November 23, 2025 • 23 mins
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama which aired between 1949 and 1962. "The man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar". Of the eight different actors who played Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey is likely considered the most popular. Bailey's interpretation presented a tough, streetwise character, but also sensitive and thoughtful. During it's time, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar attracted some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Jack Johnstone, E. Jack Neuman, Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Johnny Dollar Earl. Foreman, Johnny Earl, I just left you
down in Florida. Where are you right where you left me?
Right here in Saratota. Oh well, if you're worried about
my expense accomplident, that case we cleaned up together. I
was just about to mailitary. Why don't you bring it
down here instead? Huh. A couple of hours after you
hopped the board, your playing back to Hartford. I got
a phone call from Bill Hall, remember him, fellow who
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runs that men's shop at the Tammy Emmy Trail. That's right,
web Bill owns the play Sure. I bought a sports
jacket and a couple of pair of slacks there it west.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, somebody cleaned him out of about ten thousand dollars.
Where the merchandise last night?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh and you didn't shoot it for him?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yes, I'd also issued a ten thousand dollars policy on
the man he.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Had there as a night watchman. Oh yeah, Johnny, the
police think he was murdered. Okay, I'll wear the first
plan I can. Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of
the Man with the Action Fact Expense account America's fabulous
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free lance insurance investigators, Truly Johnny Dollars and now act
one the yours, truly Johnny Dollars expense accounts, so better
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buy Special Investigator Johnny Dollars to the Tri State Life
at Casualty Company, Sarasota office. Following is the account of
expenses and care during my investigation of the net of
Circumstance matter expense account and a one seventy five dollars
plane fair an Incidental's Hartford to Tampa, Florida. There I
figured on changing planes. Federal Porman met me in his
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car and by seven pm we arrived at Sarasota. We
drove straight to webs. The place was in a mess. Oh,
I'll say this, mister Pullman. You certainly didn't waste any time.
But I didn't see any reason to Bill Johnny. You
remember Bill Hall? Yeah? Sure? How are you? Bill? Good
doll and a good look at the play? Yeah, I
see you've lost a lot of your stock. You haven't
finished checking yet. I sent the boys on to get
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some sleep. But as really as we can tell, whoever
did this got away with over nine thousand worths of
clothing and accessories and never knows what they did to
Old Jimson Jimpson Jimson Cooly the night watchman. Well, you
said over the phone that you thought he's been murdered, Yes, sir,
somehow they must have got Old Jimson to open the
back door for them. Then when he saw what they
were up to, he tried to fight them off. You'll
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see the marks of a big struggle out back, and
bits of his clothing were lying around covered with blood,
but no sign of him. Johnny. The police figure that
they must have killed him and un dumped his body somewhere.
You keep saying, they Bill, they had so little time that, well,
one man couldn't have done it alone very well. You see,
it all happened between the regular rounds of the PDS
Prowl car. Last time this sort of thing happened, there
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were three men in on him. Or you've been Robb
before about a year ago, something like eighteen thousand works
the police managed to track down to him. Oh what
about the third Well, he was never identified, or rather
he was identified but never located. Anyhow, it was after
that that we put Old Jimpson on his night watchman.
M I wonder about that third man? Was your store
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of the only place that Jimpson watched. Yeah, after all,
he was a pretty old man. I gave him the
job to help him out as much as anything else,
and I figured it's just being around would keep something
like this from happening again. I guess that was wrong.
Jimpson used to run a shrimp boat in his spare time.
He used to work the spot each of Humpback Bridge,
a lot south of City Island.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
That's right, And to think of it, I.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Heard a boat working out there last night. The point
is he couldn't really make a living at it, so
he was glad to take what little we could give
him for this watchman's jet. And in return, somebody's taking
his life, he prayed. So, of course, you can't be
sure until his body's flowed. What are you thinking of, Johnny, Well,
if by any chance this Gimpson cool, he isn't dead.
The police say that it ready to all the evidence.
If he's still alive, he's the one person who could
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tell us something about whoever I cleaned out this shop.
If the police found any actual clues to work on. Well, no,
that's where you're wrong, Sir, Sergeant Drummond. That's right, Danny boy,
Hi suck So they drag you in on this, Yeah,
frid so all you know how it is drumming when
the police can't get anywhere you call him the expert.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh and I thought you were a friend of mine.
Ms Pullman.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You said that Bill was wrong sergeant when he told
me your boys haven't found any clues to who did
this job and knocked off Jims and cooling knocked him off.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Huh wan of what's that mean? One of the boys
picked up and drunk last night, was right in this neighborhood. Yeah,
late this morning, when he sobered up enough, we sent
him home for a little while. Ago he comes boarding
back to headquarters. Seems he suddenly remembered something he saw
around here last night. Come on, sergeant, we must have
been around two or three am. That's when we figured
the robbery.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Occurred and the murder of Jimson Cooley. Yeah, please get
to the point. Drumming.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Well, he was holding up that building across the street
mine his own business and his bo when all of
a sudden he saw a car come round from in
back of this building and heading north on the trail.
Maybe two of them, wasn't sure any I don't want
to notice was a little pickup truck.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
But in his condition, I suppose he didn't get a
license somewhere.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
He didn't need to, Johnny, because he recognized that truck.
Oh yes, sir, And he said it was all loaded
down with something, with an old piece of canvas stretched
over the stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
That was stolen from me.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Maybe you say he recognized that pickup Who's was it?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, Johnny, was that old nineteen thirty mottel?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
He used a whole shrimping Why who's that's you?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's right? It was that old truck at Jimson.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Booley Act two of yours. Truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant
Donald's Bellwether.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
My husband, Good morning, missus ball Weather.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Would my lady prefer to have her breakfast in bed
this morning?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oh? What else?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Ty t thank you? Dying as the tray with the coffee,
he's the toast and the art. Oh fine, I forgot
the orange juice a hole tray.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
I mean, I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
What happened.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
In the corner of the.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Pressure Uh oh, the National Safety cover was right.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
None of the last night I read something in a
National Safety Council pamphlet.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh, reader, how can you sit there talking about a
pamphlet when I'm dying? A slow torture was come before darning?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Al right, now, what's this about the National Safety Council?
Did they predict that which stuffed my toes this morning?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
No?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Still, it's just a coincidence.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Only last night I read the statistics that proved that
more home accidents occur in the bedroom. Of all places, Uh,
not the bathroom with the kitchen, or the whole workshop,
the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Okay, From from now on when I walk around the bedroom,
I'm gonna wear my combat boots instead of these open.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Toad her Well, that might help you, But what everyone
to be most careful of is taking medicine in the darks.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, my Living Safety encyclopedia. I will now fetch your orange.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Oh you're sweet, And it's just too bad that you
nice men are so prone to accidents in the home.
And the reason is because you brave men usually tackle
the hazardess jobs around the house.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'll remember those kind words as I fully limped back
to the kitchen.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
One thing in your favor, those are married men sent
a better chance of avoiding fatal accidents in the home.
Is that a f you know, in one state, seventy
five percent of the men involved.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
In home mishaps were unmarried.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Well, I'm sure glad I'm married.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Because the accident odds are better, you know, because I
like my wife even when she first wakes up in
the morning. Mmm, that's my Donald, that's my dog.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the nut of circumstance matter. Yeah, everything indicated that whoever
burglarized Webb's habitashery there in Sarasota had murdered the night watchman,
Old Jimson Cooley. That is until somebody reported having seen
a loaded pickup truck at the time of the robbery
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pull away from the back of the store. And whose
truck was it?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yes, he swears, with that old nineteen thirty pickup of
Jims and coolies.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And he says it went north on the Tammami Trail. Yes, sir,
what have you done about it?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Sergeant alerted every police sparting from here the Georgia state
line beyond the lookout for him.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Didn't you know that truck was missing from wherever Jimson.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Lived well well, and actually he got around it checking
on his slate.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yead, you thought he was murdered and you didn't even
bother to check his home.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well, we called his wife, Johnny, and when she said
he hadn't come home. With all the evidence of the
big fight out back.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Of this store, oh fine, you can't blame them, Johnny,
all the blood bits of Jimson's clothing it with towing off. Look, look,
maybe it's just a wild hunch, but earl, yes, Johnny,
you suppose Doc Crutcher's at home. Probably it's just up
the street from my house.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
We've got a doctor connected with headquarters, you know, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, how do we get out the back way? Went
right out here?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Johnny?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What's this hunt?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You got?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Tell you? Whirl? And it probably turned out to be wrong.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, now you can see for yourself, dollar while we
figured him a dead one, old Jimson, I mean yeah,
it fusted, railing, blood spattered around, and look there where
somebody hit the dirt's.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Full of blood there too, must have lost plenty.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, so we picked up a short length of lead
pipe with blood on it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Is this a piece of claw on the shirt he
was wearing. Yeah, Johnny is from the shirt I gave
him throwing off in the fight.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Uh, well, I guess I must overlook that little piece.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, maybe that isn't all Why if I keep it?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go ahead, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Hear? If you feel like driving me around? A bet?
There are a couple of people I'd like to see.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Sure, I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We'll see you later. Yeah, it was a hunch, nothing else.
But I learned a long time ago that sometimes it
pays to play a hunch for all it's worth, particularly
when you're having anything real solid to work on. Ignoring
Earl's questions, I had him driving to Doc Crutcher's home
out on St Armond's Key. Fortunately he was at home.
Even better, we found him in his study, pouring over
a microscope.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Sure Johnny would be glad too, Just as soon as
I finished making this hemoglob and con.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, there's no hurry, Doc, I'll drop by and check
with you later. Jameson cooler, We we'll see. Look, Johnny,
do you mind telling me what this is all about?
And until I'm sure myself? Earl, listen, do you think
you can find out where Old Jimson's wife lives.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Sure, I guess, don't you mean widow Journey?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Maybe? Oh, last I heard everything I've heard. Well, it
doesn't all tie up. Look Journey, If Jimson's still a love,
that's what I'm banking on. Come on, earl Lace. Far
out on the edge of town was a shank and
nothing more. And the darkness didn't look much better than
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the beat up chicken house at the back of it.
As for the chickens, I don't half of them were
asleep out in the yard until we got there.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Yes, I'm coming, I'm coming.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Wait, oh, mister Palmer, this is Cooley, This is mister Johnny.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Listening now, mister Pulmer. They found Jensen's body yet?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I share hope they do.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
That's all I got to say, because if the don't sleep,
what miss Canniwell told me today.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
If a don't, I might have to wait five six
years for and to let.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That inshaws that we bought on him.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Can't well you got any news about him or not?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Johnny? You you don't seem to care much whether your
husband's alive or not.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Missus school, No, why should I the lazy bum It
wasn't for me raising these heads. Five We were shrimping
and selling them for bait of them Yankees to come
down the fish around the other and he's done pretty good.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
He had meat on the table now then side.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
Chicking ever since they gotten that soft job setting around
that store every night.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Did you know to find the police when he failed
to come home this morning?
Speaker 10 (12:12):
I did not guides when I've seen that one of
them nets was missing. You see where he keeps him
hung over the lemon.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
That tree out there, Cool?
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Well, what I figured is maybe he'd gone out to
do some more shrimping.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Or else he'd took it out and sold it so
he'ld buy.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Some more of that rock gut he's been drinking lately.
So I got this boom handed by the door.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
What do you mean to keep him out? Because he
wouldn't try to come in and.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Beat me, beat you sure like he always does when
he's been drinking.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
And then when he didn't come home.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
At all, and Cool come in, Tanderwell stopped by and
told me he'd been killed.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Well, you know who I think, Donnie, who one.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Of that gang had tried to rob Webbs last year?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now, why do you think that.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Because Jameson told me one of them was around town.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's why Jimson knew who he was and didn't report
it to the police. How should I know? Why not?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Now?
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Look, if y'all didn't come around to pay me my inchance,
what is it you want?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What I really stopped by form, Missus Cooley, was to
see if you'd sell me one of your chickens. Why why? Sure?
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Only you'll cost your money. Hey, maybe seventy five cents.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Here, here's a dollar, and we'll call it even.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Well, thanks you. If you look out for them cloth,
you'll not wring it next. Only I suppose you want.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It plucked too, No, no thanks, Suppose you just give
me the head? Hey, yeah, you can have the rest
of it for dinner tomorrow. What come on, let's get
back to Saint Imun's key.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I'm sorry, Johnny, but I really ought to have thrown
the materials down at my office for putting that specimen
you gave me under the microscope. Of course, if you
could wait until morning, Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Sure, why not? Once more? I could use a little
shut eye. But here, yeah, take along a sample of
the blood from this too.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Would you've been outraiding somebody's chicken coop.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now you may want it for comparison, if you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yes, Johnny, I think I do well.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I don't earl. Why don't you and I go home
and get some sleep. Act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
In a moment.
Speaker 11 (14:30):
Do you know who said that man is free who
is protected from injury? Those words came from Daniel Webster,
one of the most eloquent orators in American history. Webster
knew that a man could not be free unless he
lived in a country which recognized his right to freedom
and created laws.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
To protect that freedom.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
A slave state may say that its citizens are free,
but as long as a single citizen can be harmed
by the whim of a country's rulers, true freedom does
not exist. A man is free only if his rights
to freedom are protected. Remember the words of Daniel Webster.
They are part of your American heritage. The freeman must
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be protected from injury.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And no Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollars. Early
the next morning, I got a phone call from Sergeant
Drummond down at headquarters.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yes, Sir Johnny, some of the boys found him laying
in his corn a little wagon trail just off the
ridge road.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Jimpson Cooley, Jimson Coolie must.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Have been laying there unconscious ever since a burglar slug
him and took him out there. He's a rugged old cus,
so he's in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now. What did he say about that burglary surgeon?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Same as we figured. Man made him open back door,
beat him up in that place and probably thought he'd
killed him, so he drove him out to that side
road and left him there.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
What about the stuff that was stolen?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Must transmitted to his own car when.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
He left Jimson there was Jimpson able to identify him?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Said, he claim to be the man we never did
get for robbing that store the first time. Do you
want to talk to Jimson?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yes, Sergeant, I'll be right over. I had her driving
out a headquarters. I saw Jimson cool He talked to him,
but learned nothing from him. I didn't already know he
was a disagreeable old coats, the sort who would get
drunk and beat his wife. He still wore his baby
torn clothes, and yes he had a couple of cuts
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and bad bruises, but were they enough to account for
all the blood we founded back of the store. I
asked Earl to drive me over to Doc crutch his office.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Well just finished, Johnny, and I'm sorry, but the blood
that was spilled out in the back of that store
was not chicken blood.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But well, now I see what you were driving at, Johnny.
You figured maybe Jensen had done the robbery himself, water,
then he'd covered the place with chicken blood to back
up that story of a fight with some burglar. Oh.
I think he was in a fight, all right, but
I don't think he lost. Doc.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
As I started to say, I wanted to check the
blood on that piece of his shirt. You brought me
here in the office where I have a record of
Jimson's blood. Tups, I got it when I made his
insurance examination or was it his on the shirt? It
was human blood, all right, but not Jimson coolies all right.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Then I guessed his story of having been forced to
open the store, then beat up and knocked out and
left out there in his car by the burglar. It's true. Wrong, Earl, Well,
what do you mean, Why not didn't you say you
heard a shrimp boat out on the bay last night? Sure,
but what that guy Polly's wife said one of those
heavy weighted shrimp nets was missing. Did Gen Yes, I
remember this. Bill Hall said that one man wouldn't have
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had time to take all that stuff out of his
store alone, So maybe there were two burglars, And I
still don't Jimpson said there was only one, so I
think he was helping him. And who do you think
for a minute that Jimpson lost all the blood we
saw out in the back of that store. You saw
him there at headquarters. Well he didn't exactly look as
though he corse didn't. But then, Johnny, first we wanted
to find Jimson's body, but then he turned up alive.
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Now we'd better find the body of this other man,
whoever he is.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You're right, Johnny, then you really have a case?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Sure, So well let's go fishing fish. Well, you know
how it is when I'm really stuck in a case,
everything all muddled up. Well, it's tied to relax and
kind of let your head clear. Come on, let's go. Sure,
Earl thought I was crazy, but we unhitched the boat
from his private dock and headed up the fire and
passed under a humpback bridge and into the outer end
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of Sarasota Bay, out toward City Island, where WSPB has
its radio tower. I tied on a heavy trolling rig
and tossed the line of the board. Johnny, you're crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
He use that heavy rig out here.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
The water's real shallow. All it'll do is drank the
bottom a little slower. Girl here in the bay, we
you would go, I have shrimp to get seat drought.
You know about a number two hawks?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
We bottom fish slower? What is okay? Whatever you say?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And so we trolled back and forth over the place
where Jimpson ranish shrimp. Johnny, it's no good fishing here
with that heavy tackle. And this is where he got
a shrimp. There ought to be fish or something. Maybe
I'm after that something. I think you've gone nuts. And fifteen,
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maybe twenty times I had to remind the line and
take off a cup of seaweed that it's gotten tangular.
They'll begin to get him patient. They were really gonna fish.
Why didn't we do it right? Then suddenly the old
fugus started to say, hold it on, hell me ng, yeah,
what is it? Just hold your heart went under the
ton of your tidens with Johnny, if this linel hole,
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we may have what I've been looking for. I can't
imagine what kind of a fish should be that here
in the bay.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Fine, Fine, all.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You've done is get snagged up in some old Uncle
Rocken's fish net. Yeah, or a shwimp net. If you'll
just help me get at a board. Sure, it's a
little more, Johnny, and I'll be able to reach the
park where you've poked into it a little more.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now give me a hand, right.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Now, they put a lot of lead on these nets,
but I never thought they could weave in, john Look
what's in it?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Good lord. When Jensen was faced with a man's body
wrapped in the net he'd sunk out there in the bay,
he broke down and told us what had really happened,
even told us where the stolen stuff was.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Him.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, the dead man was one of the gang who'd
robbed the story a year ago. He persuaded Jimson to
help him do it again, offered him a hundred bucks,
but then when he had the stuff, he tried to
run out without paying off, so Simpson had killed him.
Now the courts alamp to take over. Incidentally, I understand
that Webbs is installing a fool proof burglar alarm system.
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Expense account total one hundred and fifty one fifty Yours, Truly,
Johnny Dull. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates
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in Hollywood and has written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
Heard in our cast Lillian Bias, Vic Karlin, Harry Bartel,
Barney Phillips, Bartlett Robinson and Bill Ja. Be sure to
join us next week, same time and station, or another
exciting story of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan
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cubberly speaking. Johnny Dollar has come to you through the
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worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and
Television Service.
From Hollywood. It's time now for.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Johnny Dollar Earl. Foreman, Johnny Earl, I just left you
down in Florida. Where are you right where you left me?
Right here in Saratota. Oh well, if you're worried about
my expense accomplident, that case we cleaned up together. I
was just about to mailitary. Why don't you bring it
down here instead? Huh. A couple of hours after you
hopped the board, your playing back to Hartford. I got
a phone call from Bill Hall, remember him, fellow who
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runs that men's shop at the Tammy Emmy Trail. That's right,
web Bill owns the play Sure. I bought a sports
jacket and a couple of pair of slacks there it west.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, somebody cleaned him out of about ten thousand dollars.
Where the merchandise last night?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh and you didn't shoot it for him?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yes, I'd also issued a ten thousand dollars policy on
the man he.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Had there as a night watchman. Oh yeah, Johnny, the
police think he was murdered. Okay, I'll wear the first
plan I can. Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of
the Man with the Action Fact Expense account America's fabulous
(01:10):
free lance insurance investigators, Truly Johnny Dollars and now act
one the yours, truly Johnny Dollars expense accounts, so better
(01:37):
buy Special Investigator Johnny Dollars to the Tri State Life
at Casualty Company, Sarasota office. Following is the account of
expenses and care during my investigation of the net of
Circumstance matter expense account and a one seventy five dollars
plane fair an Incidental's Hartford to Tampa, Florida. There I
figured on changing planes. Federal Porman met me in his
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car and by seven pm we arrived at Sarasota. We
drove straight to webs. The place was in a mess. Oh,
I'll say this, mister Pullman. You certainly didn't waste any time.
But I didn't see any reason to Bill Johnny. You
remember Bill Hall? Yeah? Sure? How are you? Bill? Good
doll and a good look at the play? Yeah, I
see you've lost a lot of your stock. You haven't
finished checking yet. I sent the boys on to get
(02:19):
some sleep. But as really as we can tell, whoever
did this got away with over nine thousand worths of
clothing and accessories and never knows what they did to
Old Jimson Jimpson Jimson Cooly the night watchman. Well, you
said over the phone that you thought he's been murdered, Yes, sir,
somehow they must have got Old Jimson to open the
back door for them. Then when he saw what they
were up to, he tried to fight them off. You'll
(02:39):
see the marks of a big struggle out back, and
bits of his clothing were lying around covered with blood,
but no sign of him. Johnny. The police figure that
they must have killed him and un dumped his body somewhere.
You keep saying, they Bill, they had so little time that, well,
one man couldn't have done it alone very well. You see,
it all happened between the regular rounds of the PDS
Prowl car. Last time this sort of thing happened, there
(03:01):
were three men in on him. Or you've been Robb
before about a year ago, something like eighteen thousand works
the police managed to track down to him. Oh what
about the third Well, he was never identified, or rather
he was identified but never located. Anyhow, it was after
that that we put Old Jimpson on his night watchman.
M I wonder about that third man? Was your store
(03:21):
of the only place that Jimpson watched. Yeah, after all,
he was a pretty old man. I gave him the
job to help him out as much as anything else,
and I figured it's just being around would keep something
like this from happening again. I guess that was wrong.
Jimpson used to run a shrimp boat in his spare time.
He used to work the spot each of Humpback Bridge,
a lot south of City Island.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
That's right, And to think of it, I.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Heard a boat working out there last night. The point
is he couldn't really make a living at it, so
he was glad to take what little we could give
him for this watchman's jet. And in return, somebody's taking
his life, he prayed. So, of course, you can't be
sure until his body's flowed. What are you thinking of, Johnny, Well,
if by any chance this Gimpson cool, he isn't dead.
The police say that it ready to all the evidence.
If he's still alive, he's the one person who could
(04:03):
tell us something about whoever I cleaned out this shop.
If the police found any actual clues to work on. Well, no,
that's where you're wrong, Sir, Sergeant Drummond. That's right, Danny boy,
Hi suck So they drag you in on this, Yeah,
frid so all you know how it is drumming when
the police can't get anywhere you call him the expert.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh and I thought you were a friend of mine.
Ms Pullman.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You said that Bill was wrong sergeant when he told
me your boys haven't found any clues to who did
this job and knocked off Jims and cooling knocked him off.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Huh wan of what's that mean? One of the boys
picked up and drunk last night, was right in this neighborhood. Yeah,
late this morning, when he sobered up enough, we sent
him home for a little while. Ago he comes boarding
back to headquarters. Seems he suddenly remembered something he saw
around here last night. Come on, sergeant, we must have
been around two or three am. That's when we figured
the robbery.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Occurred and the murder of Jimson Cooley. Yeah, please get
to the point. Drumming.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Well, he was holding up that building across the street
mine his own business and his bo when all of
a sudden he saw a car come round from in
back of this building and heading north on the trail.
Maybe two of them, wasn't sure any I don't want
to notice was a little pickup truck.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
But in his condition, I suppose he didn't get a
license somewhere.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
He didn't need to, Johnny, because he recognized that truck.
Oh yes, sir, And he said it was all loaded
down with something, with an old piece of canvas stretched
over the stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
That was stolen from me.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Maybe you say he recognized that pickup Who's was it?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, Johnny, was that old nineteen thirty mottel?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
He used a whole shrimping Why who's that's you?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's right? It was that old truck at Jimson.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Booley Act two of yours. Truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant
Donald's Bellwether.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
My husband, Good morning, missus ball Weather.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Would my lady prefer to have her breakfast in bed
this morning?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oh? What else?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Ty t thank you? Dying as the tray with the coffee,
he's the toast and the art. Oh fine, I forgot
the orange juice a hole tray.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
I mean, I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
What happened.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
In the corner of the.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Pressure Uh oh, the National Safety cover was right.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
None of the last night I read something in a
National Safety Council pamphlet.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh, reader, how can you sit there talking about a
pamphlet when I'm dying? A slow torture was come before darning?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Al right, now, what's this about the National Safety Council?
Did they predict that which stuffed my toes this morning?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
No?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Still, it's just a coincidence.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Only last night I read the statistics that proved that
more home accidents occur in the bedroom. Of all places, Uh,
not the bathroom with the kitchen, or the whole workshop,
the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Okay, From from now on when I walk around the bedroom,
I'm gonna wear my combat boots instead of these open.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Toad her Well, that might help you, But what everyone
to be most careful of is taking medicine in the darks.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, my Living Safety encyclopedia. I will now fetch your orange.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Oh you're sweet, And it's just too bad that you
nice men are so prone to accidents in the home.
And the reason is because you brave men usually tackle
the hazardess jobs around the house.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'll remember those kind words as I fully limped back
to the kitchen.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
One thing in your favor, those are married men sent
a better chance of avoiding fatal accidents in the home.
Is that a f you know, in one state, seventy
five percent of the men involved.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
In home mishaps were unmarried.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Well, I'm sure glad I'm married.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Because the accident odds are better, you know, because I
like my wife even when she first wakes up in
the morning. Mmm, that's my Donald, that's my dog.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the nut of circumstance matter. Yeah, everything indicated that whoever
burglarized Webb's habitashery there in Sarasota had murdered the night watchman,
Old Jimson Cooley. That is until somebody reported having seen
a loaded pickup truck at the time of the robbery
(08:26):
pull away from the back of the store. And whose
truck was it?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yes, he swears, with that old nineteen thirty pickup of
Jims and coolies.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And he says it went north on the Tammami Trail. Yes, sir,
what have you done about it?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Sergeant alerted every police sparting from here the Georgia state
line beyond the lookout for him.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Didn't you know that truck was missing from wherever Jimson.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Lived well well, and actually he got around it checking
on his slate.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yead, you thought he was murdered and you didn't even
bother to check his home.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well, we called his wife, Johnny, and when she said
he hadn't come home. With all the evidence of the
big fight out back.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Of this store, oh fine, you can't blame them, Johnny,
all the blood bits of Jimson's clothing it with towing off. Look, look,
maybe it's just a wild hunch, but earl, yes, Johnny,
you suppose Doc Crutcher's at home. Probably it's just up
the street from my house.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
We've got a doctor connected with headquarters, you know, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, how do we get out the back way? Went
right out here?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Johnny?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What's this hunt?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You got?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Tell you? Whirl? And it probably turned out to be wrong.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, now you can see for yourself, dollar while we
figured him a dead one, old Jimson, I mean yeah,
it fusted, railing, blood spattered around, and look there where
somebody hit the dirt's.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Full of blood there too, must have lost plenty.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, so we picked up a short length of lead
pipe with blood on it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Is this a piece of claw on the shirt he
was wearing. Yeah, Johnny is from the shirt I gave
him throwing off in the fight.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Uh, well, I guess I must overlook that little piece.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, maybe that isn't all Why if I keep it?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go ahead, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Hear? If you feel like driving me around? A bet?
There are a couple of people I'd like to see.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Sure, I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We'll see you later. Yeah, it was a hunch, nothing else.
But I learned a long time ago that sometimes it
pays to play a hunch for all it's worth, particularly
when you're having anything real solid to work on. Ignoring
Earl's questions, I had him driving to Doc Crutcher's home
out on St Armond's Key. Fortunately he was at home.
Even better, we found him in his study, pouring over
a microscope.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Sure Johnny would be glad too, Just as soon as
I finished making this hemoglob and con.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, there's no hurry, Doc, I'll drop by and check
with you later. Jameson cooler, We we'll see. Look, Johnny,
do you mind telling me what this is all about?
And until I'm sure myself? Earl, listen, do you think
you can find out where Old Jimson's wife lives.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Sure, I guess, don't you mean widow Journey?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Maybe? Oh, last I heard everything I've heard. Well, it
doesn't all tie up. Look Journey, If Jimson's still a love,
that's what I'm banking on. Come on, earl Lace. Far
out on the edge of town was a shank and
nothing more. And the darkness didn't look much better than
(11:05):
the beat up chicken house at the back of it.
As for the chickens, I don't half of them were
asleep out in the yard until we got there.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Yes, I'm coming, I'm coming.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Wait, oh, mister Palmer, this is Cooley, This is mister Johnny.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Listening now, mister Pulmer. They found Jensen's body yet?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I share hope they do.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
That's all I got to say, because if the don't sleep,
what miss Canniwell told me today.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
If a don't, I might have to wait five six
years for and to let.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That inshaws that we bought on him.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Can't well you got any news about him or not?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Johnny? You you don't seem to care much whether your
husband's alive or not.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Missus school, No, why should I the lazy bum It
wasn't for me raising these heads. Five We were shrimping
and selling them for bait of them Yankees to come
down the fish around the other and he's done pretty good.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
He had meat on the table now then side.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
Chicking ever since they gotten that soft job setting around
that store every night.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Did you know to find the police when he failed
to come home this morning?
Speaker 10 (12:12):
I did not guides when I've seen that one of
them nets was missing. You see where he keeps him
hung over the lemon.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
That tree out there, Cool?
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Well, what I figured is maybe he'd gone out to
do some more shrimping.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Or else he'd took it out and sold it so
he'ld buy.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Some more of that rock gut he's been drinking lately.
So I got this boom handed by the door.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
What do you mean to keep him out? Because he
wouldn't try to come in and.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Beat me, beat you sure like he always does when
he's been drinking.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
And then when he didn't come home.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
At all, and Cool come in, Tanderwell stopped by and
told me he'd been killed.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Well, you know who I think, Donnie, who one.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Of that gang had tried to rob Webbs last year?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now, why do you think that.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Because Jameson told me one of them was around town.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's why Jimson knew who he was and didn't report
it to the police. How should I know? Why not?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Now?
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Look, if y'all didn't come around to pay me my inchance,
what is it you want?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What I really stopped by form, Missus Cooley, was to
see if you'd sell me one of your chickens. Why why? Sure?
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Only you'll cost your money. Hey, maybe seventy five cents.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Here, here's a dollar, and we'll call it even.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Well, thanks you. If you look out for them cloth,
you'll not wring it next. Only I suppose you want.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It plucked too, No, no thanks, Suppose you just give
me the head? Hey, yeah, you can have the rest
of it for dinner tomorrow. What come on, let's get
back to Saint Imun's key.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I'm sorry, Johnny, but I really ought to have thrown
the materials down at my office for putting that specimen
you gave me under the microscope. Of course, if you
could wait until morning, Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Sure, why not? Once more? I could use a little
shut eye. But here, yeah, take along a sample of
the blood from this too.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Would you've been outraiding somebody's chicken coop.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now you may want it for comparison, if you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yes, Johnny, I think I do well.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I don't earl. Why don't you and I go home
and get some sleep. Act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
In a moment.
Speaker 11 (14:30):
Do you know who said that man is free who
is protected from injury? Those words came from Daniel Webster,
one of the most eloquent orators in American history. Webster
knew that a man could not be free unless he
lived in a country which recognized his right to freedom
and created laws.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
To protect that freedom.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
A slave state may say that its citizens are free,
but as long as a single citizen can be harmed
by the whim of a country's rulers, true freedom does
not exist. A man is free only if his rights
to freedom are protected. Remember the words of Daniel Webster.
They are part of your American heritage. The freeman must
(15:17):
be protected from injury.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And no Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollars. Early
the next morning, I got a phone call from Sergeant
Drummond down at headquarters.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yes, Sir Johnny, some of the boys found him laying
in his corn a little wagon trail just off the
ridge road.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Jimpson Cooley, Jimson Coolie must.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Have been laying there unconscious ever since a burglar slug
him and took him out there. He's a rugged old cus,
so he's in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now. What did he say about that burglary surgeon?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Same as we figured. Man made him open back door,
beat him up in that place and probably thought he'd
killed him, so he drove him out to that side
road and left him there.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
What about the stuff that was stolen?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Must transmitted to his own car when.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
He left Jimson there was Jimpson able to identify him?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Said, he claim to be the man we never did
get for robbing that store the first time. Do you
want to talk to Jimson?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yes, Sergeant, I'll be right over. I had her driving
out a headquarters. I saw Jimson cool He talked to him,
but learned nothing from him. I didn't already know he
was a disagreeable old coats, the sort who would get
drunk and beat his wife. He still wore his baby
torn clothes, and yes he had a couple of cuts
(16:41):
and bad bruises, but were they enough to account for
all the blood we founded back of the store. I
asked Earl to drive me over to Doc crutch his office.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Well just finished, Johnny, and I'm sorry, but the blood
that was spilled out in the back of that store
was not chicken blood.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
But well, now I see what you were driving at, Johnny.
You figured maybe Jensen had done the robbery himself, water,
then he'd covered the place with chicken blood to back
up that story of a fight with some burglar. Oh.
I think he was in a fight, all right, but
I don't think he lost. Doc.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
As I started to say, I wanted to check the
blood on that piece of his shirt. You brought me
here in the office where I have a record of
Jimson's blood. Tups, I got it when I made his
insurance examination or was it his on the shirt? It
was human blood, all right, but not Jimson coolies all right.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Then I guessed his story of having been forced to
open the store, then beat up and knocked out and
left out there in his car by the burglar. It's true. Wrong, Earl, Well,
what do you mean, Why not didn't you say you
heard a shrimp boat out on the bay last night? Sure,
but what that guy Polly's wife said one of those
heavy weighted shrimp nets was missing. Did Gen Yes, I
remember this. Bill Hall said that one man wouldn't have
(17:52):
had time to take all that stuff out of his
store alone, So maybe there were two burglars, And I
still don't Jimpson said there was only one, so I
think he was helping him. And who do you think
for a minute that Jimpson lost all the blood we
saw out in the back of that store. You saw
him there at headquarters. Well he didn't exactly look as
though he corse didn't. But then, Johnny, first we wanted
to find Jimson's body, but then he turned up alive.
(18:13):
Now we'd better find the body of this other man,
whoever he is.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You're right, Johnny, then you really have a case?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Sure, So well let's go fishing fish. Well, you know
how it is when I'm really stuck in a case,
everything all muddled up. Well, it's tied to relax and
kind of let your head clear. Come on, let's go. Sure,
Earl thought I was crazy, but we unhitched the boat
from his private dock and headed up the fire and
passed under a humpback bridge and into the outer end
(18:41):
of Sarasota Bay, out toward City Island, where WSPB has
its radio tower. I tied on a heavy trolling rig
and tossed the line of the board. Johnny, you're crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
He use that heavy rig out here.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
The water's real shallow. All it'll do is drank the
bottom a little slower. Girl here in the bay, we
you would go, I have shrimp to get seat drought.
You know about a number two hawks?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
We bottom fish slower? What is okay? Whatever you say?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And so we trolled back and forth over the place
where Jimpson ranish shrimp. Johnny, it's no good fishing here
with that heavy tackle. And this is where he got
a shrimp. There ought to be fish or something. Maybe
I'm after that something. I think you've gone nuts. And fifteen,
(19:34):
maybe twenty times I had to remind the line and
take off a cup of seaweed that it's gotten tangular.
They'll begin to get him patient. They were really gonna fish.
Why didn't we do it right? Then suddenly the old
fugus started to say, hold it on, hell me ng, yeah,
what is it? Just hold your heart went under the
ton of your tidens with Johnny, if this linel hole,
(19:55):
we may have what I've been looking for. I can't
imagine what kind of a fish should be that here
in the bay.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Fine, Fine, all.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You've done is get snagged up in some old Uncle
Rocken's fish net. Yeah, or a shwimp net. If you'll
just help me get at a board. Sure, it's a
little more, Johnny, and I'll be able to reach the
park where you've poked into it a little more.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now give me a hand, right.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Now, they put a lot of lead on these nets,
but I never thought they could weave in, john Look
what's in it?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Good lord. When Jensen was faced with a man's body
wrapped in the net he'd sunk out there in the bay,
he broke down and told us what had really happened,
even told us where the stolen stuff was.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Him.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, the dead man was one of the gang who'd
robbed the story a year ago. He persuaded Jimson to
help him do it again, offered him a hundred bucks,
but then when he had the stuff, he tried to
run out without paying off, so Simpson had killed him.
Now the courts alamp to take over. Incidentally, I understand
that Webbs is installing a fool proof burglar alarm system.
(21:15):
Expense account total one hundred and fifty one fifty Yours, Truly,
Johnny Dull. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates
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Heard in our cast Lillian Bias, Vic Karlin, Harry Bartel,
Barney Phillips, Bartlett Robinson and Bill Ja. Be sure to
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