October 17, 2025 • 22 mins
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama which aired between 1949 and 1962. "The man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar". Of the eight different actors who played Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey is likely considered the most popular. Bailey's interpretation presented a tough, streetwise character, but also sensitive and thoughtful. During it's time, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar attracted some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Jack Johnstone, E. Jack Neuman, Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dillar is long
distance with your Pat McCracken and Hertford, Connecticut, returning your call,
mister dill Oh, thanks operator. Put them on one moment please.
Hell oh, Johnny, this message I found. Well, I'm glad
(00:21):
you called. Say what under the sun that you're doing
in Los Angeles? Says down here for a confam with
Jack Johnstone, you know the guy who dramatizes the ace
as I am and put them on the Yeah. I
give him my best And I just wondered if you
had anything out here, I can do it before heading
back to Hydrid. And it's so it'll give you a
chance to put your travel charges on the expense account.
What else, Johnny, I got a wire from him just
(00:42):
a few minutes ago. You contact HERB Shilling at the
greatest Southwest Insurance Company right there in La. Okay, we'll do.
You can address your expense account to them, right? Oh uh, Johnny? Yeah?
Have you got a gun with you? Sure? Pat? I
always huh? Why do you ask? Judging by herbs wired, Johnny,
(01:03):
you may need it. Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures
of a Man with the Action packed expense account America's
fabulous freelance insurance investigator are as Truly Johnny Dollar. A
(01:28):
young lady by the name of Shahrazad kept her audience
of one control for one thousand and one nights with
one of the longest stories in history. That's a long
time to devote to one chronicle, but some of CBS
Radio's winning seven weekday drummers have put that record in
the shade, entertaining audiences in the millions with many times
(01:48):
one thousand and one days of continuing dramatic serials. Each
weekday on the CBS Radio network is a wealth of
daytime drummer including such outstanding serials as The Amounts of
Helen Trent, The Couple next Door, mar Perkins, Whispering Streets,
The Right to Happiness, The Second Missus Burton, and Young
(02:08):
Doctor Malone. Monday through Friday. Follow these absorbing, true to
life stories, Only CBS Radio brings you the winning seven
combination of top daytime dramas. Another important reason for the
different sound of this CBS Radio station and now act
(02:30):
one of yours. Truly Ti Dollar expense accounts submitted by
special Investigator Johnny Dollar at the Greater Southwest Insurance Company,
(02:53):
Los Angeles office. Following is an account of expenses incurred
during my investigation of the Winsome widow matter. Expense account
out of one a dollar forty for a taxi from
my hotel in West LA the greater Sounds West Insurance
and one of those big office buildings on Wilshire Boulevard's
Miracle Mile. Herb Shilling almost fell off his chair when
(03:14):
I barged inner dollar. Hi, Herbie, Look, I know that
some of those new jet flights are pretty fast, but
I only sent that white to Pat mccrack in a
couple of hours. I didn't waste any time trying to
make Plaine connections. Hert just flew out out of my
own power. You're kidding, I know, But where were you
when you got the word from mccracket, right here in
your own fair city. I wish I'd known that even
(03:37):
those couple of hours could have been saved. H what's
the big problem? A little matter of a liquor store?
Hold up? Well, I am afraid this one wasn't so little.
Then tell me on yes, Johnny. For some reason or another,
these places that sell bottle goods are a pretty frequent
target for stickups here in Los Angeles. There have been
quite a few of them over the years. I'm surprised
(03:58):
you ensure them. Needless to say, premiums are pretty high,
and at least as far as our company is concerned,
the policies are somewhat limited. That is, in so far
as maximum allowable coverage is concerned. Makes sense. Oh, we've
been pretty lucky, but that I mean, we've had to
pay off relatively few claims. But now, in the case
of Willie Layman whose Willy Laman. His stories are in
(04:20):
West Los Angeles at one out ninety two to one
Santa Monica Boulevard, and that's only about a mile from
where I'm staying. The old man opened up his place
late in nineteen fifty one. Oh, yes, sixty one, early
nineteen fifty two. He had his first hold of it.
The Bandit's got away with something over nine hundred dollars,
so he bought some insurance from us. We'll go on.
(04:41):
Since then, there have been seven more attempted stick ups there,
a total of eight in as many years. And your
company must be getting a bit tired of paying off no,
because after the second time he know how to use it.
He certainly did. He had a lot of medals from
some German out that he was in during the last war.
I always up with no more losses, that is until
(05:02):
last night. Oh how much good money? What else? Something
like over four hundred dollars out of the cash register
as nearly as the police can figure it from the
registered slip or couldn't layman tell you how much? No,
because you see, Johnny, he also lost his life, and
I take it he wrote his life insurance too. That's right,
(05:24):
thirty thousand dollars. I see. Look, it's a little late
in the day, but if you want to go out
there check with the police. Sure, I'll be in touch, Adam.
Two fifty dollars deposit on a drive your own car.
I passed up one on nine two one Centamonica Boulevard
and one right on out west to West LA Police headquarters.
(05:44):
There I ran down Sergeant Mike Kirby, who was covering
the whole affair. Mike turned out to be a young,
alert guy, on the ball and completely cooperative. That's ride
dollar eight times since he opened the place in fifty one,
and that's way out of line. Yeah, I should certainly
think so. In the last three stick ups have been
within the past ten weeks. Mike, contact at the insurance
(06:05):
company Hurt Shilling, tells me that Willie Lahman managed to
fight off most of the family. He told you ride dollar.
Layman was not only a crack shot, but I guess
he was pretty quick on the draw. It was only
last month that he killed one of the two men
to try to hold them up. Two men, what about
the other? I'm way ahead of you. Huh, we find
another man, we find the killer. Probably it seemed like
(06:26):
a pretty safe bet. But look, Mike, if there were
so many tries at this one place, and so many
all at once, take a sure somebody watching over the point.
We tried it. As long as we had somebody there,
you know, sitting in the back or working behind the corner,
and just watch him from across the street. Nothing happened,
but the minute we took him away, being another hold up.
Try Somehow they seemed to know whenever we had the
(06:48):
place under surveillance, and more important, when you didn't, Oh
what have you got to work on? Oh? Nothing but
a couple of bullets. I'm afraid I want to take
a run over and look at the place. Sure, Mike,
why not like a store was closed, but there were
lights on and the living quarters about it. We knocked
(07:09):
a couple of times but got no answer, so Mike
used to keep it. He had he and his men
had been careful to leave things as they've been at
the time of the killing. He was lying right there,
dollars though he'd come around the end of the corner
near that door to the back room. Yeah. Yeah, that
door also leads upstairs to the apartment. He must have
taken a couple of shots at the bandit. You see
(07:31):
where the bottles were broken around the shelf. Yeah, no
bloodstains or anything. I guess he missed for once, but
not the bandit put him right in the heart. Johnny
bullet went in at the right shoulder and then down
through his heart and stopped against the lower left rib.
Of course, until you get a lambry port of that bullet.
(07:51):
Or it must be his wife the why she didn't
answer when we knocked on the door. Did even he missus? Layman? Oh? No, again,
you have to come around at all hours. Yes, hold everything.
Layman had been sixty one, but his wife, Gloria couldn't
have been more than thirty Taul Dark. She was obviously
(08:14):
very proud of her party commitical figure, and she was pretty,
that is almost Maybe it was just a little too
much make him, especially around the eyes that she knew
how to use so well. The little bell had rung
in the back of my head. Yeah, since I'd noticed
the phone boos at the gas station next door, I
had him three ten cents for a call, Jnny. That's right, Herb,
(08:36):
And I'm sorry to call you at home. And there's
one thing I forgot to ask you about when I
talked to you. How is that? Who's the beneficiary of
old man Layman's life insurance? His wife? Thank you, Herb
shilling back two yours truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment
(09:03):
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act too of yours truly Johnny Dollar and a winsome
widow matter. After the phone called a Herb Shelley, I
(10:20):
went back into the liquor store, where Sergeant Mike Kirby
was still talking to Layman's widow, Gloria. If you mean
you don't plan to reopen the store and all, missus Layman,
I fighting help, but I'll sell this down to the
first person I find has enough money to buy it.
And then what, missus Lamon? What do you call me? Gloria? Hi?
Everybody else does? And who are you anyway? Johnny? You're
a cough and you don't look like a dick. Mister
(10:43):
dollars here because of the insurance involved. That's the insurance company.
That's right. Well, listen, will he had some insurance I know,
I mean on himself as well as the store. I
don't know how much it is, but he promised me
that he buys some. It was your idea that he
insures life. Sure, no guy like him. I figured he'd
up and die sometime while I was still young and beautiful,
(11:05):
So why shouldn't I let him provide something for my future?
Like they say, oh, you ever thought he was going
to die.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
As soon as this?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Whoever planned and carry it out his murder? Do you
mean somebody planned to kill.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Him this way?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Just where were you when it happened, Boria? I was
upstairs and dead asleep. Look, I've told the cops all
about it. Well you must have heard the shooting, I'll say,
I did. What did you do? I put on a
road and I'm running down here. Well I see the
cash register opening, poor old Willie land there, and when
I see it, he's dead. I saw on the police.
You didn't see anybody else down here at the time
I got here. Whoever he did it was gone. You
(11:42):
don't see it all upset over your husband's murder. Now
you want me to put on an act? Don't you
know that he was twice as old as I am?
Then why did you marry him? Whoa? You know how
it is just to settle down and let somebody else
support you for a change. Made him happy to have
me around, And I guess I liked it okay too
(12:03):
for a while. Gee, what a bore. All he did
was talk about getting enough money to go back to
the old country. Well, who wants to go back to
any old country when you can have such a ball
on this one? I know I always have, even when
I was married to old Willie. Of course, you just
didn't always know where I was. That's the time. Don't
(12:25):
you like having fun? Johnson? I mean with people more
like your own age? Oh that you, john don't answer
it now, don't answer it. The place is c well
it might be for me, missus Layman. Oh yeah, yeah.
And listen, Johnny, if you can get me that insurance
(12:45):
money in a hurry, won't I want you to know
I appreciate it. Gloria. How long ago were you married? September? Now,
why do you say it that way? I don't you, Johnny?
I married the old man so take care of me.
Excuse me, Johnny. I got to get back the headquarters
ballistics down towns sending up a report on the bullets
(13:06):
we found. Oh good. Also, Bob Golden picked up a
bum in a saloon, and it looks like he's the
one that did this job, picked up the guy that
killed Willie. Looks like it. You want to come with me, Johnny?
Well do your don't you? Yeah, Mike, I'll go along
with him. I told you, I told all those other cops.
(13:35):
I'm the guy that hoisted the dough out of Layman's
slickers last night, and you shot and killed him, Benny.
Oh no, no, I tell you I didn't do it.
That's the truth. So help me. That's the truth. Are
you trying to say somebody else went in there and
shot him after you left? Benny? I don't know. There
was no reason if you'd already taken his money. I
don't know how should I know? You think I stuck
(13:56):
around there after I got his dough. How many shots
did you fire at him? Benny? How many shots? Hy?
I didn't fire? Nune, you saw that gun the cups
took off of me. It was made a rubber. That's
all it was. It was made a rubber if I
hadn't got stupid and got out and got drunken, showed
it to somebody and told him how I got away
with the money from that liquor store with it. You
(14:17):
think these dumb cups that they ever got wires to me?
You didn't fire a single shot? Oh? Could? I? I
waved my rubber gunhavy me. He reaches under the counter,
He comes up empty, so he gives me the dough.
I leave. You're lying, Benny. You make a paraffine test, Michael, Yeah,
and I think this is the result of it. Well, Conroy,
the paraffin test was negative. Sorry, no sign of powder
(14:39):
on either of his hands. Also, sorry, I told you.
I told you I never had no real dolls, all right, Ben,
I told you all I did was rob that Joyce
st Yeah, Conroy. Also, Sergeant, here's the repart from downtown
on the bullets. Let me have them. And also they
(14:59):
returned that gunn to mister Layman's that they found beside
his body. There's no print at all on it. Now, Johnny,
is there anything else to look at this? Yeah? Connoy, Yes,
got this bomb out of here. Lock him up. Upstairs. Yes, sir,
come on, you wise guys can't get no better rap
on me. You might like that lawyer, Oh yeah, real waves,
what's the same like. Listen, the bullet that killed William
(15:22):
Layman and the bullets we pulled out of the wall
of that store, Johnny, they all came from Layman's own gun. Well,
how about that? In other words, with the help of
that pony rubber pistol, then he somehow got Layman's gunn
away from him. Maybe Layman had already pulled off a
couple of shots and missed, But the one that killed him.
(15:44):
Oh yeah, the paraffint test showed no powder on Benny's hands.
Then he must have worn gloves. He must have killed Layman.
You want to bets? Then? Who did? Well? First? I
think i'd they get some proof Act three of yours, truly,
(16:07):
Johnny Dollar in a moment, sable looks smart to date
with drink, light refreshing, stay young and and be sociable.
(16:31):
And when friends drop in, let your hospitality show you
a sociable in the modern manner. That's, you know, is
the favorite of the smart and young and heart. Be sociable,
looks smart to date with up drink light, refreshing, stay young,
(17:00):
and have you tried to lately? Oh? Act three of yours? Truly,
Donny dollars, you're overlooking one thing, Like what, Johnny, that
(17:27):
Benny's a shaky old bomb of whino. Suppose he'd gone
into that like a store with a real gun instead
of that phony little rubber one you boys found on him.
Well you think for a minute he could have stood
up against the crack shot like you say Layman was. Well, now,
that's besides. Now could he get Layman's gun away from
him and kill him with it? Ever since he kept
the gun in that store, not a single hold of
man that's got the better of him, even kill one
(17:48):
of them a month ago? That's very true, all right?
I think I can get your killer for you, only
you have to let me get her my own way. Her.
That's right, you mean Layman's wife, Gloria. That's right, Johnny.
I thought of her too. Motive, opportunity, everything but proof proof.
I may handle it my own way, but if she
didn't do If I'm wrong, it won't be any reflection
(18:10):
on you on your record. Oh, let's see what you mean. Okay,
we'll take my car and you gotta promise me one thing.
What's that that you will stay outside, that you won't
make any move until I asked you to, no matter
what happens. Well, now, John O wise, you can try
holding her in yourself, of course, if you're wrong about her. Okay, Johnny,
(18:31):
let's go. I'm glad you came along, Johnny. I'm getting
awful tired of having all those cops around here. All right. Listen, Gloria,
you are going to get that thirty thousand insurance money
(18:51):
for me and her, ain't you? You know how long
it'll take for me to get the rest of his
stuff here in this state? I dies it's sometimes a
couple of years before they it's matter, Johnny, thirty thousand?
Now what I thought you didn't know the amount of
that insurance? Well, john Gloria, the only recent attempts at
(19:15):
a hold up were made between the times the cups
had a stake out here, right, Yes, that's right, Johnny.
And somebody must have passed the word around when everything
was clear. You think so cheep? Yeah? And I also
think that the only people who knew when the police
weren't here were you and your husband. Well, you don't
think he'd go around blobbing it. No, don't Well then,
(19:37):
now wait a minute, Johnny Dollar, I'll get your back
care of Gloria. Not yet. But your husband was good
enough with a gun to have thwarted seven robbery attempts
in a row.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So I think he could have prevented his own murder
if he'd had his gun last night. Well, of course
he had it. They found it lying next to his body.
Somebody was glad the see bees hold ups these attempts anyway,
because it provided a perfect excuse to kill him. Now, listen,
he got a gun under the counter, isn't sure? Right
here under the register? Okay, okay, I'm gonna put my
(20:08):
gun there. You up to john git behind the counter?
Minute about where he'd stand when the customer came in. Sure,
right about here. So last night a man came in
and he stood about here. He pulled a Troy gun
(20:28):
out of his pocket, the man of the money and
the register. What would your husband have done? Well, grab
the gun like this. You're pointing that right at me.
You know that's what he done. But there was no
(20:51):
gun there last night because you had taking it. And
when the bandits left you were standing up on the
stairs there at the back. You come down from your apartment.
What are you talking about? To kill him? Went from
his right shoulder down to his heart, down to the
lower ribs because you were up on the stairs when
you shot him. Then you find a couple of shots
into the wall, and you call the bullice. You sue that,
Johnny enough to the Cohen. I tell him, Gloria, Johnny,
(21:13):
because it happened just the way you said. But you're
never gonna tell Warrior too, right, Johnny, No, do you
chucked the bullets up? You'll shait me, you shaite me.
That's right, Gloria, don't go. I see you, happy surgeon.
(21:38):
Pretty obvious, I guess right from the beginning. But as
I said, getting cruel or in this case of confession
isn't always so easy anyhow. Expense account total in putting
mile age on the red car on the trip back
of hybrid, I'll call it two hundred and fifty even. Okay,
that's truly, Johnny, dwar our star will return and just dormant.
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From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dillar is long
distance with your Pat McCracken and Hertford, Connecticut, returning your call,
mister dill Oh, thanks operator. Put them on one moment please.
Hell oh, Johnny, this message I found. Well, I'm glad
(00:21):
you called. Say what under the sun that you're doing
in Los Angeles? Says down here for a confam with
Jack Johnstone, you know the guy who dramatizes the ace
as I am and put them on the Yeah. I
give him my best And I just wondered if you
had anything out here, I can do it before heading
back to Hydrid. And it's so it'll give you a
chance to put your travel charges on the expense account.
What else, Johnny, I got a wire from him just
(00:42):
a few minutes ago. You contact HERB Shilling at the
greatest Southwest Insurance Company right there in La. Okay, we'll do.
You can address your expense account to them, right? Oh uh, Johnny? Yeah?
Have you got a gun with you? Sure? Pat? I
always huh? Why do you ask? Judging by herbs wired, Johnny,
(01:03):
you may need it. Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures
of a Man with the Action packed expense account America's
fabulous freelance insurance investigator are as Truly Johnny Dollar. A
(01:28):
young lady by the name of Shahrazad kept her audience
of one control for one thousand and one nights with
one of the longest stories in history. That's a long
time to devote to one chronicle, but some of CBS
Radio's winning seven weekday drummers have put that record in
the shade, entertaining audiences in the millions with many times
(01:48):
one thousand and one days of continuing dramatic serials. Each
weekday on the CBS Radio network is a wealth of
daytime drummer including such outstanding serials as The Amounts of
Helen Trent, The Couple next Door, mar Perkins, Whispering Streets,
The Right to Happiness, The Second Missus Burton, and Young
(02:08):
Doctor Malone. Monday through Friday. Follow these absorbing, true to
life stories, Only CBS Radio brings you the winning seven
combination of top daytime dramas. Another important reason for the
different sound of this CBS Radio station and now act
(02:30):
one of yours. Truly Ti Dollar expense accounts submitted by
special Investigator Johnny Dollar at the Greater Southwest Insurance Company,
(02:53):
Los Angeles office. Following is an account of expenses incurred
during my investigation of the Winsome widow matter. Expense account
out of one a dollar forty for a taxi from
my hotel in West LA the greater Sounds West Insurance
and one of those big office buildings on Wilshire Boulevard's
Miracle Mile. Herb Shilling almost fell off his chair when
(03:14):
I barged inner dollar. Hi, Herbie, Look, I know that
some of those new jet flights are pretty fast, but
I only sent that white to Pat mccrack in a
couple of hours. I didn't waste any time trying to
make Plaine connections. Hert just flew out out of my
own power. You're kidding, I know, But where were you
when you got the word from mccracket, right here in
your own fair city. I wish I'd known that even
(03:37):
those couple of hours could have been saved. H what's
the big problem? A little matter of a liquor store?
Hold up? Well, I am afraid this one wasn't so little.
Then tell me on yes, Johnny. For some reason or another,
these places that sell bottle goods are a pretty frequent
target for stickups here in Los Angeles. There have been
quite a few of them over the years. I'm surprised
(03:58):
you ensure them. Needless to say, premiums are pretty high,
and at least as far as our company is concerned,
the policies are somewhat limited. That is, in so far
as maximum allowable coverage is concerned. Makes sense. Oh, we've
been pretty lucky, but that I mean, we've had to
pay off relatively few claims. But now, in the case
of Willie Layman whose Willy Laman. His stories are in
(04:20):
West Los Angeles at one out ninety two to one
Santa Monica Boulevard, and that's only about a mile from
where I'm staying. The old man opened up his place
late in nineteen fifty one. Oh, yes, sixty one, early
nineteen fifty two. He had his first hold of it.
The Bandit's got away with something over nine hundred dollars,
so he bought some insurance from us. We'll go on.
(04:41):
Since then, there have been seven more attempted stick ups there,
a total of eight in as many years. And your
company must be getting a bit tired of paying off no,
because after the second time he know how to use it.
He certainly did. He had a lot of medals from
some German out that he was in during the last war.
I always up with no more losses, that is until
(05:02):
last night. Oh how much good money? What else? Something
like over four hundred dollars out of the cash register
as nearly as the police can figure it from the
registered slip or couldn't layman tell you how much? No,
because you see, Johnny, he also lost his life, and
I take it he wrote his life insurance too. That's right,
(05:24):
thirty thousand dollars. I see. Look, it's a little late
in the day, but if you want to go out
there check with the police. Sure, I'll be in touch, Adam.
Two fifty dollars deposit on a drive your own car.
I passed up one on nine two one Centamonica Boulevard
and one right on out west to West LA Police headquarters.
(05:44):
There I ran down Sergeant Mike Kirby, who was covering
the whole affair. Mike turned out to be a young,
alert guy, on the ball and completely cooperative. That's ride
dollar eight times since he opened the place in fifty one,
and that's way out of line. Yeah, I should certainly
think so. In the last three stick ups have been
within the past ten weeks. Mike, contact at the insurance
(06:05):
company Hurt Shilling, tells me that Willie Lahman managed to
fight off most of the family. He told you ride dollar.
Layman was not only a crack shot, but I guess
he was pretty quick on the draw. It was only
last month that he killed one of the two men
to try to hold them up. Two men, what about
the other? I'm way ahead of you. Huh, we find
another man, we find the killer. Probably it seemed like
(06:26):
a pretty safe bet. But look, Mike, if there were
so many tries at this one place, and so many
all at once, take a sure somebody watching over the point.
We tried it. As long as we had somebody there,
you know, sitting in the back or working behind the corner,
and just watch him from across the street. Nothing happened,
but the minute we took him away, being another hold up.
Try Somehow they seemed to know whenever we had the
(06:48):
place under surveillance, and more important, when you didn't, Oh
what have you got to work on? Oh? Nothing but
a couple of bullets. I'm afraid I want to take
a run over and look at the place. Sure, Mike,
why not like a store was closed, but there were
lights on and the living quarters about it. We knocked
(07:09):
a couple of times but got no answer, so Mike
used to keep it. He had he and his men
had been careful to leave things as they've been at
the time of the killing. He was lying right there,
dollars though he'd come around the end of the corner
near that door to the back room. Yeah. Yeah, that
door also leads upstairs to the apartment. He must have
taken a couple of shots at the bandit. You see
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where the bottles were broken around the shelf. Yeah, no
bloodstains or anything. I guess he missed for once, but
not the bandit put him right in the heart. Johnny
bullet went in at the right shoulder and then down
through his heart and stopped against the lower left rib.
Of course, until you get a lambry port of that bullet.
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Or it must be his wife the why she didn't
answer when we knocked on the door. Did even he missus? Layman? Oh? No, again,
you have to come around at all hours. Yes, hold everything.
Layman had been sixty one, but his wife, Gloria couldn't
have been more than thirty Taul Dark. She was obviously
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very proud of her party commitical figure, and she was pretty,
that is almost Maybe it was just a little too
much make him, especially around the eyes that she knew
how to use so well. The little bell had rung
in the back of my head. Yeah, since I'd noticed
the phone boos at the gas station next door, I
had him three ten cents for a call, Jnny. That's right, Herb,
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And I'm sorry to call you at home. And there's
one thing I forgot to ask you about when I
talked to you. How is that? Who's the beneficiary of
old man Layman's life insurance? His wife? Thank you, Herb
shilling back two yours truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment
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act too of yours truly Johnny Dollar and a winsome
widow matter. After the phone called a Herb Shelley, I
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went back into the liquor store, where Sergeant Mike Kirby
was still talking to Layman's widow, Gloria. If you mean
you don't plan to reopen the store and all, missus Layman,
I fighting help, but I'll sell this down to the
first person I find has enough money to buy it.
And then what, missus Lamon? What do you call me? Gloria? Hi?
Everybody else does? And who are you anyway? Johnny? You're
a cough and you don't look like a dick. Mister
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dollars here because of the insurance involved. That's the insurance company.
That's right. Well, listen, will he had some insurance I know,
I mean on himself as well as the store. I
don't know how much it is, but he promised me
that he buys some. It was your idea that he
insures life. Sure, no guy like him. I figured he'd
up and die sometime while I was still young and beautiful,
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So why shouldn't I let him provide something for my future?
Like they say, oh, you ever thought he was going
to die.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
As soon as this?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Whoever planned and carry it out his murder? Do you
mean somebody planned to kill.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Him this way?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Just where were you when it happened, Boria? I was
upstairs and dead asleep. Look, I've told the cops all
about it. Well you must have heard the shooting, I'll say,
I did. What did you do? I put on a
road and I'm running down here. Well I see the
cash register opening, poor old Willie land there, and when
I see it, he's dead. I saw on the police.
You didn't see anybody else down here at the time
I got here. Whoever he did it was gone. You
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don't see it all upset over your husband's murder. Now
you want me to put on an act? Don't you
know that he was twice as old as I am?
Then why did you marry him? Whoa? You know how
it is just to settle down and let somebody else
support you for a change. Made him happy to have
me around, And I guess I liked it okay too
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for a while. Gee, what a bore. All he did
was talk about getting enough money to go back to
the old country. Well, who wants to go back to
any old country when you can have such a ball
on this one? I know I always have, even when
I was married to old Willie. Of course, you just
didn't always know where I was. That's the time. Don't
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you like having fun? Johnson? I mean with people more
like your own age? Oh that you, john don't answer
it now, don't answer it. The place is c well
it might be for me, missus Layman. Oh yeah, yeah.
And listen, Johnny, if you can get me that insurance
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money in a hurry, won't I want you to know
I appreciate it. Gloria. How long ago were you married? September? Now,
why do you say it that way? I don't you, Johnny?
I married the old man so take care of me.
Excuse me, Johnny. I got to get back the headquarters
ballistics down towns sending up a report on the bullets
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we found. Oh good. Also, Bob Golden picked up a
bum in a saloon, and it looks like he's the
one that did this job, picked up the guy that
killed Willie. Looks like it. You want to come with me, Johnny?
Well do your don't you? Yeah, Mike, I'll go along
with him. I told you, I told all those other cops.
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I'm the guy that hoisted the dough out of Layman's
slickers last night, and you shot and killed him, Benny.
Oh no, no, I tell you I didn't do it.
That's the truth. So help me. That's the truth. Are
you trying to say somebody else went in there and
shot him after you left? Benny? I don't know. There
was no reason if you'd already taken his money. I
don't know how should I know? You think I stuck
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around there after I got his dough. How many shots
did you fire at him? Benny? How many shots? Hy?
I didn't fire? Nune, you saw that gun the cups
took off of me. It was made a rubber. That's
all it was. It was made a rubber if I
hadn't got stupid and got out and got drunken, showed
it to somebody and told him how I got away
with the money from that liquor store with it. You
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think these dumb cups that they ever got wires to me?
You didn't fire a single shot? Oh? Could? I? I
waved my rubber gunhavy me. He reaches under the counter,
He comes up empty, so he gives me the dough.
I leave. You're lying, Benny. You make a paraffine test, Michael, Yeah,
and I think this is the result of it. Well, Conroy,
the paraffin test was negative. Sorry, no sign of powder
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on either of his hands. Also, sorry, I told you.
I told you I never had no real dolls, all right, Ben,
I told you all I did was rob that Joyce
st Yeah, Conroy. Also, Sergeant, here's the repart from downtown
on the bullets. Let me have them. And also they
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returned that gunn to mister Layman's that they found beside
his body. There's no print at all on it. Now, Johnny,
is there anything else to look at this? Yeah? Connoy, Yes,
got this bomb out of here. Lock him up. Upstairs. Yes, sir,
come on, you wise guys can't get no better rap
on me. You might like that lawyer, Oh yeah, real waves,
what's the same like. Listen, the bullet that killed William
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Layman and the bullets we pulled out of the wall
of that store, Johnny, they all came from Layman's own gun. Well,
how about that? In other words, with the help of
that pony rubber pistol, then he somehow got Layman's gunn
away from him. Maybe Layman had already pulled off a
couple of shots and missed, But the one that killed him.
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Oh yeah, the paraffint test showed no powder on Benny's hands.
Then he must have worn gloves. He must have killed Layman.
You want to bets? Then? Who did? Well? First? I
think i'd they get some proof Act three of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar in a moment, sable looks smart to date
with drink, light refreshing, stay young and and be sociable.
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And when friends drop in, let your hospitality show you
a sociable in the modern manner. That's, you know, is
the favorite of the smart and young and heart. Be sociable,
looks smart to date with up drink light, refreshing, stay young,
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and have you tried to lately? Oh? Act three of yours? Truly,
Donny dollars, you're overlooking one thing, Like what, Johnny, that
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Benny's a shaky old bomb of whino. Suppose he'd gone
into that like a store with a real gun instead
of that phony little rubber one you boys found on him.
Well you think for a minute he could have stood
up against the crack shot like you say Layman was. Well, now,
that's besides. Now could he get Layman's gun away from
him and kill him with it? Ever since he kept
the gun in that store, not a single hold of
man that's got the better of him, even kill one
(17:48):
of them a month ago? That's very true, all right?
I think I can get your killer for you, only
you have to let me get her my own way. Her.
That's right, you mean Layman's wife, Gloria. That's right, Johnny.
I thought of her too. Motive, opportunity, everything but proof proof.
I may handle it my own way, but if she
didn't do If I'm wrong, it won't be any reflection
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on you on your record. Oh, let's see what you mean. Okay,
we'll take my car and you gotta promise me one thing.
What's that that you will stay outside, that you won't
make any move until I asked you to, no matter
what happens. Well, now, John O wise, you can try
holding her in yourself, of course, if you're wrong about her. Okay, Johnny,
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let's go. I'm glad you came along, Johnny. I'm getting
awful tired of having all those cops around here. All right. Listen, Gloria,
you are going to get that thirty thousand insurance money
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for me and her, ain't you? You know how long
it'll take for me to get the rest of his
stuff here in this state? I dies it's sometimes a
couple of years before they it's matter, Johnny, thirty thousand?
Now what I thought you didn't know the amount of
that insurance? Well, john Gloria, the only recent attempts at
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a hold up were made between the times the cups
had a stake out here, right, Yes, that's right, Johnny.
And somebody must have passed the word around when everything
was clear. You think so cheep? Yeah? And I also
think that the only people who knew when the police
weren't here were you and your husband. Well, you don't
think he'd go around blobbing it. No, don't Well then,
(19:37):
now wait a minute, Johnny Dollar, I'll get your back
care of Gloria. Not yet. But your husband was good
enough with a gun to have thwarted seven robbery attempts
in a row.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So I think he could have prevented his own murder
if he'd had his gun last night. Well, of course
he had it. They found it lying next to his body.
Somebody was glad the see bees hold ups these attempts anyway,
because it provided a perfect excuse to kill him. Now, listen,
he got a gun under the counter, isn't sure? Right
here under the register? Okay, okay, I'm gonna put my
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gun there. You up to john git behind the counter?
Minute about where he'd stand when the customer came in. Sure,
right about here. So last night a man came in
and he stood about here. He pulled a Troy gun
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out of his pocket, the man of the money and
the register. What would your husband have done? Well, grab
the gun like this. You're pointing that right at me.
You know that's what he done. But there was no
(20:51):
gun there last night because you had taking it. And
when the bandits left you were standing up on the
stairs there at the back. You come down from your apartment.
What are you talking about? To kill him? Went from
his right shoulder down to his heart, down to the
lower ribs because you were up on the stairs when
you shot him. Then you find a couple of shots
into the wall, and you call the bullice. You sue that,
Johnny enough to the Cohen. I tell him, Gloria, Johnny,
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because it happened just the way you said. But you're
never gonna tell Warrior too, right, Johnny, No, do you
chucked the bullets up? You'll shait me, you shaite me.
That's right, Gloria, don't go. I see you, happy surgeon.
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Pretty obvious, I guess right from the beginning. But as
I said, getting cruel or in this case of confession
isn't always so easy anyhow. Expense account total in putting
mile age on the red car on the trip back
of hybrid, I'll call it two hundred and fifty even. Okay,
that's truly, Johnny, dwar our star will return and just dormant.
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