November 7, 2025 • 23 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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Some Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar episodes were broadcast originally on the AFRS - The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) was the chief means of providing popular radio network programs to military forces outside the United States. Begun during World War II, it later expanded to include television and continues to operate today as American Forces Network (AFN). | Find all our OTR radio stations and podcasts at theaterofthemind-otr.com -Podcasts @ Spreaker | Apple | YouTube | Spotify | iHeart | Amazon
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I wish you to investigate the death of one of
our times. All right, have you ever heard of Kala Montskovio,
the obsiatrical producer. Yeah, sure, world famous for the beautiful
girls he employed in his reviews.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah. Well, well do I remember? Now? What about him?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Have you seen the papers? You know that he died yesterday?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I didn't know, as natural causes, the medical report stated.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But you think otherwise, I do because.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Of the the benefisher named in his three quarter of
a million dollar insurance policies.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Three quarters of a million. Yes, so I think you've
med to come over here and see me.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Yeah, mister Westbury, I think i'd better Bob Bailey in
The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact
expens account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators Turley, Johnny Dell
(01:02):
and now at one of yours, through me, Johnny Dollar.
Expense account sited by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
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Worldwide Mutual Insurance.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Company Home Office, Hartford, Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
of the Noxious Needle Matter expense account out of won
eighty five cents for a taxi to the office of Worldwide.
When I got there, I had to go through a
receptionist and two secretaries to get into mister Waldo. R.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Westbury's private office.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
He sit down, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Thanks. Wow. Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Here's the policy I mentioned, seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars insurance on the life of Jaala Mont Schofield.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's a lot of money, mister Westberry. Incidentally, was he
married Schofield?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Surrounded by beautiful women all his professional life?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
No, the host's beneficiary.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
This policy has been in effect only thirteen years. But
look here, look at these writers changing the beneficiars.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
M Goldie Laferne sounds like a brels queen.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
She was after his money. Of course.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Toodle's tempest. Wow, he hurried him, baby Boodles Baker, there's worse.
Bubbles Jones, Holy Small, Pepper, Caprice Carstairs, Cupcake Delon. Hey,
what's this doing here? Mary T.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Smith?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
She is the present beneficiary and it's quite a condown
from all those babes. Uh, mister Dollar, the initial TEA
stands for torso these age designation she used.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Ah, you think she bumped him off to like the
insurance bumped him?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Uh? Yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
But if a medical report says the all man died
of natural causes at.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
The time of his death, Mary Smith, Mary T. Smith,
was his privateness responsible for his care, the medication.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
He received, and so forth. Ah, I see.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
I'm glad you do, because if you can prove she
murdered him in spite of the doctor's report, yes, you
can save our company a great deal of money. I
don't often say this, mister Beller, but in view of
the amounting bulb, there will be no questioning anynecessary comes
on your expense account, no matter how high necessary. Surely
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you wouldn't think of missing any unnecessary expenditure.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Dream on, mister Waterbury.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Nothing you say that Scopfield died today, yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Where at his home in Cranford, New Jersey. You know
who his doctor was, Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Doctor Lemonard Foot. God.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Now I wonder where this nurse is. Anybody keeping an
eye on her?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yes, you're primer there at Skokie's home. Obviously she's a
very smart woman.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You mean, smart enough not to run.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I'd put it the other way, mister Donner, smart enough
to have made him name her in his policy and
to stay around to.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Collect you know anything about her, only.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
That she was a show girl before making this pretense
of being a nurse.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, but if a doctor was willing to have her
take care of him, you know anything about him? Frankly
in Rome, then I have a sneaking suspicion. I'd better
pay him a visit. I had him two four dollars
and fifteen cents for another taxi than a train down
to New York. At Grand Central, I ran up it
him three fifty bucks deposit.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
On the drive your own car.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I had him four fifty cents to get through the
tunnel to Jersey. In the city of Elizabeth, I headed
west and rot twenty eight to the pretty little town
of Cranford, then directly to the combination Harmone off was
a documented foot where I cooled my heels for a
half hour in the reception room.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Come in, please, mister dollar.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I'm sorry they've had.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
To keep you waiting. Oh that's kind of right, doctor,
But if.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Little Jimmy Sayer doesn't stop eating green apples, he's going
to have worse than a tummy egg. Your company called
that you'd be here because of the death of Jay
Lamont Schofield.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Sit down, I'll be very.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Honest with you, Doctor Is Insurance Company thinks your opinion
of death from natural causes might be wrong. My tentative opinion,
mister Dollar, Lamont Schofield suffered from well rather than boy
with a lot of medical terminology. Let's say he had
a heart condition, one that required that he'd take it easy,
and of course medication, what kind of medication digitalis for
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the most part to limit the frequency of his heart contractions.
And more recently he's been receiving intravened injections of sidillanid.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
His nurse gave him the injections. Yes, it's under my orders.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I understand. She's an old purls queen. Some years ago
he starred Mary in one of his Broadway productions.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It was a flop.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
But shouldn't he have had a regular license registered nurse.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
She was a registered nurse, mister dollar. Is she still
a good looker?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Over the years, Lamont kept himself pretty well, surrounded by
well some of them were very pretty girls, but not
this Mary, so I doubt they were all after his money,
including Mary. Well, mister Dollar, I told you my tentative
opinion was death due to natural cause.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So the paper's reported.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
But now, let's face it, doctor, if she hastened his
demise by saying overdose of one of those injections I learned,
and while acting under your orders by using something that
you put into her hand, now, justin could look pretty
bad for you too, couldn't it. Are you trying to
am just stating imply that I might have conspired with
that girl to bring about the death, of which.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I think is always a possibility.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Now, well, are such tactics usually part of an investigation
like this?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
If you were Gilly, if I could get you riled up,
catch you off your guard. I see, I don't like you, Dollar.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I shall expect your apology.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I'll see, as I started to say before you interrupted me,
I learned just this morning from Monty's attorney that Mary
Smith is the heir to Lamont's estate and the beneficiary
to his insurance policy.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You didn't know this before I did not.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Nonetheless, a result, I have ordered his body held.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
At the corpers office.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Oh, yes, so that a complete authopsy can be made.
I see, I'm sorry that you would you like a towel,
mister Dower, towel to wipe the egg off your face.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
In a moment, sometimes we may wonder why a football
team doesn't quit playing and walk off the field when
it finds itself fifty points behind with only a few.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Minutes of play to go.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
What is that indomitable spirit that fills men with hope
and keeps them going in spite of terrific arts, keeps
them going just to play the game according to the rules,
just to get the job done as well as they
know how. This kind of spirit pervaded the feelings of
heavy bomber crews of the Ninth Air Force on that
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day of Glory August first, nineteen forty three, the day
of one of the most secretly tense, surprised bombing missions
of World War II, the day of the low level
attack on the Romanian oil refineries at Floesty, more than
one hundred and seventy B twenty four heavily loaded bombers
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took off in a swirl of red US from Benghazi,
Libya to bomb a highly defended priority target. The element
of surprise in the low level attack was to be
one of their greatest weapons, but things went wrong from
the start. Three planes exploded during takeoff operations eleven more
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aborted due to engine trouble. Of those that reached the
target area, less than one third returned to home base.
The leaders of the mission encountered navigation difficulties and difficulty
in identifying the specific targets, and due.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
To the loss of that elemental.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Hope surprise, they also encountered devastating enemy firepower from flack
and fighting. The mission was partially successful, but a horrifying experience.
Five Medals of Honor were awarded to the heroes of
the Ploesti Raid for valorous action above and beyond the
call of duty.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
At any time the men would have.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Been justified in turning back, but they had a code
of conduct that made them want to see the unequal
game through to the end.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It was a job that had to be done. A
charge of the light Brigade in.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
The air as they flew down the valley of death
to glory.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
And now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the noxious negal matter.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yes, mister Dollar.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
As soon as I learned that this ex show girl
was to be La montsco Field's sole air well, I
realized the same possibility that I'm sure you must be considering.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That she may have helped him over the hill. Precisely,
I know, all.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Things being equal done to you? Do you feel that
he should have lived on a whund were a bad
heart is concerned? When I will never be certain, of course,
but knowing his desire to live, his willingness to adhere
to my instructions and take care of himself, plus the
medication I provided, medication given by this Mary Smith, yes,
I would awaite you he could live on for ten
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or fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Why don't we know the results of the autopsy.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
A toxicologist by the name of Stanley has been called
in at my request.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It may take several days, I see meantime, then I'm
going to see this Mary Smith.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Incidentally, the police found no sign of any poison of
anything that might have been used to cause Lamon's death.
You mean the police have been in on this, Yes,
they've been very thorough. Then why the autopsy and a
toxicologist because the least detectable means would have been an
overdose of medication.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I see not talk to her.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I've really told you all I can. Mister Doner, why
don't you go along and see Mary Smith?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Then? When I intentive, but not tell me. Call me
if you need me after you talk with her.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
To mister Doner, when that topsy report comes through, I'll
let you know.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Goodbye, mister Bella.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
And that was all I could get out of the
Home of the late Jay Lamont Schofield turned out to
be a small place on Third Street, nestled in among
some fine old oak trees, gave it a quiet sort
of isolation, a far cry from the bright lights of Broadway.
Apparently he had taken his doctor's advice. I wondered about
the ex Burley queen turned nurse who'd managed to save
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enough of her looks and figure the charming into leaving
her his all.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
No matter of.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Fact, I've often wondered how a lot of those old
war horses, Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Oh, how do you do.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
That? Is a I'm looking for a miss Mary Smith.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'm Mary Smith, old war horse.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
She believe me, I'd guess wrong, because when it comes
to describing Mary Smith, well, there's only one where that
does justice to her.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
She was in the mid twenties, tall, broad and beautiful. Yeah,
she looked as though she just stepped out.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Of chance with the writs. And I say it again.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Wow, who don't just stand there? Who are you?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Oh uh, Johnny Dollar, I'm an insurance investigator.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Oh see, I've heard of you, Johnny. You know something?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Do you even better looking than I thought.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
She'd be once you comme in?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah? Thanks? Why is he send you here?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
There's no question about my getting money's insurance?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Is there?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Well, it's just that the company always demands a routine
investigation where it's such a large summers involved.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
No kidding, sit down?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah thanks?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Your drink?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
No, no thanks?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Oh, come on and have one with me? And so
glom around here since Monty died and nobody here except
a lot of crape hangers a little one.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well, okay, you can.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Tell I can't just sit around and look grief stricken.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Have you been grief stricken? Marrying?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You want the proof? No? What good was doing Mardi
living that way? Not able to tear around like he
used to, putting on shows and having a big time
here Johnny his to life, love and the pursuit of
happiness school. Oh that's better. I really needed that. You
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got a lot of money, Johnny? I, oh no, not much. No,
I never had any idea, but I will now plenty.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Then you know your la Mont's sko feels fair. You
bet your life I do.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I had to work for it long enough, feeding him
and nursing him, taking care of him, and fending off
a lot of old biddies from the old days who
were trying to get their claws on him.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But you managed to get your claws on him. We
wouldn't you have done this, Let's see, not paid off.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Took him a long time to die, though, didn't they, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I've been on twenty four hour duty here for two years,
for two solid years, and I make no.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Bones about it.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
There were times when I thought.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
He was gonna live forever.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
There were times when I wished I could help him
out of this world.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
So finally you did, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Here, let me fashen your drink.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Mary, I think you kill the Monsco field.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Well, I'd like to see you prove.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I don't think i'll have to. Oh why not?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Isn't that why you came here?
Speaker 8 (15:36):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I came to make sure you don't try to slip
off when the autopsy report comes out.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh is that scary?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
No, of course not.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Let's face it, Mary, when somebody shows an attitude like yours.
It means you're completely innocent.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Sure, Oh, Killy is the devil the linked It makes
it very confusing for you and for the police.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Doesn't see you're having a ball.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Of course I am listening, Johnny. I don't blame you
a bit for thinking I killed many. I wanted him that,
I wanted his money, did what I had to do
to get it, and then I'm going to get it.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, did what you had to do. So if the
autopsy shows he was given.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Poisons, don't worry it wrong, or that he.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Was given an overdose of digit tell us or whatever
it is he was getting.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Now, that would be stupid with nobody here but me,
nobody but you that Minnesota says to accept me for
over a week since the last time doctor Foot came
to see.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're sure of that, of course I am.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Then if somebody did kill him, it would have to
be you, nobody else.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You remember that, Mary.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Would you like me to put it down on paper
for you and sign it?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah? Would it?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I'll do anythink Johnny. If it'll confuse all right, then
start writing?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
No, let's see I married t Snich got alright for Scott?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Oh no, No, no, no, keep keep writing.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'm taking him alright, I marry t smill.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Oh yes, doctor, yes, ah oh, I see hm, not
even the possibility of too much of.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I see. And you're sure prise you sure? Okay doctor?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
He disappointed Johnny because they found no poison, no overdose
of sedilius.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I guess you know the answer, don't you.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
M course I do.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
The autopsy showed nothing. You can't build a case out
of thin air. So kier gise your little paper all
signed and see you chie, Johnny. I don't want it,
and you said you did.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You're far too smug married.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I have a right to be.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You're barking up.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
The wrong tree.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You cannot build a case on nothing but thin air.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
So what do I do, Johnny?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Just sit here and wait til your company page demanded
the case. Tell the estate is settled? Or can I
collect yea?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, Mary, you stay right here, and thanks for saying that.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Huh, Johnny, what you mean?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Fact three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
In a moment, Times have changed, and so has the man.
In the year seventeen seventy five, a patriotic, enterprising American
by the name of David Bushnell invented a strange craft.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It was constructed of.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Two oak beings resembling two platters, clapped together and propelled
by a water screw attached.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
To a hand operated crank.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Another water screw regulated the depth to which the craft
could descend. This was the American Turtle, the first United
States submarine. One hundred and seventy nine years later, nineteen
hundred and fifty four, the United States came up with
another first. This time, however, it was a three thousand ton,
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fifty five million dollar vessel powered by an athemic reactor.
It was the Muscilus, the world's first adam powered submarine.
And where the American Turtle was a one man operation
dependent on courage and brawn, the Nautilus is a complicated
network of advanced electronics, the operation of which is dependent
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upon a team of highly trained, skilled navy men who
know their jobs and do them well. As times have changed,
and so has the.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Man, and now act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar
and the nuxious needle Matter expense account out of four
to three seventy four, A punk called my own doctor
back in the heartred a man very much interested in
criminal medicine. I asked him about a couple of ideas
I suddenly had for committing the so called perfect crime.
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I got some enlightening answers, then hung up and drove
into the car. In this office, I told you over
the phone, Dollar, we found nothing to indicate us.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Excuse me, doctor Foot.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
You're a toxicologist who did the autopsy, Doctor Stanley, Yes,
mister Dalla and as doctor Foot to listen, but LOA
monsco Field possibly have died of an embo of an
embolis in the brain.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Maybe well, yes, I suppose so. Can you find out
by further examination? Then go to it? What is this? Dollar?
Are you trying to play? Doctor now? I told you
in the beginning I don't like your attacting. You were right, Chris,
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an embolation in the brain? Well, what should have led
you to s Nellison?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
I don't know where the equipment is that Mary Smith
used to give the medication to mister Scoffield. I have
it all here, Dollar, the remains of the bottle of
cadillanid that I prescribed, the hypodermic with which he administered,
all in this kit, which needle that she used, Doctor Foot,
the small one of course, he only received two ccs
one of these others, this big one simply part of
a set.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Only the smaller one ever had anything in it. We checked.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
The others never contained anything more substantial than air. That's right, air,
mister Dalla. Yes, doctor Safety, forty fifty secies.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Of air, clean air, injected into a vein. Yes, of
course it would cause your nimbush.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
And if you were to find traces microscopic traces of
the flesh of La mont Scofield in that hypo that
contained nothing but air, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Of course, I'll go to work on it immediately.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
If he does find traces of dermal tissue on that needle,
I can't believe it. A case built on nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But thin air. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
And the ironic part of it is the tip off
came from Mary T.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Smith. Yes, the microscope showed.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
That needle had been used on Jay Lemont's schofield recently.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Pretty slim evidence, I know.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But when Mary was faced with it, well, I'm still
not quite sure why. Maybe we scared her, but she
broke down and confessed the murder and.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
She'd been wrong.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Sometimes you can build a case on nothing but thin air.
Expense account total sixty twenty cents You always, Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, originates in
Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
Heard in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Margaret Robinson, Marvin Miller,
and Junius Matthews. Be sure to join us next week,
same time and station for another exciting story of Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
This is Roy Rowan speaking
I wish you to investigate the death of one of
our times. All right, have you ever heard of Kala Montskovio,
the obsiatrical producer. Yeah, sure, world famous for the beautiful
girls he employed in his reviews.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah. Well, well do I remember? Now? What about him?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Have you seen the papers? You know that he died yesterday?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I didn't know, as natural causes, the medical report stated.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But you think otherwise, I do because.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Of the the benefisher named in his three quarter of
a million dollar insurance policies.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Three quarters of a million. Yes, so I think you've
med to come over here and see me.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Yeah, mister Westbury, I think i'd better Bob Bailey in
The Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact
expens account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators Turley, Johnny Dell
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and now at one of yours, through me, Johnny Dollar.
Expense account sited by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
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Worldwide Mutual Insurance.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Company Home Office, Hartford, Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
of the Noxious Needle Matter expense account out of won
eighty five cents for a taxi to the office of Worldwide.
When I got there, I had to go through a
receptionist and two secretaries to get into mister Waldo. R.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Westbury's private office.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
He sit down, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Thanks. Wow. Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Here's the policy I mentioned, seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars insurance on the life of Jaala Mont Schofield.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's a lot of money, mister Westberry. Incidentally, was he
married Schofield?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Surrounded by beautiful women all his professional life?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
No, the host's beneficiary.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
This policy has been in effect only thirteen years. But
look here, look at these writers changing the beneficiars.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
M Goldie Laferne sounds like a brels queen.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
She was after his money. Of course.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Toodle's tempest. Wow, he hurried him, baby Boodles Baker, there's worse.
Bubbles Jones, Holy Small, Pepper, Caprice Carstairs, Cupcake Delon. Hey,
what's this doing here? Mary T.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Smith?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
She is the present beneficiary and it's quite a condown
from all those babes. Uh, mister Dollar, the initial TEA
stands for torso these age designation she used.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Ah, you think she bumped him off to like the
insurance bumped him?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Uh? Yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
But if a medical report says the all man died
of natural causes at.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
The time of his death, Mary Smith, Mary T. Smith,
was his privateness responsible for his care, the medication.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
He received, and so forth. Ah, I see.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
I'm glad you do, because if you can prove she
murdered him in spite of the doctor's report, yes, you
can save our company a great deal of money. I
don't often say this, mister Beller, but in view of
the amounting bulb, there will be no questioning anynecessary comes
on your expense account, no matter how high necessary. Surely
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you wouldn't think of missing any unnecessary expenditure.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Dream on, mister Waterbury.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Nothing you say that Scopfield died today, yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Where at his home in Cranford, New Jersey. You know
who his doctor was, Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Doctor Lemonard Foot. God.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Now I wonder where this nurse is. Anybody keeping an
eye on her?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yes, you're primer there at Skokie's home. Obviously she's a
very smart woman.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You mean, smart enough not to run.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I'd put it the other way, mister Donner, smart enough
to have made him name her in his policy and
to stay around to.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Collect you know anything about her, only.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
That she was a show girl before making this pretense
of being a nurse.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, but if a doctor was willing to have her
take care of him, you know anything about him? Frankly
in Rome, then I have a sneaking suspicion. I'd better
pay him a visit. I had him two four dollars
and fifteen cents for another taxi than a train down
to New York. At Grand Central, I ran up it
him three fifty bucks deposit.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
On the drive your own car.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I had him four fifty cents to get through the
tunnel to Jersey. In the city of Elizabeth, I headed
west and rot twenty eight to the pretty little town
of Cranford, then directly to the combination Harmone off was
a documented foot where I cooled my heels for a
half hour in the reception room.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Come in, please, mister dollar.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I'm sorry they've had.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
To keep you waiting. Oh that's kind of right, doctor,
But if.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Little Jimmy Sayer doesn't stop eating green apples, he's going
to have worse than a tummy egg. Your company called
that you'd be here because of the death of Jay
Lamont Schofield.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Sit down, I'll be very.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Honest with you, Doctor Is Insurance Company thinks your opinion
of death from natural causes might be wrong. My tentative opinion,
mister Dollar, Lamont Schofield suffered from well rather than boy
with a lot of medical terminology. Let's say he had
a heart condition, one that required that he'd take it easy,
and of course medication, what kind of medication digitalis for
(05:47):
the most part to limit the frequency of his heart contractions.
And more recently he's been receiving intravened injections of sidillanid.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
His nurse gave him the injections. Yes, it's under my orders.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I understand. She's an old purls queen. Some years ago
he starred Mary in one of his Broadway productions.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It was a flop.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
But shouldn't he have had a regular license registered nurse.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
She was a registered nurse, mister dollar. Is she still
a good looker?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Over the years, Lamont kept himself pretty well, surrounded by
well some of them were very pretty girls, but not
this Mary, so I doubt they were all after his money,
including Mary. Well, mister Dollar, I told you my tentative
opinion was death due to natural cause.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So the paper's reported.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
But now, let's face it, doctor, if she hastened his
demise by saying overdose of one of those injections I learned,
and while acting under your orders by using something that
you put into her hand, now, justin could look pretty
bad for you too, couldn't it. Are you trying to
am just stating imply that I might have conspired with
that girl to bring about the death, of which.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I think is always a possibility.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Now, well, are such tactics usually part of an investigation
like this?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
If you were Gilly, if I could get you riled up,
catch you off your guard. I see, I don't like you, Dollar.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I shall expect your apology.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I'll see, as I started to say before you interrupted me,
I learned just this morning from Monty's attorney that Mary
Smith is the heir to Lamont's estate and the beneficiary
to his insurance policy.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You didn't know this before I did not.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Nonetheless, a result, I have ordered his body held.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
At the corpers office.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Oh, yes, so that a complete authopsy can be made.
I see, I'm sorry that you would you like a towel,
mister Dower, towel to wipe the egg off your face.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
In a moment, sometimes we may wonder why a football
team doesn't quit playing and walk off the field when
it finds itself fifty points behind with only a few.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Minutes of play to go.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
What is that indomitable spirit that fills men with hope
and keeps them going in spite of terrific arts, keeps
them going just to play the game according to the rules,
just to get the job done as well as they
know how. This kind of spirit pervaded the feelings of
heavy bomber crews of the Ninth Air Force on that
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day of Glory August first, nineteen forty three, the day
of one of the most secretly tense, surprised bombing missions
of World War II, the day of the low level
attack on the Romanian oil refineries at Floesty, more than
one hundred and seventy B twenty four heavily loaded bombers
(08:58):
took off in a swirl of red US from Benghazi,
Libya to bomb a highly defended priority target. The element
of surprise in the low level attack was to be
one of their greatest weapons, but things went wrong from
the start. Three planes exploded during takeoff operations eleven more
(09:19):
aborted due to engine trouble. Of those that reached the
target area, less than one third returned to home base.
The leaders of the mission encountered navigation difficulties and difficulty
in identifying the specific targets, and due.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
To the loss of that elemental.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Hope surprise, they also encountered devastating enemy firepower from flack
and fighting. The mission was partially successful, but a horrifying experience.
Five Medals of Honor were awarded to the heroes of
the Ploesti Raid for valorous action above and beyond the
call of duty.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
At any time the men would have.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Been justified in turning back, but they had a code
of conduct that made them want to see the unequal
game through to the end.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It was a job that had to be done. A
charge of the light Brigade in.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
The air as they flew down the valley of death
to glory.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
And now act too of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the noxious negal matter.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yes, mister Dollar.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
As soon as I learned that this ex show girl
was to be La montsco Field's sole air well, I
realized the same possibility that I'm sure you must be considering.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That she may have helped him over the hill. Precisely,
I know, all.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Things being equal done to you? Do you feel that
he should have lived on a whund were a bad
heart is concerned? When I will never be certain, of course,
but knowing his desire to live, his willingness to adhere
to my instructions and take care of himself, plus the
medication I provided, medication given by this Mary Smith, yes,
I would awaite you he could live on for ten
(11:15):
or fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Why don't we know the results of the autopsy.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
A toxicologist by the name of Stanley has been called
in at my request.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It may take several days, I see meantime, then I'm
going to see this Mary Smith.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Incidentally, the police found no sign of any poison of
anything that might have been used to cause Lamon's death.
You mean the police have been in on this, Yes,
they've been very thorough. Then why the autopsy and a
toxicologist because the least detectable means would have been an
overdose of medication.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I see not talk to her.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
I've really told you all I can. Mister Doner, why
don't you go along and see Mary Smith?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Then? When I intentive, but not tell me. Call me
if you need me after you talk with her.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
To mister Doner, when that topsy report comes through, I'll
let you know.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Goodbye, mister Bella.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
And that was all I could get out of the
Home of the late Jay Lamont Schofield turned out to
be a small place on Third Street, nestled in among
some fine old oak trees, gave it a quiet sort
of isolation, a far cry from the bright lights of Broadway.
Apparently he had taken his doctor's advice. I wondered about
the ex Burley queen turned nurse who'd managed to save
(12:29):
enough of her looks and figure the charming into leaving
her his all.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
No matter of.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Fact, I've often wondered how a lot of those old
war horses, Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Oh, how do you do.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
That? Is a I'm looking for a miss Mary Smith.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'm Mary Smith, old war horse.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
She believe me, I'd guess wrong, because when it comes
to describing Mary Smith, well, there's only one where that
does justice to her.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
She was in the mid twenties, tall, broad and beautiful. Yeah,
she looked as though she just stepped out.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Of chance with the writs. And I say it again.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Wow, who don't just stand there? Who are you?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Oh uh, Johnny Dollar, I'm an insurance investigator.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Oh see, I've heard of you, Johnny. You know something?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Do you even better looking than I thought.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
She'd be once you comme in?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah? Thanks? Why is he send you here?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
There's no question about my getting money's insurance?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Is there?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Well, it's just that the company always demands a routine
investigation where it's such a large summers involved.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
No kidding, sit down?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah thanks?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Your drink?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
No, no thanks?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Oh, come on and have one with me? And so
glom around here since Monty died and nobody here except
a lot of crape hangers a little one.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well, okay, you can.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Tell I can't just sit around and look grief stricken.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Have you been grief stricken? Marrying?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You want the proof? No? What good was doing Mardi
living that way? Not able to tear around like he
used to, putting on shows and having a big time
here Johnny his to life, love and the pursuit of
happiness school. Oh that's better. I really needed that. You
(14:34):
got a lot of money, Johnny? I, oh no, not much. No,
I never had any idea, but I will now plenty.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Then you know your la Mont's sko feels fair. You
bet your life I do.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I had to work for it long enough, feeding him
and nursing him, taking care of him, and fending off
a lot of old biddies from the old days who
were trying to get their claws on him.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But you managed to get your claws on him. We
wouldn't you have done this, Let's see, not paid off.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Took him a long time to die, though, didn't they, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I've been on twenty four hour duty here for two years,
for two solid years, and I make no.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Bones about it.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
There were times when I thought.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
He was gonna live forever.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
There were times when I wished I could help him
out of this world.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
So finally you did, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Here, let me fashen your drink.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Mary, I think you kill the Monsco field.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Well, I'd like to see you prove.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I don't think i'll have to. Oh why not?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Isn't that why you came here?
Speaker 8 (15:36):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I came to make sure you don't try to slip
off when the autopsy report comes out.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh is that scary?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
No, of course not.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Let's face it, Mary, when somebody shows an attitude like yours.
It means you're completely innocent.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Sure, Oh, Killy is the devil the linked It makes
it very confusing for you and for the police.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Doesn't see you're having a ball.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Of course I am listening, Johnny. I don't blame you
a bit for thinking I killed many. I wanted him that,
I wanted his money, did what I had to do
to get it, and then I'm going to get it.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, did what you had to do. So if the
autopsy shows he was given.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Poisons, don't worry it wrong, or that he.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Was given an overdose of digit tell us or whatever
it is he was getting.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Now, that would be stupid with nobody here but me,
nobody but you that Minnesota says to accept me for
over a week since the last time doctor Foot came
to see.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're sure of that, of course I am.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Then if somebody did kill him, it would have to
be you, nobody else.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You remember that, Mary.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Would you like me to put it down on paper
for you and sign it?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah? Would it?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I'll do anythink Johnny. If it'll confuse all right, then
start writing?
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
No, let's see I married t Snich got alright for Scott?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Oh no, No, no, no, keep keep writing.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'm taking him alright, I marry t smill.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
Oh yes, doctor, yes, ah oh, I see hm, not
even the possibility of too much of.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I see. And you're sure prise you sure? Okay doctor?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
He disappointed Johnny because they found no poison, no overdose
of sedilius.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I guess you know the answer, don't you.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
M course I do.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
The autopsy showed nothing. You can't build a case out
of thin air. So kier gise your little paper all
signed and see you chie, Johnny. I don't want it,
and you said you did.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You're far too smug married.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I have a right to be.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You're barking up.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
The wrong tree.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You cannot build a case on nothing but thin air.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
So what do I do, Johnny?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Just sit here and wait til your company page demanded
the case. Tell the estate is settled? Or can I
collect yea?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, Mary, you stay right here, and thanks for saying that.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Huh, Johnny, what you mean?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Fact three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
In a moment, Times have changed, and so has the man.
In the year seventeen seventy five, a patriotic, enterprising American
by the name of David Bushnell invented a strange craft.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It was constructed of.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Two oak beings resembling two platters, clapped together and propelled
by a water screw attached.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
To a hand operated crank.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Another water screw regulated the depth to which the craft
could descend. This was the American Turtle, the first United
States submarine. One hundred and seventy nine years later, nineteen
hundred and fifty four, the United States came up with
another first. This time, however, it was a three thousand ton,
(19:13):
fifty five million dollar vessel powered by an athemic reactor.
It was the Muscilus, the world's first adam powered submarine.
And where the American Turtle was a one man operation
dependent on courage and brawn, the Nautilus is a complicated
network of advanced electronics, the operation of which is dependent
(19:37):
upon a team of highly trained, skilled navy men who
know their jobs and do them well. As times have changed,
and so has the.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Man, and now act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar
and the nuxious needle Matter expense account out of four
to three seventy four, A punk called my own doctor
back in the heartred a man very much interested in
criminal medicine. I asked him about a couple of ideas
I suddenly had for committing the so called perfect crime.
(20:11):
I got some enlightening answers, then hung up and drove
into the car. In this office, I told you over
the phone, Dollar, we found nothing to indicate us.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Excuse me, doctor Foot.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
You're a toxicologist who did the autopsy, Doctor Stanley, Yes,
mister Dalla and as doctor Foot to listen, but LOA
monsco Field possibly have died of an embo of an
embolis in the brain.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Maybe well, yes, I suppose so. Can you find out
by further examination? Then go to it? What is this? Dollar?
Are you trying to play? Doctor now? I told you
in the beginning I don't like your attacting. You were right, Chris,
(20:54):
an embolation in the brain? Well, what should have led
you to s Nellison?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
I don't know where the equipment is that Mary Smith
used to give the medication to mister Scoffield. I have
it all here, Dollar, the remains of the bottle of
cadillanid that I prescribed, the hypodermic with which he administered,
all in this kit, which needle that she used, Doctor Foot,
the small one of course, he only received two ccs
one of these others, this big one simply part of
a set.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Only the smaller one ever had anything in it. We checked.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
The others never contained anything more substantial than air. That's right, air,
mister Dalla. Yes, doctor Safety, forty fifty secies.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Of air, clean air, injected into a vein. Yes, of
course it would cause your nimbush.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
And if you were to find traces microscopic traces of
the flesh of La mont Scofield in that hypo that
contained nothing but air, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Of course, I'll go to work on it immediately.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
If he does find traces of dermal tissue on that needle,
I can't believe it. A case built on nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But thin air. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
And the ironic part of it is the tip off
came from Mary T.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Smith. Yes, the microscope showed.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
That needle had been used on Jay Lemont's schofield recently.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Pretty slim evidence, I know.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But when Mary was faced with it, well, I'm still
not quite sure why. Maybe we scared her, but she
broke down and confessed the murder and.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
She'd been wrong.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Sometimes you can build a case on nothing but thin air.
Expense account total sixty twenty cents You always, Truly, Johnny Dollar.
(23:02):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, originates in
Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone.
Heard in our cast were Virginia Gregg, Margaret Robinson, Marvin Miller,
and Junius Matthews. Be sure to join us next week,
same time and station for another exciting story of Yours Truly,
(23:22):
Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
This is Roy Rowan speaking
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