November 14, 2025 • 19 mins
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama which aired between 1949 and 1962. "The man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar". Of the eight different actors who played Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey is likely considered the most popular. Bailey's interpretation presented a tough, streetwise character, but also sensitive and thoughtful. During it's time, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar attracted some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Jack Johnstone, E. Jack Neuman, Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Carole Carson. Mister Dollar. Oh, you don't know me,
and I'm sorry to be calling so late.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
What time is it? Anyway about one am?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
A friend of yours, mister Ralston, mentioned your name.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
To me yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What Ralston?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
He said you were here in New York for the
weekend and mentioned your hotel.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Look mess, uh Carson, isn't Yes, Carol Carton h It's
nice talking to you and all that, but it is
rather late.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I realized what had happened a few moments ago.
You were the first person I thought of. Maybe you
can help me, mister Dollar. I need help badly.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
What's the trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm at the apartment of Everett Read on East sixty seventh.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Could you come over any particular reason? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think I've just killed him, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'll be right over.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Bob Bailey In the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
the Action in fact Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly,
and now act one of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense
(01:31):
Accounts invented by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Universal Adjustment Bureau Home Office Hertford, Connecticut. Following is an
account of expenses encourage during my investigation of the Deadly.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Doubt Matter.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Expense account I don't one a dollar eighty cab from
my Hotel Toy apartment and editor read on East sixty seven.
Errol Chryston was waiting for me at the door. She
looked sort of dazed as she pointed to a body.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
On the floor.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He's dead.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Two dollar ever read that. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes, this is his apartment.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You set over the phone. You thought you'd kill him. Well,
he's dead.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Alright, that's not what I meant. I met. I thought
I was the one who killed him. I'm not sure.
Oh I had.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Doesn't seem to matter. He's dead. I guess that's all.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Come on, not get hold of yourself, girl' alright, I
guess I'm not making much sense.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I got sort of funny, light headed.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Alright, letter sit out there, thanks, Noah, Why don't you
start at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Alright. I came to see every tonight about eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I guess he was a friend of yours.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh, he sent for.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Me and I had to come why telling me why
he insisted that I have a drink with him. Then
I started to feel funny, how so, oh dizzy? I
had to get some air.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You think there was something in the drink.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
There must have been. He didn't want me to leave,
but I had to.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
What time was that dirty?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think a little before maybe go on? I wandered
around the streets. Uh, I was in kind of a day.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
How long were you wandering around?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
It seemed like a long time. Then why I came
back here to the apartment. I had a terrible headache.
I remember walking in the door and.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh, that's all.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's all. What do you mean? That's all?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
That's all I remember. I must have passed out. When
I came to. I was lying on the floor, and
that gun wasn't near my hand in front of me
was when I called you?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's all you can tell me.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So it isn't much, is it? Sure?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's the dollar?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I can't believe I killed him.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I couldn't you say you left this apartment a little
before eleven thirty. The police medical examiner will be able
to tell the approximate time of this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
If you weren't here at that time, that's just it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Mister dollar.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I don't know how long I was on the streets.
It seemed like a long time. But oh, my head
was spinning and everything was pretty hate.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, you gotta remember where you went. Try to think.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, it's no good. I wait, coffee, a cup of coffee?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You stopped somewhere for a cup of coffee? Where?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I remember a neon sign on on Third Avenue?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Or you gotta do better than that. That's all I remember.
Did you talk twenty one while you were walking around?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Yes, yes, But he was following me, I think a man.
He was following me for quite a while. He told
me his name did.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No Tom? Yes, it was Tom, curly hair.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I remember that dark eye.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Oh look, that description fits thousands of guys in New York.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I know, mister dollar. The whole story. Well, it doesn't
sound very convincing, does it.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I called Detective Lieutenant Mike Tovich a homicide and he
was there ten minutes later. He was still questioning her.
When I left, I had them two one dollar drinks
for me while I thought about the whole deal.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Of all the guys in New York, Why did she
have to pick on me?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
But yeah, I'd do what I could to help her
in that story of hers. It's it's so phony, it
just might be true. Act too, You're truly Johnny Dollar
in a moment, yours truly Johnny Dollar, and the deadly
(06:15):
doubt matters. I have three two dollars and twenty cents
a telephone called the Pat McCrackan at Universal Adjustment Bureau. Yeah,
Everett Reid had been insured by one of Universal's member companies.
So I got myself officially assigned to the case, and
I went to work checking out Carol Carson's story what
there was of it, and it wasn't much. All she
remembered was wandering around the streets, getting a cup of
(06:36):
coffee somewhere on Third Avenue and being followed by a
guy named Tom. I started checking every joint on Third
Avenue from sixtieth to seventieth streets.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
An hour and a half later, I hit Peter that
Eddie's barn grive. Yeah, I think I remember, all right, Harson.
Carol Carson, her name on mean.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Nothing, but from the description you give me, Yeah, sure,
I remember now.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
We were thinking she looked kind of funny once you
worked in like she was in a daze or something.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
All right, all right, Now, what time was it when
she came in here?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Two three hours ago? That's not good enough. Was it eleven?
Eleven thirty midnight? Well? What?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Maybe around midnight?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Maybe? Yeah, sure about it?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
As far as I can remember, I kind of remember somebody.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
In the door.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
We have to come in, but I didn't know somebody
with her.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
What happened then?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
So she asked for a couple of coffee, so I
pored it and said it down in front of her.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So she left?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
She what, Yeah, I haven't left you, I consort her.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Funny, I see much of a time? Can you account
for that? I mean, how long was she here in
your place?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
No more than about one minute?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Mac?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh? Great for a dollar ready camp for the.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Police headquarters and Lieutenant Mike Tovich in homicide. Look, Johnny,
you're not trying to tell me I should buy an
aloe buy like Carol Carson's.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Are you?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
So it is pretty vague, Mike, vague enough to be true.
At least she was telling truth about going into that
joint on Third Avenue for a cup of coffee.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
So she's covered for one minute out of.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Two hours two hours.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
She said, she went to Read's apartment about eleven o'clock right,
The medical examiner says time of Read's death was between
eleven thirty and twelve thirty. She called you at one o'clock.
But if she can prove she was out of that
apartment for that.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Hour, she's only proved she was out of it for
a minute, plus.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
The time it took to get to Third Avenue and back,
say five minutes each way, and would still give her
plenty of time to kill him. But if we could
find this guy named Tom she says she was, that
was following her around, maybe he could prove she was
out of the apartment during the Oh, sure, that was
a real helpful description she gave us curly hair and
dark eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah. Look, Jenny, so you're taking a liking to her.
That's too bad. But don't let it make a fool
out of you, Mike. Did Carol tell you why she
went to Read's apartment? No? Oh, no, she wouldn't talk
about it.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
She also wouldn't explain a lump she has on the
side of her head.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Yeah, we think she got it fighting with Reed.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
What do you know about him?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Bad boy, a big gambler, and the way. We heard
he's been winning pretty big lately. M Maybe somebody he
won from couldn't pay off except with a bullet. Maybe
anything Johnny, prove it and I'll listen read run around
with you know usual crowd Johnny jack Wistle had outfit Whistle.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Now I've read won a lot of money from him.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Like I say, Johnny, anything you can prove, Yeah, yeah,
come intovich.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's right. I'm Larry Bowman. I want to know what's
going on with Carol Carson.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh what's it to you, mister Bowman? Might hear I say?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Ain't being locked up? That's right? Suspicion of murders ridiculously.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
She didn't kill anybody, And you know, it looks if
I knew it, she wouldn't be locked up, would she. Now,
maybe you can tell us why she went to this
ever it Read's apartment last night. I don't know why
she went, and I don't supposed to ask her either.
I trust the lieutenant and she went to seem she
had good reason. But Carol's not that and you could
kill anybody. You must have realized that just talking to her.
(10:13):
The main thing that I realized is that my personal
opinion is beside the point, Bowman. Look, the thing we
need to know is if Carol was away from Read's
apartment for almost an hour and a half while she
seems to think she was walking around the streets.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Did you say that sooner I can prove she was.
I was with her, Oh, Bunny, she didn't mention it
was probably confused.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
You sure you're not the one who was confused?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Now, look, I tell you I was with her. Okay,
where were you on the street? What street? I don't remember?
Sixty sixty eighth Street. I think that's not the street.
Carol says she was as I say, she was probably
confused as you go to a bar? What did you
have to drink? Oh? Carol too sure? Why not? You're
fighting a losing battle.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Bond Girl says she had a cup of coffee on
Third Avenue and that a guy named Tom was following.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'll listen. You told this enough, Bowman.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I can't blame you too much for try and I guess,
but it won't work.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You weren't with Carol, and you know it. I know
she didn't kill him.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You mean you hope she didn't When it comes to knowing,
right now, every bit of evidence we got says she did,
and we've got nothing that says she didn't. Act three
(11:42):
of yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment, yours truly
Johnny Dollar, and the deadly doubt matter. Oh, I him
five thirty cents coffee for Larry and me had a
little journy around the corner.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Lieutenant Tovitch can talk about evidence until he's blue in
the face, do it. Carol's not a killer.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You proved that, and to what You'll be the first
to listen. But cooking up phony alibis for Carol is
not gonna help any Okay, okay, So it was a
stupid thing to do.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But I can't just buy and do nothing. Don't you
have any other leads? You can follow up one? Maybe?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Reed was a gambler, could be somebody who was losing
big Joan.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Carrol's my fiance.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I know she doesn't have that kind of money anyway,
she doesn't gamble. I wasn't thinking about Carol. Who Then
Jack Vistil, for instance, we found out Reed's been seen
with vessels several times lately.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I've got to question him about it.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I mean as well, after all, at this point, we
got nothing to lose.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You're backing up a raw tree. Dollar, what reason would
I have to kill reed? Could be a real good reason, Vestle.
Maybe you lost money to him gamble me. Some nights
you win, some nights you lose, So maybe you lost
mine and you won, So maybe you won't read some money.
Oh that could be the motive.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Look, Dollar, why don't you take your crazy theory someplace else?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, I ow'd read money. I owe them all at
two bits? Now is that enough to bump them off? Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I started making the rounds along Third Avenue again, but
I got nowhere. Nobody remembered seeing her, and nobody remembered
the guy named Tom, the one she told me had
been following her.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Two hours later, I gave up. I was beat. I
went back to my room and flopping the bed.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, Johnny Dallon, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Who are you? I'm the guy you've been looking for it.
My name's Tom. I ring a bed. Well, it sure does.
Are you the one who was walking around the streets
with Carol Carson? That's right, I'm her alibi. So I
bust my neck trying to find you, and it ends
up with you finding me.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I've read in the papers that looked bad for Carol
unless they found the guy I was with her.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
He didn't show up any too soon, believe me, brother.
How long were you with her? Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I figure at least an hour. I kept following her,
and once in a while she'd stop and talk, but she.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Seemed kind of day and apparently reput something in her drink. Anyway,
I finally gave up. I figured, if it.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Was that tough to get acquainted, what's the us. But
you're willing to swear you were with her for an hour?
Why at least from around eleven thirty. After twelve thirty
that clearser?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Come on? I had them sixty dollars ready camp at
the headquarters.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Tom repeated a statement, and Carol identified Tom as the
man who'd been following her.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So it looked like it was all over.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I guess I'll never be able to thank you enough.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Johnny.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, if it.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Hadn't been let's just say on the stubborn type, Jerrold.
Once I believe your story, I had to follow through
on it.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
It's hard to realize I'm free. It's been like a
bad dream.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I'll bet Larry Bowman's glad it's over too. Have you
called him in?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I'll call him from my apartment, Johnny, all I can
say thanks again.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Carol took a cab to her apartment.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I started back into the building, and then out of
the corner of my eye, I spotted another cab pulling
away from the curve following Carroll's and it was Tom.
I figured i'd better join that procession. I tagged along
to Carroll's apartment. Inside I could hear voices, The door
was unlocked. Carol was in the process of handing over
some money at the top.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Johnny.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, looks like I got here just in time to
witness the payoff.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So you butt yourself an alibi, Carol? No, I look, Doll,
I gotta stay out of it. Carol, I got a
hand it to you. You really had me for.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You don't understand, Johnny, don't be.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
A sucker dollar cut yourself in on a pie. I'm
willing to have a partner.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
What are you talking about? Last night?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
When I followed Carol back to Rea's apartment, just as
I was leaving, I spotted somebody coming down the fire escape.
I followed him and found out who he was. And
where he lived. Then, when the story came out in
the papers, I realized I knew who the killer was.
I figured I'd make them go out of it, but
not as long as Carol was in jail.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Johnny just now when he wanted money to keep him
from telling the police.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh, I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I thought if I gave him what I had, it
would keep him satisfied until I could figure out Larry.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Wow PANORAMAA was too late the open door.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
It struck Larry's arm deflected his shot before he could
shoot again.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I nailed him, Johnny, are you all right?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, Larry Bowman's the killer.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I guess I was afraid of that right from the start.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
You see, Larry had been gambling with Reed and losing
to him.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I tried to make him stop, but he wouldn't. I
need more than he could pay, so.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
He went to Read's apartment to try and square it.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Huh Red told me maybe something could be worked out.
When he put something in my drink, I realized what
he meant.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
That's why I got out and Larry enter the apartment.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
When you were away killed, Reed slugged you when you
came back and planted a gun on.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You, I guess so.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
I wasn't sure until Tom told me he'd seen Larry
climb down that fire's gape. First, I just I just
couldn't believe that Larry would. How do you figure a
thing like that, Johnny?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
How do you figure it?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I didn't try to answer that one because I didn't
have an answer. Just it just isn't any I'd have
made thirteen dollars and forty cents in Cinetal's in transportation
back to Hyfrid expense account total and forty one dollars even. Yeah,
Larry Bowman's gambling was a big fat mistake. First with
Everett read that in trying to frame Carol. I guess
(18:35):
it's the trouble of gambling. You push your luck too far,
and sooner or lady, you bound to lose you as
truly Johnny duff our star will return in just a moment.
(19:01):
Now here is our star to tell you about next
week's story. Next week at Kilding, doallager who sets me
out on the wireless case I have a handle join us,
won't you?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yours truly?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
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Speaker 4 (19:33):
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Speaker 1 (19:52):
This is Dan Coverly speaking
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Carole Carson. Mister Dollar. Oh, you don't know me,
and I'm sorry to be calling so late.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
What time is it? Anyway about one am?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
A friend of yours, mister Ralston, mentioned your name.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
To me yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What Ralston?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
He said you were here in New York for the
weekend and mentioned your hotel.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Look mess, uh Carson, isn't Yes, Carol Carton h It's
nice talking to you and all that, but it is
rather late.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I realized what had happened a few moments ago.
You were the first person I thought of. Maybe you
can help me, mister Dollar. I need help badly.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
What's the trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm at the apartment of Everett Read on East sixty seventh.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Could you come over any particular reason? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think I've just killed him, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'll be right over.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Bob Bailey In the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
the Action in fact Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly,
and now act one of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense
(01:31):
Accounts invented by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Universal Adjustment Bureau Home Office Hertford, Connecticut. Following is an
account of expenses encourage during my investigation of the Deadly.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Doubt Matter.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Expense account I don't one a dollar eighty cab from
my Hotel Toy apartment and editor read on East sixty seven.
Errol Chryston was waiting for me at the door. She
looked sort of dazed as she pointed to a body.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
On the floor.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He's dead.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Two dollar ever read that. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes, this is his apartment.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You set over the phone. You thought you'd kill him. Well,
he's dead.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Alright, that's not what I meant. I met. I thought
I was the one who killed him. I'm not sure.
Oh I had.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Doesn't seem to matter. He's dead. I guess that's all.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Come on, not get hold of yourself, girl' alright, I
guess I'm not making much sense.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I got sort of funny, light headed.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Alright, letter sit out there, thanks, Noah, Why don't you
start at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Alright. I came to see every tonight about eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I guess he was a friend of yours.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh, he sent for.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Me and I had to come why telling me why
he insisted that I have a drink with him. Then
I started to feel funny, how so, oh dizzy? I
had to get some air.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You think there was something in the drink.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
There must have been. He didn't want me to leave,
but I had to.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
What time was that dirty?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think a little before maybe go on? I wandered
around the streets. Uh, I was in kind of a day.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
How long were you wandering around?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
It seemed like a long time. Then why I came
back here to the apartment. I had a terrible headache.
I remember walking in the door and.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh, that's all.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's all. What do you mean? That's all?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
That's all I remember. I must have passed out. When
I came to. I was lying on the floor, and
that gun wasn't near my hand in front of me
was when I called you?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's all you can tell me.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So it isn't much, is it? Sure?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's the dollar?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I can't believe I killed him.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I couldn't you say you left this apartment a little
before eleven thirty. The police medical examiner will be able
to tell the approximate time of this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
If you weren't here at that time, that's just it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Mister dollar.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I don't know how long I was on the streets.
It seemed like a long time. But oh, my head
was spinning and everything was pretty hate.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, you gotta remember where you went. Try to think.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, it's no good. I wait, coffee, a cup of coffee?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You stopped somewhere for a cup of coffee? Where?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I remember a neon sign on on Third Avenue?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Or you gotta do better than that. That's all I remember.
Did you talk twenty one while you were walking around?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Yes, yes, But he was following me, I think a man.
He was following me for quite a while. He told
me his name did.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No Tom? Yes, it was Tom, curly hair.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I remember that dark eye.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Oh look, that description fits thousands of guys in New York.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I know, mister dollar. The whole story. Well, it doesn't
sound very convincing, does it.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I called Detective Lieutenant Mike Tovich a homicide and he
was there ten minutes later. He was still questioning her.
When I left, I had them two one dollar drinks
for me while I thought about the whole deal.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Of all the guys in New York, Why did she
have to pick on me?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
But yeah, I'd do what I could to help her
in that story of hers. It's it's so phony, it
just might be true. Act too, You're truly Johnny Dollar
in a moment, yours truly Johnny Dollar, and the deadly
(06:15):
doubt matters. I have three two dollars and twenty cents
a telephone called the Pat McCrackan at Universal Adjustment Bureau. Yeah,
Everett Reid had been insured by one of Universal's member companies.
So I got myself officially assigned to the case, and
I went to work checking out Carol Carson's story what
there was of it, and it wasn't much. All she
remembered was wandering around the streets, getting a cup of
(06:36):
coffee somewhere on Third Avenue and being followed by a
guy named Tom. I started checking every joint on Third
Avenue from sixtieth to seventieth streets.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
An hour and a half later, I hit Peter that
Eddie's barn grive. Yeah, I think I remember, all right, Harson.
Carol Carson, her name on mean.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Nothing, but from the description you give me, Yeah, sure,
I remember now.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
We were thinking she looked kind of funny once you
worked in like she was in a daze or something.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
All right, all right, Now, what time was it when
she came in here?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Two three hours ago? That's not good enough. Was it eleven?
Eleven thirty midnight? Well? What?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Maybe around midnight?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Maybe? Yeah, sure about it?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
As far as I can remember, I kind of remember somebody.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
In the door.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
We have to come in, but I didn't know somebody
with her.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
What happened then?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
So she asked for a couple of coffee, so I
pored it and said it down in front of her.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So she left?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
She what, Yeah, I haven't left you, I consort her.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Funny, I see much of a time? Can you account
for that? I mean, how long was she here in
your place?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
No more than about one minute?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Mac?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh? Great for a dollar ready camp for the.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Police headquarters and Lieutenant Mike Tovich in homicide. Look, Johnny,
you're not trying to tell me I should buy an
aloe buy like Carol Carson's.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Are you?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
So it is pretty vague, Mike, vague enough to be true.
At least she was telling truth about going into that
joint on Third Avenue for a cup of coffee.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
So she's covered for one minute out of.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Two hours two hours.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
She said, she went to Read's apartment about eleven o'clock right,
The medical examiner says time of Read's death was between
eleven thirty and twelve thirty. She called you at one o'clock.
But if she can prove she was out of that
apartment for that.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Hour, she's only proved she was out of it for
a minute, plus.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
The time it took to get to Third Avenue and back,
say five minutes each way, and would still give her
plenty of time to kill him. But if we could
find this guy named Tom she says she was, that
was following her around, maybe he could prove she was
out of the apartment during the Oh, sure, that was
a real helpful description she gave us curly hair and
dark eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah. Look, Jenny, so you're taking a liking to her.
That's too bad. But don't let it make a fool
out of you, Mike. Did Carol tell you why she
went to Read's apartment? No? Oh, no, she wouldn't talk
about it.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
She also wouldn't explain a lump she has on the
side of her head.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Yeah, we think she got it fighting with Reed.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
What do you know about him?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Bad boy, a big gambler, and the way. We heard
he's been winning pretty big lately. M Maybe somebody he
won from couldn't pay off except with a bullet. Maybe
anything Johnny, prove it and I'll listen read run around
with you know usual crowd Johnny jack Wistle had outfit Whistle.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Now I've read won a lot of money from him.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Like I say, Johnny, anything you can prove, Yeah, yeah,
come intovich.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's right. I'm Larry Bowman. I want to know what's
going on with Carol Carson.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh what's it to you, mister Bowman? Might hear I say?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Ain't being locked up? That's right? Suspicion of murders ridiculously.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
She didn't kill anybody, And you know, it looks if
I knew it, she wouldn't be locked up, would she. Now,
maybe you can tell us why she went to this
ever it Read's apartment last night. I don't know why
she went, and I don't supposed to ask her either.
I trust the lieutenant and she went to seem she
had good reason. But Carol's not that and you could
kill anybody. You must have realized that just talking to her.
(10:13):
The main thing that I realized is that my personal
opinion is beside the point, Bowman. Look, the thing we
need to know is if Carol was away from Read's
apartment for almost an hour and a half while she
seems to think she was walking around the streets.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Did you say that sooner I can prove she was.
I was with her, Oh, Bunny, she didn't mention it
was probably confused.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
You sure you're not the one who was confused?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Now, look, I tell you I was with her. Okay,
where were you on the street? What street? I don't remember?
Sixty sixty eighth Street. I think that's not the street.
Carol says she was as I say, she was probably
confused as you go to a bar? What did you
have to drink? Oh? Carol too sure? Why not? You're
fighting a losing battle.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Bond Girl says she had a cup of coffee on
Third Avenue and that a guy named Tom was following.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'll listen. You told this enough, Bowman.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I can't blame you too much for try and I guess,
but it won't work.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You weren't with Carol, and you know it. I know
she didn't kill him.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You mean you hope she didn't When it comes to knowing,
right now, every bit of evidence we got says she did,
and we've got nothing that says she didn't. Act three
(11:42):
of yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment, yours truly
Johnny Dollar, and the deadly doubt matter. Oh, I him
five thirty cents coffee for Larry and me had a
little journy around the corner.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Lieutenant Tovitch can talk about evidence until he's blue in
the face, do it. Carol's not a killer.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You proved that, and to what You'll be the first
to listen. But cooking up phony alibis for Carol is
not gonna help any Okay, okay, So it was a
stupid thing to do.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But I can't just buy and do nothing. Don't you
have any other leads? You can follow up one? Maybe?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Reed was a gambler, could be somebody who was losing
big Joan.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Carrol's my fiance.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I know she doesn't have that kind of money anyway,
she doesn't gamble. I wasn't thinking about Carol. Who Then
Jack Vistil, for instance, we found out Reed's been seen
with vessels several times lately.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I've got to question him about it.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I mean as well, after all, at this point, we
got nothing to lose.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You're backing up a raw tree. Dollar, what reason would
I have to kill reed? Could be a real good reason, Vestle.
Maybe you lost money to him gamble me. Some nights
you win, some nights you lose, So maybe you lost
mine and you won, So maybe you won't read some money.
Oh that could be the motive.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Look, Dollar, why don't you take your crazy theory someplace else?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, I ow'd read money. I owe them all at
two bits? Now is that enough to bump them off? Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I started making the rounds along Third Avenue again, but
I got nowhere. Nobody remembered seeing her, and nobody remembered
the guy named Tom, the one she told me had
been following her.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Two hours later, I gave up. I was beat. I
went back to my room and flopping the bed.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, Johnny Dallon, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Who are you? I'm the guy you've been looking for it.
My name's Tom. I ring a bed. Well, it sure does.
Are you the one who was walking around the streets
with Carol Carson? That's right, I'm her alibi. So I
bust my neck trying to find you, and it ends
up with you finding me.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I've read in the papers that looked bad for Carol
unless they found the guy I was with her.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
He didn't show up any too soon, believe me, brother.
How long were you with her? Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I figure at least an hour. I kept following her,
and once in a while she'd stop and talk, but she.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Seemed kind of day and apparently reput something in her drink. Anyway,
I finally gave up. I figured, if it.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Was that tough to get acquainted, what's the us. But
you're willing to swear you were with her for an hour?
Why at least from around eleven thirty. After twelve thirty
that clearser?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Come on? I had them sixty dollars ready camp at
the headquarters.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Tom repeated a statement, and Carol identified Tom as the
man who'd been following her.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So it looked like it was all over.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I guess I'll never be able to thank you enough.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Johnny.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, if it.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Hadn't been let's just say on the stubborn type, Jerrold.
Once I believe your story, I had to follow through
on it.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
It's hard to realize I'm free. It's been like a
bad dream.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I'll bet Larry Bowman's glad it's over too. Have you
called him in?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I'll call him from my apartment, Johnny, all I can
say thanks again.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Carol took a cab to her apartment.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I started back into the building, and then out of
the corner of my eye, I spotted another cab pulling
away from the curve following Carroll's and it was Tom.
I figured i'd better join that procession. I tagged along
to Carroll's apartment. Inside I could hear voices, The door
was unlocked. Carol was in the process of handing over
some money at the top.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Johnny.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, looks like I got here just in time to
witness the payoff.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So you butt yourself an alibi, Carol? No, I look, Doll,
I gotta stay out of it. Carol, I got a
hand it to you. You really had me for.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You don't understand, Johnny, don't be.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
A sucker dollar cut yourself in on a pie. I'm
willing to have a partner.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
What are you talking about? Last night?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
When I followed Carol back to Rea's apartment, just as
I was leaving, I spotted somebody coming down the fire escape.
I followed him and found out who he was. And
where he lived. Then, when the story came out in
the papers, I realized I knew who the killer was.
I figured I'd make them go out of it, but
not as long as Carol was in jail.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Johnny just now when he wanted money to keep him
from telling the police.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh, I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I thought if I gave him what I had, it
would keep him satisfied until I could figure out Larry.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Wow PANORAMAA was too late the open door.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
It struck Larry's arm deflected his shot before he could
shoot again.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
I nailed him, Johnny, are you all right?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, Larry Bowman's the killer.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I guess I was afraid of that right from the start.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
You see, Larry had been gambling with Reed and losing
to him.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I tried to make him stop, but he wouldn't. I
need more than he could pay, so.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
He went to Read's apartment to try and square it.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Huh Red told me maybe something could be worked out.
When he put something in my drink, I realized what
he meant.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
That's why I got out and Larry enter the apartment.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
When you were away killed, Reed slugged you when you
came back and planted a gun on.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You, I guess so.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
I wasn't sure until Tom told me he'd seen Larry
climb down that fire's gape. First, I just I just
couldn't believe that Larry would. How do you figure a
thing like that, Johnny?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
How do you figure it?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I didn't try to answer that one because I didn't
have an answer. Just it just isn't any I'd have
made thirteen dollars and forty cents in Cinetal's in transportation
back to Hyfrid expense account total and forty one dollars even. Yeah,
Larry Bowman's gambling was a big fat mistake. First with
Everett read that in trying to frame Carol. I guess
(18:35):
it's the trouble of gambling. You push your luck too far,
and sooner or lady, you bound to lose you as
truly Johnny duff our star will return in just a moment.
(19:01):
Now here is our star to tell you about next
week's story. Next week at Kilding, doallager who sets me
out on the wireless case I have a handle join us,
won't you?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yours truly?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Johnny Downer, yours truly, Johnny Dollars salute Station k R
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Speaker 1 (19:27):
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Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Dailey, is produced and
directed by Jack Johnstone. Today's story was written by Robert Stanley.
Heard in the cast were Virginia, Greg Jukes, Matthews, Paul Dubof,
James Mcallian, Alan Reed, and Frank Gristeal. Join us next
week for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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