August 6, 2025 • 30 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 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
You're Morris, Johnny. You're working on a.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Case find in Kentucky, Yes, but not insurance.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Good will you go out of the West coast for us?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Maybe? What is it? Murder marine faff Darsona, it's something new,
it's nothing yet.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Our manager in Los Angeles phones this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Woman out there wants to buy a two hundred thousand
dollars policy on her life.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, oh, it's not that we don't.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Want the business, but the sales asian doesn't want to
take the responsibility of a.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Deal out size. He thinks she's holding something back. We've
decided to investigate.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How old is she? I don't know why I thought
I'd ask as one kind of woman to investigate, you know.
And then there's another. When do you want me to leave?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of a man with the
action packed expense of car America's populous freelance insurance Investigate.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Her, yours truly, Johnny Dollars Expense accounts submitted by special
investigator Johnny Dollar to home office Great Eastern Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
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of the Nora Faulkner matter. Expense account item won two
hundred and twenty dollars airfare and incidentals between Hartford and
the Great East Building Miracle Mile Wiltshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
The only apparent miracle was the fact that pedestrians crossed
Wiltshire constantly without getting killed.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Now, mister dollars, sorry to keep.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You breaking, mister teller, that's all right.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
See no.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Thanks two hundred thousand to go to her husband. I'd
had start, mister Snyder.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
She phoned one of our salesmen, followed by the name
of Neton. He went out to her house the address
he's there and shold him what she wanted. He says
he was counting his commission at first, but after he
filled out the application he began to wonder.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
About one pers.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
She told him she planned on paying six months premiums
and wanted to know how soon the policy would be
an effect acted on Netl.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
As he put it, I think we ought to find
out about her.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I don't like this kind of thing. It's a blind search.
I don't even know what I'm looking for but I'll
start on it in the morning and i'll let you
know how I come out. Expenser can item two three
dollars cab fare. The usual way to start an investigation
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of this type is with the subject's neighbors. From the
male faction, I learned that Norah Faulkner was beautiful and
obviously above reproach. The female faction reversed that decision and
reported that she lived with her husband and his mother,
but hadn't been seen for the past few days. Realizing
that mothers in law are fair sources of information, I
put her next on my list. Missus Faulkner, the elder
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sported short iron gray hair, and her face told the
story of an endless battle to hang on to.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
You. Come into the drawer. I knew, mister Dollar. I
think we can be comfortable there.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I've closed the doors. See by the way, that name
resigning you that she's an incurable prior.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I didn't know this.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
She's impossible. Well, what did you find out? Who's she
seeing in Las Vegas? I beg your pardon, Nora, what
did you learn? I'm her mother in law?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh? Yes, I know that, but maybe you have me
confused with someone else.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
You want the detective. The maid denounced you as an investigator.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm an insurance investigator, missus Falkman.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Well then you're not from that agency. Well this is embarrassing,
say the least. I hope you won't mention it to anyone.
It's none of my business, literally nothing. It's a little
game I play with Nora. Then I tease her about
her little trips.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Please it down, mister Dollar.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Of course, I feel so foolish. But my daughter in
law was mentioned when you came in, wasn't she.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, I did want to talk to you about her.
I'd be quite honest. The company that hired me is
a little uneasy about that two hundred thousand dollars life
insurance policy she.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Applied for Norah died.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, you didn't know about her?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
No, I didn't. Of course. She never tells me anything.
Why would she do a thing like that. She's a
clever woman. There must be a reason. Who's the beneficiary,
mister Dollar, Your son, Andrew, I see, then I would
say it's one of her unexplainable maneuvers, an attempt to
regain Andrew's trust and affection.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's a hard thing.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Norah's a strange woman. I Noah better than anyone else,
does yes, better by far than my son, her husband.
I unerstand how she rushed him into marriage while he
was in a highly emotional state. I've had been inducted
into the army. He was just nineteen. That was in
nineteen forty two. I know the gay life she led
while he was living in Foxfow's overseas, and while he
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was convalescing here after the war.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Missus Faulkner, I realized that all these things seem very
important to you. But mother, I oh, I'm sorry. I
didn't know you had company.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Come along, Andrew. You were told that I had company,
and you know it. This is mister Doller, Andrew from
an insurance company.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
How do you do, mister Faulkner.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Andrew, why do you keep things from me? How do
you mean mister Doller is from an insurance company. Surely
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, I don't.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Nora's new insurance policy.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Why don't you explain what you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Mother?
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Norah applied for a two hundred thousand dollar life insurance policy.
You ought to be the beneficiary, didn't she tell you?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
She hasn't said anything about it.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Yet, of course she hasn't. There are a number of
things she hasn't told you. I warned you before, mother.
Don't be angry with me, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And please leave and you wish.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Andrew, you know that everything I do is or say
is for you. Leave all right, Please control your temper.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm sorry about this, mister fulkon saw My. Is it
true about the policy?
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Well, the application is. I don't understand it. I don't
understand Nora. I never know what she's thinking. I blame
it on mother, her prying and suspicion. I blame it
on that star woman who Nora doesn't think for herself anymore.
She doesn't do anything or go any place unless this
dame tells her to. Who's this oh spook psychic madame Star.
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That's where this insurance idea came from. For a price,
she'll tell you if Nora is a good.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Risk or not. Where can I find it out?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Toward Inglewood someplace she runs a classified ad in all
the evening papers.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Thanks. I sorry, of course you the I really am.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Oh, it's not your fault. Whose fault is? Maybe everybody's.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It was obvious after meeting Andrew Faukner and his mother
that the application for the policy wasn't the only unusual
element in the matter. But on instruction from the company's
Los Angeles manager, I continued my investigation. Expense count item
three four fifty transportation to the address of Madame Starr,
a one story frame house with heavily draped windows and
a sign outside that advertised advice.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Good afternoon, Sir Adam Stein.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
That is right, I come in.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
All are welcome here.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
This can't be classed as one of your regular consultations,
but I'll pay you for the a time.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
That is generous.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Are you what do you wish?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'd like to know why Nora Faulkner was so anxious
to buy a big policy on her life.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
What do you mean? You don't know?
Speaker 9 (08:09):
I claim no powers as me and I'm not psychic.
I only offer advice some of those who listen our health.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
What advice do you want?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I told you Nora Falkner's been coming here.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
She has She's.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
In great need of advice, more intelligent advice than I
could give, perhaps, But I try to help her.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
By telling her to buy insurance.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Nor a Falkner's life business.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Few years has been lived under severe mental strain.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
I advised a search for inner truth, among other things.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, what about the insurance policy?
Speaker 9 (08:47):
A mental torment resulted in physical feelings, I advised tonics.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Why are you evading the insurance?
Speaker 9 (08:56):
She wanted a more tangible protection of her life protection?
He felt it in days.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Why I have said enough?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
She's in Las Vegas. I understand where she's staying.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
You go there.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I don't seem to be able to get anything but
double talk.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Everybody has reason for caution.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
There is Flamingo Hotel.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
She is there. How much you nothing?
Speaker 9 (09:21):
I've given you no advice what I would advise?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
I have no right to say good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I suppose you have to be mysterious.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Expense account Item four four point fifty return trip to
my hotel, Item five three seventy cap fed on and
airport and burbank, and item six nineteen dollars or ninety
cents round trip to Las Vegas by way of Western
Airlines excursion coach. My seat made turned out to be
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not only a tourist consultant, but a whip your first
trip to Las Vegas. No, I've spent a little time there.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Great town, greatest reasons they've ever seen you?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Like the fish.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, I used to don't have much time for it.
Now I always gonna start again.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Hm, let's start on lake me believe me right.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
They got fast in that lake.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And look, the last time I was there, two of
us went out.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I'd broken my rod. It's nothing but a stump, but
I put a paper clip on the end.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
And d what is your name?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Eh oh Esmond Harry es Than you do, Johnny Dallas.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Teller?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, I know what's coming name like that place, like
Las Vegas.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
You might be going in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Brother, Sometimes I wonder. Except for mister Harry Eskman, it
was a smooth trip. We eased onto the big desert
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strip bordered waiting limousines, and ten minutes later I walked
into the lobby of the Flamingo Hotel.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Mister Don Ditson, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
My name is Dollar. I have a reservation. I'll just
mostly Hey, yes, sir, have you signed the register? You
have a missus Andrew Falkner staying here or Laura Falkman,
Larah Falkler caref Wood. What's your trouble, son? It's a
Dollar just registered. He asked for Nara Falknon.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Oh he did.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Huh. Well, I'll tell you, mister Dollar. You may want
to talk to her, but she don't want to talk
to you or anybody else. She can't.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
What's the matter.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
She must have had her dinner outside the main dining room.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
She's in the hospital.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
She's been poeted.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We'll return you to the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar, in just a moment. But first, the show
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Be listening for Gangbusters this evening and every Saturday evening
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we return you to the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
After a look at my card under an exclamation of
my mission, Deputy Sheriff would told me the rest of
what he knew about missus Norah Faulkner's poisoning, which today
wasn't much. There was no proof of how she'd gotten
the poisoned dose, and the last time he'd seen her
she'd been too ill to talk. She was under her
care of a personal physician who had accompanied her from
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Los Angeles. By the time he had finished, we were
at the emergency hospital and approaching her room.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I went through the usual rigmarole of notifying next to
Kim her husband wasn't in, but somebody said she was
his mother, and then fainted on the phone. She would
I expect you to be flying in here on her
own wings any minute, now.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Oh, Sheriff, This man's an insurance investigator, Duct Brooks, meet
mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Hello, an insurance investiget that I'm afraid I don't understand.
And I was looking into an insurance policy she wanted
to buy. Oh, I see, I wish I m resting
as comfortably as gonna be expected? Has she said? Anything
about the poisoning. Yes, but i'd rather you heard it
from her, won't You can be thanks? After you charge?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Sure, I'll take along, make it look official, and learn
how you city boys operating?
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Where is it?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Peter?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
These men want to talk to you, Nora. I want
you to tell them exactly what you told me, Mum.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I didn't wanna talk about it in the more, Please Nora, alright.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
I couldn't stand it any longer.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
I didn't wanna go on.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I wanted to die. You took the poison, missus Walkman.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Yes, not because I'm a coward.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Cause there's nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
About life that I don't hate. I don't want any more.
Where is the poison? I destroyed it, destroyed it? Why
should you do that?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
How can you expect me to know?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Why did little Queen's this time like that? I don't know,
Peter Place, I don't wanna talk anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You don't want to tuck anymore. I think we'd better
let her rise. I'm not sure how story rings true.
How hardly know her doctor quite well, mister Dollar. She's
been my patient for over two years. Her life's been
very unhappy. You find it hard to believe that the
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poison was self administered, Yes, I do. Why would she
lie to protect someone who attempted to kill her? I
don't know, but suicides don't do things like destroyed poison.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Or take it.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
And they no room services on the way after the
room of the meal. That's a downright waste everybody's time.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
The waiter did find her, didn't he? I hadn't thought it?
Good lord?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
What the vitamin tonic she was taking?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
The dose included one before evening meal tablet warmer.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Is a liquid liquid hadicle and the poison could have
gotten no that way. Where is it back at the
hotel in her room? Do you want it all? I
think it should be analyzed.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I can get it up with the lab in Carson
City tonight by plane.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
All right, I'll show it to you. I think she
kept it in the medicine cabinet.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'll lick.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yeah, here, what happened, clumsy fool? Sorry, I dropped the bottle.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
The wash Basin's a bad place to drop evidence, doctor sheriff.
Can we save enough of this stuff? Just go and
get out down the drain.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Don't need much. I can scoop some up with my knife.
I'll find something to put it in.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
An apron box? Would do here, I'll hold it. Watch
that broken glass. I'm sorry, gentlemen. If the haticle does
contain the poison, imaginecy position won't be bettered. But it
was an accident.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Neither the sheriff nor I reacted to that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We retrieved enough of the liquid the tests and went
back to the two men were waiting for us near
the desk.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'll be stocking up.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
He well, got a real civilized mystery on our hands.
Ned mister Dollar, matt Uist and Ned Gilbert. These boys
help run the place when it isn't running in.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What happened to missus Faulkner Dollar? She says she tried
to kill usself, but the signs make it look like
somebody might have slipped the stuff to her. Don't you
be all right? Well it seems to be. Will send
her flowers in the morning. It's reminders.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, I'll go get this ten evidence on a plane. Dollar,
see you in the morning.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Fine, Sharon, if the boys here, we'll take care of you.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
If you aren't careful, that is, I'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You pay for breakfast tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Did you, Killa.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Please give I'll get that phone call for agents taking
a nap. Give dollar of it, any boy, that's a
dollar and the place is yours. I want to start
with a drink. That's the best suggestion today. Come on,
there's a bartom of your room. It's a good crowd.
It's only ten. I won't really pile in until later.
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Sit down, I soon stand thanks. I'm beat, I'm worrying.
Mister Lewis, find Jim make mine double? Will you not
much soda? Usual for you, mister Lewis, Yeah, don't be
good to me. I've got a long night.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Ah. This is a beautiful spy who's quartete Chewie Ray.
He's at the piano. I hope you can come back
for pleasure. Come so do I? Hey, what do you
know about this Nora falk Nothing. I've noticed that senor
in the casino. He seems to be the type you
would notice. Did she gamble much? I don't know how much?
And we can find out. Come on, Joe Rosenberg, our
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credit manager, he'll know.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I'm Max.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Mister Dollart, go here looking into this Norah Farkner business.
You want to know how much he gambled?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Sure, I looked to the card after I heard what happened.
She's signed to get a five hundred dollars check cash,
so that's all she got. What do you mean signed
for it, Joe, that's odeal here. You put down what
you think you're gonna need, and that's all you can get,
and don't grow on. Our custom was giving her thank
you for example, keep them in cold sobern Cashi check
for two hundred bucks, then.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Two hours later with a flat and to get belt.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
From the two hundred, gone to come back to me
and say you gotta have another two hundred because you're
gonna break the joy. But you don't get it because
we want you to wake up just hung over, not bankrupt.
And all she had was five hundred. Right, she's been
here three days. She didn't look like she get into
trouble over in a month like that. I guess not,
but she was in trouble. That's the safest bet in
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the place. It began to look as though I was
in the wrong place to find him outive for attempted murders.
I taught you a dealer who remembered her, a bartender,
and a couple of waitresses who linked her with doctor Brooks,
but none of their statements led to anything. And then
a little past midnight, Andrew Forkman his mother arrived. I
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met them just inside the main entrance.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Mister Dollar. I didn't expect to find you here.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
The insurance company wanted me to follow it through. What
has happened, mister Dollar? Your wife will recovering.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Oh, but they told me you have.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Discovered in time and they got her to a hospital.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Oh, I'm so relieved. We haven't been friendly, but when
they called. I can't tell you how shocked I was.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
You've seen her, yes, I've seen her, but you won't
be able to until morning.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
What did she say? How does she explain this?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
She said she hated life and didn't want any more
of it.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
I see, I suppose she mentioned me.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
She didn't mention anybody.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Not even her doctor.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
He was will him?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Yes, I should imagine he would be well. I am relieved.
Scandal and difficult decisions to come, notwithstanding. What is your
room number? Andrew dea prio too, and I'm in one
seventeen in case you need us for anything, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I don't think I will missus. Faulkner, I'll probably see
you in the morning, and I hope you have a
good rest. It was two in the am when I
went to my room. In spite of a number of
Ryan sodas and an exhausting day, I took a shower
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and some deep inhalations of desert air before I began
to unbend. I popped myself up in bed with a
magazine and was almost asleep when my phone rang Johnny Dollar,
the Long Norm of Justice.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Dollar.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh yeah, sure, I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Back at the hospital. There's been more trouble. The Faulkner
girl's been shot shot.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Is she alive?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Not quite half alive? I'd say, they're trying to bring around. Now.
I'll see if we can get a statement. I want
you to come over.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Sure, I'll be right there.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
He's gone. Dollar got all. He was conscious for a
mend or so, she named her husband.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
How didn't happen?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
It wouldn't have if it wasn't for that personal visition
in hers.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
He'd been in the hospital room tonight.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
The light was on.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He went out to get some coffee, he says, and
a husband came in.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well, is doctor brooks Now in her room?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
And you will hear what he has to say. Uh,
Falkner went through the window there getting out.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Bad night, doctor, Yes, bad night. Sheriff would tell her,
I want for him to hear it from you.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
He wants the insurance angle all.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I wants to kill her. Well, he'd threatened to kill
her and said nobody'd suspect him because he loved her,
and she wanted insurance to set up him out of
She hoped to frighten him, to make him think that
people would suspect that he killed her for that. Why
didn't you tell us these things? I didn't know. She
told me the truth after I'd come back from the hotel.
I told her you were sending a headacho to the laboratory.
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She said she didn't wanna press that it wasn't his
fault that his mother had driven him to its it.
She wanted to give him another chance, and he had
that chance. How did he arrange it? I saw him
in the morning in Los Angeles. He'd have to be here,
she said. He was for a short time in the afternoon,
then he flew back. The detective had found out that
I was here with her, and that was mother's work too.
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He evidently arranged the poison when she refused to go
home with him. He was deranged the war casualty. Laura
was terrified of him, but still she defended him. She's
dead because she had a blind hope that the poison
attempt would do something to him. Did he'd get better
and understand what his mother would I'm sorry, Jimmy's.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, you should be done.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
If he'd phoned us when you got her stories, she
wouldn't be dead.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I didn't know, sheriff.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I didn't know he'd come back.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm going back to the hotel.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I've got the airport covered and I'll call out some
more man. We will pick him up. Why don't you
meet me in my office in twenty minutes. This kind
of thing, I'll leave you outside is We haven't had
much experience with this stuff. Did you talk to the mother?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah? I thought her. She admitted a lot of lies.
She wanted to get the girl away from her son,
but couldn't understand how he could have done this. Huh,
how do we find it?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
We sit here and wait. Las Vegas is a bad
place away from There's one highway in and one highway out,
and I've got roadblocks on booth no other roads. There's
some roads, but this is the desert. He can try him,
but he'll find out that roads are like everything else
on the desert. They go so far and then they
get tired and stop because they ain't getting any place.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And we wait for a radio report.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
It might take some time, but it'll come. A lot
of things to fight out here outside of town. Couldn't
get a drink for a thousand dollars, it's so dry.
One old time of the telabout got hit by a
drop of water and I had to pour a bucket
full of sand in his face to bring him to
What time it thirty a m. Even today? That sun's
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gonna be hot enough to fry steake. If he don't
come back, it'll be because he can't make it.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh, come on, stop it with it.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
They tell about a kyote chasing the jack rabbit. Kyote
was starving to death, and the jack rabbit knew it,
but it was so hot they were both walking uresues.
By by noon, miss killer yours will be willing to
crawl into the electric chairt cool off.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I didn't believe him until just afternoon. Then the report
was not by way of radio. We got a phone
call from the railroad section house southwest of town. A
stranger fitting our description had been seen.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Hello, Sheriff, Hi Ben, where is this thing you talk about?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
My kids sneaked up on him. They tell me he
went into a drain culvert under the tracks mile down.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
You want to help?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh? Thanks, They say he's got a gun.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yep, that's it. A couple of men cover the other
side of the tracks. That hurst wash speeds into the culvert.
We will stay next to him.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Bank.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
This is close enough for now. You give him a yell.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
He may remember you from trying. Parkner. This is dollar.
Come on out, Parkner. He's off, it's not Sheriff. I
don't think he's come out. Word.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
You keep healing him. I'm gonna move over there where
I can get a sight of that pipe. Maybe that'll
change his mind.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Parkner, come on out, or a man on each side
of the tracks. There's no place for you to go, Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm all right, come on out of there, Faulkner.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I don't want to blow you out, but if you
don't put on your gun and come out on your own,
I'll have two all right, Okay, boys, stand clare on
the other side of the track of her You don't
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expect an answer, do you share?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yes, not pour Cus.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Who carried his life in church, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Expense account Item five miscellaneous two hundred dollars. Item six
same as Item one, transportation back to Hartford. Expense account
total eleven hundred and twenty dollars and forty cents remarks.
Missus Faulkner collapsed when she received the news. She hadn't
recovered by the time I left, and I was glad,
glad I didn't have to face her again. Her son
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was guilty, in fact, and I'd seen him killed because
of it. That was bad enough, but not as bad,
I thought as watching her start life again alone, and
knowing that the guilt was really her. Yours Truly, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Donner, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar stars Edmund o'brodton the title role,
and is written by Gil Dowd with music by Wilbur Hatch.
Edmond O'Brien's latest picture is the Paramount Pictures production Warpath.
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Featured in tonight's cast were Parley Bear, Jeanette Nolan, Herb Butterfield, Lee, Patrick,
John Dayner, Tim Graham, Virginia, Greg Wilms, Herbert, Victor Parron,
and Clayton post. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is produced and
directed by Jimi do Vaier. This Dan Cobberly and finding
you to join us next week at this time when
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we will can bring you Edmund O'Brien as yours truly,
Johnny Dalla. Are you ready to sing it again? Tonight
You'll find a whole hour full of the day's popular
music sung by Alan Dale, Bob Howard, Judy Linn and
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the Riddlers. The Phantom Voice is a puzzler, but some
CBS listener will win five grand in cash. Now, stay
tuned for Von Monrose Caravan, which follows immediately on most
of these same CBS stations. This is CBS where you
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laugh with the seal Ball and my favorite husband on
Saturday nights. The Columbia Broadcasting Systems
From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
You're Morris, Johnny. You're working on a.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Case find in Kentucky, Yes, but not insurance.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Good will you go out of the West coast for us?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Maybe? What is it? Murder marine faff Darsona, it's something new,
it's nothing yet.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Our manager in Los Angeles phones this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Woman out there wants to buy a two hundred thousand
dollars policy on her life.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, oh, it's not that we don't.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Want the business, but the sales asian doesn't want to
take the responsibility of a.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Deal out size. He thinks she's holding something back. We've
decided to investigate.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How old is she? I don't know why I thought
I'd ask as one kind of woman to investigate, you know.
And then there's another. When do you want me to leave?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Edmund O'Brien and another adventure of a man with the
action packed expense of car America's populous freelance insurance Investigate.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Her, yours truly, Johnny Dollars Expense accounts submitted by special
investigator Johnny Dollar to home office Great Eastern Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.
The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
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of the Nora Faulkner matter. Expense account item won two
hundred and twenty dollars airfare and incidentals between Hartford and
the Great East Building Miracle Mile Wiltshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
The only apparent miracle was the fact that pedestrians crossed
Wiltshire constantly without getting killed.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Now, mister dollars, sorry to keep.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You breaking, mister teller, that's all right.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
See no.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Thanks two hundred thousand to go to her husband. I'd
had start, mister Snyder.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
She phoned one of our salesmen, followed by the name
of Neton. He went out to her house the address
he's there and shold him what she wanted. He says
he was counting his commission at first, but after he
filled out the application he began to wonder.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
About one pers.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
She told him she planned on paying six months premiums
and wanted to know how soon the policy would be
an effect acted on Netl.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
As he put it, I think we ought to find
out about her.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I don't like this kind of thing. It's a blind search.
I don't even know what I'm looking for but I'll
start on it in the morning and i'll let you
know how I come out. Expenser can item two three
dollars cab fare. The usual way to start an investigation
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of this type is with the subject's neighbors. From the
male faction, I learned that Norah Faulkner was beautiful and
obviously above reproach. The female faction reversed that decision and
reported that she lived with her husband and his mother,
but hadn't been seen for the past few days. Realizing
that mothers in law are fair sources of information, I
put her next on my list. Missus Faulkner, the elder
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sported short iron gray hair, and her face told the
story of an endless battle to hang on to.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
You. Come into the drawer. I knew, mister Dollar. I
think we can be comfortable there.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I've closed the doors. See by the way, that name
resigning you that she's an incurable prior.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I didn't know this.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
She's impossible. Well, what did you find out? Who's she
seeing in Las Vegas? I beg your pardon, Nora, what
did you learn? I'm her mother in law?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh? Yes, I know that, but maybe you have me
confused with someone else.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
You want the detective. The maid denounced you as an investigator.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm an insurance investigator, missus Falkman.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Well then you're not from that agency. Well this is embarrassing,
say the least. I hope you won't mention it to anyone.
It's none of my business, literally nothing. It's a little
game I play with Nora. Then I tease her about
her little trips.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Please it down, mister Dollar.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Of course, I feel so foolish. But my daughter in
law was mentioned when you came in, wasn't she.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, I did want to talk to you about her.
I'd be quite honest. The company that hired me is
a little uneasy about that two hundred thousand dollars life
insurance policy she.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Applied for Norah died.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, you didn't know about her?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
No, I didn't. Of course. She never tells me anything.
Why would she do a thing like that. She's a
clever woman. There must be a reason. Who's the beneficiary,
mister Dollar, Your son, Andrew, I see, then I would
say it's one of her unexplainable maneuvers, an attempt to
regain Andrew's trust and affection.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's a hard thing.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Norah's a strange woman. I Noah better than anyone else,
does yes, better by far than my son, her husband.
I unerstand how she rushed him into marriage while he
was in a highly emotional state. I've had been inducted
into the army. He was just nineteen. That was in
nineteen forty two. I know the gay life she led
while he was living in Foxfow's overseas, and while he
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was convalescing here after the war.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Missus Faulkner, I realized that all these things seem very
important to you. But mother, I oh, I'm sorry. I
didn't know you had company.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Come along, Andrew. You were told that I had company,
and you know it. This is mister Doller, Andrew from
an insurance company.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
How do you do, mister Faulkner.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Andrew, why do you keep things from me? How do
you mean mister Doller is from an insurance company. Surely
you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, I don't.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Nora's new insurance policy.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Why don't you explain what you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Mother?
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Norah applied for a two hundred thousand dollar life insurance policy.
You ought to be the beneficiary, didn't she tell you?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
She hasn't said anything about it.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Yet, of course she hasn't. There are a number of
things she hasn't told you. I warned you before, mother.
Don't be angry with me, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And please leave and you wish.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Andrew, you know that everything I do is or say
is for you. Leave all right, Please control your temper.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm sorry about this, mister fulkon saw My. Is it
true about the policy?
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Well, the application is. I don't understand it. I don't
understand Nora. I never know what she's thinking. I blame
it on mother, her prying and suspicion. I blame it
on that star woman who Nora doesn't think for herself anymore.
She doesn't do anything or go any place unless this
dame tells her to. Who's this oh spook psychic madame Star.
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That's where this insurance idea came from. For a price,
she'll tell you if Nora is a good.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Risk or not. Where can I find it out?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Toward Inglewood someplace she runs a classified ad in all
the evening papers.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Thanks. I sorry, of course you the I really am.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Oh, it's not your fault. Whose fault is? Maybe everybody's.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It was obvious after meeting Andrew Faukner and his mother
that the application for the policy wasn't the only unusual
element in the matter. But on instruction from the company's
Los Angeles manager, I continued my investigation. Expense count item
three four fifty transportation to the address of Madame Starr,
a one story frame house with heavily draped windows and
a sign outside that advertised advice.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Good afternoon, Sir Adam Stein.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
That is right, I come in.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
All are welcome here.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
This can't be classed as one of your regular consultations,
but I'll pay you for the a time.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
That is generous.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Are you what do you wish?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'd like to know why Nora Faulkner was so anxious
to buy a big policy on her life.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
What do you mean? You don't know?
Speaker 9 (08:09):
I claim no powers as me and I'm not psychic.
I only offer advice some of those who listen our health.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
What advice do you want?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I told you Nora Falkner's been coming here.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
She has She's.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
In great need of advice, more intelligent advice than I
could give, perhaps, But I try to help her.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
By telling her to buy insurance.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Nor a Falkner's life business.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Few years has been lived under severe mental strain.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
I advised a search for inner truth, among other things.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, what about the insurance policy?
Speaker 9 (08:47):
A mental torment resulted in physical feelings, I advised tonics.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Why are you evading the insurance?
Speaker 9 (08:56):
She wanted a more tangible protection of her life protection?
He felt it in days.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Why I have said enough?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
She's in Las Vegas. I understand where she's staying.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
You go there.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I don't seem to be able to get anything but
double talk.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Everybody has reason for caution.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
There is Flamingo Hotel.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
She is there. How much you nothing?
Speaker 9 (09:21):
I've given you no advice what I would advise?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
I have no right to say good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I suppose you have to be mysterious.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Expense account Item four four point fifty return trip to
my hotel, Item five three seventy cap fed on and
airport and burbank, and item six nineteen dollars or ninety
cents round trip to Las Vegas by way of Western
Airlines excursion coach. My seat made turned out to be
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not only a tourist consultant, but a whip your first
trip to Las Vegas. No, I've spent a little time there.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Great town, greatest reasons they've ever seen you?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Like the fish.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, I used to don't have much time for it.
Now I always gonna start again.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Hm, let's start on lake me believe me right.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
They got fast in that lake.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And look, the last time I was there, two of
us went out.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I'd broken my rod. It's nothing but a stump, but
I put a paper clip on the end.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
And d what is your name?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Eh oh Esmond Harry es Than you do, Johnny Dallas.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Teller?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, I know what's coming name like that place, like
Las Vegas.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
You might be going in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Brother, Sometimes I wonder. Except for mister Harry Eskman, it
was a smooth trip. We eased onto the big desert
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strip bordered waiting limousines, and ten minutes later I walked
into the lobby of the Flamingo Hotel.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Mister Don Ditson, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
My name is Dollar. I have a reservation. I'll just
mostly Hey, yes, sir, have you signed the register? You
have a missus Andrew Falkner staying here or Laura Falkman,
Larah Falkler caref Wood. What's your trouble, son? It's a
Dollar just registered. He asked for Nara Falknon.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Oh he did.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Huh. Well, I'll tell you, mister Dollar. You may want
to talk to her, but she don't want to talk
to you or anybody else. She can't.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
What's the matter.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
She must have had her dinner outside the main dining room.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
She's in the hospital.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
She's been poeted.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We'll return you to the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar, in just a moment. But first, the show
that dares to name names, dates, places, and the crimes
involved that Gangbusters, which you hear every Saturday night at
most of these same stations. Gangbusters has been hailed nationwide
as a great anti crime series for the men who
tell you how to smash crime are police chiefs, sheriffs,
(12:29):
and other law enforcement officers from America's cities and towns.
Each Saturday, Gangbusters brings you a new case taken from
police files, showing you how a criminal was brought to justice.
Often the police officer who headed the chase narrates the story.
Be listening for Gangbusters this evening and every Saturday evening
on CBS the Star's Address. Now with our star Edmund O'Brien,
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we return you to the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
After a look at my card under an exclamation of
my mission, Deputy Sheriff would told me the rest of
what he knew about missus Norah Faulkner's poisoning, which today
wasn't much. There was no proof of how she'd gotten
the poisoned dose, and the last time he'd seen her
she'd been too ill to talk. She was under her
care of a personal physician who had accompanied her from
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Los Angeles. By the time he had finished, we were
at the emergency hospital and approaching her room.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I went through the usual rigmarole of notifying next to
Kim her husband wasn't in, but somebody said she was
his mother, and then fainted on the phone. She would
I expect you to be flying in here on her
own wings any minute, now.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Oh, Sheriff, This man's an insurance investigator, Duct Brooks, meet
mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Hello, an insurance investiget that I'm afraid I don't understand.
And I was looking into an insurance policy she wanted
to buy. Oh, I see, I wish I m resting
as comfortably as gonna be expected? Has she said? Anything
about the poisoning. Yes, but i'd rather you heard it
from her, won't You can be thanks? After you charge?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Sure, I'll take along, make it look official, and learn
how you city boys operating?
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Where is it?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Peter?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
These men want to talk to you, Nora. I want
you to tell them exactly what you told me, Mum.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I didn't wanna talk about it in the more, Please Nora, alright.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
I couldn't stand it any longer.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
I didn't wanna go on.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I wanted to die. You took the poison, missus Walkman.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Yes, not because I'm a coward.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Cause there's nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
About life that I don't hate. I don't want any more.
Where is the poison? I destroyed it, destroyed it? Why
should you do that?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
How can you expect me to know?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Why did little Queen's this time like that? I don't know,
Peter Place, I don't wanna talk anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You don't want to tuck anymore. I think we'd better
let her rise. I'm not sure how story rings true.
How hardly know her doctor quite well, mister Dollar. She's
been my patient for over two years. Her life's been
very unhappy. You find it hard to believe that the
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poison was self administered, Yes, I do. Why would she
lie to protect someone who attempted to kill her? I
don't know, but suicides don't do things like destroyed poison.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Or take it.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
And they no room services on the way after the
room of the meal. That's a downright waste everybody's time.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
The waiter did find her, didn't he? I hadn't thought it?
Good lord?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
What the vitamin tonic she was taking?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
The dose included one before evening meal tablet warmer.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Is a liquid liquid hadicle and the poison could have
gotten no that way. Where is it back at the
hotel in her room? Do you want it all? I
think it should be analyzed.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I can get it up with the lab in Carson
City tonight by plane.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
All right, I'll show it to you. I think she
kept it in the medicine cabinet.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'll lick.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yeah, here, what happened, clumsy fool? Sorry, I dropped the bottle.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
The wash Basin's a bad place to drop evidence, doctor sheriff.
Can we save enough of this stuff? Just go and
get out down the drain.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Don't need much. I can scoop some up with my knife.
I'll find something to put it in.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
An apron box? Would do here, I'll hold it. Watch
that broken glass. I'm sorry, gentlemen. If the haticle does
contain the poison, imaginecy position won't be bettered. But it
was an accident.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Neither the sheriff nor I reacted to that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We retrieved enough of the liquid the tests and went
back to the two men were waiting for us near
the desk.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'll be stocking up.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
He well, got a real civilized mystery on our hands.
Ned mister Dollar, matt Uist and Ned Gilbert. These boys
help run the place when it isn't running in.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What happened to missus Faulkner Dollar? She says she tried
to kill usself, but the signs make it look like
somebody might have slipped the stuff to her. Don't you
be all right? Well it seems to be. Will send
her flowers in the morning. It's reminders.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, I'll go get this ten evidence on a plane. Dollar,
see you in the morning.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Fine, Sharon, if the boys here, we'll take care of you.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
If you aren't careful, that is, I'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You pay for breakfast tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Did you, Killa.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Please give I'll get that phone call for agents taking
a nap. Give dollar of it, any boy, that's a
dollar and the place is yours. I want to start
with a drink. That's the best suggestion today. Come on,
there's a bartom of your room. It's a good crowd.
It's only ten. I won't really pile in until later.
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Sit down, I soon stand thanks. I'm beat, I'm worrying.
Mister Lewis, find Jim make mine double? Will you not
much soda? Usual for you, mister Lewis, Yeah, don't be
good to me. I've got a long night.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Ah. This is a beautiful spy who's quartete Chewie Ray.
He's at the piano. I hope you can come back
for pleasure. Come so do I? Hey, what do you
know about this Nora falk Nothing. I've noticed that senor
in the casino. He seems to be the type you
would notice. Did she gamble much? I don't know how much?
And we can find out. Come on, Joe Rosenberg, our
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credit manager, he'll know.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I'm Max.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Mister Dollart, go here looking into this Norah Farkner business.
You want to know how much he gambled?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Sure, I looked to the card after I heard what happened.
She's signed to get a five hundred dollars check cash,
so that's all she got. What do you mean signed
for it, Joe, that's odeal here. You put down what
you think you're gonna need, and that's all you can get,
and don't grow on. Our custom was giving her thank
you for example, keep them in cold sobern Cashi check
for two hundred bucks, then.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Two hours later with a flat and to get belt.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
From the two hundred, gone to come back to me
and say you gotta have another two hundred because you're
gonna break the joy. But you don't get it because
we want you to wake up just hung over, not bankrupt.
And all she had was five hundred. Right, she's been
here three days. She didn't look like she get into
trouble over in a month like that. I guess not,
but she was in trouble. That's the safest bet in
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the place. It began to look as though I was
in the wrong place to find him outive for attempted murders.
I taught you a dealer who remembered her, a bartender,
and a couple of waitresses who linked her with doctor Brooks,
but none of their statements led to anything. And then
a little past midnight, Andrew Forkman his mother arrived. I
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met them just inside the main entrance.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Mister Dollar. I didn't expect to find you here.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
The insurance company wanted me to follow it through. What
has happened, mister Dollar? Your wife will recovering.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Oh, but they told me you have.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Discovered in time and they got her to a hospital.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Oh, I'm so relieved. We haven't been friendly, but when
they called. I can't tell you how shocked I was.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
You've seen her, yes, I've seen her, but you won't
be able to until morning.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
What did she say? How does she explain this?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
She said she hated life and didn't want any more
of it.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
I see, I suppose she mentioned me.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
She didn't mention anybody.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Not even her doctor.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
He was will him?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Yes, I should imagine he would be well. I am relieved.
Scandal and difficult decisions to come, notwithstanding. What is your
room number? Andrew dea prio too, and I'm in one
seventeen in case you need us for anything, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I don't think I will missus. Faulkner, I'll probably see
you in the morning, and I hope you have a
good rest. It was two in the am when I
went to my room. In spite of a number of
Ryan sodas and an exhausting day, I took a shower
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and some deep inhalations of desert air before I began
to unbend. I popped myself up in bed with a
magazine and was almost asleep when my phone rang Johnny Dollar,
the Long Norm of Justice.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Dollar.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh yeah, sure, I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Back at the hospital. There's been more trouble. The Faulkner
girl's been shot shot.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Is she alive?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Not quite half alive? I'd say, they're trying to bring around. Now.
I'll see if we can get a statement. I want
you to come over.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Sure, I'll be right there.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
He's gone. Dollar got all. He was conscious for a
mend or so, she named her husband.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
How didn't happen?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
It wouldn't have if it wasn't for that personal visition
in hers.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
He'd been in the hospital room tonight.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
The light was on.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He went out to get some coffee, he says, and
a husband came in.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well, is doctor brooks Now in her room?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
And you will hear what he has to say. Uh,
Falkner went through the window there getting out.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Bad night, doctor, Yes, bad night. Sheriff would tell her,
I want for him to hear it from you.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
He wants the insurance angle all.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I wants to kill her. Well, he'd threatened to kill
her and said nobody'd suspect him because he loved her,
and she wanted insurance to set up him out of
She hoped to frighten him, to make him think that
people would suspect that he killed her for that. Why
didn't you tell us these things? I didn't know. She
told me the truth after I'd come back from the hotel.
I told her you were sending a headacho to the laboratory.
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She said she didn't wanna press that it wasn't his
fault that his mother had driven him to its it.
She wanted to give him another chance, and he had
that chance. How did he arrange it? I saw him
in the morning in Los Angeles. He'd have to be here,
she said. He was for a short time in the afternoon,
then he flew back. The detective had found out that
I was here with her, and that was mother's work too.
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He evidently arranged the poison when she refused to go
home with him. He was deranged the war casualty. Laura
was terrified of him, but still she defended him. She's
dead because she had a blind hope that the poison
attempt would do something to him. Did he'd get better
and understand what his mother would I'm sorry, Jimmy's.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, you should be done.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
If he'd phoned us when you got her stories, she
wouldn't be dead.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I didn't know, sheriff.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I didn't know he'd come back.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I'm going back to the hotel.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I've got the airport covered and I'll call out some
more man. We will pick him up. Why don't you
meet me in my office in twenty minutes. This kind
of thing, I'll leave you outside is We haven't had
much experience with this stuff. Did you talk to the mother?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Yeah? I thought her. She admitted a lot of lies.
She wanted to get the girl away from her son,
but couldn't understand how he could have done this. Huh,
how do we find it?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
We sit here and wait. Las Vegas is a bad
place away from There's one highway in and one highway out,
and I've got roadblocks on booth no other roads. There's
some roads, but this is the desert. He can try him,
but he'll find out that roads are like everything else
on the desert. They go so far and then they
get tired and stop because they ain't getting any place.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And we wait for a radio report.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
It might take some time, but it'll come. A lot
of things to fight out here outside of town. Couldn't
get a drink for a thousand dollars, it's so dry.
One old time of the telabout got hit by a
drop of water and I had to pour a bucket
full of sand in his face to bring him to
What time it thirty a m. Even today? That sun's
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gonna be hot enough to fry steake. If he don't
come back, it'll be because he can't make it.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh, come on, stop it with it.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
They tell about a kyote chasing the jack rabbit. Kyote
was starving to death, and the jack rabbit knew it,
but it was so hot they were both walking uresues.
By by noon, miss killer yours will be willing to
crawl into the electric chairt cool off.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I didn't believe him until just afternoon. Then the report
was not by way of radio. We got a phone
call from the railroad section house southwest of town. A
stranger fitting our description had been seen.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Hello, Sheriff, Hi Ben, where is this thing you talk about?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
My kids sneaked up on him. They tell me he
went into a drain culvert under the tracks mile down.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
You want to help?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Oh? Thanks, They say he's got a gun.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yep, that's it. A couple of men cover the other
side of the tracks. That hurst wash speeds into the culvert.
We will stay next to him.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Bank.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
This is close enough for now. You give him a yell.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
He may remember you from trying. Parkner. This is dollar.
Come on out, Parkner. He's off, it's not Sheriff. I
don't think he's come out. Word.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
You keep healing him. I'm gonna move over there where
I can get a sight of that pipe. Maybe that'll
change his mind.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Parkner, come on out, or a man on each side
of the tracks. There's no place for you to go, Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm all right, come on out of there, Faulkner.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I don't want to blow you out, but if you
don't put on your gun and come out on your own,
I'll have two all right, Okay, boys, stand clare on
the other side of the track of her You don't
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expect an answer, do you share?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yes, not pour Cus.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Who carried his life in church, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Expense account Item five miscellaneous two hundred dollars. Item six
same as Item one, transportation back to Hartford. Expense account
total eleven hundred and twenty dollars and forty cents remarks.
Missus Faulkner collapsed when she received the news. She hadn't
recovered by the time I left, and I was glad,
glad I didn't have to face her again. Her son
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was guilty, in fact, and I'd seen him killed because
of it. That was bad enough, but not as bad,
I thought as watching her start life again alone, and
knowing that the guilt was really her. Yours Truly, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Donner, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar stars Edmund o'brodton the title role,
and is written by Gil Dowd with music by Wilbur Hatch.
Edmond O'Brien's latest picture is the Paramount Pictures production Warpath.
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Featured in tonight's cast were Parley Bear, Jeanette Nolan, Herb Butterfield, Lee, Patrick,
John Dayner, Tim Graham, Virginia, Greg Wilms, Herbert, Victor Parron,
and Clayton post. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is produced and
directed by Jimi do Vaier. This Dan Cobberly and finding
you to join us next week at this time when
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we will can bring you Edmund O'Brien as yours truly,
Johnny Dalla. Are you ready to sing it again? Tonight
You'll find a whole hour full of the day's popular
music sung by Alan Dale, Bob Howard, Judy Linn and
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the Riddlers. The Phantom Voice is a puzzler, but some
CBS listener will win five grand in cash. Now, stay
tuned for Von Monrose Caravan, which follows immediately on most
of these same CBS stations. This is CBS where you
(29:49):
laugh with the seal Ball and my favorite husband on
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