November 13, 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 (00:00):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now war.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Mister Dollar, my name is Parley Barron. I'm calling from Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hollywood. What insurance company, mister Barron?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Non you handle all investigations for Eastern liability in Trusty?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah? I guess I do.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I am sure that they'll be calling you in shortly.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What about, sir, A little matter of embezzlement.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh, nearly ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's been stolen from the Berkeley Furniture manufacturing company there
in Hartford.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You're connected with Berkeley Furniture. No, No, actually I am not.
Then what's your connection with this investment?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Suggest you check with Berkeley and of course the insurance company.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Of course, when you have earned the facts.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
From them, I am sure you will find in them
the most importance.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
To contact me.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You send in Hollywood? Yes, goodbye, mister Dollar. Yeah, but
where in Hollywood? Hello? Hello? Oh, he's a lot of help.
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
(01:10):
the Action Fact Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator,
who is truly Johnny Dollar? Now act one the viewers.
Truly Johnny Dollar Expense Account shimitted by a special investigator,
(01:40):
Johnny Dollar to the Eastern Liability and Trust Company Home office, Hartford, Connecticut.
Following is an account of expenses encourage during my investigation
of the Hollywood Mystery Matter expense account ID want ten
cents for a phone called a hal Spidal. Who's my
regular contact at Eastern Liability and Trust. Well, Hi, Johnny,
(02:01):
Nice to talk to you again. Yeah, nice to talk
to you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Listen, have you received a report of loss from the
Berkeley Furniture Manufacturing Company? Well, they're a client of ours,
But no, what makes you ask a thing like that?
A phone call? I just got. They called you direct? Now,
somebody did, a man by the name of Poe.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Hold everything, Jenny, I'm holding.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
What did you say? When we'll find out how much?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Johnny?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, you've got an assignment boy, and it's Berkeley Furniture
Manufacturing Company and Besselman. Yeah, ten thousand. How you found
out about it?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Listen, I just found out about it themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So get on over there and see what goes, will you. Well,
we'll do. Yeah. My informant, the man who'd called me
had really known something, but how to locate him. It'd
him to a dollar forty five taxi to the Berkeley
Plan on the northwest edge of town. It's a small company,
but an old one. When I flashed my credentials to
(02:58):
the receptionist, I was immediately shown into the office of
the highest money himself. Well, I must say your insurance
company acts very properly, mister Dollar sent aunt. Thanks, mister Brickley.
I'll get straight to the point, sir. We've suffered a
considerable loss. Yes, so I understand from how Spidal at
Eastern Liability and Trust. Ten thousand dollars, wasn't it? Yes,
(03:18):
maybe ten thousand dollars. But I don't recall mentioning the
amount of mister Spidel. In any event, mister Dollar, what
I want is that money back. I don't care what
you do with a thief, all right. Have you any
idea who took it, mister Brickley, I certainly have a
young great woo, sir, one of our bookkeepers, a gentleman
who has been with the company over thirty years. Hey,
(03:40):
what are you smiling about, mister Dollar. Well, he's stolen
this money from you, But you still call him a
gentleman because I always thought he was. Did his job.
Never complain, that's your measure of a gentleman. Eh, what's that?
How much money did he earn, mister Brickley, Sixty sixty
five dollars a week? What difference does it make? Just
one an old man living alone? Was plenty for him, unless,
(04:02):
of course he was gambling something like that. Gambling him,
of course not. Never had enough money, trouble at home? Maybe?
Has he married? No, never be able to support a
wife after thirty years with your company. I paid him
as much as I thought he was worth, yeah, or
as little as you thought you could get away with it.
That is really no concern to yours. Return of the
(04:23):
money is all right. Where does he live, mister Berkeley,
in a small apartment on the north side of town.
Why did you ask him yesterday? Yesterday morning? Said he
had to see his doctor in the afternoon. Yes, it's
against my usual practice, but I let him off. But
of course you decided to dock his pay. Naturally, I
have to keep discipline in the place like this. Oh sure.
(04:44):
And this morning when I opened the safe, I discovered
that the money was missing nine thousand, nine hundred and
eighty four seventy five. The case that we had on
hand for emergencies, and also discovered that he hadn't come
to the office, so I phoned his apartment. I learned
that our respected gentleman bookkeeper left town yesterday afternoon, bag
(05:06):
and baggage. That doesn't necessarily mean that he took the money.
I'd like to know why not? What was he the
only one who had access to the safe? Of course
not all of the bookkeepers have. How many of them others?
I mean three? But you think for one minute they
dare take that money and then come back here and
face me? Maybe you got a point there. What have
(05:26):
you notified the police of this loss?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I prefer that the whole thing be kept as quiet
as possible for the sake of my company's reputation. Please
remember that, sir, Whatever you say, mister Berkeley, That's why
I have no desire to prosecute him, why I refuse
to even file charges as long as I get the
money to act. Yeah, now, what's his address? Eleven two
thirty one off Maple Street. But as I told you,
(05:49):
he isn't there. He's left town.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
There.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You told me how hold himn is he in? He's sixties?
But what difference does that make oh and mister Dollar. Yeah,
just how did you happen to know about this so soon?
I mean the amount that was stolen from somebody who
called me on the phone, somebody who apparently knew a
good deal about it. If I can locate him, get
in touch with him, he can probably be a lot
of help and running down this. Come to think of it,
(06:14):
you tell me what his name is? The bookkeeper name? Yeah, Baron, sir? What? Yes,
Piley Baron Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in
(06:36):
a moment and not on Act two of yours, truly
Johnny Dollar and the Hollywood mystery matter. So the embezzler
of the ten thousand dollars was Piley Baron, the same
man who'd call me on the phone, apparently call me
before the company even knew the money was missing, and
(06:57):
he'd had the audacity to inform me that I should
come at tagged him, Yeah, somewhere in Hollywood, which is
like saying the needle is somewhere in the haystack. I
had done three two fifty for a taxi to the
little apartment house of North Maple Street. I paid off
the driver, then walked into the open foy air and
looked for the usual bank of mailboxes to find out
which apartment was partly parents. No, that's all right, driver,
(07:19):
you go ahead if you want them. Let's see David's parents.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oops, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's all right, spailing Pierce Robes And oh here we are,
Barren Apartment one, old three.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, I've been a young man. Are you a salesman?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
No? I was just looking up the apartment number, and.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Mister Parley Baron he ain't here, miss Yeah, sure, no, sir,
he left your bagging baggage yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Any idea where he wants?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Who are you hops or something?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Here? My credentious.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I need dollar insurance.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah that's right. Now look I want you to let
me into his apartment.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Where's her?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
There's way.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Something wrong, mister Donald.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Ah, just a routine investigation.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Oh yeah, I was sure he'd done nothing wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh why do you say that?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
H nice quiet old man like him? Why should he?
Only excitement he ever has is when his niece comes
to visit with him?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
His niece, here's her named Virginia Jenny Lockhart.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Wonderful girl.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Okay, sort of drops in here to look after him
once in a while.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Cook him a good meal. Now here we.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Are, mm, well, it sure looks like he left in
a hurry. Closets sop on doors, Putante, Where can I
find this niece you mentioned?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Why didn't you see her when you just came in?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That girl who bumped into me down on the lobby,
That was Jenny Lockhead.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It must have been.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yes, she dropped in for a visit with her uncle,
found him gone, and then let it out again.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And I didn't have sense enough to get a good
look at it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
When uh, here's that picture of her? Mister sent it
to him from her vacation last winter.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The chisen huh, blue sky and palm.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Trees down Hollywood, I understand.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Is that where she's headed for? Now?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, now you got me there? Yeah, what's that you
picked up?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Mister? H was a non? I guess, yeah. It's addressed
of her. Jenny, my dear, the doctor you had me
see has finally told me the truth is this is
Henry Eh it is alright, has finally told me the truth.
I have less than a week to live, woh mine
I And so for the first time in my life,
(09:44):
except for some happy moments with you, I'm going to
really live make up for some of the things I've
had to miss all these years. Well, say, yes, you
may have some idea where I've gone, but please, please, dear,
don't try to follow me. You are loving Hollywood. Yeah,
like I said, that's what, And she ran off of
(10:04):
the taxi I had. Well you want me to call
you a tax him? Mister, I sure do, brother, and fast.
It'dem four seven fifty for a trip to the airport
that should have got the cabby locked up for life.
We ran every stoplight along the way. So what happened?
I got there just in time to see a plane
(10:25):
taking off, and the man at the ticket counter politely
informed me that Virginia Lockhart was among the passengers headed
for New York, and well, would she go from there? Hollywood?
I'd bet my last nickel on it. Yeah, and she
could lead me to the man I was after I
checked the schedules of all the airlines leaving New York.
If I took the next plane out of Hartford, I
could barely make a flight out of New York to
the West Coast. In other words, Hollywood item five for
(10:51):
a through ticket. When we arrived in New York, where
I had only seconds to change planes. I was the
first one off, and then I saw her. She was
boarding a plane from another ramp, breaking a couple of
records for one hundred yard dash and pulling my way
through the gate. I managed to climb aboard just as
the doors were being closed. A quick flash at my
credentials kept the stewardess and throwing me off, and in
a couple of minutes we were airborne. Now, I guess
(11:15):
we better make some arrangement about your ticket, sir. Tickets, yes, sir,
Oh no, here, I already have it. He hey, oh,
thank you, I'll just mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, I'm sorry, but this ticket is for Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Sure, sure, that's where I'm going. Well, I'm not on
this plane. I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
This is a non stop flight to Miami.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
What yes, sir, Miami, Florida, Act three of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar. In a moment, no, Act three of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar and the Hollywood mystery matter. Wait a minute,
this plane is headed for Florida. There non stop flight
(12:01):
to Miami. But I thought this was look, I got
to get to Los Angeles to Hollywood. I'm sorry, mister Dollard. Oh,
not half as sorry as I am. So what do
I do? Now?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm afraid there isn't much you can do.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So why don't you go up in the cabin where
there's one extra seat, and well, I'll just relax and
enjoy it. Okay, miss Great. I've been so sure it
was Virginia Lockhart. I'd seen climb aboard this plane, that
she'd lead me to her uncle in Hollywood, to wherever
he was in Hollywood. So what happened? I was stuck
(12:36):
aboard a plane to Miami? All right? I took the
advice and the stewardess and walked forward into the cabin
to final seat, and for once, luck was with me.
The one vacant seat in that whole plane was right
next to Yeah, you guessed it to Jinny Lockhart. But
why Miami? Could she possibly know that I was on
the trail of Parley Barn Was this a trick to
(12:57):
leave me office trail? I decided there was only one
thing to do. Play it like I had the least
idea in the world who she was, and at the
tay same time, see if I could learn anything from her.
As uh, as long as we're uh seat mates on
this trip. We may as well know each other. My
name's Johnny. Uh Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
This, Uh, how do you do mister Dollar?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Be uh kind of nice to get on down south
and away from all of snow and cold on it
would would you like some champagne? I I understand. All
I have to do is flag down the stewardess and
she'll be, uh, how about it? Uh? No, thank you?
Uh well, Uh, I excuse me for saying so, but
(13:43):
you look worried about something. I'm sure it wouldn't interest you.
Oh no, maybe not, but uh, you know, sometimes it
does a lot of good to cry on somebody's shoulder.
And since we'll probably never see each other again after
this trip, and while I I have a good broad shoulders,
thank you. But it's not necessary. Oh sorry, I don't
(14:05):
mean it going down to Florida for a vacation.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
No, I'm going to Florida to try to save somebody's life.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh, but I'd rather not talk about it, And she
didn't or did she talk about anything else during the
rest of the flight. As we came into Miami, I
decided the only thing I could do was transfer to
a plane for Los Angeles and hope for the best,
but she was my only real lead to Parley Baron,
and if I left her here and went on to Hollywood,
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so I changed my mind. I decided to stay with her.
I had them six nine dollars even for a taxi
that followed hers out of Miami Airport, then headed north.
And why do we end up? Hollywood? Hollywood, Florida, Hollywood
by the Sea and the Diplomat Hotel. I watched her
make inquiries at the desk, the clerk tell her room
seven sixteen. I managed to get an elevator before she did.
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And by the time she reached the door of seven
sixteen and raised her hand and knock, I was standing
right beside her. Mister Johnny Bell, what are you doing here?
I've been following e Jenny Why to find your uncle
Parley Baron, who stole ten thousand dollars in the company
was working for he Why? Yeah? And unless I'm all wet,
this is the door to his suite. You say he's too.
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I found the note he'd written to Eugenie back at
his apartment in Hartford.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Mister Johnny yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It all ties up, including his phone called to me.
It was to make me think he was headed for Hollywood, California,
to throw me off give him time. He said that
for once in his life, but the few remaining days
of it, he was really gonna live it up. So
he came here to the Hollywood that you told him about,
(15:50):
came here for one last desperate, glorious flint Listen, that's
what he thought.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
But don't you see me.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The more I've thought about it, I thought about that
crummy penny pinching outfit that he worked for for thirty
miserable years. The more I hated this assignment, hated the
thought of having to deprive that poor old man of
this one last chance to get some fun out of life.
Because it's all I know about him is that he's
a decent sword who's been taking advantage of him. He's
a wonderful man, and he's been a good man all
(16:19):
his life. He don't just see unless I get him
return the ten thousand dollars to his friend Johnny. Listen,
he can't have spent ten thousand dollars and I'll.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Make up the rest.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Sorry, Jennie, you're not the police, You're not the law.
I have a job to do. Does that dirty old
company want the money or does it want him, Johnny,
want the sake of my company's ricketee. That's why I
have no desire for fust County. While if leaving file
charges as all the money man, Johnny, if I give
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you enough to take the ten thousand dollars back to them,
oh ja, oh ja, Jenny, it's a deal. Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm awfully glad.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
And because of something else, Johnny, Oh, the reason why
I was looking for him?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What do you mean the new doctor I'd had him
go to a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
My doctor. He gave him a lot of tests. Then
Uncle went back to see him yesterday afternoon. I s
I understand it was to find out the result of
the tests, and the doctor told him wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The lob reports had got mixed up.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You mean that she isn't going to die? No, And
the doctor tried to call him but couldn't reach him,
so he called me. That's why I went to his apartment,
but he'd left, so I came down here to try
to find him.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I tried to tell you, Johnny, because well, don't you
see he's gonna.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Be all right.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Well on, Jenny, I guess that leaves only one more
thing to be done. What Johnny tell him the good news?
M Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm just a sucker
for a good looking girl, and maybe this makes me
an accessory to the crime. But you know something, and
(18:13):
you can blame it on the holiday season anything you like.
I don't care. Expense account total including the trip back
to Hartford. Well, a happy New Year to you too,
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Our star will return in just
(18:40):
a moment because of another adventure in Hollywood, Florida. But
that one you'll have to read about in the February
issue of Harper's Bazaar. It's just out, so grab a copy,
will you, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and has written, produced,
(19:03):
and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were
Virginia Greg Geen Tatum, Harley Bear Worrice Lewis, Junius Matthews,
and Frank Gerspool. Be sure to join us next week,
same time and station for another exciting story of Yours truly,
Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Coberly speaking. Hen Smoke rises
today on the CBS Radio Network.
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's time now war.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Mister Dollar, my name is Parley Barron. I'm calling from Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hollywood. What insurance company, mister Barron?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Non you handle all investigations for Eastern liability in Trusty?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah? I guess I do.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I am sure that they'll be calling you in shortly.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What about, sir, A little matter of embezzlement.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh, nearly ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's been stolen from the Berkeley Furniture manufacturing company there
in Hartford.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You're connected with Berkeley Furniture. No, No, actually I am not.
Then what's your connection with this investment?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Suggest you check with Berkeley and of course the insurance company.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Of course, when you have earned the facts.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
From them, I am sure you will find in them
the most importance.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
To contact me.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You send in Hollywood? Yes, goodbye, mister Dollar. Yeah, but
where in Hollywood? Hello? Hello? Oh, he's a lot of help.
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
(01:10):
the Action Fact Expense Account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator,
who is truly Johnny Dollar? Now act one the viewers.
Truly Johnny Dollar Expense Account shimitted by a special investigator,
(01:40):
Johnny Dollar to the Eastern Liability and Trust Company Home office, Hartford, Connecticut.
Following is an account of expenses encourage during my investigation
of the Hollywood Mystery Matter expense account ID want ten
cents for a phone called a hal Spidal. Who's my
regular contact at Eastern Liability and Trust. Well, Hi, Johnny,
(02:01):
Nice to talk to you again. Yeah, nice to talk
to you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Listen, have you received a report of loss from the
Berkeley Furniture Manufacturing Company? Well, they're a client of ours,
But no, what makes you ask a thing like that?
A phone call? I just got. They called you direct? Now,
somebody did, a man by the name of Poe.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Hold everything, Jenny, I'm holding.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
What did you say? When we'll find out how much?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Johnny?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, you've got an assignment boy, and it's Berkeley Furniture
Manufacturing Company and Besselman. Yeah, ten thousand. How you found
out about it?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Listen, I just found out about it themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So get on over there and see what goes, will you. Well,
we'll do. Yeah. My informant, the man who'd called me
had really known something, but how to locate him. It'd
him to a dollar forty five taxi to the Berkeley
Plan on the northwest edge of town. It's a small company,
but an old one. When I flashed my credentials to
(02:58):
the receptionist, I was immediately shown into the office of
the highest money himself. Well, I must say your insurance
company acts very properly, mister Dollar sent aunt. Thanks, mister Brickley.
I'll get straight to the point, sir. We've suffered a
considerable loss. Yes, so I understand from how Spidal at
Eastern Liability and Trust. Ten thousand dollars, wasn't it? Yes,
(03:18):
maybe ten thousand dollars. But I don't recall mentioning the
amount of mister Spidel. In any event, mister Dollar, what
I want is that money back. I don't care what
you do with a thief, all right. Have you any
idea who took it, mister Brickley, I certainly have a
young great woo, sir, one of our bookkeepers, a gentleman
who has been with the company over thirty years. Hey,
(03:40):
what are you smiling about, mister Dollar. Well, he's stolen
this money from you, But you still call him a
gentleman because I always thought he was. Did his job.
Never complain, that's your measure of a gentleman. Eh, what's that?
How much money did he earn, mister Brickley, Sixty sixty
five dollars a week? What difference does it make? Just
one an old man living alone? Was plenty for him, unless,
(04:02):
of course he was gambling something like that. Gambling him,
of course not. Never had enough money, trouble at home? Maybe?
Has he married? No, never be able to support a
wife after thirty years with your company. I paid him
as much as I thought he was worth, yeah, or
as little as you thought you could get away with it.
That is really no concern to yours. Return of the
(04:23):
money is all right. Where does he live, mister Berkeley,
in a small apartment on the north side of town.
Why did you ask him yesterday? Yesterday morning? Said he
had to see his doctor in the afternoon. Yes, it's
against my usual practice, but I let him off. But
of course you decided to dock his pay. Naturally, I
have to keep discipline in the place like this. Oh sure.
(04:44):
And this morning when I opened the safe, I discovered
that the money was missing nine thousand, nine hundred and
eighty four seventy five. The case that we had on
hand for emergencies, and also discovered that he hadn't come
to the office, so I phoned his apartment. I learned
that our respected gentleman bookkeeper left town yesterday afternoon, bag
(05:06):
and baggage. That doesn't necessarily mean that he took the money.
I'd like to know why not? What was he the
only one who had access to the safe? Of course
not all of the bookkeepers have. How many of them others?
I mean three? But you think for one minute they
dare take that money and then come back here and
face me? Maybe you got a point there. What have
(05:26):
you notified the police of this loss?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I prefer that the whole thing be kept as quiet
as possible for the sake of my company's reputation. Please
remember that, sir, Whatever you say, mister Berkeley, That's why
I have no desire to prosecute him, why I refuse
to even file charges as long as I get the
money to act. Yeah, now, what's his address? Eleven two
thirty one off Maple Street. But as I told you,
(05:49):
he isn't there. He's left town.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
There.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You told me how hold himn is he in? He's sixties?
But what difference does that make oh and mister Dollar. Yeah,
just how did you happen to know about this so soon?
I mean the amount that was stolen from somebody who
called me on the phone, somebody who apparently knew a
good deal about it. If I can locate him, get
in touch with him, he can probably be a lot
of help and running down this. Come to think of it,
(06:14):
you tell me what his name is? The bookkeeper name? Yeah, Baron, sir? What? Yes,
Piley Baron Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in
(06:36):
a moment and not on Act two of yours, truly
Johnny Dollar and the Hollywood mystery matter. So the embezzler
of the ten thousand dollars was Piley Baron, the same
man who'd call me on the phone, apparently call me
before the company even knew the money was missing, and
(06:57):
he'd had the audacity to inform me that I should
come at tagged him, Yeah, somewhere in Hollywood, which is
like saying the needle is somewhere in the haystack. I
had done three two fifty for a taxi to the
little apartment house of North Maple Street. I paid off
the driver, then walked into the open foy air and
looked for the usual bank of mailboxes to find out
which apartment was partly parents. No, that's all right, driver,
(07:19):
you go ahead if you want them. Let's see David's parents.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oops, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's all right, spailing Pierce Robes And oh here we are,
Barren Apartment one, old three.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, I've been a young man. Are you a salesman?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
No? I was just looking up the apartment number, and.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Mister Parley Baron he ain't here, miss Yeah, sure, no, sir,
he left your bagging baggage yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Any idea where he wants?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Who are you hops or something?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Here? My credentious.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I need dollar insurance.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah that's right. Now look I want you to let
me into his apartment.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Where's her?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
There's way.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Something wrong, mister Donald.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Ah, just a routine investigation.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Oh yeah, I was sure he'd done nothing wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh why do you say that?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
H nice quiet old man like him? Why should he?
Only excitement he ever has is when his niece comes
to visit with him?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
His niece, here's her named Virginia Jenny Lockhart.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Wonderful girl.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Okay, sort of drops in here to look after him
once in a while.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Cook him a good meal. Now here we.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Are, mm, well, it sure looks like he left in
a hurry. Closets sop on doors, Putante, Where can I
find this niece you mentioned?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Why didn't you see her when you just came in?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That girl who bumped into me down on the lobby,
That was Jenny Lockhead.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It must have been.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yes, she dropped in for a visit with her uncle,
found him gone, and then let it out again.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And I didn't have sense enough to get a good
look at it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
When uh, here's that picture of her? Mister sent it
to him from her vacation last winter.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The chisen huh, blue sky and palm.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Trees down Hollywood, I understand.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Is that where she's headed for? Now?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, now you got me there? Yeah, what's that you
picked up?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Mister? H was a non? I guess, yeah. It's addressed
of her. Jenny, my dear, the doctor you had me
see has finally told me the truth is this is
Henry Eh it is alright, has finally told me the truth.
I have less than a week to live, woh mine
I And so for the first time in my life,
(09:44):
except for some happy moments with you, I'm going to
really live make up for some of the things I've
had to miss all these years. Well, say, yes, you
may have some idea where I've gone, but please, please, dear,
don't try to follow me. You are loving Hollywood. Yeah,
like I said, that's what, And she ran off of
(10:04):
the taxi I had. Well you want me to call
you a tax him? Mister, I sure do, brother, and fast.
It'dem four seven fifty for a trip to the airport
that should have got the cabby locked up for life.
We ran every stoplight along the way. So what happened?
I got there just in time to see a plane
(10:25):
taking off, and the man at the ticket counter politely
informed me that Virginia Lockhart was among the passengers headed
for New York, and well, would she go from there? Hollywood?
I'd bet my last nickel on it. Yeah, and she
could lead me to the man I was after I
checked the schedules of all the airlines leaving New York.
If I took the next plane out of Hartford, I
could barely make a flight out of New York to
the West Coast. In other words, Hollywood item five for
(10:51):
a through ticket. When we arrived in New York, where
I had only seconds to change planes. I was the
first one off, and then I saw her. She was
boarding a plane from another ramp, breaking a couple of
records for one hundred yard dash and pulling my way
through the gate. I managed to climb aboard just as
the doors were being closed. A quick flash at my
credentials kept the stewardess and throwing me off, and in
a couple of minutes we were airborne. Now, I guess
(11:15):
we better make some arrangement about your ticket, sir. Tickets, yes, sir,
Oh no, here, I already have it. He hey, oh,
thank you, I'll just mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, I'm sorry, but this ticket is for Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Sure, sure, that's where I'm going. Well, I'm not on
this plane. I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
This is a non stop flight to Miami.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
What yes, sir, Miami, Florida, Act three of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar. In a moment, no, Act three of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar and the Hollywood mystery matter. Wait a minute,
this plane is headed for Florida. There non stop flight
(12:01):
to Miami. But I thought this was look, I got
to get to Los Angeles to Hollywood. I'm sorry, mister Dollard. Oh,
not half as sorry as I am. So what do
I do? Now?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm afraid there isn't much you can do.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So why don't you go up in the cabin where
there's one extra seat, and well, I'll just relax and
enjoy it. Okay, miss Great. I've been so sure it
was Virginia Lockhart. I'd seen climb aboard this plane, that
she'd lead me to her uncle in Hollywood, to wherever
he was in Hollywood. So what happened? I was stuck
(12:36):
aboard a plane to Miami? All right? I took the
advice and the stewardess and walked forward into the cabin
to final seat, and for once, luck was with me.
The one vacant seat in that whole plane was right
next to Yeah, you guessed it to Jinny Lockhart. But
why Miami? Could she possibly know that I was on
the trail of Parley Barn Was this a trick to
(12:57):
leave me office trail? I decided there was only one
thing to do. Play it like I had the least
idea in the world who she was, and at the
tay same time, see if I could learn anything from her.
As uh, as long as we're uh seat mates on
this trip. We may as well know each other. My
name's Johnny. Uh Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
This, Uh, how do you do mister Dollar?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Be uh kind of nice to get on down south
and away from all of snow and cold on it
would would you like some champagne? I I understand. All
I have to do is flag down the stewardess and
she'll be, uh, how about it? Uh? No, thank you?
Uh well, Uh, I excuse me for saying so, but
(13:43):
you look worried about something. I'm sure it wouldn't interest you.
Oh no, maybe not, but uh, you know, sometimes it
does a lot of good to cry on somebody's shoulder.
And since we'll probably never see each other again after
this trip, and while I I have a good broad shoulders,
thank you. But it's not necessary. Oh sorry, I don't
(14:05):
mean it going down to Florida for a vacation.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
No, I'm going to Florida to try to save somebody's life.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh, but I'd rather not talk about it, And she
didn't or did she talk about anything else during the
rest of the flight. As we came into Miami, I
decided the only thing I could do was transfer to
a plane for Los Angeles and hope for the best,
but she was my only real lead to Parley Baron,
and if I left her here and went on to Hollywood,
(14:41):
so I changed my mind. I decided to stay with her.
I had them six nine dollars even for a taxi
that followed hers out of Miami Airport, then headed north.
And why do we end up? Hollywood? Hollywood, Florida, Hollywood
by the Sea and the Diplomat Hotel. I watched her
make inquiries at the desk, the clerk tell her room
seven sixteen. I managed to get an elevator before she did.
(15:03):
And by the time she reached the door of seven
sixteen and raised her hand and knock, I was standing
right beside her. Mister Johnny Bell, what are you doing here?
I've been following e Jenny Why to find your uncle
Parley Baron, who stole ten thousand dollars in the company
was working for he Why? Yeah? And unless I'm all wet,
this is the door to his suite. You say he's too.
(15:25):
I found the note he'd written to Eugenie back at
his apartment in Hartford.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Mister Johnny yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It all ties up, including his phone called to me.
It was to make me think he was headed for Hollywood, California,
to throw me off give him time. He said that
for once in his life, but the few remaining days
of it, he was really gonna live it up. So
he came here to the Hollywood that you told him about,
(15:50):
came here for one last desperate, glorious flint Listen, that's
what he thought.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
But don't you see me.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The more I've thought about it, I thought about that
crummy penny pinching outfit that he worked for for thirty
miserable years. The more I hated this assignment, hated the
thought of having to deprive that poor old man of
this one last chance to get some fun out of life.
Because it's all I know about him is that he's
a decent sword who's been taking advantage of him. He's
a wonderful man, and he's been a good man all
(16:19):
his life. He don't just see unless I get him
return the ten thousand dollars to his friend Johnny. Listen,
he can't have spent ten thousand dollars and I'll.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Make up the rest.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Sorry, Jennie, you're not the police, You're not the law.
I have a job to do. Does that dirty old
company want the money or does it want him, Johnny,
want the sake of my company's ricketee. That's why I
have no desire for fust County. While if leaving file
charges as all the money man, Johnny, if I give
(16:55):
you enough to take the ten thousand dollars back to them,
oh ja, oh ja, Jenny, it's a deal. Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm awfully glad.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
And because of something else, Johnny, Oh, the reason why
I was looking for him?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What do you mean the new doctor I'd had him
go to a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
My doctor. He gave him a lot of tests. Then
Uncle went back to see him yesterday afternoon. I s
I understand it was to find out the result of
the tests, and the doctor told him wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The lob reports had got mixed up.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You mean that she isn't going to die? No, And
the doctor tried to call him but couldn't reach him,
so he called me. That's why I went to his apartment,
but he'd left, so I came down here to try
to find him.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I tried to tell you, Johnny, because well, don't you
see he's gonna.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Be all right.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Well on, Jenny, I guess that leaves only one more
thing to be done. What Johnny tell him the good news?
M Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm just a sucker
for a good looking girl, and maybe this makes me
an accessory to the crime. But you know something, and
(18:13):
you can blame it on the holiday season anything you like.
I don't care. Expense account total including the trip back
to Hartford. Well, a happy New Year to you too,
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Our star will return in just
(18:40):
a moment because of another adventure in Hollywood, Florida. But
that one you'll have to read about in the February
issue of Harper's Bazaar. It's just out, so grab a copy,
will you, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and has written, produced,
(19:03):
and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were
Virginia Greg Geen Tatum, Harley Bear Worrice Lewis, Junius Matthews,
and Frank Gerspool. Be sure to join us next week,
same time and station for another exciting story of Yours truly,
Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Coberly speaking. Hen Smoke rises
today on the CBS Radio Network.
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