Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Case of Barton Drake

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm now for yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half
hour has its baggage packed to.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Take a trip with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny
Dollar at Insurance Investigation, He's just an expert at making
out his expense account.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
He's an absolute genius.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Sense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollars to home office,
American Pioneer Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, Attentions WK Green,
General Manager. The following is an accounting of my expensures
in the case of Barton Drake or how I played
Ducks and drakes with a drake who ducked a trench.

(01:08):
Account Item one, one hundred dollars. I'm charging you for
one hour's sleep. I missed answering your telephone call at
nine o'clock in the morning. Spense account Item two A
dollar a hand. I had to go out for breakfast
Easter Bunny didn't leave me in the eight. Item three
camp fare to your office. One dollar tip the driver, one.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Dollar Good morning, Johnny.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Why don't we make that good night sometime soon? Shall we?

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Chick eet Well, I've had to tack up some of
your expense accounts. I think maybe an evening review might
be fun. But is mister Stove Stonewalls waiting for you?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Hasn't he gotten out of that military kick yet?

Speaker 4 (02:00):
No, he still thinks he's a general. But you mean
he's still just what he was before.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
He ever went into the army belts net stopped fighting
the Battle of the Businessman's bulge. JH. Well forward March.
Good morning, mister Green, Sir MS teller reporting his.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
Order, Sir Eddie Hm, oh what's this looting and heelslating about?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I thought you might be homesick for some military courtesy.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
I'd be surprised to get any kind of courtesy from you.
But we're not paying you to be played. Sit out here,
I got a job for you. Yeah, had a copy
made of the file. In that case, you can take
a look.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Thanks. Barton Drake, Now, oh yeah I remember him. Let's
see life insurance thirty thousand dollars beneficiary, missus Barton Drake, Well,
what is it? Is he dead or just dying? Neither,
we hope. Well, if you'll pardon a little before noon philosophy,
just by living man is slowly dying of old age.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
We have a statistical department to worry about that dollar.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Your job is to find this man Barton Drake. Okay,
what's the story?

Speaker 6 (03:09):
As far as the company is concerned. The story started
one night just short of seven years ago.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
That would make it nineteen forty two.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
Is the same year I was called upon to fight
for my country.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, in the insurance division, Kentagon Building, Washington, d C.
But don't get me wrong, those who serve can be
just as proud of what they did as those who fought.
As you were saying, I merely.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
Used the word fight as a general term.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yes, General Barton Drake, one night about seven years ago.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yes, when we issued the life policy on Drake, he
listed his occupation as that of hardware store proprietor.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Hardware as I recall it, he specialized in unregistered pistols,
handcuff keys, and hackshaws. And if I'm not wrong, at
the time he disappeared, he was on a suspicion of
grand larceny and warned for a sof with intent to
kill a police officer.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
That's right, it's the time he was expected of a
number of large rocks.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Ah, refresh me on a cop shooting. How that happened?

Speaker 6 (04:08):
You remember when the police arrived at the house to
pick him up, he opened fire from.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
The bedroom window, made a dashboard.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
Out of the back to his own car, and there
was a chase during which the car skid it and
went through the rail of a bridge into the river.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh, yes, now I remember. Yeah. They never did recover
the body or the loose All they got back was
a wet buick dollar.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
That was seven years ago.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
At least it will be some years and one more week.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
At that time, Barton Drake will be declared legally dead
by the probate court. His wife has already instituted proceedings.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
And when the court says she's a widow, she says,
I want my thirty thousand dollars and you have to
play it right exactly.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
But we're not going to pay that thirty thousand dollars
if we can help it.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
At nine o'clock this morning, the.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
Missing Person's Bureau the New York Police Department called us
and gave us reason to hope that Drake is still alive.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
What happened? Did they see him in a crystal ball?

Speaker 6 (04:56):
And you don't know how close of the truth is?

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Came dollar.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Oh, the missing person boys have a new habit these days.
Whenever there's a television show where there's a public crowded, well,
they watch it last night. They think they spotted Barton
Drake as a prize fight. That's all we've got to
go on. But we think he's alive, and that he's
somewhere in New York.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, that's a start, anyway, I know where to find
New York. Frien's account had him for seven dollars mileage
Hartford to New York. I stopped in Bridgeport to soak
up a dish of coffee and whatever information there might
be in the insurance file. Of the two, the coffee

(05:34):
was the stronger. All I learned from the file was
Drake's physical physical measurements, the birthplace of his mother, his
wife's maiden name, the last known quotation on his blood pressure,
and his home address in Manhasset, Long Island, to which
I went. The house had a forty thousand dollars look

(05:55):
about it, and its grounds were being secured by a
gardener who had a twelve dollars a day look about him. Yes, sir,
I'd like to see missus Drake. Here's my card. Yes,
in pease if.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
You wait here in the hall, sir, I'll go tell
her you're here.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Maid had a forty dollars a week look about her
and completed the picture of prosperity for a hardware merchant.
Barton Drake had died, leaving his wife living a soft light.
Either that or he was still alive and not giving
his wife Browns for divorce on the basis of nonsupport.
Or she was that certain kind of gal who wouldn't
have any trouble making that certain kind of man get

(06:43):
up that certain kind of money. And when I saw
I knew not only that I couldn't afford her, but
the Drake probably hadn't been able to, which probably led
to his undoing. Just to give you an idea, she
was wearing a diamond necklace and a neglighade, and it
was two o'clock in the afternoon. Dollar missus Drake.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yes, tell Drake, I'm having breakfast. Don't you come and
join you?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well, I'll join you, but no breakfast. I just had
a tomato surprise bnk oh.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
I'm glad you didn't even need come on right in here?
Are you sure you won't have some breakfast?

Speaker 1 (07:21):
No? Thanks, I couldn't bring myself to hurt that poor
tired trout you've got there.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Oh please, that's a genuine English kipper.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh, I beg your pardon. He didn't recognize it without
its monocle.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh you're most.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Fun then, eye opener. I could have you around when
I get up every day.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, I am selling to tell you this shirt make
you really feel good.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
You don't mean that bunch of stuffed shirts at the
insurance company decided to give me my money without.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Going through all that bus at probate court.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh, I've got better news than that. You may not
get that money, but we think you have a chance
of getting your husband back. What. Yeah, don't mean. New
York police think they saw him likelast night alive. Oh
maybe I was wrong. Maybe that doesn't make you happy.
Why did you?

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yes, yes, of course, because it makes me happy. But
her to live without a man for seven years and
then have a stranger just sit across the table and
come they tell you he's alive with it, it's just
too much. Tell me where did they find it?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
They didn't. They think they spotted him at the fights
they were watching on television. I imagine they're looking for one
I know, I am.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well, it's impossible if you were alive and back in
New York hed come to me.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's what I was hoping.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
Missus Drake, well, I don't believe. Why would he do
a thing like that to me? Why would he make
me suffer all he did? I think you better go now.
I've got to be alone at six.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Oh but why why?

Speaker 9 (08:49):
Please, mister dol I won't be a love.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I figured if she wanted to be alone, it was
for a good reason, because that later she'd got and
then two was strictly from soap opera. She flooted me
to the door on a tide of tears. Once outside,
I picked up the hedge clippers the gardener had conveniently
left near the front walk, and pruned the telephone wires
leading into the house. Then I took a plant on

(09:15):
the place from the other side of the street. I
figured Missus Drake would want to share her troubles with somebody,
and with the phone wires cut, she'd have to leave
the house to do it, giving me a chance to
follow her. And that's the way it worked out. She
led me someplace, all the way into New York City,
but not to Barton Drake. That would have been too easy.
Once in Manhattan, she headed for a drug store and

(09:36):
the telephone booth. I slipped into the phone booth beside hers.
I got the receiver off the hook and my nickel
in the flock, and trying to use an old trick
of mine. As she dialed, I tried to duplicate it
with my phone. She dials and I dial. I was

(09:56):
just one number behind her all the way. When she
was through diling, I held off dialing the last number
on my phone until she got an answer, and then
I let it go. The number she was cooling was busy.
It was spoon for coincidence, but it was good enough
for me. I jotted down the number I'd gotten up

(10:17):
my little telephone game of tag, and then listened.

Speaker 10 (10:22):
All right.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
The usual place turned out to be the usual place
to meet trains, Grand Central Station, But no train ever
pulled in a where missus Drake went. As a matter
of fact, no man ever did, unless he was a plumber.
Maybe that's right where the ladies go to powder their
noses things. She came out thirty months later along but
she never hit the street. Instead, she went to the
tunnel into the adjoining Commodore Hotel and checked into room

(10:56):
four oh seven. The only room I could get was
thirteen thirteen Expense account. Item five ten dollars tip to the
hotel detective for keeping an eye on the iPhone in
four oh seven. Item six thirty five dollars purchase of
portable phonograph. Item seven sixty five cents purchase of phonograph
record Frank Sinatra singing night and day. With this for ammunition,

(11:19):
I went back to my hotel room and gunning for
a bird i'd never seen, I set up the phonograph
and the telephone, put on the record and placed it
all of the number Missus Drake had called earlier in
the day. Hello, Hello, there seven pm again, and this
is your favorite disc jockey, Happy Jack the money Man. Yes,

(11:40):
your favorite disc jockey, your spin with the winners. Tell
me are you listening to our show?

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Five radio is not a good back hold.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
The phone, madam. A little thing like that doesn't make
any difference to Happy Jack. Here's all you have to
do to win a house full of prizes. You just
listened closely over the phone and identify today's puzzle platter,
and you'll win all these wonderful prizes, a genuine sunbeam
that makes those fresh little legs just happy to get
beat up. Yes, and you'll clean up with the next prize,
make a real clean sweep with a hoover vacuum cleaner

(12:09):
with all attachments and no springs attached, and to send
you tripping happily through life. You'll also receive a handsome
set of easy to lug luggage, a pair of gladiator bags.
Are you interested in well, all right, then here's the
tune and there it is. What's the title of that song?

(12:41):
You're right, You win all the sensational prizes quickly. Now
give me your name and address. He'll be delivered tonight.
This is yes, missus not the street number.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
One twenty seven eighty ninth Street, Apartment three C.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Thank you, missus not. You'll get the whole works immediately.
Spense accounts items eight nine and ten, thirty nine fifty
purchase of mixed Master, seventy nine fifty purchase a vacuum cleaner,
and eighty nine fifty purchase of luggage. You may resent

(13:16):
this expenditure, but there's one thing you must remember. Nobody
can resist trading the name and address for something.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
For nothing.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
I felt like an out of seasoned Santa Claus. When
I knocked on the rip of Apartment three C at
one twenty seven East eighty ninth Street, the frame suddenly
became a picture frame encasing a live version of Whistler's grandmother,
complete with wheelchair and crocheted afghan. Yes, ma'am, I'm happy, Jack,
and I'm glad to meet you.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
I didn't even set them down.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Ah, yes, here you are. This is not you, lucky woman? You?

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Is that all?

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Almost? Now? All we need from you is a little information,
some background on today's winner, to pass along to my radio.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Order.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Be off with you, young man. I'll write you a letter.
Calm now, missus n mind, I have no time now,
just a few questions while I check you out on
the hoover.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I don't need any check you out, I'll go away.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
I must say, missus, notch, you're a bad winner. So
now I'm afraid I'm gonna have to stick around to
find out how good a loser you are.

Speaker 11 (14:20):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Come in, you fellow? Do you know this man?

Speaker 11 (14:26):
Do I know him?

Speaker 4 (14:28):
He's that insurance investigator Johnny Dollars.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Grannie came flying out of the wheelchair multiplying a height
by three. When I first saw Grannie's hand flying toward me,
it looked like there was an old fashioned wedding ring
on each finger, But just too late, I saw it
was only a set of brass knuckles.

Speaker 11 (14:57):
In just a moment, we'll return to the second act
of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar. CBS cordially invited you to
hear the adventures of Philip marlow and the stories of
modern crimes and their solutions has unfolded on Gangbusters when
they come to you every Saturday night on most of
these same CBS stations. Tomorrow night, Philip Marlowe will investigate
the mystery behind the cloak of Kamea Maya, and Gangbusters

(15:20):
will deal with the case of the callous Killers.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Now back to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. When I woke up,
the suns are enlightning in my head was getting an
answer from the sky, and I started getting some answers too. You, James,

(15:45):
give me a Rannie's voice had changed to the base
register and its owner was smoking a big cigar. I
stayed on the floor and quiet. I didn't want the
brash knuckles crooning another lullaby. I'm falling up the whole deal,
I douge. I didn't want you to try to collect
on that inn. Why'd you do it?

Speaker 4 (16:01):
It's thirty thousand dollars, that's why here.

Speaker 12 (16:03):
You're talk You think you were going hungry?

Speaker 1 (16:04):
What do you think I am some empty milk bottle.

Speaker 12 (16:06):
You can run down to the corner and get your
nickel back on.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
We're trying to do anyway.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Sell me out, saw you out?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
You know what started this trouble.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
You had to go to the fights last night.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Oh a big man, dumb cop.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
You cale don't worry about me.

Speaker 12 (16:19):
They haven't now take care of myself but not but
you lousing me up, getting mixed up at dirty dealers
like this guy though, Oh.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
You are so smart.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Why did you let him in here?

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Shut up?

Speaker 12 (16:27):
He wanted to give me coming for free, that's why.
Well I've got something for him, a free boat ride.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
We'll let chair over here.

Speaker 12 (16:36):
We'll take him out in that.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
The wheelchair ride was short to the street, The auto
ride was longer to the ocean, and from what I
could gather on the dock, the boat ride was to
be even longer to my doom. I was still playing
Sleeping Beauty and listening to the supposed to be dead
man Biden Drake telling his wife Stella how he was
going to make my slumber permanent.

Speaker 12 (17:01):
Come on, come on, get a move on.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
I've got his hands tided.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Hurry up with his feet there, No, no, I'll stand
back while I heave him up on the desk. Oh,
you got a time or something?

Speaker 12 (17:16):
For what they ever find a thought, They're gonna find
it empty. One good wave out there and this guy
goes for a swim.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Here he wheels last.

Speaker 12 (17:26):
He's got plenty of gas and plenty of ocean out there.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
That'll teach mister happy Jack.

Speaker 12 (17:32):
Now I'm giving him away.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Taking that salt shower after with my clothes on wasn't
a big chill in my life. I was scared. My
heart was racing faster than the boat engine, and for
the first twenty minutes all I could think about was
hanging onto that slippery teck with all I had to
hang with my hopes and my heel. I was on
a thin strip of deck. After the wheel hard by
my hands was a dechn week, but that for a
starting point. I went to work trying to out navigate

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that rope with which bought drake and flashed the wheel.
I worked my tid wrists over the cleat and dropped
my legs down over the side into the icy racing water.
I had rigked myself into a human jeury rudder to
swing the boat off its course. I didn't know where
it would take me, but.

Speaker 10 (18:22):
I didn't chair so long as it wasn't out to
the open sea.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh make enough, might well?

Speaker 13 (19:02):
I'll tell you your boat drunk, and you ruined the
knock last night doing it. And that paper my name's
said kindly after Joseph Beach, and I can be paid
that too.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
It caused me to find out where I am.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
I don't think there's nothing talking. You're on slate island.

Speaker 13 (19:21):
Ain't that much neither all? Slate didn't have a cent
to throw, no chalk to go with it. Dandy were
on my clothes at the sun.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
How about my wallet?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Eh, fish must have got it?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Mind? If I feel your back for fins, I don't.

Speaker 13 (19:35):
Get funny, young fella might want to be getting off
this island someday.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Someday, some minute is more like it. You got a boat,
of course, I got a boat, but I ain't got
much food.

Speaker 13 (19:47):
Maybe if I could afford to buy some supply kidbirds
when I got to the mainland.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, well, how much would it cost?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh much as a hundred dollars? Maybe?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay to day, let's go hold on now only.

Speaker 13 (19:59):
Said maybe come think of it might cost you two hundred.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Okay, it's a swindler.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Swindler, am I I say?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
If so as might grow? The game is the name
makes the price five hundred dollars with greedy can goods.

Speaker 13 (20:14):
If you don't want paid, you can get out the
shack and wait for the meal booth.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Maybe I will. Why does it get here week from Tuesday? Uh? Okay,
he'll get your five hundred dollars worth of can goods.
When can we start and.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Give you a clothes soon as you put it in
the in and sign your name?

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Where's the paper right here?

Speaker 13 (20:32):
Keep it handy, just feeling them out here? Five hundred
dollars worth. It's a regular contract the ship.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Think okay, give it here five hundred And what do
I sign?

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Right there? It's bottom.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
You are all sun.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
That's a peculiar name, Ali Khan.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'd had more than my share of wind the night before,
so I just I had to throw caution to it.
I went building at one twenty seven East eighty ninth
Street and up to apartment three seat. First time oked
with my knuckles and got no answers. So that knock
with my seat. Wow, Well you know the lock broke.
There was nobody home and Bard and Drake must have
been out calling himself Granny at the moment, because the

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wheelchair part of his disguise was also among the missing.
The closet was empty, and the brand new gladiator bags
I had the previous evening were nowhere to be found.
Nobody could say I hadn't made it easy for Drake
to make a getaway with Michael giveaway. I'd even supplied
the luggage, but all the traffic wasn't going. Some of
it was coming. Stiller, there's one bad thing about kicking

(21:39):
your way into places. You can't lock the door behind you.
I don't know, let's arrange you better come all away in.
What are you doing here? You should be asking me
what I'm doing alive. The only answer I've got for
that is I don't murder easily.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Please.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh, that was the next question I was going to
ask you. Now, if that one's gone, I've got a
couple more I'd like to ask, and so are you?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
I don't know anything.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, then let me tell you something. If you're not
guilty of anything else, you are guilty of attempted insurance fraud.
That's in my department. The tougher you make it on me,
the tougher on when I'm met on you. How about
those questions? How long is your husband back here in
the eure?

Speaker 7 (22:15):
He he ever left here?

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Oh? The night is car crashed through the bridge. He
just grabbed himself a hideaway and work and stayed foot.
How long has he been using that Olditi disguise all
the time? Okay? Now my last question? That bag in
your hand? Where were you going? Okay, let's find out.
Give me that bag? Oh, what's this? Well, it's either

(22:40):
a bathing suit or a two piece handkerchief. And that
blouse there that doesn't look like it's for dinnerware, and
an igloo. You were headed south? So we were headed south?
What about we? Huh? If you ask me, and I
doubt that you will, so I'll tell you anyway. Your
hopes just headed south? Lady, you've been double crossed. Your
husband took off without you.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
I don't believe it is.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
He left here.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
He had a good reason, sure gets but we're not
playing your hunches. We're playing mine. From here on in.
Just where'd he say you were going?

Speaker 4 (23:06):
I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Maybe it'll help if first you remember what I told
you about insurance fraud. It's good for ten to twenty years. Now,
do you remember?

Speaker 7 (23:16):
But tickets on the Orange Blossom Special for Florida at
least Penn Station in an hour and a half, got
that little backwards.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
The Orange Blossomed Special pulls out in half an hour.
That doesn't even give me enough trying to get down there.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
Yeah, my way, Information.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Hello, information, Look, I want the telephone number of the
Penn Station branch of the Traveler's Aide Society. This was
once when I didn't want the society to wid the Traveler.
I told him the Barton Drake was my invalid ants
and as nutty as a fruitcake was Steller's help. I
described his costume from the daisy's on his hat to
the buttons on his shoes. I tagged it off with
a warning that when my ant I left the house,

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she thought she was a honeybee and was on her
way to throw herself in front of the orange blossomed
special wheelchair and all the guy on the other end
of the line took off the round up the railway police,
and I took off the round up a taxi. I

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rode the escalator into the main waiting room, and halfway
down I spotted Barton Drake and his grandmother get up.
He was surrounded by police, and the police were surrounded
by a small crowd. I walked over.

Speaker 9 (24:36):
I don't know a joke.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
This is young, but it's nothingny.

Speaker 8 (24:39):
You made me.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
No, no mother, doors be upset in yourself.

Speaker 9 (24:44):
You don't know me.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
I'm just hitting on a take anything.

Speaker 9 (24:47):
I didn't tell.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Drake was getting ready for trouble. If the cops couldn't
see it, I could. His hand was under his affghan,
and I know the least it could be holding was
a fist full of brass knuckles, but probably more. He
was getting ready to make a run for it. I
wasn't taking any chances. I edged my way through the
crowd up behind the wheelchair, spun it around and hit
what looked like somebody's grandmother a beautiful shot at the whist.

(25:12):
Already you got him, Wait mate, i'most say you don't
have a fan, don't hundred fand all night? All right,
he's not an old lady.

Speaker 9 (25:22):
Hoby, you want you here?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Maybe you just look quiet?

Speaker 9 (25:26):
Johnny?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
All right?

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Oh that bandy, what's the matter with your head?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
No brains? Where's the general?

Speaker 5 (25:56):
When he found out you'd saved American Pioneer thirty thousand dollars,
he did decided to take the morning off and celebrates.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
He's out playing golf.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Oh great, to celebrate my getting hit on the head
with police clubs. He goes out and swings golf clubs.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Oh, Johnny, I was sort of.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Now, don't worry, chickie. I've still got enough energy left
for nightclubs. Do you want to help me with this
expense account? I get it out of the way.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
That's all it stands.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to home
office American Pioneer Life Insurance. Coming first, the police held
me and let Granny Drake go to the hospital, where

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they learned the truth. Then they let me go to
the hospital and transferred Barton Drake to the pokey, where
he was soon joined by his lady in waiting, Missus Drake. Uh.
Expense account Item eleven something I almost forgot five hundred
dollars tand goods for the man who got me off
Rocks on Slate Island, mister Fred Kindly. Even if he

(27:03):
did rob me, I didn't feel like robbing him. The
only thing I did do was remove all the labels
from the five hundred dollars worth of can good I'm
sure that this will see to it that mister Kindly
had some very unbalanced meals, because I happen to know
that there's no difference in the sound of canned tomatoes
and canned peaches when you shake the can expense account

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total fourteen and eighty two dollars and sixty three cents yours,
Foully Jian Dollar. At last, Mankind is facing up to

(27:48):
one of its most feared diseases.

Speaker 11 (27:49):
Cancer research scientists are working tirelessly exploring every avenue that
might lead to new treatments, new cures, and new insight
into the causes of the disease. At the same time,
the American Cancer Society is working to keep the public
informed of all the progress that has been made, trying
to reach everyone with a message that the sooner a
diagnosis is made the better the chances of cure. Together,

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this public education and research attack should bring great progress
in the control of cancer.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
But both phases of this program are costly.

Speaker 11 (28:21):
Realizing you are giving to a fight against a disease
that could menace you, give generously to the American Cancer
Societies drive for funds this year. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

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stars Charles Russell as Johnny. Our music is composed.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
And conducted by Leith Stevens.

Speaker 11 (28:51):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is written by Paul Dugley and
Gildau and is produced and directed by Richard Sandville for CBS,
where ninety.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Nine million people gather every week.

Speaker 11 (29:00):
They call him be a Broadcasting System m