November 10, 2025 • 20 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):
Bob Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny D Johnny this
E Barret to try State Life and Casualty in New York. Oh, hi, Ed,
how are you a little sick? At the moment a minute,
I was planning to go up to the fishing lodge
(00:20):
of a friend of mine over the weekend, Tommy hot Grave.
Oh but now you've had to call it off. And brother,
I know exactly how you feel. Oh, Johnny, I don't
think you do. Oh yeah, I'm a fisherman myself. And
when something in the fierce we're going. What was that?
I just received word that Tommy had a car accident
up there, car rolled over on him. He was killed instantly.
(00:41):
Oh I'm sorry, Ed. Yeah. And company policy being what
it is, since he carried seventy thousand insurance, double indemnity,
since there was an accident involved, Well I got ordered
the usual investigation. Yeah, sure, I see who's the beneficiary,
his wife Mary? They get along all right. No, as
(01:05):
a matter of fact, Nah, no, Look, Johnny, don't get
any crazy idea. Just go on up there and help
her all your cats. Oh sure, sure. Place is called
Shadow Hill, and there's a little town of Bethel, New York. Yeah,
I've bensello, Johnnie. The police department is a man named
Skinner Police and everything's okay. It was Skinner who called me.
(01:26):
That's all. Oh okay, I'm on my way and if
I dig up anything, Johnny, I assure you that everything's
all right about this way. Oh sure, sure, you say that,
as though you don't believe it. Just my suspicious wine showing.
I guess forget it.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
HM.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
the Action fact Expenser Cab. I'll be because fib you
was freelance insurance investigator was truly Johnny Dellar expense account
(02:19):
submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri State
Life and Casually Insurance Company, New York, New York following
isn't the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of
the gruesome spectacle matter expense account Item one six twenty
fair and a Incidental's Hartford to New York. It had
them two fifty bucks deposit on a rental car. I
(02:42):
swung north across at George Washington Bridge, then take up
Highway seventeen through Goshen with its famous racetrack through the
summer resort town of Bonaicello, then past White Lake, a
good fishing spot to the little town of Bethel. It
Ribby isn't much more than a crossroad. It's a couple
of filling stations at general store and post offic with
an emmer's hotel where I parked my back Shadow Hill. However,
(03:04):
it turned out to be a beautiful summer lodge sitting
high above the edge of a nearby private lake. From
the highway, I could see the narrow, winding road that
led from the lodge down to the lake shore. I
can also see the spot where a car had apparently
taken a corner too quickly, skid it and rolled over
to where it lay on its side. Then, shortly after
pulling off the highway, I could see something else, another
(03:25):
car just short of where the accident had occurred. It
was half hidden in a clump of trees that bordered
the road, and as I slowly pulled up to it,
a man suddenly jumped out and leveled an old thirty
thirty rifle at me. Stop right there, don't come any closer.
Oh well, now, just a minutemus there? Why right here here? Yeah,
(03:48):
you'd call me a stranger of l maybe a stranger
and looking for Yeah that car with your hands up
over your head. Don't trying o front of me? Hey,
what is this a hold up?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I call you quick about it? Okay, whatever you say,
I'm like, can't see the store, doesn't seen. You're trying
to pull some trick. That door, Well it stuck. I
can't stand here. I'll do it. Got it, I ain't stick. Yeah,
(04:20):
I'll take the gun. I know you want, all right?
All right, up on your feet, just do shot. Went
around gone, gone tent around your stooker here, you'll just
take it easy, oh man, And remember I have the
gun now. I locked you up for this. That's what
(04:40):
I do. You know what? Yes, sure, interfering with the
law this way the law you that's right. See here's
my bag. See okay, then look mister Skinner her you Hey,
I do know my name? Your arm? Mister Skinner? Aren't
you sure? I am? I'm a Skinner only it's Chief
(05:03):
Skinner to you, police, Chief Skinner. And if you think
you're going to get away with this, what's your idea?
See if it looks like you're just the man I
came to see me, maybe you'd better have your gun
back here. Well, all right, all right, now you just
put your hands up and say, now's the dog gone minute?
(05:28):
Who are you, Johnny Dillon, Johnny Dolla what you said?
That's right, Johnny Doller, I'm an insurance investigator. Please be
a bitch. I might have known him, someone like you.
The way you are smarted me laying in the car
door against me that. I'm sorry about that, Johnny. I'm
(05:49):
I'm really proud to meet you. I mean, believe me, sEH,
I'm just mighty glad you're here. Oh why do you
say that? Just you look here, Johnny, over the edge
of this road. Look you see it down there? That car?
Is that the car on which mister Thomas Hargrave was killed. Well,
(06:12):
you knew about it. That's what I came here to investigate.
But all I can now you listen here to me, Jenny. Well,
I'm the one the telephone down to mister Hargrave's insurance
company down to New York. So I understood. I did
it as a favorite to marry. Yeah, she's wife on
account of she was so broke up and all. Never
did like her, but she was well, she was putting
(06:33):
up chet very consideraby, And I told the insurance company
just what I told everybody else that Tommy Hargrave took
this turn in the road too fast. And you see
the turn right above here, Yeah, that's a sharp one. Well,
he took this turn too fast and skid it off
(06:54):
the side, and the car went over and pinned him
underneath it. And that was it. You Well, all right now, Johnny,
I just come over here from old off walks. It
was down to doc that I took Tommy's body, Yes,
did he just after it happened. And you know why
I come back here, Well, I can think of one
(07:15):
good race in here from something you just told me. Yeah,
what I can see the car down there? Yeah, well
it was because I suddenly started thinking, how could the
man who knows his room somewhere ever make the mistake
of hey, what were you, bunche what chief? That car
was coming down the road down from the lodge, wasn't it?
(07:36):
That means he made a left hand turn right here? Correct?
The car went off the road, fell onside and lean
right where you landed, right where you see it right
on top of temmy. How that cars is sit? Then?
That's right? And even from here I can see that
the windows are all closed except for the one next
to the driver's seat. Correct. But now, and it's obvious
(07:56):
it didn't roll completely over, no shir It just slipped
over on each side and slid down there. And yet
you say that Tommy Hargrave's body was under It's right
under the right side of the car where we practically
had to do that. Oh, can you tell me how
he could have fallen under that side of the car?
Windows closed, Johnny? Yeah, Tommy was murdered, that's what. And
(08:23):
the car pushed over on him to make it look
like an exege. And Johnny, a couple of other things
you've gotta proved, Chief, Hey, like what who murdered him?
And why BacT too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in
a moment now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
(08:48):
And the gruesome spectacle matter? All right? Chief? Tell me
this well? And how did you learnt of this so
called accident that kill Tommy Hardgrave? For me? His? What? Oh?
It was like this journey. I was sitting down at
(09:11):
barbin Ernie's. Who are barbin Ernie? When they run that
mobile gas station down the highway. You passed on the way.
Oh go on, Well, we were just sitting there talking
about the hamburtooing and all the money. You mean the Hamiltonian.
You know who's the big harness races run down the
Gooshen every year. Oh yeah, why it's world famous, bigger
than the Kentucky Journey. And we was talking about how
(09:35):
much money Bonnie Marshall has made taking bets on those races.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And we were.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Chief You mean you have a booky here in Bethel,
and that you, as chief of police, condone such goings
on when we all I'm surprised at you. Oh well,
it's just day little short of harmless betting. It all
every man's entired of to a little where you know
(10:04):
how came? Yeah, I sure do. Now let's get back
to the subject. Yeah sure with Like I say, we
were sitting there talking and we see Mary Hargrave driving
by on her way back from New York. Was she
gone to do some shopping that day? She wasn't here
when it happened, Well, no, sir, she couldn't be. You're sure, Well,
like I told you, she was in New York. Anyhow,
(10:26):
she drove on up here. So what had happened? And
drove right back to tell us at the gas station.
We came up here, Tommy's body out from under, took
her down to Doc Walton's office, and Jack said, how
carefully have you inspected that car down there? Well, that's
what I was about to do when you come all right,
come on, let's take a look at it. Well, sure, sure.
(10:50):
The only way of proving Mary high Grave was actually
in New York where no, I guess not. Hey, look
here she half jeese is still in the ignition, but
the ignitions turned off. You're right, Johnny, you're right. This
car wasn't rid over the side of the road. He
would push hair. Let's see if we can get this story. Yeah, yeah,
(11:14):
I'll give you. Let's see if some of this we're good? Well,
what are you doing in a handful of dust? Well
it's not very professional, but some of this fine does
start to bring out? Any fingerprints on the style will
be no prince here? Did I can see? Are you right? Chief?
This wheel has been carefully wiped off. So whoever did it? Mm? Hmmm,
(11:38):
huh what'd you find? Hmm? Did Tommy Hargrave wear glasses? Spectacles? Tommy?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No shirt?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
What come on? Chief? The first thing I want is
to look at his body. At doctor Walton's just say
he's right, then let's go. There's a matter of facted
who suggested to Amos to Chief Skinner, I should say
that he go back and have another look at that car,
mister Dollar. Just fine, doctor woman, because a couple of
(12:08):
things about this body made me well, made me wonder.
Look here the way the closer torn as though it'd
had some kind of a struggle, scratches, some contusions on
his hands, but more important, here, now here, at the
base of the skull, this mark up where that car is.
There are no rock, stoves, stones, no anything that could
(12:30):
make a mark like this. And there's another on the
face below the eye. You know what that looks like
to me? Doctor, what's that mark? From the bront of
a thirty eight automatics? And I've seen plenty of him,
I may Johnny, you're right, and that would indicate Hargrave
was murdered and the car pushed upon him to make
(12:51):
it look like yeah. Sure, And Johnny and me found
a few other things around that car that would indicate
the same thing. Doctor, I understand Tommy Hargrave did not
wear glasses oh not to die know of of course
Mary his wife, he wears them, she does, can't do
without the kind well just regular tortoiseshell, you know, or
(13:11):
something something like these. Maybe granted, one lens of smashed
and part of the frame is broken. But is this
the kind she wore? Missus Dodge, So of course they may.
Surely you don't think he's old? Why I didn't get
along too well? Did they? Well? No, but after all,
when any couple's been married, also, she just happens to
(13:34):
be the beneficiary of his sizeable insurance policy. Good heavens,
mister done. Yeah, I think we'd better pay a little
visit to missus Mary Hargrave at three of your truly
(14:00):
Johnny Dollar in a moment no act free of yours
truly Johnny Dollar, and the gruesome spectacle matter, the three
of us Doctor Walton, police Chief Famous Skinner and I
drove up to the lodge outside the little town of Bethel,
New York to see why missus Mary Hargrave had killed
her husband. Made it look like a car accident, that is,
(14:22):
if she did it, and what little evidence we had
pointed right straight at her. The obvious fact that car
had been pushed over on him after he was killed,
the mark showing he'd struggle for his life had been
struck with the butt of a pistol, the fact he
and his wife hadn't got along too well, that she
was his beneficiary. And finally there were the glasses I'd
found in the car. My bit. You wonder if she
(14:49):
found out to hear Johnny and is troop? Isn't matter car?
The aar And yes, mister Dollar, t is all right
if she is here? Well, all arista right on the spot,
not all. Let me handle this journey, I said, please me. Yes, oh,
doctor Skinner, that's right. And this year is mister Johnny Dollar?
(15:12):
Oh yes, mister Dollar.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Mister batt Is.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
The insurance company phoned that you'd be here. Won't you
come in?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Juny, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I'm sorry you've been so slow in answering the door.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
But I seem to mislaid.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
A pair of my glasses.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, that journey I'm blind as a battle without. Won't
you all sit down? Thank you? Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I've been using an old pair of steel rims with
an old prescription, but they look so terrible.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I wh when did you lose your glasses? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I mislaid them a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Now what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You very well? What I mean? You You don't seem
terribly upset about your husband's death. Missus hungry?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Why should I dollar? We haven't been exactly getting along
for years. All he seemed to care about was his
fishing and betting on the horses day after day. Oh no,
I never did care about spending every summer up in
this dodgy little town and all its dodgy people. And
oh I didn't mean you, doctor Watson.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh yes, The first thing.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I do when I collect the insurance is sell this
place and go back to the city where my friends
are there. Just some excitements. Who's who's my glasses?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You have? There? Are they?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
They look like mine? I mean, what happened to them?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We're sure they are hers? Journey? What? No, no, Dollar,
I know, I don't think they are. Let me have them. Please?
Sure here, what's going on here? Journey? We just washed
in time? No? No, no, wait, these can't be hers.
I should have really, gentlemen, please, I've seen your glasses
very many times, very thick at the edge, is very
(17:02):
thin in the center of the LMB well, isn't this
pair this lens, the one that's toll intact, bears no
resemblance to yours at all? No, No, I'm gonna wait. Listen,
Missus Hart, will somebody please tell me what listen? Will you?
You say your husband was always playing the horses? Yes,
of course he was.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
But do you mind telling me here?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And while he was up here? Yes, all the time, Isabella,
I don't see what you're driving at. I sure do it. Brother.
This is probably the wildless tounch I've ever had. Missus Hargrave,
did your husband owe a lot of money on his bedding? All?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
A lot, I should say, not just the opposite. He's
been going around for nearly two weeks boasting about the
big killing he made if he ever collect can let
me have those classes?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh? Look here this little mark inside the temple. Oh,
that's the mark of the upcoming crist over in Monticello.
Here you see the same marker's in my Okay, I
just sit tight, the three of you. Oh no, Sada,
now you look hearing on and amos, don't try arresting
anybody while I'm gone, But it might make you look
a little foolish when I get.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Back back from where I'll see you all later. Well
that's really just about all.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There is to this case. Oh except, of course, for
the fact the optometrist in Manticello had no difficulty at
all in matching the glasses I'd found with the prescription
of Yeah, you guessed it. They had belonged to the
bookie chiefs Can had told me about Bonnie Martin. Of course,
Bonnie wanted to put up a fight when we faced
him with the facts, but then he couldn't seem to
(18:42):
explain the various and sundry bruises he was carrying around
until we reminded him of the fight he'd had with
Tommy Hartreat. Yeah, he'd killed him and pushed the car
over on top of him. The reason for it all simple.
Tommy had won a cool twenty five thousand dollars from him,
had threatened to put him out of business if he
didn't pay, which he couldn't. So Bonnie killed him and
(19:05):
tried to fake the accident. And you know something, I
have a sneaking suspicion, Chief Amos Skinner isn't going to
stand any Booki's operating in Bethel, New York from here
on out. Oh, and Mary Hargrave found the glasses she'd mislaid.
Expense account total including manage on the redtal car, and
they took back to Hyfrid one hundred and forty eight
(19:26):
dollars even yours truly, Sonny dollars. Our star will return
in just a moment. Now here's our star to tell
(19:47):
you about next week story. Next week, well, listen, I
promise you the most unusual case and some of the
most unexpected people you ever Well Johnny's, won't you Yours truly,
Johnny Dollar? Yours truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey,
(20:13):
originates in Hollywood and has written, produced and directed by
Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg Harry Bartel,
Junius Matthews, and Joe Curts. Be sure to join us
next week, same time and station for another exciting story
of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Coverly speaking.
Bob Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny D Johnny this
E Barret to try State Life and Casualty in New York. Oh, hi, Ed,
how are you a little sick? At the moment a minute,
I was planning to go up to the fishing lodge
(00:20):
of a friend of mine over the weekend, Tommy hot Grave.
Oh but now you've had to call it off. And brother,
I know exactly how you feel. Oh, Johnny, I don't
think you do. Oh yeah, I'm a fisherman myself. And
when something in the fierce we're going. What was that?
I just received word that Tommy had a car accident
up there, car rolled over on him. He was killed instantly.
(00:41):
Oh I'm sorry, Ed. Yeah. And company policy being what
it is, since he carried seventy thousand insurance, double indemnity,
since there was an accident involved, Well I got ordered
the usual investigation. Yeah, sure, I see who's the beneficiary,
his wife Mary? They get along all right. No, as
(01:05):
a matter of fact, Nah, no, Look, Johnny, don't get
any crazy idea. Just go on up there and help
her all your cats. Oh sure, sure. Place is called
Shadow Hill, and there's a little town of Bethel, New York. Yeah,
I've bensello, Johnnie. The police department is a man named
Skinner Police and everything's okay. It was Skinner who called me.
(01:26):
That's all. Oh okay, I'm on my way and if
I dig up anything, Johnny, I assure you that everything's
all right about this way. Oh sure, sure, you say that,
as though you don't believe it. Just my suspicious wine showing.
I guess forget it.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
HM.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
the Action fact Expenser Cab. I'll be because fib you
was freelance insurance investigator was truly Johnny Dellar expense account
(02:19):
submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri State
Life and Casually Insurance Company, New York, New York following
isn't the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of
the gruesome spectacle matter expense account Item one six twenty
fair and a Incidental's Hartford to New York. It had
them two fifty bucks deposit on a rental car. I
(02:42):
swung north across at George Washington Bridge, then take up
Highway seventeen through Goshen with its famous racetrack through the
summer resort town of Bonaicello, then past White Lake, a
good fishing spot to the little town of Bethel. It
Ribby isn't much more than a crossroad. It's a couple
of filling stations at general store and post offic with
an emmer's hotel where I parked my back Shadow Hill. However,
(03:04):
it turned out to be a beautiful summer lodge sitting
high above the edge of a nearby private lake. From
the highway, I could see the narrow, winding road that
led from the lodge down to the lake shore. I
can also see the spot where a car had apparently
taken a corner too quickly, skid it and rolled over
to where it lay on its side. Then, shortly after
pulling off the highway, I could see something else, another
(03:25):
car just short of where the accident had occurred. It
was half hidden in a clump of trees that bordered
the road, and as I slowly pulled up to it,
a man suddenly jumped out and leveled an old thirty
thirty rifle at me. Stop right there, don't come any closer.
Oh well, now, just a minutemus there? Why right here here? Yeah,
(03:48):
you'd call me a stranger of l maybe a stranger
and looking for Yeah that car with your hands up
over your head. Don't trying o front of me? Hey,
what is this a hold up?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I call you quick about it? Okay, whatever you say,
I'm like, can't see the store, doesn't seen. You're trying
to pull some trick. That door, Well it stuck. I
can't stand here. I'll do it. Got it, I ain't stick. Yeah,
(04:20):
I'll take the gun. I know you want, all right?
All right, up on your feet, just do shot. Went
around gone, gone tent around your stooker here, you'll just
take it easy, oh man, And remember I have the
gun now. I locked you up for this. That's what
(04:40):
I do. You know what? Yes, sure, interfering with the
law this way the law you that's right. See here's
my bag. See okay, then look mister Skinner her you Hey,
I do know my name? Your arm? Mister Skinner? Aren't
you sure? I am? I'm a Skinner only it's Chief
(05:03):
Skinner to you, police, Chief Skinner. And if you think
you're going to get away with this, what's your idea?
See if it looks like you're just the man I
came to see me, maybe you'd better have your gun
back here. Well, all right, all right, now you just
put your hands up and say, now's the dog gone minute?
(05:28):
Who are you, Johnny Dillon, Johnny Dolla what you said?
That's right, Johnny Doller, I'm an insurance investigator. Please be
a bitch. I might have known him, someone like you.
The way you are smarted me laying in the car
door against me that. I'm sorry about that, Johnny. I'm
(05:49):
I'm really proud to meet you. I mean, believe me, sEH,
I'm just mighty glad you're here. Oh why do you
say that? Just you look here, Johnny, over the edge
of this road. Look you see it down there? That car?
Is that the car on which mister Thomas Hargrave was killed. Well,
(06:12):
you knew about it. That's what I came here to investigate.
But all I can now you listen here to me, Jenny. Well,
I'm the one the telephone down to mister Hargrave's insurance
company down to New York. So I understood. I did
it as a favorite to marry. Yeah, she's wife on
account of she was so broke up and all. Never
did like her, but she was well, she was putting
(06:33):
up chet very consideraby, And I told the insurance company
just what I told everybody else that Tommy Hargrave took
this turn in the road too fast. And you see
the turn right above here, Yeah, that's a sharp one. Well,
he took this turn too fast and skid it off
(06:54):
the side, and the car went over and pinned him
underneath it. And that was it. You Well, all right now, Johnny,
I just come over here from old off walks. It
was down to doc that I took Tommy's body, Yes,
did he just after it happened. And you know why
I come back here, Well, I can think of one
(07:15):
good race in here from something you just told me. Yeah,
what I can see the car down there? Yeah, well
it was because I suddenly started thinking, how could the
man who knows his room somewhere ever make the mistake
of hey, what were you, bunche what chief? That car
was coming down the road down from the lodge, wasn't it?
(07:36):
That means he made a left hand turn right here? Correct?
The car went off the road, fell onside and lean
right where you landed, right where you see it right
on top of temmy. How that cars is sit? Then?
That's right? And even from here I can see that
the windows are all closed except for the one next
to the driver's seat. Correct. But now, and it's obvious
(07:56):
it didn't roll completely over, no shir It just slipped
over on each side and slid down there. And yet
you say that Tommy Hargrave's body was under It's right
under the right side of the car where we practically
had to do that. Oh, can you tell me how
he could have fallen under that side of the car?
Windows closed, Johnny? Yeah, Tommy was murdered, that's what. And
(08:23):
the car pushed over on him to make it look
like an exege. And Johnny, a couple of other things
you've gotta proved, Chief, Hey, like what who murdered him?
And why BacT too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in
a moment now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
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And the gruesome spectacle matter? All right? Chief? Tell me
this well? And how did you learnt of this so
called accident that kill Tommy Hardgrave? For me? His? What? Oh?
It was like this journey. I was sitting down at
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barbin Ernie's. Who are barbin Ernie? When they run that
mobile gas station down the highway. You passed on the way.
Oh go on, Well, we were just sitting there talking
about the hamburtooing and all the money. You mean the Hamiltonian.
You know who's the big harness races run down the
Gooshen every year. Oh yeah, why it's world famous, bigger
than the Kentucky Journey. And we was talking about how
(09:35):
much money Bonnie Marshall has made taking bets on those races.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
And we were.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Chief You mean you have a booky here in Bethel,
and that you, as chief of police, condone such goings
on when we all I'm surprised at you. Oh well,
it's just day little short of harmless betting. It all
every man's entired of to a little where you know
(10:04):
how came? Yeah, I sure do. Now let's get back
to the subject. Yeah sure with Like I say, we
were sitting there talking and we see Mary Hargrave driving
by on her way back from New York. Was she
gone to do some shopping that day? She wasn't here
when it happened, Well, no, sir, she couldn't be. You're sure, Well,
like I told you, she was in New York. Anyhow,
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she drove on up here. So what had happened? And
drove right back to tell us at the gas station.
We came up here, Tommy's body out from under, took
her down to Doc Walton's office, and Jack said, how
carefully have you inspected that car down there? Well, that's
what I was about to do when you come all right,
come on, let's take a look at it. Well, sure, sure.
(10:50):
The only way of proving Mary high Grave was actually
in New York where no, I guess not. Hey, look
here she half jeese is still in the ignition, but
the ignitions turned off. You're right, Johnny, you're right. This
car wasn't rid over the side of the road. He
would push hair. Let's see if we can get this story. Yeah, yeah,
(11:14):
I'll give you. Let's see if some of this we're good? Well,
what are you doing in a handful of dust? Well
it's not very professional, but some of this fine does
start to bring out? Any fingerprints on the style will
be no prince here? Did I can see? Are you right? Chief?
This wheel has been carefully wiped off. So whoever did it? Mm? Hmmm,
(11:38):
huh what'd you find? Hmm? Did Tommy Hargrave wear glasses? Spectacles? Tommy?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No shirt?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
What come on? Chief? The first thing I want is
to look at his body. At doctor Walton's just say
he's right, then let's go. There's a matter of facted
who suggested to Amos to Chief Skinner, I should say
that he go back and have another look at that car,
mister Dollar. Just fine, doctor woman, because a couple of
(12:08):
things about this body made me well, made me wonder.
Look here the way the closer torn as though it'd
had some kind of a struggle, scratches, some contusions on
his hands, but more important, here, now here, at the
base of the skull, this mark up where that car is.
There are no rock, stoves, stones, no anything that could
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make a mark like this. And there's another on the
face below the eye. You know what that looks like
to me? Doctor, what's that mark? From the bront of
a thirty eight automatics? And I've seen plenty of him,
I may Johnny, you're right, and that would indicate Hargrave
was murdered and the car pushed upon him to make
(12:51):
it look like yeah. Sure, And Johnny and me found
a few other things around that car that would indicate
the same thing. Doctor, I understand Tommy Hargrave did not
wear glasses oh not to die know of of course
Mary his wife, he wears them, she does, can't do
without the kind well just regular tortoiseshell, you know, or
(13:11):
something something like these. Maybe granted, one lens of smashed
and part of the frame is broken. But is this
the kind she wore? Missus Dodge, So of course they may.
Surely you don't think he's old? Why I didn't get
along too well? Did they? Well? No, but after all,
when any couple's been married, also, she just happens to
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be the beneficiary of his sizeable insurance policy. Good heavens,
mister done. Yeah, I think we'd better pay a little
visit to missus Mary Hargrave at three of your truly
(14:00):
Johnny Dollar in a moment no act free of yours
truly Johnny Dollar, and the gruesome spectacle matter, the three
of us Doctor Walton, police Chief Famous Skinner and I
drove up to the lodge outside the little town of Bethel,
New York to see why missus Mary Hargrave had killed
her husband. Made it look like a car accident, that is,
(14:22):
if she did it, and what little evidence we had
pointed right straight at her. The obvious fact that car
had been pushed over on him after he was killed,
the mark showing he'd struggle for his life had been
struck with the butt of a pistol, the fact he
and his wife hadn't got along too well, that she
was his beneficiary. And finally there were the glasses I'd
found in the car. My bit. You wonder if she
(14:49):
found out to hear Johnny and is troop? Isn't matter car?
The aar And yes, mister Dollar, t is all right
if she is here? Well, all arista right on the spot,
not all. Let me handle this journey, I said, please me. Yes, oh,
doctor Skinner, that's right. And this year is mister Johnny Dollar?
(15:12):
Oh yes, mister Dollar.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Mister batt Is.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
The insurance company phoned that you'd be here. Won't you
come in?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Juny, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I'm sorry you've been so slow in answering the door.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
But I seem to mislaid.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
A pair of my glasses.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, that journey I'm blind as a battle without. Won't
you all sit down? Thank you? Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I've been using an old pair of steel rims with
an old prescription, but they look so terrible.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I wh when did you lose your glasses? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I mislaid them a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Now what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You very well? What I mean? You You don't seem
terribly upset about your husband's death. Missus hungry?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Why should I dollar? We haven't been exactly getting along
for years. All he seemed to care about was his
fishing and betting on the horses day after day. Oh no,
I never did care about spending every summer up in
this dodgy little town and all its dodgy people. And
oh I didn't mean you, doctor Watson.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh yes, The first thing.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I do when I collect the insurance is sell this
place and go back to the city where my friends
are there. Just some excitements. Who's who's my glasses?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You have? There? Are they?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
They look like mine? I mean, what happened to them?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We're sure they are hers? Journey? What? No, no, Dollar,
I know, I don't think they are. Let me have them. Please?
Sure here, what's going on here? Journey? We just washed
in time? No? No, no, wait, these can't be hers.
I should have really, gentlemen, please, I've seen your glasses
very many times, very thick at the edge, is very
(17:02):
thin in the center of the LMB well, isn't this
pair this lens, the one that's toll intact, bears no
resemblance to yours at all? No, No, I'm gonna wait. Listen,
Missus Hart, will somebody please tell me what listen? Will you?
You say your husband was always playing the horses? Yes,
of course he was.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
But do you mind telling me here?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And while he was up here? Yes, all the time, Isabella,
I don't see what you're driving at. I sure do it. Brother.
This is probably the wildless tounch I've ever had. Missus Hargrave,
did your husband owe a lot of money on his bedding? All?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
A lot, I should say, not just the opposite. He's
been going around for nearly two weeks boasting about the
big killing he made if he ever collect can let
me have those classes?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh? Look here this little mark inside the temple. Oh,
that's the mark of the upcoming crist over in Monticello.
Here you see the same marker's in my Okay, I
just sit tight, the three of you. Oh no, Sada,
now you look hearing on and amos, don't try arresting
anybody while I'm gone, But it might make you look
a little foolish when I get.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Back back from where I'll see you all later. Well
that's really just about all.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There is to this case. Oh except, of course, for
the fact the optometrist in Manticello had no difficulty at
all in matching the glasses I'd found with the prescription
of Yeah, you guessed it. They had belonged to the
bookie chiefs Can had told me about Bonnie Martin. Of course,
Bonnie wanted to put up a fight when we faced
him with the facts, but then he couldn't seem to
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explain the various and sundry bruises he was carrying around
until we reminded him of the fight he'd had with
Tommy Hartreat. Yeah, he'd killed him and pushed the car
over on top of him. The reason for it all simple.
Tommy had won a cool twenty five thousand dollars from him,
had threatened to put him out of business if he
didn't pay, which he couldn't. So Bonnie killed him and
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tried to fake the accident. And you know something, I
have a sneaking suspicion, Chief Amos Skinner isn't going to
stand any Booki's operating in Bethel, New York from here
on out. Oh, and Mary Hargrave found the glasses she'd mislaid.
Expense account total including manage on the redtal car, and
they took back to Hyfrid one hundred and forty eight
(19:26):
dollars even yours truly, Sonny dollars. Our star will return
in just a moment. Now here's our star to tell
(19:47):
you about next week story. Next week, well, listen, I
promise you the most unusual case and some of the
most unexpected people you ever Well Johnny's, won't you Yours truly,
Johnny Dollar? Yours truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey,
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originates in Hollywood and has written, produced and directed by
Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg Harry Bartel,
Junius Matthews, and Joe Curts. Be sure to join us
next week, same time and station for another exciting story
of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Coverly speaking.
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