August 3, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For your listening enjoyment.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
John lund As, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Mister Dawg, this is Wilbur Runyon.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I planned to meet you at the Dallas Airport, but
by the time I actually paid. Oh it's all right,
I'm sorry you went to that trouble. I took a
cab in. Are you at your office.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Though, Oh yes, I'll be right over it. I hope
the Home office didn't think I was foolish asking for
your help in this matter.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But oh no they didn't, not after paying our four
policies in one employee group in so short a time.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's the way I figured it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Accidental dance at the oil wells are one thing, but wow,
murder puts a different.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Light on Yeah, it usually does.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'll be there in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Right here, I have a few words to say, and
I'll say them as quickly as possible. You know, someone
once said that everyone and everything in America depends on speed,
and that as our country grows.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Older, we all move faster.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But it wasn't much more more than one hundred years
ago that the fastest anyone could travel was at the
speed of a running horse, which wasn't very fast when
you compare it to the speed of our latest jet
planes and talk about going to.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The moon at twenty five thousand miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And during that same one hundred years or so, we've
grown from the first crude telegraph to the perfection of
color television. Yes, this increased speed in transportation, communication, and
everything else has changed almost everything in our country, including
the cabinet of the United States. For example, up to
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World War II, there wasn't any reason why the War
and Navy departments shouldn't be directly responsible to the President.
But then there was a growing need for the speeding
up of military action and decisions, calling for unified commands
and the more closely knit integration.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Of military activities.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Thus, our Department of Defense was born, creating a new cabinet.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Posed to coordinate and to.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Execute the overall general policies relating.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
To the armed forces, and the secretary heading this.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
New Department of Defense became the representative to the President
for the newly designated.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Secretaries of the Army, Navy.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And more recently, the Air Force.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
In the future, our fast moving world may add even
more members to the President's cabinet to ensure the safety
and well.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Being of our United.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
States expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Daller to
Home Office employees Cooperative Group Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
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following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
the Syndicate matter. Expense account out of won one hundred
and six dollars and forty cents airfare and incidentals between
Hartford and Dallas, including cab fare to the Alamo Building,
where I contacted Wilbur Runyan, manager of your Southwestern Division.
You read my report of the Home office, mister Dollar, Yeah,
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what there was of it? Oh, there's much I can
add to it. I'm afraid even the sheriff that Tupelo
doesn't know anymore than.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What I wrote.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
With a new oil strike, the fellow's a boom town
that always means a certain amount of trouble. Four murders
seems like an extra large helping though, even for a
boom town, I don't know what to think of it.
Of course, practically every man working in that field is
insured with us under the group plans, so it is
not unusual it'll be paid off in all four cases. No,
but it is unusual for all four men to die
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the same way. He said that each case the victim
has been beaten to death. The murders all followed the
same pattern. That would seem to indicate that they'd all
been done by the same person or person that's right,
and collecting the insurance money might seem to be the
answer if all the policies had been made out of
the same beneficiary. But they weren't. Who did benefit in
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all four cases the wife of the victim.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That still doesn't roll out of synicon. What do you
mean killers can be hired, mister Ruggan.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
They collect their share of the insurance after an unhappy
wife becomes a merry widow. Not in this case.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oil company that made the strike at Dupello is one
of the best. They pay the premiums for their employees,
no payroll deduction. So so two of the wives who
collected didn't even know about the insurance until we contacted him.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That could be an act.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'll let you.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Judge that for yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
How last man killed was a driller named Gonzales, Mexican.
I haven't paid the claim yet. I asked his wife
to come in this afternoon to pick up the check.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
She'll be here in a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Money comes from You mean, who's killed my husband?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Uh no, Missus Gonzales.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's insurance, life insurance. They all company paid for two
thousand dollars. Oh that's right. Now you have a family,
Missus Gonzales, somebody who.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Can go to my mother and my brother and Sonora.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
But my husband, well he always wanted a baby to
be born here and it stethers new.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Anything was been to be so good.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Did your husband have any enemies? Enemies for what? Ye?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He never heard nobody.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There were three other men killed, Missus Gonzales. Did he
know any of them?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
We were in too Pella.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Forty three weeks. Three weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Uh, I forgot to mention that my report, Dollah, all
the men killed have been newcomers to the Tapella field.
Or why'd they work before they came there? They all
come in from the same job someplace else. Oh, no,
all came from different places. None of 'em would worked
for a couple of months or before hitting Dupella. According
to employment records, was your husband out of worked for
a long time before you went to Dupella, Missus.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Gonzales, Yes, we have no money she wor only did
your husband drink uh cammel? Oh? No good, He wants
a good monch. He try hard to work every day,
even when he was hurt. Hurt? Where how when it
was some accident? To when you know anything about that? Rigon? No?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
But uh one of the other women mentioned the same thing. Uh,
an accident the week before the killing.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
What did your husband say about his accident? Missus Gonzales
really tell.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Me he falled this off, but he has marks all
over for two days, he stay him there. I tried
to make him stay longer, but she cried, See, he
must get up and go.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Back to work. He said he's afraid he.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Would lose their job.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, not for an i'm the job injury. He wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
There isn't any record of an on the job injury dollar.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He was afraid for something he wouldn't tell him.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But he was afraid.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
How do I get to Torpello?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Raidaways bus people right across the street. But like I said,
even the sheriff.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Is stumped on miss I'm not going to see the sheriff.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I mean to get myself a job in that oil field.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh see, I want me to contact the company. Make
sure there's an open now. I don't contact anybody. We
already know four openings. Expenser count item two five dollars
and twenty cents per a used suit of dungarees and
a pair of work shoes. Item three six dollars and
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twelve cents. Bus fare from Dallas to the Topella oil Field.
I found quarters in a Rundown boarding house, and at
seven the next morning I.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Was at the employment office.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Before at nine am, I had a shovel in my
hand and was taking a sludge.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Shop.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Hey you a new man, kock all a minute, you're
talking to me.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, come here? What your need? Johnny Dallas, arm bul farrow,
draw a balk.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
On the joor?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Hi, smoke ou Thanks, new man coming on a job,
or I could get.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
To know him, help him along again? Where'd you world class?
Before you come here?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I was, Uh, I was out of a job for
quite a while.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Ooh, that's too bad. No money coming in and gets
rough on the feller. Yeah he broke. I ain't being
nosey dollar just thought if he was, or might figure
out a way to help.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Thanks. I'll get by all right.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, if you do get stuck, let me know ah,
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Go back to work.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He was friendly, all right, a little too friendly. I
was a stranger, but he wanted to help me out
with money. And when I said I didn't need it,
he didn't like it. It was too late to go
back to him without making him wonder. I had to
figure out a way to make him offer again. By
lunch time, I had a ticket. I left the while
and crossed the field of the office. I went up
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to the payroll window.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Something I can do for you?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, I just signed on this morning, Wednesday day weekend Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You get your money.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thirty Any chance of getting a little advance.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I'm broke your first day on the job. What do
you think you see it? Oh? I gotta get buy
until pay day. I gotta eat. I can't help that.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Advances are against the rules.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well thanks anyhow.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Hey this many?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, you need some money? See bull Pharaoh?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
See bull Pharaoh.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
All road led back to the straw boss and, seeing
it wasn't hard, he was leaning against the wall a
payroll shack when I came up.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Hey, dollar, wait here raising the case here for an advance? Uh?
I could have told you that wouldn't work.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You're right, it didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Why didn't you come to me like I told you?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right? You wanna lend me some money?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I wish I could, but uh, I'm just a working
stiff myself. Well, I don't why the offer. I thought
i'd send you to. Frankie Robling runs a tool department
and or somebody died and left him a bundle. He
likes help guys along just like that. Huh, Well, I
really expect a little. I'm very trouble a little interest.
After all, he's taking a chance. You're new on the job.
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Do you wanna see him or don't you?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah? Yeah, I wanna see him, he said the tool chair.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I don't bother him on a job Room twelve the
Capella Hotel tonight, all.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That I'm looking for Frankie Robling, my Robbling you dollar
a press him?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Johnny Dallas ah ah, still out of.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Come on the next room. Don I understand you need
some doll that's right?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
How much?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
How much can I get enough to live on?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So pay day?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
If you ain't plan on, I'm taking any trips when
you live kill gallants boarding house twenty bucks?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
See you through right?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It sounds all right? Wow?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, and on payday, you will drop into me in
the thirty back right, thirty for twenty or.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Just to show you appreciate the fame and you wanted it,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Alright, do you want me to sign some kind of
a note and I owe you at four I'll remember it,
and if you forget, I'll remind you twenty dollars and
the poor dead workman. There was a big gap, no
way of linking them together, but somewhere the pieces had
to fit. Then Thursday came and I drew my first
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pay Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Alright, God, get your door right.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Huh oh oh, yeah, well I got it thirty two
eighty h on the three days.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Frank Atrobring will be expecting.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
To see you tonight. I know.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
He just asked me to remind you. Some of these
roughnecks get abs in minded makes tough on everybody, especially themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Don't worry, bou, I got a good memory.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh more than fifty men were in Robbling's room that night,
all of them in work clothes, all of them giving
him money, and none of them in giant.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I waited until the last of them paid up and
drifted out.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
A dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I see you hanging back with the other boys and
shelling nod. I wanted to see you.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
A long Yeah. You know that means you wanna talk.
And when you wanna talk, it means you wanna stall
about payin.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I only had three days pay come. You knew that
when you borrowed the money, I had the boarding house
to pay. I had to live. Don't I do you?
All I'm asking for is more time? Oh I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I'll get him what time next pay day?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Only then it'll be forty bucks, not thirty, as I say,
I won't pay it. What do you do then, rubbling
take me outside. You're thinking of getting a hard dollar? No, no, rubbling,
just curious. Yeah, big two, ain't you?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Big hard guy?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Next week forty bucks. I'll figure by next week you
may soften.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Now now, with our star John Lund, we bring you
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the second act of yours, truly Johnny Dollar. I went
into a couple of the hockey talks along the main
drag and tried to strike up conversations with men I've
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seen in Roebling's room, but they shied away from the
subject like skittish horses. I was ready to give it
up when a man I recognized from the job came
over and set his beer down next to mine. Mind
if I sit down, help yourself. My name is Prescott,
Wally Prescott.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, I know you were behind me in the pay line.
This happened.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, when I saw you up at Roebling's room tonight.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
How are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Man A Yeah, I saw you too, but you didn't
pay off?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
How do you heard some talk?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Let it roblink and both farrell. It's not my business maybe,
but uh, you better pay.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I'm sure of cash. Look, a lot of us are short.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I'm just telling you for your own good. I'm gonna
book myself.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I don't like it. Let him sue me. That isn't
the way they working. How do they working?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We'll asking a couple of the others could tell you
you don't pay up in full by next week, you're
michael to get worked over. That doesn't convince you.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, and few guys.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Are dining around here, sins the field open.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Too bad if you guys didn't have a talk with
a sheriff instead about what a beating in a dark
alley from a bunch of guys you can't identify?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
What would it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Prove and what happens next? When the guys you want
behind bars can't.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Be put there. Every pay thing I just about managed
to pay off.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I got a wife and two kids, so I gotta
borrow all over again to feed 'em. Blunsky's in the
same boat, so a dozen others.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I wanted to walk and think about it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I left the main drag behind.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And started toward the boarding house, cutting across lots on
the gravel walks between the trailers.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, did you give me a hand? Where are you
back here?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Into the tailor?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
The chain? Take quad or something? Myself won't work? Just
last night?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, huh, I'll see what I can do, though, haven't
you got?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
A waves of pain swirled over me, and then I
was sucked down into a whirlpool of blackness and I
came out of it.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I was alone.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I could feel the gravel biting into the side of
my face and said a while. I ran in to
get on my feet make.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
My way to the boarding house. I fell across the
bed with my clothes on and passed out again. Oh,
come in.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well, what happened to you? Dollar?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I had a little accident though, isn't that what usually happened? Uh?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Rough Town? I don't know'em better, and you could lick
it up on pay night. And I know that's what
happened when you didn't show for work this morning. But
I just say it, well, and oh what are you
talking about?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know what I'm talking about. You and Roebling had
me watch over.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I wouldn't go around saying foolish things I couldn't prove.
If I was you, things could be worse. You know,
you might have been hurt as bad as Queskuit was prescin. Yeah,
he got to talking through a bottle last night and
somebody resented it. He's over at the hospital. I ain't
saying much today, though. Get he sobered up. Guy with
two kids probably do the whole week's work. Robling lights him. Oh,
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you seem true. Better be back on the job tomorrow though.
You got obligations too. You know they're due next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Don't worry, bo, I'll be paid off in four expense
to get at him four five dollars to doctor Wayne
Libbertt of Topello for patching up some of the damage
done by Frankie Roebling's bill collectors. I had him five
eighty cents round trip bus fare to the county seat
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at Langham, where I laid the story on the line
for a sheriff at McMahon, I wants can you prove dollar?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I specul it.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I could probably put a couple of deputies. Got luck,
we might be able to hang a loan shark charge
on Robling. He'd get bail and scare all the witnesses
out of town in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Sure he would. Sorry, I want him from murdered.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I want him very hue do yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I know everybody's been on my necks, the Pellow mess
letter from civic groups who are covering the churches, the
ill for action, but they forget about evidence when they
get a position where they couldn't testify personally.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's when they lose their tongues. Press could can testify
to the setup. Do you think you'll testify now? After
what happened to him? Just pretty gave you a warning?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Can you point to one single man I.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Line up and say he did it? No? I neither.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Can I wait a minute, I suppose you got him
trying to kill somebody before they succeeded me. I was
jumped last night for failing to pay Robling. Gonzales and
the others drew one beating that way before they were killed.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Robling expects me to kick him with forty bucks next
to day night. Suppose I don't pay him again. You're
willing to be the clay pigeon on it.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You keep me tagged next Thursday night from the minute
I eave that hotel.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
How about that.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
But if we stopped them from killing you, we still
wind up with an assault shot.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Although they've done murder before, those sheriff.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
When you take 'em in and split them in different cells,
each one is gonna be worrying about how much the
others are talking. Somebody in that Seneca that is gonna
get nervous.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I went back to the job.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
For the first couple of days, my head dropped and
my sides ached till the beating finally wore off. Baul
Pharaoh was at his post outside the payroll shack when
Thursday came.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I saw him speak to a couple of the men
with me. He didn't think it was necessary.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
When we knocked off for the day, I headed straight
for the Tupelo Hotel and roblings Hello teller, Hello Rubbling,
come up on business or just to talk again.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I came up to tell you I couldn't pay.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
You this week.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Oh it's too bad. I'm sorry to hear it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I had an accident, had a fair doctor built.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I borrowed twenty bucks from you, and you'll get it
next week.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's a bad Disney stole it, lend money without interest.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You gonna do something about it.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
A big guy like you know? Your two drinks for
me much too big?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I got an idea.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I'm gonna make that twenty a gift dollar from me
to you, no string, no strings at all. I left
the hotel and hit the main drag as I had
the week before.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I started a sweat.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
The sheriff and his deputies were around, I couldn't see him.
I pretended to have quite a few drinks and a
half a dozen bars before I headed to the boarding house.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Once I got away from the center of town, the
streets were like a cemetery. Biggar, who's that oh wear
friend of yours? With me?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Fella like you met last week, wanted to take you
to a party with it?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
No thanks, Come on, boys, you can do it here alright.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Hold, you could have listened to Prescott. He told you
a couple of guys who was killed. Okay, boys, give
him the full.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Drop his kind. Alright, that's a lie. I got poor
deputies right and hurt on his party. But it's one
here to move. Stop the pullet. I just stay. I
get your hands up. You all right, Donnar? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Why the devil?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Were you right in the car and away? I turned
into the driveway across the street.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
How do you know where to take out this big
mind later after his playmates. I gonna tell bar right
after you left, my deputy was standing list ten feet
away from him.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Okay, so I beat the guy up.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
He didn't pay the fine.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I got a half a dozen murder warrants here in
the name of John Doe too.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
What do you want to do about them?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
White your corp?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
You kidding?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, I'm not prescottin Bronskin.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Twenty other men are in jail right now, protective custody,
and they've all made statements.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Some one of them is bound to recognize one of
your boys.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
H We got all of you except Frankie Rupley. He's
the boy who's gonna pay the fine. Bow While he
was sweated out.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He'll pay a fine for loan shocking and then get
out of the state.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Huh, whore you grew uffing You guys, keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You got nothing on any of us.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It's all go in and wait and see.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Huh. They waited, but they didn't break.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
We knew that by Monday morning Robling would have a
high powered attorney in the spring him on a wrint.
Roblin was getting generally himself though. He didn't know what
was going on.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Inside, and it was killing him. They watched him from
the upper window of the courthouse. Get him down there.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
He's more nervous than the ones that got here under
lock and key.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, than hanging around all day.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But could only get him in here for twenty four
hours on the loan charge. He'd bail himself up before
he got the key turned.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Hey, who is that?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
He's talking to Jailia going over the tree to get
supper for the other. Every time he crosses the street
rob and trucks the pumping.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's a frightened manager. He could blow up any minute.
Dont less we find a way to light the fuse.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Hey, wait a minute, may but we can get a
match under him huh. They're putting on a show for
his benefit. Suppose he thought we were going to bring.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Bull in here tonight and work him over. I don't
handle prisoners that way. Dollar, you don't have to. All
we want is for Roblin to think you're doing it.
Is there a telephone over that to say, yeah, call over.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
And get your jailer on the way back. He can
tell Robling the bull's getting a workout tonight.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I'll get what you're driving in. What do you think
Robling will be tonight? After he gets that piece of
inform right.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Donna where he is now?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Switating it up by Priory?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Will then what about ten o'clock at Bull out of
the sell and bring him in here?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Our won't man handle him?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Daughter?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Listen to me?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Will you you bring him in and seat them over there?
Robling's across the street, he'll see it.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Who's at deputy ears the big guy, Mike Lackin.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
After we get Bull in here, we pull the shades.
Then we march him right out again and put locking
in that chair instead. If we can stage it right,
we put the overhead lights out and turn that desk
lamp on the chair.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So throw shadows against the shade. From where Robelin stands,
it looked like the shadow and the chair is bulls.
We can also make it look like we're giving him
a terrific beating.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Then what what would you do if you actually got
a confession out of somebody in this room? Well in
the next dollars, tie it up, have him sign it.
So oh, that's what you do. M typewriter in there
is right next to the window. Then you bring Ball
him to sign it. He won't sign a confession all that,
he'll sign a denial. It isn't what Bull signs that matters.
It's what Roblin thinks Bull Pharrell is signing. M.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I won't say all idea, what do you pull him
me in here for?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Won't take him in at boll just want you to
sign his and and what what is?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You can read it?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It's a statement you made when we brought in denying
any connection.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
With the murder.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Would I have to sign it for routine book or
you can't let me get back fleet here?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Excuse my uh, shake hands friend, you've been a real
big have fine, Joe take him back herself.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, he's hoping though, won't take long to know the
share of Robling thinks that. But man yet, I good, No,
I'll handle myself. Let's show down.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It worked, Yeah, Deputy, I think out of the cafe
that Robing bolted like a rabbit. As wos both took
your farm, and Ben we'll get him at the hotel,
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and Leibo wounded up.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
There were six up them all together.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Both steered the suckers to robe Ling for half his
take and kept the staff of three musclemen to enforce
the payoffs. The girl who got me into that dark
trailer park was the wife of one of the muscle boys.
Expensive count items six same as combined totals of items
one and three one hundred and twelve dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Fifty two cents.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Transportation from Tupelo to Dallas and back to Hartford again,
incidentals and miscellaneous were covered by my earnings on the
well job, proving that I live within my means. Expense
account total two hundred and thirty six dollars and four cents.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You're thirty thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You know, many great men have attained the highest office
in our land, the presidency of the United States.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Can you guess the name of this man? His great
grandfather fought in the.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Revolution at eighteen. This man was a school teacher in Ohio,
but quit to enlist in the Civil War. In eighteen
sixty seven, he was admitted to the bar and in
eighteen ninety six was elected president. During his administration, the
Filipinos were promised their independence, and he was re elected
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on a full dinner pail platform. If you don't have
his name by now here's another clue. During his presidency,
Major Walter Reed discovered the cure for yellow fever. Who
was he William McKinley, twenty fifth President of the United States.
His life is part of your American heritage. Yours Truly
(27:24):
Aid Johnny Dollar stars John Lund in the title role
and was written by Joel.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Murcot with music by Edy Dunsenter.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Featured in Tonight's cast where Joseph Turns, William Bias, John McIntyre,
Parley Bear, Stacey, Harris, High Apperback, Virginia Gregg, and Tom Tully.
Yours Truly Aid Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by
him Dalvaie
For your listening enjoyment.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
John lund As, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Mister Dawg, this is Wilbur Runyon.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I planned to meet you at the Dallas Airport, but
by the time I actually paid. Oh it's all right,
I'm sorry you went to that trouble. I took a
cab in. Are you at your office.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Though, Oh yes, I'll be right over it. I hope
the Home office didn't think I was foolish asking for
your help in this matter.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But oh no they didn't, not after paying our four
policies in one employee group in so short a time.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's the way I figured it.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Accidental dance at the oil wells are one thing, but wow,
murder puts a different.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Light on Yeah, it usually does.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'll be there in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Right here, I have a few words to say, and
I'll say them as quickly as possible. You know, someone
once said that everyone and everything in America depends on speed,
and that as our country grows.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Older, we all move faster.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But it wasn't much more more than one hundred years
ago that the fastest anyone could travel was at the
speed of a running horse, which wasn't very fast when
you compare it to the speed of our latest jet
planes and talk about going to.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The moon at twenty five thousand miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And during that same one hundred years or so, we've
grown from the first crude telegraph to the perfection of
color television. Yes, this increased speed in transportation, communication, and
everything else has changed almost everything in our country, including
the cabinet of the United States. For example, up to
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World War II, there wasn't any reason why the War
and Navy departments shouldn't be directly responsible to the President.
But then there was a growing need for the speeding
up of military action and decisions, calling for unified commands
and the more closely knit integration.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Of military activities.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Thus, our Department of Defense was born, creating a new cabinet.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Posed to coordinate and to.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Execute the overall general policies relating.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
To the armed forces, and the secretary heading this.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
New Department of Defense became the representative to the President
for the newly designated.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Secretaries of the Army, Navy.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And more recently, the Air Force.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
In the future, our fast moving world may add even
more members to the President's cabinet to ensure the safety
and well.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Being of our United.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
States expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Daller to
Home Office employees Cooperative Group Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The
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following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
the Syndicate matter. Expense account out of won one hundred
and six dollars and forty cents airfare and incidentals between
Hartford and Dallas, including cab fare to the Alamo Building,
where I contacted Wilbur Runyan, manager of your Southwestern Division.
You read my report of the Home office, mister Dollar, Yeah,
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what there was of it? Oh, there's much I can
add to it. I'm afraid even the sheriff that Tupelo
doesn't know anymore than.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What I wrote.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
With a new oil strike, the fellow's a boom town
that always means a certain amount of trouble. Four murders
seems like an extra large helping though, even for a
boom town, I don't know what to think of it.
Of course, practically every man working in that field is
insured with us under the group plans, so it is
not unusual it'll be paid off in all four cases. No,
but it is unusual for all four men to die
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the same way. He said that each case the victim
has been beaten to death. The murders all followed the
same pattern. That would seem to indicate that they'd all
been done by the same person or person that's right,
and collecting the insurance money might seem to be the
answer if all the policies had been made out of
the same beneficiary. But they weren't. Who did benefit in
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all four cases the wife of the victim.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That still doesn't roll out of synicon. What do you
mean killers can be hired, mister Ruggan.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
They collect their share of the insurance after an unhappy
wife becomes a merry widow. Not in this case.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oil company that made the strike at Dupello is one
of the best. They pay the premiums for their employees,
no payroll deduction. So so two of the wives who
collected didn't even know about the insurance until we contacted him.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That could be an act.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'll let you.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Judge that for yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
How last man killed was a driller named Gonzales, Mexican.
I haven't paid the claim yet. I asked his wife
to come in this afternoon to pick up the check.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
She'll be here in a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Money comes from You mean, who's killed my husband?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Uh no, Missus Gonzales.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's insurance, life insurance. They all company paid for two
thousand dollars. Oh that's right. Now you have a family,
Missus Gonzales, somebody who.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Can go to my mother and my brother and Sonora.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
But my husband, well he always wanted a baby to
be born here and it stethers new.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Anything was been to be so good.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Did your husband have any enemies? Enemies for what? Ye?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
He never heard nobody.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There were three other men killed, Missus Gonzales. Did he
know any of them?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
We were in too Pella.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Forty three weeks. Three weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Uh, I forgot to mention that my report, Dollah, all
the men killed have been newcomers to the Tapella field.
Or why'd they work before they came there? They all
come in from the same job someplace else. Oh, no,
all came from different places. None of 'em would worked
for a couple of months or before hitting Dupella. According
to employment records, was your husband out of worked for
a long time before you went to Dupella, Missus.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Gonzales, Yes, we have no money she wor only did
your husband drink uh cammel? Oh? No good, He wants
a good monch. He try hard to work every day,
even when he was hurt. Hurt? Where how when it
was some accident? To when you know anything about that? Rigon? No?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
But uh one of the other women mentioned the same thing. Uh,
an accident the week before the killing.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
What did your husband say about his accident? Missus Gonzales
really tell.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Me he falled this off, but he has marks all
over for two days, he stay him there. I tried
to make him stay longer, but she cried, See, he
must get up and go.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Back to work. He said he's afraid he.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Would lose their job.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, not for an i'm the job injury. He wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
There isn't any record of an on the job injury dollar.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He was afraid for something he wouldn't tell him.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But he was afraid.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
How do I get to Torpello?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Raidaways bus people right across the street. But like I said,
even the sheriff.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Is stumped on miss I'm not going to see the sheriff.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I mean to get myself a job in that oil field.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh see, I want me to contact the company. Make
sure there's an open now. I don't contact anybody. We
already know four openings. Expenser count item two five dollars
and twenty cents per a used suit of dungarees and
a pair of work shoes. Item three six dollars and
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twelve cents. Bus fare from Dallas to the Topella oil Field.
I found quarters in a Rundown boarding house, and at
seven the next morning I.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Was at the employment office.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Before at nine am, I had a shovel in my
hand and was taking a sludge.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Shop.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Hey you a new man, kock all a minute, you're
talking to me.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, come here? What your need? Johnny Dallas, arm bul farrow,
draw a balk.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
On the joor?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Hi, smoke ou Thanks, new man coming on a job,
or I could get.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
To know him, help him along again? Where'd you world class?
Before you come here?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I was, Uh, I was out of a job for
quite a while.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Ooh, that's too bad. No money coming in and gets
rough on the feller. Yeah he broke. I ain't being
nosey dollar just thought if he was, or might figure
out a way to help.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Thanks. I'll get by all right.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Well, if you do get stuck, let me know ah,
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Go back to work.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He was friendly, all right, a little too friendly. I
was a stranger, but he wanted to help me out
with money. And when I said I didn't need it,
he didn't like it. It was too late to go
back to him without making him wonder. I had to
figure out a way to make him offer again. By
lunch time, I had a ticket. I left the while
and crossed the field of the office. I went up
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to the payroll window.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Something I can do for you?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, I just signed on this morning, Wednesday day weekend Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You get your money.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thirty Any chance of getting a little advance.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I'm broke your first day on the job. What do
you think you see it? Oh? I gotta get buy
until pay day. I gotta eat. I can't help that.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Advances are against the rules.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well thanks anyhow.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Hey this many?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, you need some money? See bull Pharaoh?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
See bull Pharaoh.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
All road led back to the straw boss and, seeing
it wasn't hard, he was leaning against the wall a
payroll shack when I came up.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Hey, dollar, wait here raising the case here for an advance? Uh?
I could have told you that wouldn't work.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You're right, it didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Why didn't you come to me like I told you?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right? You wanna lend me some money?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I wish I could, but uh, I'm just a working
stiff myself. Well, I don't why the offer. I thought
i'd send you to. Frankie Robling runs a tool department
and or somebody died and left him a bundle. He
likes help guys along just like that. Huh, Well, I
really expect a little. I'm very trouble a little interest.
After all, he's taking a chance. You're new on the job.
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Do you wanna see him or don't you?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah? Yeah, I wanna see him, he said the tool chair.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I don't bother him on a job Room twelve the
Capella Hotel tonight, all.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That I'm looking for Frankie Robling, my Robbling you dollar
a press him?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Johnny Dallas ah ah, still out of.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Come on the next room. Don I understand you need
some doll that's right?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
How much?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
How much can I get enough to live on?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So pay day?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
If you ain't plan on, I'm taking any trips when
you live kill gallants boarding house twenty bucks?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
See you through right?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It sounds all right? Wow?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, and on payday, you will drop into me in
the thirty back right, thirty for twenty or.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Just to show you appreciate the fame and you wanted it,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Alright, do you want me to sign some kind of
a note and I owe you at four I'll remember it,
and if you forget, I'll remind you twenty dollars and
the poor dead workman. There was a big gap, no
way of linking them together, but somewhere the pieces had
to fit. Then Thursday came and I drew my first
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pay Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Alright, God, get your door right.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Huh oh oh, yeah, well I got it thirty two
eighty h on the three days.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Frank Atrobring will be expecting.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
To see you tonight. I know.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
He just asked me to remind you. Some of these
roughnecks get abs in minded makes tough on everybody, especially themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Don't worry, bou, I got a good memory.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Oh more than fifty men were in Robbling's room that night,
all of them in work clothes, all of them giving
him money, and none of them in giant.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I waited until the last of them paid up and
drifted out.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
A dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I see you hanging back with the other boys and
shelling nod. I wanted to see you.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
A long Yeah. You know that means you wanna talk.
And when you wanna talk, it means you wanna stall
about payin.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I only had three days pay come. You knew that
when you borrowed the money, I had the boarding house
to pay. I had to live. Don't I do you?
All I'm asking for is more time? Oh I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I'll get him what time next pay day?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Only then it'll be forty bucks, not thirty, as I say,
I won't pay it. What do you do then, rubbling
take me outside. You're thinking of getting a hard dollar? No, no, rubbling,
just curious. Yeah, big two, ain't you?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Big hard guy?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Next week forty bucks. I'll figure by next week you
may soften.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Now now, with our star John Lund, we bring you
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the second act of yours, truly Johnny Dollar. I went
into a couple of the hockey talks along the main
drag and tried to strike up conversations with men I've
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seen in Roebling's room, but they shied away from the
subject like skittish horses. I was ready to give it
up when a man I recognized from the job came
over and set his beer down next to mine. Mind
if I sit down, help yourself. My name is Prescott,
Wally Prescott.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, I know you were behind me in the pay line.
This happened.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, when I saw you up at Roebling's room tonight.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
How are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Man A Yeah, I saw you too, but you didn't
pay off?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
How do you heard some talk?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Let it roblink and both farrell. It's not my business maybe,
but uh, you better pay.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I'm sure of cash. Look, a lot of us are short.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I'm just telling you for your own good. I'm gonna
book myself.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I don't like it. Let him sue me. That isn't
the way they working. How do they working?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We'll asking a couple of the others could tell you
you don't pay up in full by next week, you're
michael to get worked over. That doesn't convince you.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, and few guys.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Are dining around here, sins the field open.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Too bad if you guys didn't have a talk with
a sheriff instead about what a beating in a dark
alley from a bunch of guys you can't identify?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
What would it.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Prove and what happens next? When the guys you want
behind bars can't.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Be put there. Every pay thing I just about managed
to pay off.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I got a wife and two kids, so I gotta
borrow all over again to feed 'em. Blunsky's in the
same boat, so a dozen others.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I wanted to walk and think about it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I left the main drag behind.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And started toward the boarding house, cutting across lots on
the gravel walks between the trailers.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, did you give me a hand? Where are you
back here?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Into the tailor?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
The chain? Take quad or something? Myself won't work? Just
last night?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, huh, I'll see what I can do, though, haven't
you got?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
A waves of pain swirled over me, and then I
was sucked down into a whirlpool of blackness and I
came out of it.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I was alone.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I could feel the gravel biting into the side of
my face and said a while. I ran in to
get on my feet make.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
My way to the boarding house. I fell across the
bed with my clothes on and passed out again. Oh,
come in.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Well, what happened to you? Dollar?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I had a little accident though, isn't that what usually happened? Uh?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Rough Town? I don't know'em better, and you could lick
it up on pay night. And I know that's what
happened when you didn't show for work this morning. But
I just say it, well, and oh what are you
talking about?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know what I'm talking about. You and Roebling had
me watch over.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I wouldn't go around saying foolish things I couldn't prove.
If I was you, things could be worse. You know,
you might have been hurt as bad as Queskuit was prescin. Yeah,
he got to talking through a bottle last night and
somebody resented it. He's over at the hospital. I ain't
saying much today, though. Get he sobered up. Guy with
two kids probably do the whole week's work. Robling lights him. Oh,
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you seem true. Better be back on the job tomorrow though.
You got obligations too. You know they're due next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Don't worry, bo, I'll be paid off in four expense
to get at him four five dollars to doctor Wayne
Libbertt of Topello for patching up some of the damage
done by Frankie Roebling's bill collectors. I had him five
eighty cents round trip bus fare to the county seat
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at Langham, where I laid the story on the line
for a sheriff at McMahon, I wants can you prove dollar?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I specul it.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I could probably put a couple of deputies. Got luck,
we might be able to hang a loan shark charge
on Robling. He'd get bail and scare all the witnesses
out of town in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Sure he would. Sorry, I want him from murdered.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I want him very hue do yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I know everybody's been on my necks, the Pellow mess
letter from civic groups who are covering the churches, the
ill for action, but they forget about evidence when they
get a position where they couldn't testify personally.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's when they lose their tongues. Press could can testify
to the setup. Do you think you'll testify now? After
what happened to him? Just pretty gave you a warning?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Can you point to one single man I.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Line up and say he did it? No? I neither.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Can I wait a minute, I suppose you got him
trying to kill somebody before they succeeded me. I was
jumped last night for failing to pay Robling. Gonzales and
the others drew one beating that way before they were killed.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Robling expects me to kick him with forty bucks next
to day night. Suppose I don't pay him again. You're
willing to be the clay pigeon on it.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You keep me tagged next Thursday night from the minute
I eave that hotel.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
How about that.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
But if we stopped them from killing you, we still
wind up with an assault shot.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Although they've done murder before, those sheriff.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
When you take 'em in and split them in different cells,
each one is gonna be worrying about how much the
others are talking. Somebody in that Seneca that is gonna
get nervous.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I went back to the job.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
For the first couple of days, my head dropped and
my sides ached till the beating finally wore off. Baul
Pharaoh was at his post outside the payroll shack when
Thursday came.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I saw him speak to a couple of the men
with me. He didn't think it was necessary.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
When we knocked off for the day, I headed straight
for the Tupelo Hotel and roblings Hello teller, Hello Rubbling,
come up on business or just to talk again.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I came up to tell you I couldn't pay.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
You this week.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Oh it's too bad. I'm sorry to hear it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I had an accident, had a fair doctor built.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I borrowed twenty bucks from you, and you'll get it
next week.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's a bad Disney stole it, lend money without interest.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You gonna do something about it.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
A big guy like you know? Your two drinks for
me much too big?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I got an idea.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I'm gonna make that twenty a gift dollar from me
to you, no string, no strings at all. I left
the hotel and hit the main drag as I had
the week before.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I started a sweat.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
The sheriff and his deputies were around, I couldn't see him.
I pretended to have quite a few drinks and a
half a dozen bars before I headed to the boarding house.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Once I got away from the center of town, the
streets were like a cemetery. Biggar, who's that oh wear
friend of yours? With me?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Fella like you met last week, wanted to take you
to a party with it?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
No thanks, Come on, boys, you can do it here alright.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Hold, you could have listened to Prescott. He told you
a couple of guys who was killed. Okay, boys, give
him the full.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Drop his kind. Alright, that's a lie. I got poor
deputies right and hurt on his party. But it's one
here to move. Stop the pullet. I just stay. I
get your hands up. You all right, Donnar? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Why the devil?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Were you right in the car and away? I turned
into the driveway across the street.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
How do you know where to take out this big
mind later after his playmates. I gonna tell bar right
after you left, my deputy was standing list ten feet
away from him.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Okay, so I beat the guy up.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
He didn't pay the fine.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I got a half a dozen murder warrants here in
the name of John Doe too.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
What do you want to do about them?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
White your corp?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
You kidding?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, I'm not prescottin Bronskin.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Twenty other men are in jail right now, protective custody,
and they've all made statements.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Some one of them is bound to recognize one of
your boys.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
H We got all of you except Frankie Rupley. He's
the boy who's gonna pay the fine. Bow While he
was sweated out.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He'll pay a fine for loan shocking and then get
out of the state.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Huh, whore you grew uffing You guys, keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You got nothing on any of us.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It's all go in and wait and see.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Huh. They waited, but they didn't break.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
We knew that by Monday morning Robling would have a
high powered attorney in the spring him on a wrint.
Roblin was getting generally himself though. He didn't know what
was going on.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Inside, and it was killing him. They watched him from
the upper window of the courthouse. Get him down there.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
He's more nervous than the ones that got here under
lock and key.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, than hanging around all day.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But could only get him in here for twenty four
hours on the loan charge. He'd bail himself up before
he got the key turned.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Hey, who is that?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
He's talking to Jailia going over the tree to get
supper for the other. Every time he crosses the street
rob and trucks the pumping.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's a frightened manager. He could blow up any minute.
Dont less we find a way to light the fuse.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Hey, wait a minute, may but we can get a
match under him huh. They're putting on a show for
his benefit. Suppose he thought we were going to bring.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Bull in here tonight and work him over. I don't
handle prisoners that way. Dollar, you don't have to. All
we want is for Roblin to think you're doing it.
Is there a telephone over that to say, yeah, call over.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
And get your jailer on the way back. He can
tell Robling the bull's getting a workout tonight.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I'll get what you're driving in. What do you think
Robling will be tonight? After he gets that piece of
inform right.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Donna where he is now?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Switating it up by Priory?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Will then what about ten o'clock at Bull out of
the sell and bring him in here?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Our won't man handle him?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Daughter?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Listen to me?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Will you you bring him in and seat them over there?
Robling's across the street, he'll see it.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Who's at deputy ears the big guy, Mike Lackin.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
After we get Bull in here, we pull the shades.
Then we march him right out again and put locking
in that chair instead. If we can stage it right,
we put the overhead lights out and turn that desk
lamp on the chair.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So throw shadows against the shade. From where Robelin stands,
it looked like the shadow and the chair is bulls.
We can also make it look like we're giving him
a terrific beating.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Then what what would you do if you actually got
a confession out of somebody in this room? Well in
the next dollars, tie it up, have him sign it.
So oh, that's what you do. M typewriter in there
is right next to the window. Then you bring Ball
him to sign it. He won't sign a confession all that,
he'll sign a denial. It isn't what Bull signs that matters.
It's what Roblin thinks Bull Pharrell is signing. M.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I won't say all idea, what do you pull him
me in here for?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Won't take him in at boll just want you to
sign his and and what what is?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
You can read it?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It's a statement you made when we brought in denying
any connection.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
With the murder.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Would I have to sign it for routine book or
you can't let me get back fleet here?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Excuse my uh, shake hands friend, you've been a real
big have fine, Joe take him back herself.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, he's hoping though, won't take long to know the
share of Robling thinks that. But man yet, I good, No,
I'll handle myself. Let's show down.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It worked, Yeah, Deputy, I think out of the cafe
that Robing bolted like a rabbit. As wos both took
your farm, and Ben we'll get him at the hotel,
(25:30):
and Leibo wounded up.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
There were six up them all together.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Both steered the suckers to robe Ling for half his
take and kept the staff of three musclemen to enforce
the payoffs. The girl who got me into that dark
trailer park was the wife of one of the muscle boys.
Expensive count items six same as combined totals of items
one and three one hundred and twelve dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Fifty two cents.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Transportation from Tupelo to Dallas and back to Hartford again,
incidentals and miscellaneous were covered by my earnings on the
well job, proving that I live within my means. Expense
account total two hundred and thirty six dollars and four cents.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You're thirty thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You know, many great men have attained the highest office
in our land, the presidency of the United States.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Can you guess the name of this man? His great
grandfather fought in the.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Revolution at eighteen. This man was a school teacher in Ohio,
but quit to enlist in the Civil War. In eighteen
sixty seven, he was admitted to the bar and in
eighteen ninety six was elected president. During his administration, the
Filipinos were promised their independence, and he was re elected
(26:53):
on a full dinner pail platform. If you don't have
his name by now here's another clue. During his presidency,
Major Walter Reed discovered the cure for yellow fever. Who
was he William McKinley, twenty fifth President of the United States.
His life is part of your American heritage. Yours Truly
(27:24):
Aid Johnny Dollar stars John Lund in the title role
and was written by Joel.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Murcot with music by Edy Dunsenter.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Featured in Tonight's cast where Joseph Turns, William Bias, John McIntyre,
Parley Bear, Stacey, Harris, High Apperback, Virginia Gregg, and Tom Tully.
Yours Truly Aid Johnny Dollar is transcribed in Hollywood by
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