August 6, 2025 • 14 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. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Pat McCrackan,
Universal Adjustment Bureau, Johnny, Wow, a long time Pat. What's
on your mind at the moment?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
One hundred and twenty thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey, you're really thinking big these days?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No correction? Worrying big?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well, I guess if I had one hundred and twenty
thousand clams, i'd worry too.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Look, if we had it, I wouldn't be worrying.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So who does have it? Thomas Chase, coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
A partner in the New York Investment said to get
evers in a Chase real dignified outfit.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Up till now Chase and bezzl the money. We think so,
So what do you want with me? I'm no expert
enforcing confessions, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You can't make a guy confess if you can't find him. Oh,
Chase has jumped his bail.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He's disappeared. I'll be right over to night and every
weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the
Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous Freelance
Insurance Investigators Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
(01:17):
to the Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau Hertford, Connecticut, following
us an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of
the phantom Chase matter expense account, adam one a dollar
even taxi from my apartment to the offices of Universal Adjustment,
where Pat McCracken was waiting for me with a worried
(01:37):
look and a handful of papers.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
How can you figure it, Johnny, and I'll fit like
Everson and Chase goes along for years without a blemish
on the record, and then blewy, one of them turns sour.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's what makes horse racist.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I guess that's also what gives bonding companies headaches. What's
the background, Pat, No, it's all in here eversion in
Chase investment broker's real.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
High class clientele partnership.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh yeah, George Everson's senior partner, forty two years old,
pillar of society. No, widower, wife died three four years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
This Thomas Chase is the junior partner there. Yeah, he's
thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's a big fellow, clean cut all conference football player
in college, you know that sort of thing. Everything in
his favor looks personality, intelligence, ability, Why Johnny euh, why
a guy like that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You're asking the wrong fellow. I've seen enough embassadors ought
to know. They come in all shapes and sizes. Eh,
what turns a man like that sour?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Well, you know the stock reasons as well as I do.
Pad gambling debts a woman? Incidentally, is Chase married? Now
that's another thing I don't get what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I know one of the stock reasons for embezzling is
another woman. If that was Chase's motive, He's not even
a fruitcake. Why anyone who had a wife like Lola
Chase would even look at another woman is beyond me.
Like that, like that impresses me as a real, real
fine woman and has got the looks to go with it.
What you'll be talking to you'll see for yourself always
a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Pat. Now about the money that's missing, one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars you.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
See, Yeah, more or less? Currency checks, negotiable security.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Well, look, a deal like that didn't just take place overnight.
It must have been going on for a long time,
no doubt of it. Hotted Chase manager.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, Everson configure in on that better than I could.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
A senior apartment.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, Now, he's still not willing to go along with us.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The Chase is guilty.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think he's pretty concerned about the company name, which
is understandable enough.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, maybe he's got something. Well, you better save yourself
some time, Johnny, meaning meaning you.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Just answered me one question?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
All right? What is it? Would an innocent man jump? Bail?
Expense had him two sixteen dollars and twenty cents transportation
and incidentals to New York to the office of Everson
and Chase. George Jefferson was Justice. Pat McCrackan had described
him early forties, a little gray at the Temple's healthy ten,
the real solid citizen type, handsome and right now unhappy.
(04:00):
I still can't believe it, mister dollar, Tom Chase, of
all people, Well, he was like a younger brother. I
nursed him to the best graduate business school in the East.
I took him in with me. How long ago did
he become a partner in the firm, mister Everson? Four
or five years? If five years next month, it would
be And Lola, poor Lola. If I ever saw an ideal, Mary's,
(04:23):
that was it. As far as I could see, he was.
He's all in a man to want maybe not for
Tom Ers Well, maybe not, and I certainly don't understand it.
Tell me I was chase able to get away with
us to the embezzlement. Well, he began with mister Dollar.
Our firm has always maintained a very fluid relationship with
his clients. Frequently we're buying or selling for them, or
(04:45):
both very rapidly. In a situation like that, the client
places a great deal of confidence and trust in us,
and we've always had the utmost of both from them,
at least we did have. Let's see. Well, anyway, in
a situation, it is possible for a clever man to
juggle figures, and that's what Tom says did, yes afraid,
(05:06):
so you see more and more lately he'd taken over
the personal management of some of our best accounts, oh,
sort of taking them under the wing. I encouraged him to.
But if I'd realized I was only putting temptation in
Tom's way, Well, how did you find out what he
went up to, mister Effison. Well, Tom had formed a
kind of pattern in these accounts. He specialized in handling
(05:28):
those clients of ours who were primarily interested in growth investments, uh, growth,
long range you know, buy and hold it for quite
a while. Oh yeah, I see. But one of those
clients suddenly decided to liquidate these holdings on short notice.
The account turned up short, no, quite short, So of
course I immediately ordered a full scale audit. The results
of that brought the District Attorney's office into it. The rest.
(05:50):
You know. Yeah, I must say that on paper, he'd
done a very convincing job. You see, now here are
the files on all his accounts. He'd recorded each transaction
carefully and correctly, and had written up memos on all
of them. These memos then in his handwriting, Yes they
are May I take one of them with me? Yeah,
(06:11):
certainly they are nice, mister Evison, As I understand that
Tom Chase wouldn't talk after his arrest. No, that was
the most frustrating part of it. If he'd have given
us some kind of explanation, anything, but he refused to
make a statement of any kind. I see.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I arranged for his.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Bail, of course, and tried to do what I could,
but he jumped ail and disappeared.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, I'm free.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So this was four days ago, I understand. Yeah. I
one more thing, mister Everson, had he acted it all
differently lately. Well, I hadn't noticed anything, but apparently his wife,
Lola had. Oh yeah, I had dinner with him a
week or so before, well before this thing happened. Laola
got me off to one side for a moment and
asked me if i'd noticed any change in Tom lately. Change. Yes,
(06:57):
She said that he'd seemed rather moody and preoccupied, right
and all. That made me realize that he had seemed
to trifle tents around the office. Apparently, he told her
he'd been working extra hard, and I suppose that should
have been a danger signed to me. But well, I
was afraid i'd so I just passed it off. I
kidded her out of it. Yeah. Well, thanks for the information,
(07:19):
mister Everson.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's little enough. I'm afraid, where do you start looking
in a case like this.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, that's a good question. First, I think I'm going
to have a talk with missus Chase, find out all
I can about our husband's habits, likes and dislikes so on.
Sometimes you pick up a lead that way, well you'll
probably run him down sooner or later. I understand you
have quite a reputation that that sort of thing. I
wonder if you'd do me a favorite, mister Donner. Sure,
as I say, you probably find him. And as for
(07:47):
the money, well, I guess whatever part of it we
recover we should be grateful for. That's about the size
of it. I guess. Frankly, I'd rather not see Tom
Chase again unless it can't be avoided. Yeah, I understand,
But there is one question I guess I'll always wonder about.
Maybe you can find the answer for me. What is it?
Why did he do it? Why expense a count item
(08:14):
three twelve fifty cocktails in dinner for Lola Chase and myself.
I figured she might relax a little more that way,
And believe me, taking Lola Chase to dinner was no chore.
She was everything Pat McCracken and George Efferson had said
she was. Tom Chase must have had some pretty powerful
reasons to walk out on her. Lola and I'm a
general conversation throughout dinner. She was poised, but pretty subdued.
(08:37):
After we finished eating, I steered the conversation around to
her husband.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And I don't know that there's anything I can tell
you that I haven't already told. The District Attorney's office,
mister dollars, what every information I can for Anish, Well,
what I.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Mainly want to know is, oh, what sort of person
was your husband Tom?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I guess I'm the wrong one to be answering that,
mister dollarm I thought I knew Tom better than anyone
in the world, but as it turned out, I didn't
know him at all.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Funny how you can live with someone for years.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, So when you asked me what sort of person
he was, I guess I have to say I really
don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
How about his hobbies, likes and dislikes, you know that
sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Well, he liked to play golf, h he did some sailing,
and he had quite a collection of records and an elaborate.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Hiphi set all what kind of records? Jazz?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Mostly used to play them by the hour? I must say,
turned them up a little too loudly for me.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
But then I understand that women's ears weren't built for
high fire or something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, tell me, missus chasers. Did you notice much change
in his behavior recently?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, I did. Ended upset me.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
What sort of change.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well, for one thing, he became rather I guess you'd
call it. He seemed to have something on his mind
all the time.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Several times he stayed out late at night, said he
was working.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I see.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And then there was this thing about our vacation.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
What was that.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Well, we'd planned a little trip, but at the last
moment he told me he couldn't go. He insisted I
make the trip without him. I didn't want to, but
he insisted, so I finally went alone. It was when
I got back that I found out he'd been arrested.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Where did you go on this trip, Martha's Vineyard?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well, thanks very much for the information, Missus Chase.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Thank you, mister Dollar, He've been very kind. When and
if you find Tom, well, yes, well I guess I'm
just foolish enough to think he he still might be innocent.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I took Missus changed to a apartment and then went
back to my hotel. The big question was where to start.
What did I really know about Tom Chase. I had
a picture of him and a specimen of his handwriting.
I knew his hobbies, but what did it all add
up to. Oh, mister Roverson, Yeah, I'm sorry to barge
(11:19):
in on you at this hour, mister Dollary, No, none
at all. Come in, Come in thanks, mister Donner. You
probably think I'm crazy, and I know it's a very
slim chance, but it is a chance. What are you
talking about. Take a look at this newspaper right here,
a feature writing him on jazz in New Orleans. This
picture taking in the bar down there, the old guy
with a trumpet, no, no, no, in the background, the people
(11:40):
sitting at the bar. Look at this man right here. Oh,
his face is half turned away and it looks like
he hasn't shaved for a while. Mister Donner, that's Tom Chase.
You sure you can't see much of his face. I know,
I know, But when you've been around a man for
several years, you notice little things about him, little mannerism,
like what, well, look at the way he's got his
head sort of cocked to one side. Now, that's just
(12:00):
the way Tom always did when he was listening to something.
And look at his hand resting on the bar, like
one finger was pointing at something. Now, that's the way
Tom held his hand. And look he's got one leg
sort of drawn up. That is exactly the way Tom
used to sit at the bar. But mister Evers and
any number of men, and that picture isn't too clear.
I know, maybe it's just a crazy wild idea, but
(12:22):
mister Donner, I'll bet on it that that man is
Tom Chase. Crazy wild idea. Maybe, maybe not, but it
took less than a second to metally flip a coin
and it came up New Orleans. Now here's our star
(12:50):
to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this story. Yeah,
onto New Orleans, where the trail proves to be pretty
cold but warms up fast. Join us, won't you, Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey,
(13:19):
is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Robert Rith, It is
produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join
us tomorrow night at same time in station for the
next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan
speaking
From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Pat McCrackan,
Universal Adjustment Bureau, Johnny, Wow, a long time Pat. What's
on your mind at the moment?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
One hundred and twenty thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey, you're really thinking big these days?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No correction? Worrying big?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well, I guess if I had one hundred and twenty
thousand clams, i'd worry too.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Look, if we had it, I wouldn't be worrying.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So who does have it? Thomas Chase, coming in.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
A partner in the New York Investment said to get
evers in a Chase real dignified outfit.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Up till now Chase and bezzl the money. We think so,
So what do you want with me? I'm no expert
enforcing confessions, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You can't make a guy confess if you can't find him. Oh,
Chase has jumped his bail.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He's disappeared. I'll be right over to night and every
weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the
Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous Freelance
Insurance Investigators Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
(01:17):
to the Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau Hertford, Connecticut, following
us an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of
the phantom Chase matter expense account, adam one a dollar
even taxi from my apartment to the offices of Universal Adjustment,
where Pat McCracken was waiting for me with a worried
(01:37):
look and a handful of papers.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
How can you figure it, Johnny, and I'll fit like
Everson and Chase goes along for years without a blemish
on the record, and then blewy, one of them turns sour.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's what makes horse racist.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I guess that's also what gives bonding companies headaches. What's
the background, Pat, No, it's all in here eversion in
Chase investment broker's real.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
High class clientele partnership.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh yeah, George Everson's senior partner, forty two years old,
pillar of society. No, widower, wife died three four years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
This Thomas Chase is the junior partner there. Yeah, he's
thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's a big fellow, clean cut all conference football player
in college, you know that sort of thing. Everything in
his favor looks personality, intelligence, ability, Why Johnny euh, why
a guy like that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You're asking the wrong fellow. I've seen enough embassadors ought
to know. They come in all shapes and sizes. Eh,
what turns a man like that sour?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Well, you know the stock reasons as well as I do.
Pad gambling debts a woman? Incidentally, is Chase married? Now
that's another thing I don't get what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I know one of the stock reasons for embezzling is
another woman. If that was Chase's motive, He's not even
a fruitcake. Why anyone who had a wife like Lola
Chase would even look at another woman is beyond me.
Like that, like that impresses me as a real, real
fine woman and has got the looks to go with it.
What you'll be talking to you'll see for yourself always
a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Pat. Now about the money that's missing, one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars you.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
See, Yeah, more or less? Currency checks, negotiable security.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Well, look, a deal like that didn't just take place overnight.
It must have been going on for a long time,
no doubt of it. Hotted Chase manager.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, Everson configure in on that better than I could.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
A senior apartment.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, Now, he's still not willing to go along with us.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The Chase is guilty.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think he's pretty concerned about the company name, which
is understandable enough.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, maybe he's got something. Well, you better save yourself
some time, Johnny, meaning meaning you.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Just answered me one question?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
All right? What is it? Would an innocent man jump? Bail?
Expense had him two sixteen dollars and twenty cents transportation
and incidentals to New York to the office of Everson
and Chase. George Jefferson was Justice. Pat McCrackan had described
him early forties, a little gray at the Temple's healthy ten,
the real solid citizen type, handsome and right now unhappy.
(04:00):
I still can't believe it, mister dollar, Tom Chase, of
all people, Well, he was like a younger brother. I
nursed him to the best graduate business school in the East.
I took him in with me. How long ago did
he become a partner in the firm, mister Everson? Four
or five years? If five years next month, it would
be And Lola, poor Lola. If I ever saw an ideal, Mary's,
(04:23):
that was it. As far as I could see, he was.
He's all in a man to want maybe not for
Tom Ers Well, maybe not, and I certainly don't understand it.
Tell me I was chase able to get away with
us to the embezzlement. Well, he began with mister Dollar.
Our firm has always maintained a very fluid relationship with
his clients. Frequently we're buying or selling for them, or
(04:45):
both very rapidly. In a situation like that, the client
places a great deal of confidence and trust in us,
and we've always had the utmost of both from them,
at least we did have. Let's see. Well, anyway, in
a situation, it is possible for a clever man to
juggle figures, and that's what Tom says did, yes afraid,
(05:06):
so you see more and more lately he'd taken over
the personal management of some of our best accounts, oh,
sort of taking them under the wing. I encouraged him to.
But if I'd realized I was only putting temptation in
Tom's way, Well, how did you find out what he
went up to, mister Effison. Well, Tom had formed a
kind of pattern in these accounts. He specialized in handling
(05:28):
those clients of ours who were primarily interested in growth investments, uh, growth,
long range you know, buy and hold it for quite
a while. Oh yeah, I see. But one of those
clients suddenly decided to liquidate these holdings on short notice.
The account turned up short, no, quite short, So of
course I immediately ordered a full scale audit. The results
of that brought the District Attorney's office into it. The rest.
(05:50):
You know. Yeah, I must say that on paper, he'd
done a very convincing job. You see, now here are
the files on all his accounts. He'd recorded each transaction
carefully and correctly, and had written up memos on all
of them. These memos then in his handwriting, Yes they
are May I take one of them with me? Yeah,
(06:11):
certainly they are nice, mister Evison, As I understand that
Tom Chase wouldn't talk after his arrest. No, that was
the most frustrating part of it. If he'd have given
us some kind of explanation, anything, but he refused to
make a statement of any kind. I see.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I arranged for his.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Bail, of course, and tried to do what I could,
but he jumped ail and disappeared.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, I'm free.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So this was four days ago, I understand. Yeah. I
one more thing, mister Everson, had he acted it all
differently lately. Well, I hadn't noticed anything, but apparently his wife,
Lola had. Oh yeah, I had dinner with him a
week or so before, well before this thing happened. Laola
got me off to one side for a moment and
asked me if i'd noticed any change in Tom lately. Change. Yes,
(06:57):
She said that he'd seemed rather moody and preoccupied, right
and all. That made me realize that he had seemed
to trifle tents around the office. Apparently, he told her
he'd been working extra hard, and I suppose that should
have been a danger signed to me. But well, I
was afraid i'd so I just passed it off. I
kidded her out of it. Yeah. Well, thanks for the information,
(07:19):
mister Everson.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's little enough. I'm afraid, where do you start looking
in a case like this.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, that's a good question. First, I think I'm going
to have a talk with missus Chase, find out all
I can about our husband's habits, likes and dislikes so on.
Sometimes you pick up a lead that way, well you'll
probably run him down sooner or later. I understand you
have quite a reputation that that sort of thing. I
wonder if you'd do me a favorite, mister Donner. Sure,
as I say, you probably find him. And as for
(07:47):
the money, well, I guess whatever part of it we
recover we should be grateful for. That's about the size
of it. I guess. Frankly, I'd rather not see Tom
Chase again unless it can't be avoided. Yeah, I understand,
But there is one question I guess I'll always wonder about.
Maybe you can find the answer for me. What is it?
Why did he do it? Why expense a count item
(08:14):
three twelve fifty cocktails in dinner for Lola Chase and myself.
I figured she might relax a little more that way,
And believe me, taking Lola Chase to dinner was no chore.
She was everything Pat McCracken and George Efferson had said
she was. Tom Chase must have had some pretty powerful
reasons to walk out on her. Lola and I'm a
general conversation throughout dinner. She was poised, but pretty subdued.
(08:37):
After we finished eating, I steered the conversation around to
her husband.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And I don't know that there's anything I can tell
you that I haven't already told. The District Attorney's office,
mister dollars, what every information I can for Anish, Well,
what I.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Mainly want to know is, oh, what sort of person
was your husband Tom?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I guess I'm the wrong one to be answering that,
mister dollarm I thought I knew Tom better than anyone
in the world, but as it turned out, I didn't
know him at all.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Funny how you can live with someone for years.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, So when you asked me what sort of person
he was, I guess I have to say I really
don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
How about his hobbies, likes and dislikes, you know that
sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Well, he liked to play golf, h he did some sailing,
and he had quite a collection of records and an elaborate.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Hiphi set all what kind of records? Jazz?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Mostly used to play them by the hour? I must say,
turned them up a little too loudly for me.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
But then I understand that women's ears weren't built for
high fire or something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, tell me, missus chasers. Did you notice much change
in his behavior recently?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, I did. Ended upset me.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
What sort of change.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well, for one thing, he became rather I guess you'd
call it. He seemed to have something on his mind
all the time.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Several times he stayed out late at night, said he
was working.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I see.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And then there was this thing about our vacation.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
What was that.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Well, we'd planned a little trip, but at the last
moment he told me he couldn't go. He insisted I
make the trip without him. I didn't want to, but
he insisted, so I finally went alone. It was when
I got back that I found out he'd been arrested.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Where did you go on this trip, Martha's Vineyard?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well, thanks very much for the information, Missus Chase.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Thank you, mister Dollar, He've been very kind. When and
if you find Tom, well, yes, well I guess I'm
just foolish enough to think he he still might be innocent.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I took Missus changed to a apartment and then went
back to my hotel. The big question was where to start.
What did I really know about Tom Chase. I had
a picture of him and a specimen of his handwriting.
I knew his hobbies, but what did it all add
up to. Oh, mister Roverson, Yeah, I'm sorry to barge
(11:19):
in on you at this hour, mister Dollary, No, none
at all. Come in, Come in thanks, mister Donner. You
probably think I'm crazy, and I know it's a very
slim chance, but it is a chance. What are you
talking about. Take a look at this newspaper right here,
a feature writing him on jazz in New Orleans. This
picture taking in the bar down there, the old guy
with a trumpet, no, no, no, in the background, the people
(11:40):
sitting at the bar. Look at this man right here. Oh,
his face is half turned away and it looks like
he hasn't shaved for a while. Mister Donner, that's Tom Chase.
You sure you can't see much of his face. I know,
I know, But when you've been around a man for
several years, you notice little things about him, little mannerism,
like what, well, look at the way he's got his
head sort of cocked to one side. Now, that's just
(12:00):
the way Tom always did when he was listening to something.
And look at his hand resting on the bar, like
one finger was pointing at something. Now, that's the way
Tom held his hand. And look he's got one leg
sort of drawn up. That is exactly the way Tom
used to sit at the bar. But mister Evers and
any number of men, and that picture isn't too clear.
I know, maybe it's just a crazy wild idea, but
(12:22):
mister Donner, I'll bet on it that that man is
Tom Chase. Crazy wild idea. Maybe, maybe not, but it
took less than a second to metally flip a coin
and it came up New Orleans. Now here's our star
(12:50):
to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this story. Yeah,
onto New Orleans, where the trail proves to be pretty
cold but warms up fast. Join us, won't you, Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey,
(13:19):
is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Robert Rith, It is
produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join
us tomorrow night at same time in station for the
next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan
speaking
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