August 10, 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 (00:01):
From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Deller, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Lafev New Orleans. Please, Johnny, how's that when you call?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Lieutenant?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I think I've got a new lead on the whereabouts
of Tom Chase. I could use a new lead, had
roomy least under the name of Tom James. Remember that
shiant paper we found in the waste basket, sure.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Stuff he'd tried to burn after he took off in
a hurry the night of Freddie Quintenna's murder.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We could make our two numbers written on one scrap
of paper.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Twelve and twenty three have been able to figure out
with the mean, though.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Neither had I until I happen to look at the
Harbor News and the newspaper. Yeah, you think those numbers
could refer to a ship sailing peer twenty three at
twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Maybe could be.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Johnny, Sure could be.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I go to work on it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Maybe I have something by the time you get here, Lieutenant,
I'll be there in ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey, in the Transcribed
Adventures of the Man with the Action Tact Expense America's
populous freelance insurance investigators.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, New Orleans to the
Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut. Assignment the Phantom
Chase matter expense account continued. Item sixteen A dollar fifty
cab from my hotel the police headquarters in the office
(01:38):
of the Technical Lieutenant lafev.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I got some of my boys working on ships. Allan's
Jenny Problez. We're not sure what date we want. Well,
twelve means noon to midnight. Peer twenty three is a
pretty busy place. Has been several departures the last few days.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Freddy Quintana was killed three nights ago about ten thirty
at night. Could be the departure time was midnight that
same night, could be.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And that's a line and we're taking. But of course
that's assuming that Tom Chase, ellis Tom James was the
one who murdered freddyck Quintana.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh, everything points that way, Lieutenant Look. Tom Chase was
the junior partner in the New York investment firm of
Everson and Chase. He embezzled one hundred and twenty thousand bucks,
jumped his bail, and disappeared bezlesn't necessarily kill it, Johnny.
Matter of fact, if two types are usually quite different.
True enough, But the big kicker in this deal is
why Tom Chase went sour in the first place. A
man who changed as completely as heated in one direction
(02:29):
might go all the way it's happened before. Of course,
his wife Laura and his senior partner, George Everson were
pretty shocked at the thought Thom had embezzled the money.
They couldn't understand why a man like he was would
do what he did, either could I until I found
out I was a woman who rented a room for
him here in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
How did Miss Chase take that news?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I'm pretty hard she's still here. No I talked to
her into returning to New York. I just didn't want
to see her get hurt anymore. She probably shouldn't have
come down here in the first place. Well that's what
I told her. But there was nothing she could do here.
But what it boiled down to was she just wanted one.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
More look at her husband.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You see, after he was arrested in New York, he
refused to make a statement. It wouldn't even talk to
her about it refuse to see her at.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
All, so she thought if she could see him again,
he might have some kind of explanation.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, But as it turned out, she was just asking
for another kick in her face.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
How can a man explain another woman? That's a good
question personally. I hope I never have to answer one.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Like la fave when I see what happens sometimes in
the marriages I run up against. I'm glad I'm single.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
The troublers, You and I have tangled with the wrong
kind of people.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Most of the time.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You can say that again, Freddy, Quintana sure fit into
that category.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That name brings up problems.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Johnny, we're basing a belief that Chase skipped town, that
those numbers on the scrap of paper mean a ship saying,
and we're basing all that on the assumption that Chase
killed Quintana.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
You must remember that Quintana was a bad boy. There
are plenty of people who'd like nothing better than knock
him off.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
But why at that particular moment, all the tenant the
timing adds up to Chase. After I traced him here
to New Orleans, Quintana contacted me. He said he could
deliver Chase for a price. He showed me a sample
of Chase's handwriting he'd swipe from his room. It was genuine,
all right. Then Quintana winds up dead in an alley
before he can deliver Chase.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
How else can that that up? Look?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
John, A'm just mentioned impossibilities. You're right, Chase is the
probability there? Well, let me get that down, all.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Right, I have it finished. They locate the ship.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah, you're being star left at midnight the night at
Quintana's murder from Peer twenty three right destination Trinidad by
way Havana and Haiti. And there is a Tom James
on that passing your list.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You know, hunch was a good one.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Let's see if I could get a plane out of
here this morning, I might be able to intercept the
ship at Haiti. Hey, could you cable the authorities there
and request them the hole?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Chase? If I don't make it in time, you're glad to.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Just many Jenny, you expecting to call them New York?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh yeah, I put one under George Everson, Chase's senior partner,
a little while ago.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Here it is good. Thanks.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Hello, This is George Everson in New York. They told
me it's your hotel that you were at police headquarters.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
You were wondering why Chase and Bessel the money from
your firm, mister Everson, I.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Still can't understand. It's mister Dollary.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Just oh, maybe this will help. We found out that
his hideout here in New Orleans was arranged for him
by a woman.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
A woman. Oh no, and according to the rental agent,
quite a woman. Oh good Lord to think, well, does
Loland all of this? Yes? I talked to her into
returning to New York.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Good she should never have gone down in the first place.
Of any leads on Chase's present whereabouts, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Just turn one up. It looks like he's traveling under
the name of Tom James on a ship to Trinidad, Trinidad, right,
But if my luck holes, he won't get farther than
hadi Uh expense ac count ad'm seventeen one hundred and
thirty four dollars and forty cents transportation from New Orleans
to our Prince Haiti. The flight only took a few hours,
(06:03):
but to me the plane seemed as slow as a truck.
But then as we came in over the harbor and
Port a Prince. I could see it was going to
be a dead heat. The boat was just entering the harbor.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
By the time I got to the dock, they were
just putting the.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Gang way over. Nobody had come ashore yet. I had
Chase's statement number from the passenger list. Okay, empty, real empty.
(06:35):
Oh well, what's the trouble here? What's wrong, oh, purser?
Was that you just broke in the door. Yeah, here's
my card insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But really, mister Dollar, the doorry. Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I'll take care of it right now. I'm more interested
than the man who used to be behind the door.
He was going under the name of Tom Jane. Oh yes,
mister Jane. Whosey I'm afraid I wouldn't know. Now this
is no time for games, person.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I don't know where he is. I came aboard just
as the gang way went down. Nobody could have come ashore.
Do you mean here at Portouprance?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Wait a minute, are you trying to say he got
offer some other port? Our first stop, Havana. That'd be
two days ago. That's right, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh well, that's just great.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I bust my neck to meet the boat for nothing. Look,
so we got off in Havana. You have any idea
where he was heading? None whatsoever? Well, not just about
doesn't He did ask me where the airlines's office in
Havanah were airlines office? Thanks expense account out of eighteen
eight dollars and forty cents long distance call to the
Havana Police Department. They put me through to a Lieutenant Escobar. Hey, look,
(07:39):
Lieutenant Escabar, I'm an insurance investigator from the United.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
States, the United States. But the operator said you were an.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Anti Well yeah, that's right. You see. Well let that
go for a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm after a fugitive and a bezzler named Tom Chase,
also known as Tom James J James. Yes, I wonder
if you'd check the airlines at Havanna and see where
he bought a ticket to then call me collect. I
thought he was going to trin it At, so I
came as far as Haiti where I found out here
he got off in Havana.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Trinidad hati Havana, Senor, if you will permit me, you
sounded a little confused.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yes I do, Senor, it's because I am.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
There was nothing I could do after that except sitting
Portter Prince and twitter my thumbs. I wasn't all sure i'd.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Be hearing from Lieutenant Escabar again, or if I did,
whether it'd have a lead for me. But two hours
later he called back and he did about.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Your friend Senor James or Senor Chase. I'm not sure which.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Let's not start that routine again, Lieutenant James will do
see two.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Days ago the Senor James or the plane ticket here
in Havanah where two Barbados Barbados see the British West Indianah.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I know where it is. Oh, brother, he really gets.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Around now, let me see if I have this thing straight.
Signor you thought he was going to Trinidad, so.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You went to Haiti, well, but instead he.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Came to Havana, so he went to Barbados. You see, No, Senor,
I am sorry, but it still does not make sense.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Don't worry about it, Lieutenant Escapara does to me. Just
accept my thanks for the lead. Someday I'll sit down
and write your letter about it. I'm nineteen one hundred
and forty three dollars. Transportation and incidentals from Haiti to
Barbados from the air looked like a beautiful spot, pastel
colored houses with pink roofs, clean sandy beaches, gentle waves. Yeah,
(09:13):
I could see Chase's point in coming here a good
place to get away from it all, particularly with one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars to keep you company, and
more particularly when once you're trying to get away from
is a couple of assorted charges like embezzlement and murdered.
But if I thought that finding Tom Chase heavily as
Tom James would be a cinch, once I got to Barbados,
I was sadly mistaken. It was a bigger island than
(09:35):
I'd realized, about one hundred and seventy square miles, and
Bridgetown was quite a fair sized city. I checked into
the hotel and made the rounds of all the others
inquiring about Chase, but I got nowhere item twenty one
dollar two drinks while I brooded in the hotel bar
over the fact the trail had gotten cold again. But
(09:55):
by the time I got that through my head, I
saw the prettiest sight I encountered all a girl, and
unless I was very much mistaken, she was heading for
my table.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
You're Johnny Darlar sure, I am. I'd like to talk
to you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Cigarette.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Please. You're looking for somebody, aren't you, mister die?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Am I anybody in particular?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Yes, let's call him Tom James.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh what about him?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I know where he is?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Connie?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Connie? Who?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Connie's enough?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So you're the one? Huh?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well? I knew Chase wasn't traveling alone.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Yeah, I'm the one.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
One thing I don't get what why you're doing this?
If you're Chase's girlfriend? You want out?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yeah? I want out?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So you delivered Chase to me? What do you want
for it?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Money enough to get back to the States.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That might be arranged. Just one thing? What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The last person who tried to turn Chase over to
me got himself killed back in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You better be real careful.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I will now look. There's a bar down near the
waterfront called the Trade Winds.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Know what I can find? It?
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Be there about ten tonight. Chase will be with me.
O j Two things, mister dollar, what are they don't
let onto him? How you found him?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay? What else?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Bring the money?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
County left and I sat there basking in the walk
and warmth of a trail that had suddenly heated up again.
At quarter to ten, I went down to the waterfront.
I spotted the Trade Winds bar down the street of
Black As I waited. Pretty soon I saw Connie go inside.
I started for the entrance. Then suddenly I realized I
was being followed. Somebody crossed the street in the shadows.
(11:58):
I whirled and headed for him. It took him by surprise.
He ducked down an alley, then into a warehouse and
a pier. I eased up to the door. It was
dark inside, but I went in.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Then too late.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Out of the corner of my eye spotted somebody beside
me in the dark. Something hard hit me over the
right ear, knocked me to my knees. Yeah, I'd finally
caught up with Chase the hard way. Now here's our
(12:38):
star to tell you about the next exciting episode of
this story. Next, a small fishing boat, a deserted island,
and a man waiting there for me. A man with
a gun join us, Won't you yours truly?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Johnny Dollar, yours truly, Johnny Dollars?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Worrying Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Robert Rife.
It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstones. Heard in
our cast were Virginia Gregg, Michael Ann Barrett, Lawrence Dobkin,
Foris Lewis, Peter Leeds, Barney Phillips, Tony Barrett, and Victor Perron.
Musical supervision by A. Marigo Marino. Be sure to join
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story on Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking
From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Deller, Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Lafev New Orleans. Please, Johnny, how's that when you call?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Lieutenant?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I think I've got a new lead on the whereabouts
of Tom Chase. I could use a new lead, had
roomy least under the name of Tom James. Remember that
shiant paper we found in the waste basket, sure.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Stuff he'd tried to burn after he took off in
a hurry the night of Freddie Quintenna's murder.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We could make our two numbers written on one scrap
of paper.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Twelve and twenty three have been able to figure out
with the mean, though.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Neither had I until I happen to look at the
Harbor News and the newspaper. Yeah, you think those numbers
could refer to a ship sailing peer twenty three at
twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Maybe could be.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Johnny, Sure could be.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I go to work on it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Maybe I have something by the time you get here, Lieutenant,
I'll be there in ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey, in the Transcribed
Adventures of the Man with the Action Tact Expense America's
populous freelance insurance investigators.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, New Orleans to the
Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut. Assignment the Phantom
Chase matter expense account continued. Item sixteen A dollar fifty
cab from my hotel the police headquarters in the office
(01:38):
of the Technical Lieutenant lafev.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I got some of my boys working on ships. Allan's
Jenny Problez. We're not sure what date we want. Well,
twelve means noon to midnight. Peer twenty three is a
pretty busy place. Has been several departures the last few days.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Freddy Quintana was killed three nights ago about ten thirty
at night. Could be the departure time was midnight that
same night, could be.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And that's a line and we're taking. But of course
that's assuming that Tom Chase, ellis Tom James was the
one who murdered freddyck Quintana.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh, everything points that way, Lieutenant Look. Tom Chase was
the junior partner in the New York investment firm of
Everson and Chase. He embezzled one hundred and twenty thousand bucks,
jumped his bail, and disappeared bezlesn't necessarily kill it, Johnny.
Matter of fact, if two types are usually quite different.
True enough, But the big kicker in this deal is
why Tom Chase went sour in the first place. A
man who changed as completely as heated in one direction
(02:29):
might go all the way it's happened before. Of course,
his wife Laura and his senior partner, George Everson were
pretty shocked at the thought Thom had embezzled the money.
They couldn't understand why a man like he was would
do what he did, either could I until I found
out I was a woman who rented a room for
him here in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
How did Miss Chase take that news?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I'm pretty hard she's still here. No I talked to
her into returning to New York. I just didn't want
to see her get hurt anymore. She probably shouldn't have
come down here in the first place. Well that's what
I told her. But there was nothing she could do here.
But what it boiled down to was she just wanted one.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
More look at her husband.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You see, after he was arrested in New York, he
refused to make a statement. It wouldn't even talk to
her about it refuse to see her at.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
All, so she thought if she could see him again,
he might have some kind of explanation.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, But as it turned out, she was just asking
for another kick in her face.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
How can a man explain another woman? That's a good
question personally. I hope I never have to answer one.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Like la fave when I see what happens sometimes in
the marriages I run up against. I'm glad I'm single.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
The troublers, You and I have tangled with the wrong
kind of people.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Most of the time.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You can say that again, Freddy, Quintana sure fit into
that category.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That name brings up problems.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Johnny, we're basing a belief that Chase skipped town, that
those numbers on the scrap of paper mean a ship saying,
and we're basing all that on the assumption that Chase
killed Quintana.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
You must remember that Quintana was a bad boy. There
are plenty of people who'd like nothing better than knock
him off.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
But why at that particular moment, all the tenant the
timing adds up to Chase. After I traced him here
to New Orleans, Quintana contacted me. He said he could
deliver Chase for a price. He showed me a sample
of Chase's handwriting he'd swipe from his room. It was genuine,
all right. Then Quintana winds up dead in an alley
before he can deliver Chase.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
How else can that that up? Look?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
John, A'm just mentioned impossibilities. You're right, Chase is the
probability there? Well, let me get that down, all.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Right, I have it finished. They locate the ship.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah, you're being star left at midnight the night at
Quintana's murder from Peer twenty three right destination Trinidad by
way Havana and Haiti. And there is a Tom James
on that passing your list.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You know, hunch was a good one.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Let's see if I could get a plane out of
here this morning, I might be able to intercept the
ship at Haiti. Hey, could you cable the authorities there
and request them the hole?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Chase? If I don't make it in time, you're glad to.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Just many Jenny, you expecting to call them New York?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh yeah, I put one under George Everson, Chase's senior partner,
a little while ago.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Here it is good. Thanks.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Hello, This is George Everson in New York. They told
me it's your hotel that you were at police headquarters.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
You were wondering why Chase and Bessel the money from
your firm, mister Everson, I.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Still can't understand. It's mister Dollary.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Just oh, maybe this will help. We found out that
his hideout here in New Orleans was arranged for him
by a woman.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
A woman. Oh no, and according to the rental agent,
quite a woman. Oh good Lord to think, well, does
Loland all of this? Yes? I talked to her into
returning to New York.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Good she should never have gone down in the first place.
Of any leads on Chase's present whereabouts, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Just turn one up. It looks like he's traveling under
the name of Tom James on a ship to Trinidad, Trinidad, right,
But if my luck holes, he won't get farther than
hadi Uh expense ac count ad'm seventeen one hundred and
thirty four dollars and forty cents transportation from New Orleans
to our Prince Haiti. The flight only took a few hours,
(06:03):
but to me the plane seemed as slow as a truck.
But then as we came in over the harbor and
Port a Prince. I could see it was going to
be a dead heat. The boat was just entering the harbor.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
By the time I got to the dock, they were
just putting the.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Gang way over. Nobody had come ashore yet. I had
Chase's statement number from the passenger list. Okay, empty, real empty.
(06:35):
Oh well, what's the trouble here? What's wrong, oh, purser?
Was that you just broke in the door. Yeah, here's
my card insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But really, mister Dollar, the doorry. Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I'll take care of it right now. I'm more interested
than the man who used to be behind the door.
He was going under the name of Tom Jane. Oh yes,
mister Jane. Whosey I'm afraid I wouldn't know. Now this
is no time for games, person.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I don't know where he is. I came aboard just
as the gang way went down. Nobody could have come ashore.
Do you mean here at Portouprance?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Wait a minute, are you trying to say he got
offer some other port? Our first stop, Havana. That'd be
two days ago. That's right, mister Dollar.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh well, that's just great.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I bust my neck to meet the boat for nothing. Look,
so we got off in Havana. You have any idea
where he was heading? None whatsoever? Well, not just about
doesn't He did ask me where the airlines's office in
Havanah were airlines office? Thanks expense account out of eighteen
eight dollars and forty cents long distance call to the
Havana Police Department. They put me through to a Lieutenant Escobar. Hey, look,
(07:39):
Lieutenant Escabar, I'm an insurance investigator from the United.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
States, the United States. But the operator said you were an.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Anti Well yeah, that's right. You see. Well let that
go for a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm after a fugitive and a bezzler named Tom Chase,
also known as Tom James J James. Yes, I wonder
if you'd check the airlines at Havanna and see where
he bought a ticket to then call me collect. I
thought he was going to trin it At, so I
came as far as Haiti where I found out here
he got off in Havana.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Trinidad hati Havana, Senor, if you will permit me, you
sounded a little confused.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yes I do, Senor, it's because I am.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
There was nothing I could do after that except sitting
Portter Prince and twitter my thumbs. I wasn't all sure i'd.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Be hearing from Lieutenant Escabar again, or if I did,
whether it'd have a lead for me. But two hours
later he called back and he did about.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Your friend Senor James or Senor Chase. I'm not sure which.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Let's not start that routine again, Lieutenant James will do
see two.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Days ago the Senor James or the plane ticket here
in Havanah where two Barbados Barbados see the British West Indianah.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I know where it is. Oh, brother, he really gets.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Around now, let me see if I have this thing straight.
Signor you thought he was going to Trinidad, so.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You went to Haiti, well, but instead he.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Came to Havana, so he went to Barbados. You see, No, Senor,
I am sorry, but it still does not make sense.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Don't worry about it, Lieutenant Escapara does to me. Just
accept my thanks for the lead. Someday I'll sit down
and write your letter about it. I'm nineteen one hundred
and forty three dollars. Transportation and incidentals from Haiti to
Barbados from the air looked like a beautiful spot, pastel
colored houses with pink roofs, clean sandy beaches, gentle waves. Yeah,
(09:13):
I could see Chase's point in coming here a good
place to get away from it all, particularly with one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars to keep you company, and
more particularly when once you're trying to get away from
is a couple of assorted charges like embezzlement and murdered.
But if I thought that finding Tom Chase heavily as
Tom James would be a cinch, once I got to Barbados,
I was sadly mistaken. It was a bigger island than
(09:35):
I'd realized, about one hundred and seventy square miles, and
Bridgetown was quite a fair sized city. I checked into
the hotel and made the rounds of all the others
inquiring about Chase, but I got nowhere item twenty one
dollar two drinks while I brooded in the hotel bar
over the fact the trail had gotten cold again. But
(09:55):
by the time I got that through my head, I
saw the prettiest sight I encountered all a girl, and
unless I was very much mistaken, she was heading for
my table.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
You're Johnny Darlar sure, I am. I'd like to talk
to you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Cigarette.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Please. You're looking for somebody, aren't you, mister die?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Am I anybody in particular?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Yes, let's call him Tom James.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh what about him?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I know where he is?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Connie?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Connie? Who?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Connie's enough?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So you're the one? Huh?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well? I knew Chase wasn't traveling alone.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Yeah, I'm the one.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
One thing I don't get what why you're doing this?
If you're Chase's girlfriend? You want out?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Maybe?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yeah? I want out?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So you delivered Chase to me? What do you want
for it?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Money enough to get back to the States.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That might be arranged. Just one thing? What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The last person who tried to turn Chase over to
me got himself killed back in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You better be real careful.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I will now look. There's a bar down near the
waterfront called the Trade Winds.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Know what I can find? It?
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Be there about ten tonight. Chase will be with me.
O j Two things, mister dollar, what are they don't
let onto him? How you found him?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay? What else?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Bring the money?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
County left and I sat there basking in the walk
and warmth of a trail that had suddenly heated up again.
At quarter to ten, I went down to the waterfront.
I spotted the Trade Winds bar down the street of
Black As I waited. Pretty soon I saw Connie go inside.
I started for the entrance. Then suddenly I realized I
was being followed. Somebody crossed the street in the shadows.
(11:58):
I whirled and headed for him. It took him by surprise.
He ducked down an alley, then into a warehouse and
a pier. I eased up to the door. It was
dark inside, but I went in.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Then too late.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Out of the corner of my eye spotted somebody beside
me in the dark. Something hard hit me over the
right ear, knocked me to my knees. Yeah, I'd finally
caught up with Chase the hard way. Now here's our
(12:38):
star to tell you about the next exciting episode of
this story. Next, a small fishing boat, a deserted island,
and a man waiting there for me. A man with
a gun join us, Won't you yours truly?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Johnny Dollar, yours truly, Johnny Dollars?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Worrying Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Robert Rife.
It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstones. Heard in
our cast were Virginia Gregg, Michael Ann Barrett, Lawrence Dobkin,
Foris Lewis, Peter Leeds, Barney Phillips, Tony Barrett, and Victor Perron.
Musical supervision by A. Marigo Marino. Be sure to join
us on Monday Night or another exciting episode of this
(13:21):
story on Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking
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