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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Bob Bailey as.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Johnny Dellar.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
This is the operator ready with your call to mister
Pat Kellaher and Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Go ahead, please, Hello, Hello, Pat, I got your wire.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
What's all this? What happened?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're still trying to find out the man calling himself
Frank Bowers was killed an hour ago. George Hanley, one
of the operators I had watching him, was killed.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Two.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We've got a vague description of the killer.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, but I'm going to be tired of with the
police here.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Well, you need money for bail or anything like that,
just draw a draft on the company.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Up and from it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thanks Pat, So bad about your friend. Yeah, he was
a good guy. I want to find out who killed him.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Tonight and every weekday Night.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expenser accounts submitted by Special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to Universal Adjustment Bureau, Baltimore, Maryland. The following
is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of
(01:17):
the Chesapeake fraud matter. Expense ac count continued, Item thirteen
a quarter for some aspirin. It turned out to be
a long night. Several homicide officers arrived at the double
murder scene within a matter of minutes and got right
down to the business at hand. Frank Bowers had been
shot to death. George Hanley had been shot to death.
Lieutenant Tom O'Neil was in charge, A big blond man
(01:39):
who seemed to know what he was about. Okay, let's
see that idea again. Here you go, insurance investigator. That's right, Okay,
what was your business here with these two men? My
home office in Baltimore had reason to believe that Frank
Bauers was really a man named John Reardon Riden was
supposed to have died five years ago. I was sent
out here to invest to get it, since there had
(02:01):
been a twenty thousand dollars claim in the matter.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Pure sure.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I hired George Hanley to help me out. He was
keeping an eye on Frank Bowers. I came out earlier
tonight to give my hand, and the shooting began. And
the idea who did it? A big man and a
top coat and a hat. I really didn't get a
look at him. Lieutenant, I was busy with George Handley.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Cure you carry again?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Sometimes I didn't have one tonight. You try to chase
the killer, I said, I was busy with my friend.
That's right, you did well. How was your investigation coming along?
Frank Bower's fingerprints didn't match the samples I had for
John Reardon, but it didn't satisfy me. Though there were
a lot of things about him personally I couldn't accept.
I harassed him a little last night, and he got
pretty excited and sluck me. This was after I found
(02:40):
out even trying to call Baltimore. Who in Bolomore? I
don't know, but tell me about this heresy.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
You'll make a check with the phone company.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, I needled him purposely, trying to scare him into
a blunder. I think I was doing pretty good. I'll
never know now what else you got to say about
your cage. Well that's about it, Lieutenant. It is eh.
Well that's all I got to say, because that's all
I know about it. Next time, be careful that you're
needling caagties. I was doing what I thought best on
the case.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Here you were, you were.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Doing swell you let a friend of yours get shot
down in front of your eyes, not to mention the
other guy. You can't give us a description of the
killer or a hint at the motive. Maybe George Hanley
wasn't a friend of yours at that why you can't
take it easy, kid.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Or take it easy, remember to blow the bell.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I'm sorry, he had quite a knight. Nobody in your
business or mind knows what's behind the door and he
kicks it in. I'm just a cop trying to get
straightened out, so I pushed too hard. Sometimes we'll get
it taken care of. Nobody walks in the man's house
and shoots him down without somebody hearing something or seeing something.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I mean somebody beside you.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
My mental covery of every house in the block, in
this whole area, if we have to bound to be
somebody somewhere. The dog at Lieutenant O'Neil turned out to
be one hundred percent correct. In fact, he turned out
to be three hundred percent correct, for by eleven o'clock
the following morning, his men had located three different people
who had information about the brutal murders of Frank Bauers
(03:58):
and George Hanley. The first was a man named Randall
who had lived across the street. He had seen Bowers
open his front door and admit the unknown killer. He
said he wore glasses. The second was a paper boy
who had come to collect while the killer was there.
He stated that the killer and Bowers were arguing when
he came up to the door. The third witness, a housewife,
gave the most important information as to the man's description.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He was a good eel taller than mister Bowers.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
How much taller? Three four inches at least?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I saw him standing in the doorway from here. He
had on a brown tweed topcoat.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
My husband has one disliking.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
How old would you say he was?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Forty five?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Have you ever seen him before?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Would you know him if you saw him again?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Anywhere you got that good look at him? Huh?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yes, the porch light was on.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Here's something dollar. Lieutenant O'Neil had issued an all points
bulletin based on the combined descriptions given by the witnesses.
In the meantime, his men had checked the local cab
companies and found out that one of the drivers had
carried a fair to Frank Bauer's home at eight o'clock
in the evening. The cab driver verified the housewife's description
of the suspect and added the important information that he'd
(05:02):
picked up the man at the airport. When that was checked,
it was found the man had come in on a
plane from the east at five forty five in the afternoon.
He had used the name Aaron Williams. Expense account item
fourteen eight dollars and ninety five cents. Another long distance
phone call to Baltimore and Pat kellerher.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Oh, I'll beat John. Do you have to stay there?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
John? Of course I have to stay here. I'm a
material witness. Not to mention the fact that a palomine
was shot down.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
They'll get on your high horse, John. It was just
a question. Have any idea what it was all about?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Well, at the moment, I'm just sure a guy named
Aaron Williams flew in, shot up two people and beat it.
If we had Williams, I'd give you the whole thing
on a silver platter.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
You're awfully touchy.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, this thing has gotten out a hand.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Well, I won't press you on ye anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
John.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Here's what you think is best as far as the
company's concerned. It's really not our business anymore, is it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's our business until it's cleared up. I mean, Bowers,
he was, John called it Pat. Yeah, answer from Washington
on your wire. Yeah here, let's see Pat. Yeah, it
is our business after all. The lieutenant here sent a
hurry up request to Washington on some of Bower's fingerprints.
(06:17):
I mailed a couple of days ago. They check out.
I'll get it, Bowers was John Riden.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Oh, well, well, why why'd you get the samples of
Arden's prince that didn't check out from.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Hugh Brian, Arden's attorney. Don't you dare? Don't open your mouth.
I'll handle it when I get there. Tell me about
this fella, Hugh Bryan, according to the phone company, that's
the man Bowers was trying to call in Baltimore. I
told him all I knew, and Lieutenant O'Neil listened thoughtfully.
(06:53):
It became apparent from that point on, since Bauer's true
identity had been established through army records, that the bulk
of the case could he concluded not in Denver but
in Baltimore. Expense account out of sixteen two hundred and
sixteen dollars, playing fair and incidentals Denver to Baltimore. I
arrived at ten fifteen in the evening. Checked with the
(07:14):
Baltimore police, who had been informed of the case by
Tom O'Neil in Denver at his request. They'd taken no
action as yet. From the police station, I went directly
to Hugh Brian's residence. The house was English, conservative and expensive.
The fire in the living room looked cheerful when the
door opened, Elizabeth Arden did not look so cheerful. Hello, Johnny, Hello, missus.
(07:34):
RIDDEN didn't expect to find you.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Here, No, I suppose not. I never expected to.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
See you again, Elizabeth. I have something to tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Don't tell me now.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's about your husband, all right. I want to tell
mister Brian too.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
He's upstairs in his study.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Wait. Look, I've done what I thought best about all this,
and I'm trying to do what's best now.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It doesn't make any difference, Johnny, I'm a married woman again.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes, Hugh and I were married this morning. Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I walked in and watched John Riorden's widow alias Frank
Bower's widow now Hugh Brian's bride, disappear of a column stairway.
The news that she had married Hugh Brian cleared up
some of the small doubts in my mind. When Brian
came back down the stairs with her, he looked anything
but a happy bridegirl. Hello, Dollar, a late caller. Yeah,
(08:32):
I'm sorry about that. Congratulations, Thank you? How did you
come out in Denver? Everything okay? No, everything's not okay. Well,
what's the matter do I have to tell you?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'll run along upstairs, Hugh. What's getting terribly late?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
All right, dear, good night mister Dowler, Good night, missus Brian.
There'll be some men out to see a pretty soon,
Brian Policeman.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Oh it is, yes, dear, I think you'll be interested
in what mister Dollar has to say.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What I don't understand you.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I wasn't in Philadelphia yesterday, Liz. I was in Denver, Colorado.
What I flew there to see John? He's been alive
and living there all this time.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Whew. I'm sorry. This is only for her benefit. Dollar.
I'll tell it just once. When it gets into court,
it'll be different.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How did it happen, Brian? John Readon didn't die on
that boat.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
No, he was picked up in a bay by a
fishing boat on his way to Florida, and they didn't
have a radio on the fishing boat. The first port
they came to was Charleston. John phoned me from there
and told me all about it. And this was ten
days after we all thought you was dead. That part
was all accident. Sure, the rest of it was a
little different, Liz. It was his idea to believe then?
(10:01):
What was his idea not showing up ever again, letting
everyone think it was really dead, making.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You a widow.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
He hated his life here, yes, everything about it. He
was in debt right up to his ears. Of course,
there was your money, but he while I flew down
to Charleston to talk to him, he was like a
crazy man, kept saying there was a way out. I
didn't know what he meant at first. Then he came
right out and said it was his chance to get.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Away from all the things he hated.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
He knew how I felt about you then, how I
feel about you now.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
He said I could have you for a price.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
What was the price those checks he got every week
from a New York bonding concern?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
What did they come to?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Twenty five thousand a year, regular weekly payments. I could
afford it. I could afford anything for you, Liz.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Did he come right out and tell you he hated me?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
He just said he wanted to get away from everything.
And it went that way for five years. I believe
I asked you to marry me every six months. Yes,
didn't work out either, And then one day along came
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
How does it feel to be so efficient? Mister Dollar?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We don't have to go into that to me. No,
I'll admit you did everything to throw me off, and
it threw me off, especially the fingerprints you provided.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Didn't John read an insist his name was Frank Bowers
and do everything he could to make you believe that
was true.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
He did too much to make me think.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
It was true.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Where is he now? Where's John?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He's dead, missus, Brian, Oh, truly dead now. He was
shot to death last night by mister Brian. Mister Bryan
also shot a friend of mine, didn't you, Brian?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Yes, John got scared, called me, said he was going
to tell everything to Dollar, to blow the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Hugh.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
All I wanted out of this was you, Liz. He
didn't want you. I didn't last week you decided to
marry me. It took you five years to do that,
and it took him one afternoon to decide he was
going to come.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Back to the proof that John Riden's widow is guilty
or not guilty of a fraudulent insurance claim as a
matter for Easton Fidelity to decide. The matter of Hugh
bran and two murders is a matter for the courts.
(12:26):
Expense account Item seventeen same as item one Expenses from
Bultamore to Hartford Item eighteen eighty nine dollars even car
Rentalds Miscellaneous etc. Expense account total eleven n twenty four
dollars and ninety eight cents. He was truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Remember please, There'll be a new exciting story on Johnny
Dollar beginning next Monday.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Next week. A quiet, sleepy little town in Mexico and
a beautiful senor readA that well, things didn't stay quiet
and sleepy for long, Johnnys Won't you yours truly? Johnny Dollar?
(13:24):
Yours truly?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. Written
by John Dawson, It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
Heard in this week's cast where Gene Bates, d J. Thompson,
I Averback, Will Wright, John Dayner, Tony Barrett, Paul dubob
and Forrest Lewis. Be sure to join us on Monday night,
same time in station for another exciting story of yours Truly,
(13:48):
Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking
From Hollywood. It's time now for Bob Bailey as.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Johnny Dellar.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
This is the operator ready with your call to mister
Pat Kellaher and Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Go ahead, please, Hello, Hello, Pat, I got your wire.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
What's all this? What happened?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're still trying to find out the man calling himself
Frank Bowers was killed an hour ago. George Hanley, one
of the operators I had watching him, was killed.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Two.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We've got a vague description of the killer.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, but I'm going to be tired of with the
police here.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Well, you need money for bail or anything like that,
just draw a draft on the company.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Up and from it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thanks Pat, So bad about your friend. Yeah, he was
a good guy. I want to find out who killed him.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Tonight and every weekday Night.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expenser accounts submitted by Special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to Universal Adjustment Bureau, Baltimore, Maryland. The following
is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of
(01:17):
the Chesapeake fraud matter. Expense ac count continued, Item thirteen
a quarter for some aspirin. It turned out to be
a long night. Several homicide officers arrived at the double
murder scene within a matter of minutes and got right
down to the business at hand. Frank Bowers had been
shot to death. George Hanley had been shot to death.
Lieutenant Tom O'Neil was in charge, A big blond man
(01:39):
who seemed to know what he was about. Okay, let's
see that idea again. Here you go, insurance investigator. That's right, Okay,
what was your business here with these two men? My
home office in Baltimore had reason to believe that Frank
Bauers was really a man named John Reardon Riden was
supposed to have died five years ago. I was sent
out here to invest to get it, since there had
(02:01):
been a twenty thousand dollars claim in the matter.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Pure sure.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I hired George Hanley to help me out. He was
keeping an eye on Frank Bowers. I came out earlier
tonight to give my hand, and the shooting began. And
the idea who did it? A big man and a
top coat and a hat. I really didn't get a
look at him. Lieutenant, I was busy with George Handley.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Cure you carry again?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Sometimes I didn't have one tonight. You try to chase
the killer, I said, I was busy with my friend.
That's right, you did well. How was your investigation coming along?
Frank Bower's fingerprints didn't match the samples I had for
John Reardon, but it didn't satisfy me. Though there were
a lot of things about him personally I couldn't accept.
I harassed him a little last night, and he got
pretty excited and sluck me. This was after I found
(02:40):
out even trying to call Baltimore. Who in Bolomore? I
don't know, but tell me about this heresy.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
You'll make a check with the phone company.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, I needled him purposely, trying to scare him into
a blunder. I think I was doing pretty good. I'll
never know now what else you got to say about
your cage. Well that's about it, Lieutenant. It is eh.
Well that's all I got to say, because that's all
I know about it. Next time, be careful that you're
needling caagties. I was doing what I thought best on
the case.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Here you were, you were.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Doing swell you let a friend of yours get shot
down in front of your eyes, not to mention the
other guy. You can't give us a description of the
killer or a hint at the motive. Maybe George Hanley
wasn't a friend of yours at that why you can't
take it easy, kid.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Or take it easy, remember to blow the bell.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I'm sorry, he had quite a knight. Nobody in your
business or mind knows what's behind the door and he
kicks it in. I'm just a cop trying to get
straightened out, so I pushed too hard. Sometimes we'll get
it taken care of. Nobody walks in the man's house
and shoots him down without somebody hearing something or seeing something.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I mean somebody beside you.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
My mental covery of every house in the block, in
this whole area, if we have to bound to be
somebody somewhere. The dog at Lieutenant O'Neil turned out to
be one hundred percent correct. In fact, he turned out
to be three hundred percent correct, for by eleven o'clock
the following morning, his men had located three different people
who had information about the brutal murders of Frank Bauers
(03:58):
and George Hanley. The first was a man named Randall
who had lived across the street. He had seen Bowers
open his front door and admit the unknown killer. He
said he wore glasses. The second was a paper boy
who had come to collect while the killer was there.
He stated that the killer and Bowers were arguing when
he came up to the door. The third witness, a housewife,
gave the most important information as to the man's description.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He was a good eel taller than mister Bowers.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
How much taller? Three four inches at least?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I saw him standing in the doorway from here. He
had on a brown tweed topcoat.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
My husband has one disliking.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
How old would you say he was?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Forty five?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Have you ever seen him before?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Would you know him if you saw him again?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Anywhere you got that good look at him? Huh?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yes, the porch light was on.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Here's something dollar. Lieutenant O'Neil had issued an all points
bulletin based on the combined descriptions given by the witnesses.
In the meantime, his men had checked the local cab
companies and found out that one of the drivers had
carried a fair to Frank Bauer's home at eight o'clock
in the evening. The cab driver verified the housewife's description
of the suspect and added the important information that he'd
(05:02):
picked up the man at the airport. When that was checked,
it was found the man had come in on a
plane from the east at five forty five in the afternoon.
He had used the name Aaron Williams. Expense account item
fourteen eight dollars and ninety five cents. Another long distance
phone call to Baltimore and Pat kellerher.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Oh, I'll beat John. Do you have to stay there?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
John? Of course I have to stay here. I'm a
material witness. Not to mention the fact that a palomine
was shot down.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
They'll get on your high horse, John. It was just
a question. Have any idea what it was all about?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Well, at the moment, I'm just sure a guy named
Aaron Williams flew in, shot up two people and beat it.
If we had Williams, I'd give you the whole thing
on a silver platter.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
You're awfully touchy.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, this thing has gotten out a hand.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Well, I won't press you on ye anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
John.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Here's what you think is best as far as the
company's concerned. It's really not our business anymore, is it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's our business until it's cleared up. I mean, Bowers,
he was, John called it Pat. Yeah, answer from Washington
on your wire. Yeah here, let's see Pat. Yeah, it
is our business after all. The lieutenant here sent a
hurry up request to Washington on some of Bower's fingerprints.
(06:17):
I mailed a couple of days ago. They check out.
I'll get it, Bowers was John Riden.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Oh, well, well, why why'd you get the samples of
Arden's prince that didn't check out from.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Hugh Brian, Arden's attorney. Don't you dare? Don't open your mouth.
I'll handle it when I get there. Tell me about
this fella, Hugh Bryan, according to the phone company, that's
the man Bowers was trying to call in Baltimore. I
told him all I knew, and Lieutenant O'Neil listened thoughtfully.
(06:53):
It became apparent from that point on, since Bauer's true
identity had been established through army records, that the bulk
of the case could he concluded not in Denver but
in Baltimore. Expense account out of sixteen two hundred and
sixteen dollars, playing fair and incidentals Denver to Baltimore. I
arrived at ten fifteen in the evening. Checked with the
(07:14):
Baltimore police, who had been informed of the case by
Tom O'Neil in Denver at his request. They'd taken no
action as yet. From the police station, I went directly
to Hugh Brian's residence. The house was English, conservative and expensive.
The fire in the living room looked cheerful when the
door opened, Elizabeth Arden did not look so cheerful. Hello, Johnny, Hello, missus.
(07:34):
RIDDEN didn't expect to find you.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Here, No, I suppose not. I never expected to.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
See you again, Elizabeth. I have something to tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Don't tell me now.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's about your husband, all right. I want to tell
mister Brian too.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
He's upstairs in his study.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Wait. Look, I've done what I thought best about all this,
and I'm trying to do what's best now.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It doesn't make any difference, Johnny, I'm a married woman again.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes, Hugh and I were married this morning. Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I walked in and watched John Riorden's widow alias Frank
Bower's widow now Hugh Brian's bride, disappear of a column stairway.
The news that she had married Hugh Brian cleared up
some of the small doubts in my mind. When Brian
came back down the stairs with her, he looked anything
but a happy bridegirl. Hello, Dollar, a late caller. Yeah,
(08:32):
I'm sorry about that. Congratulations, Thank you? How did you
come out in Denver? Everything okay? No, everything's not okay. Well,
what's the matter do I have to tell you?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'll run along upstairs, Hugh. What's getting terribly late?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
All right, dear, good night mister Dowler, Good night, missus Brian.
There'll be some men out to see a pretty soon,
Brian Policeman.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Oh it is, yes, dear, I think you'll be interested
in what mister Dollar has to say.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What I don't understand you.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I wasn't in Philadelphia yesterday, Liz. I was in Denver, Colorado.
What I flew there to see John? He's been alive
and living there all this time.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Whew. I'm sorry. This is only for her benefit. Dollar.
I'll tell it just once. When it gets into court,
it'll be different.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How did it happen, Brian? John Readon didn't die on
that boat.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
No, he was picked up in a bay by a
fishing boat on his way to Florida, and they didn't
have a radio on the fishing boat. The first port
they came to was Charleston. John phoned me from there
and told me all about it. And this was ten
days after we all thought you was dead. That part
was all accident. Sure, the rest of it was a
little different, Liz. It was his idea to believe then?
(10:01):
What was his idea not showing up ever again, letting
everyone think it was really dead, making.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You a widow.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
He hated his life here, yes, everything about it. He
was in debt right up to his ears. Of course,
there was your money, but he while I flew down
to Charleston to talk to him, he was like a
crazy man, kept saying there was a way out. I
didn't know what he meant at first. Then he came
right out and said it was his chance to get.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Away from all the things he hated.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
He knew how I felt about you then, how I
feel about you now.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
He said I could have you for a price.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
What was the price those checks he got every week
from a New York bonding concern?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
What did they come to?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Twenty five thousand a year, regular weekly payments. I could
afford it. I could afford anything for you, Liz.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Did he come right out and tell you he hated me?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
He just said he wanted to get away from everything.
And it went that way for five years. I believe
I asked you to marry me every six months. Yes,
didn't work out either, And then one day along came
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
How does it feel to be so efficient? Mister Dollar?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We don't have to go into that to me. No,
I'll admit you did everything to throw me off, and
it threw me off, especially the fingerprints you provided.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Didn't John read an insist his name was Frank Bowers
and do everything he could to make you believe that
was true.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
He did too much to make me think.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
It was true.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Where is he now? Where's John?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
He's dead, missus, Brian, Oh, truly dead now. He was
shot to death last night by mister Brian. Mister Bryan
also shot a friend of mine, didn't you, Brian?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Yes, John got scared, called me, said he was going
to tell everything to Dollar, to blow the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Hugh.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
All I wanted out of this was you, Liz. He
didn't want you. I didn't last week you decided to
marry me. It took you five years to do that,
and it took him one afternoon to decide he was
going to come.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Back to the proof that John Riden's widow is guilty
or not guilty of a fraudulent insurance claim as a
matter for Easton Fidelity to decide. The matter of Hugh
bran and two murders is a matter for the courts.
(12:26):
Expense account Item seventeen same as item one Expenses from
Bultamore to Hartford Item eighteen eighty nine dollars even car
Rentalds Miscellaneous etc. Expense account total eleven n twenty four
dollars and ninety eight cents. He was truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Remember please, There'll be a new exciting story on Johnny
Dollar beginning next Monday.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Next week. A quiet, sleepy little town in Mexico and
a beautiful senor readA that well, things didn't stay quiet
and sleepy for long, Johnnys Won't you yours truly? Johnny Dollar?
(13:24):
Yours truly?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. Written
by John Dawson, It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
Heard in this week's cast where Gene Bates, d J. Thompson,
I Averback, Will Wright, John Dayner, Tony Barrett, Paul dubob
and Forrest Lewis. Be sure to join us on Monday night,
same time in station for another exciting story of yours Truly,
(13:48):
Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking
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