August 5, 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 at time. Now for any Dollar is well, lieutenant.
They found you in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sure, I was home in bed, where any decent person
would be this hour of the night or morning or.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You'll get no sympathy from me. I haven't even been
to bed.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What are you doing, Dollar, living in a tree up
there and using that for a service phone for your
own private exchange.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
More or less, I've got another body for you, Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
That's a happy good morning, this one and.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Next Chicago hood named Spade Keller.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
What did you do?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, he fell over a cliff in the manner of speaking.
That's three of the gang dead. Now. The only one
left is jibber Nitzen himself.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Have you found him yet?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
No, but I think I will in the next hour
or so.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Dollar. I can't hold my men out there any longer.
I gotta move in.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Give me till noon, lieutenant. If I can take it myself,
it may save an innocent person's life. He's a three
time killer already, I know, and you've been selling.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Me that story for the last twelve hours. That's what's
helped me back.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But I gotta have morning tail, all right. A friend
who's with me. A prospector named Jed Marsh will meet
you here at the Forest Service phone. In an hour.
He'll be in a green station.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Wagonet hold of a green station wagon.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We haven't yet, We're about to steal it. So long,
Lieutenant Tonight and every weekday Night, Bob Bailey.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
In the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Tactic,
Spenser Caud America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh is truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar.
Location Primrose Camp, Saturrey to National Forest, Arizona, to the
(01:48):
home office mid State's Industrial Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment
the Primrose Matter expense accounts, final pay. The jibber Knitsen
gang had held up an armored truck and Kansas City,
killed two guards and fed with one hundred thousand dollars
(02:09):
payroll covered by insurance. I'd finally tracked them down in
the Santa Rina Mountains of southern Arizona. Three of the
gang were dead now, and only the jipper himself was
still unaccounted for, but he was close around that I
was sure of somewhere near the prim Rose tourist camp
where I was staying a lonely layout on a dead
end mountain road run by old pomp Bardell and his
wife and their daughter Jenny, whom I still didn't seen.
(02:33):
It was nearly dawned when Jed, Marsh and I got
back to the camp. There was no sign of life.
We'd taken the keys to pop station wagon from the
dead gangster's pocket. Jed got into the station wagon and
waited until I was over at the cabin, then started
the motor. I was counting on the sound of the
motor to bring somebody out into the open, and the
plan worked partly, but it wasn't. The jibber showed. It
(02:54):
was pomp Ardel.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
What are you doing? Where you go?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He came running out of the living quarters behind the
souvenir shop, talking at a suspended He didn't notice me
until I walked up behind him.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
What to do?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
What did you do enough?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm an early riser? Anything wrong, mister Boutell.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Wro Why no? What do you think be wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I don't know, but I thought you were seeing a
little upset about something.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Well, did you happen to notice who was driving my
station wagon? Mister Dowler?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I can't say I particularly noticed. I imagine it was
your nephew, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
No, I didn't get out in time to see.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well, who else would it be? Your daughter? You told me,
isn't Tucson. There's nobody else here, isn't there except you
and your wife?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
No, no, nobody else. I just thought maybe I.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It was him? All right?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
He don't seem to be around.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Is he in the habit of taking your car without
telling you, mister Bardner? No, of course not.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
He must just going after something.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He would be back in. That seems funny him having
the keys to it. He's kind of taking over your
place here, isn't he. Who do you mean? Well, taking
your car the way just did? And yesterday evening when
I wanted to rent a cabin for the night, you
claimed they were all full, weren't going to let me
have one until he stepped in, And okay, well.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
He's my nephew. One of the families.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Somehow, though, I can't quite picture you as a man
who let any other member of his family run things, unless,
of course, you happen to be in a position where
you had no choice.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I think you know?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Of course I got a choice.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Why wouldn't I have not one though that you'd probably
care to make if I've got to set up your
tag ride.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
You ain't no tourist dar and you ain't here looking
for uranium. Who are you now?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I'm a special investigator for an insurance company, the company
that ensured that one hundred thousand dollars payroll that was
stolen in Kansas City by Chip and Nitsen and his gang.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
What's that got to do with anything new in Promrose?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Quite a bit, mister Bardell, because this is where the
gang hold up. The two of them were left after
they shot their weight through that roadblock down on the
Nogalles Highway.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
You're crazy. I'd know it if there was any strangers
around you, you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Did know it. One of the two is the man
you claim was your nephew. Actually he was a gangster
by the name of Spade Keller. He's dead, by the way,
he's dead. Yeah, that's right. It wasn't he that took
your station wagon. It was a friend of yours. J
had Marsh. What what's she aible to do? Meet the
police on the road down below, tell him what the
setup is here, and stall off if he can long
(05:28):
enough for me to have a try taking nitson without
giving him a chance to hurt your daughter.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Last night your wife told me Jenny was in a
row mill. You said she was in Tucson. One thing sure,
she wasn't around here anywhere, Neither was Jipper. I think
he's been holding her as a hostage to keep you
and your wife in line. That's why you had to
let Spade Keller pass himself off as your nephew.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
That ain't true. You're out of your mind, am I.
Jenny's in didn Tucson like I told you.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Your wife said she was here who she was sure
she was because of the danger to her daughter, the
same reason that's got you upset. She'll have a lot
better chance if you cooperate with me. He get out,
leave us alone. It wouldn't change things if I did.
The police are going to move in at noon with
fifty men and start a search. Chip is a three
time killer already. One more won't matter to him.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
My kid help, you'll please don't ask me to.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
He'll use her as a hostage a shield and try
to shoot his way out. You won't have a chance.
Your best hope is to tell me where he is,
help me get to him without arousing a suspicion.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I can't do it. I can't take the change.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes you can, Hi warning missus Mandell.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
He's a special investigator her. He knows the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yes, and listening.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I heard what he said, and he's right too. Philler
Ninsen said, if we will.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Know what he said, if we read one word to
him being here, to anybody to kill Jenny first than us.
And I heard what mister Dallader.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Said too, and he's right.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We gotta take the chance for Jenny's said. It's all
we can do now.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I just don't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
The police coming in like they are out of her
hands now. She's right, mister Bardell, you can't do anything
about the inevitable. It's a matter now of doing what's
best and save us for your daughter.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
What else you suppose I've been thinking of for two days.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's still the only thing to think of. If I
didn't agree with I wouldn't be here. I turned my
information over to the police and let them go ahead
and search the area. They'd get knits and all right,
but not before he killed her. But I think I
can prevent that. The chip it doesn't know me as
far as he's concerned, I'm just another Eastern tourists wandering
around the mountains here, and because of that, I think
I can get a lot closer to him than the
(07:36):
police can without putting him on guard. Provided you will help.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
He's right, we gotta do what he says. He's loaded
up in an old tunnel about a quarter mile back
up the canyon there. They took some silver out in
the old days. Not many folks even know about it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And your daughter's there with him, yes, more, he's been
eating food to him price today, making sure she's all right,
and she has been.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I guess he knowed that's the only hold he had old.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Haven't been there at this morning, have you? No?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You don't expect us for around ten.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Oh maybe by that time, if things go all right,
he'll have more to worry about them, whether he got
his breakfast or not. What are you to do, mister data,
make an early morning prospecting up that canyon. I'll take
a pic, Geiger counter, anything to help look the part
now here. I'll leave my man with you. Miss, I'll
have my watch.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
You're going up there without no gun.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Sunday prospectors from the east don't carry them. Wish me luck.
I left a little while later with a complete kick
and dress to fit the party, even including a couple
of sandwiches and a canteen of water to show I
was planning to spend a full day in the hills.
At the end of an hour, I was working my
way down the cannon, shipping rock samples here and there,
(08:50):
testing with the Geiger counter, apparently without a care in
the world. The brush covered entferance to the tunnel was
only a few yards ahead of me, but I made
a point of deliberately ignoring it. Finally, the mouth of
the tunnel was only a few feet away. I pushed
aside the brush as though they get at the canyon wall,
then pretended to see the tunnel for the first time.
(09:12):
I pushed aside some more brush, and I stepped inside.
After a moment's hesitation, I fished out my flesh. I
had started walking back in from the antis. I hadn't
gone far before I got results. I went out like
a light. You didn't have to hit him. He's just
(09:32):
some prospector who stumbled in here accidentally. Relaxed kid is
just knocked out. You didn't have to hit him like that.
I can't afford to take chances going out of the
entrance to make sure it was an armor. He talked
to your club. The blow had been sharp, but without
much force. I was out only for a matter of seconds,
but I went on playing possible and waited now until
he was How to be a shot? You're conscious, you
(09:58):
get easy into hear his Who are you? What are you?
Never mind, there's no time. Just don't worry. I'm here
to get you out of this. But how he's a killer,
a gangster. I know who he is. Look because he
got that money here with him. But he stolen Kansas City. Yeah,
it's in some canvas sacks back inside the tunnel farther.
What difference does that make? Flney, That's what I was
(10:19):
hired to recover. I don't understand. I'll tell you later. Now,
if you'll keep your head and give me a little help,
we've got a good chance of getting you. He's coming hetless.
Maneuver him four or five yards away from me with
his back turn and keep him that way for just
five seconds. I'll do the rest. Got it, Yep? I
(10:39):
don't know if I will mind the if. Just do
it all right, don't let them know I'm conscious. Guys
still on, Yeah, I think maybe he's dying him go on,
get away from him, living more. It's in human to
tree anybody that way. Oh, shut up, I got problems
(11:02):
on my own. How much longer are you going to
keep me here? I get a hunch if something is wrong.
He was just don't feel right this morning. So I
thought this guy had something at the wind. I asked
you how much longer? And I said, shut up? How'd
you like to make me shut up? M how do
(11:26):
you mean the suppose you come here and find out? Well, no,
it took you two days with your planning, stating and
soften up. My hand closed over a rock almost as
big as a baseball, weighing over half a pound, and
I came slowly to my beach chip a world around,
going for his gun for his head. All right, Jenny,
(11:56):
you can pick up his gun. Kelly's bleeding.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You've killed him?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, No, I haven't killed him, but I imagine the
state will expense account Adham twelve three hundred and nine
dollars and forty five cents incidentals in Arizona and transportation
back to Hartford. Expense account total nine hundred and fourteen
dollars and fifteen cents. Remarks the state eventually did kill him.
(12:28):
I mean yours truly, Johnny Dell.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Now here's our star to tell you about next week story.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Ever chase a phantom? Well, believe me, I have and
I will next week in the phantom Chase matter, join us,
won't you? Yours truly Johnny Dell.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood.
Written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by
Jack Johnstone. Heard and our cast were Marvin Millard, Junius Matthews,
her Ballads, D J. Thompson, Herb Butterfield, Tony Barrett, and
Barbara Eiler.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Musical supervision by A.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Marigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday Night,
same time and station for another exciting story of Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking
From Hollywood at time. Now for any Dollar is well, lieutenant.
They found you in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sure, I was home in bed, where any decent person
would be this hour of the night or morning or.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You'll get no sympathy from me. I haven't even been
to bed.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What are you doing, Dollar, living in a tree up
there and using that for a service phone for your
own private exchange.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
More or less, I've got another body for you, Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
That's a happy good morning, this one and.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Next Chicago hood named Spade Keller.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
What did you do?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, he fell over a cliff in the manner of speaking.
That's three of the gang dead. Now. The only one
left is jibber Nitzen himself.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Have you found him yet?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
No, but I think I will in the next hour
or so.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Dollar. I can't hold my men out there any longer.
I gotta move in.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Give me till noon, lieutenant. If I can take it myself,
it may save an innocent person's life. He's a three
time killer already, I know, and you've been selling.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Me that story for the last twelve hours. That's what's
helped me back.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But I gotta have morning tail, all right. A friend
who's with me. A prospector named Jed Marsh will meet
you here at the Forest Service phone. In an hour.
He'll be in a green station.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Wagonet hold of a green station wagon.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We haven't yet, We're about to steal it. So long,
Lieutenant Tonight and every weekday Night, Bob Bailey.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
In the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Tactic,
Spenser Caud America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh is truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar.
Location Primrose Camp, Saturrey to National Forest, Arizona, to the
(01:48):
home office mid State's Industrial Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment
the Primrose Matter expense accounts, final pay. The jibber Knitsen
gang had held up an armored truck and Kansas City,
killed two guards and fed with one hundred thousand dollars
(02:09):
payroll covered by insurance. I'd finally tracked them down in
the Santa Rina Mountains of southern Arizona. Three of the
gang were dead now, and only the jipper himself was
still unaccounted for, but he was close around that I
was sure of somewhere near the prim Rose tourist camp
where I was staying a lonely layout on a dead
end mountain road run by old pomp Bardell and his
wife and their daughter Jenny, whom I still didn't seen.
(02:33):
It was nearly dawned when Jed, Marsh and I got
back to the camp. There was no sign of life.
We'd taken the keys to pop station wagon from the
dead gangster's pocket. Jed got into the station wagon and
waited until I was over at the cabin, then started
the motor. I was counting on the sound of the
motor to bring somebody out into the open, and the
plan worked partly, but it wasn't. The jibber showed. It
(02:54):
was pomp Ardel.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
What are you doing? Where you go?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He came running out of the living quarters behind the
souvenir shop, talking at a suspended He didn't notice me
until I walked up behind him.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
What to do?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
What did you do enough?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm an early riser? Anything wrong, mister Boutell.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Wro Why no? What do you think be wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I don't know, but I thought you were seeing a
little upset about something.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Well, did you happen to notice who was driving my
station wagon? Mister Dowler?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I can't say I particularly noticed. I imagine it was
your nephew, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
No, I didn't get out in time to see.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well, who else would it be? Your daughter? You told me,
isn't Tucson. There's nobody else here, isn't there except you
and your wife?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
No, no, nobody else. I just thought maybe I.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It was him? All right?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
He don't seem to be around.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Is he in the habit of taking your car without
telling you, mister Bardner? No, of course not.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
He must just going after something.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He would be back in. That seems funny him having
the keys to it. He's kind of taking over your
place here, isn't he. Who do you mean? Well, taking
your car the way just did? And yesterday evening when
I wanted to rent a cabin for the night, you
claimed they were all full, weren't going to let me
have one until he stepped in, And okay, well.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
He's my nephew. One of the families.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Somehow, though, I can't quite picture you as a man
who let any other member of his family run things, unless,
of course, you happen to be in a position where
you had no choice.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I think you know?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Of course I got a choice.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Why wouldn't I have not one though that you'd probably
care to make if I've got to set up your
tag ride.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
You ain't no tourist dar and you ain't here looking
for uranium. Who are you now?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I'm a special investigator for an insurance company, the company
that ensured that one hundred thousand dollars payroll that was
stolen in Kansas City by Chip and Nitsen and his gang.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
What's that got to do with anything new in Promrose?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Quite a bit, mister Bardell, because this is where the
gang hold up. The two of them were left after
they shot their weight through that roadblock down on the
Nogalles Highway.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
You're crazy. I'd know it if there was any strangers
around you, you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Did know it. One of the two is the man
you claim was your nephew. Actually he was a gangster
by the name of Spade Keller. He's dead, by the way,
he's dead. Yeah, that's right. It wasn't he that took
your station wagon. It was a friend of yours. J
had Marsh. What what's she aible to do? Meet the
police on the road down below, tell him what the
setup is here, and stall off if he can long
(05:28):
enough for me to have a try taking nitson without
giving him a chance to hurt your daughter.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Last night your wife told me Jenny was in a
row mill. You said she was in Tucson. One thing sure,
she wasn't around here anywhere, Neither was Jipper. I think
he's been holding her as a hostage to keep you
and your wife in line. That's why you had to
let Spade Keller pass himself off as your nephew.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
That ain't true. You're out of your mind, am I.
Jenny's in didn Tucson like I told you.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Your wife said she was here who she was sure
she was because of the danger to her daughter, the
same reason that's got you upset. She'll have a lot
better chance if you cooperate with me. He get out,
leave us alone. It wouldn't change things if I did.
The police are going to move in at noon with
fifty men and start a search. Chip is a three
time killer already. One more won't matter to him.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
My kid help, you'll please don't ask me to.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
He'll use her as a hostage a shield and try
to shoot his way out. You won't have a chance.
Your best hope is to tell me where he is,
help me get to him without arousing a suspicion.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I can't do it. I can't take the change.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes you can, Hi warning missus Mandell.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
He's a special investigator her. He knows the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yes, and listening.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I heard what he said, and he's right too. Philler
Ninsen said, if we will.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Know what he said, if we read one word to
him being here, to anybody to kill Jenny first than us.
And I heard what mister Dallader.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Said too, and he's right.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
We gotta take the chance for Jenny's said. It's all
we can do now.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I just don't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
The police coming in like they are out of her
hands now. She's right, mister Bardell, you can't do anything
about the inevitable. It's a matter now of doing what's
best and save us for your daughter.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
What else you suppose I've been thinking of for two days.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's still the only thing to think of. If I
didn't agree with I wouldn't be here. I turned my
information over to the police and let them go ahead
and search the area. They'd get knits and all right,
but not before he killed her. But I think I
can prevent that. The chip it doesn't know me as
far as he's concerned, I'm just another Eastern tourists wandering
around the mountains here, and because of that, I think
I can get a lot closer to him than the
(07:36):
police can without putting him on guard. Provided you will help.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
He's right, we gotta do what he says. He's loaded
up in an old tunnel about a quarter mile back
up the canyon there. They took some silver out in
the old days. Not many folks even know about it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And your daughter's there with him, yes, more, he's been
eating food to him price today, making sure she's all right,
and she has been.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I guess he knowed that's the only hold he had old.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Haven't been there at this morning, have you? No?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You don't expect us for around ten.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Oh maybe by that time, if things go all right,
he'll have more to worry about them, whether he got
his breakfast or not. What are you to do, mister data,
make an early morning prospecting up that canyon. I'll take
a pic, Geiger counter, anything to help look the part
now here. I'll leave my man with you. Miss, I'll
have my watch.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
You're going up there without no gun.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Sunday prospectors from the east don't carry them. Wish me luck.
I left a little while later with a complete kick
and dress to fit the party, even including a couple
of sandwiches and a canteen of water to show I
was planning to spend a full day in the hills.
At the end of an hour, I was working my
way down the cannon, shipping rock samples here and there,
(08:50):
testing with the Geiger counter, apparently without a care in
the world. The brush covered entferance to the tunnel was
only a few yards ahead of me, but I made
a point of deliberately ignoring it. Finally, the mouth of
the tunnel was only a few feet away. I pushed
aside the brush as though they get at the canyon wall,
then pretended to see the tunnel for the first time.
(09:12):
I pushed aside some more brush, and I stepped inside.
After a moment's hesitation, I fished out my flesh. I
had started walking back in from the antis. I hadn't
gone far before I got results. I went out like
a light. You didn't have to hit him. He's just
(09:32):
some prospector who stumbled in here accidentally. Relaxed kid is
just knocked out. You didn't have to hit him like that.
I can't afford to take chances going out of the
entrance to make sure it was an armor. He talked
to your club. The blow had been sharp, but without
much force. I was out only for a matter of seconds,
but I went on playing possible and waited now until
he was How to be a shot? You're conscious, you
(09:58):
get easy into hear his Who are you? What are you?
Never mind, there's no time. Just don't worry. I'm here
to get you out of this. But how he's a killer,
a gangster. I know who he is. Look because he
got that money here with him. But he stolen Kansas City. Yeah,
it's in some canvas sacks back inside the tunnel farther.
What difference does that make? Flney, That's what I was
(10:19):
hired to recover. I don't understand. I'll tell you later. Now,
if you'll keep your head and give me a little help,
we've got a good chance of getting you. He's coming hetless.
Maneuver him four or five yards away from me with
his back turn and keep him that way for just
five seconds. I'll do the rest. Got it, Yep? I
(10:39):
don't know if I will mind the if. Just do
it all right, don't let them know I'm conscious. Guys
still on, Yeah, I think maybe he's dying him go on,
get away from him, living more. It's in human to
tree anybody that way. Oh, shut up, I got problems
(11:02):
on my own. How much longer are you going to
keep me here? I get a hunch if something is wrong.
He was just don't feel right this morning. So I
thought this guy had something at the wind. I asked
you how much longer? And I said, shut up? How'd
you like to make me shut up? M how do
(11:26):
you mean the suppose you come here and find out? Well, no,
it took you two days with your planning, stating and
soften up. My hand closed over a rock almost as
big as a baseball, weighing over half a pound, and
I came slowly to my beach chip a world around,
going for his gun for his head. All right, Jenny,
(11:56):
you can pick up his gun. Kelly's bleeding.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You've killed him?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, No, I haven't killed him, but I imagine the
state will expense account Adham twelve three hundred and nine
dollars and forty five cents incidentals in Arizona and transportation
back to Hartford. Expense account total nine hundred and fourteen
dollars and fifteen cents. Remarks the state eventually did kill him.
(12:28):
I mean yours truly, Johnny Dell.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Now here's our star to tell you about next week story.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Ever chase a phantom? Well, believe me, I have and
I will next week in the phantom Chase matter, join us,
won't you? Yours truly Johnny Dell.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood.
Written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by
Jack Johnstone. Heard and our cast were Marvin Millard, Junius Matthews,
her Ballads, D J. Thompson, Herb Butterfield, Tony Barrett, and
Barbara Eiler.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Musical supervision by A.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Marigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday Night,
same time and station for another exciting story of Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking
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