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Well, oh no, and I didn't have them in New
York with another gang attacked me.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
They almost killed me with that knife.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
The pistols are here, Darla. Would you like to see them?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I won here. Here, I'll open the case.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The box he opened was leather bound and satin lane.
Two pistols nestled in them graceful flintlocks with ten inch
forged barrows, upon which were engraved a carnet and a
name so faint that I couldn't make it out.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
From the eighteenth century. There worth ten thousand pounds as
a collector's item.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Where do they go?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Old one antique gun shop at two hundred and seventy
two Medford Street in Boston.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Pro prior to his name is Arthur Worthy. He's a
British chap where spectacles.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
He'll recognized him. Will you be coming with me?
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Me?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I don't think. No, that enough.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
I'll stay here and white word for mister Carter that
the pistols have got their site. Oh no, are that enough?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
The rest of the rundown was given to me before
I left the office. Leonard Bonnie had been hired as
a messenger by the seller in London, who had explained
the value of the guns but had not mentioned any
potential danger of attempted pet With that information and the
pistol case tucked into a corner of my luggage, I
made arrangements for leave. Expencerc Count had him two nine
dollars and seventy five cents airfare and incidental expenses between
(03:35):
Hartford and Boston. The address on Medford Street that Fannie
had given me was on the.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Front of the retail district. There was a sign and
there were a few dusty weapons in the window.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Hello you author, Yes, yes I am.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
My name is Darla.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
I haven't hired by the time mister Bonney telegraphed me
to expect you the package, Sir, I say, you have
the package?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah I have.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
This is a day I have long anticipated, sir.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
There ha, there two masterpieces from the shop of James Freeman, Norwich,
seventeen oh five.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
So are you a fancier of arms. Oh that's a pity.
They're a pity. Fascinating study.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
These pistols have quite a remarkable history fashion during Queen
Anne's reign, and gave service during one of Europe's blackest eerers. Yeah,
that's pretty, but I like mine and less history and
more shocking power.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
As might be supposed, sir.
Speaker 9 (04:41):
The English gunsmith's prospered during those stirring times, profiting by
the constant demands for muskets and pistols to supply the
Good Queen's armies and Flanders.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Ah, they're right, Well, I have a paper for you,
and these.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
Weapons, sir rode through the campaigns at the belt of
an officer raised their norwich And if the truth were known, sir,
more than one murder has been committed, not only by them,
but because of them.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Tell me, sir, were you.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Followed, Not that I know if I could get your
thing that Johannes.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Release just a moment, jung Man, I believe that the
assurance policy purchased by mister Bunny is in effect until
the pistols rest in the possession of the purchaser.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Is that not correct?
Speaker 9 (05:16):
You are not the buyer who unfortunately a price of
twenty thousand dollars is a great deal too, dear for me, who.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Is it then?
Speaker 9 (05:24):
And where a mister and missus Jack Rowlins Bride Brian
Okay addressed.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, yes, I'll drop it down for you. This a moment.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Yeah uh he Victoria ride. Eh, there you are. It's
a large rest on the left flank as you approach.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It from the east.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I think I can find now.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Give the pistols Bride and tell them that either mister
Bunny or myself will contact them at the earliest opportunity,
and I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Get back here. I phone. Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
I have a package to deliver to either mister or
Missus Brian out at home.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yes, sir, I'll take it to them.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
From my instructions out will give it to them personally.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
The gentleman a parcel before you met him.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
My name is Dolla. Are you missus Brian?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And here are your pistols. Mister Worthing.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
Come in, mister Worthing. I don't understand.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Maybe your husband knows what I Yes, you can't.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
What's the matter of missus Bride?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Terrible?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Who is this man? Take missus Bride to her room.
I want to know what does it mean?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Jack?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
What does it say?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Quieter?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Still might take care of it.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
I'll help you to your room and get you a
brew bie.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Now, what do you want now?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't want anything but your signature on this paper
acknowledging your receipt of the pistols, describe their in.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You'll get no signature from me.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, let me see that. I watch it, will you.
Speaker 9 (07:24):
Leonard Bonny, he's here in America, That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
His name was.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
I brought the pistols from Hartford, a man named after Worthing.
He sent me to you, who's out for Worthing. I
took it that you knew one another. He's a dealer
in antique weapons.
Speaker 11 (07:39):
Yes, of course. Get out of here. Take this pick
form and take your pistols. Go back to your misstoke,
wing your bluff one's worth now. Listen now, I don't
believe that Bunny is here. I don't think he's still alive.
Now get out of here.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
I didn't bother to argue with him, because, as far
as I could see then he was either terrified, crazy,
or both. With the pistols. I took the shortest route
back to Arthur Worthing's.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Gun shop on Medford Street.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
I should have saved myself the anger I'd built up
to let go at Worthing. The place was not only locked,
it was empty of antique weapons.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
An author worthing sign had been replaced.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
In the window by another which read office or store
for rent in quire number thirteen Groves Building.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I decided not to.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Expensive count Adam three seventy cents.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
A day letter the tri State reporting my lack of
congress an expensive count Adam four, the same as Item
two transportation back to Hartford. My phone was ringing when
I unlocked the door of my apartment at ten that night.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Johnny Dwes, do'll cought it?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Johnny?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Did I interrupt something?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I just got in, just came through the door.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's crazy business in Boston.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What do you make of it?
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The man called it blackmails, That's what it is. But
what reason there was for using me? I don't get
unless they figured bride would get violent.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I've been trying to rad that.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Bonnie slipt the bone number.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
What'd you get the city pounds?
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Some woman with an accent so thick with Canada's standing.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'll forget it. Bonnie just made it up. He was
lying on his teeth about everything.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Do you have the pistols? Yeah, but not for long.
I'm bringing them down at your vault in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Good stop by my office. Oh, aren't you curious about
this thing?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
No, not even intrigue.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I don't want any part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That was only half true. I didn't want any part
of it, but I was intrigued.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Later, after a shower and over a high ball, I
took the pistols out of their.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Case and looked them over.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Except for the possibility that they were the tools of blackmails,
I could find nothing to make them worth twenty thousand dollars.
But under a strong light I did make out the
name engraved on the barrel that I hadn't been able
to read before.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
It was Bride, as.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
In mister and missus Jack Rowland's Bride, and the date
behind it was seventeen oh four. I wondered what there
was about something out of the eighteenth century that could
send the twentieth century woman into hysterics. The next day,
(10:18):
I saw the pistols put under lock and key started
to work on another case and try to forget the
whole thing, But I was reminded of it again by
the caller who was waiting for me in the cart
outside my apartment that night, the bride's butler.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
I hope you pardon my intrusions, sir, You must know
why I've come. I can guess I shan't take up
much of your time. But if I could just talk
to you, we'll go inside. Oh thank you, sir. Down,
I'll stand, Sir. Would you possibly give me the pistols
(10:51):
if the dollar?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But why not so well? The main reason is I
don't have him. Bride didn't seem to want him when
I tried to give them to him, but.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
He did the fault of putting his signature on the
fall must describe them would have become an admission that
he had received them.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
What's they afraid of?
Speaker 10 (11:07):
I couldn't say, sir. He told me that he wouldn't
be able to answer for the consequences if I failed
to bring them back.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (11:14):
Mister Bride is a very violent and sudden mad.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Look, I'm through at the case.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I turned their hands back to the company that ensured them,
and he can get them by going down there and
signing that release I they give you.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
Sir, get them tomorrow morning and give them to me.
I can't possibly because they aren't there.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It felt like a beast tape.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Then I got a look at the violin his hand,
on the needle, his expressionless face watching me became diffused
and the streaked with flashes of red.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I tried to reach for the face, but it swirled.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Laying out of sight. I took one stumbling step after him.
That was the best I could do.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
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Johnny Dollar, in just a moment. But first, we Americans
have a valuable heritage, a heritage of individual freedom that
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Speaker 9 (12:25):
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us today. Help support your church and attend regularly with
your family. Now, with our star Edmund O'Brien, we return
you to the second act of yours.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Came on now, letting open your eyes.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
You can do it.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You can do it.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Do you feel it?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You can feel it? Right? Don't you come, Wanda?
Speaker 8 (13:15):
You're better now, hold on now, don't slip away again.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Wake, that's better. I'm mister Bonnie. Remember me down, none
of that.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You're all right. I'll put you on your bed. You're
in your flat.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Well, where'd you come?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
From.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
That's a good thing. I came from somewhere. I've been
playing touch and go with you since six o'clock. First
you come two, and.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Then you go again?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Which game?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
What? What time is it past nine? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
You drink somebodys. I look with some tea, but I
couldn't find any. I'm not too angry at making coffee fare.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
That's odd enough.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
What happened to you?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
No, dope? Yeah, me in the arm? Who was he.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Along with him?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I've had enough of this. You stay awake. Come on now.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
That treatment went on for another forty five minutes, fat
and the comfort from the bed.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I could see that my apartment had been torn to pieces.
I was too sick for the angry about it.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
When I could sit up and put my feet on
the floor, I realized without surprise that Bonnie's arm was
no longer.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
In a sling.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
In fact, there was a Webby automatic in his hands.
Oh that well, the surgeon said, I wouldn't need to
sling anymore. You are lying, stand up now, Come on.
You didn't get those people who died well if it
was caught up your flat.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Looking, No, he didn't get them, and you aren't going
to get them.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Oh yeah, now you've got a nay on your sow.
Did you use it? Where are they?
Speaker 9 (15:05):
You'll have to do more than wave that automatic around
and get them.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
They're in a vault downtown.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
How do you want to share for yourself? It was
your idea to ensure those things.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Bride wouldn't receive them, and the company wants to protect
him until he does.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
You must have known that I did you ensure them
that it was Worthing's plan. I told him it was
too tricky in a fine mess. Now I've got to
tug you to him.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Why I can't do anything?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Don't you ask him any questions? You just come along.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
He gun muzzled me out of my apartment and into
a car. If I'd been in better shape, I might
have been able to break away from him. It was
my system, still full of dope. I didn't have either
the will or the energy for a try. I only
have remembered the trick, but the end of it was
a shabby hotel with any shot of the harbor, and Boss.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
It's Bonnie. I've brought mister duller.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Er Capital, Bunny Capital coming a ghost. Mister Dollah, you
will yeah, and your.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Own help the They put a needle into him trying
to get the pistols.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
What a pity, what a pity. Sit down, sir, sit down, please,
by all means, uh, did they get him?
Speaker 12 (16:31):
Well?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
He says no, And if he's telling the truth, we're
in a mess.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
In a mess, bunny, he says. The pistols are locked
up at the insurance company and are well. No. Is
that the truth?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I don't see why that should be heard.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I believe what do you say to that. I told
you it wouldn't work, you and your complicated plans.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Now we've lost the old thing.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Nonsense, bunny, nonsense, why actually the pistols, who have no
consequence whatsoever.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
But they weren't important but enough in London when we
first we talked about coming here.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
With him, of course they were, Bunny. But now they've
served their purpose. The brides have seen them, you have
spoken to them on the phone. It on remains for
you to collect the money the end of the path, Bunny. Well,
I think we need well, mister Doller. It suddenly occurs
to me that I have spilled the beans, as you
yack so quently, But I've told you the truth.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I don't want to know the truth. Why don't you
keep quiet worthy?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
That's a good idea until I get out of here anyway,
Bunny stop him?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Look, I have no place and there's just leave me alone. Bunny,
stop him, or everything is lost?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
All right me, bucker, come on back, get away from me.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
He feels so good. I hate to make you feel well.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yes, right now, fucking a chair.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
What are you want?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You want me to know what's going on? I do blackmail?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yes, of the grossest sort, sir.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
We shall be handsomely paid by the brides to keep
secret of two year old murder of which they are guilty.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I don't care. Why don't you keep quiet worthy?
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Well, mister Doller, if you expect me to be some prize,
I'll have to disappoint you.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
What else could it be? But why were you stupid
enough to think that he'd sign that release?
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Yes, I shall have to admit that my sight's were
too high, but assigned admission.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It was such a devilishly clever scheme. I was forced
to have a try at it.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
And why keep me involved in it?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Because you are a witness so to speak. Now be patient, sir.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
After being dragged into the lives of people I don't
know and don't want to know. After being drugged and
knocked around by your gunman. Enough of that, and now, Bonnie,
the ort to strike has come. I will meet the
brides here. Oh, by the way, let me have your
weblame what about me? You? At the same time will
be at the bride residence waiting for them to return
and make the initial payment of our twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The contest is won.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
I hope you're right, Worthy. It's been a long one.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yes, it's a splendid quest.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
He made a phone call to the brides, and Bonnie
left worthing concentrated on the way.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
We are automatic while we waited, and I concentrated on
my head.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
By the time that brides arrived an hour later, I
was almost able to stand without staggering. Well, well, well,
mister and missus Bride. Later knowledge our paths at last cross, Please.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Come in, Come in. I am ufer Worthy. You don't
know me, but I assure you that you will. Oh
you remember mister Dollar. Yes, we should hardly forget him.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
You're not alone there.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
I'm afraid I have most distressing news for you, mister
and missus Bride. I shall be unable to make deliveries.
Since mister Dollar has gained possession of the pistols and
steadfastly refuses to part with him, he is a veritable
thorn in my side.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Do you expect sympathy from us, mister Worthy.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Well, indeed, I expect nothing of the sort, no more
than your uncle, the Duke of Pimbroke, would have expected
from you, had he known your true thoughts before you
had him murdered.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Are you lecturing worthing? You're planning a profit from the
same death?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Yes, quite a profitable death to every word, but the
poor duke, the estate.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Fortune, to the brides, and to the others of us
who nibble.
Speaker 9 (20:04):
At the edges a small Chare even you, mister Doller
and the pinny or two cut their shord?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Well, it's a little too fact for me.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Well, mister and missus Bride, you both understand the terms
that Leonard Bonny and I have decided upon. We in
turn agree to maintain complete silence and regarding your part
in the murder of the Duke of Pembroke between six
and seven p m. Eight October nineteen four eight, at
which time, according to knowledge share by us, a Keller,
hired by.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yourselves, did shoot said duke to death? How can we
be sure? If hu Keller's dollar refuses to give up
the pistols.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Mister Doller am alais.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Hm an unfortunate situation, but one of minor importance. The
theft of the pistols has become, according to your plans,
the generally accepted motive for the murder in view of
their extreme value, and since they did indeed disappear.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But who who would correlate them to the true story?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Oh Jack, we could never be sure.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Choirst, my word will be kept. But Bunny, I'd readily
admit I do not know.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
The proof of your guilt lies with him, and he
may decide that he needs more money one day, But
the negotiations have handed the cost will do twenty thousand
dollars five thousand to be paid to night to Bunny,
who now awaits you at your residence, the rest within
the next seven days.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh, I didn't think how's going to be possible?
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Oh, come now, surely, rather than sacrifice the gracious life
the Duke's fortune is affording me. You know the time
is so short, he manages too. We must be away.
We have the five thousand.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Bunny will be waiting for you now. Mister Dollar has
heard the story.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Good Good is buying your silence for thirsteen knows, then
someone else knows, someone else.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
In Heaven's name, Bride, do you want the least to
descend upon us and we all would be lost?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
All but London Bunny.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I'm going to believe.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I want them to know. Stop still, Take her now
and go meet Bunny. Come along, mister go home. Convince her, Bride.
If there is no reason to fill dollars knowledge, I
have my own plans for him.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Worthing success made him careless, calling his orders to surprise.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
He was a quarter turn away from me. As soon
as the door closed, I moved as far as I
was concerned.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
It was a toss up between being a good citizen
and phoning the police, or using my head and leaving.
I decided on a compromise, an anonymous report. I leaned
over him to double check his name, and started through
his pockets. His inside coat pocket gave me a week
old receipt for the weapons with which he dressed up
his phony gun shot. His wallet held some money, but
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no identification. I padded a side coat pockets they were
cluttered with the usual men's debris and nothing else. But
I patted the empty pockets again, and down at the
bottom of the right one I felt a thin rectangular object.
It was inside the coat lining. I got my fingers
into the scene than the rip. The object was a
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card set into a plate of truth parent plastic.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It said, Arthur G.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Worthing, Inspect the c I D Scotland Yard, came the devil. Hey, hey,
inspect the worthing. H Oh, I say that that was
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rather yeah, try some of this take.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well. I must say that you're an extraordinary alive mister Dalla.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
It would help you know if your allies knew they
were allies instead of pigeons.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Do you want to try and get out there?
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Not just I think de vicious pummeling, but more about
that later. Suffice it to say that I have been
posing as a blackmailer for so long that I scarcely
know what I myself. I couldn't shed my disguise and
trot you until the final details were arranged.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
What is this approach of your approach, sir? This crazy
scheme here?
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Come take myself?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Not crazy, sir, intricate perhaps, but I did obtain a confession,
didn't they with you as a witness during the investigation
in England? No effort was enough to swerve the Brides
from their story of the murder. I had to turn
criminal to meet them on a common level and gain
the truth. And did you have in mind stopping the
Brides before they commit another murder or after?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
That's an odd question?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
So oh not, since this is making sense.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Not since you baded Bride with the idea that Bonnie
was the only one that could prove them guilty of murder.
Impeccable truth, mister Dollar, Since it was Bunney they hired
to commit their crime. If the Brides were apprehended at
the scene immediately after they had murdered that miserable little
cutthroat done at Bonne Well, then it'd be hard pressed
to find a valid reason for not confessing to the
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original murder of the duke, would they not?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Now, I think you saw from the wife up to
the point where she'd spilled. That's my job. I believe
you've hit the nail squarely on the head. We'll phone
the police to go there.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I think you hit the same nail on the head
when you piled up with Bonnie and talked him into
coming over here with blackmail in mine.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yes, yes, you're right.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
This has been a personal matter, the Duke of pim Brooke,
who's my friend. As I said, nothing could be done
with England, so here I am unofficially, of course, I
suggest now that I phone the police.
Speaker 12 (25:28):
Don't you any driver, keth it?
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Thank you, good night, you good night joke Matt. No
sign of the police. Dollar they'll arrived quietly. We'd better
get up to the house. We dropped our cab a
few yards down from the Bride address. When we got there,
we took the driveway.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
There was a light in the room I spotted the last.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Time I was there the libraries. We angled off toward it,
but before we reached it a look. I tossed over
my shoulder stuff Behind us in the street, I could
see a swarm of uniform figures slipping silently toward us.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
They were close, but not close enough.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yes, he would make Lee made it coming around.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Inspector got what he wanted, the murder of the gunman
Bunny and the arrest of the brides.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Justice is supposed to move in straight formal life. When
that kind misfires, I guess it's cricket to go, Dvis.
He brought a victim as well as a motive. We're
across the Atlantic to set up the playoff scene. Expensive
count Item five same as number two. Transportation back to
Hartford Item six miscellaneous.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
You'll have to admit I deserve something for what I
went through. One hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Expensive count total three hundred and sixty five dollars and
thirty five cents.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yours, truly, Johnny Dollars. Yours, truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and is written
by Gil Dowd with music by wilbra Hatch. Edmund O'Brien
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Featured in the Knight's cast were Ben Wright, Bill Conrad Dick, Ryan,
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Speaker 4 (27:57):
Dan O'Hurley, and Tyler McVeigh.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Your Julie, Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by Haimi Delvaie.
This is Bob lamand inviting you to join us next
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Speaker 4 (28:12):
O'Brien as yours truly, Johnny Dalla.
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It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dallas.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello, Dollar, this is Carter Down, a tri state insurance.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, I've heard of it. How are you Bill Fair?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Listen, we have a vice president down here who has
an idiot cousin selling insurance for us in New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well he's done it again.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You call me for advice and sympathy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He just sold a fifteen thousand dollars policy covering a
pair of antique pistols for the trip from here.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
To a fire in Boston.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Some of those old weapons are worth it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, he must be.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That's why I want you to see that they get there.
According to Leonard Bonnie, who brought the pistols this far
from England, somebody tried twice to steal them. That we
learned after he bought the policy.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Did you take the job?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Bill and h When can I talk to this Bonnie?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
He's at the.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Doctors, but he'll be back in my office in an hour.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Doctors.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Yeah, the last.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Time the ducks jumped him, they put a knife through
his arm.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Edmund O'Brien, in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to home
office KRI State Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, Attention, William Cartner.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
The following is an.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Accounting of my expenditures during assignment on the Queen Anne
pistol Man.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Expense account.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
IDEM won a dollar in seventy five cents.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Caffare from my apartment of your office.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
When I was introduced to.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Leonard Bonney, a tallish bad list portion man whose tasty
complexion was just a shade darker than the sling that supported.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
His left arm.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, it's a pleasure, mister Dollar, a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
You've had a pretty rough go of it, that's right,
and it's the truth it.
Speaker 8 (01:56):
I'm glad to see somebody who's talking the responsibility.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You were might tell me to door about these attacks.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
An you hold your happy happy to mister Carter.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
The first time was in Liverpool, before I board a
ship to come across. They came out from between two
buildings near the wharf, three of them. They handed me
a whack on the bean and that's the truth. And
before they could lay another hand on me.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I raised doorf did you have the pistols?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Well, oh no, and I didn't have them in New
York with another gang attacked me.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
They almost killed me with that knife.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
The pistols are here, Darla. Would you like to see them?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I won here. Here, I'll open the case.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The box he opened was leather bound and satin lane.
Two pistols nestled in them graceful flintlocks with ten inch
forged barrows, upon which were engraved a carnet and a
name so faint that I couldn't make it out.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
From the eighteenth century. There worth ten thousand pounds as
a collector's item.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Where do they go?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Old one antique gun shop at two hundred and seventy
two Medford Street in Boston.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Pro prior to his name is Arthur Worthy. He's a
British chap where spectacles.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
He'll recognized him. Will you be coming with me?
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Me?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I don't think. No, that enough.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
I'll stay here and white word for mister Carter that
the pistols have got their site. Oh no, are that enough?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
The rest of the rundown was given to me before
I left the office. Leonard Bonnie had been hired as
a messenger by the seller in London, who had explained
the value of the guns but had not mentioned any
potential danger of attempted pet With that information and the
pistol case tucked into a corner of my luggage, I
made arrangements for leave. Expencerc Count had him two nine
dollars and seventy five cents airfare and incidental expenses between
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Hartford and Boston. The address on Medford Street that Fannie
had given me was on the.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Front of the retail district. There was a sign and
there were a few dusty weapons in the window.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Hello you author, Yes, yes I am.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
My name is Darla.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
I haven't hired by the time mister Bonney telegraphed me
to expect you the package, Sir, I say, you have
the package?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah I have.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
This is a day I have long anticipated, sir.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
There ha, there two masterpieces from the shop of James Freeman, Norwich,
seventeen oh five.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
So are you a fancier of arms. Oh that's a pity.
They're a pity. Fascinating study.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
These pistols have quite a remarkable history fashion during Queen
Anne's reign, and gave service during one of Europe's blackest eerers. Yeah,
that's pretty, but I like mine and less history and
more shocking power.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
As might be supposed, sir.
Speaker 9 (04:41):
The English gunsmith's prospered during those stirring times, profiting by
the constant demands for muskets and pistols to supply the
Good Queen's armies and Flanders.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Ah, they're right, Well, I have a paper for you,
and these.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
Weapons, sir rode through the campaigns at the belt of
an officer raised their norwich And if the truth were known, sir,
more than one murder has been committed, not only by them,
but because of them.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Tell me, sir, were you.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Followed, Not that I know if I could get your
thing that Johannes.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Release just a moment, jung Man, I believe that the
assurance policy purchased by mister Bunny is in effect until
the pistols rest in the possession of the purchaser.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Is that not correct?
Speaker 9 (05:16):
You are not the buyer who unfortunately a price of
twenty thousand dollars is a great deal too, dear for me, who.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Is it then?
Speaker 9 (05:24):
And where a mister and missus Jack Rowlins Bride Brian
Okay addressed.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, yes, I'll drop it down for you. This a moment.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Yeah uh he Victoria ride. Eh, there you are. It's
a large rest on the left flank as you approach.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It from the east.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I think I can find now.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Give the pistols Bride and tell them that either mister
Bunny or myself will contact them at the earliest opportunity,
and I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Get back here. I phone. Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
I have a package to deliver to either mister or
Missus Brian out at home.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yes, sir, I'll take it to them.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
From my instructions out will give it to them personally.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
The gentleman a parcel before you met him.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
My name is Dolla. Are you missus Brian?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And here are your pistols. Mister Worthing.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
Come in, mister Worthing. I don't understand.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Maybe your husband knows what I Yes, you can't.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
What's the matter of missus Bride?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Terrible?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Who is this man? Take missus Bride to her room.
I want to know what does it mean?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Jack?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
What does it say?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Quieter?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Still might take care of it.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
I'll help you to your room and get you a
brew bie.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Now, what do you want now?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't want anything but your signature on this paper
acknowledging your receipt of the pistols, describe their in.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You'll get no signature from me.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, let me see that. I watch it, will you.
Speaker 9 (07:24):
Leonard Bonny, he's here in America, That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
His name was.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
I brought the pistols from Hartford, a man named after Worthing.
He sent me to you, who's out for Worthing. I
took it that you knew one another. He's a dealer
in antique weapons.
Speaker 11 (07:39):
Yes, of course. Get out of here. Take this pick
form and take your pistols. Go back to your misstoke,
wing your bluff one's worth now. Listen now, I don't
believe that Bunny is here. I don't think he's still alive.
Now get out of here.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
I didn't bother to argue with him, because, as far
as I could see then he was either terrified, crazy,
or both. With the pistols. I took the shortest route
back to Arthur Worthing's.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Gun shop on Medford Street.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
I should have saved myself the anger I'd built up
to let go at Worthing. The place was not only locked,
it was empty of antique weapons.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
An author worthing sign had been replaced.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
In the window by another which read office or store
for rent in quire number thirteen Groves Building.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I decided not to.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Expensive count Adam three seventy cents.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
A day letter the tri State reporting my lack of
congress an expensive count Adam four, the same as Item
two transportation back to Hartford. My phone was ringing when
I unlocked the door of my apartment at ten that night.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Johnny Dwes, do'll cought it?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Johnny?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Did I interrupt something?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I just got in, just came through the door.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's crazy business in Boston.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What do you make of it?
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The man called it blackmails, That's what it is. But
what reason there was for using me? I don't get
unless they figured bride would get violent.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I've been trying to rad that.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Bonnie slipt the bone number.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
What'd you get the city pounds?
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Some woman with an accent so thick with Canada's standing.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'll forget it. Bonnie just made it up. He was
lying on his teeth about everything.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Do you have the pistols? Yeah, but not for long.
I'm bringing them down at your vault in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Good stop by my office. Oh, aren't you curious about
this thing?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
No, not even intrigue.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I don't want any part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That was only half true. I didn't want any part
of it, but I was intrigued.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Later, after a shower and over a high ball, I
took the pistols out of their.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Case and looked them over.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Except for the possibility that they were the tools of blackmails,
I could find nothing to make them worth twenty thousand dollars.
But under a strong light I did make out the
name engraved on the barrel that I hadn't been able
to read before.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
It was Bride, as.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
In mister and missus Jack Rowland's Bride, and the date
behind it was seventeen oh four. I wondered what there
was about something out of the eighteenth century that could
send the twentieth century woman into hysterics. The next day,
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I saw the pistols put under lock and key started
to work on another case and try to forget the
whole thing, But I was reminded of it again by
the caller who was waiting for me in the cart
outside my apartment that night, the bride's butler.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
I hope you pardon my intrusions, sir, You must know
why I've come. I can guess I shan't take up
much of your time. But if I could just talk
to you, we'll go inside. Oh thank you, sir. Down,
I'll stand, Sir. Would you possibly give me the pistols
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if the dollar?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But why not so well? The main reason is I
don't have him. Bride didn't seem to want him when
I tried to give them to him, but.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
He did the fault of putting his signature on the
fall must describe them would have become an admission that
he had received them.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
What's they afraid of?
Speaker 10 (11:07):
I couldn't say, sir. He told me that he wouldn't
be able to answer for the consequences if I failed
to bring them back.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
What does that mean?
Speaker 10 (11:14):
Mister Bride is a very violent and sudden mad.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Look, I'm through at the case.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I turned their hands back to the company that ensured them,
and he can get them by going down there and
signing that release I they give you.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
Sir, get them tomorrow morning and give them to me.
I can't possibly because they aren't there.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It felt like a beast tape.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Then I got a look at the violin his hand,
on the needle, his expressionless face watching me became diffused
and the streaked with flashes of red.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I tried to reach for the face, but it swirled.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Laying out of sight. I took one stumbling step after him.
That was the best I could do.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
We will return you to the second act of yours,
Johnny Dollar, in just a moment. But first, we Americans
have a valuable heritage, a heritage of individual freedom that
includes the freedom to worship as we wish at the
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Speaker 9 (12:25):
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you to the second act of yours.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Came on now, letting open your eyes.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
You can do it.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You can do it.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Do you feel it?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You can feel it? Right? Don't you come, Wanda?
Speaker 8 (13:15):
You're better now, hold on now, don't slip away again.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Wake, that's better. I'm mister Bonnie. Remember me down, none
of that.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You're all right. I'll put you on your bed. You're
in your flat.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Well, where'd you come?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
From.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
That's a good thing. I came from somewhere. I've been
playing touch and go with you since six o'clock. First
you come two, and.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Then you go again?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Which game?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
What? What time is it past nine? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:47):
You drink somebodys. I look with some tea, but I
couldn't find any. I'm not too angry at making coffee fare.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
That's odd enough.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
What happened to you?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
No, dope? Yeah, me in the arm? Who was he.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Along with him?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I've had enough of this. You stay awake. Come on now.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
That treatment went on for another forty five minutes, fat
and the comfort from the bed.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I could see that my apartment had been torn to pieces.
I was too sick for the angry about it.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
When I could sit up and put my feet on
the floor, I realized without surprise that Bonnie's arm was
no longer.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
In a sling.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
In fact, there was a Webby automatic in his hands.
Oh that well, the surgeon said, I wouldn't need to
sling anymore. You are lying, stand up now, Come on.
You didn't get those people who died well if it
was caught up your flat.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Looking, No, he didn't get them, and you aren't going
to get them.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Oh yeah, now you've got a nay on your sow.
Did you use it? Where are they?
Speaker 9 (15:05):
You'll have to do more than wave that automatic around
and get them.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
They're in a vault downtown.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
How do you want to share for yourself? It was
your idea to ensure those things.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Bride wouldn't receive them, and the company wants to protect
him until he does.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
You must have known that I did you ensure them
that it was Worthing's plan. I told him it was
too tricky in a fine mess. Now I've got to
tug you to him.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Why I can't do anything?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Don't you ask him any questions? You just come along.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
He gun muzzled me out of my apartment and into
a car. If I'd been in better shape, I might
have been able to break away from him. It was
my system, still full of dope. I didn't have either
the will or the energy for a try. I only
have remembered the trick, but the end of it was
a shabby hotel with any shot of the harbor, and Boss.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
It's Bonnie. I've brought mister duller.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Er Capital, Bunny Capital coming a ghost. Mister Dollah, you
will yeah, and your.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Own help the They put a needle into him trying
to get the pistols.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
What a pity, what a pity. Sit down, sir, sit down, please,
by all means, uh, did they get him?
Speaker 12 (16:31):
Well?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
He says no, And if he's telling the truth, we're
in a mess.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
In a mess, bunny, he says. The pistols are locked
up at the insurance company and are well. No. Is
that the truth?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I don't see why that should be heard.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I believe what do you say to that. I told
you it wouldn't work, you and your complicated plans.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Now we've lost the old thing.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Nonsense, bunny, nonsense, why actually the pistols, who have no
consequence whatsoever.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
But they weren't important but enough in London when we
first we talked about coming here.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
With him, of course they were, Bunny. But now they've
served their purpose. The brides have seen them, you have
spoken to them on the phone. It on remains for
you to collect the money the end of the path, Bunny. Well,
I think we need well, mister Doller. It suddenly occurs
to me that I have spilled the beans, as you
yack so quently, But I've told you the truth.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I don't want to know the truth. Why don't you
keep quiet worthy?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
That's a good idea until I get out of here anyway,
Bunny stop him?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Look, I have no place and there's just leave me alone. Bunny,
stop him, or everything is lost?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
All right me, bucker, come on back, get away from me.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
He feels so good. I hate to make you feel well.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yes, right now, fucking a chair.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
What are you want?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You want me to know what's going on? I do blackmail?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yes, of the grossest sort, sir.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
We shall be handsomely paid by the brides to keep
secret of two year old murder of which they are guilty.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I don't care. Why don't you keep quiet worthy?
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Well, mister Doller, if you expect me to be some prize,
I'll have to disappoint you.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
What else could it be? But why were you stupid
enough to think that he'd sign that release?
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Yes, I shall have to admit that my sight's were
too high, but assigned admission.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It was such a devilishly clever scheme. I was forced
to have a try at it.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
And why keep me involved in it?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Because you are a witness so to speak. Now be patient, sir.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
After being dragged into the lives of people I don't
know and don't want to know. After being drugged and
knocked around by your gunman. Enough of that, and now, Bonnie,
the ort to strike has come. I will meet the
brides here. Oh, by the way, let me have your
weblame what about me? You? At the same time will
be at the bride residence waiting for them to return
and make the initial payment of our twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The contest is won.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
I hope you're right, Worthy. It's been a long one.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yes, it's a splendid quest.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
He made a phone call to the brides, and Bonnie
left worthing concentrated on the way.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
We are automatic while we waited, and I concentrated on
my head.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
By the time that brides arrived an hour later, I
was almost able to stand without staggering. Well, well, well,
mister and missus Bride. Later knowledge our paths at last cross, Please.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Come in, Come in. I am ufer Worthy. You don't
know me, but I assure you that you will. Oh
you remember mister Dollar. Yes, we should hardly forget him.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
You're not alone there.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
I'm afraid I have most distressing news for you, mister
and missus Bride. I shall be unable to make deliveries.
Since mister Dollar has gained possession of the pistols and
steadfastly refuses to part with him, he is a veritable
thorn in my side.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Do you expect sympathy from us, mister Worthy.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Well, indeed, I expect nothing of the sort, no more
than your uncle, the Duke of Pimbroke, would have expected
from you, had he known your true thoughts before you
had him murdered.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Are you lecturing worthing? You're planning a profit from the
same death?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Yes, quite a profitable death to every word, but the
poor duke, the estate.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Fortune, to the brides, and to the others of us
who nibble.
Speaker 9 (20:04):
At the edges a small Chare even you, mister Doller
and the pinny or two cut their shord?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Well, it's a little too fact for me.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Well, mister and missus Bride, you both understand the terms
that Leonard Bonny and I have decided upon. We in
turn agree to maintain complete silence and regarding your part
in the murder of the Duke of Pembroke between six
and seven p m. Eight October nineteen four eight, at
which time, according to knowledge share by us, a Keller,
hired by.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yourselves, did shoot said duke to death? How can we
be sure? If hu Keller's dollar refuses to give up
the pistols.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Mister Doller am alais.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Hm an unfortunate situation, but one of minor importance. The
theft of the pistols has become, according to your plans,
the generally accepted motive for the murder in view of
their extreme value, and since they did indeed disappear.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But who who would correlate them to the true story?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Oh Jack, we could never be sure.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Choirst, my word will be kept. But Bunny, I'd readily
admit I do not know.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
The proof of your guilt lies with him, and he
may decide that he needs more money one day, But
the negotiations have handed the cost will do twenty thousand
dollars five thousand to be paid to night to Bunny,
who now awaits you at your residence, the rest within
the next seven days.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh, I didn't think how's going to be possible?
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Oh, come now, surely, rather than sacrifice the gracious life
the Duke's fortune is affording me. You know the time
is so short, he manages too. We must be away.
We have the five thousand.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Bunny will be waiting for you now. Mister Dollar has
heard the story.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Good Good is buying your silence for thirsteen knows, then
someone else knows, someone else.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
In Heaven's name, Bride, do you want the least to
descend upon us and we all would be lost?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
All but London Bunny.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I'm going to believe.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I want them to know. Stop still, Take her now
and go meet Bunny. Come along, mister go home. Convince her, Bride.
If there is no reason to fill dollars knowledge, I
have my own plans for him.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Worthing success made him careless, calling his orders to surprise.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
He was a quarter turn away from me. As soon
as the door closed, I moved as far as I
was concerned.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
It was a toss up between being a good citizen
and phoning the police, or using my head and leaving.
I decided on a compromise, an anonymous report. I leaned
over him to double check his name, and started through
his pockets. His inside coat pocket gave me a week
old receipt for the weapons with which he dressed up
his phony gun shot. His wallet held some money, but
(22:43):
no identification. I padded a side coat pockets they were
cluttered with the usual men's debris and nothing else. But
I patted the empty pockets again, and down at the
bottom of the right one I felt a thin rectangular object.
It was inside the coat lining. I got my fingers
into the scene than the rip. The object was a
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card set into a plate of truth parent plastic.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It said, Arthur G.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Worthing, Inspect the c I D Scotland Yard, came the devil. Hey, hey,
inspect the worthing. H Oh, I say that that was
(23:31):
rather yeah, try some of this take.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well. I must say that you're an extraordinary alive mister Dalla.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
It would help you know if your allies knew they
were allies instead of pigeons.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Do you want to try and get out there?
Speaker 9 (23:50):
Not just I think de vicious pummeling, but more about
that later. Suffice it to say that I have been
posing as a blackmailer for so long that I scarcely
know what I myself. I couldn't shed my disguise and
trot you until the final details were arranged.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
What is this approach of your approach, sir? This crazy
scheme here?
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Come take myself?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Not crazy, sir, intricate perhaps, but I did obtain a confession,
didn't they with you as a witness during the investigation
in England? No effort was enough to swerve the Brides
from their story of the murder. I had to turn
criminal to meet them on a common level and gain
the truth. And did you have in mind stopping the
Brides before they commit another murder or after?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
That's an odd question?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
So oh not, since this is making sense.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Not since you baded Bride with the idea that Bonnie
was the only one that could prove them guilty of murder.
Impeccable truth, mister Dollar, Since it was Bunney they hired
to commit their crime. If the Brides were apprehended at
the scene immediately after they had murdered that miserable little
cutthroat done at Bonne Well, then it'd be hard pressed
to find a valid reason for not confessing to the
(24:59):
original murder of the duke, would they not?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Now, I think you saw from the wife up to
the point where she'd spilled. That's my job. I believe
you've hit the nail squarely on the head. We'll phone
the police to go there.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I think you hit the same nail on the head
when you piled up with Bonnie and talked him into
coming over here with blackmail in mine.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yes, yes, you're right.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
This has been a personal matter, the Duke of pim Brooke,
who's my friend. As I said, nothing could be done
with England, so here I am unofficially, of course, I
suggest now that I phone the police.
Speaker 12 (25:28):
Don't you any driver, keth it?
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Thank you, good night, you good night joke Matt. No
sign of the police. Dollar they'll arrived quietly. We'd better
get up to the house. We dropped our cab a
few yards down from the Bride address. When we got there,
we took the driveway.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
There was a light in the room I spotted the last.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Time I was there the libraries. We angled off toward it,
but before we reached it a look. I tossed over
my shoulder stuff Behind us in the street, I could
see a swarm of uniform figures slipping silently toward us.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
They were close, but not close enough.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yes, he would make Lee made it coming around.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Inspector got what he wanted, the murder of the gunman
Bunny and the arrest of the brides.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Justice is supposed to move in straight formal life. When
that kind misfires, I guess it's cricket to go, Dvis.
He brought a victim as well as a motive. We're
across the Atlantic to set up the playoff scene. Expensive
count Item five same as number two. Transportation back to
Hartford Item six miscellaneous.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
You'll have to admit I deserve something for what I
went through. One hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Expensive count total three hundred and sixty five dollars and
thirty five cents.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yours, truly, Johnny Dollars. Yours, truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
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by Gil Dowd with music by wilbra Hatch. Edmund O'Brien
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Featured in the Knight's cast were Ben Wright, Bill Conrad Dick, Ryan,
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Speaker 4 (27:57):
Dan O'Hurley, and Tyler McVeigh.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Your Julie, Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by Haimi Delvaie.
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week at this time, when we will again bring you Edmund.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
O'Brien as yours truly, Johnny Dalla.
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