August 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Follows the investigations of an insurance detective whose cases often involve intrigue and deception, blending elements of mystery and drama.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm now more yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half
hour has its baggage pack to take a trip with
America's tabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar at insurance investigation,
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He's just an expert at making out his expense account
He's an absolute genius.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to
home office. I were the Insurance Underwriters Association, Hartford, Connecticut.
Attention General Manager, Harvey Anthony. Hmmm, dear mister Anthony, here
is your problem. The following is an accounting of my
expense in the case of one hundred thousand dollars legs
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or who puts your company out on the limbs Fren's account.
I don't want sixty dollars twenty dollars across the board
on a losing horse. I was rushed into betting on
when you had me paged on a public address system
at the race track. This is Harvey Anthony. Dollars thanks
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for calling back soon. I only page me. They said
it was an emergency. Better be why what's a dollar?
This is my day off and if I know you,
this call is gonna make it an off day. If
I know you, my friend, you won't mind this assignment.
I want you to go out to Hollywood act as
a bodyguard for a big movie star, Marilyn Major, a
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bad body to God, what's the deal? We've issued one
of those publicity policies insured her legs for one hundred thousand.
Policy will only be an effect for forty eight hours.
We want you to stick with her, just to see
that she doesn't get mixed up.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Any hockey games.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I get it. She's been notified, so she expects you.
Wonder the forty eight hours starts tomorrow noon? Can you
make it? Hour? Was the help of American Airlines gets
you to buy your ticket? About that? I'll know right
after the next race, I'll call you from Hollywood. Fens
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accounts Item two ten dollars borrowed from a friend. Taxi
fair from the racetrack to town, from where I cash
checked to pay. Item three one hundred and eighty six
dollars and thirteen cents point fair Hartford to Hollywood. Item
four three fifty cab fair locks Ackless Municipal Airport to
the Hall of the Ensured its Marilyn Major at the
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Horizon View apartments on the sunset strip hit the driver
one dollar. Miss Maker's apartment had the best view of
the horizon, it being the penthouse, but her outlook was
anything but rosie. I found the apartment open. First I
looked in, then I went in. How I want to play?
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The person to person called please, mister Harvey Anthony Corker,
Connecticut volunteer three six thousand. My name is Dollar, as
in blood Money. While I was waiting to get mister Anthony,
I wondered who had got Miss Major in the movies.
I'd always thought she looked right at home anywhere, and
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now right there in front of me, she was passing
a Trevist test. Lying there nice and relaxed. She looked
right at home in the role of a beautiful gal
who has just been murdered. Her face was calm, her
legs were neatly placed in the best of cheesecake traditions.
The only thing not quite as it should have been
was a very real bullet hole, which she was worrying
where an earring should have been. The next cameras that
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would be taking her picture would be police cameras. The
pictures be for Bloody.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Dollar.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh yeah, did you go ahead? Hell? Hello? Hello, dollar, Yeah, yeah,
this dollar, all right, Anthony. First, I want to tell
you those legs you ensure are still in beautiful shape. Good, good, fine.
I only hope you didn't also ensure miss Major's life.
She's dead. What Marilyn Major dead? That's right. Oh, we
certainly do ensure her life. We only issued that publicity
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policy on her legs. Is a courtesy. Dollar. Get to
work on it right away. I'll get to work on it.
But don't waste too much, hope. The meaning it looks
like you're only out is if the policy does not
pay off on murder. Murder good to heaven. Well, there
may be something about the case of the famous from
paying double indemnity for death by violence. Oh, this is
death by violence, brother, anyway you look at it. Okay, Anthony,
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I'll get to work on it right after I call
the cops and make a report. Do your mess, okay, goodbye.
Oh I'm not that jellowphone. The dames standing in the
kitchen doorway had thirty two caliber steel in her hand
to back up the brass in her voice. She was
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a youngster, but obviously an old timer. Had a lot
of things. Her hair was the same color as The
murdered woman's smoke blonde, and her dress was tobacco brown
and round and firm and fully pink.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I said, put down that phone.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ah sure, sure, okay, now, uh, you're doing a favor,
will you if you feel you want your finger near
that trigger? How about moving it up to the front
end of the trigger?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
God huh, mister, I only heard part of what you said,
but you're not calling no police.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Show that damon there has done me enough harm. I
came here to kill him, but somebody beat me to it,
and I'm not taking the back.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, so beat it. Who cares? Then I'll call the police.
Somebody going to eventually.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Before I go. I'm finding two things. I'm taking them
with me. Come on, get up on your seats. Miss
You're coming with me in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Okay, okay, don't get excited.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay, mister over.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Against that wall with your faith and closing your hands
straight up?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Come on, move right. You learn this at the movies
or by watching your friends work.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Don't be a lifetime Not as dumb as I look.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The host still look sister by this time. I shouldn't
still like you well enough to want you. But what
you're doing right now will get you in plenty of
trouble even if you didn't commit this theater, I'll take that.
If you don't get picked up for lash and they
they'll still get you for tampering with evidence. As far
as the police are concerned, at the scene of a murder,
nothing gets touched. They like it that way.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
What I'm taking more is to be missed.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You're play more here, just like him.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
So she's gotten here love letters from men.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Who are you covering up for your boyfriend?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It's not even your business, mister, but it's my hunts
that I'm covering up for.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Then you're just playing nuts. If he knew her, they'll
find that out. Then if they want him, they'll find him.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, and I'll find it dead.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
My husband committed suicide over the no good Dame this morning.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Oh no, I've had enough out of you.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Back up to dead.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Not get over there and into that closet.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Come on, too bad.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I always feel sorry for a sucker. I choked around
in the dark. It was a small saucet. I met
not much air that meant doing something about it. I
took my finger in a file, stood at our edge
and slipped it under the door, pressing down the nap
of the rut. I did the same with my fountain pen,
but at least allowed a small supply of air to
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sneak into my stuffy little cell. And then I glued
my ear to a thin wooden panel that separated me
from the bedroom. It wasn't long before my captor apparently
completed his search. I past the closet door and head
to the front room. I didn't hear a dial of phone,
but it didn't take me long to realize that's what
she was doing and who she was calling.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Give me the police.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
This is an emergency.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Hello, Hello, PLA want I report a murder?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Hellos with a murder? The movie saw allan major in
the penthouse. The horizon view were popping on the sunset strip.
Never mind who I am.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I caught the murderers.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You'll find him locked up in the closet.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
From the moment she hung up, I could only guess
what was happening. I heard a man spotstep brush in
and then his voice that's what I'm telling you. Please
let us know I'm kicking them with me. I didn't
think I had the time to spend picking the lock
on the closet door. So I thought. The girl who
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had just tried to turn me into the cops was
lying on her face in front of a telephone stand,
and a cover of bullets had turned the brown silk
on her back into wet red lace. She'd been shot
in the back, and if she succeeded in finding of letters,
her killer had taken them with him. I made a
quick search myself and took a look for the remaining
sets of letters, one from a guy who signed himself Barren,
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and the other one from a guy whose autograph read
with all my love larns. My instincts were trying to
pull me out of that apartment, but one look down
the street throw them into reverse. Black and white prowl
cars were arriving, and I was less than another minute
when their passenger started pouring out of the elevator and
through the front door.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Backround, closet, boys, make sure you how in front of
that door.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Never mind the closet, lieutenant, it's empty. I kicked my
way out.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
All right, Let's say your hands get them up.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And I swear I'm gonna buy some stock in a
gun company. Everybody's got them. Get around behind him, check
them the eleven. Yes, sir, okay, who are you Johnny Dollar?
And if you lend me back my right hand, I'll
give you my ID. Send my wallet. Gave him up it?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Get his wallet?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yes, it here? It is insurance, dick. Please, I'm a
freelance special insurance invest together. It sounds better, keeps my
price up.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Let's just story first.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'd like to go on record as saying I didn't
commit either one of the murders. Either one. What are
you talking about? Well? This one here is the girl
who phoned in the report that brought you here, and
once she was talking about Marilyn Major is lying just
as dead on the floor in the bedroom. Nolla, get
in there, take it. Look.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, while he's looking, you keep on talking.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay, I'll start from the beginning. I always sent out
here by high Worthy Insurance. They just to shift policy
on the legs of that dame in the other room
one hundred thousand dollars publicity stunted. I was supposed to
protect their interests.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, what do you think I was supposed to see that?
She didn't attempt any Hindu fire dances or try walking
any type ropes during the next forty eight hours.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You'd Warri's rod at the parkment at least?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What else?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
When I got here, the door was open. I walked
in and found her dead.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Anyway to prove that any witnesses.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Just one? She's lying there behind her.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Over the phone, she accused you of the murder. That's
the wrong kind of a witness.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Now, lieutenants, the wrong kind of dame. She knew I
didn't do it. She was somewhere in this apart from
I arrived. And why did you say it? I can
hardly ask her, Listen, lieutenants. She did tell me that
she came here to get some letters her husband had
written them to the major Dame. She said she was
trying to protect him from what. Who knows. Maybe she
just wanted him to rest in peace. The guy coming
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at suicide this morning, we can't shake.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
His story with him, Kenley, You've got a lot of
dead friends out at this one here, get that way.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'm not sure. While I was in the closet, I
heard her call you, and then a man came in
and yelled something about blackmail at her and shot her,
and naturally.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
He had disappeared by the time you'll kick your way
out of the closet.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's right, This.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Story yours may win some kind of a prize dollar,
but not for me. I'm not a judge.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That's one thing in my favor. I got something. The
dame was dead, all right. Look what I found in
that closet. A fingernail file, a fountain pen with a
name on it, Johnny Dollar, and a thirty two caliber
revolver Jam's in a.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Shoe, well, Dollar, That combination puts you in a kind
of jam too.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Look, Lieutenant, I think I can make you see things
my way if you'll let me go through my story
once more. I was sent out here by a high
worthy insurance expense account item for three dollars candy, guns, cigarettes,
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and magazines to make cell number thirty six, Los Angeles
City jail less like a no place and more like
a home. There's something about a jail door closing on
you that sounds very.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
In just a moment, we'll return to the second act
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. But first we want you
to know that the biggest jackpot in the history of radio,
fifty thousand dollars, goes.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
In the works.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Tomorrow night when CBS Great Saturday Night Quiz shows, sing
It Again comes to you again over most of these
same stations, fifty thousand dollars twenty five thousand in marvelous prizes,
plus twenty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
In cold hard cash. And that's only the beginning.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because the longer the phantom boys questions if here the listeners,
the higher the rewards go. Be sure you're around tomorrow
night when sing It Again sets telephones ringing across the nation,
and fifty thousand dollars goes riding on each call. Now
back to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
When I accepted this Hollywood assignments, I visualized spending much
of my time gazing upon bars, but not the kind
offered by Cell number thirty six. The guy who said
stone walls do not a prison mate had never been
a guest in the Los Angeles City jail. He had
a better chance of getting out of Barblet's quotations, and
I had a getting out of there. But as we
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keep saying in the insurance racords, never say die, wow,
that roach, what are you going for?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I've heard tallot boys around headquarters have a very funny
joke about roaches and jails. But that's not why I
am here.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Sit down, make yourself uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I can't offer you, I mean, Julip. The closest I
can come is a spearmid life saver.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
This kind of zero is a pleasure after facing the climb.
Blew up against huh so for a dollar or we've
got to go on as Joe and a mess of
evidence we haven't a yet been able to trace down
to its rightful womens. Oh, accidentally about that gun we
thought might be yours.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh, don't tell me you're going to give up to
me as a birthday present.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
It was the weapon used to kill Marilyn Major, the
power up and test we took on your hands. Let
you up. You haven't been firing any guns lately?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Does that mean you've come here to what? Scout me
to the front door.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You're not so fair. We do want to know what
your finger, Prince, We're doing all over those two bundles
of love letters we found.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm going to have to learn to pick things up
with my knuckles, Lieutenant. I just had a natural curiosity
as to who killed the cat. The only difference we
between us roach is that your curiosity is official? How
far did you get?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Not far enough? Didn't take much figgering to know that
Miss Major's and playing a high class badger game.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
All the perfume and the.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Joint couldn't cover up the smell of blackness. On top
of that, we found the two batches letters that you've
been messing around with, one signed Baron eether as signed Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Those the fire departments should be handling. Yeah, I remember
there's probably a third set flowing around. Why do you
say that I was not an eyewitness to this, only
an ear witness, but from what I could hear inside
that closet, the name who came there looking for a
husband's letters found them and she called you to turn
me in. On our way out of the apartment, some
guy came in, stuck her for Marilyn Major and shot
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her on the back. When I kicked my way out
of the closet, those letters of hers were gone, so
Faker's the murderer grabbed the letters out of her hand,
thinking there was some he'd written.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Then in your file that killer was either that.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Baronello the other one Lawrence Lieutenant. In my file, they're
both murderers. It's just a question of who killed home.
The guy who killed Marylyn Major certainly wouldn't have come
back to kill her again, would he in this town?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
You never know.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Look, Lieutenant, I got a two ways stake in this thing,
one to get my name cleared, the other to get
my job done. And I'm in a hurry. I imagine
you are.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Too, Marilyn League.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It was a big name.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
That means we'll soon have newspapers burning under our seats.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We're in a hurry, all right, Okay, then listen. If
I were either one of those murderers, and I know
that the police probably had a handful of letters, it
could send me to the gas chamber, I'd head for
the border. Yeah. But if I thought an outsider had him,
somebody they might be able to buy off, or scare
off or be off, then I'd go find that guy. Well,
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let's bring this thing to what had in a hurry.
Run a story in the papers. Tell him you released me,
tell him I escape, tell him anything, just so long
as you tell them that you suspect that I have
those letters in some place.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Well, if you don't mind taking the chance of having
two murderers gunning at you, we certainly don't.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh I mind, believe me. I'm not doing you any favors.
It's just that I'll feel safer in my own hands.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Okay, mister Pision, you've got your over elected. We'll published
that story, then we'll let you fly.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
The coop said, enough, just make sure that you give
me plenty of fighter cover expense account Item six seven
cents purchase of newspaper, an extra edition that hit the
street about a half an hour before I did. Item
seven five dollars a big square meal to make up
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for the ones I'd missed, ignoring the little round beams
while a guess of the city, seeing the lieutenant's fiction
and black prim on the front page of a newspaper
almost had me believing it. There was my picture, big
as life, And when those birds set up a pigeon,
they made sure everybody would know the la location of
his roost firmly. Planet High in the story was the
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name of a hotel into which they had registered me,
and to which I was under orders to proceed immediately.
As I walked down the hotel card or to my room,
I felt an icy chill and a flight of goose
flesh headed south down my spine, Darley and close a door.
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Expected company, but not your kind. At first, I thought
I'd got into the wrong room. This kid looked right
at home, and she used some some of the clothes
from a half packed over a night bag to make
her look.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
At Oh you're Johnny Duck.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, thanks for saving me a calling card? How are you?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Alice Hill?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
That doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Otherwise known as missus Lawrence Hill.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh, Lawrence. Oh. The last time I saw that name
it said with love, but not to you.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's why I'm here. I want those letters.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Why is you carrying a gun?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It'll be here if we need it. We yes, my
husband's on the lobby. Look, if you give me those letters,
he wrote, I'll pack up my little bag and leave
and everybody will be very happy.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah. I think I know the next line, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I hope you keep bond being that smart. My husband
was watching for you when you came in, so he
knows you're up here. Naturally, he knows I'm here, and
he's on his way up. We want thoters.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
This isn't just a Badger game, this is the world series.
If I don't give you the letters, your husband busts
in here shoots me and I get written off under
the unwritten law. Neat neat me.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
It's a handy law.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Right, It's covered a multitude of sin.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Where are the letters?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Where's your husband?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
It's some matter with you? What do those letters mean
to you?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well, right now they look like my only hold on
the future, Missus Hill, how do I know that you
and your dear Lince won't kill me after you get them?
Do you want me to take your word for us?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well, I'll have to trust Laurence. He don't know what
to do.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I already know there's nothing else for him to do. Look,
Missus Hill, why don't you wise up? Your husband is
ready to commit one murder to remove the evident motor
for another, and he's dragging you into this with him.
You'll wind up an accessory before after and during the fight,
you're running up a blind alley as fast as you're
gonna run, and.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's too late to turn around, so I'll just have
to keep running.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh, well, here he is. Lace up your track shoes, lady.
The race is on.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
All right, still, praise Buffy. It's okay, ALUs. You can
hold off on the Dog and Pony Show. Save it
for the witnesses when they arrive. Don't waste it on Lawrence.
And maybe isn't Lawrence what? Oh? So this must be Barren?
You all through? That depends on that gun in your
hand for other letters? Letters, letters, letters. You know, I'm
beginning to feel like a mailman when he's late getting
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around in the morning. There's one thing I want to know.
Where is it an ugly part time romeo? Like you
find all those pretty words you wrote? Look, don't got me,
So I'll blast still letters and all letters as the
tone I was trying to bring your voice up to
mister Van No letters is exactly what I've got to offer.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Lying he admitted to me that he has. He's tried
to blackmail you, Darren. That's what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Oh are you never mind?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
My husband's the saint bold you are.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I read the papers, Lawrence, So that's right.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You'll be here any second between us, we'll figure out something.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Now, stay away from a dollar. I as good idea.
If a man asks, hang up, it'll be Lieutenant Roach Hugh.
Wait a minute, okay, answer a dollar. But the first
wrong word fires this gun. Oh you can believe me,
nothing but right words are on the tip of my tongue. Hello,
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whoever was on the other end of the line, decide
another trot and hung up. So I started an imaginary
conversation with Lieutenant wrote your homicide. While I was talking,
I was thinking Darren's voice was the voice I'd heard
when I was locked in the closet. That made him
the guy who shot the girl who turned me. By
the process of elimination, Lawrence Hill was elected murderer of
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Marilyn Major. During my thought which made no sense. In
my thoughts, which made plenty of sense, I was checking
the length of cord on the phone. I needed Barren
a little closer, so I started crossing enough dangerous words
into the mouthpiece to draw him closer, threatening me with
his mutters, his looks, and his guns. He moved into range,
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and I moved into action. I heaved the base of
the telephone straight into his face. I moved in with
my knee right after stumble back Bunny and go with
a gun, which I kicked one of the metal. Then
I made a break front on the pressure next to
the bed, using his head to break the front. The
water from the crank the pitcher hit him in the face.
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But it didn't do him any good. Hey, get out
from on his there that way my gun. Come on, well,
I got a hold of your ankle. I got a
good mind to do this thing right, and heave you
out the one off.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Come on, I span a few all right.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I hope it's you once.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
We don't want any trouble.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Just let me audience.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
We'll pay you anything.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
My husband's an important nest, so am I. I've had
all of pushing around on my take from now on
on the theater, and your hands are shut up. Oh no,
you don't. I baited you. Try to bait me. Now
we'll both sit here and bait your husband. It must
have bet him to crall this room and hung up
when he heard my voice. One thing I didn't bother
to tell you. Your husband couldn't have known I was up
here until then, because I came in the hotel the
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back way and came up here the back way elevator
and all.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
What do you mean you baited me?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Why do you think the police put my name, my address,
and my picture in the newspapers to draw autograph hunters. Oh? Oh,
is right. Now. I'll get over there in the corner
while I retrieved mister Baron's gun from under the bed
before some mouse crawls out of the woodwork and Fry
is taking a shot at me. Go on, get going,
turn around. Okay, Now, if you don't want me shooting
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runs in your stocking, don't make a move while I'm
under the bed. I feel like something that old maids
hoped for. On the boy, he's kind of gun kill.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Him, kill him under.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The bed and taking no chances. Lesson wrote, you may
be a lieutenant at the police department, but to me
you're just a fat private. Oh no, I don't mind
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studying myself up as a pigeon. But you promised me protection.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Well what Sampa, Tampa?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now who's who here?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Let's get these stiffs sorted out then we can talk.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
There's only one stiff, the other one, the one near
the door's line. He's only wounded. I had to shoot
his pins out from under him. He came crashing in
and killed Baron by a mistake. That's Baron over there
by the bed.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Another case of mistaken identity. He miss you.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I happened to be under the bed at the time.
Oh and I wasn't hiding, No, I was looking for
a gun, and I found it and I used it.
If I had one right now, I'm not so sure
I wouldn't use it on you. You still haven't told
me why you left me here alone holding a sack
all this time.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
I'll tell you a way, and I guess it was for.
And then I had posted in a lobby. Didn't see
you come into the hotel.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, how do you like that? Johnny dollars? Wise guy? Huh, Lieutenant,
I got some news for you. Just to make sure
I was taking no chances, I came him the back way.
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Pen's account Item eight sixty two dollars Hollywood Entertainment. Seeing
what there is to see at Cerro's Item nine one
hundred and five dollars seeing through it at one of
the things I saw at Cero's. Had a good time
with me at the Mocambo. Item ten one hundred and
eighty six dollars eighteen cents. Planefair Hollywood Back to Hartford,
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Item eleven one dollar ticket to the movie. Back in
Hartford to study the last motion picture of Marilyn Major,
so that in the future i'd be sure to steer
clear of her. Kind of a woman who is too
much of a Jinx for My kind of Man. Expense
account total nine hundred and forty eight dollars and seventy
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six cents signed, Yours Trooling Johnny dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
In keeping with the Easter season, you'll hear a different
kind of story on CBS Gangbusters Tomorrow Night, the authentic
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CBS has ever brought to you. Tomorrow Night, you'll also
(28:15):
find a mid April adventure with the intriguing title The heat.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Waves on CBS. Philip Marlow programs.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Gangbusters and the Adventures of Philip Marlow are regular Saturday
nights on most of these same CBS stations. Listening again
(28:48):
next week when CBS brings you Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
with Charles.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Russell as Gunny, written by Paul Dudley and Gill Dowd,
with music by Mark Warnow.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yours Cruely Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Richard
Sandville for CBS for Columbia Broadcasting System MHM
I'm now more yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The next half
hour has its baggage pack to take a trip with
America's tabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar at insurance investigation,
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He's just an expert at making out his expense account
He's an absolute genius.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar to
home office. I were the Insurance Underwriters Association, Hartford, Connecticut.
Attention General Manager, Harvey Anthony. Hmmm, dear mister Anthony, here
is your problem. The following is an accounting of my
expense in the case of one hundred thousand dollars legs
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or who puts your company out on the limbs Fren's account.
I don't want sixty dollars twenty dollars across the board
on a losing horse. I was rushed into betting on
when you had me paged on a public address system
at the race track. This is Harvey Anthony. Dollars thanks
(01:25):
for calling back soon. I only page me. They said
it was an emergency. Better be why what's a dollar?
This is my day off and if I know you,
this call is gonna make it an off day. If
I know you, my friend, you won't mind this assignment.
I want you to go out to Hollywood act as
a bodyguard for a big movie star, Marilyn Major, a
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bad body to God, what's the deal? We've issued one
of those publicity policies insured her legs for one hundred thousand.
Policy will only be an effect for forty eight hours.
We want you to stick with her, just to see
that she doesn't get mixed up.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Any hockey games.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I get it. She's been notified, so she expects you.
Wonder the forty eight hours starts tomorrow noon? Can you
make it? Hour? Was the help of American Airlines gets
you to buy your ticket? About that? I'll know right
after the next race, I'll call you from Hollywood. Fens
(02:24):
accounts Item two ten dollars borrowed from a friend. Taxi
fair from the racetrack to town, from where I cash
checked to pay. Item three one hundred and eighty six
dollars and thirteen cents point fair Hartford to Hollywood. Item
four three fifty cab fair locks Ackless Municipal Airport to
the Hall of the Ensured its Marilyn Major at the
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Horizon View apartments on the sunset strip hit the driver
one dollar. Miss Maker's apartment had the best view of
the horizon, it being the penthouse, but her outlook was
anything but rosie. I found the apartment open. First I
looked in, then I went in. How I want to play?
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The person to person called please, mister Harvey Anthony Corker,
Connecticut volunteer three six thousand. My name is Dollar, as
in blood Money. While I was waiting to get mister Anthony,
I wondered who had got Miss Major in the movies.
I'd always thought she looked right at home anywhere, and
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now right there in front of me, she was passing
a Trevist test. Lying there nice and relaxed. She looked
right at home in the role of a beautiful gal
who has just been murdered. Her face was calm, her
legs were neatly placed in the best of cheesecake traditions.
The only thing not quite as it should have been
was a very real bullet hole, which she was worrying
where an earring should have been. The next cameras that
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would be taking her picture would be police cameras. The
pictures be for Bloody.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Dollar.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh yeah, did you go ahead? Hell? Hello? Hello, dollar, Yeah, yeah,
this dollar, all right, Anthony. First, I want to tell
you those legs you ensure are still in beautiful shape. Good, good, fine.
I only hope you didn't also ensure miss Major's life.
She's dead. What Marilyn Major dead? That's right. Oh, we
certainly do ensure her life. We only issued that publicity
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policy on her legs. Is a courtesy. Dollar. Get to
work on it right away. I'll get to work on it.
But don't waste too much, hope. The meaning it looks
like you're only out is if the policy does not
pay off on murder. Murder good to heaven. Well, there
may be something about the case of the famous from
paying double indemnity for death by violence. Oh, this is
death by violence, brother, anyway you look at it. Okay, Anthony,
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I'll get to work on it right after I call
the cops and make a report. Do your mess, okay, goodbye.
Oh I'm not that jellowphone. The dames standing in the
kitchen doorway had thirty two caliber steel in her hand
to back up the brass in her voice. She was
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a youngster, but obviously an old timer. Had a lot
of things. Her hair was the same color as The
murdered woman's smoke blonde, and her dress was tobacco brown
and round and firm and fully pink.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I said, put down that phone.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ah sure, sure, okay, now, uh, you're doing a favor,
will you if you feel you want your finger near
that trigger? How about moving it up to the front
end of the trigger?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
God huh, mister, I only heard part of what you said,
but you're not calling no police.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Show that damon there has done me enough harm. I
came here to kill him, but somebody beat me to it,
and I'm not taking the back.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, so beat it. Who cares? Then I'll call the police.
Somebody going to eventually.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Before I go. I'm finding two things. I'm taking them
with me. Come on, get up on your seats. Miss
You're coming with me in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Okay, okay, don't get excited.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay, mister over.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Against that wall with your faith and closing your hands
straight up?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Come on, move right. You learn this at the movies
or by watching your friends work.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Don't be a lifetime Not as dumb as I look.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The host still look sister by this time. I shouldn't
still like you well enough to want you. But what
you're doing right now will get you in plenty of
trouble even if you didn't commit this theater, I'll take that.
If you don't get picked up for lash and they
they'll still get you for tampering with evidence. As far
as the police are concerned, at the scene of a murder,
nothing gets touched. They like it that way.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
What I'm taking more is to be missed.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You're play more here, just like him.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
So she's gotten here love letters from men.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Who are you covering up for your boyfriend?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
It's not even your business, mister, but it's my hunts
that I'm covering up for.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Then you're just playing nuts. If he knew her, they'll
find that out. Then if they want him, they'll find him.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, and I'll find it dead.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
My husband committed suicide over the no good Dame this morning.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Oh no, I've had enough out of you.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Back up to dead.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Not get over there and into that closet.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Come on, too bad.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I always feel sorry for a sucker. I choked around
in the dark. It was a small saucet. I met
not much air that meant doing something about it. I
took my finger in a file, stood at our edge
and slipped it under the door, pressing down the nap
of the rut. I did the same with my fountain pen,
but at least allowed a small supply of air to
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sneak into my stuffy little cell. And then I glued
my ear to a thin wooden panel that separated me
from the bedroom. It wasn't long before my captor apparently
completed his search. I past the closet door and head
to the front room. I didn't hear a dial of phone,
but it didn't take me long to realize that's what
she was doing and who she was calling.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Give me the police.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
This is an emergency.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Hello, Hello, PLA want I report a murder?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Hellos with a murder? The movie saw allan major in
the penthouse. The horizon view were popping on the sunset strip.
Never mind who I am.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I caught the murderers.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You'll find him locked up in the closet.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
From the moment she hung up, I could only guess
what was happening. I heard a man spotstep brush in
and then his voice that's what I'm telling you. Please
let us know I'm kicking them with me. I didn't
think I had the time to spend picking the lock
on the closet door. So I thought. The girl who
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had just tried to turn me into the cops was
lying on her face in front of a telephone stand,
and a cover of bullets had turned the brown silk
on her back into wet red lace. She'd been shot
in the back, and if she succeeded in finding of letters,
her killer had taken them with him. I made a
quick search myself and took a look for the remaining
sets of letters, one from a guy who signed himself Barren,
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and the other one from a guy whose autograph read
with all my love larns. My instincts were trying to
pull me out of that apartment, but one look down
the street throw them into reverse. Black and white prowl
cars were arriving, and I was less than another minute
when their passenger started pouring out of the elevator and
through the front door.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Backround, closet, boys, make sure you how in front of
that door.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Never mind the closet, lieutenant, it's empty. I kicked my
way out.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
All right, Let's say your hands get them up.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And I swear I'm gonna buy some stock in a
gun company. Everybody's got them. Get around behind him, check
them the eleven. Yes, sir, okay, who are you Johnny Dollar?
And if you lend me back my right hand, I'll
give you my ID. Send my wallet. Gave him up it?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Get his wallet?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yes, it here? It is insurance, dick. Please, I'm a
freelance special insurance invest together. It sounds better, keeps my
price up.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Let's just story first.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'd like to go on record as saying I didn't
commit either one of the murders. Either one. What are
you talking about? Well? This one here is the girl
who phoned in the report that brought you here, and
once she was talking about Marilyn Major is lying just
as dead on the floor in the bedroom. Nolla, get
in there, take it. Look.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, while he's looking, you keep on talking.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay, I'll start from the beginning. I always sent out
here by high Worthy Insurance. They just to shift policy
on the legs of that dame in the other room
one hundred thousand dollars publicity stunted. I was supposed to
protect their interests.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, what do you think I was supposed to see that?
She didn't attempt any Hindu fire dances or try walking
any type ropes during the next forty eight hours.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You'd Warri's rod at the parkment at least?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
What else?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
When I got here, the door was open. I walked
in and found her dead.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Anyway to prove that any witnesses.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Just one? She's lying there behind her.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Over the phone, she accused you of the murder. That's
the wrong kind of a witness.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Now, lieutenants, the wrong kind of dame. She knew I
didn't do it. She was somewhere in this apart from
I arrived. And why did you say it? I can
hardly ask her, Listen, lieutenants. She did tell me that
she came here to get some letters her husband had
written them to the major Dame. She said she was
trying to protect him from what. Who knows. Maybe she
just wanted him to rest in peace. The guy coming
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at suicide this morning, we can't shake.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
His story with him, Kenley, You've got a lot of
dead friends out at this one here, get that way.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'm not sure. While I was in the closet, I
heard her call you, and then a man came in
and yelled something about blackmail at her and shot her,
and naturally.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
He had disappeared by the time you'll kick your way
out of the closet.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's right, This.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Story yours may win some kind of a prize dollar,
but not for me. I'm not a judge.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That's one thing in my favor. I got something. The
dame was dead, all right. Look what I found in
that closet. A fingernail file, a fountain pen with a
name on it, Johnny Dollar, and a thirty two caliber
revolver Jam's in a.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Shoe, well, Dollar, That combination puts you in a kind
of jam too.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Look, Lieutenant, I think I can make you see things
my way if you'll let me go through my story
once more. I was sent out here by a high
worthy insurance expense account item for three dollars candy, guns, cigarettes,
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and magazines to make cell number thirty six, Los Angeles
City jail less like a no place and more like
a home. There's something about a jail door closing on
you that sounds very.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
In just a moment, we'll return to the second act
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. But first we want you
to know that the biggest jackpot in the history of radio,
fifty thousand dollars, goes.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
In the works.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Tomorrow night when CBS Great Saturday Night Quiz shows, sing
It Again comes to you again over most of these
same stations, fifty thousand dollars twenty five thousand in marvelous prizes,
plus twenty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
In cold hard cash. And that's only the beginning.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because the longer the phantom boys questions if here the listeners,
the higher the rewards go. Be sure you're around tomorrow
night when sing It Again sets telephones ringing across the nation,
and fifty thousand dollars goes riding on each call. Now
back to yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
When I accepted this Hollywood assignments, I visualized spending much
of my time gazing upon bars, but not the kind
offered by Cell number thirty six. The guy who said
stone walls do not a prison mate had never been
a guest in the Los Angeles City jail. He had
a better chance of getting out of Barblet's quotations, and
I had a getting out of there. But as we
(14:34):
keep saying in the insurance racords, never say die, wow,
that roach, what are you going for?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I've heard tallot boys around headquarters have a very funny
joke about roaches and jails. But that's not why I
am here.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Sit down, make yourself uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I can't offer you, I mean, Julip. The closest I
can come is a spearmid life saver.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
This kind of zero is a pleasure after facing the climb.
Blew up against huh so for a dollar or we've
got to go on as Joe and a mess of
evidence we haven't a yet been able to trace down
to its rightful womens. Oh, accidentally about that gun we
thought might be yours.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh, don't tell me you're going to give up to
me as a birthday present.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
It was the weapon used to kill Marilyn Major, the
power up and test we took on your hands. Let
you up. You haven't been firing any guns lately?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Does that mean you've come here to what? Scout me
to the front door.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You're not so fair. We do want to know what
your finger, Prince, We're doing all over those two bundles
of love letters we found.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm going to have to learn to pick things up
with my knuckles, Lieutenant. I just had a natural curiosity
as to who killed the cat. The only difference we
between us roach is that your curiosity is official? How
far did you get?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Not far enough? Didn't take much figgering to know that
Miss Major's and playing a high class badger game.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
All the perfume and the.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Joint couldn't cover up the smell of blackness. On top
of that, we found the two batches letters that you've
been messing around with, one signed Baron eether as signed Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Those the fire departments should be handling. Yeah, I remember
there's probably a third set flowing around. Why do you
say that I was not an eyewitness to this, only
an ear witness, but from what I could hear inside
that closet, the name who came there looking for a
husband's letters found them and she called you to turn
me in. On our way out of the apartment, some
guy came in, stuck her for Marilyn Major and shot
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her on the back. When I kicked my way out
of the closet, those letters of hers were gone, so
Faker's the murderer grabbed the letters out of her hand,
thinking there was some he'd written.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Then in your file that killer was either that.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Baronello the other one Lawrence Lieutenant. In my file, they're
both murderers. It's just a question of who killed home.
The guy who killed Marylyn Major certainly wouldn't have come
back to kill her again, would he in this town?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
You never know.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Look, Lieutenant, I got a two ways stake in this thing,
one to get my name cleared, the other to get
my job done. And I'm in a hurry. I imagine
you are.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Too, Marilyn League.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It was a big name.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
That means we'll soon have newspapers burning under our seats.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We're in a hurry, all right, Okay, then listen. If
I were either one of those murderers, and I know
that the police probably had a handful of letters, it
could send me to the gas chamber, I'd head for
the border. Yeah. But if I thought an outsider had him,
somebody they might be able to buy off, or scare
off or be off, then I'd go find that guy. Well,
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let's bring this thing to what had in a hurry.
Run a story in the papers. Tell him you released me,
tell him I escape, tell him anything, just so long
as you tell them that you suspect that I have
those letters in some place.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Well, if you don't mind taking the chance of having
two murderers gunning at you, we certainly don't.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh I mind, believe me. I'm not doing you any favors.
It's just that I'll feel safer in my own hands.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Okay, mister Pision, you've got your over elected. We'll published
that story, then we'll let you fly.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
The coop said, enough, just make sure that you give
me plenty of fighter cover expense account Item six seven
cents purchase of newspaper, an extra edition that hit the
street about a half an hour before I did. Item
seven five dollars a big square meal to make up
(18:43):
for the ones I'd missed, ignoring the little round beams
while a guess of the city, seeing the lieutenant's fiction
and black prim on the front page of a newspaper
almost had me believing it. There was my picture, big
as life, And when those birds set up a pigeon,
they made sure everybody would know the la location of
his roost firmly. Planet High in the story was the
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name of a hotel into which they had registered me,
and to which I was under orders to proceed immediately.
As I walked down the hotel card or to my room,
I felt an icy chill and a flight of goose
flesh headed south down my spine, Darley and close a door.
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Expected company, but not your kind. At first, I thought
I'd got into the wrong room. This kid looked right
at home, and she used some some of the clothes
from a half packed over a night bag to make
her look.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
At Oh you're Johnny Duck.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, thanks for saving me a calling card? How are you?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Alice Hill?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
That doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Otherwise known as missus Lawrence Hill.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh, Lawrence. Oh. The last time I saw that name
it said with love, but not to you.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's why I'm here. I want those letters.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Why is you carrying a gun?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It'll be here if we need it. We yes, my
husband's on the lobby. Look, if you give me those letters,
he wrote, I'll pack up my little bag and leave
and everybody will be very happy.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah. I think I know the next line, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I hope you keep bond being that smart. My husband
was watching for you when you came in, so he
knows you're up here. Naturally, he knows I'm here, and
he's on his way up. We want thoters.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
This isn't just a Badger game, this is the world series.
If I don't give you the letters, your husband busts
in here shoots me and I get written off under
the unwritten law. Neat neat me.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
It's a handy law.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Right, It's covered a multitude of sin.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Where are the letters?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Where's your husband?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
It's some matter with you? What do those letters mean
to you?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well, right now they look like my only hold on
the future, Missus Hill, how do I know that you
and your dear Lince won't kill me after you get them?
Do you want me to take your word for us?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well, I'll have to trust Laurence. He don't know what
to do.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I already know there's nothing else for him to do. Look,
Missus Hill, why don't you wise up? Your husband is
ready to commit one murder to remove the evident motor
for another, and he's dragging you into this with him.
You'll wind up an accessory before after and during the fight,
you're running up a blind alley as fast as you're
gonna run, and.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's too late to turn around, so I'll just have
to keep running.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh, well, here he is. Lace up your track shoes, lady.
The race is on.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
All right, still, praise Buffy. It's okay, ALUs. You can
hold off on the Dog and Pony Show. Save it
for the witnesses when they arrive. Don't waste it on Lawrence.
And maybe isn't Lawrence what? Oh? So this must be Barren?
You all through? That depends on that gun in your
hand for other letters? Letters, letters, letters. You know, I'm
beginning to feel like a mailman when he's late getting
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around in the morning. There's one thing I want to know.
Where is it an ugly part time romeo? Like you
find all those pretty words you wrote? Look, don't got me,
So I'll blast still letters and all letters as the
tone I was trying to bring your voice up to
mister Van No letters is exactly what I've got to offer.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Lying he admitted to me that he has. He's tried
to blackmail you, Darren. That's what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Oh are you never mind?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
My husband's the saint bold you are.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I read the papers, Lawrence, So that's right.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You'll be here any second between us, we'll figure out something.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Now, stay away from a dollar. I as good idea.
If a man asks, hang up, it'll be Lieutenant Roach Hugh.
Wait a minute, okay, answer a dollar. But the first
wrong word fires this gun. Oh you can believe me,
nothing but right words are on the tip of my tongue. Hello,
(22:41):
whoever was on the other end of the line, decide
another trot and hung up. So I started an imaginary
conversation with Lieutenant wrote your homicide. While I was talking,
I was thinking Darren's voice was the voice I'd heard
when I was locked in the closet. That made him
the guy who shot the girl who turned me. By
the process of elimination, Lawrence Hill was elected murderer of
(23:05):
Marilyn Major. During my thought which made no sense. In
my thoughts, which made plenty of sense, I was checking
the length of cord on the phone. I needed Barren
a little closer, so I started crossing enough dangerous words
into the mouthpiece to draw him closer, threatening me with
his mutters, his looks, and his guns. He moved into range,
(23:25):
and I moved into action. I heaved the base of
the telephone straight into his face. I moved in with
my knee right after stumble back Bunny and go with
a gun, which I kicked one of the metal. Then
I made a break front on the pressure next to
the bed, using his head to break the front. The
water from the crank the pitcher hit him in the face.
(23:46):
But it didn't do him any good. Hey, get out
from on his there that way my gun. Come on, well,
I got a hold of your ankle. I got a
good mind to do this thing right, and heave you
out the one off.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Come on, I span a few all right.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I hope it's you once.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
We don't want any trouble.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Just let me audience.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
We'll pay you anything.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
My husband's an important nest, so am I. I've had
all of pushing around on my take from now on
on the theater, and your hands are shut up. Oh no,
you don't. I baited you. Try to bait me. Now
we'll both sit here and bait your husband. It must
have bet him to crall this room and hung up
when he heard my voice. One thing I didn't bother
to tell you. Your husband couldn't have known I was up
here until then, because I came in the hotel the
(24:27):
back way and came up here the back way elevator
and all.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
What do you mean you baited me?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Why do you think the police put my name, my address,
and my picture in the newspapers to draw autograph hunters. Oh? Oh,
is right. Now. I'll get over there in the corner
while I retrieved mister Baron's gun from under the bed
before some mouse crawls out of the woodwork and Fry
is taking a shot at me. Go on, get going,
turn around. Okay, Now, if you don't want me shooting
(24:55):
runs in your stocking, don't make a move while I'm
under the bed. I feel like something that old maids
hoped for. On the boy, he's kind of gun kill.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Him, kill him under.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
The bed and taking no chances. Lesson wrote, you may
be a lieutenant at the police department, but to me
you're just a fat private. Oh no, I don't mind
(25:32):
studying myself up as a pigeon. But you promised me protection.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Well what Sampa, Tampa?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now who's who here?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Let's get these stiffs sorted out then we can talk.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
There's only one stiff, the other one, the one near
the door's line. He's only wounded. I had to shoot
his pins out from under him. He came crashing in
and killed Baron by a mistake. That's Baron over there
by the bed.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Another case of mistaken identity. He miss you.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I happened to be under the bed at the time.
Oh and I wasn't hiding, No, I was looking for
a gun, and I found it and I used it.
If I had one right now, I'm not so sure
I wouldn't use it on you. You still haven't told
me why you left me here alone holding a sack
all this time.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
I'll tell you a way, and I guess it was for.
And then I had posted in a lobby. Didn't see
you come into the hotel.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, how do you like that? Johnny dollars? Wise guy? Huh, Lieutenant,
I got some news for you. Just to make sure
I was taking no chances, I came him the back way.
(26:42):
Pen's account Item eight sixty two dollars Hollywood Entertainment. Seeing
what there is to see at Cerro's Item nine one
hundred and five dollars seeing through it at one of
the things I saw at Cero's. Had a good time
with me at the Mocambo. Item ten one hundred and
eighty six dollars eighteen cents. Planefair Hollywood Back to Hartford,
(27:04):
Item eleven one dollar ticket to the movie. Back in
Hartford to study the last motion picture of Marilyn Major,
so that in the future i'd be sure to steer
clear of her. Kind of a woman who is too
much of a Jinx for My kind of Man. Expense
account total nine hundred and forty eight dollars and seventy
(27:25):
six cents signed, Yours Trooling Johnny dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
In keeping with the Easter season, you'll hear a different
kind of story on CBS Gangbusters Tomorrow Night, the authentic
story you have a former gangster's fight to go straight,
broadcast in cooperation with outstanding parole authorities. You will find
this Easter Eve Gangbusters drama as gripping as any programs
CBS has ever brought to you. Tomorrow Night, you'll also
(28:15):
find a mid April adventure with the intriguing title The heat.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Waves on CBS. Philip Marlow programs.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Gangbusters and the Adventures of Philip Marlow are regular Saturday
nights on most of these same CBS stations. Listening again
(28:48):
next week when CBS brings you Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
with Charles.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Russell as Gunny, written by Paul Dudley and Gill Dowd,
with music by Mark Warnow.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yours Cruely Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Richard
Sandville for CBS for Columbia Broadcasting System MHM
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