November 11, 2025 • 24 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 (00:00):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time no Warnny Dollar, Earl Foreman, Johnny Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Earl, how are I thinks in sunny Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I think I'll move to California. What I mean, get
away from this crazy insurance business as far as I can.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's not like you have a problem.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I sure have a real wild one trying to get
rid of sixty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's a problem.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That's insurance on a policy bought and paid for by
one Albert Schuyler Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, he died and left the money to.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
His only child. It's son, Henry ports America. Can't you
find him behind him?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's just the trouble, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I've found two of them, bodily in the exciting Adventures
of a man with the action packed expense of Gout
America is fabulous.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Freelance insurance investigator Asterley Johnny Dollar, no act one of yours,
truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
(01:22):
Dollar to the Tri State Life and Casualty Company, Sarasota, Florida,
following us an account of expenses and courage during my
investigation of the Double Trouble Matter. Expense account Item one
eighty three twenty Plain Fair and Incidental's Hartford to Tampa
(01:44):
to Sarasota, Florida. Item two a bus seventy five for
a cab to Earl Portman's office in.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
The Conroy Building.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's right, after waiting twenty years for this sole beneficiary
to show twenty years. Like I told you, the insured
was Albert Schuyler King, sixty five grand. Yes, he was
a widower, lived up near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and
he had a son named Henry. Henry was his sole
heir and beneficiary of his policy. Okay, and you say
that Kingman died twenty years ago. Yes, during that big
(02:11):
hurricane back in thirty eight. Remember it did about forty
million dollars damage up and down the coast. Ear I
was a mere child at the time, O sure all
was Henry, Well, he was ten, just a kid. Anyhow,
it was several days before the old man's body was fine,
and the boy, no trace in him, disappeared in due
course of time. Because of the statute of limitations. The
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old man's estate was I guess it went to the state,
but not his insurance.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, No, we kept the matter of the insurance open.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Company policy requires a lot of legal finagling, but in
the company's history they turned up beneficiaries as much as
fifteen eighteen years after death by advertising. And that's what
accounts for the sudden appearance of two Henry Kingmans, each
claiming to be the beneficiary of Albert Kingman's policy, and
each having a logical, legitimate story, each saying he didn't
(03:02):
know about the insurance until he saw the ad. Where
are these boys right here in Sarasota. They arrived yesterday.
They arrived together, no, a couple of hours apart, unknown
to each other. They say, I hope you made it
perfectly plain that one of them has to be a phony,
and that when he's found out, it's gonna go pretty
rough with them, naturally. But Johnny, I can't find anything
(03:22):
wrong with either of their stories. You know, their background,
where they've been and so on. Where they're staying Earl,
a couple of dingy little motels on the.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Edge of town. Now, look, here's the file on them,
or rather on the old man. Well, I don't know
that that's gonna be muchself.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
His information about not only Kingman but his wife who
died before him. There's a lot of miscellaneous information about
the boys. I mean the boy where he went to
school and Sunday School, who his teachers were, the.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Names of some of his friends. There's a lot of
stuff here well, and Jimmy, I had better go through it. Sure. Now,
Look it's getting like you're gonna stay with Girt me
is huge hor that is necessary, which he'd killed me
if I didn't bring you home.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So come on, we'll drive on out to the key,
have cocktails, some dinner, and you can spend the evening
pouring over that material. Come on, Cocktails and dinner were great,
they always are with the four minutes only poor man
is a misnomer that Homer. Theirs on Saint Aman's Key
(04:26):
is not only big and new, but beautiful. They have
their own private dock and speedboat on the bio directly bank.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Of the house.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, they own a couple of spanking new, fancy air
conditioned cars. I decided that if I ever get enough
to retire, this will be the kind of a setup
for me. It was nearly ten o'clock by the time
I got around to the folder on Henry Kingdon, but
by two am, so help me, I knew more about
him than he himself could.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yes, I was all set to expose.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
One of these claimants as a phony, a fraud. Had
the whole situation right in the palm of my hand,
I thought, But brother, I had no idea of what
was coming.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Believe me, Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in
a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant
Donald Belwick, my husband.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Reaver, What is it? Donald?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Confounded Raby, I can't find the fountain pan.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I've looked all through this desk.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Here it is.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You must have used it as a marker when you're
reading this book, see this great literary classic Six Sults.
All right, never mind about my reading habits. Just look
at the coverage we're going to get with this new
auto accident, Paulicy See yeah, Colvision Une fifty dollars deduct
the public liability, property damage, medical benefits.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
In other words, we have complete coverage. That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Of course, it's gonna cost us money. I'm sending the
company a check right now. Gee, it's too bad we
don't live in Rhode Island.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Rhode Island, Why oh, because on our rate should be lower.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Rhode Island has less accidents per capita than any other state.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Which state has the highest?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Let me see, Yeah here it is Nevada. Oh my golly,
Nevada's second highest. Alaska has the most. Really, I didn't
know that. You know, it's just too bad we can't
eliminate traffic accidents completely.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Not only would it save life and limb, but it'll
be a lot less straight on the pocketbook. Yeah, that's
for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
These automobile accident policies get more expensive every year, just
because there's so many costly accidents. Well, I'm glad we've
got some good insurance coverage, Donald, but just remember one thing.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Oh well, some auto accidents are an offender, some ruin
a family. That's true, very true.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
As far as I'm concerned, I don't want any of
your old insurance money.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I want you here at home, safe and sound. You
can always drive carefully, won't you? You as I will do.
That's my Donald, that's my doll.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Hello, I too, if yours truly? Johnny Dollar and the
double Trouble matter.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I am thirty the next morning in a cheap little
motel on the north edge of Sarasota.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I'd spent nearly an hour carefully questioning Henry King of
number one, and I was getting nowhere.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Obi O'Brien, sure, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
He was one of the kids I used to play
with back in Elizabeth City, he and Bobby Tank.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You see the scar on my arm right here, that's
where Obi hit me with a stick one time when
we were playing caddie. Yeah, I see.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
If you know where Obi is these days? You asked
him and he probably remember scared him to death. He
thought he'd busted my arm. Now, let's see, how about
Miss Albertus Alberta's Yes see, I don't remember any Miss albertas.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
His Sunday school teacher. They're in Elizabeth City.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Listen, I was only ten years old, but I remember
my Sunday school teacher real good. Her name was Miss Griswold,
and she was Look, are you trying to trick me
or something? Yes, I am, because Henry, why did you
call me Hank? Everybody else does the Frank remains Hank
that one of you two claimants to the insurance is
a phony.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Will believe me, it's not me.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Everything you've told me about your childhood checks perfectly with
the information I have.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, of course, mister Dollar, almost too perfectly. Listen. Where
did you live and go to school after the hurricane? Well,
I'll be honest, I didn't have much school. Where did
you live, mister dollar.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I wandered around more than a little orphan annie, all
over North Carolina and up north? Did you live anywhere
long enough to be well, really be recognized as Henry Kingman?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I'm afraid I was just a bum and all anybody
ever knew me by I was Hank. You saw the
ad about the unclaimed insurance in New York, Yes, sir,
I was working on the doc.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Steve Adring saw that add the Times, and I decided
that if I had that much money coming to me
and I could get a hold of it right, maybe
I could.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Amount to something, get an education maybe, or.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, Hank, all the insurance company has to go on
as your memory, or what you say is your memory
of your childhood.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
What I've told you is true, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But if the other claimant comes up with the same
kind of a story, but he can't, because don't you see, Sar,
I'm really Henry Kingman. I've told you all about my
father and the house, and the hurricane and the people
I knew about. What's happened to me.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, it's because I am Henry Kingman.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Uh huh, we'll see. I tried to trip him up
in a dozen ways, but with no success. He had
a logical, reasonable answer for every question about his past
and present. As for not being able to produce anyone
who could identify him as Henry Kieman, but it was
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simply because of his rather aimless life spent wandering from
city to city, never having any close friends because he.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Chose to go along.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He was a tall, well built lad with a mop
of blonde hair and clear blue eyes. And I must
confess I kind of liked him his open frankness. You
know something, I could have been awfully wrong.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Although most men by nature don't feel in the combat
mood much of the time, there are some who just
can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there
is good sound reason for him. In July nineteen hundred,
when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty
of their fellow countrymen during the Box Uprising, the battle
(11:05):
was a furiously fort affair.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Army Private Robert H.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Von Schlick, serving with Company C of the ninth United
States Infantry Division, was in the thick of the Frakus.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Although he had been wounded previously.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
While carrying a wounded comrade to a place of safety,
he rejoined his command, which partly occupied an exposed position
on a dike.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Private von Schlick.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Remained there after his company had been withdrawn, and, in
spite of the hail of bullets around him, single handedly
continued to fire into the enemy ranks. Oblivious to the
fact that he was a conspicuous target. He refused to
leave the fight until he was literally shot off his
position by the enemy. Private Robert von Schlick earned the
(11:53):
Medal of Honor for valiant devotion to duty and added
heroic background to the Code of Conduct of an American
Fighting Men.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Now Act three of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar, I got
into the car that Earl Porman hat Lowman drove to
the motel east of town to see Henry Kingman number two.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Tall, dark and well dressed.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
He was terse and to the point, and he answered
all my questions with the same ease and conviction.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
As the other boy, in only one major respect that
his story different.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh so I can't name you a single person who
identify me as who I really am.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Henry Kingman. And for a very simple reason. What's that
henrymt It's Henry mister Dower.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And the reason is that right after the hurricane, I
was adopted by a family that just moved into nearby Bridgeton.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The name is McGovern, so I took their name. Go
up to Bridgeton and ask them show.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Them my picture anything you like, and I'll tell you
I'm Henry McGovern. Only my foster parents knew that I
was really Henry Kingman. They both died about seven years ago,
and they told nobody else who you really were, now.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Even the preacher.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They'd wanted a son for years. Now they had a son,
and they didn't want anyone to come along and take
me away from them. Then how did you find out
that you're Henry Kingman? If you are, I'll ignore that
last part of your question is a dollar? They didn't
tell me until my twenty first birthday.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Bridgeton.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Isn't that the little town up near Kura Tuck that
was completely destroyed by fire a couple of years ago?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh? Yes, of course, I uh forgotten. There is no
living soul up there anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh, but I'm sure a man like you could track
down some of the people who lived there. When were
you last in Bridgeton? I went up north r other
of my parents, my foster parents, died. As I told you,
I've been living in work in New York. I'll look here,
mister Dolla. Wow, Hasn't everything I've told you checked perfectly
with what you know about my.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Father, my childhood? Everything?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Hasn't everything I've told you proved to be true? Isn't
it proof that I'm Henry Kingdom? There's only one trouble.
What's that You're not the only one who has that
kind of proof?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
There here, Johnny has some more of this baked seat draft.
Oh was that, sir, Johnny? You've hardly touched a thing. Yeah,
I know, Gerturne. I'm sorry. I will have another for coffee, though.
I'm sure so you haven't gotten very far in your investigation. No,
I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I told you, Johnny, the stories of those two boys
check out perfectly unless the information the company's been collecting
for the last twenty years as old. But both of
them can't be Henry Kingman, so one of them must
be lying. But which one?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well suppose just for.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Example, that the blonde is Henry. Yeah, then, how would
the other got hold of all that information? Unless, well,
do you suppose they've known each other sometime in the past.
They certainly don't like each other, I mean each other's
being here, I asked them, merl and they both deny
having ever seen each other until they came here within
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a few hours of each other.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I didn't see the blonde boy the other came here
to the house. I just didn't like him, the dark
haired one. I mean, hey, wait a minute, yeah, what
is it, Johnny? The description of the father and that folder?
Excuse me? Can I help you?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, no thanks, I got it right here, huh I did? Hey, listen,
does doctor crutch is still about the street?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Do you want me to drive you over?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Thanks, I'll Johnny. What'd you find? Walking out that street?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
And there was no moon?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Turned out to be a big, fat mistake. In the
first place, I almost bumped into a palm tree in
front of the house. In the second place, I didn't
see what stepped out from behind the next palm tree
until it was too late.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Times have changed, and so has the man. Through the ages,
man has advanced both physically and mentally. Prehistoric man's concept
of war and living is like.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That of an animal.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
His implements were crude, his knowledge simple. It was survival
of the fittest. From his club and stones to bows
and arrows and spears, from muskets and sabers to atomic
rifles and missiles. Man has progressed in the art of
attack and defense with each new phase, Man's knowledge has developed.
(16:46):
Today the warrior that he can be called such, is
not a stone thrower, a bowman, or a swordsman. He's
a technician who needs knowledge of all that science has developed.
He's a sonarman, a radar man, rifle man, or a
torpedo man, a missileman, or a pilot. Whatever his job,
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he needs the skill and the technical know how to
do the job and do it well. Yes, times have changed,
so has the man.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Now act for yours.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Maybe I'd better drive him over anyway, Doc, And that's
when I found him lying out.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
There by the palm tree.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well, it's lucky you did, erl I think he's smelling
sauce or bring around whoever attacked him, mister seen you coming?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Hold, what's it's okay? Johnny wants Doc Kreutcher, suck me.
You don't know, Johnny, You sure don't, brother, I have
a suspicion couple of them.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Here, good hot tea tea, sure, get him a slug
a brandy. Oh, only make it scotch, good man, Doc,
you feel okay?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Now listen, ye, get on the phone. Call the motels
where those boys are staying. Tell them to get over
here immediately. Better still, I'll drive over and get him meantime.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Doc, Yeah, here's your Scotch, Johnny, And if.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You want some more just a minute. Woman wears mine,
of course, Doc, I'm sorry like me.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Listen, Doc, I want to ask you a couple of questions.
What about heredity? Heredity? Yes, okay, all right, Just to
keep things straight, I'll call you Hank, sure, mister don
(18:53):
you I'll call Henry.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, it does happen to be my name. How El
tells me he found you both in Hank's motel. That's right, sir,
comparing notes. I went over there and tell him that
he's a phony. He doesn't get out of town. Sure,
let me see your hands. Oh sure, here's sir, what
about them? Look lock all you're right right? A what sir?
(19:19):
How did you bruise these knuckles.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, it was kind of clumsy, but my hands slipped
trying to open one of the windows in that cheap motel.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Don't you believe it, Johnny, he's the one who's sayed them. Man,
this one has a bruised knuckle too.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, now, what's your excuse, Henry, Well, you can believe it,
and not such yourself.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
But exactly the same thing happened to me. But you
ask me, Johnny, they both attacked you. On the other hand, early,
they may both be telling the truth about this.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
It's the truth, sir.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
What did you mean about this?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I mean that at least one of you was lying
about being the son of Albert Skyler Kingman.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Well, god, I mean else? You piped down for a minute.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I suddenly realized that the laws of heredity could solve
this case a lot quicker than detective work. So I
checked with doctor Crutcher to make sure I was right.
Then I checked descriptions of Henry Kingman's father and mother,
did you, sir?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Both of them had brown hair and brown eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So what where both parents have identical color hair and eyes,
any offspring will have the same hank Your hair is
so blind is almost white, and your eyes are blue.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Ry.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Your hair is almost black. Your eyes are also blue
and crazy, fool. I told you this wouldn't work. Crazy
for if you let me come here along, yeah, then
you'd never have cut me in.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Of course, I got.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Suspicious you could get that all the way. I got
here first at night?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, how was I don't know you were coming?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
All right? Oh it isn't all right, Come on up,
put that thing got God, No, go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Get back, Johnny, you outdrew that Henry like, oh yeah,
take a look at what happened to Hank.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Huh? Is everything all right? Boy? Holy Gertruth? What did
you hit him with?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Erl?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I never did like that old base anyhow.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, my heredity gag was just that, a gag, but
it certainly brought things to a head.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Hurry, How did they know so much about the real
Henry kingman? Will listen?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
As soon as we locked them up, I called the
National press services, had them put the story of this
attempt at fraud in the headlines all over the country.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Result a phone.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Call from the head of an orphanage where the real
Henry had been taken in as a child where he
still lived. And yeah, the phonies where a couple of
kids would run away from that orphanage after he'd polled
around with them, told them all about himself. As for
why they both appeared to make the claim, sure each
of them saw the company's ad and tried to get
in ahead of the other.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, they weren't all right for a long time.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Expense account total including incidentals in fair Back to Hydred
one save in the Age seventy Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
(22:47):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood
and has written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard
in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Vic Perlin, Sam Edward,
James mccallium, and Parley Bear. He's sure to join us
next week Save time and Station or another exciting story
of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
This is Dan Colorly speaking.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar has been a presentation of the
United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time no Warnny Dollar, Earl Foreman, Johnny Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Earl, how are I thinks in sunny Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I think I'll move to California. What I mean, get
away from this crazy insurance business as far as I can.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's not like you have a problem.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I sure have a real wild one trying to get
rid of sixty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's a problem.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That's insurance on a policy bought and paid for by
one Albert Schuyler Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, he died and left the money to.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
His only child. It's son, Henry ports America. Can't you
find him behind him?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's just the trouble, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I've found two of them, bodily in the exciting Adventures
of a man with the action packed expense of Gout
America is fabulous.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Freelance insurance investigator Asterley Johnny Dollar, no act one of yours,
truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
(01:22):
Dollar to the Tri State Life and Casualty Company, Sarasota, Florida,
following us an account of expenses and courage during my
investigation of the Double Trouble Matter. Expense account Item one
eighty three twenty Plain Fair and Incidental's Hartford to Tampa
(01:44):
to Sarasota, Florida. Item two a bus seventy five for
a cab to Earl Portman's office in.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
The Conroy Building.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's right, after waiting twenty years for this sole beneficiary
to show twenty years. Like I told you, the insured
was Albert Schuyler King, sixty five grand. Yes, he was
a widower, lived up near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and
he had a son named Henry. Henry was his sole
heir and beneficiary of his policy. Okay, and you say
that Kingman died twenty years ago. Yes, during that big
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hurricane back in thirty eight. Remember it did about forty
million dollars damage up and down the coast. Ear I
was a mere child at the time, O sure all
was Henry, Well, he was ten, just a kid. Anyhow,
it was several days before the old man's body was fine,
and the boy, no trace in him, disappeared in due
course of time. Because of the statute of limitations. The
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old man's estate was I guess it went to the state,
but not his insurance.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, No, we kept the matter of the insurance open.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Company policy requires a lot of legal finagling, but in
the company's history they turned up beneficiaries as much as
fifteen eighteen years after death by advertising. And that's what
accounts for the sudden appearance of two Henry Kingmans, each
claiming to be the beneficiary of Albert Kingman's policy, and
each having a logical, legitimate story, each saying he didn't
(03:02):
know about the insurance until he saw the ad. Where
are these boys right here in Sarasota. They arrived yesterday.
They arrived together, no, a couple of hours apart, unknown
to each other. They say, I hope you made it
perfectly plain that one of them has to be a phony,
and that when he's found out, it's gonna go pretty
rough with them, naturally. But Johnny, I can't find anything
(03:22):
wrong with either of their stories. You know, their background,
where they've been and so on. Where they're staying Earl,
a couple of dingy little motels on the.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Edge of town. Now, look, here's the file on them,
or rather on the old man. Well, I don't know
that that's gonna be muchself.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
His information about not only Kingman but his wife who
died before him. There's a lot of miscellaneous information about
the boys. I mean the boy where he went to
school and Sunday School, who his teachers were, the.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Names of some of his friends. There's a lot of
stuff here well, and Jimmy, I had better go through it. Sure. Now,
Look it's getting like you're gonna stay with Girt me
is huge hor that is necessary, which he'd killed me
if I didn't bring you home.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So come on, we'll drive on out to the key,
have cocktails, some dinner, and you can spend the evening
pouring over that material. Come on, Cocktails and dinner were great,
they always are with the four minutes only poor man
is a misnomer that Homer. Theirs on Saint Aman's Key
(04:26):
is not only big and new, but beautiful. They have
their own private dock and speedboat on the bio directly bank.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Of the house.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, they own a couple of spanking new, fancy air
conditioned cars. I decided that if I ever get enough
to retire, this will be the kind of a setup
for me. It was nearly ten o'clock by the time
I got around to the folder on Henry Kingdon, but
by two am, so help me, I knew more about
him than he himself could.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yes, I was all set to expose.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
One of these claimants as a phony, a fraud. Had
the whole situation right in the palm of my hand,
I thought, But brother, I had no idea of what
was coming.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Believe me, Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in
a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant
Donald Belwick, my husband.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Reaver, What is it? Donald?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Confounded Raby, I can't find the fountain pan.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I've looked all through this desk.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Here it is.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You must have used it as a marker when you're
reading this book, see this great literary classic Six Sults.
All right, never mind about my reading habits. Just look
at the coverage we're going to get with this new
auto accident, Paulicy See yeah, Colvision Une fifty dollars deduct
the public liability, property damage, medical benefits.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
In other words, we have complete coverage. That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Of course, it's gonna cost us money. I'm sending the
company a check right now. Gee, it's too bad we
don't live in Rhode Island.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Rhode Island, Why oh, because on our rate should be lower.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Rhode Island has less accidents per capita than any other state.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Which state has the highest?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Let me see, Yeah here it is Nevada. Oh my golly,
Nevada's second highest. Alaska has the most. Really, I didn't
know that. You know, it's just too bad we can't
eliminate traffic accidents completely.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Not only would it save life and limb, but it'll
be a lot less straight on the pocketbook. Yeah, that's
for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
These automobile accident policies get more expensive every year, just
because there's so many costly accidents. Well, I'm glad we've
got some good insurance coverage, Donald, but just remember one thing.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Oh well, some auto accidents are an offender, some ruin
a family. That's true, very true.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
As far as I'm concerned, I don't want any of
your old insurance money.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I want you here at home, safe and sound. You
can always drive carefully, won't you? You as I will do.
That's my Donald, that's my doll.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Hello, I too, if yours truly? Johnny Dollar and the
double Trouble matter.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I am thirty the next morning in a cheap little
motel on the north edge of Sarasota.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I'd spent nearly an hour carefully questioning Henry King of
number one, and I was getting nowhere.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Obi O'Brien, sure, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
He was one of the kids I used to play
with back in Elizabeth City, he and Bobby Tank.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You see the scar on my arm right here, that's
where Obi hit me with a stick one time when
we were playing caddie. Yeah, I see.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
If you know where Obi is these days? You asked
him and he probably remember scared him to death. He
thought he'd busted my arm. Now, let's see, how about
Miss Albertus Alberta's Yes see, I don't remember any Miss albertas.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
His Sunday school teacher. They're in Elizabeth City.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Listen, I was only ten years old, but I remember
my Sunday school teacher real good. Her name was Miss Griswold,
and she was Look, are you trying to trick me
or something? Yes, I am, because Henry, why did you
call me Hank? Everybody else does the Frank remains Hank
that one of you two claimants to the insurance is
a phony.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Will believe me, it's not me.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Everything you've told me about your childhood checks perfectly with
the information I have.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, of course, mister Dollar, almost too perfectly. Listen. Where
did you live and go to school after the hurricane? Well,
I'll be honest, I didn't have much school. Where did
you live, mister dollar.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I wandered around more than a little orphan annie, all
over North Carolina and up north? Did you live anywhere
long enough to be well, really be recognized as Henry Kingman?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I'm afraid I was just a bum and all anybody
ever knew me by I was Hank. You saw the
ad about the unclaimed insurance in New York, Yes, sir,
I was working on the doc.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Steve Adring saw that add the Times, and I decided
that if I had that much money coming to me
and I could get a hold of it right, maybe
I could.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Amount to something, get an education maybe, or.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, Hank, all the insurance company has to go on
as your memory, or what you say is your memory
of your childhood.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
What I've told you is true, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But if the other claimant comes up with the same
kind of a story, but he can't, because don't you see, Sar,
I'm really Henry Kingman. I've told you all about my
father and the house, and the hurricane and the people
I knew about. What's happened to me.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, it's because I am Henry Kingman.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Uh huh, we'll see. I tried to trip him up
in a dozen ways, but with no success. He had
a logical, reasonable answer for every question about his past
and present. As for not being able to produce anyone
who could identify him as Henry Kieman, but it was
(10:17):
simply because of his rather aimless life spent wandering from
city to city, never having any close friends because he.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Chose to go along.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
He was a tall, well built lad with a mop
of blonde hair and clear blue eyes. And I must
confess I kind of liked him his open frankness. You
know something, I could have been awfully wrong.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Although most men by nature don't feel in the combat
mood much of the time, there are some who just
can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there
is good sound reason for him. In July nineteen hundred,
when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty
of their fellow countrymen during the Box Uprising, the battle
(11:05):
was a furiously fort affair.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Army Private Robert H.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Von Schlick, serving with Company C of the ninth United
States Infantry Division, was in the thick of the Frakus.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Although he had been wounded previously.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
While carrying a wounded comrade to a place of safety,
he rejoined his command, which partly occupied an exposed position
on a dike.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Private von Schlick.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Remained there after his company had been withdrawn, and, in
spite of the hail of bullets around him, single handedly
continued to fire into the enemy ranks. Oblivious to the
fact that he was a conspicuous target. He refused to
leave the fight until he was literally shot off his
position by the enemy. Private Robert von Schlick earned the
(11:53):
Medal of Honor for valiant devotion to duty and added
heroic background to the Code of Conduct of an American
Fighting Men.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Now Act three of Yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar, I got
into the car that Earl Porman hat Lowman drove to
the motel east of town to see Henry Kingman number two.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Tall, dark and well dressed.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
He was terse and to the point, and he answered
all my questions with the same ease and conviction.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
As the other boy, in only one major respect that
his story different.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh so I can't name you a single person who
identify me as who I really am.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Henry Kingman. And for a very simple reason. What's that
henrymt It's Henry mister Dower.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And the reason is that right after the hurricane, I
was adopted by a family that just moved into nearby Bridgeton.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The name is McGovern, so I took their name. Go
up to Bridgeton and ask them show.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Them my picture anything you like, and I'll tell you
I'm Henry McGovern. Only my foster parents knew that I
was really Henry Kingman. They both died about seven years ago,
and they told nobody else who you really were, now.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Even the preacher.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They'd wanted a son for years. Now they had a son,
and they didn't want anyone to come along and take
me away from them. Then how did you find out
that you're Henry Kingman? If you are, I'll ignore that
last part of your question is a dollar? They didn't
tell me until my twenty first birthday.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Bridgeton.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Isn't that the little town up near Kura Tuck that
was completely destroyed by fire a couple of years ago?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh? Yes, of course, I uh forgotten. There is no
living soul up there anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh, but I'm sure a man like you could track
down some of the people who lived there. When were
you last in Bridgeton? I went up north r other
of my parents, my foster parents, died. As I told you,
I've been living in work in New York. I'll look here,
mister Dolla. Wow, Hasn't everything I've told you checked perfectly
with what you know about my.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Father, my childhood? Everything?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Hasn't everything I've told you proved to be true? Isn't
it proof that I'm Henry Kingdom? There's only one trouble.
What's that You're not the only one who has that
kind of proof?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
There here, Johnny has some more of this baked seat draft.
Oh was that, sir, Johnny? You've hardly touched a thing. Yeah,
I know, Gerturne. I'm sorry. I will have another for coffee, though.
I'm sure so you haven't gotten very far in your investigation. No,
I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I told you, Johnny, the stories of those two boys
check out perfectly unless the information the company's been collecting
for the last twenty years as old. But both of
them can't be Henry Kingman, so one of them must
be lying. But which one?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well suppose just for.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Example, that the blonde is Henry. Yeah, then, how would
the other got hold of all that information? Unless, well,
do you suppose they've known each other sometime in the past.
They certainly don't like each other, I mean each other's
being here, I asked them, merl and they both deny
having ever seen each other until they came here within
(15:08):
a few hours of each other.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I didn't see the blonde boy the other came here
to the house. I just didn't like him, the dark
haired one. I mean, hey, wait a minute, yeah, what
is it, Johnny? The description of the father and that folder?
Excuse me? Can I help you?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, no thanks, I got it right here, huh I did? Hey, listen,
does doctor crutch is still about the street?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Do you want me to drive you over?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Thanks, I'll Johnny. What'd you find? Walking out that street?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
And there was no moon?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Turned out to be a big, fat mistake. In the
first place, I almost bumped into a palm tree in
front of the house. In the second place, I didn't
see what stepped out from behind the next palm tree
until it was too late.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Times have changed, and so has the man. Through the ages,
man has advanced both physically and mentally. Prehistoric man's concept
of war and living is like.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That of an animal.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
His implements were crude, his knowledge simple. It was survival
of the fittest. From his club and stones to bows
and arrows and spears, from muskets and sabers to atomic
rifles and missiles. Man has progressed in the art of
attack and defense with each new phase, Man's knowledge has developed.
(16:46):
Today the warrior that he can be called such, is
not a stone thrower, a bowman, or a swordsman. He's
a technician who needs knowledge of all that science has developed.
He's a sonarman, a radar man, rifle man, or a
torpedo man, a missileman, or a pilot. Whatever his job,
(17:06):
he needs the skill and the technical know how to
do the job and do it well. Yes, times have changed,
so has the man.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Now act for yours.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Maybe I'd better drive him over anyway, Doc, And that's
when I found him lying out.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
There by the palm tree.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well, it's lucky you did, erl I think he's smelling
sauce or bring around whoever attacked him, mister seen you coming?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Hold, what's it's okay? Johnny wants Doc Kreutcher, suck me.
You don't know, Johnny, You sure don't, brother, I have
a suspicion couple of them.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Here, good hot tea tea, sure, get him a slug
a brandy. Oh, only make it scotch, good man, Doc,
you feel okay?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Now listen, ye, get on the phone. Call the motels
where those boys are staying. Tell them to get over
here immediately. Better still, I'll drive over and get him meantime.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Doc, Yeah, here's your Scotch, Johnny, And if.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You want some more just a minute. Woman wears mine,
of course, Doc, I'm sorry like me.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Listen, Doc, I want to ask you a couple of questions.
What about heredity? Heredity? Yes, okay, all right, Just to
keep things straight, I'll call you Hank, sure, mister don
(18:53):
you I'll call Henry.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, it does happen to be my name. How El
tells me he found you both in Hank's motel. That's right, sir,
comparing notes. I went over there and tell him that
he's a phony. He doesn't get out of town. Sure,
let me see your hands. Oh sure, here's sir, what
about them? Look lock all you're right right? A what sir?
(19:19):
How did you bruise these knuckles.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, it was kind of clumsy, but my hands slipped
trying to open one of the windows in that cheap motel.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Don't you believe it, Johnny, he's the one who's sayed them. Man,
this one has a bruised knuckle too.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, now, what's your excuse, Henry, Well, you can believe it,
and not such yourself.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
But exactly the same thing happened to me. But you
ask me, Johnny, they both attacked you. On the other hand, early,
they may both be telling the truth about this.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
It's the truth, sir.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
What did you mean about this?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I mean that at least one of you was lying
about being the son of Albert Skyler Kingman.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Well, god, I mean else? You piped down for a minute.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I suddenly realized that the laws of heredity could solve
this case a lot quicker than detective work. So I
checked with doctor Crutcher to make sure I was right.
Then I checked descriptions of Henry Kingman's father and mother,
did you, sir?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Both of them had brown hair and brown eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So what where both parents have identical color hair and eyes,
any offspring will have the same hank Your hair is
so blind is almost white, and your eyes are blue.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Ry.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Your hair is almost black. Your eyes are also blue
and crazy, fool. I told you this wouldn't work. Crazy
for if you let me come here along, yeah, then
you'd never have cut me in.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Of course, I got.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Suspicious you could get that all the way. I got
here first at night?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, how was I don't know you were coming?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
All right? Oh it isn't all right, Come on up,
put that thing got God, No, go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Get back, Johnny, you outdrew that Henry like, oh yeah,
take a look at what happened to Hank.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Huh? Is everything all right? Boy? Holy Gertruth? What did
you hit him with?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Erl?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I never did like that old base anyhow.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, my heredity gag was just that, a gag, but
it certainly brought things to a head.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Hurry, How did they know so much about the real
Henry kingman? Will listen?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
As soon as we locked them up, I called the
National press services, had them put the story of this
attempt at fraud in the headlines all over the country.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Result a phone.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Call from the head of an orphanage where the real
Henry had been taken in as a child where he
still lived. And yeah, the phonies where a couple of
kids would run away from that orphanage after he'd polled
around with them, told them all about himself. As for
why they both appeared to make the claim, sure each
of them saw the company's ad and tried to get
in ahead of the other.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, they weren't all right for a long time.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Expense account total including incidentals in fair Back to Hydred
one save in the Age seventy Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
(22:47):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood
and has written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard
in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Vic Perlin, Sam Edward,
James mccallium, and Parley Bear. He's sure to join us
next week Save time and Station or another exciting story
of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
This is Dan Colorly speaking.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar has been a presentation of the
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