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And you can also support 10 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,200 the show on a one time basis by going to our PayPal link at support 11 00:01:23,239 --> 00:01:30,120 dot Great Detectives dot net. But now it is time for the conclusion of 12 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:36,400 this week's Yours truly Johnny Dollars serial. And unfortunately this is a serial where 13 00:01:36,439 --> 00:01:42,040 we're missing an episode and it is actually episode four. So what will happen 14 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:49,640 is we will play episode three and then I'll provide a synopsis of the fourth 15 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:56,799 episode based on John Abbott's tremendous book, The Who Is Johnny Doller Matter? 16 00:01:57,159 --> 00:02:02,439 And then we'll play episode five now from April twenty five, nineteen fifty six. 17 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:13,080 Here is The Lonely Hearts Matter, Episode three from Hollywood. It's time 18 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:19,520 now for Johnny Doller. Ready with you a call to Hartford. Mister Doller, 19 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,759 go ahead, please, Johnny? What's up? Twenty Dave, the 20 00:02:23,759 --> 00:02:27,080 Wells girl was right, her father was murdered. We just got the autopsy 21 00:02:27,159 --> 00:02:30,319 report. He died from a dose of ground glass. I'll put a stop 22 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:32,479 water on the insurance claim was file this afternoon, and something else, Dave. 23 00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:36,240 A man died in Saint Louis about two and a half years ago. 24 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,879 I wonder if you'd have mutual record service check and see if he was insured. 25 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:46,240 His name was Walter Maborle Burke. I know Jonathan Well's widow was previously 26 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,520 married to Burke. They were married at the time of his death, and 27 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:54,240 he also died suddenly and mysteriously. Just call her murdering Mabel. Oh you 28 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,000 have met her, Dave. She's just a sweet old lady who's had a 29 00:02:58,039 --> 00:03:01,439 little bad luck now and then, and she regards death as the doorway to 30 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:06,680 a greater and more glorious life. Oh well, that sounds very noble. 31 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:17,280 He would if she didn't keep slamming the door tonight and every weekday night. 32 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:22,719 Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account 33 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:43,719 America's Fabulous Freelance insurance investigator as Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, 34 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,840 location Chicago to the home office Northwestern Surety Company, Hartford, Connecticut, 35 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:59,199 assignment the Lonely Hearts Matter expense account continued, I am ete seven dollars and 36 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,319 sixty five. It's dinner for normal Wells myself. It was brought up by 37 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,439 room service and we ate alone in my suite. No, I didn't feel 38 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:10,520 like facing the dining room. I was still trying to figure her eyes. 39 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,840 When she'd come to me with a claim that her father had been poisoned by 40 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,680 her stepmother for his insurance, I tagged her for a jealous, hysterical kid, 41 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:21,439 and that's still once. But now with the autopsy report in, it 42 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:26,560 was more than that. She was right. Jonathan Wells had been poisoned. 43 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,399 And again, when she told me someone was hanging around her apartment, I 44 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:33,360 only half believed her, but by now I was about ready to believe anything. 45 00:04:35,319 --> 00:04:39,319 I'd sworn I couldn't eat a bite. Well, you needed it. 46 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,560 You've been going on nothing but nerve till this is all over. Well, 47 00:04:44,639 --> 00:04:47,240 it shouldn't take long. Now that autopsy report gives us the green light. 48 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,240 The police will move in now and we can put the pressure on. It's 49 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:57,199 such a terrible thing. But why six months ago when she married him, 50 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,839 she was planning this? Right then? It looks that way are father was 51 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:03,759 always so good to her and listened to that worthless nephew of hers, Burton 52 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:08,560 Creeley. What kind of a mind does a person have, mister Dollar. 53 00:05:09,399 --> 00:05:12,199 Let's do a thing like she did. Well, it hasn't improved yet that 54 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,279 she's the one who did it, Miss Wells No, but who else could 55 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:20,959 have? I don't know? More coffee? No thanks? Well, whenever 56 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,839 your finish, we'll take a taxi over to your apartment and pick up whatever 57 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,800 you need, and then get you a room here at the hotel. I 58 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,360 don't think you're in danger, but I imagine you'll feel a lot less nervous 59 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,879 here. I will, and I do appreciate your help and kindness, mister 60 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:39,360 Dollar. I got it. It's part of my job. Only this time, 61 00:05:39,399 --> 00:05:42,000 when you check in, you go to your room and stay put. 62 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,600 What do you mean? When I came back from talking to Mabel Burke, 63 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,800 Max Lancer from the DA's office was waiting for me down in the lobby. 64 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,519 He said he'd phoned here to the room five or six times, got no 65 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,560 answer. I was here. I heard the phone, but well, I 66 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:58,319 didn't know if you wanted me to answer. You sound a bellboy up to 67 00:05:58,399 --> 00:06:02,120 knock on the door. I must have been in the shower. I was 68 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,800 here all the time. Don't you believe me? Any reason I shouldn't believe 69 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:16,120 you? Are you through reading? Yes? Okay, let's go expense a 70 00:06:16,199 --> 00:06:19,319 count at of nine a dollar. In eighty since taxi from the hotel, 71 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:24,279 the normal Wells apartment, night had fallen over the city, and the tall 72 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:28,199 buildings of the Loup shimmered above the noisy blaze of lights. Laughing groups of 73 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,839 early dinner goers jostle through the scrambling packs of late shoppers, otto horns blaring, 74 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,560 jazz newsboys, traffic whistles. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Yesterday never 75 00:06:36,759 --> 00:06:41,240 was, tomorrow is only a dream, and today is nearly gone, So 76 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,879 hurry it up and let's get going. We'll sleep when we're dead, like 77 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:50,680 Jonathan Wells on this cool marble slab in the city Morgue. It's apartment. 78 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:56,920 See the next door on the left right, have a key here somewhere? 79 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,079 Sure you locked it? Oh yes, I always it's not locked. Well 80 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,560 you were scared when you left, and maybe you know I remember locking the 81 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:25,319 door. Sure, yes, no, it's not back. What is it, 82 00:07:25,399 --> 00:07:31,240 mister dollar? Come on in? Oh? Oh, it looks so 83 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:36,800 you've had visitors, Miss Wells. Oh, place turned upside down? Why 84 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:41,279 would anyone want to do that? Looking for something? Probably what I don't 85 00:07:41,319 --> 00:07:51,360 know. Boysho you look around see if you notice anything missing? It's no 86 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:56,160 use, mister dollar. I've gone through the whole place twice now and I'm 87 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,439 certain that nothing's been taken. But they had to have some reason to break 88 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,360 in here, through everything this way sober Well, I'm positive there's nothing missing, 89 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,759 all right, there is there? Well? They suppose that coffee is 90 00:08:07,839 --> 00:08:11,480 right now? Oh? I think so. Come on in the kitchen. 91 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:16,199 I guess you'll believe me. Now. Somebody was hanging around here earlier today. 92 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,199 I just wish I could figure out what they're after. Looks plenty strong. 93 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:26,920 There's sugar there on the table. I'll get some cream from the refrigerator. 94 00:08:28,319 --> 00:08:31,199 Don't bother on my account. I don't get black, Well, not 95 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:37,960 me. I use plenty of boats, lots of cream, two heaping spoons 96 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:43,159 of sugar. They must have had a reason of breaking here. It wasn't 97 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,960 a steel something. Then what was the reason? Sugar looked funny? Doesn't 98 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,320 make sense at all. I guess I how to keep it covered? The 99 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,320 sugar? I was saying, it looked funny. Well, wait a minute, 100 00:08:54,399 --> 00:09:00,320 maybe they broke into leaves something leaves something. Yeah, here, give 101 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:05,960 me that cut and the spoon. What are you doing? Look, that's 102 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,759 funny. Didn't even dissolve. The sugar dissolved, all right? Well, 103 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:18,440 then what's that in the spoon round glass? I phoned Max Lancer and had 104 00:09:18,519 --> 00:09:22,759 him send over a policewoman to accompany normal Wells back to the hotel, get 105 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:26,679 her checked in and stay with her overnights. Then I called the Wells residence. 106 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,840 The old lady answered the phone herself, and I asked for her nephew, 107 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:33,240 Burton Creeley. She said he wasn't in, so on an off chance, 108 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:35,840 I took a taxi to the office of the Rendezvous Club Lonely Hearts Unlimited. 109 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:48,840 There was no light showing behind the transom over the door. The door 110 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,399 was unlocked. I fumbled around for a light switch. Let somebody beat me 111 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,960 to its your hands off? Whow at least I've found you in this time? 112 00:09:58,639 --> 00:10:01,000 What are you're doing here? Are you put that gun away? Cree 113 00:10:01,759 --> 00:10:05,200 or are you going to use it? You'd better take the safety off. 114 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,559 First safety, What are you doing? All right? Let go of it, 115 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,600 Creally? Thanks? Do you think you'll get away with this? Mister? 116 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,639 You're crazy? My mistake the safety was off. Sorry to rough you 117 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,159 up, but I don't like people who go around pointing guns of people without 118 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,039 any reason for it. You broke in here, that's illegal entry. I'll 119 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:24,559 have you arrested. Why not? Why not? The phone's right behind you. 120 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:30,559 Who are you anyway, Johnny Dollar. I'm a special investigator for the 121 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,919 Northwestern Surety Company. I imagine the name is familiar to you since they're holding 122 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:39,039 a fifty thousand dollars life insurance policy on the late Jonathan Wells, with your 123 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,240 end Mabel named as beneficiary. What are you doing here? Looking for you? 124 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,399 As a matter of fact, what I wanted to ask you? Why 125 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,159 you sneak down through the door there the other day in the office when I 126 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:54,080 was here earlier. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, knock 127 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,720 it off, creely, you've got in such a hurry. You left your 128 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,960 cigar burning there in the ash tray, the same brand you're smoking right now. 129 00:11:01,919 --> 00:11:05,200 I thought you were a built collect You knew who I was. You 130 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,399 were listening there at the door while I talked to your secretary. And why 131 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:09,759 did you run out? All right, all right, I didn't know you 132 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:13,120 were a mister dollar, But well you're a misinterpreting thing, no kidding, 133 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,399 And way, I was late for an appointment. I didn't want to get 134 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,120 tied up. I figured you could find out anything you wanted to know from 135 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,679 my aunt. I saw no necessity for talking to you. I see, 136 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,159 where have you been since then? Right here most of the time and the 137 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,720 rest of the time. But what difference does it make? You went over 138 00:11:30,759 --> 00:11:35,879 at normal Wells apartment by any chance? Keep kidding, I'd test that girl. 139 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:41,080 Why so? Because she's a smug, self satisfied little phony. She's 140 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:45,080 too big for her britches. What makes you think I'd be hanging around her. 141 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:50,200 Somebody wasn't get Somebody broke into her apartment this afternoon or this evening and 142 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,399 turned it upside down. She hasn't got anything I wanted. They didn't take 143 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,480 anything. They broke in to leave something. I found some ground glass planted 144 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,600 in her sugar bowl. Grown glass sound familiar? What are you getting at? 145 00:12:03,519 --> 00:12:07,440 You mean you haven't heard about the coroner's report on Jonathan Wells. No, 146 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:11,360 why what has that got to do? Wells died from a dose of 147 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:20,840 ground glass? I mean he was killed murder. I don't imagine he ain't 148 00:12:20,879 --> 00:12:26,200 the stuff intentionally, do you? I can't believe the police aren't having that 149 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:33,200 trouble. I just can't imagine anybody such a nice guy. He always got 150 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,240 along fine with everybody, including you. Yes, we've got to be good 151 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,600 friends. What about his daughter, Norma? I don't really know. She 152 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,120 bo top and moved out A month after that, Mabel and Jonathan were married. 153 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,879 Why jealous? I guess she couldn't stand it to see her father paying 154 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:54,559 attention to anybody but her. Did they quarrel much? Jonathan never quarreled with 155 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,799 anybody. No, she just seemed to go around with a mad on most 156 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,039 of the time. She's a rare one, that girl, what do you 157 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:05,279 mean? Or she seems to think of herself as a princess or something. 158 00:13:05,879 --> 00:13:09,159 I understand you made quite a play for it first. I suppose she told 159 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:13,480 you that, did you. I tried to be friendly to her, that's 160 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,919 all. I don't know what she chose to call it. So no, 161 00:13:16,159 --> 00:13:20,039 I'm engaged to miss Tipper, the girl that works here in the office. 162 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,559 What do you do for a living, mister Creeley, all right, take 163 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,360 care of this correspondence club. Frunt Mabel got sort of a hard condition. 164 00:13:28,399 --> 00:13:31,679 I can't work to her. I see. You know, it might be 165 00:13:31,759 --> 00:13:35,399 a good idea if you checked in with the police. They'll probably want to 166 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:37,799 talk to you. Well, who did they think did it? Well, 167 00:13:37,799 --> 00:13:41,039 they haven't arrested anybody yet, but there are a lot of straws pointing in 168 00:13:41,039 --> 00:13:46,919 one direction direction. George, your aunt Mabel, I'm afraid that's ridiculous. 169 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,840 She may be a little vague, not quite all with it, maybe, 170 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,639 but she wouldn't do a thing like that. The framer. That's what they're 171 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:56,960 doing. Well, said a motive mister Creeley. Well, what about his 172 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:00,799 daughter? She stands to gain by all this, She inherits this. Maybe 173 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:05,559 she faked that burglary planet the ground glass in her apartment herself. Have you 174 00:14:05,639 --> 00:14:26,320 thought of that, mister Dollar, Yeah, yeah, I thought. Now 175 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,600 here's our star to tell you about Tomorrow's In trigging episode of this week story 176 00:14:30,679 --> 00:14:33,600 Tomorrow, another murder comes to light, another link in a long chain, 177 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,360 and an old lady weeps for the wasted years. Join us, won't you? 178 00:14:39,360 --> 00:15:03,360 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey 179 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:09,320 is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed 180 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:13,919 by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and 181 00:15:13,039 --> 00:16:23,879 station for the next stixciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking 182 00:16:23,240 --> 00:17:08,319 play all Right Well. In episode four, Johnny receives a call from Dave 183 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:18,440 Elwood with Northwestern Surety and advises that Missus Wells's first husband, Walter Burke, 184 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:26,440 died and Mabel was the beneficiary of a fifty thousand dollar life insurance policy. 185 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:32,519 Max comes by from the District Attorney's office to have a word with Norah, 186 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,519 and then Johnny goes to see Missus Wells, who goes on at some length 187 00:17:38,839 --> 00:17:45,799 about her conversation with Max and her husband. When Johnny mentions the ground glass, 188 00:17:45,799 --> 00:17:49,880 she claims that it was ridiculous and says her husband would have known. 189 00:17:51,319 --> 00:17:57,519 She also said that person's death is written in the stars and that astrology is 190 00:17:57,599 --> 00:18:07,000 as real as reincarnation, and apparently they had a record speed exhumation of Mabel's 191 00:18:07,039 --> 00:18:14,559 first husband. As Max calls to inform Johnny that Walter Burke died of ground 192 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,920 glass, Johnny hangs up and then at this moment, Missus Wells collapses in 193 00:18:19,079 --> 00:18:25,279 pain. Now let's find out what happens in episode five, original air date 194 00:18:25,319 --> 00:18:32,640 April twenty seventh, nineteen fifty six. Let's go ahead and listen from Hollywood. 195 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:40,440 It's time now for Johnny Deller, Max lnswer Johnny He's office. Oh 196 00:18:40,559 --> 00:18:44,039 is she pretty weak? Hospital staff are doing all they can for her, 197 00:18:44,079 --> 00:18:45,400 but they don't give him much hope. Has she been able to talk? 198 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,720 No, not yet? Maybe not ever. It was ground glass, all 199 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:52,759 right? The doctor shure of it. Now seem as your husband, Why, 200 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,640 Johnny? Why her? I'll guess with you. Maybe she figured we 201 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,839 were closing in on her. The game was over and took the We had 202 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,519 nothing on her, max suspicion. That's all we were going on. She'd 203 00:19:04,559 --> 00:19:07,519 had two husbands in the last three years, both of them died from the 204 00:19:07,519 --> 00:19:11,880 effects of ground glass poisoning, and both times she goes for fifty thousand dollars 205 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,319 insurance. That's all we had to go on, and it wasn't enough. 206 00:19:15,519 --> 00:19:21,680 Maybe she didn't realize that I can give you a better theory. Somebody tried 207 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:33,799 to murder her tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of 208 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:38,200 the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator, Yours 209 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:57,400 Truly, Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location Chicago to the 210 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:03,599 home office Northwestern Surety Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Lonely Hearts Matter 211 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:11,519 Expense Account, final page. I am fifteen two dollars and sixty cents Sandwich's 212 00:20:11,559 --> 00:20:14,839 cigarettes and incidentals, which I had sent up from a lunch room across the 213 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,200 street in the hospital. It was evening again now. I'd spent the whole 214 00:20:18,279 --> 00:20:22,400 day in the lounge down the hall from the room where Mabel Burke Wells was 215 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,640 fighting for her life, fighting and slowly losing. I tagged her as a 216 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,960 murderous responsible for the deaths of two of her husbands, But then she herself 217 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,039 had been struck down by the same poison. Now only she had the key 218 00:20:36,079 --> 00:20:41,799 to the puzzle, the key she might never give up. Doctor Kenody, 219 00:20:41,519 --> 00:20:47,759 Doctor ken Woody, Oh, hi, creely, can he change it to 220 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:52,000 Anne's condition? No? No, I just talked to the doctor. If 221 00:20:52,039 --> 00:20:55,240 anything, she's even weaker. She didn't even recognize me. I've been in 222 00:20:55,279 --> 00:20:56,720 the room off and on all day. She didn't even know I was there. 223 00:20:57,079 --> 00:21:00,599 Well, she's in pretty bad shape. Sit down, you look a 224 00:21:00,599 --> 00:21:07,640 little rocky yourself. Thanks. I fee who it was, and maybe it's 225 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:08,960 been a real mother to me. This is quite a shock. Yes, 226 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:14,119 I imagined, doctor says it's the same thing that killed Jonathan. Yes, 227 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,519 that's right. Well it doesn't make any sense, mister Darling. Say tell 228 00:21:17,559 --> 00:21:21,519 me something. Did anyone come to the house to see your aunt, either 229 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:26,000 last night after Lancer left or this morning before I got there? And as 230 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,480 far as I know, why do you think someone might have I don't know. 231 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,279 She'd already gone to bed when I came in last night. I left 232 00:21:33,279 --> 00:21:36,759 early this morning. It's possible, of course, but I don't believe anyone 233 00:21:36,799 --> 00:21:40,960 did. She never had any visitors. She's always been a lonely person. 234 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,319 Actually, maybe that's why she started the Lonely Hearts Club. Yes it was. 235 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,720 I suggested the idea to her as a way to meet friends and be 236 00:21:48,759 --> 00:21:53,680 around people, and she loved it. Why couldn't she and Jonathan's daughter normal 237 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,160 wells get along? Ah, she's a strange girl. Eyes had a chip 238 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,839 on her shoulder. I spoke to Jonathan about it once, but he just 239 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:06,400 laughed it off, said, Norman just had too much possessiveness. Well, 240 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,799 I guess it's natural. But two of them had been alone a long time 241 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:15,319 until he married your aunt, mister Dollar. Yeah. The police think that 242 00:22:15,599 --> 00:22:18,079 Aunt Mabel killed him, don't they. They've got some pretty strong reasons for 243 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:22,839 thinking so, and the way she is now dying, and I suppose they 244 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,119 think she did it her. So it's possible she did. Is that what 245 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:32,640 you think? Oh? I'm not sure. I am. Oh, come 246 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,559 on over him as well. I didn't want to interrupt, just making conversation. 247 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,599 You two know each other, I guess yes. Well, I got 248 00:22:42,599 --> 00:22:47,720 can on to a cup of coffee, see you later. I can't stand 249 00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:51,920 that, man, So I gather, how is she? Not much change? 250 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,240 Couldn't bear just sitting in that hotel room wondering what was happening. She 251 00:22:56,279 --> 00:22:59,359 hasn't been able to talk. No, I'm not sure. I don't understand 252 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,880 it. My father died less than two hours after he was first stricken. 253 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:10,319 Difference in constitution, maybe different dosage. She's too mean to die. I'm 254 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:15,119 sorry I said that it was cruel and heartless, but that's the way I 255 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,200 feel. I can't help it when I think of my father, so kind 256 00:23:19,279 --> 00:23:23,119 and gentle, murdered in cold blood by that. If she did do it, 257 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,920 then why this? You mean the same thing happening to her? That's 258 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:33,720 right remorse? Maybe if she's capable of it or fear. I don't know 259 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:37,119 why. Maybe she's insane. I've always thought she might be. Oh, 260 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,200 she's sane, all right, as sane as any of us. Now what 261 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,799 do you think happened to her? Oh? I don't know. We probably 262 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:48,759 never will know. She will die without talking, and there will never be 263 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:53,480 any proof. That's a possibility that worthless nephew of hers will collect the insurance. 264 00:23:53,519 --> 00:23:57,720 I suppose that's not my department. But under the circumstances, I think 265 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,440 he'd have a legal claims. It's horrible to dalla. What is a nurse? 266 00:24:02,839 --> 00:24:10,000 She's conscious and she wants to see you. She was a dying woman 267 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,119 I could see at the moment normal wells and I walked into the room. 268 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,799 I sent the nurse to find her nephew, Burton Creeley, and he slipped 269 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:19,519 in quietly. A few seconds later, the old lady lay back on her 270 00:24:19,519 --> 00:24:25,119 pillows, smiling to herself as usual, bright eyed with a last burst of 271 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,359 false vitality. Death was only minutes away. All of us knew it, 272 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:36,759 and she knew it too. My gracious, all of you look so serious, 273 00:24:37,599 --> 00:24:41,079 but it was nice of you to come. Keeps a body from feeling 274 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:48,119 notes you save your strength and awmous as well as what on earth for body 275 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,480 can enjoy the last few breaths might as well not be living. Please, 276 00:24:52,839 --> 00:24:59,599 Mabel l you please me. Burton Creeley straightening your tie, You look a 277 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:07,799 fry my, certainly nice to see you here. Norman Well, I've always 278 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,319 said to Jonathan, it's just a crying shame that Norman and me can't hit 279 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:18,440 it off better. He just laughed, Missus, we'll be quiet, young 280 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:25,319 man, now what you're after all in due time. It's a matter of 281 00:25:25,319 --> 00:25:30,680 fact. That's why I wanted to see you. I've been in my senses 282 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:34,160 for the last hour, but I just didn't let on. I wanted a 283 00:25:34,279 --> 00:25:41,160 chance to think I'm about to die. You know, don't talk that simmer 284 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,200 down, Burton. Death is only the doorway to a more glorious life. 285 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:52,839 And you remember that, mister Dolla, I didn't do it. I know. 286 00:25:55,039 --> 00:25:57,680 I finally came to that conclusion myself too late. I mean, you're 287 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:03,279 not surprised. Well, at least it's a help that I don't have to 288 00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:08,640 convince you. I'm afraid that I won't have that much time. What are 289 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:15,079 you saying? You heard me? Nor I said I didn't kill Jonathan. 290 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,160 Oh, I was much too fond of him to do a thing like that. 291 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:26,160 Who did kill him? Missus? Wells, That's what I was puzzling 292 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,640 over for the last hour. Then when I figured it out, I had 293 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:37,160 to decide whether to let sleeping dogs lie or see the justice took its course 294 00:26:38,319 --> 00:26:48,079 and all, but I remembered how kind Jonathan had it been and decided, 295 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:56,599 And Mabel don't try to talk anymore. Those chocolates back that you gave me 296 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:03,319 this morning. And that was an awful, knotty thing to do, Burton, 297 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,000 and now you have to be punished for it. Wait a minute, 298 00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:14,079 Missus Wells, Jonathan Walter two, and they were always so nice to you. 299 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,119 I just can't understand why you did it. Mister Dalla. Yes, 300 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:26,880 you take Burton in hand, give him, give him a good talking to 301 00:27:29,319 --> 00:27:45,559 explain to him it, Missus Wells, he must be is she? Yeah? 302 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,319 Well, crilly, get your hands up. Dollar one move from you 303 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:56,880 and Norma gets a pull up right in the back. Let go of one. 304 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,000 Don't remember one thing. Dollar I'm taking is high and mighty. Here 305 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:07,359 along. If they get me, then she goes too. The door was 306 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,720 solid, built to last. It took me several minutes to smash it open. 307 00:28:11,279 --> 00:28:14,640 The nurse in the court has said creating a normal Wells had gone down 308 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,920 in the elevator. I grabbed the four phone and called the main desk in 309 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,559 the lobby. They said some man and the girl had just stolen an ambulance 310 00:28:19,599 --> 00:28:22,880 from the emergency driveway and headed west onto the Lake Shore Parkway. And at 311 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,359 that moment Max Lanser stepped off the elevator. Show me what's going on. 312 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,759 Back to your car, Max, Come on. We could hear the ambulance 313 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:33,160 siren for a while somewhere up ahead of us. Then we lost it. 314 00:28:33,599 --> 00:28:37,480 Max kept the red light flashing and the accelerator on the floorboard. This phenomena 315 00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:41,839 needle edge passed eighty five, touch ninety and hung there. There were nine 316 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,599 miles up the parkway when I saw it, park cars, the crowd gathering 317 00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:49,559 in the end, and I strolled over against the bank. Where are they? 318 00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:52,960 I'm riding the cool got out of it. There rain in the price. 319 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:55,680 There he's garring a gun. Take the east high, Johnny. Ago 320 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,920 around the other way, right, Max, and watch yourself. The undergrow 321 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,599 was heavy, A mass of dark shadows slashed here and there by beams of 322 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,920 life in the headlamps of the cars on the road above. Max disappeared into 323 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,000 the night and I moved on along. Minutes passed. Then a car light 324 00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:14,160 shifted slightly and I saw them only a few yards away. Crouched against a 325 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,480 tree. He was holding the gun pressed against the side. All a dollar 326 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:22,920 you finished, clearly, you'd better give up. Oh gosh, you gosh, 327 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,599 Johnny he's going to kill me. I was holding my gun at my 328 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,839 side, but I didn't dare lift to try to waih it. One false 329 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,920 move on my partner pulled the trigger, blast the life on a normal wells. 330 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:36,279 Then she struggled slightly, tried to pull away from him. I had 331 00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:45,519 a one second chance, and I took it. Are you all right? 332 00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:48,599 Yes, yes, I'm all right. I didn't have time to call a 333 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:55,200 shot. I had to get it off fast. Yeah, looks like it 334 00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:06,759 caught him in the heart. Expense account item sixteen, two hundred and thirty 335 00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:10,559 one dollars and twenty five cents. Hotel and incidentals in Chicago and transportation back 336 00:30:10,599 --> 00:30:15,400 to Hartford. Expense account total four hundred and sixteen dollars and forty cents. 337 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,680 End of account. End of report remarks, A heart with a bullet hole 338 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:26,640 in it. There's a real lonely heart. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 339 00:30:38,599 --> 00:30:42,880 Now here's our start to tell you about next week's intriguing story. Next week 340 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,880 the calicles matter, which is just another way of saying the Greeks had a 341 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,680 word for it. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar? 342 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:14,480 Yours truly, Johnny Doller, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. 343 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,119 Written by Les Crutchfield, it is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. 344 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:23,119 Hurt In this week's cast were Lucille Meredith, Mary Jane Croft, Virginia Gregg, 345 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:30,079 herbellas Howard mcneer, and Stacy Harris. Musical supervision by Amerigo Marino. 346 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,680 Be sure to join us on Monday Night, same time and station for another 347 00:31:33,799 --> 00:33:17,000 exciting story of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Roy rowan speaking play play Welcome Back. 348 00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:23,440 There are Johnny Dowler serials missing episode two, episode three, and episode 349 00:33:23,519 --> 00:33:30,880 four. I think the worst is missing episode four because a lot tends to 350 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,920 happen that really does lead up to the solution, But there were also plenty 351 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,720 of twist in episode five of this story that it's still an entertaining one to 352 00:33:40,839 --> 00:33:45,720 listen to now. Of all of the serials with missing episodes, the Lonely 353 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:51,160 Hearts Matter, Episode four is the one I'd most like back, just because 354 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:57,160 it's important for flow, and Plus I think that the character of Missus Wells 355 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,599 is interesting and fun to listen to, and even if episode four sounds like 356 00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:09,280 it had a lot of her talking, that would be pretty entertaining in its 357 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:15,760 own run. Now in the book, John Abbott notes that raban quite a 358 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:23,280 few articles and scholarship casting doubt on round glass as a murder method, and 359 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:30,360 certainly the idea that it would be something that would be used repeatedly. There's 360 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,920 a bit of a stretch, but it works okay for this story. Now, 361 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,679 Johnny Dowler's stories don't always end with a big, exciting pursuit and shootout, 362 00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:46,639 but this one really provided something that was interesting to listen to, and 363 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:52,800 I honestly did not remember that from the first couple of times I was through 364 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:58,280 this story, mainly because what stands out to me about the story in my 365 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,960 memory, because what stand out about the story is the episode four being missing. 366 00:35:04,199 --> 00:35:08,440 But I think that this was a really good, suspenseful conclusion. Johnny 367 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:16,039 bowed to reality and killing the murderer. His line about not being able to 368 00:35:16,079 --> 00:35:24,000 call a shot really applies to nearly all real life shootings where you've got law 369 00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:30,480 enforcement officer facing off against an armed suspect. The idea of shooting the gun 370 00:35:30,639 --> 00:35:36,760 out of the suspect's hands, particularly when there's a hostage involved, is just 371 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:42,039 kind of the stuff of cowboy movies and some old school place shows, because 372 00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:46,119 if you don't know what Johnny did, there are all sorts of risks of 373 00:35:46,199 --> 00:35:54,679 the armed suspect hitting you or the hostage lessen or comments and feedback. Now, 374 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:01,360 and we have an email regarding two different episodes, raises two different questions. 375 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:06,719 So I'll read the question about one and then the question about the other. 376 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:15,840 And the first referenced today's episode, which was the Shepherd Matter, episodes 377 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,719 one and two. On today's episode of Johnny Dowler, you say that you 378 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:25,360 don't know why the insurance investigator would continue with this investigation. Wouldn't the compet 379 00:36:25,559 --> 00:36:31,400 penny want to continue to determine if they should prefer charges for attempting to defraud. 380 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,920 That's a good question. I'm not sure to be honest, because one 381 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:42,760 thing you do pick up from Johnny Dowler is that for the insurance company, 382 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:47,360 it's not just always about the money, but in some cases it's also about 383 00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:54,320 creating a deterrence for people who might want to defraud the company. Now, 384 00:36:54,400 --> 00:37:01,880 I don't think that trying to take out a life insurance policy because someone threatened 385 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:07,320 your life would be an attempt to defraud. It'd just be a bad risk 386 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:13,360 for the company. But would the company want to investigate to have some interest 387 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:22,599 in an insurance application that was submitted as part of a criminal enterprise That I 388 00:37:22,639 --> 00:37:28,719 don't know, but that's a good thought. Also on the Lair Douglas matter, 389 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:37,280 I'm curious why Johnny was specifically targeted by Missus laws of names after killing 390 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,960 two or three other protectors. How could she expect to gain by killing a 391 00:37:43,079 --> 00:37:47,400 high profile investigator. Well, thanks for the question, and from what I 392 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:53,119 can understand, and this is where things get a little odd. If you 393 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:59,960 recall back to episode two of The Lair Douglas Douglas of Heather Scope Man, 394 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:07,679 a guy named Ray Roland comes over to Harry Branson's office and according to Johnny, 395 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:14,079 up to this point she hoped that Laird Douglas Douglas of Heather Scout could 396 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:20,000 win the dog show, and so I would imply that she brought Johnny in 397 00:38:20,519 --> 00:38:28,559 as like a foreshow thing since the previous incidents, to show that she was 398 00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:35,440 considered earned about Laird Douglas Douglas of Heather Scout safety. However, Ray Roland 399 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:40,960 gave his opinion that Laird Douglas Douglas of Heather Scout had no chance of winning 400 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,639 the dog show, and so, according to Johnny's solution, at that point, 401 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:52,320 she decided she had to kill Johnny because she had some other killings she 402 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:57,679 had to do and she had this famous investigator around. It's also implied that 403 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:05,320 after she called for Johnny, she learned of other dog owners nephews plot to 404 00:39:06,119 --> 00:39:10,920 pear down the family fortune. A combination of those two things led her to 405 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:15,559 decide that she needed to get rid of Johnny. Admittedly it's a bit far 406 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:22,920 fetched and convoloaded and the Laird Douglas Douglas of Heather sculpt matter. It still 407 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:29,599 has the redeeming qualities I mentioned on Tuesday, but it's definitely not among my 408 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:36,559 pop fifty serials of the fifty seven that they did well. Now it's time 409 00:39:36,599 --> 00:39:39,960 to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead 410 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:45,199 and thank Rosa and John. Rosa and John have been our Patreon supporters since 411 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:52,760 January of twenty twenty, currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of 412 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,880 seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you so much for 413 00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,239 your support and that will do it for it. Hey, if you are 414 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:06,480 enjoying this podcast, Please follow us using your favorite podcast software, and if 415 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,239 you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure to lock the video, subscribe 416 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:15,800 to the channel, and mark the notification bell. We'll be back with another 417 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:21,400 Yours truly Johnny Dollars Cereal on Tuesday, but join us back here tomorrow for 418 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,239 dragnet. Where the next step was for Ben and Night. I make a 419 00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:29,360 complete report the cheap ed backstrand they got Lindsay that Fred Lindsay, and not 420 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,800 a fea good cut you say he wanted two out of the three in that 421 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:37,039 hone. Yeah, it means they'll have to have medical attention. In hurry. 422 00:40:37,039 --> 00:40:38,800 We'll check all the small hospitals, cover all the drug stores to get 423 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,920 in a line on anyone who's bought the medical supplies in the last eh. 424 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,519 As soon as medical detail notifies Mims Lindsay, I'd like to go over and 425 00:40:45,559 --> 00:40:47,280 see her smith and the medical details out there. And by the time you 426 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,599 get back, we may have a flash in the drug stores or hospitals. 427 00:40:50,639 --> 00:40:52,119 We'll be back in thirty minute. When you get out there, right, 428 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,800 you might carry this with you. Yeah, I'm sick. I am sick 429 00:40:55,840 --> 00:41:00,360 to my stomach about this thing. I want you to get those two bit 430 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,400 punks. I don't want them to see another Sunwrackers. I hope you'll be 431 00:41:04,519 --> 00:41:08,039 with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen 432 00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:14,199 at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and 433 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,320 check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from 434 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,760 boise Ido. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.