October 2, 2025 • 19 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 (00:01):
John, This is Harry Branson at Philadelphia Mutual Liability and
Casualty Company. Harry, it's been a long time. What's on
your mind? John? I have a case for you involving
several of a very important client good and ought to
pay me a nice big fee. I'm not sure about that, John.
Of course, we'll pay you a regular expenses and your
regular commission, no extra fee. I don't know you huh.
That is to say, it all depends on what you
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were able to shall we say on Earth something or someone? Harry?
What you said on Earth?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Didn't you?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
What facts you're able to ascertain?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Is what I meant.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, so what about these very important clients of yours? John?
They have disappeared? Oh well, and maybe unearthed is the
proper term. But what have the police got to say
about them? You did go and the police didn't. Yes,
but they gave up years ago, at least years ago,
that's right, at.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Least in the case.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Wait a minute, Harry, you say they disappeared years ago. Well,
but now all of a sudden you expect me to
be able to what did you say the extra fee
will be on this case?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I told you?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
If it all depends yeah, on whether I'm able to
literally dig him up for you, you know where that
Barry John, this Mormon so called says a humor. Okay, Harry, Okay,
I'll be down to see you, and you might have
a good strong shovel ready and waiting for me. Chuck
(01:21):
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
is truly Johnny Dollar. No act one, yours, truly Johnny Dollar.
(01:55):
Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Philip of your Mutual Liability and Casualty Company, following as
an account of expenses occurred during my investigations the Cask
of Death Matter expense Account out of one thirteen forty
trained Fair and Incidentals Harpord of Philadelphia. I went by
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train since Harry Branson didn't seem to be in a hurry,
and I enjoyed a look at the countryside this time
of year. It was a little afternoon by the time
I reached the office on Walnut Street and sat down
the top with Harry. But I thought I impressed old
sober sides Branson hadn't changed a bit since the last
time I'd seen him, and he still looked as though
he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Helle,
(02:40):
Now that you have finally arrived, suppose I get right
to the point and tell you what this is all about. Well,
you said on the phone that some of your policyholders
have disappeared. Yes, and you must understand this, John, Yeah,
in accordance with Pennsylvania law in a case of a
mysterious disappearance. And I'm sure you're familiar with a mysterious
disappearance clause. It's part of all our life insurance contracts. Well,
if you mean, did I ever read the fine print
on one of your policies, The answer is no, you should.
(03:02):
Sometimes the fact remains that when the insured disappears, appeels
to return or otherwise be accounted for by the end
of seven years, when the company has received no proof
the insured is still alive, the company then presumes the
insured to be deceased. Do I make myself clear? Keep talking, Gary.
It simply means that at the end of seven years,
the full of out of the insurance is then paid
to the beneficiary or beneficiaries, whichever the case may be
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so so, seven years ago and mister Wilbert Davis of
Goshenville here in Pennsylvania, mysteriously disappears. Now his beneficiary is
demanding payment of the insurance naturally, so why don't you
pay it? We shall, But in checking through the files,
I've suddenly discovered that his was only the first in
a long series of mysterious disappearances. There have been a
total of eight, all within a relatively small area, and
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of recently increasing frequency. One was the last one, the
fourth of last month, mister Charles Moody Sirl's Moody where
in the little town of Kirkwood, New Jersey. And the
police have found no clue as to what might have
happened to him, None whatsoever Goshenville, Pennsylvania. One in Kirkwood,
New Jersey. Where were the others? Two? And other small
Jersey towns, two here in Pennsylvania and two down in Delaware.
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Any relationship among the beneficiaries none, that is, none that
we know of. Why do you ask that? I just
wondered if some one person was killing them off to
collect the insurance. No, the beneficiaries are all widely separated individuals,
so you can dismiss any possibility of murder Harry in
a case of this kind. That's the one possibility I
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never dismissed. Harry's secretary put together a comprehensive list of
the people we were concerned with, the names, addresses, beneficiaries,
and so on in my roumaa bellevue, Stratford. That evening
I went over to carefully. All of these people had
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disappeared from their homes in small communities. All of them
had been in their sixties, had been widowing so bachelor.
As for the beneficiaries, they were scattered about all over
the country. Early the next morning, I paid my hotel
bill that side him two eighteen dollars even for the
Roman a couple of meals, then spent item three fifty
bucks deposit on a rental car. I drove first to
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the little town of Kirkwood, New Jersey, from which of
mister Charles Moody had disappeared just about a month ago.
I stopped to make inquiries at the general store. Thank you,
miss Peter. Soon, I'll see you next week again, now,
as you were saying, mister Herling, yeah, mister Johner, I
certainly hope mister Moody shows up again. You know, fine man,
fine man, he's to come down here at the store
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for quiet game of checkers. Now, man and the police
have no idea where he might have gone or why. Well,
I guess I'm about the only please we have here
in Kirkwood. Oh, gourse, I notified the state belief, and
I presume they're still living for just what happened, mister Hrling, He.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Just took the bus into Philadelphi, you one day.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, let's the last we heard of it. You know
anything about the beneficiary of us in insurance? Let's see,
according to my list, it's a nephew, mister Dollar. Yeah,
Charles Moody lives out in California. Yeah, mister Moody always
felt that he was the most deserving of his relatives
left him everything. Huh, Well, the insurance and his money. Yeah,
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you know, I know, because I'm the only lawyer here
in Kirkwood, and I made out a will for it.
You say, just the money to his nephews, except for
his wine cellar. All his property will go to the
town wine cellar. Yes, if mister Movie doesn't come back,
or if he's proved to be dead, the wine cellar
will go over to a man over in Philadelphia, had
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themselves sort of a girl met club. I guess you'd
call it, I see, But now tell me, you know,
I kind of wish he will meet that wine cellar.
Oh you should see the collection he has there from
all over the world, German, wines and French. And I'm
sure is there anything else you can tell me that
might help me to find him? How about his friends?
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Everybody was Moody friend mister Dollar. But I shame not
goes blind. So I checked out all of mister Moody's
friends there in Kirkwood and ended up with no more
information than I got from the storekeeper. But you know something,
if I had had sense enough to realize it, I'd
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have gotten plenty from him. He had given me a
real key to the disappearance, not only have mister Moody,
but of the seven other people on the list. And
what a key. Yeah. So what turned out to be
one of the weirdest cases I ever handled? No act
too of yours truly. Twenty dollar and the Cask of
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Death matter and am five forty two seventy traveling expenses,
food and launching for the next two days I drove
my rental guard to Pittsgrove on Maleca, New Jersey. I
am strong amount pleasant down in Delaware, then Hickoryville, Pennsylvania
in motion Bill and the nearby town of mil May.
I contacted not only the local police, such as they were,
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but dug up the lawyers who written wills for the
missing man. And by doing so I learned a strange
and prigging factory. You see, My last contact is there
in the village of mill May, with a one lawyer,
mister Dollar. Client, mister Frederick Burton fails to return by
the end of seven years, your company will have to
pay the insurance as for the rest of his estate,
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including a wine cellar that's a very excellent one. It's
content will go to a friend of his who lives
in Philadelphia, mister Edward Alden Polly. Yes, that's right, as
you know, when I've been doing a little poking around
these past couple of days. You understand, of course, that's
only if we receive some definite evidence of mister Burton's death,
or if he fails to return before the seven years
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is up and therefore legally is presumed to be deceased.
Do you know anything about this man, Pully, I don't.
It seems they had a sort of epicures club. You
know who the other members of it were. Mister told
me who they are sometime before he disappeared. If you
just give me a moment, Praps, I can call him.
I want to check them against this list of mine. Yeah,
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let's see, mister Frederick Burton, that's your plans. John L.
Wakeman Auburn, Hickory Belle Wilber Davis in Goshenville. That's correct.
Carmen Phillips, and Ralph Hoonter from down in Delaware's right.
And finally Charles Moody, Nathan Norwood and William Hartnell over
in Jersey. Your this is quite correct. It's the dollar
Except for one omission. There was another mister Bradford W. Turner.
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You know where he lives, in the little town of
Alloway here in Pennsylvania, that is, if he hasn't disappeared.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yes, good heavens.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Do you mean to say that all the others Well,
I know of course that mister Burton did, But do
you mean to say that all the others on that
list of disappeared too? Yes, sir and I'm going to
find out about this mister Turner right now in the
town of Alloway that you say, yes, it's about eighteen
miles north of Okay, sir, and I'm very much obliged,
I'm mister yeah. Do you really think picking me some
action between these disappearances and the fact that all these
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men have willed their wine collections to this Edward Aldham polish,
what do you think? Wait a minute, had I told
him the others all will their wine collections to Pulling
or had he just come to that conclusion or why? Hm? Anyway,
I drove through north to Alloway. The one lives rather
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a nice home belong to mister Bradford W. Turner, the
man whose name was not on my list, so I
hope that he was still here in the land of
the Living. He was, and he turned out to be
a very fine gentleman, despite his preoccupation with mintage wine.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
The owner of that occursors not being the active since
several of the members well disappeared.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
But not you, almostter e A Polly.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I was just preparing to make the tip over to
Philadelphia's paid polly.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh mind telling me why, mister Turner.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I happen to have an excellent wine.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yes, I rather guess that.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Oh, but there's nothing compared to that. Mister Police. Edward
is younger than I, younger than any of us, But
his vast labyrinthine cellar is a veritable.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Treasure house, a rare and priceless bunting.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I see now.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I haven't seen the full extent of it. But oh,
if only I could get hold of some of that ancient,
rare mantiado. He is so often told us about promise,
you show us so many times until now, I've not
said anything where it's operator.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
In exchange, I've acquired a bottle of very old and
very I'm the doc, and didim have so I shall
take it to him in the.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know, you talk as though this wine collecting were
the most important thing in your life.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh it is, sir, and with Polly it's an almost
overpowering passion. It is his life.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The kind of man who kill his own mother for
a wine.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Huh, that's enough to gest you may think it is,
mister Dallin, which is why I wonder if this buckle
of fine med doc will be enough.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Mister Turney, you're not taking it over to him, I
beg Bartle.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I am.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now look here, mister dolland I've been waiting this opportunity
for years. Yeah, and you'd probably give just about anything
you are right time.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I would your life.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah. Every one of the old men who disappeared had
been a nut on the subject of wine collector, and
had provided in his will that his cellar was to
go to mister Edward Alden Poli. You know something. When
I talked to Polie this home in the old German
Town section of Philadelphia, I decided he was the biggest
none of all, and possibly a dangerous one. There was
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an old house, and a big one that must have
been one of the original Philadelphia mansions. As for Polie himself, well,
I'd say he was a man of about fifty. He
was short and heavy set, and his face, well, his
face reminded me of a bird of prey, very thin,
with a long acheline nose. His eyes were far apart
and almost beady. In spite of his shortness, he seemed
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to do almost homer oble things, including me. As he
led me into the library, his eyes kept glancing at
the package I carried, and there was a kind of
inner glow in them. I can think of only one thing.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Madness.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Palla Dollar.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Did you see that's right, Johnny Dull, I see, Oh
I mean it to did the unusual name. I can't
help but admire this library, mister Polly. Only the best.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I must have only the best, mister d Yes, if
it looks nothing, no one must stand in the way
of my having the rarest, the finest of everything. Sometimes
it takes years, mister Dallar, but sooner or later I
get what I want.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I notice you have a lot of the works of
Edgar Allen Paul, the greatest writer who ever lived.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I am fortunate to bear the same initials. Oh yeah,
look there first copies of his works.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Look there the manuscript of.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
One of them.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
What it has to do with a certain wine?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, I see, which brings us to what you have there. Well,
it's a famous old medoc from mister poly.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah. Yeah, look, well I only brought it here for
your opinion. Most time, I'm afraid that's impossible.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh we shall see.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Perhaps we're making exchange. I had in my boats an
old rail of priceless a Montado. Come, mister Doll, the
chanst of a Montiado huh, what was it?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Nothing, sir laid the way he did. Yeah, he should
be through a hidden door behind a panel in the wall.
Instead of using a flashlight, he took along a sort
of torch, a flambeaux I think you call it. That
gave off an evil oily smell that stained the passageway
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was smoking. He led me down a long, winding staircase
between the walls, and finally we came to the vast
wine walls deep underground. This was really something out of
Edgar Allen Paul. It was cool, I'm damn with great
drops of water slipping down the old stone walls. On
one of them was a mile nabel may impune la cases.
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I'm afraid my Latin is a little rusty.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No one dares seek to best me with impunity.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, what now? The amontiato Thursday.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Your Amazon A master little jokes, you see I have?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
He pulled a small trowel out of the inner pocket
of his coat and laughed strangely. Sure, the cask of
a montioch, just like in the story why a Grand
put the dark damp wine faults That mottel on the
wall the trough and this madman was living apart. No
wonder his friends had disappeared because each of them had
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had some priceless wine that he wouldn't part with.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
That is until their nick Bold misted a large crisp
with niches in the worlds look them blocked in others
empty Eighting there, I'll introduce you to my friends who
are gathered there, your friends of the Order of Impicures,
They too have brought me wise for my collection. Davis
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Love with hand under Phillips.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Wakeman, Frederick Burton.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Those men, even my old friend as you.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
You've killed them, didn't You killed them?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You brought them down.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Let me see the butler.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You promised to show them the cask of a mariata.
Then bury them here on one of these preps.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Mister, you must not keep our friends waiting.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, there's the Mourner and the Prexania.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Mondago in the nats behind you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Mona bosh from Mexican that shovel and with it you join,
my man. This is the way.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
This still.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The eight men who disappeared, Yeah, they were all buried
behind the bricks and mortar that walled up eight of
the niches and that deep underground pole. Money. I completely
forgot to look to see if there was a cask
of a mantiato on that cellar Edward As and Poli.
When the courts get through with his case, I'm sure
he'll be committed to an institution for the rest of
his life. Yeah, I told you in the beginning, this
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was the weirdest case I ever tackled. Expense account total
including incidentals and the trip back to Hybrid one on one.
Your was Julie Johnny Dollar. Now here is our star.
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I'll tell you about next week story. Next week I
run into a girl who is fabulously rich and because
of it, fabulously poor. Join us, won't you? You? As
truly Johnny Downer, Yours truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,
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originates in Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by
Jack Heard in our cast were Harry Bartell, Boris, Lewis Bartlet, Robinson,
Harley Bear and Marvin Miller. Be sure to join us
next week, same time and station or another exciting story
of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Cubberly speaking.
John, This is Harry Branson at Philadelphia Mutual Liability and
Casualty Company. Harry, it's been a long time. What's on
your mind? John? I have a case for you involving
several of a very important client good and ought to
pay me a nice big fee. I'm not sure about that, John.
Of course, we'll pay you a regular expenses and your
regular commission, no extra fee. I don't know you huh.
That is to say, it all depends on what you
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were able to shall we say on Earth something or someone? Harry?
What you said on Earth?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Didn't you?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
What facts you're able to ascertain?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Is what I meant.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, so what about these very important clients of yours? John?
They have disappeared? Oh well, and maybe unearthed is the
proper term. But what have the police got to say
about them? You did go and the police didn't. Yes,
but they gave up years ago, at least years ago,
that's right, at.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Least in the case.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Wait a minute, Harry, you say they disappeared years ago. Well,
but now all of a sudden you expect me to
be able to what did you say the extra fee
will be on this case?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I told you?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
If it all depends yeah, on whether I'm able to
literally dig him up for you, you know where that
Barry John, this Mormon so called says a humor. Okay, Harry, Okay,
I'll be down to see you, and you might have
a good strong shovel ready and waiting for me. Chuck
(01:21):
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
is truly Johnny Dollar. No act one, yours, truly Johnny Dollar.
(01:55):
Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Philip of your Mutual Liability and Casualty Company, following as
an account of expenses occurred during my investigations the Cask
of Death Matter expense Account out of one thirteen forty
trained Fair and Incidentals Harpord of Philadelphia. I went by
(02:17):
train since Harry Branson didn't seem to be in a hurry,
and I enjoyed a look at the countryside this time
of year. It was a little afternoon by the time
I reached the office on Walnut Street and sat down
the top with Harry. But I thought I impressed old
sober sides Branson hadn't changed a bit since the last
time I'd seen him, and he still looked as though
he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Helle,
(02:40):
Now that you have finally arrived, suppose I get right
to the point and tell you what this is all about. Well,
you said on the phone that some of your policyholders
have disappeared. Yes, and you must understand this, John, Yeah,
in accordance with Pennsylvania law in a case of a
mysterious disappearance. And I'm sure you're familiar with a mysterious
disappearance clause. It's part of all our life insurance contracts. Well,
if you mean, did I ever read the fine print
on one of your policies, The answer is no, you should.
(03:02):
Sometimes the fact remains that when the insured disappears, appeels
to return or otherwise be accounted for by the end
of seven years, when the company has received no proof
the insured is still alive, the company then presumes the
insured to be deceased. Do I make myself clear? Keep talking, Gary.
It simply means that at the end of seven years,
the full of out of the insurance is then paid
to the beneficiary or beneficiaries, whichever the case may be
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so so, seven years ago and mister Wilbert Davis of
Goshenville here in Pennsylvania, mysteriously disappears. Now his beneficiary is
demanding payment of the insurance naturally, so why don't you
pay it? We shall, But in checking through the files,
I've suddenly discovered that his was only the first in
a long series of mysterious disappearances. There have been a
total of eight, all within a relatively small area, and
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of recently increasing frequency. One was the last one, the
fourth of last month, mister Charles Moody Sirl's Moody where
in the little town of Kirkwood, New Jersey. And the
police have found no clue as to what might have
happened to him, None whatsoever Goshenville, Pennsylvania. One in Kirkwood,
New Jersey. Where were the others? Two? And other small
Jersey towns, two here in Pennsylvania and two down in Delaware.
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Any relationship among the beneficiaries none, that is, none that
we know of. Why do you ask that? I just
wondered if some one person was killing them off to
collect the insurance. No, the beneficiaries are all widely separated individuals,
so you can dismiss any possibility of murder Harry in
a case of this kind. That's the one possibility I
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never dismissed. Harry's secretary put together a comprehensive list of
the people we were concerned with, the names, addresses, beneficiaries,
and so on in my roumaa bellevue, Stratford. That evening
I went over to carefully. All of these people had
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disappeared from their homes in small communities. All of them
had been in their sixties, had been widowing so bachelor.
As for the beneficiaries, they were scattered about all over
the country. Early the next morning, I paid my hotel
bill that side him two eighteen dollars even for the
Roman a couple of meals, then spent item three fifty
bucks deposit on a rental car. I drove first to
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the little town of Kirkwood, New Jersey, from which of
mister Charles Moody had disappeared just about a month ago.
I stopped to make inquiries at the general store. Thank you,
miss Peter. Soon, I'll see you next week again, now,
as you were saying, mister Herling, yeah, mister Johner, I
certainly hope mister Moody shows up again. You know, fine man,
fine man, he's to come down here at the store
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for quiet game of checkers. Now, man and the police
have no idea where he might have gone or why. Well,
I guess I'm about the only please we have here
in Kirkwood. Oh, gourse, I notified the state belief, and
I presume they're still living for just what happened, mister Hrling, He.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Just took the bus into Philadelphi, you one day.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, let's the last we heard of it. You know
anything about the beneficiary of us in insurance? Let's see,
according to my list, it's a nephew, mister Dollar. Yeah,
Charles Moody lives out in California. Yeah, mister Moody always
felt that he was the most deserving of his relatives
left him everything. Huh, Well, the insurance and his money. Yeah,
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you know, I know, because I'm the only lawyer here
in Kirkwood, and I made out a will for it.
You say, just the money to his nephews, except for
his wine cellar. All his property will go to the
town wine cellar. Yes, if mister Movie doesn't come back,
or if he's proved to be dead, the wine cellar
will go over to a man over in Philadelphia, had
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themselves sort of a girl met club. I guess you'd
call it, I see, But now tell me, you know,
I kind of wish he will meet that wine cellar.
Oh you should see the collection he has there from
all over the world, German, wines and French. And I'm
sure is there anything else you can tell me that
might help me to find him? How about his friends?
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Everybody was Moody friend mister Dollar. But I shame not
goes blind. So I checked out all of mister Moody's
friends there in Kirkwood and ended up with no more
information than I got from the storekeeper. But you know something,
if I had had sense enough to realize it, I'd
(07:19):
have gotten plenty from him. He had given me a
real key to the disappearance, not only have mister Moody,
but of the seven other people on the list. And
what a key. Yeah. So what turned out to be
one of the weirdest cases I ever handled? No act
too of yours truly. Twenty dollar and the Cask of
(07:41):
Death matter and am five forty two seventy traveling expenses,
food and launching for the next two days I drove
my rental guard to Pittsgrove on Maleca, New Jersey. I
am strong amount pleasant down in Delaware, then Hickoryville, Pennsylvania
in motion Bill and the nearby town of mil May.
I contacted not only the local police, such as they were,
(08:03):
but dug up the lawyers who written wills for the
missing man. And by doing so I learned a strange
and prigging factory. You see, My last contact is there
in the village of mill May, with a one lawyer,
mister Dollar. Client, mister Frederick Burton fails to return by
the end of seven years, your company will have to
pay the insurance as for the rest of his estate,
(08:23):
including a wine cellar that's a very excellent one. It's
content will go to a friend of his who lives
in Philadelphia, mister Edward Alden Polly. Yes, that's right, as
you know, when I've been doing a little poking around
these past couple of days. You understand, of course, that's
only if we receive some definite evidence of mister Burton's death,
or if he fails to return before the seven years
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is up and therefore legally is presumed to be deceased.
Do you know anything about this man, Pully, I don't.
It seems they had a sort of epicures club. You
know who the other members of it were. Mister told
me who they are sometime before he disappeared. If you
just give me a moment, Praps, I can call him.
I want to check them against this list of mine. Yeah,
(09:08):
let's see, mister Frederick Burton, that's your plans. John L.
Wakeman Auburn, Hickory Belle Wilber Davis in Goshenville. That's correct.
Carmen Phillips, and Ralph Hoonter from down in Delaware's right.
And finally Charles Moody, Nathan Norwood and William Hartnell over
in Jersey. Your this is quite correct. It's the dollar
Except for one omission. There was another mister Bradford W. Turner.
(09:30):
You know where he lives, in the little town of
Alloway here in Pennsylvania, that is, if he hasn't disappeared.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yes, good heavens.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Do you mean to say that all the others Well,
I know of course that mister Burton did, But do
you mean to say that all the others on that
list of disappeared too? Yes, sir and I'm going to
find out about this mister Turner right now in the
town of Alloway that you say, yes, it's about eighteen
miles north of Okay, sir, and I'm very much obliged,
I'm mister yeah. Do you really think picking me some
action between these disappearances and the fact that all these
(10:03):
men have willed their wine collections to this Edward Aldham polish,
what do you think? Wait a minute, had I told
him the others all will their wine collections to Pulling
or had he just come to that conclusion or why? Hm? Anyway,
I drove through north to Alloway. The one lives rather
(10:25):
a nice home belong to mister Bradford W. Turner, the
man whose name was not on my list, so I
hope that he was still here in the land of
the Living. He was, and he turned out to be
a very fine gentleman, despite his preoccupation with mintage wine.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
The owner of that occursors not being the active since
several of the members well disappeared.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
But not you, almostter e A Polly.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I was just preparing to make the tip over to
Philadelphia's paid polly.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh mind telling me why, mister Turner.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I happen to have an excellent wine.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yes, I rather guess that.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Oh, but there's nothing compared to that. Mister Police. Edward
is younger than I, younger than any of us, But
his vast labyrinthine cellar is a veritable.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Treasure house, a rare and priceless bunting.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I see now.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I haven't seen the full extent of it. But oh,
if only I could get hold of some of that ancient,
rare mantiado. He is so often told us about promise,
you show us so many times until now, I've not
said anything where it's operator.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
In exchange, I've acquired a bottle of very old and
very I'm the doc, and didim have so I shall
take it to him in the.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know, you talk as though this wine collecting were
the most important thing in your life.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh it is, sir, and with Polly it's an almost
overpowering passion. It is his life.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The kind of man who kill his own mother for
a wine.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Huh, that's enough to gest you may think it is,
mister Dallin, which is why I wonder if this buckle
of fine med doc will be enough.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Mister Turney, you're not taking it over to him, I
beg Bartle.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I am.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now look here, mister dolland I've been waiting this opportunity
for years. Yeah, and you'd probably give just about anything
you are right time.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I would your life.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah. Every one of the old men who disappeared had
been a nut on the subject of wine collector, and
had provided in his will that his cellar was to
go to mister Edward Alden Poli. You know something. When
I talked to Polie this home in the old German
Town section of Philadelphia, I decided he was the biggest
none of all, and possibly a dangerous one. There was
(13:03):
an old house, and a big one that must have
been one of the original Philadelphia mansions. As for Polie himself, well,
I'd say he was a man of about fifty. He
was short and heavy set, and his face, well, his
face reminded me of a bird of prey, very thin,
with a long acheline nose. His eyes were far apart
and almost beady. In spite of his shortness, he seemed
(13:24):
to do almost homer oble things, including me. As he
led me into the library, his eyes kept glancing at
the package I carried, and there was a kind of
inner glow in them. I can think of only one thing.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Madness.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Palla Dollar.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Did you see that's right, Johnny Dull, I see, Oh
I mean it to did the unusual name. I can't
help but admire this library, mister Polly. Only the best.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I must have only the best, mister d Yes, if
it looks nothing, no one must stand in the way
of my having the rarest, the finest of everything. Sometimes
it takes years, mister Dallar, but sooner or later I
get what I want.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I notice you have a lot of the works of
Edgar Allen Paul, the greatest writer who ever lived.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I am fortunate to bear the same initials. Oh yeah,
look there first copies of his works.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Look there the manuscript of.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
One of them.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
What it has to do with a certain wine?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, I see, which brings us to what you have there. Well,
it's a famous old medoc from mister poly.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah. Yeah, look, well I only brought it here for
your opinion. Most time, I'm afraid that's impossible.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh we shall see.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Perhaps we're making exchange. I had in my boats an
old rail of priceless a Montado. Come, mister Doll, the
chanst of a Montiado huh, what was it?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Nothing, sir laid the way he did. Yeah, he should
be through a hidden door behind a panel in the wall.
Instead of using a flashlight, he took along a sort
of torch, a flambeaux I think you call it. That
gave off an evil oily smell that stained the passageway
(15:41):
was smoking. He led me down a long, winding staircase
between the walls, and finally we came to the vast
wine walls deep underground. This was really something out of
Edgar Allen Paul. It was cool, I'm damn with great
drops of water slipping down the old stone walls. On
one of them was a mile nabel may impune la cases.
(16:03):
I'm afraid my Latin is a little rusty.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No one dares seek to best me with impunity.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, what now? The amontiato Thursday.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Your Amazon A master little jokes, you see I have?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
He pulled a small trowel out of the inner pocket
of his coat and laughed strangely. Sure, the cask of
a montioch, just like in the story why a Grand
put the dark damp wine faults That mottel on the
wall the trough and this madman was living apart. No
wonder his friends had disappeared because each of them had
(16:47):
had some priceless wine that he wouldn't part with.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
That is until their nick Bold misted a large crisp
with niches in the worlds look them blocked in others
empty Eighting there, I'll introduce you to my friends who
are gathered there, your friends of the Order of Impicures,
They too have brought me wise for my collection. Davis
(17:11):
Love with hand under Phillips.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Wakeman, Frederick Burton.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Those men, even my old friend as you.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
You've killed them, didn't You killed them?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You brought them down.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Let me see the butler.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You promised to show them the cask of a mariata.
Then bury them here on one of these preps.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Mister, you must not keep our friends waiting.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, there's the Mourner and the Prexania.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Mondago in the nats behind you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Mona bosh from Mexican that shovel and with it you join,
my man. This is the way.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
This still.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The eight men who disappeared, Yeah, they were all buried
behind the bricks and mortar that walled up eight of
the niches and that deep underground pole. Money. I completely
forgot to look to see if there was a cask
of a mantiato on that cellar Edward As and Poli.
When the courts get through with his case, I'm sure
he'll be committed to an institution for the rest of
his life. Yeah, I told you in the beginning, this
(18:33):
was the weirdest case I ever tackled. Expense account total
including incidentals and the trip back to Hybrid one on one.
Your was Julie Johnny Dollar. Now here is our star.
(18:57):
I'll tell you about next week story. Next week I
run into a girl who is fabulously rich and because
of it, fabulously poor. Join us, won't you? You? As
truly Johnny Downer, Yours truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,
(19:18):
originates in Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by
Jack Heard in our cast were Harry Bartell, Boris, Lewis Bartlet, Robinson,
Harley Bear and Marvin Miller. Be sure to join us
next week, same time and station or another exciting story
of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Cubberly speaking.
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