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Release Date: July 15, 2013
Johnny investigates the disappearance of an insured musician and his $40,000 violin.
Original Air Date: January 16 and 17, 1956
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Johnny investigates the disappearance of an insured musician and his $40,000 violin.
Original Air Date: January 16 and 17, 1956
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(00:29):
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you. All right, well,now we begin a new series. It's
time for the Ricardo Amerigo Matter Partsone and two from Hollywood. It's time
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now for Johnny Dallam. John thisis Harry Branson, a Philadelphia mutual.
Harry, what are you doing inJohn? I'm not, at least not
in your town. But you've gota case for me. Do you know
anything about violins? Oh? On, tell me. So he opened up
his fiddle case and out came asubmachine gun, added John, That technique
went out with prohibition. Now,seriously, this case contains a genuine Amati.
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Good what's in Amati? One ofthe fine this most expensive violin's ever
made. This one was insured forthirty thousand dollars. Wise, yes,
now someone has to find it forus. What's more? Okay, Harry,
I'm on my way tonight and everyweekday night. Bob Bailey in the
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Transcribed Adventures of the Man with theAction Tact Expensive God, America's Fabulous freelance
Insurance Investigator, Yours Truly, JohnnyDollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to the Philadelphia Mitual Liabilityand Casualty Company. The following is an
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accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigationof the Ricardo Amerigo matter. Expense account
Item one twelve forty Train fair andIncidentals to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I took
the train because Harry Branson didn't seemto be in any particular hurry, and
I can't like a slow look atthe countryside this time of year. When
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I got to Philadelphia, I checkedin at the Bellevue Stratford, shaved and
showered, then went over to HarryBranson's office and the Security First building on
Walnut Street. You deceived me,John. I thought, when we talk
long distance that you'd be here rightaway. But instead of flying down all
the silversides, Branson hadn't changed afull time. I'd hear a little grayer
than the last time I've seen him, perhaps from Amory's still the same serious
lads. He always acted as thoughhe was carrying the weight of the world
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on his shoulder. I feel adeep personal concern over the whole matter,
because it was a man I putin this office myself, who issued the
policies, both of them. Twopolicies on this fiddle you were talking about,
No, John, one on theAmati violin thirty thousand dollars, yeah,
and one on Ricardo Amerigo himself fortwenty thousand dollars. Who is Ricky?
Who wasn't that what you said?His name is. I'm sure I
didn't mention anyone by the Oh ohoh Ricardo Amerigo. Yes, yes,
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well, uh, where's he playinga purple cat? Or maybe we Willi's
join over, John, this manis a concert violinist or was? He's
disappeared? Now, please more levity, Sorry, Eero, it's harrisome,
sorry er all right, quite allright now, I realize that you have
quite a sense of humor, John, But in a matter as important as
this, Yeah, sure, Nowlet's have the story very well. A
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few years ago, Ricardo Amerigo wasone of the world's leading concert violinists,
as famous in London, Paris,Rome as in the concert halls of this
country. Ah, such virtuosity,almost unbelievable. I shall never forget one
evening here in our Academy of Music. He had just finished a perfectly brilliant
Vinofsky, amazing technical performance. Yeahwell, and from encore he played sarasat
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Sapatiado even more brilliant, Harry,But the audience wouldn't let him leave the
stage. Ricardo Amerigo has disappeared.Oh oh, yes, and you're in
a hurry to get all of thecase. I'm sorry, and I thinking
of his superlative performance that night carriedme away. For yes, he's dead,
disappeared in the violin no trace.He didn't say that before I know.
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You see, there's no proof ofdeath. Nobody disappeared. Well tell
let me shock your finer sensibilities.Harry murder. We had thought of that,
of course, who's we the PortMarris Police Port Marris, New Jersey,
that is aw. Yes, yousee, since Amerigo's car went through
the bridge rail, crashed right throughit and plunged into the river. Trying
to tie Harry down, the pertinentfacts that would help me in my investigation
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was well feudal. At least threetimes during the next half hour he went
off on glowing descriptions of violin recitalshe had known II, fitz Selman,
Chrysler, and so on. Buthe did come up with one or two
things I wanted. First, Amerigoand his fiddle had been driving down from
Philadelphia to some spot on the SouthJersey Seashore, crossing an old wooden bridge
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over a little stream and inlet fromthe ocean. The car had smashed through
the guard rail and gone to thebottom of the inlet. The car,
of course, was found Amerigo andhis violin no second, and just as
important the name of the beneficiary ofAmerigo's policies item too on expense account one
dollar even taxi to the Harnell Building, also on Walnut Street, in the
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office of Peter Corbyn, Amerigo's bookingagent. The building was plush, but
Corbyn's office was about as bare asI'd ever seen. An old, beat
up desk, a battered filing cabinet, a couple of straight chairs. That
was it. Dollar commenced. Corbynwas chewing the stub of a cigar that
he'd forgotten to relight for at leasta couple of days. We made with
the usual hotyds. Well, youmen, Branson told you exactly right,
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Dolla. I'm Ricado and Murgo's soleand only beneficiary. Oh it has not
a been unusual for a man's agentto be his air or was it because
you were all personal friends. I'mgoing to give it to you straight.
I brought him Marie Go over tothis country myself, my own sole expense.
I actually gave him the build up, I started his whole entire career.
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I kept him on top of allat my own expense. Why didn't
you collect a regular agent's commission onhis own shoe shore plenty more white kid
about it. Sure, while hewas working what's that supposed to mean?
Bottle? What yees? Started hittingthe bottle bad, not good, And
believe me, the word gets herown fast instead of taking me money himself
too, because he started costing memoney. But you see, he never
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saved anything even when he was earningbig You know how these artists. Yeah,
well that's the same with all ofthem. He gotten that actually up
to his ears and nobody no butno family, no relatives, nobody to
pull him out. Nobody but me, big hearted Corby. So you had
him take on a lot of insuranceand name you as beneficiary, Well that
was his idea. Actually, ofcourse he always did have the amati insured.
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That's his violin. Oh you knowabout violence? No oh well,
but the life insurance that was hisown idea, double identity, all that
sort of double Oh. Yeah,but guess who had to dig up the
mula for the last couple of premiums, Big heart at Corbyn. You're right,
not a bad investment though, wasn't. Well, hey, premiums and
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you stand to collect money if wecan find proof that he's dead, and
if we can't, I don't havebad Dollar. I don't either, cob,
and it doesn't smell that. Ohyou think me his own age can
actually rig something like that for oneof my best friends? You think that?
Listen, wise guy. Even ifI did have any any of us
such idea, it'd be crazy.Anything actually is as obvious as that.
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Well, sometimes the most obvious isthe best cover. Oh, get out
of here, Dollar, unless youwant somebody to start collecting on your assurance.
Even if it isn't you huh,get out so help you? Yeah,
pretty obvious, And every time youopen your mouth you don't. Why
is it that people who telegraph theirpunches are always the first to start swinging.
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Anyhow, I left Corbin to pickhimself up and start thinking about some
alibis he might need. And inthe camp back to my hotel, I
did a lot of thinking myself.Sure, the obvious, oft times is
the best cover up, and yetit might be too obvious, far too
obvious. Ns in here, JohnnyDollar here, Oh John good listen.
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At least there'll be no double indemnityto pay in the Amerigo madam for accidental
death. That is, you seewait a minute. About an hour ago,
you weren't even sure he's dead.Did somebody find the body? No,
unfortunately, But I've just received acall from the Port Morris Police.
They completed their examination of Amerigo's carafter they pulled it out of the creek.
Of course, I hope so,John, they found conclusive evidence of
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murder. Harry, I'll call youfrom Port Morris. Expense account adam two
subway, ferry, train and busfairs to South Final, New Jersey,
South Finland because Ed Bulls lived there, and I knew that if anything,
anything at all happened in the hardestsunny Southern Jersey, ad would know about
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it. Retired and raising some ofthose wonderful South Jersey sweet potatoes and peaches
with plenty of hired help, heamused himself by mosing around, getting to
know everybody and everything that happened inhis section of the state. He had
an insatiable curiosity and money enough tokeep it satisfied. Hey are you conniving
Chiseling son of a gun? I'vebeen waiting for you to get here.
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What took you so long? Andwhat was that conniving Chiseling cranks? And
we're still on expense account, aren'tyou? Yeah, sure, it's helped
me. Nobody in history ever hadthe neck of padding out an expense account
the way you can and collect thosefancy commissions on top. All right,
When I was a private investigator whois retired, you call this retired two
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hundred and seventy acres of sandy soilfrom which to try to wrestle the poor
living. Oh no, that CadillacEldorado out front that belongs to one of
the hard hands nine hundred and eightythree peach trees. Isn't that a landing
feel? I see out there throughthe window a lot of sweet potato land
to be cultivated. Yes, hey, why didn't you fly down or let
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me know? And I had topick you up. Look, with all
the time I have thought you saidyou were Yah, how long you're going
to stay? Try and figure outwhere we'll go, what we'll do that
I'm on a case. Sure.Ricardo Amerigo and his priceless fiddle. Oh
no, it was easy. WhenI heard about him going over the bridge,
I contacted Barney Peters of the PortMorris p D. From Barney,
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I learned all about the next toKin, his agent that is Pte carbon
right, and that boy at PhiladelphiaMutual Harry Branson, and I knew Branson
wouldn't call anybody but you in onthe case. So here you are still
a private Iron said you got tohave some way of killing time. And
I suppose you have the whole case? Song hip. Well, according to
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Harry Branson, who heard from thePort Morris police just before I left Philly,
it was murder. Oh you pointkiller. I thought i'd be the
one to tell you that. Ohsorry, the cops know it. First
second, I told him, huhyeah, I showed him where somebody used
a hack saw on the steering armof Amerigo's car when they dragged it out
of the creek. So that wasit, yep? And who wielded the
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hack song? Well, Pete Corbyn? Who else? Why? Who else
should to benefit by Amarigo's sudden tripto the Great Beyond? No, no,
no, it's too easy. What'smore, he's the only one who
had constant and complete access to Amerigo'scar. Why he not only mothered little
Ricky, clothed and fed him andkept him in booze, but he paid
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his rents, swept out his apartment, serviced his cars and Johnny. That
car was even kept locked in PeteCorbyn's own garage. Corbyn had the only
key. Where did you learn thatCorbyn's landlord? By phone? Of course?
He said he thought Corbyn did thatso Ricky couldn't go out driving when
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he was drunk, and me,I think it was the other way around.
He'd only let him drive when hewas drunk, huh, instead of
good chance of smashing up what wouldlook like accidental death, so that Corbyn
would collect the double indemnity. It'sopen and shut. And he proofed Sherlock,
Ha, just get to Corbyn,throw it all at him and break
him down. Maybe you'll even finda hack, so tucked up his sleeve,
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choicy, and he bets that itisn't Corbyn. Yeah, yeah,
I'll bet you you name it mycommission on the case, I'll match it.
Oh and plus you're expenser car looked. I want to see that
car in the bridge and the creek, anything else I can find. Sure,
I'll fly you down there. Thenwe can go on over to Atlantic
City, hit some of the nightspots your treat, you know, so
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we can build up the expense accountenough for me to collect plenty, and
Bulls had been a pretty good investigatorin this day, seldom gone off half
cocked. And all his evidence waspurely circumstantial. And where was the body?
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What's more, Pete Corbyn acted anythingbut scared, or so I thought,
until I put through a routine calledHarry Branson. He was worried.
He had a right to be.Pete Corbin had packed a bag, jumped
into his car, it disappeared,Johnny Dollar. Sergeant Barnie Peters, Port
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Morris Police, Oh hi, sergeant, thought you and Adam Bowles were coming
over here to look at the evidenceand the murder of Ricardo Amarigo. You
are it's not warming up his plane. That's why I answered his phone.
We got a visitor here in PortMorris. The guy add thanks to the
job, Pete Corbyn, Amerigo's bookingagent. That's right in Port Morris.
That's right. Well are you holdinghim? I can't no legal reason to
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in spite of ads suspicions. Wellwhat's Corbyn doing there? I don't know
unless that's right about him? Huh? And Pete knows you're on his trail?
What's that mean? What couldn't mean? He's down here? Gunning for
you. Expenserc counsubmitted by Special InvestigatorJohnny Dollar, location, Port Morris,
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New Jersey. Following is in accountingof expenditures incurred during my investigation of the
Ricardo Emerigo matter. Item three onedollar even for whatever it was, the
local druggists recommended to pull my stomachback together after the flight an Ad Bowl's
private plane from AD's farm and southYe under Port Morris. In a sense,
I'm glad we flew in a carwith that at the wheel. We'd
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have been all over the road.As it was, we were only all
over the sky. A beautiful dayfor flying, isn't it, Johnny?
Can't you hold a straight course?And what's the matter with this ship?
And not a thing? I like? Two weave around a bit. I
like the feel of it. Youknow all that power under your Yeah,
sure you're not just trying to scareme into welchin on our little bet.
I'm gonna win that bet, Johnny, your commission on the case, plus
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all that goes on that well paddedexpensive count of yours. You just get
busy and find the body. Whydon't you forget your dark past is a
private eye and stay retired and leavean old friend like you floundering around with
a case. It's hay. Youdon't watch your steering, will be floundering
around, and those salt marshes downthere. Sorry, but can't you see
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Johnny Pete Corbon, Amerigo's agent hasto be the heavy. He's the beneficiary
of Amerigo's policy. Amerigo him alot him not too easy. And Pete's
the only person we know of whowas with Amerigo constantly. You got motive
opportunity. Too easy, I tellyou. But I wonder what under the
sun Pete's doing in Port Morris thatwe'll be finding out. We'll land there
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in a couple of minutes. Now. The little town of Port Morris was
set on the edge of one ofthe wide salt marshes that border a lot
of the South Jersey Shore, justa vast expanse of salt hay, and
that it with little coves and inlets, soggy swampy country. Ideal breeding place
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with the famous Jersey mosquitoes. AndI guess for me, the ideal breeding
place for trouble. Sergeant Barney Peter'smet us at the mucky little landing stretch
just outside town. And we headedout on a narrow, muddy road across
the marshes. Yes, and misterDollar, if how were you, I'd
try to pin down this Corbyn.Where is he now? Back in town?
Got alf McCracken keeping an eye onhim, helps the boy. So
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I am Arigo Christ through the bridgethat night. You know, Barney,
I still wish you'd cooked up somethingto hold him. But what ed sure
at every bit of evidence you thinkyou've got on Corbin, it's purely circumstanced.
What else have you got to goon? John boy? We'll see,
we'll see after I have a lookat the bridge Amerigo busted through in
his car. It's just up aheada bit acrosses the Lucky Hill Creek.
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I'd also like to know who couldhave well, I'd like to know what
could have happened to his body tothat thirty thousand dollars A muddy violin you
see. Just keep in mind thatthere's a mighty big flow of water in
the creek from the tide coming inand going out. MM tell me,
serge Johnny, I checked it.Huh. Tide had just turned was on
its way out to the ocean atthe time. Amarrigo's car went the bridge
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right, Barney, that's correct edright now, though it's probably about the
lords of what's the matter? Justpulling over to let this car that's coming
past us. Otherwise one of usmight sheer off into the swamp. And
these roads weren't meant for two waytraffic. Who's coming pretty fast for a
road like this, he isn't ky, Look Pennsylvania plates, huh, he's
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right, that's Corbyn's car carb huh. Swing across the road blocking wake the
son of a gun and I wascarbon, all right, Well, then
swing around go after it on thisroad you'd slide off into the swamp so
fast by the time we go onup to the bridge and turn, he'll
be halfway back to Philadelphia, blastedwhere we had the bird in hand and
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didn't know it. What are yougonna do now, Johnny, say,
just to exactly what we started out. You're losing valuable time now if I
were still, why don't you stayretired? We drove slowly on up to
the bridge, stopped and got out, and although the tide was almost low
now, it was easy to seehow that rush of water would easily carry
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a violin or a body or almostanything right out to sea or could it
the tide was running the same waywhen it happened out, Yeah, and
the current was a lot stronger thanit is now, so you can imagine
what it would Huh. Yeah,what's the matter, Johnny, Well,
that's that big bird nest whatever itis, down at the side of the
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creek fifty sixty feet. Oh,that's just where the reeds and hey,
you got mad at up? Doeslook like? Hey, yeah, that
isn't a fiddle case propped up ontop of it. It looks like sure
it is. Sure the tide washigher than the fiddle stuck in those reeds.
Wait here, Johnny, George,you'll come back here, doll it
don it's like quicksands down it you. It was like quicksand too black,
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Chloe muck and I sank into itup to my knees. I almost had
to swim through it, hanging ontoit, pulling myself along with the reeds
and pull rushes. But half thiscase hung on that thirty thousand dollars on
mighty violin, and I wasn't gonnalet it slip out of my hands.
A couple of times I dropped inthe soft holes, almost up to my
shoulders. But somehow I kept going, pulled a fiddle case off the pilomatic
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weaves and started back view stuff.Most of my strength but only one hand.
A pull is to pull myself alongto add head. Honey, I
at flying grabb this rope. Yeah, cats, breach, Johnny, use
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the violin case. He can float. Hi, I'll try chee here,
Johnny, we're over again, guyy. I hadn't passed out, so
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help me. I hadn't, notentirely, that is, I never have
been able to grab the line thatad bowls through to me. Needless to
say, I took a lot ofkidding from Adam Barney Peter's on the drive
back of Fort Morris, especially sinceI didn't really know what had happened until
I came to on the back seatof the car clutching the fiddle case.
Shu, if you'd held out ofthe rope with a death grip you have
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on that violin case, we'd havegot you out of that muck before you
swallowed half the salt water in thatinlay. Yeah. Sure, I'll see
this, Roy, mister dollar,you don't give up easy. The fiddle
The thirty thousand dollars money. Atleast I had half of this miserable case
in hand. In my hands,there'd be no insurance collection on that violin
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and I saw it. What's thematter, Johnny? You passed out again?
No? No, Ed, youshould have cleaned me up before you
put me into this car. Right? Look? Oh? What is it?
Piece of shirt? Ricardo Amerigo's shirt. Look monogram in the pocket ra
and what looks like bloodstains? You'reright? Where'd you get that? I
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must have picked it up when Ipicked up the fiddle. Well, at
least it proves that Amerigo went downwith his car, no doubt of it.
What I didn't tell him was thatthe piece of cloth from a kindo
Amerigo's shirt was facet to the violincase deliberately put there but by home by
Pete Corbyn. Johnny, that's yourman. Are you listening? Yeah,
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I'm listening. Beneficiary confidante, caretakerof both Ricky Amarigo and his car.
Who else could have saw it throughthe steering bar that made the car run
off the bridge? And a guywho was smart enough to have it happened
in this god forsaken saltnar just aminute. Okay, Barney in the heart
of sunny southern Jersey, where heexpected nobody to find car, or body
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or even the fiddle until long afterthe insurance claim was met thanks to a
tide that carry everything out to sea. Indeed, my friend, if you're
a deputy alf McCracken, hadn't actuallyseen Amrico's car slip through the bridge rail.
Oh wait a minute, yeah,yeah. If Pete Carbon had planned
this whole thing, he would havemade sure the coppers dilect I would be
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found, Johnny. That's why hehad the accident happened where somebody saw it.
Yet that's somebody else. Mccrack anddidn't see the fiddle float away.
He didn't see the body float awayfrom the car. Stop it, john
boy. You know as well asI do that this whole thing was engineered
by Cornar Right, tell me,investigator, what was he doing down here
today? Lord knows, and Idon't care, probably to plant that piece
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of shirt. Johnny. I've givenyou all the help I'm going on this
case from now on. You eitherfollow my tip and lose your bet to
me, or you a don't andgive yourself a black eye with insurance Johnny.
Yeah, Barney, that's a gooddetective. He'd have to be to
retire on that nice farm his overin South Fiman. Even broke a burglary
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case for me once in Port Marris, coupy year ago when I couldn't break
myself a pastime. But you've gotguts. I like you for it.
Thanks a lot, and to me, the Pete Corbyn theory looks well too
easy. Oh not you, barn. That's what I've been trying to praise
to that stubborn egg head sitting besideyou. I'll lend you a suit of
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clean clothes and you can chase thisthing down the way you want to,
without the dubious help of somebody whowas just trying to win a bet from
him, traitor. And if Iwere you, I'd had up a few
other people who knew Ricky Amergo besideshis press agent. Pete Corbyn, you
are a minerator, gentlemen. Ihave only one thing to say, and
Johnny, it's addressed to you.When you finally find that Pete Corbyn done
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it, you know where to sendthe check to me. At Port Morris,
we learned that Alf mccrack and Ilost track at Corban when the former
dropped in at Osborne's oyster house fora dozen and a half shell. I
hadn't even seen him take off inhis car, much less leave in a
hurry after spinning us on the roadde Luckyhoe Creek. I took advantage of
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Barney's offer, borrowed a suit ofhis clothes, and accepted a ride from
him to the crossroads of Woodvine,where I could get a bus back to
Philadelphia. Sure, half my jobwas done. I'd recovered the thirty thousand
dollars on money, Violin, butI could still hear the old so pleasant
voice of Ed Bulls X investigator notso retired. You know where to send
the check to me, Johnny boyexpense account had him five four dollars and
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ninety five cents bus fair from Woodvineto Philadelphia, and believe me, it's
a long bus ride. As soonas I got to my hotel and changed
into my own clothes, I calledHarry Branson at the insurance company. Mister
Branson here, this is mister dollar. Mister Branson, Yes, mister job.
Yeah, back of my hotel,music lover, and I've just won
the thirty thousand dollars on money.What yeah, I got the fiddle for
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you. Well, thank heaven yourecovered it. What if Ricardo Americo?
Later do you want your money?I'll be right over. Where is it,
John? Where is it? Righthere? Harry? Right here in
case bo and oh thank Heaven,And by some miracle, it's dry as
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a bone and all in one piece. Bla, oh, thank Heaven,
John, John, what's the matterthis? And amati? Oh no,
oh no. Now here's our starto tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of
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this week's story. Tomorrow the resultsof a poker game. And believe me,
there are times when the cards gonnabe really stacked against you. Join
us, won't you? Yours truLee, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, istranscribed in Hollywood. Written by Sam Dawson.
It is produced and directed by JackJohnstone. Be sure to join us
tomorrow night at the same time andstation for the next exciting episode of Yours
Truly, Johnny Dollar. This isRoy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well.
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I have to admit that that twistwith the violin not being the not being
the correct violin is an interesting one. I doubt since this is a mystery,
that it's just a random violin,but there's a big question as to
what exactly it's doing there, andand so this is starting off as a
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pretty good mystery. I also notethe insurance representative here, and this is
actually would be one of those recurringcharacters, and that was one thing that
made the Johnny Dollar run different theBob Bailey run because prior to Bob Bailey
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and what we've seen so far,all of the insurance investigation insurance guys,
we're just totally random people, actors, grab a script, grab a random
company name, Sam calling from thiscompany when you come on out here and
investigate. But we do start intosome recurring insurance company representatives with the unique
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characteristics and temperaments. And he's alittle bit fussy to start with, so
but a great start here. Wedo have some listener comment and feedback,
and have a comment here from Joanon podcast Allie Hi Adam, I really
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enjoy this show so much like Dragnetregarding the lineup, It's so nice to
finally be hearing Bob Daily's Johnny Dollarshows again. I think he plays Johnny
the best. I also enjoyed himand let George do it too. Hope
you are well. Cheers from Joanin Southern Ontario, Canada. Also on
podcast Allie, Thanks so much,Adam for all the hard work you put
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into a great podcast. From Pamla, Thanks so much, Pam. That
will actually do it for today.We'll be back tomorrow with mister Moto and
then join us on later tomorrow whenwe'll bring you our one thousandth episode special.
You'll want to be sure and listento that. In the meantime,
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you. All right, well,now we begin a new series. It's
time for the Ricardo Amerigo Matter Partsone and two from Hollywood. It's time
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now for Johnny Dallam. John thisis Harry Branson, a Philadelphia mutual.
Harry, what are you doing inJohn? I'm not, at least not
in your town. But you've gota case for me. Do you know
anything about violins? Oh? On, tell me. So he opened up
his fiddle case and out came asubmachine gun, added John, That technique
went out with prohibition. Now,seriously, this case contains a genuine Amati.
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Good what's in Amati? One ofthe fine this most expensive violin's ever
made. This one was insured forthirty thousand dollars. Wise, yes,
now someone has to find it forus. What's more? Okay, Harry,
I'm on my way tonight and everyweekday night. Bob Bailey in the
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Transcribed Adventures of the Man with theAction Tact Expensive God, America's Fabulous freelance
Insurance Investigator, Yours Truly, JohnnyDollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to the Philadelphia Mitual Liabilityand Casualty Company. The following is an
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accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigationof the Ricardo Amerigo matter. Expense account
Item one twelve forty Train fair andIncidentals to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I took
the train because Harry Branson didn't seemto be in any particular hurry, and
I can't like a slow look atthe countryside this time of year. When
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I got to Philadelphia, I checkedin at the Bellevue Stratford, shaved and
showered, then went over to HarryBranson's office and the Security First building on
Walnut Street. You deceived me,John. I thought, when we talk
long distance that you'd be here rightaway. But instead of flying down all
the silversides, Branson hadn't changed afull time. I'd hear a little grayer
than the last time I've seen him, perhaps from Amory's still the same serious
lads. He always acted as thoughhe was carrying the weight of the world
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on his shoulder. I feel adeep personal concern over the whole matter,
because it was a man I putin this office myself, who issued the
policies, both of them. Twopolicies on this fiddle you were talking about,
No, John, one on theAmati violin thirty thousand dollars, yeah,
and one on Ricardo Amerigo himself fortwenty thousand dollars. Who is Ricky?
Who wasn't that what you said?His name is. I'm sure I
didn't mention anyone by the Oh ohoh Ricardo Amerigo. Yes, yes,
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well, uh, where's he playinga purple cat? Or maybe we Willi's
join over, John, this manis a concert violinist or was? He's
disappeared? Now, please more levity, Sorry, Eero, it's harrisome,
sorry er all right, quite allright now, I realize that you have
quite a sense of humor, John, But in a matter as important as
this, Yeah, sure, Nowlet's have the story very well. A
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few years ago, Ricardo Amerigo wasone of the world's leading concert violinists,
as famous in London, Paris,Rome as in the concert halls of this
country. Ah, such virtuosity,almost unbelievable. I shall never forget one
evening here in our Academy of Music. He had just finished a perfectly brilliant
Vinofsky, amazing technical performance. Yeahwell, and from encore he played sarasat
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Sapatiado even more brilliant, Harry,But the audience wouldn't let him leave the
stage. Ricardo Amerigo has disappeared.Oh oh, yes, and you're in
a hurry to get all of thecase. I'm sorry, and I thinking
of his superlative performance that night carriedme away. For yes, he's dead,
disappeared in the violin no trace.He didn't say that before I know.
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You see, there's no proof ofdeath. Nobody disappeared. Well tell
let me shock your finer sensibilities.Harry murder. We had thought of that,
of course, who's we the PortMarris Police Port Marris, New Jersey,
that is aw. Yes, yousee, since Amerigo's car went through
the bridge rail, crashed right throughit and plunged into the river. Trying
to tie Harry down, the pertinentfacts that would help me in my investigation
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was well feudal. At least threetimes during the next half hour he went
off on glowing descriptions of violin recitalshe had known II, fitz Selman,
Chrysler, and so on. Buthe did come up with one or two
things I wanted. First, Amerigoand his fiddle had been driving down from
Philadelphia to some spot on the SouthJersey Seashore, crossing an old wooden bridge
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over a little stream and inlet fromthe ocean. The car had smashed through
the guard rail and gone to thebottom of the inlet. The car,
of course, was found Amerigo andhis violin no second, and just as
important the name of the beneficiary ofAmerigo's policies item too on expense account one
dollar even taxi to the Harnell Building, also on Walnut Street, in the
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office of Peter Corbyn, Amerigo's bookingagent. The building was plush, but
Corbyn's office was about as bare asI'd ever seen. An old, beat
up desk, a battered filing cabinet, a couple of straight chairs. That
was it. Dollar commenced. Corbynwas chewing the stub of a cigar that
he'd forgotten to relight for at leasta couple of days. We made with
the usual hotyds. Well, youmen, Branson told you exactly right,
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Dolla. I'm Ricado and Murgo's soleand only beneficiary. Oh it has not
a been unusual for a man's agentto be his air or was it because
you were all personal friends. I'mgoing to give it to you straight.
I brought him Marie Go over tothis country myself, my own sole expense.
I actually gave him the build up, I started his whole entire career.
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I kept him on top of allat my own expense. Why didn't
you collect a regular agent's commission onhis own shoe shore plenty more white kid
about it. Sure, while hewas working what's that supposed to mean?
Bottle? What yees? Started hittingthe bottle bad, not good, And
believe me, the word gets herown fast instead of taking me money himself
too, because he started costing memoney. But you see, he never
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saved anything even when he was earningbig You know how these artists. Yeah,
well that's the same with all ofthem. He gotten that actually up
to his ears and nobody no butno family, no relatives, nobody to
pull him out. Nobody but me, big hearted Corby. So you had
him take on a lot of insuranceand name you as beneficiary, Well that
was his idea. Actually, ofcourse he always did have the amati insured.
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That's his violin. Oh you knowabout violence? No oh well,
but the life insurance that was hisown idea, double identity, all that
sort of double Oh. Yeah,but guess who had to dig up the
mula for the last couple of premiums, Big heart at Corbyn. You're right,
not a bad investment though, wasn't. Well, hey, premiums and
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you stand to collect money if wecan find proof that he's dead, and
if we can't, I don't havebad Dollar. I don't either, cob,
and it doesn't smell that. Ohyou think me his own age can
actually rig something like that for oneof my best friends? You think that?
Listen, wise guy. Even ifI did have any any of us
such idea, it'd be crazy.Anything actually is as obvious as that.
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Well, sometimes the most obvious isthe best cover. Oh, get out
of here, Dollar, unless youwant somebody to start collecting on your assurance.
Even if it isn't you huh,get out so help you? Yeah,
pretty obvious, And every time youopen your mouth you don't. Why
is it that people who telegraph theirpunches are always the first to start swinging.
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Anyhow, I left Corbin to pickhimself up and start thinking about some
alibis he might need. And inthe camp back to my hotel, I
did a lot of thinking myself.Sure, the obvious, oft times is
the best cover up, and yetit might be too obvious, far too
obvious. Ns in here, JohnnyDollar here, Oh John good listen.
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At least there'll be no double indemnityto pay in the Amerigo madam for accidental
death. That is, you seewait a minute. About an hour ago,
you weren't even sure he's dead.Did somebody find the body? No,
unfortunately, But I've just received acall from the Port Morris Police.
They completed their examination of Amerigo's carafter they pulled it out of the creek.
Of course, I hope so,John, they found conclusive evidence of
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murder. Harry, I'll call youfrom Port Morris. Expense account adam two
subway, ferry, train and busfairs to South Final, New Jersey,
South Finland because Ed Bulls lived there, and I knew that if anything,
anything at all happened in the hardestsunny Southern Jersey, ad would know about
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it. Retired and raising some ofthose wonderful South Jersey sweet potatoes and peaches
with plenty of hired help, heamused himself by mosing around, getting to
know everybody and everything that happened inhis section of the state. He had
an insatiable curiosity and money enough tokeep it satisfied. Hey are you conniving
Chiseling son of a gun? I'vebeen waiting for you to get here.
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What took you so long? Andwhat was that conniving Chiseling cranks? And
we're still on expense account, aren'tyou? Yeah, sure, it's helped
me. Nobody in history ever hadthe neck of padding out an expense account
the way you can and collect thosefancy commissions on top. All right,
When I was a private investigator whois retired, you call this retired two
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hundred and seventy acres of sandy soilfrom which to try to wrestle the poor
living. Oh no, that CadillacEldorado out front that belongs to one of
the hard hands nine hundred and eightythree peach trees. Isn't that a landing
feel? I see out there throughthe window a lot of sweet potato land
to be cultivated. Yes, hey, why didn't you fly down or let
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me know? And I had topick you up. Look, with all
the time I have thought you saidyou were Yah, how long you're going
to stay? Try and figure outwhere we'll go, what we'll do that
I'm on a case. Sure.Ricardo Amerigo and his priceless fiddle. Oh
no, it was easy. WhenI heard about him going over the bridge,
I contacted Barney Peters of the PortMorris p D. From Barney,
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I learned all about the next toKin, his agent that is Pte carbon
right, and that boy at PhiladelphiaMutual Harry Branson, and I knew Branson
wouldn't call anybody but you in onthe case. So here you are still
a private Iron said you got tohave some way of killing time. And
I suppose you have the whole case? Song hip. Well, according to
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Harry Branson, who heard from thePort Morris police just before I left Philly,
it was murder. Oh you pointkiller. I thought i'd be the
one to tell you that. Ohsorry, the cops know it. First
second, I told him, huhyeah, I showed him where somebody used
a hack saw on the steering armof Amerigo's car when they dragged it out
of the creek. So that wasit, yep? And who wielded the
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hack song? Well, Pete Corbyn? Who else? Why? Who else
should to benefit by Amarigo's sudden tripto the Great Beyond? No, no,
no, it's too easy. What'smore, he's the only one who
had constant and complete access to Amerigo'scar. Why he not only mothered little
Ricky, clothed and fed him andkept him in booze, but he paid
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his rents, swept out his apartment, serviced his cars and Johnny. That
car was even kept locked in PeteCorbyn's own garage. Corbyn had the only
key. Where did you learn thatCorbyn's landlord? By phone? Of course?
He said he thought Corbyn did thatso Ricky couldn't go out driving when
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he was drunk, and me,I think it was the other way around.
He'd only let him drive when hewas drunk, huh, instead of
good chance of smashing up what wouldlook like accidental death, so that Corbyn
would collect the double indemnity. It'sopen and shut. And he proofed Sherlock,
Ha, just get to Corbyn,throw it all at him and break
him down. Maybe you'll even finda hack, so tucked up his sleeve,
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choicy, and he bets that itisn't Corbyn. Yeah, yeah,
I'll bet you you name it mycommission on the case, I'll match it.
Oh and plus you're expenser car looked. I want to see that
car in the bridge and the creek, anything else I can find. Sure,
I'll fly you down there. Thenwe can go on over to Atlantic
City, hit some of the nightspots your treat, you know, so
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we can build up the expense accountenough for me to collect plenty, and
Bulls had been a pretty good investigatorin this day, seldom gone off half
cocked. And all his evidence waspurely circumstantial. And where was the body?
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What's more, Pete Corbyn acted anythingbut scared, or so I thought,
until I put through a routine calledHarry Branson. He was worried.
He had a right to be.Pete Corbin had packed a bag, jumped
into his car, it disappeared,Johnny Dollar. Sergeant Barnie Peters, Port
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Morris Police, Oh hi, sergeant, thought you and Adam Bowles were coming
over here to look at the evidenceand the murder of Ricardo Amarigo. You
are it's not warming up his plane. That's why I answered his phone.
We got a visitor here in PortMorris. The guy add thanks to the
job, Pete Corbyn, Amerigo's bookingagent. That's right in Port Morris.
That's right. Well are you holdinghim? I can't no legal reason to
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in spite of ads suspicions. Wellwhat's Corbyn doing there? I don't know
unless that's right about him? Huh? And Pete knows you're on his trail?
What's that mean? What couldn't mean? He's down here? Gunning for
you. Expenserc counsubmitted by Special InvestigatorJohnny Dollar, location, Port Morris,
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New Jersey. Following is in accountingof expenditures incurred during my investigation of the
Ricardo Emerigo matter. Item three onedollar even for whatever it was, the
local druggists recommended to pull my stomachback together after the flight an Ad Bowl's
private plane from AD's farm and southYe under Port Morris. In a sense,
I'm glad we flew in a carwith that at the wheel. We'd
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have been all over the road.As it was, we were only all
over the sky. A beautiful dayfor flying, isn't it, Johnny?
Can't you hold a straight course?And what's the matter with this ship?
And not a thing? I like? Two weave around a bit. I
like the feel of it. Youknow all that power under your Yeah,
sure you're not just trying to scareme into welchin on our little bet.
I'm gonna win that bet, Johnny, your commission on the case, plus
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all that goes on that well paddedexpensive count of yours. You just get
busy and find the body. Whydon't you forget your dark past is a
private eye and stay retired and leavean old friend like you floundering around with
a case. It's hay. Youdon't watch your steering, will be floundering
around, and those salt marshes downthere. Sorry, but can't you see
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Johnny Pete Corbon, Amerigo's agent hasto be the heavy. He's the beneficiary
of Amerigo's policy. Amerigo him alot him not too easy. And Pete's
the only person we know of whowas with Amerigo constantly. You got motive
opportunity. Too easy, I tellyou. But I wonder what under the
sun Pete's doing in Port Morris thatwe'll be finding out. We'll land there
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in a couple of minutes. Now. The little town of Port Morris was
set on the edge of one ofthe wide salt marshes that border a lot
of the South Jersey Shore, justa vast expanse of salt hay, and
that it with little coves and inlets, soggy swampy country. Ideal breeding place
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with the famous Jersey mosquitoes. AndI guess for me, the ideal breeding
place for trouble. Sergeant Barney Peter'smet us at the mucky little landing stretch
just outside town. And we headedout on a narrow, muddy road across
the marshes. Yes, and misterDollar, if how were you, I'd
try to pin down this Corbyn.Where is he now? Back in town?
Got alf McCracken keeping an eye onhim, helps the boy. So
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I am Arigo Christ through the bridgethat night. You know, Barney,
I still wish you'd cooked up somethingto hold him. But what ed sure
at every bit of evidence you thinkyou've got on Corbin, it's purely circumstanced.
What else have you got to goon? John boy? We'll see,
we'll see after I have a lookat the bridge Amerigo busted through in
his car. It's just up aheada bit acrosses the Lucky Hill Creek.
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I'd also like to know who couldhave well, I'd like to know what
could have happened to his body tothat thirty thousand dollars A muddy violin you
see. Just keep in mind thatthere's a mighty big flow of water in
the creek from the tide coming inand going out. MM tell me,
serge Johnny, I checked it.Huh. Tide had just turned was on
its way out to the ocean atthe time. Amarrigo's car went the bridge
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right, Barney, that's correct edright now, though it's probably about the
lords of what's the matter? Justpulling over to let this car that's coming
past us. Otherwise one of usmight sheer off into the swamp. And
these roads weren't meant for two waytraffic. Who's coming pretty fast for a
road like this, he isn't ky, Look Pennsylvania plates, huh, he's
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right, that's Corbyn's car carb huh. Swing across the road blocking wake the
son of a gun and I wascarbon, all right, Well, then
swing around go after it on thisroad you'd slide off into the swamp so
fast by the time we go onup to the bridge and turn, he'll
be halfway back to Philadelphia, blastedwhere we had the bird in hand and
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didn't know it. What are yougonna do now, Johnny, say,
just to exactly what we started out. You're losing valuable time now if I
were still, why don't you stayretired? We drove slowly on up to
the bridge, stopped and got out, and although the tide was almost low
now, it was easy to seehow that rush of water would easily carry
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a violin or a body or almostanything right out to sea or could it
the tide was running the same waywhen it happened out, Yeah, and
the current was a lot stronger thanit is now, so you can imagine
what it would Huh. Yeah,what's the matter, Johnny, Well,
that's that big bird nest whatever itis, down at the side of the
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creek fifty sixty feet. Oh,that's just where the reeds and hey,
you got mad at up? Doeslook like? Hey, yeah, that
isn't a fiddle case propped up ontop of it. It looks like sure
it is. Sure the tide washigher than the fiddle stuck in those reeds.
Wait here, Johnny, George,you'll come back here, doll it
don it's like quicksands down it you. It was like quicksand too black,
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Chloe muck and I sank into itup to my knees. I almost had
to swim through it, hanging ontoit, pulling myself along with the reeds
and pull rushes. But half thiscase hung on that thirty thousand dollars on
mighty violin, and I wasn't gonnalet it slip out of my hands.
A couple of times I dropped inthe soft holes, almost up to my
shoulders. But somehow I kept going, pulled a fiddle case off the pilomatic
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weaves and started back view stuff.Most of my strength but only one hand.
A pull is to pull myself alongto add head. Honey, I
at flying grabb this rope. Yeah, cats, breach, Johnny, use
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the violin case. He can float. Hi, I'll try chee here,
Johnny, we're over again, guyy. I hadn't passed out, so
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help me. I hadn't, notentirely, that is, I never have
been able to grab the line thatad bowls through to me. Needless to
say, I took a lot ofkidding from Adam Barney Peter's on the drive
back of Fort Morris, especially sinceI didn't really know what had happened until
I came to on the back seatof the car clutching the fiddle case.
Shu, if you'd held out ofthe rope with a death grip you have
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on that violin case, we'd havegot you out of that muck before you
swallowed half the salt water in thatinlay. Yeah. Sure, I'll see
this, Roy, mister dollar,you don't give up easy. The fiddle
The thirty thousand dollars money. Atleast I had half of this miserable case
in hand. In my hands,there'd be no insurance collection on that violin
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and I saw it. What's thematter, Johnny? You passed out again?
No? No, Ed, youshould have cleaned me up before you
put me into this car. Right? Look? Oh? What is it?
Piece of shirt? Ricardo Amerigo's shirt. Look monogram in the pocket ra
and what looks like bloodstains? You'reright? Where'd you get that? I
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must have picked it up when Ipicked up the fiddle. Well, at
least it proves that Amerigo went downwith his car, no doubt of it.
What I didn't tell him was thatthe piece of cloth from a kindo
Amerigo's shirt was facet to the violincase deliberately put there but by home by
Pete Corbyn. Johnny, that's yourman. Are you listening? Yeah,
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I'm listening. Beneficiary confidante, caretakerof both Ricky Amarigo and his car.
Who else could have saw it throughthe steering bar that made the car run
off the bridge? And a guywho was smart enough to have it happened
in this god forsaken saltnar just aminute. Okay, Barney in the heart
of sunny southern Jersey, where heexpected nobody to find car, or body
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or even the fiddle until long afterthe insurance claim was met thanks to a
tide that carry everything out to sea. Indeed, my friend, if you're
a deputy alf McCracken, hadn't actuallyseen Amrico's car slip through the bridge rail.
Oh wait a minute, yeah,yeah. If Pete Carbon had planned
this whole thing, he would havemade sure the coppers dilect I would be
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found, Johnny. That's why hehad the accident happened where somebody saw it.
Yet that's somebody else. Mccrack anddidn't see the fiddle float away.
He didn't see the body float awayfrom the car. Stop it, john
boy. You know as well asI do that this whole thing was engineered
by Cornar Right, tell me,investigator, what was he doing down here
today? Lord knows, and Idon't care, probably to plant that piece
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of shirt. Johnny. I've givenyou all the help I'm going on this
case from now on. You eitherfollow my tip and lose your bet to
me, or you a don't andgive yourself a black eye with insurance Johnny.
Yeah, Barney, that's a gooddetective. He'd have to be to
retire on that nice farm his overin South Fiman. Even broke a burglary
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case for me once in Port Marris, coupy year ago when I couldn't break
myself a pastime. But you've gotguts. I like you for it.
Thanks a lot, and to me, the Pete Corbyn theory looks well too
easy. Oh not you, barn. That's what I've been trying to praise
to that stubborn egg head sitting besideyou. I'll lend you a suit of
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clean clothes and you can chase thisthing down the way you want to,
without the dubious help of somebody whowas just trying to win a bet from
him, traitor. And if Iwere you, I'd had up a few
other people who knew Ricky Amergo besideshis press agent. Pete Corbyn, you
are a minerator, gentlemen. Ihave only one thing to say, and
Johnny, it's addressed to you.When you finally find that Pete Corbyn done
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it, you know where to sendthe check to me. At Port Morris,
we learned that Alf mccrack and Ilost track at Corban when the former
dropped in at Osborne's oyster house fora dozen and a half shell. I
hadn't even seen him take off inhis car, much less leave in a
hurry after spinning us on the roadde Luckyhoe Creek. I took advantage of
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Barney's offer, borrowed a suit ofhis clothes, and accepted a ride from
him to the crossroads of Woodvine,where I could get a bus back to
Philadelphia. Sure, half my jobwas done. I'd recovered the thirty thousand
dollars on money, Violin, butI could still hear the old so pleasant
voice of Ed Bulls X investigator notso retired. You know where to send
the check to me, Johnny boyexpense account had him five four dollars and
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ninety five cents bus fair from Woodvineto Philadelphia, and believe me, it's
a long bus ride. As soonas I got to my hotel and changed
into my own clothes, I calledHarry Branson at the insurance company. Mister
Branson here, this is mister dollar. Mister Branson, Yes, mister job.
Yeah, back of my hotel,music lover, and I've just won
the thirty thousand dollars on money.What yeah, I got the fiddle for
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you. Well, thank heaven yourecovered it. What if Ricardo Americo?
Later do you want your money?I'll be right over. Where is it,
John? Where is it? Righthere? Harry? Right here in
case bo and oh thank Heaven,And by some miracle, it's dry as
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a bone and all in one piece. Bla, oh, thank Heaven,
John, John, what's the matterthis? And amati? Oh no,
oh no. Now here's our starto tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of
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this week's story. Tomorrow the resultsof a poker game. And believe me,
there are times when the cards gonnabe really stacked against you. Join
us, won't you? Yours truLee, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, istranscribed in Hollywood. Written by Sam Dawson.
It is produced and directed by JackJohnstone. Be sure to join us
tomorrow night at the same time andstation for the next exciting episode of Yours
Truly, Johnny Dollar. This isRoy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well.
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I have to admit that that twistwith the violin not being the not being
the correct violin is an interesting one. I doubt since this is a mystery,
that it's just a random violin,but there's a big question as to
what exactly it's doing there, andand so this is starting off as a
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pretty good mystery. I also notethe insurance representative here, and this is
actually would be one of those recurringcharacters, and that was one thing that
made the Johnny Dollar run different theBob Bailey run because prior to Bob Bailey
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and what we've seen so far,all of the insurance investigation insurance guys,
we're just totally random people, actors, grab a script, grab a random
company name, Sam calling from thiscompany when you come on out here and
investigate. But we do start intosome recurring insurance company representatives with the unique
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characteristics and temperaments. And he's alittle bit fussy to start with, so
but a great start here. Wedo have some listener comment and feedback,
and have a comment here from Joanon podcast Allie Hi Adam, I really
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enjoy this show so much like Dragnetregarding the lineup, It's so nice to
finally be hearing Bob Daily's Johnny Dollarshows again. I think he plays Johnny
the best. I also enjoyed himand let George do it too. Hope
you are well. Cheers from Joanin Southern Ontario, Canada. Also on
podcast Allie, Thanks so much,Adam for all the hard work you put
(30:30):
into a great podcast. From Pamla, Thanks so much, Pam. That
will actually do it for today.We'll be back tomorrow with mister Moto and
then join us on later tomorrow whenwe'll bring you our one thousandth episode special.
You'll want to be sure and listento that. In the meantime,
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I send your comments to Box thirteenat Great Detectives dot net, follow us
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.