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It's 19 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:21,000 time now for Johnny Dollar, Pat mccrack and Johnny Universal Adjustment Bureau. Oh 20 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,240 no, yeah, how are you boy? Terrible? Goodbye, Johnny? 21 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,840 What's the matter? Well, the last one you handed me was that phony 22 00:02:25,879 --> 00:02:30,240 spiritualist case, and it's still haunting me. Before that, it was Larrd 23 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:31,919 Douglas Douglas of Heatherscope. Oh you made money on him, didn't you. 24 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:36,159 Yeah, I nearly lost my mind. All right, I've got one for 25 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,800 you now that'll surely make you lose your mind, Johnny, come on over, 26 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:51,639 okay, tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey. In the Transcribed 27 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,960 Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, 28 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:15,240 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar expense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the 29 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,719 Lakeside Life and Casually Insurance Company. Following is an accounting of expendit yours during 30 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:30,039 my investigation of the indestructible mic Matter expense account out of one eighty cents cab 31 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:32,599 fare from my apartment of the Officer of Pat McCrackan at Universal Adjustment Bureau. 32 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,400 Every one of the cases Patt had handed me Lady had been rough, and 33 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:39,439 if it weren't for the loot involved, which is to say, Pat never 34 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:44,719 really cracked down on my expense accounts. Well, after all, I didn't 35 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:50,680 have any other cases pending. So Hi, Johnny, Hey, you're looking 36 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,120 gray? Sit cigarette? Would you like to drink? Well? How are 37 00:03:55,159 --> 00:03:59,840 you? Boy? Okay, Pat, let's have it. This one must 38 00:03:59,879 --> 00:04:02,599 reach bad Johnny. What makes you say a thing like that? You sure 39 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:04,960 you wouldn't like just one little no, no, no, no, no 40 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,280 thanks. Now come on, let's get to the point. What are you 41 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:11,000 trying to get out of paying off on this stuff? You want the truth, 42 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,960 Johnny, Nothing at all, Just a favor for a friend of mine 43 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,319 down in New York. Yeah, I want you to go down and see 44 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:19,839 Peter Branson. Branson any relation to that? Worry Ward Harry Branson of Filly 45 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,720 Mutual Well brother, whoops, git yourself? Another boy band, Johnny, 46 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,560 Johnny, he's as different from Harry as day is from night. Well he 47 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,480 better be that literal minded sticking them out, Harry and nearly drove me crazy 48 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,439 on those two cases I handled, for he is different as day is from 49 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:40,519 night. Honest, now when you see him Expenser con Item two twenty one, 50 00:04:40,519 --> 00:04:43,439 even trained fair and all the incidentals I could think of Hartford to New 51 00:04:43,519 --> 00:04:47,240 York Item three fifty five cents taxi from Grand Central the Peter Branson's Lakeside Life 52 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,240 and Casually offices at five hundred and fifth Avenue, where my worst fears were 53 00:04:51,399 --> 00:04:58,480 justified. That is correct, mister Dollar. I am not only Harry's brother. 54 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,319 Don't tell me here is twin? Why? Yes? How could you 55 00:05:00,319 --> 00:05:02,360 have guessed it? Oh? But now, wait a minute. Did you 56 00:05:02,399 --> 00:05:05,439 say you took a taxi for the three blocks over from the station? Yeap, 57 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:09,680 at least that's what goes on the expense account. Oh dear, my 58 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,279 brother was right. You are expensive, and yet he seems to have the 59 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,680 utmost confidence in your ability. Yeah, but now an amazing way in which 60 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,360 you settled that, Harry, Uh pete, Yes, what's the case that's 61 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:23,720 bothering you? Isn't that interesting? I don't know yet? Tell me about 62 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:26,160 it. I mean, you're starting to call me Harry because of my twin. 63 00:05:26,439 --> 00:05:29,160 Oh yeah, better tell me about the case. You know a great 64 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,639 many of our mutual friends. What oh oh, yes, of course, 65 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,199 Michael Jeremiah Flynn a terribly serious matter. If this sort of thing ever gets 66 00:05:35,199 --> 00:05:39,920 out of Who's Flynn? John? He is a bum, a regular typical 67 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,839 movie type version of a Bowery bump. And unfortunately he holds a fifty thousand 68 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,399 dollar policy. Well he must have seen better days to carry that much insurance. 69 00:05:46,399 --> 00:05:49,399 Ever never, I'm sure of it. No human being could degenerate to 70 00:05:49,399 --> 00:05:53,399 such a state in a mere forty seven years. And he looks and sounds 71 00:05:53,439 --> 00:05:56,480 like sixty seven. Also, by the way, his policy is only two 72 00:05:56,519 --> 00:05:58,879 months old. Well, what's happened? Somebody knocked him off? No, 73 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,360 but I am sure, but he's going to Well then why did you ensure 74 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:05,040 him? It was Martha who was really responsible. Martha Ingersol, the girl 75 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,360 I had working for me here in the office at the time he applied for 76 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,879 the policy. I was out sick for a couple of weeks, and I'm 77 00:06:10,879 --> 00:06:14,439 afraid that when I came back I did not pay sufficient attention to the application 78 00:06:14,519 --> 00:06:16,800 she'd accepted, at least so far as Flynn's policy is concerned. You better 79 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,439 tell me about it. Oh of course he passed his medical alright, though 80 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,800 heaven knows how, and his cash payment of the premium was all right, 81 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,360 yes, yes, cash. But I still should have investigated myself before allowing 82 00:06:27,399 --> 00:06:30,279 the policy to be issued. Look, you still haven't told me what's wrong 83 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:32,800 now. Of course it's too late, Peach. Oh, oh, of 84 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,639 course. Well it's simply this. The home address that we have for him 85 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,839 has turned out to be the glad Hand Rescue Mission, just off Fulton Street, 86 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:43,920 near the Fulton Market. Yeah. Biggest fish market in the world, 87 00:06:43,959 --> 00:06:47,439 isn't it. Well, yes, yes, a fascinating place. Chip sloaded 88 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,600 with fish from all the Seven Seas, colorful characters speaking a dozen different tons. 89 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,639 Yeah, well, I'm sorry I interrupted what you were saying. Well, 90 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,519 that's all right, that's all right. I'm quite a connoisseur of seafood, 91 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,720 you know, real epic, you're I do, say so, have 92 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:06,720 you ever tasted Boston Squad? Yeah? Sure, Uh now let's get back 93 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:10,839 to the case. Oh oh, yes, Michael Flynn, Michael Flynn, 94 00:07:10,839 --> 00:07:16,360 that's right. Well, mister Dalla John it's simply because of what's happened before 95 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,839 that I'm so worried about this one. After all, fifty thousand is a 96 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:25,199 sizable part what has happened before the same thing. So you can see Harry, 97 00:07:25,399 --> 00:07:28,319 Uh, Pete, I can't see a thing, John. It's like 98 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,879 the Angus Cormack matter back in forty seven, like the old Lamacrairie affair. 99 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:39,279 That trying to tie Peter Branson down to the facts of the case was exactly 100 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,160 like trying to tie his brother Harry down, only more so. I had 101 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,839 to keep reminding myself that all of Harry's assignments had paid off handsomely for me, 102 00:07:46,959 --> 00:07:49,439 and keep hoping the same would be true of his brother. Three separate 103 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,879 times in the next fifteen minutes, Pete launched forth on the epicurean delights of 104 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,959 seafood, and three times I vainly tried to steer him back to ports. 105 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,879 Finally I threatened to walk out on unless he got down to business. All 106 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,199 right, all right, John, I'll give it to you in black and 107 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:05,839 white. Oh not literally, of course, I mean i'll tell you from 108 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:09,839 the beginning at a boy. Now, four times within the past few years, 109 00:08:09,879 --> 00:08:13,079 this very same sort of policy has been issued. There's some peneliss worthless 110 00:08:13,079 --> 00:08:16,680 bomb, Yes, and everything is indicated fraud. What do you mean in 111 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,839 only one case where the police able to prove anything, the case of Maggie 112 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,000 Dolly Varden Smith? Oh yeah, seems to me. I remember that's some 113 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:26,399 racket teer ex bootlegger. Correct, candy kids shure. Yeah, he ensured 114 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:31,040 the old derelict for twenty thirty thousand dollars, had himself named beneficiary, it 115 00:08:31,079 --> 00:08:33,960 is correct, and then he had all Maggie murdered. Of course, you 116 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:37,000 remain and you think you've got the same sort of a situation here. Yes, 117 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,120 John, I'm afraid so. And you can't cancel the policy unless this 118 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,679 proof of an attempt at fraud. Correct. So you can see why I'm 119 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,360 so deeply concerned over this. If only I hadn't left Martha Ingersol in charge 120 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,039 while I was sick. Who's named is beneficiary in the policy? He did 121 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:58,120 sell some good policies beneficiary? Oh yes, here it is John Wesley Cosgrave, 122 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,720 six East forty ninth Street here in Manhattan. What do you know about 123 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:05,480 him? Nothing? Really, And frankly I'm afraid to find out. John. 124 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,720 Yeah, yeah, I'll look into it. And what's the address of 125 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,039 this rescue mission where old Michael hangs out. It's down near the big Fulton 126 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,559 Fish Market. Let me see here. Why don't you give me that whole 127 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,200 folder so I can get what I want from it? Of course, John, 128 00:09:18,799 --> 00:09:24,200 but I am sorely afraid there isn't much to get. I'm sorely afraid. 129 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,159 Peter was right when I had to start somewhere. I had them four 130 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:31,440 to eighty taxi back to Grand Central to pick up the bags I'd parked there. 131 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,519 In the same taxi to a slightly dingy little hotel a couple of blocks 132 00:09:35,519 --> 00:09:39,759 off Chambers Street on the Lower east Side. I had them five nine dollars 133 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,320 eighty three cents to a second hand clothing store, where I outfitted myself in 134 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:46,039 hat, coat, pants, shirt, shoes and socks that I hope would 135 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,200 make me eligible for a spot on a bench at the glad Hand Rescue Mission. 136 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,519 When I finally shuffled into the place, which looked more like a cheap 137 00:09:54,519 --> 00:09:58,759 flophouse than a mission, I felt somewhat like a kid playing tramp at Halloween. 138 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,600 Welcome brother, Welcome to the mission. I'm daddy Bill. Hi the 139 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:07,200 entrance to the soup kitchen is over at the side, you know. Yeah, 140 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:11,039 well, I just want to set down for a spout. Re'st my 141 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,519 feet and have you a bed for the night? Brother? Oh? Who 142 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:16,159 knows? Oh my god? Well there's always room for one more, you 143 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,399 know. Will you be here for our meeting tonight? Well, I don't 144 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,799 have an excellent singing voice, I can tell. Are you sure you don't 145 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,399 want something to eat? My boy? Nah? No, I'm all right. 146 00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:30,159 Well, then just sit and be comfortable and we can talk. I 147 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:35,320 Uh I kind of hope maybe I might run into Mike Mike Flynn. Oh, 148 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:39,200 yes, of course, Michael lives here, spends most of his evenings 149 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:43,840 with us, poor fellow, although I really shouldn't say that, uh say 150 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,679 one poor fellow. After all, he's also one of our biggest contributors to 151 00:10:46,879 --> 00:10:50,679 when he's sober, although where his money comes from I'll never know. Yeah, 152 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,759 well, although I'm sure it's money honestly gained. Michael's very religious, 153 00:10:54,799 --> 00:10:58,720 He's taken the pledge many times many has a lot of money now and then. 154 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,399 He seemed to think he might have a contribution for us when he comes 155 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,559 back tonight. But you don't know where he gets, my boy, I 156 00:11:05,639 --> 00:11:11,080 never ask these personal things of the brothers. Now tell me all about you. 157 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,159 You're from out of town, aren't you. I can tell this was 158 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,120 something I hadn't anticipated, and I had to rack my brain to come up 159 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,639 with a story that would convince Daddy Bill I was a bum. When I 160 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:26,080 could get a word in. Edge was there, and a kindly gabby old 161 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,720 biddy proceeded to tell me, in my nute detail, the life history of 162 00:11:28,759 --> 00:11:33,240 all of the habituats of his mission, all that is, except the one 163 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,759 I was interested in, Mike Flynn. Maybe he was suspicious of me, 164 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,200 afraid I might be trying to get my hands on some of the money. 165 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:41,759 Or Mike frequently showed up with you interest in the extreme, John. That's 166 00:11:41,799 --> 00:11:45,960 why I feel I must protect him from some of the people who come in 167 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,879 here and might try to take advantage of him. Sure, Daddy, responsibility 168 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:54,000 for the care and welfare of the brothers weighs heavily upon me sometimes, but 169 00:11:54,159 --> 00:11:56,559 it's a burden I'm glad to bear. Yeah. Well, feed their stomachs 170 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:01,159 and feed their souls, that is m You say your thing, and as 171 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,480 I say, it's a task, I'm privileged to assume. After all, 172 00:12:03,519 --> 00:12:07,639 who else have they to lean on? You think Mike will be back here, 173 00:12:07,639 --> 00:12:11,000 tot, I yes, John, I'm sure he will. But listen 174 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,759 the quartete in the well we call it in the music room. Can you 175 00:12:16,799 --> 00:12:20,519 hear them? Oh? Yeah, they're getting ready for the meeting tonight, 176 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:26,720 aren't they? Wonderful? Beautiful voices? You're sure you won't join them? 177 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,200 Oh? No, I some of the time. Now, I likeever you 178 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,759 say. But if you're going to stay here long, my boy, with 179 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:39,639 that wonderful voice of yours, I can tell I will insist that you join 180 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,559 one of our singing. Yeah, well Mike again? Oh did you hear 181 00:12:43,639 --> 00:12:46,399 that? Someone here? The so not? Oh? Boys, they just 182 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,120 can't get along without my help. You'll just have to excuse me, John, 183 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,679 while I go back there and lead for them. I'll come back later. 184 00:12:54,799 --> 00:13:03,399 We'll talk. I don't know whether it was the overuse of steam heat 185 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,159 and the battered old assembly hall on the mission, or having listened to two 186 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,600 sound hours of Daddy Bill's talk about his boys. Whatever it was, I 187 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,960 was retired, and since I had nothing better to do than wait for Mike 188 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,519 Flynn to show up, I stretched out on one of the hard benches and 189 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:28,279 closed my eyes. Hm hmm, how long I slept? I haven't the 190 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:37,320 least idea I'd managed to conjure up a whitey sweet dream too. Bill? 191 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:43,279 What what? Oh thereld Hey, you had a couple of minutes. I 192 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:48,799 guess he's out back working with a quartet. Now, come on over here 193 00:13:48,799 --> 00:13:52,200 and like, yes, I guess so, Michael is Michael Jeremiah Flynn said, 194 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,159 I guess, I guess. I guess I have had a couple of 195 00:14:00,279 --> 00:14:03,240 a couple too many. Was right, but none of what I'd thought. 196 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,840 His tattered code opened as he fell, and they are just below the heart 197 00:14:05,919 --> 00:14:11,480 too. Dark red splotches slowly widened on his ragged shirt, and it looked 198 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,080 like Peter Branson was right. The beneficiary of Michael Jeremiah Flynn's life insurance policy 199 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:37,480 was anxious to collect Johnny dollar. John This message I found when I came 200 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,799 here. Yeah, Pete, somebody took a couple of shots at your fifty 201 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,679 thousand dollars client, Mike Flynn. Will he die? From the looks of 202 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,320 things last night. He may pull through in spite of the two slugs in 203 00:14:46,399 --> 00:14:48,840 him, I hope. So do you know who did it no idea, 204 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:50,840 but I'm going to try to talk to him. Have you talked to the 205 00:14:50,879 --> 00:14:54,159 beneficiary? Not yet? First I want whatever information I can get from Mike 206 00:14:54,679 --> 00:15:09,960 if he's still alive. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dolly, Location, 207 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,600 New York, New York, Attention Peter Branson, Lakeside Life and Casually 208 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:18,879 Insurance Company, following his accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of the indestructible 209 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:28,799 mic matter expense account Item six fifty five cents taxi to the neighborhood of the 210 00:15:28,799 --> 00:15:33,480 glad Hand Rescue Mission, where Daddy Bill, a general fact totem, had 211 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,519 promised to take the best of care of Michael Jeremiah Flynn. He'd given Mike 212 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:39,720 a run to himself on the second floor, and what a room. What 213 00:15:39,799 --> 00:15:43,600 wallpaper was left hung in shreds from the cracked plaster. The shades on the 214 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,039 dirty windows were tattered and torn. A single bare fly speck light bulb hung 215 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,080 on a cord from the ceiling. The floor was bare, and the only 216 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,600 furniture was a battered chest at drawers, an ancient washstand with a crack pitcher 217 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,039 and bull, and a sagging iron bed on which old Mike Flynn lay. 218 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:07,159 Come in in. Hi. You must be the man that helped me into 219 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,399 the mission last night. Yeah, yeah, my name's Johnny Dollar. Come 220 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,080 up to see how you're making out. Well, I much oblige you, 221 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,960 Johnny, I'm real obliged to you. Wow, how are you feeling this 222 00:16:18,039 --> 00:16:22,639 one? Ah? I'm fine, I'm fine. Never felt better in Well, 223 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:25,360 what did the doctor that Daddy Bille got for? You have to see 224 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,679 the doctor for me own, Johnny. You must be joking, joking after 225 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,519 you had a couple of slugs tear through you. Here, let me help 226 00:16:32,559 --> 00:16:34,440 you. Oh you want to see him? Ses? I just look for 227 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,799 yourself here. Ah, you see see they just went through my side here 228 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,679 in the front and out the back. Oh, aren't they heating up nicely? 229 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,519 Why? That one couldn't have missed your heart by more than three inches, 230 00:16:47,519 --> 00:16:52,559 But it did not nearly. It's the closest this scar though. I 231 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,039 want to see this guy, look at it. That here? It was 232 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,919 that a bullet wound too? No, no, no, Johnny, that 233 00:16:57,039 --> 00:17:02,360 was just an little ice picking something somebody in the crowd during that fire down 234 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:07,039 the battery lade. Oh wasn't that a beautiful fire downn and you see that. 235 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,839 But what did these slugs do to you inside? You must be to 236 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:12,640 me, Oh, not a thing. I'm so durable. Wait, don't 237 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:17,359 wait a minute. Did you say there was another attempt on your life last 238 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:18,759 week? Oh? No, no, no, of course, not just 239 00:17:18,799 --> 00:17:22,039 an accident like those shots last night. You think that was an accident. 240 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,640 Why don't you do you know who fire them? Oh, Johnny, I 241 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,880 haven't the least ideas Where did it happen? I was right here in the 242 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,079 mission and I didn't hear any shots. Oh dear, No, I was 243 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:38,200 down near my private place. Where's that? Where's that? Mike Well, 244 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:44,880 I'll tell you dry it's this way. Daddy Bill and the others here at 245 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,519 the mission are real nice. Oh they're real nice. You can see by 246 00:17:48,519 --> 00:17:52,400 this lovely private room they fixed up on me. Yeah, and they'd like 247 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,240 for me to stay here all the time. I guess Daddy Bill thinks if 248 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,559 I'm here most of the time, I might not drink so much and keep 249 00:17:59,559 --> 00:18:03,200 getting those kind of See do you ever enjoy a little drink? Johnny? 250 00:18:03,319 --> 00:18:06,680 Well? On occasion? But you were going to talk. Oh, here, 251 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:14,359 I've got a little bottle tucked under the mattress one n of the sun? 252 00:18:14,519 --> 00:18:15,880 Is that that? That? That color? That pink? Yes, 253 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,359 that's my favorite. That paint. A straight whiskey. It costs so much, 254 00:18:21,759 --> 00:18:23,039 even when I have the money. Now, and you know something, 255 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,920 I like a little bit more kick in mine. I guess it's kind of 256 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,799 a hangover from prohibition days. So I mix a little kick into it. 257 00:18:32,279 --> 00:18:36,640 Here, Johnny, I want you to try this. Oh you like this? 258 00:18:36,799 --> 00:18:45,359 Oh? What a wilet? What? Yes? What that stern? 259 00:18:45,039 --> 00:18:51,720 That's what I add to it, Just a little bit of stern. Oh, 260 00:18:51,759 --> 00:18:53,079 I've been drinking that for years. Look at me, the picture of 261 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,880 health. I'm going to get a doctor. Oh no, you're not. 262 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,240 I won't stand for it. You've been shot? Oh no, just gave 263 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,839 me a little twinge or two last night. But now I feel fine. 264 00:19:04,839 --> 00:19:08,359 Well, you fell flat on your face when you came in here. Now 265 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:14,240 listen, Johnny, don't you tell Daddy Bill. But I'm afraid it wasn't 266 00:19:14,279 --> 00:19:19,680 the bullets last night. It was over indulgent brother. I gave up. 267 00:19:19,839 --> 00:19:22,599 No, no, don't say that, Ny. Oh all right, then, 268 00:19:22,599 --> 00:19:26,319 how did that happen? Where I was on my way back here when 269 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,319 the car drove by That sounded to me like a couple of backfires or two. 270 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:37,480 But then I felt this little sting on my side, and that's it. 271 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:38,920 And you call that an accident. Well, of course the man in 272 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,519 the car were probably just have a little friendly How many men, Well, 273 00:19:42,559 --> 00:19:45,200 I'm not sure. I think there were only two of them. I waved 274 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,920 at it. What kind of a car? Black, Well? What make? 275 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,079 Could you tell? Well? It was shiny and it was new. 276 00:19:51,279 --> 00:19:52,680 See, I wish I had a car, Johnny. Look, Mike, 277 00:19:52,720 --> 00:20:00,559 I'm at a level with you. I'm an insurance investigator in hugely Well, 278 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,039 let's say you that's interesting, Johnny. Say, let's have a little drink 279 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:07,599 on that while you tell me no and there isn't much to tell except that 280 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,400 I'm here to try to save your life, among other things. Well, 281 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,359 no, I don't understand that. I'm getting along all right. I've been 282 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,319 living it up here in the Bowery for years. Maybe you were getting along 283 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,559 okay until you took out that big insurance policy. Yeah, oh, say, 284 00:20:19,759 --> 00:20:23,200 wasn't that nice? And mister Cosgrave, now, all my life I 285 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,640 wanted to have some life insurance. You know, it gives you a kind 286 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,880 of feeling of importance and security. So when he came down here one night 287 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,839 and I told him that, I say, his eyes just lit up, 288 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,200 and he said he was going to make me a present of some insurance. 289 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,079 Oh is this Cosgrave? How much you know about it? Oh? Always 290 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:41,799 wealthy? I know that much about He has a beautiful car and his shoulders. 291 00:20:41,839 --> 00:20:45,599 They come down here often. Now I'm in just now, I man, 292 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,759 why now? I've often wondered about that, Johnny. So one time 293 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:55,000 I asked Daddy Bill and he said that years ago, when mister Cosgrave was 294 00:20:55,039 --> 00:20:57,720 young, he came to the mission for help and Daddy Bill gave it to 295 00:20:57,799 --> 00:21:00,680 him. Oh what does he do when he's here? Oh? He brings 296 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,960 some food for the brothers and the brothers that's what Daddy Bill caused us, 297 00:21:06,079 --> 00:21:08,319 and some money. And he always gives jobs to a couple of men who'd 298 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,839 drifted in the air. What kind of jobs? Mike? You know, 299 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,359 that's something I don't know. You see, they never come back here again. 300 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:19,039 Maybe it's because they can't. What's that? What did you say, 301 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,920 Jenny, Mike, I'm going to give it to you straight to me. 302 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,519 The whole thing smells to high heaven. I mean this Cosgrave sounds like a 303 00:21:25,559 --> 00:21:26,920 racketeer, or may be wrong. I'll know better when I meet him, 304 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,359 and I intend to do that as soon as possible. But right this minute, 305 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,559 I bet that he comes down here for only one purpose, to recruit 306 00:21:33,599 --> 00:21:37,599 help for some sort of illegal job. Oh that's terrible thought. When he 307 00:21:37,599 --> 00:21:40,319 heard you say you'd like insurance, he jumped at the chance. And why 308 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,680 not let you name him as beneficiary? And then have you knocked off? 309 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:47,319 Oh a nice picking your side was no accident, Mike, No more than 310 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,279 the shots at your last night. He's been so nuh sure, of course 311 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:52,480 he has. He can afford to. After all, your body's worth fifty 312 00:21:52,519 --> 00:21:56,279 thousand dollars to him. And that's what you're gonna be, Mike, just 313 00:21:56,279 --> 00:21:59,559 a body unless I can do something about it. Was such a nice man 314 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,839 too. How is he been getting this money to you in an envelope? 315 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:06,960 Usually it's just left hit the mission. Well, nobody ever seems to know. 316 00:22:07,079 --> 00:22:10,519 It's just a plain envelopes dropped in the mails. No, no, 317 00:22:10,519 --> 00:22:15,720 no, no, but I'm sure it comes mister Cosgray. So there was 318 00:22:15,759 --> 00:22:19,160 one dude yesterday every Monday, you know, But Daddy Bill said it didn't 319 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,279 arive. Well maybe it'll be here today. And you know something, I'd 320 00:22:22,319 --> 00:22:26,640 like to see it delivered you and you can't kid me, Johnny, you 321 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,440 would like to see who delivers it. Why don't we get downstairs and wait 322 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:33,920 and see? Easy there, Mike, you're a sick man. Stop talking 323 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:40,200 that way. Sick up. We go right, let me give you no 324 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,680 no, no, no, no, no, I'm all right. I'm 325 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:45,359 oh see look at that. Look at that. Daddy Bill left my shoes 326 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,640 here by the bed. Party. Brother, Now I've seen it. Ra 327 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:56,359 sho ah, No, there are old dressed. I don't know how you're 328 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:03,000 doing. Shall we get downstairs? Sure? And the envelope should be there 329 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:07,880 because it always comes in the morning when there's nobody here, you know, 330 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,799 and Daddy Bill's out shopping, and just the door to the assembly room is 331 00:23:12,839 --> 00:23:17,839 open for any poor lost soul who wants to come in. Wait for the 332 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,839 child line to open. Well, we'll see, we'll see, and then 333 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,920 we'll go to my private place. You see, there are two things I 334 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:34,519 like, Johnny, solitude and crowds of people. Look at that, Johnny, 335 00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:41,519 there there's mail there by the door. You see. Ah, here's 336 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,640 my envelope and my name's on it too. Wait, it's all right, 337 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,279 it's all right, it's right. You see that, Johnny, a twenty 338 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:56,119 dollar bill. We have that envelope possible, Yes, yes, here are 339 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:56,960 Johnny. Now we can go out to you a night. We can have 340 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:03,839 a real Johnny, look at that. A package for me too, easy, 341 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:04,279 Mike, let me have that. No, no, no, I 342 00:24:04,319 --> 00:24:07,960 know what you're thinking. An infernal machine or something. That's exactly what I'm 343 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,880 thinking. But you didn't hear it. Gurgle, Well look at it, 344 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,599 Johnny, will joyous be one for you and one for me? Easy, 345 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,119 Mike, I want to carry this one in the rapid Oh finger prince hat. 346 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,319 That's right, Mike. I'm going to take you back upstairs and lock 347 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,119 you in your room. You had to stay there, let nobody in, 348 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,799 not even Daddy Bill until I get back. But Jed, I say, 349 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:41,119 and just remember that I'm trying to save your life. Item seven two seventy 350 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,000 Cavfair uptown to the eighteenth Precinct station. The Lamb Boys took over three hours. 351 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,160 While Randy's singer and I talked about cases that we'd handled together in the 352 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,319 past. I asked him to dig up whatever he could for me on John 353 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:56,039 Wesley Cosgrave, the man named his beneficiary of Mike's insurance policy. This he 354 00:24:56,079 --> 00:25:00,440 promised to do one. Finally, a slim, intelligent looking lieutenant walked in 355 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,720 and handed Randy and neatly typed reported the lab's findings in connection with the liquor 356 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:10,759 bottle and envelope. I've given them, hm oh, Randy, much of 357 00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:12,839 them, afraid, Johnny apparently the only prince with those made by the old 358 00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:15,880 man. And you proof that somebody has been pretty darned careful not to be 359 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,720 identified. Yeah that's what Hey, wait a minute, sealing the bottle had 360 00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:25,000 been tampered with, so the lab boys opened it. Bottle contained enough wood 361 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,680 alcohol to kill an army. I thought, old boy, drinks the way 362 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:33,279 you would. Randy, see you later. I'd made ten bucks even taxi 363 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,440 fair and tip back to the Gland Hand Rescue Mission. I don't know how 364 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,000 the driver did it, but he skinned through practically every red light on the 365 00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:41,359 route, and I soldly cursed myself for having left Mike with the other bottle. 366 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,680 The place was apparently still empty when I pounded up the stairs to the 367 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,759 second floor and MIC's room. At least he kept his room locked and ordered 368 00:25:49,240 --> 00:26:00,480 Mike, Mike, Mike, are you all right? Mike? He was 369 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,640 stretched out on the old iron bed, his face drawn even whiter than the 370 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,079 pillow on which his head rested. The half empty bottle lay where he dropped 371 00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:10,319 it on the floor beside him. I get a sob for the stupid, 372 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:17,720 careless, unthinking way in which I O Mike, Johnny, what a hangover 373 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:36,519 this is going to be. Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's 374 00:26:36,519 --> 00:26:40,720 intriguing episode of this week's story. Tomorrow there would be beneficiary of indestructible Mike 375 00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:44,319 turns out to be a very interesting and dangerous man. Join us, won't 376 00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:55,559 you? Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob 377 00:26:55,599 --> 00:26:59,960 Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Jones, 378 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,559 who also wrote to Night Story. Be sure to join us tomorrow night 379 00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:08,000 at the same time in station from the next exciting episode of Yours Truly, 380 00:27:08,240 --> 00:28:51,240 Johnny Dollar, Roy Rowan speaking welcome back Well. I think other writers tend 381 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:56,279 to use the extended length of the serials to expand the story and to make 382 00:28:56,319 --> 00:29:03,960 it full. Johnstone can sometimes use the expanded runtime to pad the story, 383 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:11,359 as evidenced by the fact that we get meetings between Johnny and both Pat McCracken 384 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:18,839 and Harry or Peter Branson. Regarding Henry's identical twin brother with an identical personality. 385 00:29:19,119 --> 00:29:23,160 I wonder what it was like for their parents to have both of them 386 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,079 around, or for them to be in an argument with one another on a 387 00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:32,240 long car trip. If they were both in the same room, you wonder 388 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,119 how long it would take to get to the point of any discussion, or 389 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,720 would one of them be able to get the other to the point. I 390 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:44,480 don't think we'll ever find the answers to these and story, but it does 391 00:29:44,599 --> 00:29:48,759 make you wonder. Also, since we did spend so much time talking about 392 00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,880 fish markets, the current top fish market in the world in twenty twenty three 393 00:29:53,599 --> 00:30:00,960 is actually the te Zukiji Fish Market in toky where you can actually get many 394 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,640 fish that are not technically legal in the United States. Of course, this 395 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:11,960 was recorded eleven years after the end of World War Two, so it may 396 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:18,279 not have been number one at the time this episode was recorded. The Folden 397 00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:23,920 Fish Market actually moved out of Manhattan and into the Bronx in two thousand and 398 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:30,160 five and there's a debate as to whether it's the best fish market in the 399 00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:37,359 US. Others suggest Pike's Place Market in Seattle, and there are advocates of 400 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:42,200 other fish markets making their arguments in the culinary set. Now, on a 401 00:30:42,279 --> 00:30:48,200 nonfish related note, there's a weird issue at the start giving Johnstone's dedication to 402 00:30:48,359 --> 00:30:55,039 continuity. Johnny says Pat gave him the laired Douglas Douglas matter. But Pat 403 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,799 McCracken had nothing to do with that case. That was all on Harry Branson. 404 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,960 And again I don't know, Maybe Johnny just loses tracks sometimes. 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As 432 00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:20,759 I wandered back to the hotel, the girl is already there waiting for me 433 00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:24,039 in the lobby. Ah, I'm sorry, I'm late or are you early? 434 00:33:24,359 --> 00:33:29,160 Your message was delivered, mister Mitchell Good? What's Morgan's answer? Well, 435 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:34,559 I don't quite understand Good. What did he say? Two words, 436 00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:39,160 mister Mitchell drop. I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 437 00:33:39,279 --> 00:33:45,519 do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow 438 00:33:45,599 --> 00:33:52,680 us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, 439 00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:58,000 dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Adaho. This is your 440 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,319 host, Adam graham Son NORF