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For your listening enjoyment. John lund
As, Johnny Dollar. Mister Dawg,

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this is Wilbur Runyon. I planned
to meet you at the Dallas Airport,

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but by the time I actually paid. Oh it's all right, I'm sorry

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you went to that trouble. I
took a cab in. Are you at

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your office though, Oh yes,
I'll be right over it. I hope

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the Home office didn't think I was
foolish asking for your help in this matter.

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But oh no they didn't, not
after paying our four policies in one

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employee group in so short a time. That's the way I figured it.

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Accidental dance at the oil wells are
one thing, but wow, murder puts

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a different light on Yeah, it
usually does. I'll be there in ten

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minutes. Right here, I have
a few words to say, and I'll

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say them as quickly as possible.
You know, someone once said that everyone

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and everything in America depends on speed, and that as our country grows older,

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we all move faster. But it
wasn't much more more than one hundred

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years ago that the fastest anyone could
travel was at the speed of a running

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horse, which wasn't very fast when
you compare it to the speed of our

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latest jet planes and talk about going
to the moon at twenty five thousand miles

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an hour. And during that same
one hundred years or so, we've grown

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from the first crude telegraph to the
perfection of color television. Yes, this

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increased speed in transportation, communication,
and everything else has changed almost everything in

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our country, including the cabinet of
the United States. For example, up

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to World War II, there wasn't
any reason why the War and Navy departments

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shouldn't be directly responsible to the President. But then there was a growing need

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for the speeding up of military action
and decisions, calling for unified commands and

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the more closely knit integration of military
activities. Thus, our Department of Defense

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was born, creating a new cabinet
posed to coordinate and to execute the overall

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general policies relating to the armed forces, and the secretary heading this new Department

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of Defense became the representative to the
President for the newly designated secretaries of the

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Army, Navy, and more recently, the Air Force. In the future,

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our fast moving world may add even
more members to the President's cabinet to

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ensure the safety and well being of
our United States expense account submitted by Special

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Investigator Johnny Daller to Home Office employees
Cooperative Group Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

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The following is an accounting of expenditures
during my investigation of the Syndicate matter.

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Expense account out of won one hundred
and six dollars and forty cents airfare

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and incidentals between Hartford and Dallas,
including cab fare to the Alamo Building,

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where I contacted Wilbur Runyan, manager
of your Southwestern Division. You read my

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report of the Home office, mister
Dollar, Yeah, what there was of

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it? Oh, there's much I
can add to it. I'm afraid even

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the sheriff that Tupelo doesn't know anymore
than what I wrote. With a new

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oil strike, the fellow's a boom
town that always means a certain amount of

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trouble. Four murders seems like an
extra large helping though, even for a

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boom town, I don't know what
to think of it. Of course,

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practically every man working in that field
is insured with us under the group plans,

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so it is not unusual it'll be
paid off in all four cases.

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No, but it is unusual for
all four men to die the same way.

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He said that each case the victim
has been beaten to death. The

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murders all followed the same pattern.
That would seem to indicate that they'd all

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been done by the same person or
person that's right, and collecting the insurance

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money might seem to be the answer
if all the policies had been made out

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of the same beneficiary. But they
weren't. Who did benefit in all four

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cases the wife of the victim.
That still doesn't roll out of synicon.

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What do you mean killers can be
hired, mister Ruggan. They collect their

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share of the insurance after an unhappy
wife becomes a merry widow. Not in

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this case. Why not? Oil
company that made the strike at Dupello is

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one of the best. They pay
the premiums for their employees, no payroll

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deduction. So so two of the
wives who collected didn't even know about the

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insurance until we contacted him. That
could be an act. I'll let you

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judge that for yourself. How last
man killed was a driller named Gonzales,

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Mexican. I haven't paid the claim
yet. I asked his wife to come

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in this afternoon to pick up the
check. She'll be here in a minute.

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Money comes from You mean, who's
killed my husband? Uh no,

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Missus Gonzales. It's insurance, life
insurance. They all company paid for two

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thousand dollars. Oh that's right.
Now you have a family, Missus Gonzales,

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somebody who can go to my mother
and my brother and Sonora. But

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my husband, well he always wanted
a baby to be born here and it

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stethers new anything was been to be
so good. Did your husband have any

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enemies? Enemies for what? Ye? He never heard nobody. There were

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three other men killed, Missus Gonzales. Did he know any of them?

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I don't know. No, I
don't think so. We were in too

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Pella forty three weeks. Three weeks. Uh, I forgot to mention that

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my report, Dollah, all the
men killed have been newcomers to the Tapella

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field. Or why'd they work before
they came there? They all come in

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from the same job someplace else.
Oh, no, all came from different

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places. None of'em would worked
for a couple of months or before hitting

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Dupella. According to employment records,
was your husband out of worked for a

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long time before you went to Dupella, Missus Gonzales, Yes, we have

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no money she wor only did your
husband drink uh cammel? Oh? No

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good, He wants a good monch. He try hard to work every day,

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even when he was hurt. Hurt? Where how when it was some

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accident? To when you know anything
about that? Rigon? No? But

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uh one of the other women mentioned
the same thing. Uh, an accident

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the week before the killing. What
did your husband say about his accident?

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Missus Gonzales really tell me he falled
this off, but he has marks all

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over for two days, he stay
him there. I tried to make him

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stay longer, but she cried,
See, he must get up and go

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back to work. He said he's
afraid he would lose their job. Well,

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not for an i'm the job injury. He wouldn't. There isn't any

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record of an on the job injury
dollar. He was afraid for something he

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wouldn't tell him, but he was
afraid. How do I get to Torpello?

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Oh? Uh? Raidaways bus people
right across the street. But like

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I said, even the sheriff is
stumped on miss I'm not going to see

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the sheriff. I mean to get
myself a job in that oil field.

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Oh see, I want me to
contact the company. Make sure there's an

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open now. I don't contact anybody. We already know four openings. Expenser

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count item two five dollars and twenty
cents per a used suit of dungarees and

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a pair of work shoes. Item
three six dollars and twelve cents. Bus

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fare from Dallas to the Topella oil
Field. I found quarters in a Rundown

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boarding house, and at seven the
next morning I was at the employment office.

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Before at nine am, I had
a shovel in my hand and was

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taking a sludge shop. Hey you
a new man, kock all a minute,

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you're talking to me. Yeah,
come here? What your need?

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Johnny Dallas, arm bul farrow,
draw a balk on the joor? Hi,

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smoke ou Thanks, new man coming
on a job, or I could

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get to know him, help him
along again? Where'd you world class?

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Before you come here? I was, Uh, I was out of a

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job for quite a while. Ooh, that's too bad. No money coming

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in and gets rough on the feller. Yeah he broke. I ain't being

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nosey dollar just thought if he was, or might figure out a way to

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help. Thanks. I'll get by
all right. Well, if you do

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get stuck, let me know ah, I didn't go back to work.

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He was friendly, all right,
a little too friendly. I was a

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stranger, but he wanted to help
me out with money. And when I

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said I didn't need it, he
didn't like it. It was too late

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to go back to him without making
him wonder. I had to figure out

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a way to make him offer again. By lunch time, I had a

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ticket. I left the while and
crossed the field of the office. I

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went up to the payroll window.
Something I can do for you? Yeah,

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I just signed on this morning,
Wednesday day weekend Wednesday. You get

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your money thirty Any chance of getting
a little advance. I'm broke your first

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day on the job. What do
you think you see it? Oh?

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I gotta get buy until pay day. I gotta eat. I can't help

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that. Advances are against the rules. Well thanks anyhow, Hey this many?

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Yeah, you need some money?
See bull Pharaoh? See bull Pharaoh.

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All road led back to the straw
boss and, seeing it wasn't hard,

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he was leaning against the wall a
payroll shack when I came up.

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Hey, dollar, wait here raising
the case here for an advance? Uh?

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I could have told you that wouldn't
work. You're right, it didn't.

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Why didn't you come to me like
I told you? All right?

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You wanna lend me some money?
I wish I could, but uh,

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I'm just a working stiff myself.
Well, I don't why the offer.

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I thought i'd send you to.
Frankie Robling runs a tool department and or

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somebody died and left him a bundle. He likes help guys along just like

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that. Huh, Well, I
really expect a little. I'm very trouble

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a little interest. After all,
he's taking a chance. You're new on

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the job. Do you wanna see
him or don't you? Yeah? Yeah,

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I wanna see him, he said
the tool chair. I don't bother

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him on a job Room twelve the
Capella Hotel tonight, all that I'm looking

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for Frankie Robling, my Robbling you
dollar a press him? Johnny Dallas ah

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ah, still out of come on
the next room. Don I understand you

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need some doll that's right? How
much? How much can I get enough

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to live on? So pay day? If you ain't plan on, I'm

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taking any trips when you live kill
gallants boarding house twenty bucks? See you

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through right? It sounds all right? Wow? Yeah, and on payday,

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you will drop into me in the
thirty back right, thirty for twenty

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or just to show you appreciate the
fame and you wanted it, don't you.

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Alright, do you want me to
sign some kind of a note and

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I owe you at four I'll remember
it, and if you forget, I'll

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remind you twenty dollars and the poor
dead workman. There was a big gap,

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no way of linking them together,
but somewhere the pieces had to fit.

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Then Thursday came and I drew my
first pay Yeah, alright, God,

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get your door right huh oh oh, yeah, well I got it

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thirty two eighty h on the three
days. Frank Atrobring will be expecting to

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see you tonight. I know.
He just asked me to remind you.

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Some of these roughnecks get abs in
minded makes tough on everybody, especially themselves.

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Don't worry, bou, I got
a good memory. Oh more than

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fifty men were in Robbling's room that
night, all of them in work clothes,

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all of them giving him money,
and none of them in giant.

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I waited until the last of them
paid up and drifted out a dollar.

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I see you hanging back with the
other boys and shelling nod. I wanted

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to see you a long Yeah.
You know that means you wanna talk.

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And when you wanna talk, it
means you wanna stall about payin. I

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only had three days pay come.
You knew that when you borrowed the money,

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I had the boarding house to pay. I had to live. Don't

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I do you? All I'm asking
for is more time? Oh I don't.

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I'll get him what time next pay
day? Only then it'll be forty

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bucks, not thirty, as I
say, I won't pay it. What

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do you do then, rubbling take
me outside. You're thinking of getting a

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hard dollar? No, no,
rubbling, just curious. Yeah, big

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two, ain't you? Big hard
guy? Next week forty bucks. I'll

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figure by next week you may soften. Now now, with our star John

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Lund, we bring you the second
act of yours, truly Johnny Dollar.

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I went into a couple of the
hockey talks along the main drag and tried

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to strike up conversations with men I've
seen in Roebling's room, but they shied

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away from the subject like skittish horses. I was ready to give it up

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when a man I recognized from the
job came over and set his beer down

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next to mine. Mind if I
sit down, help yourself. My name

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is Prescott, Wally Prescott. Yeah, I know you were behind me in

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the pay line. This happened.
Yeah, when I saw you up at

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Roebling's room tonight. How are you
doing that? Man A Yeah, I

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saw you too, but you didn't
pay off? How do you heard some

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talk? Let it roblink and both
farrell. It's not my business maybe,

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but uh, you better pay.
I'm sure of cash. Look, a

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lot of us are short. I'm
just telling you for your own good.

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I'm gonna book myself. I don't
like it. Let him sue me.

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That isn't the way they working.
How do they working? We'll asking a

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couple of the others could tell you
you don't pay up in full by next

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week, you're michael to get worked
over. That doesn't convince you. Yeah,

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and few guys are dining around here, sins the field open. Too

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bad if you guys didn't have a
talk with a sheriff instead about what a

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beating in a dark alley from a
bunch of guys you can't identify? What

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would it prove and what happens next? When the guys you want behind bars

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can't be put there. Every pay
thing I just about managed to pay off.

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I got a wife and two kids, so I gotta borrow all over

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again to feed'em. Blunsky's in
the same boat, so a dozen others.

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I wanted to walk and think about
it. Oh. I left the

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main drag behind and started toward the
boarding house, cutting across lots on the

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gravel walks between the trailers. Yeah, did you give me a hand?

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Where are you back here? Into
the tailor? What's the matter? Oh?

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The chain? Take quad or something? Myself won't work? Just last

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night? No, huh, I'll
see what I can do, though,

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haven't you got? A waves of
pain swirled over me, and then I

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was sucked down into a whirlpool of
blackness and I came out of it.

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I was alone. I could feel
the gravel biting into the side of my

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face and said a while. I
ran in to get on my feet make

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my way to the boarding house.
I fell across the bed with my clothes

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on and passed out again. Oh, come in, well, what happened

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to you? Dollar? I had
a little accident though, isn't that what

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usually happened? Uh? Rough Town? I don't know'em better, and you

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could lick it up on pay night. And I know that's what happened when

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you didn't show for work this morning. But I just say it, well,

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and oh what are you talking about? You know what I'm talking about.

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You and Roebling had me watch over. I wouldn't go around saying foolish

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things I couldn't prove. If I
was you, things could be worse.

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You know, you might have been
hurt as bad as Queskuit was prescin.

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Yeah, he got to talking through
a bottle last night and somebody resented it.

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He's over at the hospital. I
ain't saying much today, though.

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Get he sobered up. Guy with
two kids probably do the whole week's work.

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Robling lights him. Oh, you
seem true. Better be back on

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the job tomorrow though. You got
obligations too. You know they're due next

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Thursday. Don't worry, bo,
I'll be paid off in four expense to

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get at him four five dollars to
doctor Wayne Libbertt of Topello for patching up

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some of the damage done by Frankie
Roebling's bill collectors. I had him five

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eighty cents round trip bus fare to
the county seat at Langham, where I

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laid the story on the line for
a sheriff at McMahon, I wants can

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you prove dollar? I specul it. I could probably put a couple of

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deputies. Got luck, we might
be able to hang a loan shark charge

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on Robling. He'd get bail and
scare all the witnesses out of town in

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five minutes. Sure he would.
Sorry, I want him from murdered.

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I want him very hue do yeah. I know everybody's been on my necks,

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the Pellow mess letter from civic groups
who are covering the churches, the

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ill for action, but they forget
about evidence when they get a position where

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they couldn't testify personally. That's when
they lose their tongues. Press could can

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testify to the setup. Do you
think you'll testify now? After what happened

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to him? Just pretty gave you
a warning? Can you point to one

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single man I line up and say
he did it? No? I neither.

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Can I wait a minute, I
suppose you got him trying to kill

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somebody before they succeeded me. I
was jumped last night for failing to pay

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Robling. Gonzales and the others drew
one beating that way before they were killed.

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Yeah, I see what you mean. Robling expects me to kick him

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with forty bucks next to day night. Suppose I don't pay him again.

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You're willing to be the clay pigeon
on it. You keep me tagged next

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Thursday night from the minute I eave
that hotel. How about that. But

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if we stopped them from killing you, we still wind up with an assault

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shot. Although they've done murder before, those sheriff. When you take'em

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in and split them in different cells, each one is gonna be worrying about

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how much the others are talking.
Somebody in that Seneca that is gonna get

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nervous. I went back to the
job. For the first couple of days,

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my head dropped and my sides ached
till the beating finally wore off.

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Baul Pharaoh was at his post outside
the payroll shack when Thursday came. I

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saw him speak to a couple of
the men with me. He didn't think

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it was necessary. When we knocked
off for the day, I headed straight

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for the Tupelo Hotel and roblings Hello
teller, Hello Rubbling, come up on

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business or just to talk again.
I came up to tell you I couldn't

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pay you this week. Oh it's
too bad. I'm sorry to hear it.

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I had an accident, had a
fair doctor built. I borrowed twenty

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bucks from you, and you'll get
it next week. Twenty bucks. That's

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a bad Disney stole it, lend
money without interest. You gonna do something

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about it. A big guy like
you know? Your two drinks for me

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much too big? You know what
I'm gonna do. I got an idea.

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I'm gonna make that twenty a gift
dollar from me to you, no

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string, no strings at all.
I left the hotel and hit the main

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drag as I had the week before. I started a sweat. The sheriff

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and his deputies were around, I
couldn't see him. I pretended to have

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quite a few drinks and a half
a dozen bars before I headed to the

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boarding house. Once I got away
from the center of town, the streets

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were like a cemetery. Biggar,
who's that oh wear friend of yours?

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With me? Fella like you met
last week, wanted to take you to

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a party with it? No thanks, Come on, boys, you can

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do it here alright. Hold,
you could have listened to Prescott. He

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told you a couple of guys who
was killed. Okay, boys, give

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him the full drop his kind.
Alright, that's a lie. I got

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poor deputies right and hurt on his
party. But it's one here to move.

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Stop the pullet. I just stay. I get your hands up.

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You all right, Donnar? Yeah? Why the devil? Were you right

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in the car and away? I
turned into the driveway across the street.

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How do you know where to take
out this big mind later after his playmates.

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I gonna tell bar right after you
left, my deputy was standing list

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ten feet away from him. Okay, so I beat the guy up.

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He didn't pay the fine. I
got a half a dozen murder warrants here

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in the name of John Doe too. What do you want to do about

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them? White your corp? You
kidding? No, I'm not prescottin Bronskin.

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Twenty other men are in jail right
now, protective custody, and they've

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all made statements. Some one of
them is bound to recognize one of your

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boys. H We got all of
you except Frankie Rupley. He's the boy

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who's gonna pay the fine. Bow
While he was sweated out. He'll pay

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a fine for loan shocking and then
get out of the state. Huh,

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whore you grew uffing You guys,
keep your mouth shut. You got nothing

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on any of us. It's all
go in and wait and see. Huh.

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They waited, but they didn't break. We knew that by Monday morning

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Robling would have a high powered attorney
in the spring him on a wrint.

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Roblin was getting generally himself though.
He didn't know what was going on inside,

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and it was killing him. They
watched him from the upper window of

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the courthouse. Get him down there. He's more nervous than the ones that

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got here under lock and key.
Yeah, than hanging around all day.

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But could only get him in here
for twenty four hours on the loan charge.

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He'd bail himself up before he got
the key turned. Hey, who

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is that? He's talking to Jailia
going over the tree to get supper for

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the other. Every time he crosses
the street rob and trucks the pumping.

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It's a frightened manager. He could
blow up any minute. Dont less we

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find a way to light the fuse. Hey, wait a minute, may

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but we can get a match under
him huh. They're putting on a show

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for his benefit. Suppose he thought
we were going to bring Bull in here

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tonight and work him over. I
don't handle prisoners that way. Dollar,

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you don't have to. All we
want is for Roblin to think you're doing

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it. Is there a telephone over
that to say, yeah, call over

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and get your jailer on the way
back. He can tell Robling the bull's

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getting a workout tonight. I'll get
what you're driving in. What do you

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think Robling will be tonight? After
he gets that piece of inform right,

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Donna where he is now? Switating
it up by Priory? Will then what

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about ten o'clock at Bull out of
the sell and bring him in here?

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Our won't man handle him? Daughter? Listen to me? Will you you

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bring him in and seat them over
there? Robling's across the street, he'll

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see it. Yeah. Who's at
deputy ears the big guy, Mike Lackin.

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Yeah. After we get Bull in
here, we pull the shades.

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Then we march him right out again
and put locking in that chair instead.

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If we can stage it right,
we put the overhead lights out and turn

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that desk lamp on the chair.
So throw shadows against the shade. From

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where Robelin stands, it looked like
the shadow and the chair is bulls.

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We can also make it look like
we're giving him a terrific beating. Then

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what what would you do if you
actually got a confession out of somebody in

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this room? Well in the next
dollars, tie it up, have him

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sign it. So oh, that's
what you do. M typewriter in there

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is right next to the window.
Then you bring Ball him to sign it.

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He won't sign a confession all that, he'll sign a denial. It

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isn't what Bull signs that matters.
It's what Roblin thinks Bull Pharrell is signing.

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M. I won't say all idea, what do you pull him me

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in here for? Won't take him
in at boll just want you to sign

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his and and what what is?
You can read it? It's a statement

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you made when we brought in denying
any connection with the murder. Would I

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have to sign it for routine book
or you can't let me get back fleet

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here? Excuse my uh, shake
hands friend, you've been a real big

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have fine, Joe take him back
herself. Yeah, he's hoping though,

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won't take long to know the share
of Robling thinks that. But man yet,

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I good, No, I'll handle
myself. Let's show down. It

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worked, Yeah, Deputy, I
think out of the cafe that Robing bolted

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like a rabbit. As wos both
took your farm, and Ben we'll get

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him at the hotel, and Leibo
wounded up. There were six up them

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all together. Both steered the suckers
to robe Ling for half his take and

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kept the staff of three musclemen to
enforce the payoffs. The girl who got

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me into that dark trailer park was
the wife of one of the muscle boys.

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Expensive count items six same as combined
totals of items one and three one

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hundred and twelve dollars fifty two cents. Transportation from Tupelo to Dallas and back

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to Hartford again, incidentals and miscellaneous
were covered by my earnings on the well

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job, proving that I live within
my means. Expense account total two hundred

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and thirty six dollars and four cents. You're thirty thirty dollars. You know,

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many great men have attained the highest
office in our land, the presidency

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of the United States. Can you
guess the name of this man? His

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great grandfather fought in the Revolution at
eighteen. This man was a school teacher

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in Ohio, but quit to enlist
in the Civil War. In eighteen sixty

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seven, he was admitted to the
bar and in eighteen ninety six was elected

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president. During his administration, the
Filipinos were promised their independence, and he

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was re elected on a full dinner
pail platform. If you don't have his

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name by now here's another clue.
During his presidency, Major Walter Reed discovered

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the cure for yellow fever. Who
was he William McKinley, twenty fifth President

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of the United States. His life
is part of your American heritage. Yours

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Truly Aid Johnny Dollar stars John Lund
in the title role and was written by

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Joel Murcot with music by Edy Dunsenter. Featured in Tonight's cast where Joseph Turns,

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William Bias, John McIntyre, Parley
Bear, Stacey, Harris, High

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Apperback, Virginia Gregg, and Tom
Tully. Yours Truly Aid Johnny Dollar is

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transcribed in Hollywood by him Dalvaie