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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's time now for.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Johnny Dollar, George Efferson, mister Dollar. Oh, yes, mister Everson.
I've been thinking I could have been wrong last night.
You mean about the newspaper picture of the bar in
New Orleans. Yes, that man in the background of the picture,
the way he sits, the way he holds his hands,
and he's handied. It's so like Tom Chane, that's what
you told me last night. Yes, but this morning, well,
you know, things always look different in the morning. After all,
we can't see very much of his face in the picture.
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It might be just a wild goose chase. Well, I've
been on plenty of them, believe me. But I've been
thinking too, mister Everson. Tom Chase and bezeled one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars from your firm. New Orleans would
be as good a place for him to hide as
any Besides, which his wife told me was very fond
of jazz, and there's certainly plenty of that down there,
And you really think it might be a possibility. My
plane leaves for New Orleans in an hour, Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Tonight, and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in The Inscribed
Adventures of the man with the action packed expense accout
America's populous freelance insurance investigator, Yours.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Truly, Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location, New Orleans,
Louisiana to the Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut.
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Assignment the phantom chase matter expense account continue and am
five three point fifty Campair to the airport. George Everson
was waiting for me at the passenger ramp. I'll tell you,
mister Dollar, before I came out here to the airport,
I called the insurance company you represent in this investigation.
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I told him, if this pipt in New Orleans did
turn out to be just a wild goose chase, that
I would assume your expenses. Oh well, that's very considerate
of you, mister Everson, but it is necessary on investigations
and investigation. My company's willing and anxious to exhaust all
the possibilities. And from what you tell me, it's a
good possibility that Tom Chase is hiding in New Orleans.
Well I hope, so, say, Look, I've still got a
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minute or two before my plane lords, I want to
make sure I've got all the facts straight. All right,
Tom Chase was your junior partner. He began to specialize
in those clients of yours who made long term investments. Right,
one of them decided to sell out suddenly, and you
discovered there was a lot less in his account than
that should have been. He ordered and ordered, and found
that other accounts of Tom's had been juggled too, to
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the tune of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars roughly.
He was arrested but wouldn't talk. He got out on
bail and jumped his bail and disappeared. Yes, all right.
His wife, Lola says it. For some time before that
he was moody, intense. Well, look, I didn't mention this
to her, but I will tell you. Do you have
any reason to think that Chase was interested in another woman? No,
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no reason at all, Good Lord, mister Dollar. With a
wife like Lola, a man would be out of his
mind to even think of anyone else. Well, I'm just
mentioning a possibility, mister Everson. Yeah, I know, and I
suppose that always is a possibility in embezzlement cases, but
I certainly hope not in this one. The whole thing's
been hard enough on Lola as it is. Yeah, did
you tell her about the newspaper picture and that I'm
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going to New Orleans? No. I decided not to mention
the tour for the present. I didn't want to get
her hopes up, although heaving no, she doesn't have much
to hope for under the circumstances. Yeah. Oh, well, my
planes loading for so long, mister Everson. If best luck,
mister Dollar, I'll be waiting for word from you. Don't
count so much. Oh, people have hit the jack butt
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on the first nickel, I know, but oftener than not,
they turn up three lemons instead expense on them six
one hundred and fourteen dollars transportation and incidentals to New Orleans.
I checked into the hotel and headed for the quarter.
It hadn't changed much, maybe a little more neon here
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and there, But the same streets, the same lattice work,
the same noises. Then, as I was walking along the sidewalk,
something came hurtling down through the air at me. I
jumped to one side. There was a basket at the
end of a rope. A man from a little grocery
store came out, put some food in the basket, and
the lady in the upstairs window. Hold it up again. No,
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the quarter hadn't changed much. It was after dark when
I located ASA's Castle, a bar that had been shown
in the New York newspapers. How many people inside? A
few couples scattered around, a single or two at the bar,
the bartender, and over in one corner of a small band
making slow, sad music. I went over to the bar
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evening soon Bye Scotson Star praise. Okay, a little slow tonight.
Huh it'll pick up. Yeah? Thanks. This is the bar
that was in the New York newspaper picture, isn't it? Yes?
So this is the place that must have been good
for business tourists. This isn't a tourist spot. What kind
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of a spot?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Isn't People from around the street here come in, have
a drink or two, nurse their own private troubles. All
forget him and listen to pops Hops, Pops Hawker, the
old man over there with the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Ah, hey, he plays like he means it, he does.
Do you mind taking a look at this newspaper picture?
So what about it? Well? This guy in the background
sitting at the bar, Yeah, know him? Not particularly what
do you mean not particular? I mean a lot of
guys come in here. Should I know.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
All of them?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
All? Right? Here, here's a front view of the man
I'm looking for. Recognize him? Afraid? Not, sir, afraid, I
can't help you. I don't hear the name Tom Chase Chase,
not that I remember.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Uh, this man in the newspaper picture his name Tom Chase,
Well could be, I'm not sure. Well, if he's around
the street somewhere, you'll probably run into him sooner or later.
How do you figure people on the street don't leave
it much?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Huh? Well of its own huh.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I suppose sort of an upside down world, But a
world I guess seems to be what they was.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Sir, you think if my friend Tom Chase is here
on the street somewhere, or he's liable to stay, most
of them do. And it looks like you're gonna have
a steady customer for a while.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
We can always use him. Why don't you go talk
to Pops, the old boy playing the trumpet there. He's
got quite a memory. Maybe he could help you. Thanks,
I will. Pop was way off and never never land.
He looked as old as after he wore dark glasses,
and the horn he was blowing looked like he'd either
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found it or made it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Real cool. Thank you, Daddy. Me and the boys just
warm enough. That wasn't warm up. What ain't what it
used to be.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
We will still hold up for a while, I.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Guess I think it will. Yeah, you talk to that
horn real pretty it went, the horn talk back to
the cow's daddy. Hey, look, maybe you can help me, Paus.
You got troubles in a way, I'm looking for somebody.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh, lots people got troubles, daddy.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, that's not crub what I mean, it's a well
it's a final named Tom Chase. Have I heard the
name around here? Chase? It?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
There was a side man in Chicago wants named Tom
Chase in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Was no Sorry, wrong Chase. So the one I'm looking
for is under forty.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Only Tom Chase. I remember what was the old one?
You been around here much? Where you looking for?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
What kind of voice you got?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Why? I don't know why I.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Remember voices fire? It is maybe I remembers.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Well, look I can do better than that plaps. I
got a picture him right here.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I don't do me no good? Why not I'm blinded
basin street drawers.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I think I knew now why he could blow the
kind of music he did. It had to make up
for a lot of things. I guess it was the
only way he could see Adam seven two dollars drinks
for me. I sat there and asis canceled for a
couple of hours, waiting waiting for Tom Chase to show up,
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or for the guy who looked like him to show up,
so I know for sure whether this was a wild
goose chase. But nothing happened. A few people swill lead
drifted in and out. Mostly they huddled around Pop's Harker,
nursing their drinks and listening. It got to be midnight,
and I just about to decided to give up when
a man with a face like a weasel slid into
the chair across the table from me. You're named Dollar,
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Johnny Dollar. That's right? Who are you, pretty, queen Tanner?
So so you should be glad to see me? Should
I any particular reason? Quin Tanna? Oh the fast it's
around the street. That's you're looking for somebody? Dollar. News
travels first, Yeah, when it's really interesting news like that. Oh,
it's so interesting about it? Whenever I smell, though, it
is always interesting. Maybe I nose it's too sensitive or
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too long. There was no mention of money. Look, i've
been around dollar Oh, I don't doubt that's Yeah. A
lot of people who flewed around the street and the
cord it don't want to be found. So guy comes
looking for somebody, it usually costs him a little money
to find him. I see, and you're looking for a
guy named Tom Chase. So so I think I got
him paid words not so fairy, styllar, not so fast.
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First we talk money, you're wrong there for any what
you mean? First we make sure you know what you're
talking about. Now look, now you look, I bumped into
a lot of characters like you, and more than a
fair share of them was just trying to ace into
deal for a fans buck without it. Kelly Kenny, I
got the guy. Pigs describe him. Yeah, tall, good deal,
probably a good looking guy when he shaves, curly hair,
brown eyes. How am I doing? Not bad? But I
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take a lot of convincing. Look, you're looking for this guy.
You just want to talk about it. I just want proof. Okay,
I'll get bring him here. That'll be proof enough. You kidding?
Did eat that eat and you knew it? This guy
didn't want to be fine. I know that the minute
I spotty. He's going under the name of Tom James,
Tom James, Yeah, bring a bed. Maybe his full name
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is Thomas James Chase. He could be using their first
two names as another alias. Sure, yeah, that's a familiar pattern.
Sure okay, Quintana, suppose you do give me some proof.
What do you want five hundred bucks? Oh that's a
lot of money. I think he wants, Chase. I'd have
to get an okay for my company. You could arrange it,
maybe maybe, And that brings us back to the question
of proof again. I'll be back an hour dot. Of
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which proof? Daddy? Yeah? Yeah, what is the boss? That
man he was talking to?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
He's a bad one, h I can tell him his verse?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Daddy. Yeah, I know what you mean. You do wanna
mess around with a bad one like that? Unfortunately, he
could have something I need.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Is that the reason? Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, maybe not a good one, but it's part of
my job.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Maybe you got yourself the wrong kind of job then, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You know, Pops, sometimes I think you're right. I don't
I know, Freddie right back on time. Yeah, yeah, with
the goods too. Yeah. I think it look so I
crumpled up what is smooth it out? I think it's
a letter he started writing and threw it away. Where'd
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you get him? I paid a little visit to his
room when he was out, I pieced it out of
the waistback teacher, Well, uh, when you get this, he'll
be far away. Don't try to find me. It's better
this way. I don't know how to explain, but ends there. Well,
what do you think is he?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Boy? I can tell you in about ten seconds. I
fished the sample of Chase's handwriting out of my pocket
and compared it to the half finished letter. I'm no expert,
but I didn't have to be. There was no doubt
about it. It was Chase's handwriting. So it looked as though
my trip was going to pay off. After all. Tom
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Chase was right here in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now here's our star to tell you about the next
exciting episode.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Of this story. There's a little game of chance called
Dealer's Choice. Fine, until the dealer gets dealt out the
hard way? Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar?
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Yours truly?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Johnny dollar Is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood.
Written by Robert Rife, 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 Dollars, Roy Rowan speaking