August 16, 2025 • 18 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 (00:02):
Do I understand you're probably the best.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Private eye in the business.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Well, I try to make a living as an insurance investigator,
that's what you mean. Well, what I have in mind
does not exactly come under the heading of insurance investigation.
Then if you'd like me to recommend somebody to you,
But then again it might. What does the name of
Sarah Paulerson Farling.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Mean anything to you?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, wait a minute. The old dollar geople around about
half of the Southern Connectic of Water and Power company.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
That's right, she's a very important client of ours.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And actually said this matter doesn't involve insurance. It doesn't
yet I hope you can keep it from doing so.
Oh now, look, if this is one of those body
guided simon, no it isn't. And incidentally, in addition to
your expense account, there will be a sizeable fee for
your service. Oh well, why didn't you say so in
the first place?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
How much?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Five thousand dollars. But if you think perhaps i'd better
get so, don't.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Even think of it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'll be right over. Bob Bailey in The Etlitic Adventures
of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account. America's
Fabulous Free Lance Insurance investigators truly Johnny dollars expense account
(01:23):
the Better Buy Spression investigator Johnny Dollar the Eastern Liability
and Trust Company home office, Hartford, Connecticut, following his an
account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the only
one bus matter with a five thousand dollars extra feed
dangling in front of my face. Expense account out and
(01:45):
one naturally was a dollar ten for cab to fred
Wigley's office in the Greggson Building downtown on the Square.
I'm glad you've decided to take a song off after
I mentioned speech, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know, k any other money?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, well, I suppose I can't exactly blame you. It's
awake me if I ever reached the point where I
can turn her my nose.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
At five thousand, I.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Mentioned missus Sarah Baldiston Barley. Yeah, and as I understand
that she's one of the wealthiest people, we has really
her daughter that we're concerned about, that she is concerned about.
Her name is true to Limb Barley truer. She celebrated
her twenty first birthday about a month ago. Oh yeah,
I remember that big brawl the old lady threw four
must have made the headlines all over the wall, as
(02:31):
you call it was engineered by True to Limb. Yeah,
and as I recall now, the police had to put
on a couple of dozen extra men to keep things
under control. Champagne flowed like. The cost of that party,
including damage to the hotel where it took place, must
have run to thirty or forty thousand dollars. Then it's
true to Limb must be quite a girl like It
was typical of many such incidents in the life with
(02:51):
True to Limb Barling, young, wealthy, completely spoiled and completely
rebellious against her mother's recent attempt to discipline. To put
it mildly, she's been quite a problem. Life of home
with her mother has been one continuous Battle's been about
as much love between them these past few months. And
(03:11):
believe me, Donner, it's been as much her mother's.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Fault as it has been suiting.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You mean, for spoiling her so badly enough, Yes, you see,
her mother's only interest in life has been in adding
to the fortune her husband left her. Or what has
happened Bran five days ago, Trudea Lynn simply packed up
and left for parts unknown, And I'm certain it was
more than mere coincidence that young Harvey Howard also who's
Sir Harvey Harvey, is a worthless young playboy who's been
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trying for some time to marry her and very obviously
only to get his hands on her money. Also, also,
Lucy Taylor left town about that same tall as she
one of Trudeaumn's playmates, a young social climber who's been
practically living off her for the past two years over
Missus Barling's strenuous objections. Of course, saw the three of
(03:57):
them are just cut loose to run off and have
a fling eh and the idea where they went, Oh,
You've got.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
To find the girl somehow, I'll bring her back here.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well now, mister Wakeley, if she's twenty one. Otherwise my
company stands a good chance of losing the literary millions of.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Dollars worth of durance policies of her mother's.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But look, even for a five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Feet, we'll make it ten.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
And most time, remind you that it's hardly your place
to question the reasons for an assignment given you by
one of the companies you agreed to serve ten thousand
year Okay, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
With no trouble at all.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I found a taxi driver who'd taken a missing girl
down to the railroad.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Station in the morning.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
She's left home. I have too, in the expensive count
of five dollars tip to them for the information that
she's been met there by young Lucy Taylor and Harvey
Howard Lot. It would like did all time to board
a train for New York. I had him three forty
five cents per phone call my old Powell Lieutenant Randy
Singer at the eighteenth Precinct, New York Police Department.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
What do you mean do I know who true limb
filing is?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, do your Randy listen?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
She and a couple of her little buddies blew into
town less than a week ago, and they've been raising
so much cain around the nightclip circuit. Well, for a
while ago we were thinking of putting on a flock
of extra men.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well do you know where she's staying?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, Johnny, an expensive little apartment house over at seven
twenty seventies fifty first Street.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Thanks Randy, when I get down there, I'll buy you
a drink. It had them four aged seventy five for
a quick lunch than a train down to New York.
I had him five a buck and a half for
a cab the seven twenty seventiest fifty first a real
fancy place, and the dorman wore enough gold bray to
think a battleship. I showed him my credentials and he
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had the elevator boy taking it to the single apartment
on the whole seventh four CREDA had the okodness, I
see the door is open like it usually is, but
maybe you better ring them? Yes, yeh, miss bowling, miss bowling?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Hell all, anybody.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Anything pretty? Say? Who'sender?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Randy Singer in homicide? Idol? Randy?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What I was bout? Yeah? It was the body of Puddle.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And uying there in the middle of the floor. She
and they had been very pretty once with the blows
from my heavy bronze candlestick and change all that, I
half finish cigarette with a touch of lipstick, and I
was still smoking in a next stray, So it must
have happened within the past few minutes. Quickly I searched
the apartment.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I found nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Then, purely on a hunch, hoping you hadn't yet left headquarters,
I made another caller Randy.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Singer, I was just about to grab Doc Winners and
hop into a Prowl card. And I'll be sure you
don't touch anything.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Sure, sure, Now, I'll listen, Randy. Trude Wind came down
here from with a couple of playmates, Harvey Howard and
the warsh dot blonde named Lucy Tail. You know where
they're staying. Yeah, And if I were you, I'd take
him up and bring them along with you.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Do you think one of them did it? Just just
a hunch, one of your famous hunches.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Just bring them along with you, John. After another careful
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look around the apartment of the murdered girl, I questioned
the elevator operator in Dorman, that is, after they calmed
down with it. Well, I shoutill think I better an
order fire the management, mister dor And if the cops
is coming save with the letter? Is there any way
to get up to that apartment besides the elevator only the.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Service entrance at the back of it. But the only
way anybody.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Could get in there is if I let them in
the service entrance downstairs here.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Ain't that right, Willie?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's right? Did anybody come here to see this barling today?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yes, sir, two people, yes, go well.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You see, about two hours ago Ms Barlan went over
to see a doctor in the building across the street.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ain't that right, Willie? That's right?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Doctor Thawson been seeing him a couple of times every day,
I see.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Ain't that right, Willie?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Then she come back here not more than a half
hour ago, said she was gonna pack up her stuff
and leave. Ain't going well? Then her friend, miss Taylor,
come around to see when only a little while before
you come, Ain't that right, Willie? That's right?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And more?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Maybe ten or fifteen minutes before you come?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
How long did she say?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh? Maybe five six minutes and maybe less, maybe less,
it seemed to me. And I was soon to come
down and got settled, and I had to go up there.
When she wrung the buzzery, he said that two people
are up here to see miss Parling.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Who was the other who was a man? Him and
missus Taylor both been here a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You know his name for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Nobody ever gets in this building without given.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Her name unless we know him. Ain't that right, Willie?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's right? Well?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Who was her name? Is?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Mister Harvey Howard?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
When was this right after miss Taylor left and they
didn't come together, No, soon, By the time her cab
got down the street, there is come rolling up.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
How long did he stay? Not any longer than the
lady had? Ain't that? That's right?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Then?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Listen, I'm going across the street to see this doctor person.
If I'm not by but on the police yet here,
tell them where to reach me son for me?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yes, yes, sir, yes, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
From the first day that she moved into the apartment
across the street, sometimes a couple of times a day, well,
what was the matter where the doctor? Well, physically she
had what might best be described as a mild incidian
peptic us. And I see, and with all her nightclub
drinking and smoking, strangely enough, despite Miss Barling's party going
proctivities habits, so she was quite a hypochondriact. Oh, of course,
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all her tearing around late hours during the first three.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Days and nights here in the city.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
They are no good only the first few days, yes, hypochondriactor,
said yes. And as is often the case, mister Dollar,
to someone like that, the doctor suddenly finds himself a close.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Confident even on a short cloak and go on well.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
In spite of telling me it was only to say
goodbye and thanks.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I think her.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Visits was more than anything else to boost herm morale,
self confidence. Why she'd suffer a considerable change of hearts.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
And running away from her mother. Apparently this was the.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
First chance she ever had to really be by herself,
make things out for her, And she was getting ready
to telephone and renounce the two leaches the best word
I can make her, the two who came down there
with him. Yes, she was going to telephone then tell
them that she was through with them, and then go
back to Hartford Square things with her mother, and then
possibly get a job, do something to make up for
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all the time you'd waste her just playing her ound.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Maybe you don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Adductive or what you just told me indicates that if
she did suddenly throw them over, either Harvey Howard or
Lucy Taylor, either one of them may have killed her.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Mister Dollar right, but he'd go right?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But which one and how to prove it?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Great, I thought you were going to send over for
me when the police got here.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, I was, mister dollery.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That right will eat Matt right.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But this twe tenants said, knock the bother. That's right, Johnny,
hry boy.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Did you get hold of the tailored girl and Hobby Howard? Yeah,
they're inside, locked up in a couple of bedrooms. Okay, okay,
two can going back downstairs?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Non?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yes, Well if you found.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Out anything, well, it's for your hunts. This tailor brought
or this spishy eyed Howard did it? Well, it's probably
a pretty good one, Johns.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But I'd like to see some proof.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Thus you were bringing over a medical on the doc
and one of the boys in the lab. Just a
meat wagon will be along in a little while to
take this to the morgue. Do they find anything, any
prints or wherever?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Did it? Must have Warren gloves.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Where'd you find these two kids? Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Let's miss Taylor.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Hey, she's there.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Quite a disk Johnny.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh yeah, the kind you'd expect to pick up the
back door of a cheap stripper joint. Why are your
girl with money like food to lin barling whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Let somebody like that get their hook.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Where did you find it? In her hotel room with
the lights packing up and getting ready.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
To leave to go back to the heart that she said?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
And Harvey Howard in his room there.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
At the like, also packing the leaves. Ye're the only
ones known to have been up here to say, yeah,
I checked it out real good with that dumb doorman
and the elevator boy. And I'm sure that nobody could
have gotten up here without.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
There known about it.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So we've got to show up to one of these
two that murdered rolling the pools.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
They both did it when they came up here.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Separate me. Oh I didn't know. Let's talk to them.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, just unlocked that door beside you.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Oh now, police, all right, i'd like to be you
pool by killed.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Maybe I will Harvey Hoos up like this. Send the
buddy of Portso and limb line there, your dearest friend. Yeah,
of course, this is Johnny Donner, you too.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
He's a special investigator.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh, we'll go ahead and investigate, mister Dolla. Just keep
me out of all right, Harvey, an't you got it?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Say cocktails?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's cocktail time? I said, all right, we'll see who
came up here to see miss Bowling a little while ago.
That's right, War, I've been seeing her every day since
we all came down here.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It's been wrong with that, you were pretty mad at
her for bringing you down here and then suddenly telling
you she was going to leave and go back to Hertford.
Weren't you what? Or do you want to pretend she
didn't call.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You and tell you that?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Maybe she did, But I thought that if I could
see her.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And talk to her, I could put straighten things out.
You know, only when I got here she wouldn't let
me in. She didn't let you in, clam the door
in my face, so I left, Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
She loosely?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Then why did I found the door a job when
I got here? So maybe she opened it again after
you were here.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Of course she telephoned me told me the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The door was a jar.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, so you came on in.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
No, No, of course it wouldn't have been tall. I
rang the bell and knocked that I got no answer, and.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I decided she'd already left. So I went back to
my hotel.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And and.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I lie about it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, that's why, har well, Harney.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I did come.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I found her body lying here.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I knew I'd be suspected of killing him there. Anything
I could think of was getting away. That's a lie.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You came in here and killed her.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No, you found her sitting here in the chair and
sneezed them.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know something.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I think she's right, got a pair of gloves on
your harving. But yes, I always cherry guarded, even in
the summer, of course, so you put him up avoid
leaving fingerprints. Miss Barling was sitting here in the chair,
her back to the door, quietly smoking a cigarette. Yeah,
I found the ashes and the ashtray.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Was still long.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
No, please listen, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Huh, junny brother, how stupid?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Can I get?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Lucy? Here?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You'll swear you.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Didn't come in here. Yeah, I'd be stuck down if
I did.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Maybe you will, I told.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You tudle and plams the door in my face when
I came here to talk to her. She wouldn't let
me in, Okay, Randy? That cigarette, hey, yeah, what about?
It was still burning when I got here. It had
a stick on it, and you didn't save it, John Hall.
But it turns out I didn't need to see. But
the litteller said was true. He was sitting nice here
with her back.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
To the door.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That lipstick was yours, Lucy. The cigarette was yours. I
tell you.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I swear I didn't come in here, uh.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Not, Miss Sparling Jones suffering from an unser singing a
doctor a couple of times a day about it smoking.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You know you're right she didn't smoke.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, I want to let the lieutenant have your gloves.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Lucy, no why?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And Randy, you want to bet the lab will find
microscopic traces of bronze on them from that candlestick she
used to kill Trudeah Limb.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I, Miss Taylor hand them over. Yeah, guilty of sense.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But you know something, if that pretty boy Hobby had
found her alive when he'd arrived, I'm not sure he
would have done he rent. There are times when I'm
glad I'm not rich, with a bunch of these leeches
hanging around grabbing a by doll, which reminds me that
nine extra fee you PROMI me in this case expense
account pull including transportation back to hybrid twenty five fifty five, yours, truly,
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Donna Dolls, our star to tell you about next week's story.
Next week, Atlantic fisherman who proves to be the key
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to a murder join us, won't you?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yours truly?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Johnny Doll, yours truly, Jney Dollar. Bob Bailey originates in
Hollywood and has written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone.
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Heard in our cast were Virginia Gregg lest the Name
Herb Viagran, Alan Reid, Frank Grissel, Jack Edwards and Jack Grime.
You can rejoin us next week, same time and station
for another exciting story of your trully Johnny Dollar
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Lester Jim Matthews speaking
Do I understand you're probably the best.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Private eye in the business.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Well, I try to make a living as an insurance investigator,
that's what you mean. Well, what I have in mind
does not exactly come under the heading of insurance investigation.
Then if you'd like me to recommend somebody to you,
But then again it might. What does the name of
Sarah Paulerson Farling.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Mean anything to you?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, wait a minute. The old dollar geople around about
half of the Southern Connectic of Water and Power company.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
That's right, she's a very important client of ours.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And actually said this matter doesn't involve insurance. It doesn't
yet I hope you can keep it from doing so.
Oh now, look, if this is one of those body
guided simon, no it isn't. And incidentally, in addition to
your expense account, there will be a sizeable fee for
your service. Oh well, why didn't you say so in
the first place?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
How much?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Five thousand dollars. But if you think perhaps i'd better
get so, don't.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Even think of it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'll be right over. Bob Bailey in The Etlitic Adventures
of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account. America's
Fabulous Free Lance Insurance investigators truly Johnny dollars expense account
(01:23):
the Better Buy Spression investigator Johnny Dollar the Eastern Liability
and Trust Company home office, Hartford, Connecticut, following his an
account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the only
one bus matter with a five thousand dollars extra feed
dangling in front of my face. Expense account out and
(01:45):
one naturally was a dollar ten for cab to fred
Wigley's office in the Greggson Building downtown on the Square.
I'm glad you've decided to take a song off after
I mentioned speech, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You know, k any other money?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, well, I suppose I can't exactly blame you. It's
awake me if I ever reached the point where I
can turn her my nose.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
At five thousand, I.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Mentioned missus Sarah Baldiston Barley. Yeah, and as I understand
that she's one of the wealthiest people, we has really
her daughter that we're concerned about, that she is concerned about.
Her name is true to Limb Barley truer. She celebrated
her twenty first birthday about a month ago. Oh yeah,
I remember that big brawl the old lady threw four
must have made the headlines all over the wall, as
(02:31):
you call it was engineered by True to Limb. Yeah,
and as I recall now, the police had to put
on a couple of dozen extra men to keep things
under control. Champagne flowed like. The cost of that party,
including damage to the hotel where it took place, must
have run to thirty or forty thousand dollars. Then it's
true to Limb must be quite a girl like It
was typical of many such incidents in the life with
(02:51):
True to Limb Barling, young, wealthy, completely spoiled and completely
rebellious against her mother's recent attempt to discipline. To put
it mildly, she's been quite a problem. Life of home
with her mother has been one continuous Battle's been about
as much love between them these past few months. And
(03:11):
believe me, Donner, it's been as much her mother's.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Fault as it has been suiting.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You mean, for spoiling her so badly enough, Yes, you see,
her mother's only interest in life has been in adding
to the fortune her husband left her. Or what has
happened Bran five days ago, Trudea Lynn simply packed up
and left for parts unknown, And I'm certain it was
more than mere coincidence that young Harvey Howard also who's
Sir Harvey Harvey, is a worthless young playboy who's been
(03:37):
trying for some time to marry her and very obviously
only to get his hands on her money. Also, also,
Lucy Taylor left town about that same tall as she
one of Trudeaumn's playmates, a young social climber who's been
practically living off her for the past two years over
Missus Barling's strenuous objections. Of course, saw the three of
(03:57):
them are just cut loose to run off and have
a fling eh and the idea where they went, Oh,
You've got.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
To find the girl somehow, I'll bring her back here.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well now, mister Wakeley, if she's twenty one. Otherwise my
company stands a good chance of losing the literary millions of.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Dollars worth of durance policies of her mother's.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But look, even for a five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Feet, we'll make it ten.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
And most time, remind you that it's hardly your place
to question the reasons for an assignment given you by
one of the companies you agreed to serve ten thousand
year Okay, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
With no trouble at all.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I found a taxi driver who'd taken a missing girl
down to the railroad.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Station in the morning.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
She's left home. I have too, in the expensive count
of five dollars tip to them for the information that
she's been met there by young Lucy Taylor and Harvey
Howard Lot. It would like did all time to board
a train for New York. I had him three forty
five cents per phone call my old Powell Lieutenant Randy
Singer at the eighteenth Precinct, New York Police Department.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
What do you mean do I know who true limb
filing is?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, do your Randy listen?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
She and a couple of her little buddies blew into
town less than a week ago, and they've been raising
so much cain around the nightclip circuit. Well, for a
while ago we were thinking of putting on a flock
of extra men.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well do you know where she's staying?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, Johnny, an expensive little apartment house over at seven
twenty seventies fifty first Street.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Thanks Randy, when I get down there, I'll buy you
a drink. It had them four aged seventy five for
a quick lunch than a train down to New York.
I had him five a buck and a half for
a cab the seven twenty seventiest fifty first a real
fancy place, and the dorman wore enough gold bray to
think a battleship. I showed him my credentials and he
(05:53):
had the elevator boy taking it to the single apartment
on the whole seventh four CREDA had the okodness, I
see the door is open like it usually is, but
maybe you better ring them? Yes, yeh, miss bowling, miss bowling?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Hell all, anybody.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Anything pretty? Say? Who'sender?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Randy Singer in homicide? Idol? Randy?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What I was bout? Yeah? It was the body of Puddle.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And uying there in the middle of the floor. She
and they had been very pretty once with the blows
from my heavy bronze candlestick and change all that, I
half finish cigarette with a touch of lipstick, and I
was still smoking in a next stray, So it must
have happened within the past few minutes. Quickly I searched
the apartment.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I found nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Then, purely on a hunch, hoping you hadn't yet left headquarters,
I made another caller Randy.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Singer, I was just about to grab Doc Winners and
hop into a Prowl card. And I'll be sure you
don't touch anything.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Sure, sure, Now, I'll listen, Randy. Trude Wind came down
here from with a couple of playmates, Harvey Howard and
the warsh dot blonde named Lucy Tail. You know where
they're staying. Yeah, And if I were you, I'd take
him up and bring them along with you.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Do you think one of them did it? Just just
a hunch, one of your famous hunches.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Just bring them along with you, John. After another careful
(08:16):
look around the apartment of the murdered girl, I questioned
the elevator operator in Dorman, that is, after they calmed
down with it. Well, I shoutill think I better an
order fire the management, mister dor And if the cops
is coming save with the letter? Is there any way
to get up to that apartment besides the elevator only the.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Service entrance at the back of it. But the only
way anybody.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Could get in there is if I let them in
the service entrance downstairs here.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Ain't that right, Willie?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's right? Did anybody come here to see this barling today?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yes, sir, two people, yes, go well.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You see, about two hours ago Ms Barlan went over
to see a doctor in the building across the street.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ain't that right, Willie? That's right?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Doctor Thawson been seeing him a couple of times every day,
I see.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Ain't that right, Willie?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Then she come back here not more than a half
hour ago, said she was gonna pack up her stuff
and leave. Ain't going well? Then her friend, miss Taylor,
come around to see when only a little while before
you come, Ain't that right, Willie? That's right?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And more?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Maybe ten or fifteen minutes before you come?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
How long did she say?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh? Maybe five six minutes and maybe less, maybe less,
it seemed to me. And I was soon to come
down and got settled, and I had to go up there.
When she wrung the buzzery, he said that two people
are up here to see miss Parling.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Who was the other who was a man? Him and
missus Taylor both been here a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You know his name for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Nobody ever gets in this building without given.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Her name unless we know him. Ain't that right, Willie?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's right? Well?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Who was her name? Is?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Mister Harvey Howard?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
When was this right after miss Taylor left and they
didn't come together, No, soon, By the time her cab
got down the street, there is come rolling up.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
How long did he stay? Not any longer than the
lady had? Ain't that? That's right?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Then?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Listen, I'm going across the street to see this doctor person.
If I'm not by but on the police yet here,
tell them where to reach me son for me?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yes, yes, sir, yes, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
From the first day that she moved into the apartment
across the street, sometimes a couple of times a day, well,
what was the matter where the doctor? Well, physically she
had what might best be described as a mild incidian
peptic us. And I see, and with all her nightclub
drinking and smoking, strangely enough, despite Miss Barling's party going
proctivities habits, so she was quite a hypochondriact. Oh, of course,
(10:36):
all her tearing around late hours during the first three.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Days and nights here in the city.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
They are no good only the first few days, yes, hypochondriactor,
said yes. And as is often the case, mister Dollar,
to someone like that, the doctor suddenly finds himself a close.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Confident even on a short cloak and go on well.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
In spite of telling me it was only to say
goodbye and thanks.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I think her.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Visits was more than anything else to boost herm morale,
self confidence. Why she'd suffer a considerable change of hearts.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
And running away from her mother. Apparently this was the.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
First chance she ever had to really be by herself,
make things out for her, And she was getting ready
to telephone and renounce the two leaches the best word
I can make her, the two who came down there
with him. Yes, she was going to telephone then tell
them that she was through with them, and then go
back to Hartford Square things with her mother, and then
possibly get a job, do something to make up for
(11:32):
all the time you'd waste her just playing her ound.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Maybe you don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Adductive or what you just told me indicates that if
she did suddenly throw them over, either Harvey Howard or
Lucy Taylor, either one of them may have killed her.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Mister Dollar right, but he'd go right?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But which one and how to prove it?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Great, I thought you were going to send over for
me when the police got here.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, I was, mister dollery.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That right will eat Matt right.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But this twe tenants said, knock the bother. That's right, Johnny,
hry boy.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Did you get hold of the tailored girl and Hobby Howard? Yeah,
they're inside, locked up in a couple of bedrooms. Okay, okay,
two can going back downstairs?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Non?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yes, Well if you found.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Out anything, well, it's for your hunts. This tailor brought
or this spishy eyed Howard did it? Well, it's probably
a pretty good one, Johns.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But I'd like to see some proof.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Thus you were bringing over a medical on the doc
and one of the boys in the lab. Just a
meat wagon will be along in a little while to
take this to the morgue. Do they find anything, any
prints or wherever?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Did it? Must have Warren gloves.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Where'd you find these two kids? Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Let's miss Taylor.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Hey, she's there.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Quite a disk Johnny.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh yeah, the kind you'd expect to pick up the
back door of a cheap stripper joint. Why are your
girl with money like food to lin barling whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Let somebody like that get their hook.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Where did you find it? In her hotel room with
the lights packing up and getting ready.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
To leave to go back to the heart that she said?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
And Harvey Howard in his room there.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
At the like, also packing the leaves. Ye're the only
ones known to have been up here to say, yeah,
I checked it out real good with that dumb doorman
and the elevator boy. And I'm sure that nobody could
have gotten up here without.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
There known about it.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So we've got to show up to one of these
two that murdered rolling the pools.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
They both did it when they came up here.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Separate me. Oh I didn't know. Let's talk to them.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, just unlocked that door beside you.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Oh now, police, all right, i'd like to be you
pool by killed.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Maybe I will Harvey Hoos up like this. Send the
buddy of Portso and limb line there, your dearest friend. Yeah,
of course, this is Johnny Donner, you too.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
He's a special investigator.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh, we'll go ahead and investigate, mister Dolla. Just keep
me out of all right, Harvey, an't you got it?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Say cocktails?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's cocktail time? I said, all right, we'll see who
came up here to see miss Bowling a little while ago.
That's right, War, I've been seeing her every day since
we all came down here.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It's been wrong with that, you were pretty mad at
her for bringing you down here and then suddenly telling
you she was going to leave and go back to Hertford.
Weren't you what? Or do you want to pretend she
didn't call.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You and tell you that?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Maybe she did, But I thought that if I could
see her.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And talk to her, I could put straighten things out.
You know, only when I got here she wouldn't let
me in. She didn't let you in, clam the door
in my face, so I left, Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
She loosely?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Then why did I found the door a job when
I got here? So maybe she opened it again after
you were here.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Of course she telephoned me told me the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The door was a jar.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, so you came on in.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
No, No, of course it wouldn't have been tall. I
rang the bell and knocked that I got no answer, and.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I decided she'd already left. So I went back to
my hotel.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And and.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I lie about it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, that's why, har well, Harney.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I did come.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I found her body lying here.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I knew I'd be suspected of killing him there. Anything
I could think of was getting away. That's a lie.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You came in here and killed her.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No, you found her sitting here in the chair and
sneezed them.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know something.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I think she's right, got a pair of gloves on
your harving. But yes, I always cherry guarded, even in
the summer, of course, so you put him up avoid
leaving fingerprints. Miss Barling was sitting here in the chair,
her back to the door, quietly smoking a cigarette. Yeah,
I found the ashes and the ashtray.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Was still long.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
No, please listen, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Huh, junny brother, how stupid?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Can I get?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Lucy? Here?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You'll swear you.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Didn't come in here. Yeah, I'd be stuck down if
I did.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Maybe you will, I told.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You tudle and plams the door in my face when
I came here to talk to her. She wouldn't let
me in, Okay, Randy? That cigarette, hey, yeah, what about?
It was still burning when I got here. It had
a stick on it, and you didn't save it, John Hall.
But it turns out I didn't need to see. But
the litteller said was true. He was sitting nice here
with her back.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
To the door.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That lipstick was yours, Lucy. The cigarette was yours. I
tell you.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I swear I didn't come in here, uh.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Not, Miss Sparling Jones suffering from an unser singing a
doctor a couple of times a day about it smoking.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You know you're right she didn't smoke.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, I want to let the lieutenant have your gloves.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Lucy, no why?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And Randy, you want to bet the lab will find
microscopic traces of bronze on them from that candlestick she
used to kill Trudeah Limb.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I, Miss Taylor hand them over. Yeah, guilty of sense.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But you know something, if that pretty boy Hobby had
found her alive when he'd arrived, I'm not sure he
would have done he rent. There are times when I'm
glad I'm not rich, with a bunch of these leeches
hanging around grabbing a by doll, which reminds me that
nine extra fee you PROMI me in this case expense
account pull including transportation back to hybrid twenty five fifty five, yours, truly,
(17:17):
Donna Dolls, our star to tell you about next week's story.
Next week, Atlantic fisherman who proves to be the key
(17:37):
to a murder join us, won't you?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yours truly?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Johnny Doll, yours truly, Jney Dollar. Bob Bailey originates in
Hollywood and has written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone.
(18:06):
Heard in our cast were Virginia Gregg lest the Name
Herb Viagran, Alan Reid, Frank Grissel, Jack Edwards and Jack Grime.
You can rejoin us next week, same time and station
for another exciting story of your trully Johnny Dollar
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