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The original airedates July fourth, fifth, and six, nineteen fifty six,
and it's the modest Touch Matter episode three through five from Hollywood. It's
time now for Johnny Dollar. Jake Kessler returning your call. Johnny, I
just got back here to my office. You've been at the hospital. Yes,
it looks like hard luck Dennis may pull through. Has he been able
to talk? He may never be able to That bullet went right through his
neck. Anyhow, he's still unconscious. He's the key to the whole case,
Jake, So follow me here as soon as he canna be talked to
him meantime. Meantime, I'm gonna try to snag me some of these Lake
Mohave, Bess, Lucky Dog, and Every Weekday Night. Bob Bailey in
the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact expenserout America's Fabulous freelance insurance
investigator yours truly, Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, Catherine
Wash on the Colorado River to the Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company Kingman,
Arizona office, Following as a report of expenses incurred during my investigation of the
Midas Touch matter. I'dam eight six dollars twenty cents gas for the rental car
that I drove down here to the Lake Mohave Resort in the Colorado River,
just above Davis Dam. And what a place, modern, comfortable cabin within
spinning distance of the lake itself, good restaurant, tackle shop, doc in
fact, everything to make a fisherman happy to help him fight it out with
a luncker bass that inhabit the sixty mile long lake. But much as I
wanted to fish, I had other things to do. First, I wanted
a good look at the Midas Touched mine. On the advice of the manager
hand Pratt, I took along Buster favor general Fact told him of the resort.
I like Buster immediately, short, stocky, cheerful and with keen eyes
that took in everything that went on about him. Little side road to the
left, Johnny Okay, so old hard luck Dennis got shot up. Yeah,
apparently because he knew too much. You see when that caven occurred at
the Midas touch and killed the Haskell brothers. Are you you better go into
second gear on this road? Okay, you're right. Why hard Luck was
the only person known to have been there with him A couple that with a
fact he just got sixty thousand bucks from them to reopen the mine. But
mine's worthless, Johnny, I so understand. Anyhow, naturally enough, everybody
decided that hard Luck had done it in all before the brothers could get wires
to him. It's a funny old cat. Pretty nervous when I saw him.
He almost took a shot at me a couple of times when he didn't
like something I said. Instead, he got it. Yeah. While he
was just prospecting, he was all right, man, he's getting up out
of the ground here and there to live on some left over for a Saturday
night, being down and hey, you see the workings up ahead, right,
But when he couldn't seem to make a big strike, like every prospector
tries far, that's fun. He tried finding suckers for some of his fancy
promotions. Huh yeah. But He really wasn't very good at it. He
threw him out of the Texas oil country, you know. Yeah, so
I heard. Wow. So that's the minus touch. Not too many of
this kind of mine anymore. With the entrance going into the hillside this way,
and I better use this flashlight o change. Hey, tell me something,
fuster. If this mine is worthless? How could hard Luck get the
Haskell brothers to chip off chunks of ore that has sayed over one thousand dollars
a ton? Well, I got kind of a theory about that. Let's
see if I'm I'm right. Everything is so covered up with dust down here,
not having been worked for years, or it'll be easy to see where
they knocked off chips for sample to take it back. Well, well,
well what are you doing down here? Holy smoke, that's a rattler.
Yeah, I guess he decided to get in out of the hot sun out
there here. I'll find a big rock or something. You just wait,
handle it. This old pig here, I can get them to strike at
it. Maybe I can grab them by the tail and watch it man crack
him like a whipper. So help me by. Sometimes you do it right,
You can snap their heads right off. You got to be careful,
oh, not to snap that head against your own self. Brother, Yeah,
you can see what you mean. No chance of somebody having planted that
snake down here is there? I mean like it'scarfing in the monument. Huh.
You know those little neat piles of rock you see here there in the
desert two three feet high. I thought those were where some prospector had stake
to claim markers. Yeah, they are monuments, they call them. In
the old days, they always did the same way. How is that.
Pull a couple of stones away, you'd find the old prince Albert Tobacco.
Ten he opened the tin, you'd find two things in it, a piece
of paper describing and marking off the claim, and a scorpion alive as long
as he stayed alive. That meant stay away, no trespassing. This is
mine. I'll be daring and look here here, Johnny, on this pillar.
That was the pillar that was left by digging around it to hold up
a ceiling. Oh you see where someone was knocked off with a pig.
Yeah. Hey, an buster that looks like yelp, looks like gold.
That's what it is. Then this mine is rich, Nah, Johnny,
you mean the only gold or left down here is in these pillars, that's
right, and without on the roof of cavian. Well, couldn't it?
Couldn't it be short up with wood? Why only two, three, four
of these left down here? Probably not mowing a ton at all, not
worth it, Oh yeah, I see, but worth using it to bring
in the suckers. Yeah, well, how you want to see how the
cave in on the hass, wasn't it? Sam Hill is just doing down
here this winch in length of wire rope. Isn't that the answer to the
cave in? Ted hiding over at headquarters and Kingman seemed to think so.
Yeah, sure, somebody used to pull down one of the pillars. For
Johnny, a winch of this type hadn't got a place in the mind.
Well would a rig like this be used? Well, every ranch in this
whole area probably has a couple cattle ranch. Yeah that's right. Hmmm.
That gives me an idea about who did it. At least it gives me
a lead to an idea, or at least the kind of questions to ask.
Hard Luck, Dennis, I thought you said he was still unconscious.
Yeah, yeah, so I'll have to wait. Well, let's get out
of here. What he plan to do now? Oh? Just wait,
I guess and do some fishing while I went, oh no, that's right
down my alley. Only first time I'm going to knock off a bit of
this ore for a soun air. Yeah, this old picked on a do
well, I take it easy. I should take it easy now, Johnny,
you should know him better than that. Let me help you out of
the pile of rubble. My face was pretty red as we drove back to
Lake Mohammed. Only once did Buster mention the full thing I've done. Yes,
sir, If you'd binned away at one of the pillars further in the
shaft, we would have been in real trouble, probably ended up like the
Haskell brothers. And I suppose instead of planning on going fishing, I should
have been cooking up some new angle of attack on this case. But after
all, I had been promised fishing time on this trip, and until hard
luck Dennis could recover enough to talk, I got the boat already and waiting
for it. Johnny with a thirty horse Johnson outboat on it. Oh boy,
I can't wait, and I'll take you the spots. I know where
you can pull out the biggest fight in this beast. You ever saw buss
the you son of Aghania attempting me with something I can't resist? Well,
even loan you my bottle of fast strike FasTrak. Yeah, your oil,
little dab of that on your bat'll guarantee you fish. That's for me.
You you sure you wouldn't rather just sit and try to figure out some new
lead on this insurance case? You want my answer here? But as luck
would happened, Ham Pratt was standing down by the dock waiting for us with
a message for me. Carl King went operated number three seven. I made
the call, is Jake Kessler, Johnny, how's the fishing? Well?
It wasn't for the message from you, I'd be out on Lake Mohabi right
now. So if that's all you want to know, honey, Yeah,
I put in this call to over two hours ago when hard Luck Denni's first
game too. Yes, the doctor is going to be okay. Has he
told you anything about who shot him up? No? He won't talk to
anybody, but you says you're his only friend. Okay, Jake, I'm
on my way and a half hour flat I was back in Kingman at the
Mercy Hospital on the edge of town. Hell a hard luck Johnny, Johnny
Dellar. That's right, glad, glad, you came only one to trust,
not like people around town. They hate me. Wow. I knew
he'd tried to get me. Jenny probably seen me going back to the mine.
Knew I'd recognize that winch he left her, the winch that was used
to pull down the mind pillar caused the cavan. That's right. A lot
of winches like that, and the ranchersly Alex, only he used that particular
make royal stand Alex fool, hard luck Alex Bundy forming at the Haskell's ranch,
the two Lazy two, Yes, Ali, But why in love?
Kevin Haskell's wife Dora. Okay, okay, will you tell the police to
court all this when the time comes. If you say so, ah,
you'll live all right. The doctor says, you're gonna be fine. You're
gonna be okay. Now, is there anything you want? Anything I can
have sent up here to make you more comfortable? No, thanks, Jenny,
just come and see me. Sure, thanks, I guess sure.
The only real friend I have. Just why he felt that way? I
don't know. Perhaps it was because he needed a friend. I decided I'd
better let Jake Kessler in on what I'd learned, and incidentally ask him for
directions to the two Lazy two. So I drove on over to his little
second floor office on East Bomb Drive. Alex Bundy Huh, yeah, that's
what Hardluck says, and with his testimony to back me up. When I
find Alex Shoe, well, we'll have a case, a good case,
which means, by the way, that your company won't have to pay off
an additional million and a half a double. What's the matter. Uh,
yeah, Jake, I'm going on over and do a bit of fishing,
and Lake Mohabbi, mister Favor promises to get me a limit of the finest
bash. What is it, Johnny? What do you do with? Somebody
was outside that door listening to us. I'm sure, well, yeah,
look here he is going down the street. Recognize him, Jake, Where
Johnny, that's too lady gout around the corner. But if it's who I
think it is, yeah, he must have heard all that was said in
here. Alex Bundy, Huh, what's your guess I've been thinking, Johnny.
Yeah, old hard Luck Dennis been the key to this whole case right
from these he still is more than ever after what he told me. All
right, then excuse me, Jake Kessler speaking. Oh hello, jeez,
I mm hmm. What oh? What's the matter of chick? What's the
matter? You look like you've seen a ghost that was Tad Harding at headquarters
the fire escape outside the room at the hospital. Huh somebody clumb up the
fire escape used a bailing hook. Oh, yeah, he's dead now,
hard Lucky Johnny Dellar good. I was hoping you'd be there at Jake Kessler's
office. This iss your favorite lake, my hobby resort. Oh high find
anything? Yeah, hard Luck Dennis, our one real key to this three
million dollar case has just been murdered. M you know who did it?
I have an idea. Well, I've found something here that might help you.
Oh tired tracks the old miners shack where hard Luck was shot. More
of the same tire tracks here at the Resort's their I'm on my way.
Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location Lake Mohave Resort on the
Colorado River in Arizona to the greater southwest insurance and Liability company. Following is
an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of the Midas Touch matter. Item
nine six point thirty is stop at the sign of the Flying Red Horse for
gas for my rented car. They get me from king in Arizona to Lake
Mohave Resort. About a mile short of the lake, on the winding road
that led in for the main highway, I found Buster waiting at a spot
where an old wagon trail cut off to the right. Right over here,
Johnny Clare's crystal hire. Buster. You see him here, he's tire tracks
in the sand. Well, oh, yeah, sure, you see three
of the tires. Look here where the car turned to get around this rock.
Yeah yeah. Three of the tires were pretty good, had those big
knobby treads. But this one right fronts almost worn smooth. Or is it
the left rear? Oh, it's right front. Johnny Carr was going north
out into the desert. Tell by the little skid on this turn, Fuster.
You read tire tracks like some people can read footprints. It's just practice
anyway. These are the same tracks that I found by the old shack where
you met hard Luck and he got shot at and let's get into my car
and follow these up. Oh, Johnny, nothing but jeep could get over
this trail. Well, why does this trail pick up a highway again?
It doesn't winds around for eight or ten miles and ends up in the lake
over by the southwest corner of the fence line on the two Lazy two range.
And our best bet is to drive over to the two lace. Except
for one thing. The jeep we're looking for somewhere up that trail, so
we'll go by outboard. Oh what, this old trail worms round all right,
always close along the edge of Lake Mohave all the way, and the
end of it's eight miles one is only about one mile by water from our
dock at the resort. Mum huh. Then we ought to be able to
intercept whoever's in that jeep. That's right, now, let's go. Lake
Mohave was clear and calm and beautiful, perfect for fishing. But we had
other things on our minds. As the thirty horse outboard pushed our fourteen foot
aluminum boat along at better than twenty five miles an hour, we stayed fairly
close to the Arizona side. Look, Johnny, see that streak of dust
along the shore. Yeah, somebody's been driving along there all right. Still
is won't be able to see who though, until it comes out from behind
that ridge of hills over there. Hey, that streak of dust hasn't grown
any longer. Looks like he stops, good bee, I'll head his in
towards shore. Now. I still don't understand why i'd be driving out on
that dead end trail long unless he wants to dump a body or something in
the lake. Now that's something morbid thought. All right, But if it
is a killer you're looking for, you said that trail ends at the corner
of it. Hey, wait a minute, buster, Yeah, if it's
who I think it is, he overheard me tell Jake Kessler, I planned
to go fishing out here today. So what was that? I would have
given you trouble? What was what there? Here? It? Yeah,
I heard it, but it wasn't the motor. Hey, it's funny.
What's the look we're taking in water? Those holes in the bottom here,
You take this can and start bailing, right, I would drew a lot
of holes. No, wait a minute, look at them close. They're
bullet holes. Holy smoke, you're right, hey, that was a shot
came from over on the shore. I saw the puff of smoke over on
that patch of sagebrush. Come on, let's get out of here. Let's
swarve us around bust here. We've been a pair of city ducks. Man,
you are right, keep on bailing and keep your head down. Swing
us on that little point there and we'll be out of range. Wow,
you see that's fret of water beside us. That guy can shoot. You
aren't kidding, okay, Buster, you can ease her up now or out
of his line. Yeah, well, I guess we pulled a bonet,
Johnny. Why not having somebody posted on that road while we came out here?
Uh huh. Now he can climb back and his jeep and yeah,
there you see trail of dust again going back to the highway. I see
it. We hadn't taken on so much water, we might be able to
get back and intercept him on the highway, but it's too late now.
Well, at least we know what to look for the cheap that made those
tracks. Well, isn't it kind of like looking for needle in a haystack
out in this country Western? I think I know exactly where to look,
I believe I must have bailed a good five gallons of water out of that
boat by the time we reached the dock. Then Buster insisted on going along
as I headed back up the highway toward Kingwy. We stopped where the old
trail cut in, only long enough to see if the cheap tracks had come
back on the highway. They now we're on the way, Johnny. Where
are we gone? Any of these ranches out here used jeeps, Fuster,
most all the big ones, but including the Too Lazy two. Yes,
right now, Wait a minute. I didn't ask you who you thought was
shooting at us out there on the lake. Who you thought overheard you talking
about going fishing. I figured if you wanted to tell me, you would.
Oh. The trouble is, I still can't prove anything. All right,
let me tell you who can shoot like that and with that kind of
a gun. It was a thirty yard six, you could tell by the
sound. Thirty odd six with a long barrow. That could mean it had
a scope. Site almost have to for that kind of shooting. Alex Bundy
four minute, the Too Lazy two, that's who hard Luck Tennis said,
shot at him. And it ties up Johnny does it you got a few
too many under his belt. One night at a dance party in Kingman,
Yeah, he started yapping his head off about how a lot of soft living
millionaires from back east could come out here and own the place while he had
to do all the work. It wasn't fair. Worm would turn sometime,
even if he had to help it turn, and he'd be the one who
counted the money. That's about the time everybody started talking about him and Dora,
Dora, wife of one of the Haskell brothers that was killed on the
mineh Kevin Haskell go on. Must seems Alex and Doro seen a lot of
each other on the sly. Everybody kind of stood around waiting to see if
Alex was trying to get some control of the rants. That way, that's
union passed right ahead over the tops of the road to the left, short
cut to the two Lazy too. That's where you want to go in,
Yeah, bust, that's where I want to go. It was only a
couple of miles into the ranch's fence line, but I got three miles further
to the main house and its cluster of out buildings. Buster sharp Eyes first
noticed the jeep park by the side of what looked like a big tool shit,
and I drove slowly past it, slowly enough so that he could study
its tires and the tracks on the dusty ground. Uh huh, Well it's
the one, all right. Then keep an eye out for Alex and that
gun of his and be ready to duck. Okay, you know, I
got a kind of funny feeling now that we're here. We should have brought
a posse along, right. It's too late for that. Now. That
is a gun bulging unto your jacket, isn't it. Oh? Yeah,
but I'm wondering what chance a little thirty eight lemon squeeze her hands against the
high powered rifle. Oh, come on, keep your eyes feel Johnny.
I'm beginning to feel like I'm right in the middle of an old time Western
movie. Maybe you are a buster, maybe you are why buster? Or
how are you? Dora? Don't just stand there, yes, ma'am.
The woman standing on the porch of the old house looks strangely out of place
on this big western desert ranch. Perhaps it was because of a close two
toned sports shoes and a crisp, well tailored white linen dress that serve to
accent the lines of a from athletic figure and go perfectly with her short boy's
cut hair. Ms. Haskell, this is mister Dollar Johnny Donnar. Hello,
mister dollar. Jack Kessler told me you were here, Come in please,
okay, thank you. I suppose he told you why I'm here.
No, leave the door open for the breeze. He said, to investigate
the death of my husband, Kevin and his brother's not mine. Accident.
It' sit down, won't you thank you? Do you think it was an
accident? According to mister Kesler, you don't why because it means his company
would have to pay only a million and a half to me instead of three
million. Somebody found pretty concrete evidence there in the mind that one of the
rock pillars supporting the roof had been deliberately pulled down. Hard luck, Dennis,
But you say is true. He must have done it. It was
hard like who told me about it? Who showed me the winch that was
used to do it? And that winch, Missus Haskell could have come from
only one place around here, this ranch. Oh no, you mean no,
you can't mean that somebody here at the ranch did it. Kind of
looks that way, doesn't it. But who That's what I hoped you might
be able to tell me who beside you could profit by the death of your
husband and his brothers who here at the ranch, Alex Bundy. Perhaps Alex,
how by marrying into the family. What are you talking about? That
is, of course, if one of the Haskell brothers were to die,
Kevin, perhaps that's absurd. Oh, I had a notion that you and
Alex were someone interested in each other. Well, you're wrong. He may
have been interested in me. He was, as a matter of fact,
he made it very difficult for me. How do you mean that he kept
trying to force his attentions on me and you didn't reciprocate it. Of course,
not because we'll go on. Because I knew what his real motives were,
all right, go on this ranch, This ranch is what he wanted.
He knew that Kevin wasn't well, that's why Kevin had come out here
with his brothers in the first place. I did hear that he was in
a little trouble with his lungs, Johnny, he didn't have long to live,
not many years, that is, even in this hot, dry air.
So Alex did it? Sure looks their way, isn't it, Johnny?
What led you to look for him here? It was Alex Bundy who
shot up hard Luck Tennis. Then somebody overheard me say, I was going
fishing down at the lake. That's where I was shot at by somebody who
was not only a crack shot, but more important, was driving the jeep
that's parked outside. The jeep was gone from here this afternoon. You know
where Alex Bundy is now? He must be somewhere around the ranch and you
must getting mister Dollar. I'll help you. I'll help you find it,
but don't go unarmed. Here. I'll give you one of my rifles.
Hey, the collection of high powered rifles is yours. Yes, international rifle
team in college. Here, I'll give you ammunition and buster you take one.
It's thirty thirty. I don't know miss what mister Dollar says about it.
It is true Alex may try to shoot before you. It's a dollar.
It's a dollar to be ready when he comes in. Weren't you tell
me you would throw the jeep? You know I wanted to use it this
afternoon? All rah, Well, well, don't move, mister Dollar.
Your gun isn't loaded. Johnny Dollar answer it, Answer it. Johnny Dollar.
Hello, Johnny, Jake Kessler. Be careful what you say, Johnny?
What are you doing out there at the too lazy? Too Johnny to
him, be careful, don't forget this gun? Why, Jake, what's
on your mind? Three million dollars of insurance. Dora Haskell's filed the claim
on the basis of accidental death. So unless you can come up pretty quick
with proof the Haskell brothers were murdered, Jake, I have a funny feeling.
I'm looking at that proof right now. You mean they're at the ranch.
You still haven't told me what you're doing out there? Why uh,
why don't you come out here and see Jake? What are they talking about?
Johnny? I'll pull this trigger is so fast. You try that,
Dora and Jake will hear it over this phone and come out here anyway?
What he Hello? You heard that? Hang up? Hang up? Come
hanging up yourself From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location near Kingman, Arizona.
Attention, mister Jake Kessler, Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company. Following is
an accounting of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Midas Touch matter Proof that
the Haskell brothers were murdered rather than killed accidentally in the cave in that the
minas touched mine could save Greater Southwest a cool million and a half dollars.
But the one man who could have given me that proof was murdered himself.
Thanks to Buster favorite the Lake Mohabi Resort, who could read a set of
tire tracks like you and I read a newspaper, I was able to trace
the killer's car to the two Lazy two ranch and there the evidence all pointed
to the foreman, Alex Bundy. However, when Alex appeared to the ranch
house, he also put the finger on Dora Haskell. That's when your phone
call came in, Jake, and that's when you don't thanks Buster. Yeah,
well, I kind of hit a woman that way. But she wouldn't
have missed with that rifle. Matter of fact, she didn't. She preached
her arm there. Just forget it. First of all, let's take this
gun out. Oh that's right, Alex kind of forgot about you. Oh
why don't you put that thing down before you make the same mistake she almost
did. It won't be a mistake dollar now, Look, shut up,
Buster, you should have known better, and to mess around this whole thing.
Maybe you're the one I should have known better, Alex. According to
Dora here a few minutes ago, I heard from outside the window, heard
all of it, and she lied, keep an eye on a buster.
Yeah, sure to stay where you are, stay stay away from that gunners
too. Look, Alex, why don't you just calm down? You lied?
She was the one who shot at you down at the lake, not
me. But it was you who shot up old hard Luck Dennis when he
tried to talk to me, Sure, sure I did. I had to.
He was going to tell you it was me that keeved in the mitas
touched on the Haskell brother. He did tell him. Sure he was going
to tell you. I know he was, And I had to stop him.
Wouldn't you stop the man who was trying to put a noose round your
neck? But you will listen to me. That's why I had to kill
him there at the hospital, when he was well enough to talk some more,
he would have put the finger on me. I'll tell you he already
had. He would, I know he would, And I had to stop
him. But it wasn't my fault. It wasn't my fault. Dollar,
she was lying to you. I heard her outside. I heard she was
trying to lay all on me. But she's the one, not me,
in spite of your murder of hide luck, I had to don't understand me.
I had to look, why don't you put down that gun? And
he's the one all the way from the start. I'm not dumb, Dollar,
but she was smarter than me, and she kept getting me in deeper
and deeper. I'm a good ranch forman Dollar. See for yourself what I'd
done for the Too Lazy two. But this kind of thing I don't know
about. So she got me in deeper and deep right from the start.
Just how did it start, Alex, I'll tell you. I'll tell you
how it started. I got drunk one night over in Kingman, so I
heard made a lot of foolish talk about wanting the Too Lazy two for herself.
Any foreman wants to have a big ranch of his own. Any of
masked him. You ask him, is't that true? Buster? You know?
Stay back, you stay back. I want him to know. I
want him to know everything she heard about what I said. Understand. Then
she came to me, sweet talked me, said I could own the Lazy
two along with her made it sound so wonderful, just me and her.
But then when she started plotting how to get rid of her husband. She
thought he was gonna die when he came out here, but he didn't see,
so she started plotting how to get rid of him, and I was
I was scared about that, but she told me I was already in it
on a kind of I knew about it, so I better help her.
So what else could I do? And all the time she kept me thinking
how how wonderful it would be just me and her. Do you know what
that means to a man, mister dollar? Well, so I helped her
with the boat. You know the time, Buster, You mean when the
hask goes sank during the windstorm out on the lake. Yeah, yeah,
because I fixed the boat. I took out the flotation thanks and weakened the
transom so any kind of strain it would sink, and it did. Brother,
you were in so deep, but you went after him. You saved
him, didn't you, Buster? Yeah? I guess I did so,
But then I wasn't too deep. You see, do you understand? Yeah?
I like SI understanding, And I'm afraid that you are she thought of
the mine. She made me tell Old hard Luck to take him out to
the Midas Touch because he thought they were still gold in it. Johnny had
hard Luck tell you the door got him started on that page. Now,
nobody would have. That's why I had to kill him, because he would
have blamed her, and then she would have blamed me the way she did
you just now, don't you see? All she was doing was using me.
You didn't come out here looking for her. You were looking for me,
weren't you, Yeah, Alex, I guess we were. And if
there had been a fight, if I tried to gun you down, she
would have killed me. Then she would have been in the clear. Don't
you see? She would have killed me the way she made me kill hard
Luck. It took you a long long time to realize it, didn't it,
Alex. There are a lot of things you didn't realize. But what's
done is done, and you can't ever change it. You're in so deep
there's no way out for you now, and you know it, Alex.
But you're not going to make things any easier for you, so no can
get back. I'll tell you I'm in so deep I can't get in any
deeper. That's what you really mean, isn't it? So I'm only chances
to kid you gonna try to get away with Alex before I tried. I'm
gonna kill her. I'm gonna kill her, but because what she's done to
me. Listen, you're crazy, mixed up? Sure, maybe I am
crazy, maybe I've been crazy all along, but I'm gonna kill her.
You hear me. I'm gonna kill her now. No, you're not done.
Okay, Alex, Okay, you've done it, Adam, one more
murder to your list, and I'm glad. I'm glad I did it.
And put that gun down. And if you try to phone me up to
you too, Come on, Johnny, I've got her gun. Oh go
ahead, it's jammed. That's why she couldn't pull it on him. She
did. Yeah, we can't just let him get away. Here, buster,
while I make a phone call, see if you can find a gun
for yourself and some ammunition. You sure she's dead? Yes? Hello,
operator, A couple of thirty eight handguns here, Johnny, and find some
m operator. Operator got me kingmin one nine nine seven oero emergency Oh set
with his side arm. Johnny, you want a rifle. Jake, Alex
Bundy has killed Dora Haskell and headed for Parts unknown. Yeah, that's right,
called Ted hiding at headquarters. Haven't put a roadblock and every highway leading
from this ranch. Be sure there's a block at Davis Dams so he can't
cross over into Nevada. Yes, that's right, he can fall. By
the time I hung up, Buster had my rented car started in waiting,
so we took off on the main road leading from the ranch. We could
still see the dust left by Alex Bundy, and the chief could see that
when he swung onto the highway he turned right toward Lake Mohabi. We saw
our dust on any other side road. So we kept on going down toward
Davis Dam, hoping that by the time he could get there, the road
block would be set up. We'll be able to see when we get to
the top of this hill, Johnny, go ahead, Yeah, yeah,
yeah, you see him cars across the road over the dam. That means
he will have seen him, and there's only one place he could go,
Lake Mohave Resort, Right, Dan is just up the head All right,
we'll take it on two wheels. We aren't having to track them this time.
A wind's coming up. See the dust blowing off the Mason's up to
the east. Yeah, when that east wind comes up, it comes up
fast. All right, Hang on, here's our turn. Bluster was right.
By the time we got down to the dock at Lake Mohave, the
wind was blowing a gale. The chief we've been chasing was parked next to
the tackle shop, and no sign of Alex Bundy. We learned the race
from Ham Pratt, general manager of the resorts. Hey, Johnny, Fuster,
what's going on here? Blundy? Ham? Listen, Ham, did
you see Wilex Bundy came down the road like a bad out of heat.
He's a couple of minutes ago? Where'd he go? Jumped out of his
jeep waving a rifle, tore down to the dock and took off in his
outpoord run about? Got a boat for us? Buster here? Sure he
come on me along. Oh, two of us is better, Ham.
We'll need all the speed we can get out on that lake. All right.
That boat of Alex's is the fastest one of the loft. Too,
dirty horse by Johnson's here we on, I mean, Johnny cast us off.
Ham at y'all are up here, we go, all right? This
winter is really coming up? Sure is we're gonna have us a rough ride?
Why would he head Dockwood landing about twenty miles up, or even Nelson's
landing. He has enough gas either way, get over into the bottom.
All I hope is he's having us rough a time of it his way.
He is that boat of his as fast but not a seaworthy as this.
Hang on. I hear in the middles where we'll really get this wind?
And we did. And unlike salt water, where the wind builds up long
swells, did you have a chance of riding over this lake? Developed a
chop waves only three or four feet high, but one on top of the
other. With a less skillful hand than buses at the wheel, we would
have swamped a minute. As it was, we were both soaking wet and
hanging on for dear life as a little outboard pounced and bounded along. Look,
John, yeah, I see him. Hey, he's making an awful
lot of speed. Too much feed for that pullet. In this kind of
weather, you'll pound the bottom out of it. What do you think you're
doing to this boat? This will hold again? All right? It was
a mad chase, a crazy one. And then I noticed that we were
slowly but surely gaining on Alex. I knew he couldn't take it in that
hull. See, he had to slow down granchially. The distance between us
grew shorter, two hundred yards a hundred at least he'd never be able to
aim his rifle in the sea like, at least until we got right on
top of him. Keep your gun on him, Johnny. It's gonna be
rough trying to lash on to him in this chopper. Okay, w you
pull us alongside him. Then it happened. As we came up on him,
Alex suddenly swung his boat straight in at us and gun his two motors
wide open. That's really all there is to it, oh, except that
ham Prep bless his heart, had followed us with an outboard cruiser and picked
us up. Alex will the shock of crashing into us must have wedged him
into his boat, and with the bottom of it torn out, it sank
like a rock, and he went along with it. Expense account total,
including transportation back to Hartford nine seventy eight thirty five remarks. There was no
question, of course, but that the Haskell Brothers had been murdered. No
double indemnity and Dora's little scheme to the cool three million. Well, I've
got her exactly what she deserved. Won't people like that have learned? Yours
truly, Johnny Dout. Now here's our star to tell you about next week's
intriguing story. Next week, a quiet little New England town with elm shaded
streets, picket fences, flower beds, and a killer on the loose.
Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dout? Yours Truly Johnny
Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and
directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote this week's story. Heard in this
week's cast where Virginia, Greg, Johnny Jacobs, Her Butterfield, Parley Bear,
Barney Phillips, Chapmanken and Roland Winters. Musical supervision by A. Marigo
Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same
time in Station for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Roy
Rowan speaking welcome back. This is such a solid cereal really playing to Johnstone's
strengths as a writer, there was really a lot of time spent developing the
fast friendship between Johnny and Buster, which is really the highlight of the cereal.
I love that scene in the mine in episode three, and then we
really had some great action scenes, particularly some of the water based action scenes
that made this aquat exciting serial. John Andy's handling of the phone call with
Jake and Dora having a gun on him was gussy, but it was also
a move that you can pretty much only afford to make if you make the
conclusions one that your opponent is inexperienced and can be shaken, and two that
your chances of escape otherwise are not very good. John Abbott, in his
book The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter, notes that Jack Johnstone went to the
actual Lake mohave resort with Robert Taylor to fish frequently, and that him and
Buster were the actual names of the owners. As a writer, I've often
found myself as I'm visiting places, imagining the ways that a scene could happen
there, particularly action and chase scenes. And you can just imagine Jack Johnstone
out on Lake Mohavey fishing or taking a speedboat, and his mind is just
spinning this idea of how this could work as a great bit of action radio
and how you could have chases and the shooting and all of it just while
he is technically not working. Abbott also points out that the Bundy's surname that
was used for the Foreman was actually john Stone's wife's maiden name, and Johnstone
actually wrote some things under the pseudonym John Bundy, so it was one of
those last names that he really liked to use. If there's one gribe or
even really any comment on this episode, it's the common twist with the Laird
Douglas Douglas of Heatherscope matter of the female character turning out to be the big
villain and then cheerleading the hero to go and kill someone else, in this
case even handing Johnny and Buster weapons. I think that if you're a detective,
you have to be suspicious of someone whose attitude is, oh, you're
right, they're the killer, and you better go kill them first. Ask
questions later, Just shoot them, shoot them, shoot them hard, shoot
them dead. I mean that would make me a little bit suspicious, is
all I'm saying now. Very briefly. I did get one listener comment on
the first episode of The Long Shot matter concern that they weren't getting episode one.
Now, that was partially because there was another erron. And if you
heard the file where my introduction played twice, that was an eron. We
got that corrected. But the story itself did start where it was supposed to.
In essence, it began with a telephone call that sent Johnny to Hollywood
that was essentially off stage. So Tony Barrett, as a writer, decided
to begin the story differently than most of the other writers did. But the
story is complete, So if anyone else got thrown by that, I just
wanted to show you nothing's missing. All right, Well, now it's time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead
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join us back here tomorrow for Dragnet Where notice anything else funny about the guy?
I don't know? Here's those names? Joe? Thanks. Kelby was
upset, all right for some reason. He didn't strike me as react the
way and normal guy reacts when his wife disappears. All right, ell,
how would you react? Bar get he's worrying again. Oh now, listen,
boys, it's no fooling't matter. This is one I'll bet on.
It's a homicide, all right? How about to copy this report? Yeah?
Where I get the phone? Missing person? Spaghetti? Who's that?
Oh? H yah? Yeah? But what? Oh? Sure? All
right sir? Four o'clock? Yeah, goodbye? That was kelby stepson.
What do you want? I think something's happened to his mother. I hope
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