The Department Store Swindle Matter (Johnny Dollar)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Another journey into the realm of the strain and chadd afy.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I hope you will enjoy the shape, that it will
till you a little and kill you a little.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
There was a week before Christmas, and all through the
house a creature was stirring, and.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Boy, what a wreck.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
This is another in the adventures of America's populous freelance
insurance investigator Johnny Dower, starring Charles Russell at Insurance Investigation.
Johnny Dower is only an expert and making out his
expense a now he's an absolute genius. Expense accounts submitted

(01:11):
by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office Industrial Insurance Incorporated, Harshford, Connecticut. Attention,
mister Evan Stevens, General Manager. The following is an account
of my expenditures during investigation of small time swindles of
big time department stores, or how I played Santa Claus

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and almost got left holding the sack, or going for
a sleigh ride without benefit of snow can be tough.
Sweating expense accounts. I'm one one dollar tips a messenger
who delivered this assignment, writing by hand to my apartment,
sank you to know you have never been known as
a fast man with a buck, mister Stevens, and I

(01:53):
must say your note to me also marked you in
my mind as an economist with words the dollar. Our clients,
the Association of Department Stores of Greater Manhattan, has requested
help on the following problem.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
A young man who's been making the rounds of.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
New York department stores during the current Christmas rush using
his eclipman an official looking sales book. He goes to
a business department, makes a quick sale on some large item,
writes it up in his furious sales book, takes the
customer's cash, and disappears in closed time varying descriptions as
furnished by victims. To date and check for your usual
retainer fee. Please put us top division of Terriers Practice

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at once, signed Even Stevens, General manager.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
At account idam.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
So six dollars and twenty one cents. Train Fair Hartford
to New York next morning at seven h three on
a banker's special A train very cleverly named that because.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Seventy five percent of us load is made up of bankers.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I sat among them in a parlor car, watching them
limbering up for the day's chores, slowly shaking their heads
from side to side and softly whispering no.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
We arrived at Grand Central at nine to twenty.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
The bankers got off and headed for their grand vaults.
I got off and headed to face my stone wall
Spencer counts item three four bits campaired to offices of
the Association of Department Stores of Greater Manhattan. There things
got brighter right away. Her name was Judy Whitehall. Boy,

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how she's been missed by discounts for the copacabana. I'll
never know.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
How you send. It's time to help you all I can,
mister dollars.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
What would you like to know.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Her your home phone number?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, well, maybe we better wait until later that How
many stores are there in your association, miss Whitehall?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
We have one hundred and twenty members stores.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Great, you know, in one department store, I'm the kind
of a guy that can't find the glove department, and
now I've got one hundred and twenty stores in which
to find someone I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, we do have a man's subscription.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, as a matter of fact, we have a lot
of descriptions, all slightly different, and.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
The regular store detectors are all on the.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Lookouts, like looking for a noodle of the spaghetti, and.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
All the salesperson now.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Has been more on it's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
What's beautiful your face? Well, really, mister dollar after all?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Oh yeah, oh yes, I know this is well?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Before I start, have you better give me a letter
evident of an innertation. I spent all day morsing around
the department stores without buying anything. I can stand a
good chance of getting picked up as a shoplift right away.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Follow Oh just a minute, hello, this is missus Whitehall.
Oh yes, missus Sandler. Oh that's terrible, My goodness, that's awful.
Good GRICI that's worth well.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
The insurance investigator is here right now, Missus Sanders, who
will be right over?

Speaker 2 (04:53):
What's so terrible?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
But that man, the one we're looking for, he was
in the middle store making a phony sail on the
counter of the part.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
You also said it was.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
It was a.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Little girl picked up a camera and snapa's kitchen. The
man tried to take it away from them. The girl yells,
and none of the other screen.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
And what made it worse, and the Stow.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Detective him running and the man shot him. Then he
grabbed a little.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Girl, Karon of it and ran off. They called the police.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Really, I can't imagine why the mob scene and the
Miller store would have made the Notre Dame Bankville hot.
Her uncle Christmas neck ties were selling like hotcakes, only
compared to most of the ties hotcakee with what.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Better I am?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
The camera department was on the mezzanine, and the store manager,
mister Sander, was on a rampape.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Why doesn't somebody do company?

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Why can't they find I've got men posted on every door.
He's in his store somewhere, and oh.

Speaker 6 (05:47):
Me white, all these about time?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Goodie, mister Dollan, mister Stander from the insurance company.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, I don't know what you can do.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I've already got twenty policemen running all over the store.
He kept you the ridiculous posters and fantastic, that's what
it is.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Also amazing. Tell me it's Santa.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
About that little girl who picked up the camera snapped
the corpet pictures. They're finding it, they say, leid in
the rug department. She's been shoved in the middle of
a pile of nine by twelve orientals on say it
one hundred and twenty three to fifty. She was scared,
but not her and the girl was fine without the camera,
I suppose actually, but the camera wouldn't do it any
any good after I'm sure the camera didn't have any
film inutes.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
They never do wom on this day?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Now about the stort attacking the one who got shot.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
In the hospital, Miss Hall.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
They'll call me here as soon as.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
They find out how bad he's been hurt.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, getting back to that kid, was she able to
give you a good description of the guy who grabbed her?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
She hasn't stopped crying long enough. How about her mother?
Neither she? Or Where are they now? They're in my office.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
That's why I'm staying right here.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Where is You're off on the eighth.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Floor, right next to the pitt In office. Well, this
may be the first time I ever got past the
credit office. Come on, Jerie, Oh Bobby, come on, blew

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your nose then I'll.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Be Upbraive little girl.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
He hit me, He just kill me just away.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Let me have another tribe, right, mister dollars?

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Is he gonna do any good?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
All right? Come on now, Bobby, all you have to
do is tell us what that bad man looks like.
We'll get him and then we'll picture. Come on, kill
me some thing to think. He's got a point. Okay,
Bobby to me just a minute now.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh Judy, Oh yes, Johnny looks like a child psychologist.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I'm nothing at this point.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
I feel like telling little Bobby to go out and
play with some old razor blades.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Got any suggestions?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, it is almost Christmas.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, and one thing little girls don't want to do
Christmas is getting wrong with Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Ah, gotcha good gown? Where do we find Santa Claus
in the toy department on the Well.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Give me about five minutes to explain things to Santa
and then bring Bobby down.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh, Bobby, what.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Do you know?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
What happens to little girls who make Santa Claus mad
at them?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
They don't get to look at television before they go
to bed?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean at Christmas? What happens?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
They don't get any toys. All they get is old
sweaters and underwear.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Well, listen, Bobby, this guy's Santa happens to be a
good friend of mine.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
What do you think of.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
That tell him I want a near rifle.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
You would oh, Jay, okay, I'll even fix it so
you can tell you this to yourself.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
How's that jump?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Fine? Good girl? Hey, where'd you get that blood on
your coat?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
You gotta cut nothing from that bad man.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
I didn't known the.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
What Okay, Judy, here I go.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Go and on the way down, maybe you better stop
by the door supply department and buy a little Bobby
a muzzle.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
If the kid doesn't like his looks Old Saint Nick
may get.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Nick department store should have some kind of a congressional
medal for salespeople who work in the toy department. Just
before Christmas, I took the elevator down to five and
when that door.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Slid open, like stepping in the Dottis.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Inferno Junior Grade. First, I got on a house phone
and Paul Sander, who was still in the camera department.
He had word from the hospital the store detective had
died without regaining consciousness. I was no longer trying to
catch a chief swinder. I was now out to swamp
blood with a dirty murderer. A line of fidgety kids.

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Let meet Santa Claus sitting benignly on his throne.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I had a short talk with him.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I have a short wait for Judy and little Bobby.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Okay, Santa, now we've got to make a talk. If
that is you gotcha? All right? All right, now it is.
You'll have to wait for a moment.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
We have a special little visitor coming to see men.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah all say okay, Bobby mcgirl, just let me give
you a voice of understand his lamp.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
He wants to ask you a new questions.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
I want a rifle.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
You'll be a good little girl and answer all Santa's
nice questions and you'll get it. But I'm where i'd
like to get it to go.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
Yeah, well there we are, honey.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Now tell me what do you want for Christmas?

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I want an air rifle.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Well, we'll see what we can do about that. Tell
me if you've been a good little girl. Yes, we'll
just have to look up your name in my little
black book and make sure pretty good.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
All but one little thing, what I do I didn't
do that?

Speaker 7 (11:10):
Well, that's just it, you see, Bobby, I have a
note here that today some people asked you what a
certain man.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Looked like, and you wouldn't tell them. Is that right?

Speaker 5 (11:21):
I'm afraid I don't want to tell they.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Can't make me.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
Well, Bobby, maybe you and I had better talk this
over if you.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Won't do something for us.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Little Bobby's description of the murderer wasn't the greatest by
any means, but it was better than none at all,
with which we had been furnished by the personnel and
the camera department and the kid's mother. We took the
girl to the advertising department when an artist made a sketch.
Armed with a drawing, we made a tour of the
store exits, showing it to the police.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
He's posted on every door, giving.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Them a rough idea what to look for a medium builled,
pudgy man with black hair, and when they came across
such a character, he was to be issued an invitation
to show his hands. If he was sporting Bobby's teeth marks,
then they really know. Let's show out of the way,
Missus Whitehall and I sank Odds eeth and a pair
of sandwiches in the tea room.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
The shoppers delight sandwich to be.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Exact cream cheese, walnuts, watercress and pineapple on a whole
wheat bread.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Hm.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
We found the store manager's Sandler back in his rockice.
He too was eating, but he was on a diet
of straight fingernails.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Terrible, terrible, terrible. That's what you do now. Don't worry,
mister Sander. He'll be caught as a swindler.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
He might have gone on for years, but as a
murderer it won't belong.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Believe me. What to do? What to do?

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, I've got several ideas, and the first is get
out of your office and start at the top of
the store and work my way down.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
They're already doing that, and knows time him.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, I once found a mouse and a hayloft, so
be not disencouraged, and a pretty little mouse.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
You are, Oh, oh.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Please, sory of relaxed, missus Sander. Everybody's doing him there.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
This, I'm sure they are. It's just to die.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Oh hello, Yes, it's missus Sander. Oh no, where how
long have you been there? I'll be right down. What's
an About an hour and a half ago our store
of handy cooss kept out in the employee's rest room
for a smoke. He was sunned from behind. When he

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came to he was all tied up in a broom
closet and somebody.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Has stolen his handy class to Hay's just found him.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
About an hour and a half ago, Judy, you know
what that means. Oh no, oh, yes, forty five minutes ago,
when little Bobby was giving Santa Claus the murderer's description,
he was giving it to the murder himself, over gracious
instead of a kid's hair rifle. It could have gotten
us a real father size thirty eight. In just a moment,

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we will return to the second act of Johnny Dollar.
Now with our star Charles Russell. We returned to the
second actor of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. There's no place

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like a crown Of department store for a fresh maid
murderer to be on the loose, especially one is playing
Santa Claus for a.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Lot of rosy, cheek little nippers.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
I headed back to the Chroit department, but when I
got there, the cover was bare. Our lethal Saint Nick
had decided to give up his red flannel and white
whisker hiding place. We found the empty suit and of storeroom,
tossed high on a stack of baby buggies.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Johnny, just terrible. That man's a murderer. What are you
gonna do?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
What am I gonna do? I listened Judy by Now
I must be eighty seven cops sifting through this store
looking for that guy. They've got two cops on every door. Now,
all I'm gonna do is help him. Look, this is
one of those everybody's problems.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
You're right, I guess I'm just getting excited.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
I don't know that's you have a right to do.
Come on, let's get out here. I've got an idea.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
All right, Johnny, say I found you, missus. Andrew wants
you ride away. Down on three. An old lady has
just been shot in Julium.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's his lagerie serves a right for not acting a rage.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
Judy Ry to't be here, Darling.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Let him through, Please let him lady, Please stand back now,
Well dollar covatuation before this store was only going to
sue that company of yours for one million dollars. Considering
what the shooting will do to our reputation, I'm going
to make that five vision, mister Sandler.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Keep your powder dry.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
First of all, it's not my company. And second, you
can't see him for something they didn't do. And third,
you've got to get this poor or gallo a hospital.
How badly is she hurt?

Speaker 2 (16:26):
How did that have?

Speaker 1 (16:26):
The doctor's on his way and we've sent her an ambulance.
This woman was lost having a backstairway looking for the
ladies room. That maniacs for coming towards him and ran
down the stairs, firing.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Over his shoulder.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
The bullet just seemed to graize her flip side.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Pretty lucky. We're the police.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
They're searching all over the store.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Don I want to be going to do? This is
terrible for fishing well.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I suspect that any minute now the cops will be
telling you to do something.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's going to be even worse for business. Close the store. Well,
but close the store.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Why we're staying over late tonight is the last minute.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
But I'm just telling you what I think.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
I think the cast will double the lookouts on all
the doors and make you close the store and they
can go to work. We lose thousands of dollars they come,
maye me the store. You stay open, you might lose
a few more customers the hard way. Where's that doctor?

Speaker 2 (17:13):
He can be here any minis.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
They called up from the sporting goods in the basement.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
That's kindn't been down there and held them off, and
he took four guns and six.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Six bucks of fool what's this stranger do to our store?
You're not careful, It's going to turn your store into.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
The world's larger shooting gallery with live targets. You know what,
I shouggess missus Sadler wa tell me what. Don't wait
for the police to tell you close the store. Sandler
didn't like us, and neither did the customers as they
filed out of the store, past the scrutiny of the
police officers, still touching their unfinished Christmas shopping lists. The

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process was slow, and while the customers were leaving, the
clerks finished up their business, put the white shrouds over
their counters, and they too filed out until the early night.
The boys in blue watching the doors came up with
several men answering the general description of our friend with
a loose trigger finger, but none of them had.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Little Bobby's teeth marks on his hands.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
I admitted a fifty to fifty chance that mister Killer
was still in the building. There's nothing more eerie than
a department store. After closing, it's white sheets, the whole
joints seemed to be playing ghost.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I sent Judy over to a steakhouse Patres on Third.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Avenue toward a wait, and I had sadly get me
a gun from the sporting goods department.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
But that lonely scared feeling.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
There's no medicine that quite takes the place of a
piece of cool steel in your.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Little hot hand. Sergeant in charge of.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
The police detail posted men outside all exits arrest. He
took up to the roof with them, run the whole
store through their burly blue sieve, floor by floor, counter
by counter, inch by inch. Sandler stayed with me down
the first floor just for fun. I thought I would
start working my way up.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Donald. But interesting, we should get out of him. This
is the police. I have several goosebumps that agree with you.
It's a Sandler. But I have a very dangerous habit
of trying to earn my money. This is terrible, my lord.
Every counter and post in this store is just the
kind of hiding place the sniper would pray for. I
get paid for this kind of work. You don't. I
want you to go out when I say four. It

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was night, Joe. I sed to with you, okay, but
remember toolists gave him twice as much to shoot at, don't.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I had to go and open my pig mouth down,
I think down that floor could have been committing suicide
and myself kill us bullet and crashed into a showcase.
I see a broken glass. It's a rusty place to
practice diving. I mean to swim out of it. This
christ as bad, but that's what I had to do.
Just keep your head down. There are your facing a glass,

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but keep your head down here.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Tell me what to do, anything but get me out
of here. And I have a wife and fiete you well,
if you'll do what I tell you to do, your
wife will go on having a husband, and your kids
will still have a fun. Yes he has, just hell me.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
I don't know exactly where that shot came from, but
the looks of this glass must have been from behind us.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Now I'm gonna leave you and crawl over near those elevators.
Why not on my way?

Speaker 8 (20:32):
You rittle around in this class, let them hear where
you are. Give me about two minutes and then do
something to draw on fire.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
What can I do?

Speaker 8 (20:40):
Do anything but one thing? Don't stand up. I think
of something better, but don't take any chances, But what are.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
You going to do?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Take some chances.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Once I was on my way and went to work
with a vengeance, I could hear him crashing around in
that glass like he was trying to corner the band
aid mark. I made it over the elevators, scooting flat
along the floor, and I hit a car with an
open door and slid it inside behind the protection of
the elevator's front wall. I stood up, peered over at
the edge of the door and waited for Sama to

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make the move that would draw the murderer's fire. I
must say Santa was dead game. The way he made
his move, he also stood a good chance of.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Becoming playing dead.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
First, he stopped wiggling around on his bed of glass,
and then he just stood straight up. I shot missed,
but my eyesight didn't. The killer was shooting from high
up behind a pole. He was standing up on a
glass showcase hoping for a better view. That didn't take
me long to decide to give him a better view
of the inside of that glass showcase. I started deliberately

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shooting his foothole out from under it. He was bleating beautifully.
When I started to run straight for the back of
the store, firing as he ran. As one last suberinar,
he threw his empty gun over his shoulder at me.

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People who live in glasshouses shouldn't throw guns. I decided
to join the track team and one on the chase.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Back out of the main floor.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
So the employee's entrance out for the dimly lit shipping
department and it's loading dock filled with packages ready for shipment.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I could hear him moving around among them.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay, get your hands up and come out. I'm giving
you a chance, but it's not gonna last long.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
He moving.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Okay, so you want to play.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
I think i'll give you a couple of you tied
presents early, and I'm sure nobody will mind if I
opened your head before Christmas. My heart headed friend was
tiding behind a high pile of wooden boxes ready for shipping.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
I grabbed a heavy empty dolly. Even a flying.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Start sent it crashing into the bottom box.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Of the pile.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Beautiful, the biggest crash that's quite high. It was a
tough fight, but mom, I don't think I won. At best,
there was a draw about the fifteenth time I builded him,

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he builded me right back, and he got his hands
on a hammer, laid it across the side of my head.
I got the hammer, did the same for him.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
I made a whole one.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
He fell squarely into the command sized packing case flying
at the foot of the packing bench.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
That was a day a week Disney. I had to
hold him.

Speaker 9 (23:54):
One thing to do top a case flying right there,
already nails part way in. Put it on right right
off from nail it off? Good, good, good?

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Right? Why then everything went white? Hey, Tony, is this
may sound? Where am I?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
You're in the hospital, Johnny Dowling, But don't worry. It's
only a slight incussion about your lifetime.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I suppose I have a hammer shaped hole in my head, No.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
No, knowing it had show.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
How could have?

Speaker 1 (24:49):
The advantage is covering up? Oh at least I got
him what I got him the killer?

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Oh no, dear, you couldn't have You're still looking for him.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Oh no, oh my gosh, what time is it?

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Living in the morning? High Toney, Toney, Please, Sonny, you're
not supposed to get.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Up if they let him get away.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
After all my trouble, somebody was going to need a doctor.
Judy and I hit the department store on twelve in
his flat. One minute later, I was in the shipping
department talking to the head man. Now, mister Dollar, just
calmed down, Everything's gonna be all right. Now, exactly what
is it.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
You want to know? That big tanking case, the one
that was lying right here in front of the bench
last night. Where is it? Oh, the great big one, Yes,
the great big one, the one about eight feet long
and three feet wide. Yes, the one about eight feet
long and three feet wide.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Well, there was something very peculiar about that cage you're
telling me, where is it?

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Well, this morning we came to work, the boy saw
it all packed us. So they put it on the
truck for Upper New York State.

Speaker 9 (26:03):
Oh, no, indeed they did.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
But what was peculiar about it? Even though they found
it all ready to go.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Later on they found all the merchandise that were supposed
to go in it lying around roots.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
It had never really been packed. And then, quick, the
least you can do is tell me where it went.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Well, now that I can do. That box was the
Boss's big annual charity ship, and the goods that particular
box is on its way to some.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Of the unfortunates who'll be spending this Christmas away from who?
All right? So where is it? By?

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Now?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
It should be at the New York State Prison up
in arseny expense accounse I them five twelve dollars and
eighty cents.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Din I checked at Pietro's, where I.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Had asked miss Judy White all away for me the
night before, and where I and Brittany stood her up.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Although how a gal can.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Stand up after reading twelve dollars and eighty cents worth
of food?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Well, and I got to figure out, let's see or expends.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Account Item six ten dollars medical supplies for those poor
cbs Salmon, Burns, Surrey and Billy Gould who had to
break all that glass during the show. Expends account total
five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
You may think this amount is a little high, but
isn't everybody at this time of the year? Signed yours
cooling Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Charles Russell, stripped by Paul Dudley and Gildaws. Featured in
the cast were Jaye. Novello, Georgia Ellis, Marlen, Ames, Harley Bear,
Paul dubaf and Connie Crowder. Special music has written and
conducted by Lef Stephens. Your announcer is Bob Stemens. Be

(28:25):
sure to be with us at the same time next
week when another unusual expense account is handed in by
yours truly, Johnny Dollar.