July 31, 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 (00:01):
Everybody knows a taxi driver likes being over tipped, but
you can't blame him for not liking being tipped over.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And this is another in the adventures of America's fabulous
freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. That insurance investigation, he's only
an expert.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
At making out his expense account. He is an absolute genius.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Expense account Submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to home
office the Nutmeg State Liability under Writers, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of my expenditures during my investigation
of the disappearance in twelve Apex cabs or hotook the
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taxis for a ride. Spencer counts item one three dollars
and ten cents train fair Hartford to New York.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Item two a tent dinner en route, Item.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Three eighteen dollars club car Spencer count at them four
a dollar thirty cab there from stations to garage and
offices of Apex Taxi Company. I naturally waited for an
Apex cab, but could have saved my time. The drivers
told me nothing except that the man who came rushing
out of the Apex office.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
When we pulled up was the big boss, mister Gordon McKissick.
Thanks driver, he's just the man I'm looking for here.
Thank you, sir, heymkissick, see me tomorrow. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute. Wait there, I'm Johnny Dollar from the
insurance company. Oh oh good, that's different.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Just the time.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Come along where we're going? Come on?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Tell you in the car. Just had a call from
the police. Another one of my cabs had been stolen.
They found the driver slugged and unconscious. And I got
to get out there.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I tell you do.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm going crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
This is gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's not only driving me out of business, has drive
me out of my mind.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
The police have done their best in the Lord knows
I have too, but I'm about ready to give up.
This makes twelve my taxi cabins disappeared off the face
of the earth.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I call the hold it. McKissick. Do us both a favor.
Will you play cucumber for a few seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Remember the insurance company I represent has plenty to scream about.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Two. What I need is some facts.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I haven't got any facts, and if this keeps home,
I won't have any taxis.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
They're gone. That's all twelve of them. That's all the
risk to it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Any idea of a motive, some new kind of car theft,
that's what the cops say.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Okay, what's your idea robbing the drivers? Don't have to
steal a cab, the rob a driver. It's ridiculous, all right?
Then what else could it be? Competition? Sabotage? That's my guess.
Competition So far only you gets. I'd give anything to know.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So the insurance company anything, they'd even give up my
happy young life. This is it thirteenth in the East River,
and there's the crowd, human of these strongest maget.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
But please, I'm a officer.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
A fuck, here's my idea. This man is my KISSI
the victim's boss. How about getting against through that crowd?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well? All right, but I don't know the right side
of his face.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Don't feel much like talking.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's cave Dennis Panta fight. Now, come on, come on,
let's plan.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
If I can't here, let alone the heart man.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Yeah, okay, it's the dollar here I am.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Are you're right? Is this one of your man m chissics?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, George Brandon been with me four years?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh sure, Brandon Brandon listening? Who did it? Do you
know who did it? Try hard? Never from before? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Brandon only one? Oh what did he look like? Come on? Boy?
Her rule? Guy who talk funny? He talked funny? How Brandon?
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How an accent?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
He?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Now that's it. We've a way for the ambulance.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The ambulance. The ambulance turns out to be the wrong
kind of a wagon. Spends accounts item five twenty.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Eight dollars transportation.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The following day, visiting hospitals and the homes of the
other eleven Apex drivers who had lost their calves. During
the course of this I contracted a severe case of
what Gis used to refer to as jeep seat. Out
of eleven interviews, I got three clues. One that up
until last night's killing, the cab nappers had worked as
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a team. The little dark guy with an accent as
described by the dead driver Brandon, and a three hundred.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Pound accomplice wearing.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
A searsucker suit, a panama hat, and a complexion akin
to a perspiring blob of leaf lawed. This heavier of
the two heavies, it seemed, never actively participated in any
of the rough stuff, merely assuming the role of director
of operations. Clue number two that in each instance the
driver's uniform camp was also stolen, which indicated to me
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merely that the getaway driver was very much interested in
looking like a cab driver.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Had Finally, clue number three from the.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Most disgruntled of a driver's interviewed the fact that the
fleet owner of a Kissick had spent three years bootlegging,
another four book making, and it had spent some very
short vacations getting away from it all in prison, which
naturally led me back to me chissics, aphex garage and office.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Come in, Oh, Dollar, Well what have you found out?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, I'll tell you my Kissick go far. I have
just hit the ABC's. Later on, i'll get to the X,
y Z S.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Look, Dollar, I'm getting fed up with double talk.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
What I want to talk about is a double life yours.
I once broke a leg jumping to a conclusion. So
don't get me wrong, that's not what I'm doing. But
a less experienced investigator might immediately assume that a man
like you, an ex legger, ex bookmaker, ex jail bird,
just might be stealing his own cabs for the insurance money.
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Don't get that way, or I might also get the
idea that you have a killer instinct.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
My record's my own business. It was okay with the
hack burer. It was okay when that company told me
the insurance.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So it'll have to be okay with you because you're
stuck with it. Nobody's calling you guilty. Ok okay.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
All I'm telling you is this. I want your calves
off the street until this thing is cleared up.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
That's big park, little man.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
When the day shift comes in at four thirty, tell
them the park.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
There are calves in the garage, and you can sell
you dispatch of the night shift.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Isn't working time.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Bad enough to have my competition running me out of business?
Now the little helper from the insurance company shows up
to finish the job.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I'm not trying to put you out of business. I'm
trying to keep you in. Well, it don't sound like it.
No cooperation from you, no insurance.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'll have a cancel as fast as I can get
to a phone.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Okay, dollar, I can't do anything about it, but if
I were you, I wouldn't be caught hanging around here
by any one of those drivers.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You're putting out of work.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Some of them play rough.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You can always depict on a cab driver for being
on time and when it's time to knock off work.
By five o'clock, the garage was full of taxis and
carbon monoxide fumes. It was devoid of humanity, and a
night watchman i'd met before stood guard outside the lock gate.
At six o'clock, a visitor.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Dropped in on him, followed almost immediately by me.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
It's so important that.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I find it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Contains everything I have in the world. Are all my money?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh missus dog?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Well, the young lady claimed she lost.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
My first tenures. I hired one of your texicat this
afternoon and left my person. It's so important that I get.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It, hey, I told her to call lost and pound
in the marts.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Then you're what will I do tonight?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Why we're trying to figure that out? Did you join
me a drink? I would like that.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Her name was Marita Guastella. She was a dog type,
so I took her around the corner to with Dog Saloon.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
On the way in, we.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Passed four grumbling Aphex cab drivers shooting hot looks at
me over cold beers.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I arranged her in a booth so I could keep
an eye.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
On them in case their intentions were out good, and
an ear on her story, which I knew was.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Nice where stript to America I came from staying two
weeks ago. This afternoon I was shopping on Keep five
on You and Studies when I took the care from
forty ninth Street to the share in Netherlands.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Say, uh huh, forty nine Cherry, Netherlands. What time you
take the cab?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Well, I'm sure exactly it would help. Oh it was.
It was exactly ten minutes after four. I remember now
I looked.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
At a clock, and what times you arrive at the hotel? Marna?
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Why are you writing all this down?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
He's trying to help you find you first, but I do.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Not want to put you to any trouble. I am
perfectly willing to search to the Texas myself.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Honey.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The city of New York has gone to a lot
of trouble to save you that trouble. Every driver has
to keep a record of every trip, where he picks
up his passengers, where he drops them, and when.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
He puts it on a big card.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So all we have to do is find out which
card has your trip listed on.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Then we'll know which cab. Then we'll go to the
little cab and probably find your little purse.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
All right, Oh, it is very good of your scenary
if you would not mind the trouble.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Sometimes bothering this kind of trouble eliminates my employer's troubles.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'm on with a martini.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Spencer counts item six four dollars bar tap tip to
waiter one dollar. And here's a tip to young ladies
who were pretending they just came from Spain two weeks ago.
Don't want to burnt bath martinis and put them away
in one gulf. The drinking taste of Spanish ladies is
more the sherry type, and martinis are hard enough to
get used to in two years, let alone two weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh, who knows. Maybe she was just in a hurry
to get to the Spanish dollars. One thing was fairly apparent, though.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
She seemed to be in a hurry to get something
out of one of those cabs, and not by way
of the lost and Found department. The least I gotta
do vote as a gentleman, and the insurance investigator was
to accept her phony sounding story and take her back
to the garage. I am an I'm the sometimes singer
rider around the block, asking the time in a conversation
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not exactly based on my mother's favorite recipe for compile.
As we passed the office portion of the Apex Cab building,
I gave up looking into her eyes and saw something
that was.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Open even wider the garage gate. What is he the
watchmhen he's gone.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Perhaps he just stepped side.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Look at the stains on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Bridewain, bridewell, who's bridewell?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Who's bridewell?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Let me go, please, John, you're leading way up.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Mariita had twisted away and was high tailing it up
the street. I went, stamping up the ramp in the
direction of the source of the scream. On the way up,
I hit the light switch and this racket even big
boy should be afraid of the dock the first portal.
I slowed my run into a pussy foot pace and
edged around the corner, sliding my back along the dispatcher's counter.
When I got half way down, the corner of my
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right eye picked off a pair of high black shoes
night watchman type heels on the floor. Toes pointed out
sticking out from behind the end of the counter. I
didn't have time to get a look at the rest
of them. Something so round, so firm, and so fully loaded,
gave me a cold steel chiss under the left ear.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Pay to yourself the favors the remaining axiously steers. Now
now you meet turn around.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But let's be mister Brian. Well, what about the night watchman.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
There have no fears for him. I unfortunately accomplished in
the administration of fir state, but a good deed to practice.
I see to it that he's resting comfortably.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Our best.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Well, victor, my boy, I trust your search was.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Successful and somebody feat us to up well in cabs.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
It's been such nonsense, my boy, How can you tell
them so short a time?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
How about taking a look for yourself?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
That boy, you couldn't possibly have picked over all of them,
so see you was searching quickly the meantime, that's our
friend here is the proprietor of the search that we
seated up.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
In this case, practically anything could happen.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yees, anything could knowing that should encourage you to mind
your minutes. Oh sir, will you come to me to
my hotel where we can discuss this let up.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
With you holding that thirty eight caliber steel engraved invitation
in your hand.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I'd be a prisonly cad to refuse and us the moment.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
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Speaker 3 (13:57):
Now it's our star.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Charles Russell were at We're into the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And tonight's story. Who took the taxis for a.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Ride looking for some so unsaxy cabs and wound up
in a hotel room looking stupid? Not wishing to make
this a permentive effect, I put my mind to work,
and the fruits of its labor went something like this.
Whoever had been stealing those caves? And I figured I
was face to face in.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
One of them?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Now had not been stealing the apex rolling stock for
the caves themselves, but for something evidently hidden in mom
and here on end there was only one way to
play it by ear, and was easy because the pasty
faced three hundred pounds had draped in a double breasted
seersucker tent, was doing all the talking.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Nineteen twelve, when I was experiment from Oxford University, as
a results of unfortunate association with an unscrupulous fuck it,
I arrived at this decision, sir. It's sometimes not profitable
to be on the apparently right side.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I make myself Claire Well in a roundabout way. Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Then I am thus fully acquainted with my position in
regard to this matter of the scarlet Madonna. But you
what do you stand?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I'm running a one man escort service for Mariita Gastella.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Marika, so lovely but unwise. Marita has taken unto herself
an accomplished issue. Well, as long as you are allied
with her, you and I must be across publicist.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I'm hoping to suggestion, God, the.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Girl is nothing more than a penniless adventures a common thief.
But I so may be able to tempt your pensant
loyalties with some very fetching curve.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Victor all right, knocked it out of that night watchman
when it came too There's only one kind of arrive.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Besides, this is him that's gotta work.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, Victor, this is not the type of violence. The
gentlemen and I are about to discuss terms of mutual profit. Oh,
you were discussing.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I was working.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I find that I can be concise when the situation
demands that I v So we start with a figure
saying five thousand dollars. I'm not a vector. You can't
remember that I deprovib a young man. What do you say?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Nuts to your five thousands?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Heaven's man, you locked your mind? What do you think
the scarlet Madonna is worth to?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well, so far it's been worth one man's life twelve
taxi cabs and he used car lot that costs to
more than five thousand dollars five hundred.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
There keep coming.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I'll say here. Now, there's not only a limit to
my generosity, there's a limit to my patience. How else
do you expect to realize.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
That there is a promt I haven't made up my mind.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I can help you. Here are the problems you face.
The Scott Madonna is no ordinary gem to be disposed
of through the ordinary channels. You say the faintest notion
the importance of the girl.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I've got a hunch I can retire for life, on
very short life.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
It might be pity if your blood were mixed with
that already shed through the centuries over the scarlet mat dinner.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I don't waste time with that story tax stuff we
haven't got all week.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
My purpose in this repetitious recitation is ratified. The bloody history,
may convince our friend the no One. Since the year
twelve one hundred and fifty six, we've been able to share,
for any peaceable length of time the company of the Scaramanda.
So that was the year it was fashioned. One of
the investments of John ofvy' sense Lorst. Twenty of that year,
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he was ordered by Alexander the Fourth, who hastened the
province of Tuscany to aid in the routing of the heritage. There,
John was murdered and robbed of this jeur, and since
that date it has never ceased its bloody journey through
history England, France and Spain.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
The Pirate.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Thank you, Vin, or your helpful interest indeed it is too.
During one of its bloodier experiences, it was woven into
the beards of and Alsatian pirates, from which it fell
when its head tumbled into the BASKETA gis.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That one told me?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You see, miss, I'm trying not so, but Brian, well,
this rock is so hot. How come your like to
rescue your pudgy little neck for it?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Victor here and I are only the temporary middlemen for
this infamous deb You aren't yet, and I do understand
that you refuse.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, I must say, you'd tell a very good story,
but the answer is still nothing doing.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
I told your fat stuff waiting style or that's enough,
you know, get up, come, he said, your the roof office, jock.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That won't be necessary. Now put your hands up, please, No, Victor,
the poee pockets, not that anyone would be foolish enough
to carry these, scarlet Madonna.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Check your teeth out.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Don't try it? Hey, all right, you know what the
gun here? I know, Victor.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
One gun is enough that you must be from the
company and showing the run.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Oh no, Victor, I am thoroughly familiar with the policies.
Was called Madonna, what's the gentleman's.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Name Johnny, had dollars from Hot for Connecticut and.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right now thinking there's no place like home, I'm leaving. No,
I'm not a life You wait. We can't let him
out here.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
He's hot for. It's down your weapon, Victor. He's been
troubling enough. Now you don't.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh, yes, I do. Back off. Buster must have let
him good way or whatever he goes. He fought for
the lives he did come on valuable. The elevators went
fast enough.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I hit every four step down eight flights of stairs
to the lobby, out into the street.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
John Marita saves me. Looking for you. You just tag
right along taxi after you, lady of strain.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Oh my, poor Johney, What did they do to you?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
A gentleman named Victor hung a right hand on me,
complete with signet rings.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Oh never mind that hanky. I'm not the mood to
be dead that.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
I'm so sorry, Johnny. What did they tell you?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Oh? No, you don't. First I want to hear what
you have to tell me. Then we'll compare a story.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
There's not much to tell this scull at. My daughter
is rightfully illegally mine. My only crime was to bring
it into this country illegally for customs and it's bridewell
and that horrible victory on the ship. And when I
got to New York, I realized that they were following me.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I was terrified.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I was in a taxicabin. They followed me in another.
It forced us to a curb, and I hid the
jewel in the app strip a taxi can. I jumped
down and flip from my life. Oh I remember it
was an apex cad. I've been trying to.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Find the accept one I ever seen, so apparently are
they how they find out?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
They run after me that night, searched me and all
of my belongings, and then when I started my search,
they realized what.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
I was doing.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Looks like anybody can catch the brass ring on this
merry go round.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Z Johnny, tell me that you will help me to
recover the doorknos love gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
All I'm trying to catch up with is a dozen
stolen taxi cabs.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
You're not just going to leave me blood with that
figure impossible.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I took Marina to a small hotel, got her a room,
and while she was taking a bath, I stole her
clothes and left her boxed in that strongest of midtown
prisons nudity. The first joker I went looking for back
at the Apex garage was the unfortunate night watch. I
found him sitting up and taking nourishments out of a
bottle and nursing an egg on his head that would
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have hatched an ostrich.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Oh it's you, mister Dodgson. Yeah, I tell you, I've
been worried about you. Yeah, Thank Heavens, you're all right. No,
thanks to you, William Menser.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I mean, why did you tell that sort off ape
who slugged you around that I searched these cabs in
your last night?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Why I didn't mention you, sir? I tell him it
was a boss mccusick. Huh yeah, chissick. Where's he now?
You know he just came by. I believe he's next
door in his office. Thanks, Yeah, kiss it. This case
is developing.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
More suspects and the garlic breath and a crowded elevator.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
A level ten top off turn it. Listen to your money.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
You don't trust me.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I don't trust you.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Rac money, racal money.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
There's when I owe you up to come on getting.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Then I finished the job he had started, I found
the scarlet Madonna clutched in Machissic's dead hand. For a
scarlet Madonna, it was mighty green. It was an emerald
about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It's been
flattened down in your pocket. A Madonna figure was carved
in bar relief on one surface. As I stood over
the body of Mackissic, looking down at the green gem
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in my hand, I realized where it got its crimson name.
For On the floor outlining my hand was a spreading
pool of scarlet blood.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Well, sir, we meet again. Yeah, so it seems hey,
I offer you my congratulations at the same time requested
you hand over the scarlet Madonna.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Being unarmed as you are, you're not welcome to us.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, perhaps I have something more positive than the weapon. Yes, here,
michaels interest.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I'll look at them if you will back up against
the wall very well.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
We'll also find a letter authorizing me to the legal
possession of his infamous It's hateful, it's the cursed intimate
agreed explain that it's been my audious duty to retrieve
it for his rightful owner, the Stillwell Museum, London, from
which it was stolen by Victor and his work by
lady admitting they've got a Medica assurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Where do you come from? What's your outfit?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Yes, I thought i'd set you back on your heels
and I'm from London. Pity we didn't have each other's
interests classified earlier. We made very well, shall we say
who liberated in this manner? Yeah, I'm sure that there's
a non voiced question lurking on your tongue my association
with the Vesta Victor.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, at this point I didn't want to assault you.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I think nothing of it, my boy. Due to a
fortunate similarity in voice and physique for your company's actor,
mister City Grease Sleet, I find myself automatically listed as
undoubtedly the villain of the piece in this case, the
many others. Doing my fantastically successful career as an insurance investigator,
I was able to align myself with the basic source
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of the villainy in vas. Further, I pray that you've
not accused me of being associated with any of the
physical violences which is punctuated in this case. In short,
this Victor fellow occasionally slipped through my fingers that all.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I'm trying to find is twelve lousy taxi cabs.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Well, then your troubles are at an end, my boy,
I shall right out in address fine, and there you
shall find them unfarmed. The warehouse hard body used to Okay,
you'll forgive me. I'm sure if I tell you that
in this case it is but a nurse born Moustone.
The glorious pathway stood with superior accomplishment solving those minor
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mysteries evolved by the niggardly minds of the sniveling criminals
who would offend the sanctity of that guardian of the
peace of the public mind.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
It should come there, Amen, Spencer counts Item seven a
down a ninety five one evening gown, which was hard
enough to find, but would probably be even harder toware
at that price perching all night, Salonda Mode one hundred
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and thirty sixth Street, Miss dress I gave to mister
Bridwell take with him when he went calling on San
Jeita Marita Marstella, prior to turning a robic to the police.
Expense account Item eight six dollars and ten cents one
bottle of you know what with which to goggle a
half good half bad taste left by this case out
of my mouth spenser account, I am nine transportation.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
No, come to think of it, you can forget to
side im probile.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I think I'd better stay here in Manhattan and rest
up a bit expense account Item nine uh four hundred
dollars advance entertainment and things while resting on my laurels
or possibly mister Bridewell's lawrels.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But anyway, resting.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Expense account total eleven dollars. You fill in the sense,
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by A.
Norman McDonald and star Charles Russell, with script by Paul
Dugley and Gildau. Featured in the cast were Herb Butterfield,
That's Mister Bridewell with Paul Dubo, Lillian Bayev, Lou Krugman,
Junius Matthews, Jan.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Arvin, and Jack Krusian.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
The special music is written and conducted by Leith Stephens.
Be sure look with us again at the same time
next week. One another most unusual expense account is ented.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
In by Yours Truly Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
The great hip Tunes of early nineteen thirty nine Deep
Purple Penny serenade, I cried for you.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
How many more can you remember? Dancing to Romancing too?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
You'll hear them in Smart New nineteen forty nine arrangements
when your hit.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Parade on Parade comes along.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Immediately over all of these same CBS stations, Alan Boxer
is speaking, m H.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System m HM.
Everybody knows a taxi driver likes being over tipped, but
you can't blame him for not liking being tipped over.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And this is another in the adventures of America's fabulous
freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. That insurance investigation, he's only
an expert.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
At making out his expense account. He is an absolute genius.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Expense account Submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to home
office the Nutmeg State Liability under Writers, Hartford, Connecticut. The
following is an accounting of my expenditures during my investigation
of the disappearance in twelve Apex cabs or hotook the
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taxis for a ride. Spencer counts item one three dollars
and ten cents train fair Hartford to New York.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Item two a tent dinner en route, Item.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Three eighteen dollars club car Spencer count at them four
a dollar thirty cab there from stations to garage and
offices of Apex Taxi Company. I naturally waited for an
Apex cab, but could have saved my time. The drivers
told me nothing except that the man who came rushing
out of the Apex office.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
When we pulled up was the big boss, mister Gordon McKissick.
Thanks driver, he's just the man I'm looking for here.
Thank you, sir, heymkissick, see me tomorrow. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute. Wait there, I'm Johnny Dollar from the
insurance company. Oh oh good, that's different.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Just the time.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Come along where we're going? Come on?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Tell you in the car. Just had a call from
the police. Another one of my cabs had been stolen.
They found the driver slugged and unconscious. And I got
to get out there.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I tell you do.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm going crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
This is gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's not only driving me out of business, has drive
me out of my mind.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
The police have done their best in the Lord knows
I have too, but I'm about ready to give up.
This makes twelve my taxi cabins disappeared off the face
of the earth.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I call the hold it. McKissick. Do us both a favor.
Will you play cucumber for a few seconds.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Remember the insurance company I represent has plenty to scream about.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Two. What I need is some facts.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
I haven't got any facts, and if this keeps home,
I won't have any taxis.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
They're gone. That's all twelve of them. That's all the
risk to it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Any idea of a motive, some new kind of car theft,
that's what the cops say.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Okay, what's your idea robbing the drivers? Don't have to
steal a cab, the rob a driver. It's ridiculous, all right?
Then what else could it be? Competition? Sabotage? That's my guess.
Competition So far only you gets. I'd give anything to know.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So the insurance company anything, they'd even give up my
happy young life. This is it thirteenth in the East River,
and there's the crowd, human of these strongest maget.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
But please, I'm a officer.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
A fuck, here's my idea. This man is my KISSI
the victim's boss. How about getting against through that crowd?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well? All right, but I don't know the right side
of his face.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Don't feel much like talking.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's cave Dennis Panta fight. Now, come on, come on,
let's plan.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
If I can't here, let alone the heart man.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Yeah, okay, it's the dollar here I am.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Are you're right? Is this one of your man m chissics?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, George Brandon been with me four years?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh sure, Brandon Brandon listening? Who did it? Do you
know who did it? Try hard? Never from before? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Brandon only one? Oh what did he look like? Come on? Boy?
Her rule? Guy who talk funny? He talked funny? How Brandon?
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How an accent?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
He?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Now that's it. We've a way for the ambulance.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The ambulance. The ambulance turns out to be the wrong
kind of a wagon. Spends accounts item five twenty.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Eight dollars transportation.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The following day, visiting hospitals and the homes of the
other eleven Apex drivers who had lost their calves. During
the course of this I contracted a severe case of
what Gis used to refer to as jeep seat. Out
of eleven interviews, I got three clues. One that up
until last night's killing, the cab nappers had worked as
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a team. The little dark guy with an accent as
described by the dead driver Brandon, and a three hundred.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Pound accomplice wearing.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
A searsucker suit, a panama hat, and a complexion akin
to a perspiring blob of leaf lawed. This heavier of
the two heavies, it seemed, never actively participated in any
of the rough stuff, merely assuming the role of director
of operations. Clue number two that in each instance the
driver's uniform camp was also stolen, which indicated to me
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merely that the getaway driver was very much interested in
looking like a cab driver.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Had Finally, clue number three from the.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Most disgruntled of a driver's interviewed the fact that the
fleet owner of a Kissick had spent three years bootlegging,
another four book making, and it had spent some very
short vacations getting away from it all in prison, which
naturally led me back to me chissics, aphex garage and office.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Come in, Oh, Dollar, Well what have you found out?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, I'll tell you my Kissick go far. I have
just hit the ABC's. Later on, i'll get to the X,
y Z S.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Look, Dollar, I'm getting fed up with double talk.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
What I want to talk about is a double life yours.
I once broke a leg jumping to a conclusion. So
don't get me wrong, that's not what I'm doing. But
a less experienced investigator might immediately assume that a man
like you, an ex legger, ex bookmaker, ex jail bird,
just might be stealing his own cabs for the insurance money.
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Don't get that way, or I might also get the
idea that you have a killer instinct.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
My record's my own business. It was okay with the
hack burer. It was okay when that company told me
the insurance.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So it'll have to be okay with you because you're
stuck with it. Nobody's calling you guilty. Ok okay.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
All I'm telling you is this. I want your calves
off the street until this thing is cleared up.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
That's big park, little man.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
When the day shift comes in at four thirty, tell
them the park.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
There are calves in the garage, and you can sell
you dispatch of the night shift.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Isn't working time.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Bad enough to have my competition running me out of business?
Now the little helper from the insurance company shows up
to finish the job.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I'm not trying to put you out of business. I'm
trying to keep you in. Well, it don't sound like it.
No cooperation from you, no insurance.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I'll have a cancel as fast as I can get
to a phone.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Okay, dollar, I can't do anything about it, but if
I were you, I wouldn't be caught hanging around here
by any one of those drivers.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You're putting out of work.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Some of them play rough.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You can always depict on a cab driver for being
on time and when it's time to knock off work.
By five o'clock, the garage was full of taxis and
carbon monoxide fumes. It was devoid of humanity, and a
night watchman i'd met before stood guard outside the lock gate.
At six o'clock, a visitor.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Dropped in on him, followed almost immediately by me.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
It's so important that.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I find it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Contains everything I have in the world. Are all my money?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh missus dog?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Well, the young lady claimed she lost.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
My first tenures. I hired one of your texicat this
afternoon and left my person. It's so important that I get.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It, hey, I told her to call lost and pound
in the marts.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Then you're what will I do tonight?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Why we're trying to figure that out? Did you join
me a drink? I would like that.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Her name was Marita Guastella. She was a dog type,
so I took her around the corner to with Dog Saloon.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
On the way in, we.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Passed four grumbling Aphex cab drivers shooting hot looks at
me over cold beers.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I arranged her in a booth so I could keep
an eye.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
On them in case their intentions were out good, and
an ear on her story, which I knew was.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Nice where stript to America I came from staying two
weeks ago. This afternoon I was shopping on Keep five
on You and Studies when I took the care from
forty ninth Street to the share in Netherlands.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Say, uh huh, forty nine Cherry, Netherlands. What time you
take the cab?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Well, I'm sure exactly it would help. Oh it was.
It was exactly ten minutes after four. I remember now
I looked.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
At a clock, and what times you arrive at the hotel? Marna?
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Why are you writing all this down?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
He's trying to help you find you first, but I do.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Not want to put you to any trouble. I am
perfectly willing to search to the Texas myself.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Honey.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The city of New York has gone to a lot
of trouble to save you that trouble. Every driver has
to keep a record of every trip, where he picks
up his passengers, where he drops them, and when.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
He puts it on a big card.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So all we have to do is find out which
card has your trip listed on.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Then we'll know which cab. Then we'll go to the
little cab and probably find your little purse.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
All right, Oh, it is very good of your scenary
if you would not mind the trouble.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Sometimes bothering this kind of trouble eliminates my employer's troubles.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'm on with a martini.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Spencer counts item six four dollars bar tap tip to
waiter one dollar. And here's a tip to young ladies
who were pretending they just came from Spain two weeks ago.
Don't want to burnt bath martinis and put them away
in one gulf. The drinking taste of Spanish ladies is
more the sherry type, and martinis are hard enough to
get used to in two years, let alone two weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh, who knows. Maybe she was just in a hurry
to get to the Spanish dollars. One thing was fairly apparent, though.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
She seemed to be in a hurry to get something
out of one of those cabs, and not by way
of the lost and Found department. The least I gotta
do vote as a gentleman, and the insurance investigator was
to accept her phony sounding story and take her back
to the garage. I am an I'm the sometimes singer
rider around the block, asking the time in a conversation
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not exactly based on my mother's favorite recipe for compile.
As we passed the office portion of the Apex Cab building,
I gave up looking into her eyes and saw something
that was.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Open even wider the garage gate. What is he the
watchmhen he's gone.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Perhaps he just stepped side.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Look at the stains on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Bridewain, bridewell, who's bridewell?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Who's bridewell?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Let me go, please, John, you're leading way up.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Mariita had twisted away and was high tailing it up
the street. I went, stamping up the ramp in the
direction of the source of the scream. On the way up,
I hit the light switch and this racket even big
boy should be afraid of the dock the first portal.
I slowed my run into a pussy foot pace and
edged around the corner, sliding my back along the dispatcher's counter.
When I got half way down, the corner of my
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right eye picked off a pair of high black shoes
night watchman type heels on the floor. Toes pointed out
sticking out from behind the end of the counter. I
didn't have time to get a look at the rest
of them. Something so round, so firm, and so fully loaded,
gave me a cold steel chiss under the left ear.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Pay to yourself the favors the remaining axiously steers. Now
now you meet turn around.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But let's be mister Brian. Well, what about the night watchman.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
There have no fears for him. I unfortunately accomplished in
the administration of fir state, but a good deed to practice.
I see to it that he's resting comfortably.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Our best.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Well, victor, my boy, I trust your search was.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Successful and somebody feat us to up well in cabs.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
It's been such nonsense, my boy, How can you tell
them so short a time?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
How about taking a look for yourself?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
That boy, you couldn't possibly have picked over all of them,
so see you was searching quickly the meantime, that's our
friend here is the proprietor of the search that we
seated up.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
In this case, practically anything could happen.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yees, anything could knowing that should encourage you to mind
your minutes. Oh sir, will you come to me to
my hotel where we can discuss this let up.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
With you holding that thirty eight caliber steel engraved invitation
in your hand.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I'd be a prisonly cad to refuse and us the moment.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We'll return to the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Speaker 3 (13:57):
Now it's our star.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Charles Russell were at We're into the second act of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And tonight's story. Who took the taxis for a.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Ride looking for some so unsaxy cabs and wound up
in a hotel room looking stupid? Not wishing to make
this a permentive effect, I put my mind to work,
and the fruits of its labor went something like this.
Whoever had been stealing those caves? And I figured I
was face to face in.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
One of them?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Now had not been stealing the apex rolling stock for
the caves themselves, but for something evidently hidden in mom
and here on end there was only one way to
play it by ear, and was easy because the pasty
faced three hundred pounds had draped in a double breasted
seersucker tent, was doing all the talking.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Nineteen twelve, when I was experiment from Oxford University, as
a results of unfortunate association with an unscrupulous fuck it,
I arrived at this decision, sir. It's sometimes not profitable
to be on the apparently right side.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I make myself Claire Well in a roundabout way. Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Then I am thus fully acquainted with my position in
regard to this matter of the scarlet Madonna. But you
what do you stand?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I'm running a one man escort service for Mariita Gastella.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Marika, so lovely but unwise. Marita has taken unto herself
an accomplished issue. Well, as long as you are allied
with her, you and I must be across publicist.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I'm hoping to suggestion, God, the.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Girl is nothing more than a penniless adventures a common thief.
But I so may be able to tempt your pensant
loyalties with some very fetching curve.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Victor all right, knocked it out of that night watchman
when it came too There's only one kind of arrive.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Besides, this is him that's gotta work.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, Victor, this is not the type of violence. The
gentlemen and I are about to discuss terms of mutual profit. Oh,
you were discussing.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I was working.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I find that I can be concise when the situation
demands that I v So we start with a figure
saying five thousand dollars. I'm not a vector. You can't
remember that I deprovib a young man. What do you say?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Nuts to your five thousands?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Heaven's man, you locked your mind? What do you think
the scarlet Madonna is worth to?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well, so far it's been worth one man's life twelve
taxi cabs and he used car lot that costs to
more than five thousand dollars five hundred.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
There keep coming.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I'll say here. Now, there's not only a limit to
my generosity, there's a limit to my patience. How else
do you expect to realize.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
That there is a promt I haven't made up my mind.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I can help you. Here are the problems you face.
The Scott Madonna is no ordinary gem to be disposed
of through the ordinary channels. You say the faintest notion
the importance of the girl.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I've got a hunch I can retire for life, on
very short life.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
It might be pity if your blood were mixed with
that already shed through the centuries over the scarlet mat dinner.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I don't waste time with that story tax stuff we
haven't got all week.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
My purpose in this repetitious recitation is ratified. The bloody history,
may convince our friend the no One. Since the year
twelve one hundred and fifty six, we've been able to share,
for any peaceable length of time the company of the Scaramanda.
So that was the year it was fashioned. One of
the investments of John ofvy' sense Lorst. Twenty of that year,
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he was ordered by Alexander the Fourth, who hastened the
province of Tuscany to aid in the routing of the heritage. There,
John was murdered and robbed of this jeur, and since
that date it has never ceased its bloody journey through
history England, France and Spain.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
The Pirate.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Thank you, Vin, or your helpful interest indeed it is too.
During one of its bloodier experiences, it was woven into
the beards of and Alsatian pirates, from which it fell
when its head tumbled into the BASKETA gis.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That one told me?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You see, miss, I'm trying not so, but Brian, well,
this rock is so hot. How come your like to
rescue your pudgy little neck for it?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Victor here and I are only the temporary middlemen for
this infamous deb You aren't yet, and I do understand
that you refuse.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, I must say, you'd tell a very good story,
but the answer is still nothing doing.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
I told your fat stuff waiting style or that's enough,
you know, get up, come, he said, your the roof office, jock.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That won't be necessary. Now put your hands up, please, No, Victor,
the poee pockets, not that anyone would be foolish enough
to carry these, scarlet Madonna.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Check your teeth out.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Don't try it? Hey, all right, you know what the
gun here? I know, Victor.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
One gun is enough that you must be from the
company and showing the run.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Oh no, Victor, I am thoroughly familiar with the policies.
Was called Madonna, what's the gentleman's.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Name Johnny, had dollars from Hot for Connecticut and.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right now thinking there's no place like home, I'm leaving. No,
I'm not a life You wait. We can't let him
out here.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
He's hot for. It's down your weapon, Victor. He's been
troubling enough. Now you don't.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh, yes, I do. Back off. Buster must have let
him good way or whatever he goes. He fought for
the lives he did come on valuable. The elevators went
fast enough.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I hit every four step down eight flights of stairs
to the lobby, out into the street.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
John Marita saves me. Looking for you. You just tag
right along taxi after you, lady of strain.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Oh my, poor Johney, What did they do to you?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
A gentleman named Victor hung a right hand on me,
complete with signet rings.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Oh never mind that hanky. I'm not the mood to
be dead that.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
I'm so sorry, Johnny. What did they tell you?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Oh? No, you don't. First I want to hear what
you have to tell me. Then we'll compare a story.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
There's not much to tell this scull at. My daughter
is rightfully illegally mine. My only crime was to bring
it into this country illegally for customs and it's bridewell
and that horrible victory on the ship. And when I
got to New York, I realized that they were following me.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I was terrified.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I was in a taxicabin. They followed me in another.
It forced us to a curb, and I hid the
jewel in the app strip a taxi can. I jumped
down and flip from my life. Oh I remember it
was an apex cad. I've been trying to.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Find the accept one I ever seen, so apparently are
they how they find out?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
They run after me that night, searched me and all
of my belongings, and then when I started my search,
they realized what.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
I was doing.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Looks like anybody can catch the brass ring on this
merry go round.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Z Johnny, tell me that you will help me to
recover the doorknos love gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
All I'm trying to catch up with is a dozen
stolen taxi cabs.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
You're not just going to leave me blood with that
figure impossible.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I took Marina to a small hotel, got her a room,
and while she was taking a bath, I stole her
clothes and left her boxed in that strongest of midtown
prisons nudity. The first joker I went looking for back
at the Apex garage was the unfortunate night watch. I
found him sitting up and taking nourishments out of a
bottle and nursing an egg on his head that would
(22:04):
have hatched an ostrich.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Oh it's you, mister Dodgson. Yeah, I tell you, I've
been worried about you. Yeah, Thank Heavens, you're all right. No,
thanks to you, William Menser.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I mean, why did you tell that sort off ape
who slugged you around that I searched these cabs in
your last night?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Why I didn't mention you, sir? I tell him it
was a boss mccusick. Huh yeah, chissick. Where's he now?
You know he just came by. I believe he's next
door in his office. Thanks, Yeah, kiss it. This case
is developing.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
More suspects and the garlic breath and a crowded elevator.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
A level ten top off turn it. Listen to your money.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
You don't trust me.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I don't trust you.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Rac money, racal money.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
There's when I owe you up to come on getting.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Then I finished the job he had started, I found
the scarlet Madonna clutched in Machissic's dead hand. For a
scarlet Madonna, it was mighty green. It was an emerald
about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It's been
flattened down in your pocket. A Madonna figure was carved
in bar relief on one surface. As I stood over
the body of Mackissic, looking down at the green gem
(23:40):
in my hand, I realized where it got its crimson name.
For On the floor outlining my hand was a spreading
pool of scarlet blood.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Well, sir, we meet again. Yeah, so it seems hey,
I offer you my congratulations at the same time requested
you hand over the scarlet Madonna.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Being unarmed as you are, you're not welcome to us.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, perhaps I have something more positive than the weapon. Yes, here,
michaels interest.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I'll look at them if you will back up against
the wall very well.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
We'll also find a letter authorizing me to the legal
possession of his infamous It's hateful, it's the cursed intimate
agreed explain that it's been my audious duty to retrieve
it for his rightful owner, the Stillwell Museum, London, from
which it was stolen by Victor and his work by
lady admitting they've got a Medica assurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Where do you come from? What's your outfit?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Yes, I thought i'd set you back on your heels
and I'm from London. Pity we didn't have each other's
interests classified earlier. We made very well, shall we say
who liberated in this manner? Yeah, I'm sure that there's
a non voiced question lurking on your tongue my association
with the Vesta Victor.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, at this point I didn't want to assault you.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I think nothing of it, my boy. Due to a
fortunate similarity in voice and physique for your company's actor,
mister City Grease Sleet, I find myself automatically listed as
undoubtedly the villain of the piece in this case, the
many others. Doing my fantastically successful career as an insurance investigator,
I was able to align myself with the basic source
(25:33):
of the villainy in vas. Further, I pray that you've
not accused me of being associated with any of the
physical violences which is punctuated in this case. In short,
this Victor fellow occasionally slipped through my fingers that all.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I'm trying to find is twelve lousy taxi cabs.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Well, then your troubles are at an end, my boy,
I shall right out in address fine, and there you
shall find them unfarmed. The warehouse hard body used to Okay,
you'll forgive me. I'm sure if I tell you that
in this case it is but a nurse born Moustone.
The glorious pathway stood with superior accomplishment solving those minor
(26:14):
mysteries evolved by the niggardly minds of the sniveling criminals
who would offend the sanctity of that guardian of the
peace of the public mind.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
It should come there, Amen, Spencer counts Item seven a
down a ninety five one evening gown, which was hard
enough to find, but would probably be even harder toware
at that price perching all night, Salonda Mode one hundred
(26:47):
and thirty sixth Street, Miss dress I gave to mister
Bridwell take with him when he went calling on San
Jeita Marita Marstella, prior to turning a robic to the police.
Expense account Item eight six dollars and ten cents one
bottle of you know what with which to goggle a
half good half bad taste left by this case out
of my mouth spenser account, I am nine transportation.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
No, come to think of it, you can forget to
side im probile.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I think I'd better stay here in Manhattan and rest
up a bit expense account Item nine uh four hundred
dollars advance entertainment and things while resting on my laurels
or possibly mister Bridewell's lawrels.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But anyway, resting.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Expense account total eleven dollars. You fill in the sense,
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by A.
Norman McDonald and star Charles Russell, with script by Paul
Dugley and Gildau. Featured in the cast were Herb Butterfield,
That's Mister Bridewell with Paul Dubo, Lillian Bayev, Lou Krugman,
Junius Matthews, Jan.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Arvin, and Jack Krusian.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
The special music is written and conducted by Leith Stephens.
Be sure look with us again at the same time
next week. One another most unusual expense account is ented.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
In by Yours Truly Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
The great hip Tunes of early nineteen thirty nine Deep
Purple Penny serenade, I cried for you.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
How many more can you remember? Dancing to Romancing too?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
You'll hear them in Smart New nineteen forty nine arrangements
when your hit.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Parade on Parade comes along.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Immediately over all of these same CBS stations, Alan Boxer
is speaking, m H.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System m HM.
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