August 12, 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 (00:00):
I mean it's nice weather. Kind of get onto your skin, Johnny.
You want to be sitting in.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A boat on Lake my Hobby all in five and
six pounds fast?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Maybe you're a really big one.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right well, yeah, where are you going from? Right?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here is Lake my.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hobby Resorts, And Johnny, I've just picked up a two sin.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And rod and realized think.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You ought to give a work?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh you dog?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You know I have to work for a living, and better.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I need work. It's pretty hard, huh, too hard?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
About time for you to relax a bit? Yeah, I
know this? How longer? Johnny?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You know the old thing?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
What old things?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The time a man spends and fishing is never deducted
from his life's fans to come on out here for
a few days. Oh but I love it. And if
there was some insurance problem that I could use the excuse.
But then is there Well, yeah, you think there's something
in Bobby and Joints that I had to look into? Yeah,
and give it to me quick.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, not the sort of.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Thing I could pretty well explain over the phone. But
unless I know what it is, what companies involved, and
truly incidentally, the fasher fighting like that? Okay, Buster What
am I waiting for? Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures
(01:19):
of the Man with the Extent tactic Sense accounts America's
fabulous freelance insurance investigator, the true Johnny Dollars expense accounts
(01:48):
middle by a personal investigator, Johnny Dollar. The Greatest Southwest
Insurance Company Los Angeles's office attention to the Royal day hearken
following his account of expenses incurred during my investigation of
the frantic fisherman matter.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Why White kid about it? When I started this trip.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I had no way of knowing that your company was involved.
Knowing us the favor, I honestly figured that his mental
an insurance angle.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Would just to give me a good excuse.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But when you've rode the thanks of this report, I'm
sure you'll agree that Greatest Southwest should pay the old
expense account without questions. Yeah, and probably a nice extra
feat a book, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't one.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Hundred and fifty four to fifty night flight from.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
High Port to New York a lot long.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's better than item.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Two fifty bucks deposit on a rental car.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I had it now an East of Lake no hobby resorts.
Let me hear this place is the answer to a
phishal squyer. The lake itself is over a sixty month
long average is about a mile wide.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The report is at the.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Lower end, complete with modern accommodation, cafe, doc well, just
about everything you could asked for. Ham Pressed the general manager,
that's your favorite. His wife Marylyn as a father of
the earth, and because of that, the customers are a
pretty fine life without exception. Almost. I'm gonna put you
here in number eighteen, Johnny good By, I'll see a
(03:12):
right at home, Yes, and it is, and you sit
it out since I want to try out seven out
all right, that's right in a Mitchell three fifty load
a four pound tests. So as soon as you can
change your clothes, we'll hit the lake. Oh change, This
(03:33):
is all very nice, fuster, and I'll be changing about
five minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
But I'll be waiting at the dock.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But I'm telling you tell me what the insurance angle is.
Am I coming out here? Or or I'm gonna charge
my spense account?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Out on the lake? Oh sure, that was all just
an excuse to get me out of here. The fish wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Fine, As long as I'm here, I might as well wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Did you say that's what I said? Then start talking
Sure out on the lake stairs. I'll re shift the
dock to take thirty tigh on busting boat held, gets
(04:17):
up the lake and an easy thirty nine.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The day was third a little warm.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I gotta earn new weight to break out the tackle
and get cut keep with tin stuff half a dozen
holes where I knew to a fish.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Instead, we kept going five.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Or six miles up beyond the power line suck, and then.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Finally he rose into a long, narrow L shaped coat.
It extends it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Back from the main body of the lake a couple
of hundred yards whae rocky walls on either side. At
the end it angled off to the left of perhaps
one hundred feet. I know there was a very deep
hole there, but it's me either one tortous.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I noticed another boat back there, and the man in
seemed to be using a mighty.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Strange fishing technique. He had a long, heavy salt water
rod in the sand and from the pens in the
tip of.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The noah about that nobody feet us into this by.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well swinging around and uh pi uh.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Uh, I guess that why is good lucy again? Most
of that man fishing down there at the end.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You don't let him know that they keep him on
in Johnny, do you know who?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know? He can't say that that the names of
Odess Helmet, do you know it? In Los Angeles?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You could see the way he is speaking at the
water with that wady.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He's using him.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And he wondered about that radio. But he stopped him
in the.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
World in the tay. But you see what he had
on the end of his line.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No count him in his book. Won't just have to
work until he gets back to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Ah, oh, well, I h no, this boat taking him
on away? Tryna mag ate nothing about that? Sure, How
what did you mean by sabot a man? Would you
(06:07):
get a close look at that briga's You wait minute,
old the comments you say, that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
All the papers last week we got out of prison
over in California, and yeah, school, yeah, fishing h at
the end of that seam, cold day after day.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But yes, he that man didn't have the fish.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh and the frantic fisherman met her.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh what's the father? And I went up to Suture
Rock down Lake Mahobby.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
We caught fish, plenty of nice big monkey back we
also kept an eye open and the man who had been.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So frantically working a little cold way.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Up using heavy salt water tackle and a ride of
peculiar way. At one time we was going to put
out and head back to Lake Moharty Resort, always part
of them, until I see to a ride up.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The doctor to head.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Up. Here we are Johnny back home, same day. That's up,
Jim Si curdys bit parts.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'm a story. I can make a oh pretty good
jim see. Uh hey, you meant it all right, even
mister Hellman, how'd you do today? Nothing? Bab another thing?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh? Where were you pitching? Right? Oh? The la didn't
I see you in the long narrow cool about the
par line?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Maybe so old James Honey, Uh, I mean yes, you're
Johnny out the car to tack on my shop.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And how you say and how you say? Yea, all
of them picking stuff the tackles from the end of
his line into a fish stock. But I caught a
glimpse of a couple of gigs triple hooks of lead collars.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It was big enough, heavy enough to catch a whale.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I respectable fresh water bass couldn't even get one of
'em into his mouth, thanking my loan over a Scotch
and sewed up buster.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And I talked about it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
When I asked me Johnny and the price he came here,
he muttered something about trying to snag some carp with
that rig dag some con.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But if you noticed up there in that cold before
he saw.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Us looking at yeah, he was right over the deep
hole at the end of it, the only place I've
ever seen him sat.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You you can call it then.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
W I was apparently dropping those heavy gang hooks down
at the bottom and then streaking him up the rocky
side like the like a grappling hook. Johnny, right now,
he's trying to snag something down there, all right, But then,
but it's certainly not cart If you try dropping a line.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Down there to see what you might hook on to, well,
you can't get me the place, cause he's always there.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
He night. Well, no, but Johnny, you know what I
think it is. And he just got out of jail too,
remember I remember, well, Johnny, I think his body down
there and for some reason he's trying to.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Bring it up. It's very well, be yes, sir, And.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's why I called you well Okay, buster, let's see
what I can do. Uster had said that Helman came
here from Los Angeles. Well, I was the man in
was a veritable fount of information. Well, Jamime harton the
Greater Southwest Insurance.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It was even now.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So I went in the call with Hall. I tried
him forty five cents, and he had plenty for me.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Of course, I know who owed his helm. And here
is Johnny when he and that partner of his walked
out of McKenny money supply with sixty thousand dollars and
in cash.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Mind you, we had to make good on it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Is that one home.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I was sent to President Roy, Yeah, for complicity in
that job, though I believe his partner.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Was the one who really did it.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Was apartment another old prospector named Oscar Kirkman.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Kirkman, is he's doing jail?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
He disappeared, yeah, before he was to go to trial.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And the money, not a penny of it would ever found.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Oh, if you have any ideas about how and where
you might recover it, very well.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
But if you're interested in Kirkland's body might be able
to find that way. What oh, what's the less of
it here?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
How can I be sure.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I knew that there was a body that one was
trying to little throw up there in that sep little
cold well. There was only one way to find out,
and I needed a special equipment for it. So early
the next morning I climbed into my rental car.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Very shall be sporting goods up in Las Vegas, Jeremy.
That's because of the place, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Huh, I'm great, so I'll see then here I go
nearly It doesn't boast around are good loaning to you?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Cause most of the people right now or either.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Fisherman or were exki Incidentally that i'man.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Go out in the buses.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Wanting know Johnny and uh listen here making my imagination
working over it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Time to listen. Can Elman had the breakfast.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Lil early took in the cafes and then he s
got the ball window where he could look over with
us missus Johnky doesn't a couple of coffee sitting there,
but he didn't budge.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Til you came out off.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
When you did, you went over perfective sort to carry
where he walked down to the poahouse. I mean it
was a little two casual you just put around down there,
still keeping their eye on.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Oh, I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
M somebody, mister portmore and uh I wanted to help Johnny.
I wanted him not too before you ride.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Hum, I don't think any of the guess, oh, just
the same.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I think Elman suspiciously, and Johnny I'll stopped working, just
the same, john can I on 'em?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I seel when I get back from one day.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It was nearly a hundred miles to Vegas, and I
made it in two hours flat.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
There Shelby's Sporting Goods. I spent it 'em four A.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Hundred and fifty nine dollars and eighteen cents for a
complete skin diving outfit, m naming the faceway diving tank
and regulator, a powerful water pots, headlines, and yeah passionate
thin pair of sun pops.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He our pardoner. You're gonna do your skin diving over
like me? Uh dona mahovey.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Uh. The last time I outfitted the man put down
there was a.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Couple of years ago a man called him for.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
A minor uh prospector. Oh you know, runted a hundred
and fifty bucks for the stuff, go.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
In and never got it back.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Wait a minute, you know what his name on sure
in fight of the something, he gave me a pony.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Went right after that that his picture was all.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Over the papers.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
There with his partner, another.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Crook named gotus Hellman and his n rings a barrel
down in the partner. It's sure done, it's sure her.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
While Hellman took the wrap.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
This one disappeared. Name was Oscar Crookman. Let's see, you've
just given me a one out the idea so just
wild enough to make some sense. Yeah, and help me
solve a tea sell the case?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
What kind?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh no, maybe murder, among other things. When I drive
down the little Mohobby resort, there's nothing bolder, said he
at the office of the National Park Commission. Then I
got ahold of a topographical matter of the whole area
before Lake Mohobby was filled up by the defense then
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bank and hid the resort.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I went over it very careful. All I got a minute,
I mean before.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
A drive over the Bluehead City. But I saw you
come where and in a minute to go and what
do you guess it? Alright, we take a lot here
on the slant. Yeah, before the new dam filled up
the lake a few years ago. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Over here, I looked here.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh well, yeah, that's where that long cove is now
world as Holman has been working with us when he
will give it uh huh. And in the deep hall
at the end of that called Kirkman's farley, that is right,
Kirkman went a mine there before the lake was felled,
when it was all just desert land by the side
(14:12):
of the Canorader River. And right there is where Hellman
is grappling for something like Kirkman disappeared. I mean, yes,
but what really happened is as old as Hellman killed him.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And stuffed him.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Down there in that underwater mine. Maybe, but why he
wants to bring him up again? Whatever left must n
I wanna use your boat shoot And if Hellman hasn't.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Gone out fishing having.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh he's still hanging around down to guy, My god,
somehow you've got to keep them from following me. Well,
Hellman has seen you me together so much. But we
I can help Jim fill up the fuel tank on
Helman's boat and meantime take out one of the sports
bloods come like that, hight. God, he'll have plenty of
chances because Hellman will be watching me when I take off.
(14:57):
What are you gonna do a little sking guy the
end of that coal, and don't be surprised at what
I may bring up. Alman was still at the dock,
and I thought he kept his eyes only on me,
and I filed the skin diving.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Stuck in a bust his boat. Meantime, Jim went the
moortions the feeling of his water, and I took off.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And with a flottel wide open, and drove up the
lake in a long L shaped coal.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
At the end of it, where the deep.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Hole was, I tied up to an overhanging rock, but
on swim trunks, faithfully slippers and tanks, and gently left
myself over the side. I've done a lot of skin
diving here and there, but this was something new.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
The blight does it?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Sunlight from above, felt it through the clear cool water,
and blended almost fearily the color of the rocks and
the narrow canyon that made this little coat. But the
tremendous forces of nature of them, millions of the years
that stood up in the very space of the earth,
and then cooled and crushed and twisted the rocks and
the strings in wonderful shape, and the fish danced and
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coffee and big gear gave him a lazy old car.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
They watched me without fear as I glided down beside.
It moved gently aside, and.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Fellow, a huge catfish casually turned aside.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
As I put down the powser beam of the headliner.
I could almost imagine.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
A look of the stain on this face to despide
this Indian beans in the world above. And then I
found what I was looking for.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
The entrance to the.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Old Kirkman minefly boarded up, but.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I managed to power one of the boards.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Loose, and I found a package wrapped in heavy plastic
for the heavy.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Coating of white, but I could see the.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Color of money inside.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I swam back up to.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The surface with it the shadow, I thought it sucked
the boat.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Possing off my gear.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I flung him and the claque in the board and
grabbed the dup for the con blows. You should replace
the spark plug in my motives if you had to remove.
While good for you, it gave me a lot of
trouble dollars locating.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And recovering the money.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Told me now that I have it, look if you'll
laan that thing yet away?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Did you always find what I mean you asked their.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Kirtman doon there I listened, Hammond.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Drum murder after all cage years, didn't draining down there.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
With his answer tied to your feet. Thanks again, mister.
I kicked with all I had an overturned the boat
at the end of the water.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I haven't fight again. I can cuss him to hit
his boat.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
But he dropped the gunner. With the help of the
tins on my feet. I was over of the tenant,
grabbling around the neck and dragg him down.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I had taken a.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Deep threat before capsizing his boating.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
He was an older man, and I m.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
But it's soon, like hours before he finally quit struggling,
and with my lungs almost bursting.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I carried him back up to the second.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
He was still alive, but hat us their bless his
fat and the worry when he saw Helman follow me
up the lake.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So we buy a boat was waiting.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
For us at the end of the gold as Hammon, Well,
that's up to the court.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The money, of course, all sixty thousand bucks of it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
We'll go back to the county XP then, including all
thesecidentals I could think of in a couple of days,
of good Fishing six fifty eighty five. Yours to leave,
Johnny doll here's our story to tell you about next
(18:46):
week's story. Next week A call from an old friend.
Yeah the needs. We're blessed in the desert, john Us.
Won't you yours to leave?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Johnny Dowees, Yeah you, Polly. Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Darling Boss Ailey originates in Hollywood and his written scots
been directed by Jack Johnstone Thurt and our casts were
Barney Phillips, dam Edwards, Marbert Robinson, Boris Lewis and Ralph Movies.
We would have joined us Net Week, Dame Time and
Stayson for another exciting story. Out yours truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
This is Jim Matthews speaking
I mean it's nice weather. Kind of get onto your skin, Johnny.
You want to be sitting in.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A boat on Lake my Hobby all in five and
six pounds fast?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Maybe you're a really big one.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right well, yeah, where are you going from? Right?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here is Lake my.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hobby Resorts, And Johnny, I've just picked up a two sin.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And rod and realized think.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You ought to give a work?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh you dog?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You know I have to work for a living, and better.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I need work. It's pretty hard, huh, too hard?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
About time for you to relax a bit? Yeah, I
know this? How longer? Johnny?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You know the old thing?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
What old things?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The time a man spends and fishing is never deducted
from his life's fans to come on out here for
a few days. Oh but I love it. And if
there was some insurance problem that I could use the excuse.
But then is there Well, yeah, you think there's something
in Bobby and Joints that I had to look into? Yeah,
and give it to me quick.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, not the sort of.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Thing I could pretty well explain over the phone. But
unless I know what it is, what companies involved, and
truly incidentally, the fasher fighting like that? Okay, Buster What
am I waiting for? Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures
(01:19):
of the Man with the Extent tactic Sense accounts America's
fabulous freelance insurance investigator, the true Johnny Dollars expense accounts
(01:48):
middle by a personal investigator, Johnny Dollar. The Greatest Southwest
Insurance Company Los Angeles's office attention to the Royal day hearken
following his account of expenses incurred during my investigation of
the frantic fisherman matter.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Why White kid about it? When I started this trip.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I had no way of knowing that your company was involved.
Knowing us the favor, I honestly figured that his mental
an insurance angle.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Would just to give me a good excuse.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But when you've rode the thanks of this report, I'm
sure you'll agree that Greatest Southwest should pay the old
expense account without questions. Yeah, and probably a nice extra
feat a book, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't one.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Hundred and fifty four to fifty night flight from.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
High Port to New York a lot long.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's better than item.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Two fifty bucks deposit on a rental car.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I had it now an East of Lake no hobby resorts.
Let me hear this place is the answer to a
phishal squyer. The lake itself is over a sixty month
long average is about a mile wide.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The report is at the.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Lower end, complete with modern accommodation, cafe, doc well, just
about everything you could asked for. Ham Pressed the general manager,
that's your favorite. His wife Marylyn as a father of
the earth, and because of that, the customers are a
pretty fine life without exception. Almost. I'm gonna put you
here in number eighteen, Johnny good By, I'll see a
(03:12):
right at home, Yes, and it is, and you sit
it out since I want to try out seven out
all right, that's right in a Mitchell three fifty load
a four pound tests. So as soon as you can
change your clothes, we'll hit the lake. Oh change, This
(03:33):
is all very nice, fuster, and I'll be changing about
five minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
But I'll be waiting at the dock.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But I'm telling you tell me what the insurance angle is.
Am I coming out here? Or or I'm gonna charge
my spense account?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Out on the lake? Oh sure, that was all just
an excuse to get me out of here. The fish wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Fine, As long as I'm here, I might as well wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Did you say that's what I said? Then start talking
Sure out on the lake stairs. I'll re shift the
dock to take thirty tigh on busting boat held, gets
(04:17):
up the lake and an easy thirty nine.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
The day was third a little warm.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I gotta earn new weight to break out the tackle
and get cut keep with tin stuff half a dozen
holes where I knew to a fish.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Instead, we kept going five.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Or six miles up beyond the power line suck, and then.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Finally he rose into a long, narrow L shaped coat.
It extends it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Back from the main body of the lake a couple
of hundred yards whae rocky walls on either side. At
the end it angled off to the left of perhaps
one hundred feet. I know there was a very deep
hole there, but it's me either one tortous.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I noticed another boat back there, and the man in
seemed to be using a mighty.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Strange fishing technique. He had a long, heavy salt water
rod in the sand and from the pens in the
tip of.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The noah about that nobody feet us into this by.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well swinging around and uh pi uh.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Uh, I guess that why is good lucy again? Most
of that man fishing down there at the end.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You don't let him know that they keep him on
in Johnny, do you know who?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know? He can't say that that the names of
Odess Helmet, do you know it? In Los Angeles?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You could see the way he is speaking at the
water with that wady.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He's using him.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And he wondered about that radio. But he stopped him
in the.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
World in the tay. But you see what he had
on the end of his line.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
No count him in his book. Won't just have to
work until he gets back to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Ah, oh, well, I h no, this boat taking him
on away? Tryna mag ate nothing about that? Sure, How
what did you mean by sabot a man? Would you
(06:07):
get a close look at that briga's You wait minute,
old the comments you say, that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
All the papers last week we got out of prison
over in California, and yeah, school, yeah, fishing h at
the end of that seam, cold day after day.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But yes, he that man didn't have the fish.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh and the frantic fisherman met her.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh what's the father? And I went up to Suture
Rock down Lake Mahobby.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
We caught fish, plenty of nice big monkey back we
also kept an eye open and the man who had been.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So frantically working a little cold way.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Up using heavy salt water tackle and a ride of
peculiar way. At one time we was going to put
out and head back to Lake Moharty Resort, always part
of them, until I see to a ride up.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
The doctor to head.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Up. Here we are Johnny back home, same day. That's up,
Jim Si curdys bit parts.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'm a story. I can make a oh pretty good
jim see. Uh hey, you meant it all right, even
mister Hellman, how'd you do today? Nothing? Bab another thing?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh? Where were you pitching? Right? Oh? The la didn't
I see you in the long narrow cool about the
par line?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Maybe so old James Honey, Uh, I mean yes, you're
Johnny out the car to tack on my shop.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And how you say and how you say? Yea, all
of them picking stuff the tackles from the end of
his line into a fish stock. But I caught a
glimpse of a couple of gigs triple hooks of lead collars.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It was big enough, heavy enough to catch a whale.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I respectable fresh water bass couldn't even get one of
'em into his mouth, thanking my loan over a Scotch
and sewed up buster.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And I talked about it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
When I asked me Johnny and the price he came here,
he muttered something about trying to snag some carp with
that rig dag some con.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But if you noticed up there in that cold before
he saw.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Us looking at yeah, he was right over the deep
hole at the end of it, the only place I've
ever seen him sat.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You you can call it then.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
W I was apparently dropping those heavy gang hooks down
at the bottom and then streaking him up the rocky
side like the like a grappling hook. Johnny, right now,
he's trying to snag something down there, all right, But then,
but it's certainly not cart If you try dropping a line.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Down there to see what you might hook on to, well,
you can't get me the place, cause he's always there.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
He night. Well, no, but Johnny, you know what I
think it is. And he just got out of jail too,
remember I remember, well, Johnny, I think his body down
there and for some reason he's trying to.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Bring it up. It's very well, be yes, sir, And.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's why I called you well Okay, buster, let's see
what I can do. Uster had said that Helman came
here from Los Angeles. Well, I was the man in
was a veritable fount of information. Well, Jamime harton the
Greater Southwest Insurance.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It was even now.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So I went in the call with Hall. I tried
him forty five cents, and he had plenty for me.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Of course, I know who owed his helm. And here
is Johnny when he and that partner of his walked
out of McKenny money supply with sixty thousand dollars and
in cash.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Mind you, we had to make good on it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Is that one home.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I was sent to President Roy, Yeah, for complicity in
that job, though I believe his partner.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Was the one who really did it.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Was apartment another old prospector named Oscar Kirkman.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Kirkman, is he's doing jail?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
He disappeared, yeah, before he was to go to trial.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And the money, not a penny of it would ever found.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Oh, if you have any ideas about how and where
you might recover it, very well.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
But if you're interested in Kirkland's body might be able
to find that way. What oh, what's the less of
it here?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
How can I be sure.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I knew that there was a body that one was
trying to little throw up there in that sep little
cold well. There was only one way to find out,
and I needed a special equipment for it. So early
the next morning I climbed into my rental car.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Very shall be sporting goods up in Las Vegas, Jeremy.
That's because of the place, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Huh, I'm great, so I'll see then here I go
nearly It doesn't boast around are good loaning to you?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Cause most of the people right now or either.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Fisherman or were exki Incidentally that i'man.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Go out in the buses.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Wanting know Johnny and uh listen here making my imagination
working over it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Time to listen. Can Elman had the breakfast.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Lil early took in the cafes and then he s
got the ball window where he could look over with
us missus Johnky doesn't a couple of coffee sitting there,
but he didn't budge.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Til you came out off.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
When you did, you went over perfective sort to carry
where he walked down to the poahouse. I mean it
was a little two casual you just put around down there,
still keeping their eye on.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Oh, I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
M somebody, mister portmore and uh I wanted to help Johnny.
I wanted him not too before you ride.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Hum, I don't think any of the guess, oh, just
the same.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I think Elman suspiciously, and Johnny I'll stopped working, just
the same, john can I on 'em?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I seel when I get back from one day.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It was nearly a hundred miles to Vegas, and I
made it in two hours flat.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
There Shelby's Sporting Goods. I spent it 'em four A.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Hundred and fifty nine dollars and eighteen cents for a
complete skin diving outfit, m naming the faceway diving tank
and regulator, a powerful water pots, headlines, and yeah passionate
thin pair of sun pops.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He our pardoner. You're gonna do your skin diving over
like me? Uh dona mahovey.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Uh. The last time I outfitted the man put down
there was a.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Couple of years ago a man called him for.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
A minor uh prospector. Oh you know, runted a hundred
and fifty bucks for the stuff, go.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
In and never got it back.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Wait a minute, you know what his name on sure
in fight of the something, he gave me a pony.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Went right after that that his picture was all.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Over the papers.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
There with his partner, another.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Crook named gotus Hellman and his n rings a barrel
down in the partner. It's sure done, it's sure her.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
While Hellman took the wrap.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
This one disappeared. Name was Oscar Crookman. Let's see, you've
just given me a one out the idea so just
wild enough to make some sense. Yeah, and help me
solve a tea sell the case?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
What kind?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh no, maybe murder, among other things. When I drive
down the little Mohobby resort, there's nothing bolder, said he
at the office of the National Park Commission. Then I
got ahold of a topographical matter of the whole area
before Lake Mohobby was filled up by the defense then
(13:29):
bank and hid the resort.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I went over it very careful. All I got a minute,
I mean before.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
A drive over the Bluehead City. But I saw you
come where and in a minute to go and what
do you guess it? Alright, we take a lot here
on the slant. Yeah, before the new dam filled up
the lake a few years ago. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Over here, I looked here.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh well, yeah, that's where that long cove is now
world as Holman has been working with us when he
will give it uh huh. And in the deep hall
at the end of that called Kirkman's farley, that is right,
Kirkman went a mine there before the lake was felled,
when it was all just desert land by the side
(14:12):
of the Canorader River. And right there is where Hellman
is grappling for something like Kirkman disappeared. I mean, yes,
but what really happened is as old as Hellman killed him.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And stuffed him.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Down there in that underwater mine. Maybe, but why he
wants to bring him up again? Whatever left must n
I wanna use your boat shoot And if Hellman hasn't.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Gone out fishing having.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh he's still hanging around down to guy, My god,
somehow you've got to keep them from following me. Well,
Hellman has seen you me together so much. But we
I can help Jim fill up the fuel tank on
Helman's boat and meantime take out one of the sports
bloods come like that, hight. God, he'll have plenty of
chances because Hellman will be watching me when I take off.
(14:57):
What are you gonna do a little sking guy the
end of that coal, and don't be surprised at what
I may bring up. Alman was still at the dock,
and I thought he kept his eyes only on me,
and I filed the skin diving.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Stuck in a bust his boat. Meantime, Jim went the
moortions the feeling of his water, and I took off.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And with a flottel wide open, and drove up the
lake in a long L shaped coal.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
At the end of it, where the deep.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Hole was, I tied up to an overhanging rock, but
on swim trunks, faithfully slippers and tanks, and gently left
myself over the side. I've done a lot of skin
diving here and there, but this was something new.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
The blight does it?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Sunlight from above, felt it through the clear cool water,
and blended almost fearily the color of the rocks and
the narrow canyon that made this little coat. But the
tremendous forces of nature of them, millions of the years
that stood up in the very space of the earth,
and then cooled and crushed and twisted the rocks and
the strings in wonderful shape, and the fish danced and
(16:06):
coffee and big gear gave him a lazy old car.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
They watched me without fear as I glided down beside.
It moved gently aside, and.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Fellow, a huge catfish casually turned aside.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
As I put down the powser beam of the headliner.
I could almost imagine.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
A look of the stain on this face to despide
this Indian beans in the world above. And then I
found what I was looking for.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
The entrance to the.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Old Kirkman minefly boarded up, but.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I managed to power one of the boards.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Loose, and I found a package wrapped in heavy plastic
for the heavy.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Coating of white, but I could see the.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Color of money inside.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I swam back up to.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The surface with it the shadow, I thought it sucked
the boat.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Possing off my gear.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I flung him and the claque in the board and
grabbed the dup for the con blows. You should replace
the spark plug in my motives if you had to remove.
While good for you, it gave me a lot of
trouble dollars locating.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And recovering the money.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Told me now that I have it, look if you'll
laan that thing yet away?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Did you always find what I mean you asked their.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Kirtman doon there I listened, Hammond.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Drum murder after all cage years, didn't draining down there.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
With his answer tied to your feet. Thanks again, mister.
I kicked with all I had an overturned the boat
at the end of the water.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I haven't fight again. I can cuss him to hit
his boat.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
But he dropped the gunner. With the help of the
tins on my feet. I was over of the tenant,
grabbling around the neck and dragg him down.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I had taken a.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Deep threat before capsizing his boating.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
He was an older man, and I m.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
But it's soon, like hours before he finally quit struggling,
and with my lungs almost bursting.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I carried him back up to the second.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
He was still alive, but hat us their bless his
fat and the worry when he saw Helman follow me
up the lake.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So we buy a boat was waiting.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
For us at the end of the gold as Hammon, Well,
that's up to the court.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The money, of course, all sixty thousand bucks of it.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
We'll go back to the county XP then, including all
thesecidentals I could think of in a couple of days,
of good Fishing six fifty eighty five. Yours to leave,
Johnny doll here's our story to tell you about next
(18:46):
week's story. Next week A call from an old friend.
Yeah the needs. We're blessed in the desert, john Us.
Won't you yours to leave?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Johnny Dowees, Yeah you, Polly. Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Darling Boss Ailey originates in Hollywood and his written scots
been directed by Jack Johnstone Thurt and our casts were
Barney Phillips, dam Edwards, Marbert Robinson, Boris Lewis and Ralph Movies.
We would have joined us Net Week, Dame Time and
Stayson for another exciting story. Out yours truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
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