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Remember that's 17 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,280 Johnny Dollar dot io and again, thanks so much for your support. Now 18 00:02:02,359 --> 00:02:08,439 it is time for the conclusion of this week's Yours Truly Johnny doll or Cereal. 19 00:02:08,719 --> 00:02:15,319 The original airedates July fourth, fifth, and six, nineteen fifty six, 20 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:25,080 and it's the modest Touch Matter episode three through five from Hollywood. It's 21 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:32,400 time now for Johnny Dollar. Jake Kessler returning your call. Johnny, I 22 00:02:32,439 --> 00:02:36,080 just got back here to my office. You've been at the hospital. Yes, 23 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:38,879 it looks like hard luck Dennis may pull through. Has he been able 24 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,400 to talk? He may never be able to That bullet went right through his 25 00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:45,599 neck. Anyhow, he's still unconscious. He's the key to the whole case, 26 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:46,599 Jake, So follow me here as soon as he canna be talked to 27 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:50,800 him meantime. Meantime, I'm gonna try to snag me some of these Lake 28 00:02:50,840 --> 00:03:01,159 Mohave, Bess, Lucky Dog, and Every Weekday Night. Bob Bailey in 29 00:03:01,199 --> 00:03:07,599 the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact expenserout America's Fabulous freelance insurance 30 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:23,439 investigator yours truly, Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, Catherine 31 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:28,879 Wash on the Colorado River to the Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company Kingman, 32 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,639 Arizona office, Following as a report of expenses incurred during my investigation of the 33 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:39,120 Midas Touch matter. I'dam eight six dollars twenty cents gas for the rental car 34 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:43,240 that I drove down here to the Lake Mohave Resort in the Colorado River, 35 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,000 just above Davis Dam. And what a place, modern, comfortable cabin within 36 00:03:47,039 --> 00:03:52,680 spinning distance of the lake itself, good restaurant, tackle shop, doc in 37 00:03:52,759 --> 00:03:54,919 fact, everything to make a fisherman happy to help him fight it out with 38 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,639 a luncker bass that inhabit the sixty mile long lake. But much as I 39 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,599 wanted to fish, I had other things to do. First, I wanted 40 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:05,360 a good look at the Midas Touched mine. On the advice of the manager 41 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,960 hand Pratt, I took along Buster favor general Fact told him of the resort. 42 00:04:10,599 --> 00:04:14,719 I like Buster immediately, short, stocky, cheerful and with keen eyes 43 00:04:14,719 --> 00:04:17,879 that took in everything that went on about him. Little side road to the 44 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:24,319 left, Johnny Okay, so old hard luck Dennis got shot up. Yeah, 45 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,199 apparently because he knew too much. You see when that caven occurred at 46 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,959 the Midas touch and killed the Haskell brothers. Are you you better go into 47 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,160 second gear on this road? Okay, you're right. Why hard Luck was 48 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:39,720 the only person known to have been there with him A couple that with a 49 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,519 fact he just got sixty thousand bucks from them to reopen the mine. But 50 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,920 mine's worthless, Johnny, I so understand. Anyhow, naturally enough, everybody 51 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:51,759 decided that hard Luck had done it in all before the brothers could get wires 52 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,399 to him. It's a funny old cat. Pretty nervous when I saw him. 53 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:59,319 He almost took a shot at me a couple of times when he didn't 54 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,959 like something I said. Instead, he got it. Yeah. While he 55 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,439 was just prospecting, he was all right, man, he's getting up out 56 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:11,199 of the ground here and there to live on some left over for a Saturday 57 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:15,079 night, being down and hey, you see the workings up ahead, right, 58 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,600 But when he couldn't seem to make a big strike, like every prospector 59 00:05:18,759 --> 00:05:24,040 tries far, that's fun. He tried finding suckers for some of his fancy 60 00:05:24,079 --> 00:05:28,079 promotions. Huh yeah. But He really wasn't very good at it. He 61 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,639 threw him out of the Texas oil country, you know. Yeah, so 62 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:35,959 I heard. Wow. So that's the minus touch. Not too many of 63 00:05:35,959 --> 00:05:40,480 this kind of mine anymore. With the entrance going into the hillside this way, 64 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:46,079 and I better use this flashlight o change. Hey, tell me something, 65 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,879 fuster. If this mine is worthless? How could hard Luck get the 66 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,720 Haskell brothers to chip off chunks of ore that has sayed over one thousand dollars 67 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,480 a ton? Well, I got kind of a theory about that. Let's 68 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,160 see if I'm I'm right. Everything is so covered up with dust down here, 69 00:06:03,399 --> 00:06:06,600 not having been worked for years, or it'll be easy to see where 70 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:12,600 they knocked off chips for sample to take it back. Well, well, 71 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,079 well what are you doing down here? Holy smoke, that's a rattler. 72 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,879 Yeah, I guess he decided to get in out of the hot sun out 73 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,920 there here. I'll find a big rock or something. You just wait, 74 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,759 handle it. This old pig here, I can get them to strike at 75 00:06:27,759 --> 00:06:31,279 it. Maybe I can grab them by the tail and watch it man crack 76 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:38,439 him like a whipper. So help me by. Sometimes you do it right, 77 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,839 You can snap their heads right off. You got to be careful, 78 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,079 oh, not to snap that head against your own self. Brother, Yeah, 79 00:06:46,319 --> 00:06:50,519 you can see what you mean. No chance of somebody having planted that 80 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,439 snake down here is there? I mean like it'scarfing in the monument. Huh. 81 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,040 You know those little neat piles of rock you see here there in the 82 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:02,480 desert two three feet high. I thought those were where some prospector had stake 83 00:07:02,519 --> 00:07:08,319 to claim markers. Yeah, they are monuments, they call them. In 84 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,160 the old days, they always did the same way. How is that. 85 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,079 Pull a couple of stones away, you'd find the old prince Albert Tobacco. 86 00:07:15,199 --> 00:07:18,439 Ten he opened the tin, you'd find two things in it, a piece 87 00:07:18,439 --> 00:07:24,680 of paper describing and marking off the claim, and a scorpion alive as long 88 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,439 as he stayed alive. That meant stay away, no trespassing. This is 89 00:07:29,639 --> 00:07:34,240 mine. I'll be daring and look here here, Johnny, on this pillar. 90 00:07:34,519 --> 00:07:39,040 That was the pillar that was left by digging around it to hold up 91 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,600 a ceiling. Oh you see where someone was knocked off with a pig. 92 00:07:42,759 --> 00:07:47,279 Yeah. Hey, an buster that looks like yelp, looks like gold. 93 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,240 That's what it is. Then this mine is rich, Nah, Johnny, 94 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,600 you mean the only gold or left down here is in these pillars, that's 95 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,800 right, and without on the roof of cavian. Well, couldn't it? 96 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,560 Couldn't it be short up with wood? Why only two, three, four 97 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,879 of these left down here? Probably not mowing a ton at all, not 98 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,199 worth it, Oh yeah, I see, but worth using it to bring 99 00:08:11,279 --> 00:08:15,040 in the suckers. Yeah, well, how you want to see how the 100 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,720 cave in on the hass, wasn't it? Sam Hill is just doing down 101 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,639 here this winch in length of wire rope. Isn't that the answer to the 102 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,079 cave in? Ted hiding over at headquarters and Kingman seemed to think so. 103 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:31,519 Yeah, sure, somebody used to pull down one of the pillars. For 104 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,320 Johnny, a winch of this type hadn't got a place in the mind. 105 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:37,919 Well would a rig like this be used? Well, every ranch in this 106 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:43,120 whole area probably has a couple cattle ranch. Yeah that's right. Hmmm. 107 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:46,440 That gives me an idea about who did it. At least it gives me 108 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,559 a lead to an idea, or at least the kind of questions to ask. 109 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:54,799 Hard Luck, Dennis, I thought you said he was still unconscious. 110 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,519 Yeah, yeah, so I'll have to wait. Well, let's get out 111 00:08:58,519 --> 00:09:01,000 of here. What he plan to do now? Oh? Just wait, 112 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:05,960 I guess and do some fishing while I went, oh no, that's right 113 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:07,960 down my alley. Only first time I'm going to knock off a bit of 114 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,679 this ore for a soun air. Yeah, this old picked on a do 115 00:09:11,039 --> 00:09:26,039 well, I take it easy. I should take it easy now, Johnny, 116 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,519 you should know him better than that. Let me help you out of 117 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:35,240 the pile of rubble. My face was pretty red as we drove back to 118 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:41,240 Lake Mohammed. Only once did Buster mention the full thing I've done. Yes, 119 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,720 sir, If you'd binned away at one of the pillars further in the 120 00:09:43,799 --> 00:09:46,440 shaft, we would have been in real trouble, probably ended up like the 121 00:09:46,519 --> 00:09:50,399 Haskell brothers. And I suppose instead of planning on going fishing, I should 122 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,080 have been cooking up some new angle of attack on this case. But after 123 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:56,919 all, I had been promised fishing time on this trip, and until hard 124 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,600 luck Dennis could recover enough to talk, I got the boat already and waiting 125 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:05,639 for it. Johnny with a thirty horse Johnson outboat on it. Oh boy, 126 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:07,919 I can't wait, and I'll take you the spots. I know where 127 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:11,200 you can pull out the biggest fight in this beast. You ever saw buss 128 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,159 the you son of Aghania attempting me with something I can't resist? Well, 129 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,960 even loan you my bottle of fast strike FasTrak. Yeah, your oil, 130 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,159 little dab of that on your bat'll guarantee you fish. That's for me. 131 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,840 You you sure you wouldn't rather just sit and try to figure out some new 132 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:39,039 lead on this insurance case? You want my answer here? But as luck 133 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:41,360 would happened, Ham Pratt was standing down by the dock waiting for us with 134 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,799 a message for me. Carl King went operated number three seven. I made 135 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,320 the call, is Jake Kessler, Johnny, how's the fishing? Well? 136 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,360 It wasn't for the message from you, I'd be out on Lake Mohabi right 137 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,039 now. So if that's all you want to know, honey, Yeah, 138 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,279 I put in this call to over two hours ago when hard Luck Denni's first 139 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,840 game too. Yes, the doctor is going to be okay. Has he 140 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,200 told you anything about who shot him up? No? He won't talk to 141 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,320 anybody, but you says you're his only friend. Okay, Jake, I'm 142 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,399 on my way and a half hour flat I was back in Kingman at the 143 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:24,399 Mercy Hospital on the edge of town. Hell a hard luck Johnny, Johnny 144 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:30,000 Dellar. That's right, glad, glad, you came only one to trust, 145 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:35,200 not like people around town. They hate me. Wow. I knew 146 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:39,000 he'd tried to get me. Jenny probably seen me going back to the mine. 147 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:45,720 Knew I'd recognize that winch he left her, the winch that was used 148 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:48,840 to pull down the mind pillar caused the cavan. That's right. A lot 149 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:54,919 of winches like that, and the ranchersly Alex, only he used that particular 150 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:05,440 make royal stand Alex fool, hard luck Alex Bundy forming at the Haskell's ranch, 151 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:09,159 the two Lazy two, Yes, Ali, But why in love? 152 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:16,759 Kevin Haskell's wife Dora. Okay, okay, will you tell the police to 153 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:22,039 court all this when the time comes. If you say so, ah, 154 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:24,519 you'll live all right. The doctor says, you're gonna be fine. You're 155 00:12:24,519 --> 00:12:28,559 gonna be okay. Now, is there anything you want? Anything I can 156 00:12:28,639 --> 00:12:31,480 have sent up here to make you more comfortable? No, thanks, Jenny, 157 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:39,799 just come and see me. Sure, thanks, I guess sure. 158 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,639 The only real friend I have. Just why he felt that way? I 159 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:48,720 don't know. Perhaps it was because he needed a friend. I decided I'd 160 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,120 better let Jake Kessler in on what I'd learned, and incidentally ask him for 161 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,480 directions to the two Lazy two. So I drove on over to his little 162 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,519 second floor office on East Bomb Drive. Alex Bundy Huh, yeah, that's 163 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:05,960 what Hardluck says, and with his testimony to back me up. When I 164 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:07,879 find Alex Shoe, well, we'll have a case, a good case, 165 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,000 which means, by the way, that your company won't have to pay off 166 00:13:11,039 --> 00:13:18,480 an additional million and a half a double. What's the matter. Uh, 167 00:13:18,919 --> 00:13:22,320 yeah, Jake, I'm going on over and do a bit of fishing, 168 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,600 and Lake Mohabbi, mister Favor promises to get me a limit of the finest 169 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,519 bash. What is it, Johnny? What do you do with? Somebody 170 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,000 was outside that door listening to us. I'm sure, well, yeah, 171 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:37,759 look here he is going down the street. Recognize him, Jake, Where 172 00:13:37,879 --> 00:13:41,279 Johnny, that's too lady gout around the corner. But if it's who I 173 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,120 think it is, yeah, he must have heard all that was said in 174 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,240 here. Alex Bundy, Huh, what's your guess I've been thinking, Johnny. 175 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,440 Yeah, old hard Luck Dennis been the key to this whole case right 176 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,320 from these he still is more than ever after what he told me. All 177 00:13:54,399 --> 00:14:01,679 right, then excuse me, Jake Kessler speaking. Oh hello, jeez, 178 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:09,960 I mm hmm. What oh? What's the matter of chick? What's the 179 00:14:11,039 --> 00:14:15,039 matter? You look like you've seen a ghost that was Tad Harding at headquarters 180 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:18,840 the fire escape outside the room at the hospital. Huh somebody clumb up the 181 00:14:18,919 --> 00:14:26,320 fire escape used a bailing hook. Oh, yeah, he's dead now, 182 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:50,360 hard Lucky Johnny Dellar good. I was hoping you'd be there at Jake Kessler's 183 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,840 office. This iss your favorite lake, my hobby resort. Oh high find 184 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,120 anything? Yeah, hard Luck Dennis, our one real key to this three 185 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,039 million dollar case has just been murdered. M you know who did it? 186 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,720 I have an idea. Well, I've found something here that might help you. 187 00:15:05,879 --> 00:15:09,840 Oh tired tracks the old miners shack where hard Luck was shot. More 188 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,879 of the same tire tracks here at the Resort's their I'm on my way. 189 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:30,759 Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location Lake Mohave Resort on the 190 00:15:30,799 --> 00:15:35,759 Colorado River in Arizona to the greater southwest insurance and Liability company. Following is 191 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:43,080 an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of the Midas Touch matter. Item 192 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,960 nine six point thirty is stop at the sign of the Flying Red Horse for 193 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,279 gas for my rented car. They get me from king in Arizona to Lake 194 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,960 Mohave Resort. About a mile short of the lake, on the winding road 195 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,679 that led in for the main highway, I found Buster waiting at a spot 196 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:03,720 where an old wagon trail cut off to the right. Right over here, 197 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,480 Johnny Clare's crystal hire. Buster. You see him here, he's tire tracks 198 00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:14,279 in the sand. Well, oh, yeah, sure, you see three 199 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,600 of the tires. Look here where the car turned to get around this rock. 200 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:21,000 Yeah yeah. Three of the tires were pretty good, had those big 201 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:25,919 knobby treads. But this one right fronts almost worn smooth. Or is it 202 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,159 the left rear? Oh, it's right front. Johnny Carr was going north 203 00:16:29,279 --> 00:16:33,399 out into the desert. Tell by the little skid on this turn, Fuster. 204 00:16:33,559 --> 00:16:37,159 You read tire tracks like some people can read footprints. It's just practice 205 00:16:37,919 --> 00:16:41,240 anyway. These are the same tracks that I found by the old shack where 206 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:44,159 you met hard Luck and he got shot at and let's get into my car 207 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,320 and follow these up. Oh, Johnny, nothing but jeep could get over 208 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:48,759 this trail. Well, why does this trail pick up a highway again? 209 00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:52,799 It doesn't winds around for eight or ten miles and ends up in the lake 210 00:16:53,159 --> 00:16:56,759 over by the southwest corner of the fence line on the two Lazy two range. 211 00:16:56,799 --> 00:17:00,600 And our best bet is to drive over to the two lace. Except 212 00:17:00,639 --> 00:17:03,160 for one thing. The jeep we're looking for somewhere up that trail, so 213 00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:07,799 we'll go by outboard. Oh what, this old trail worms round all right, 214 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,400 always close along the edge of Lake Mohave all the way, and the 215 00:17:11,559 --> 00:17:15,920 end of it's eight miles one is only about one mile by water from our 216 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:18,079 dock at the resort. Mum huh. Then we ought to be able to 217 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:26,559 intercept whoever's in that jeep. That's right, now, let's go. Lake 218 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:32,000 Mohave was clear and calm and beautiful, perfect for fishing. But we had 219 00:17:32,039 --> 00:17:36,000 other things on our minds. As the thirty horse outboard pushed our fourteen foot 220 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,720 aluminum boat along at better than twenty five miles an hour, we stayed fairly 221 00:17:38,759 --> 00:17:44,319 close to the Arizona side. Look, Johnny, see that streak of dust 222 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,440 along the shore. Yeah, somebody's been driving along there all right. Still 223 00:17:48,599 --> 00:17:52,279 is won't be able to see who though, until it comes out from behind 224 00:17:52,319 --> 00:17:56,039 that ridge of hills over there. Hey, that streak of dust hasn't grown 225 00:17:56,079 --> 00:18:00,160 any longer. Looks like he stops, good bee, I'll head his in 226 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:04,160 towards shore. Now. I still don't understand why i'd be driving out on 227 00:18:04,279 --> 00:18:08,000 that dead end trail long unless he wants to dump a body or something in 228 00:18:08,079 --> 00:18:11,079 the lake. Now that's something morbid thought. All right, But if it 229 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,319 is a killer you're looking for, you said that trail ends at the corner 230 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,319 of it. Hey, wait a minute, buster, Yeah, if it's 231 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,599 who I think it is, he overheard me tell Jake Kessler, I planned 232 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,519 to go fishing out here today. So what was that? I would have 233 00:18:26,559 --> 00:18:30,359 given you trouble? What was what there? Here? It? Yeah, 234 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,680 I heard it, but it wasn't the motor. Hey, it's funny. 235 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,279 What's the look we're taking in water? Those holes in the bottom here, 236 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:41,279 You take this can and start bailing, right, I would drew a lot 237 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,359 of holes. No, wait a minute, look at them close. They're 238 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,880 bullet holes. Holy smoke, you're right, hey, that was a shot 239 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:49,759 came from over on the shore. I saw the puff of smoke over on 240 00:18:49,839 --> 00:18:52,519 that patch of sagebrush. Come on, let's get out of here. Let's 241 00:18:52,559 --> 00:18:56,480 swarve us around bust here. We've been a pair of city ducks. Man, 242 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,640 you are right, keep on bailing and keep your head down. Swing 243 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,599 us on that little point there and we'll be out of range. Wow, 244 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,240 you see that's fret of water beside us. That guy can shoot. You 245 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:11,519 aren't kidding, okay, Buster, you can ease her up now or out 246 00:19:11,559 --> 00:19:15,119 of his line. Yeah, well, I guess we pulled a bonet, 247 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,400 Johnny. Why not having somebody posted on that road while we came out here? 248 00:19:18,559 --> 00:19:22,759 Uh huh. Now he can climb back and his jeep and yeah, 249 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:26,559 there you see trail of dust again going back to the highway. I see 250 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,799 it. We hadn't taken on so much water, we might be able to 251 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:32,359 get back and intercept him on the highway, but it's too late now. 252 00:19:32,519 --> 00:19:34,519 Well, at least we know what to look for the cheap that made those 253 00:19:34,599 --> 00:19:37,960 tracks. Well, isn't it kind of like looking for needle in a haystack 254 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,960 out in this country Western? I think I know exactly where to look, 255 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,759 I believe I must have bailed a good five gallons of water out of that 256 00:19:48,839 --> 00:19:52,480 boat by the time we reached the dock. Then Buster insisted on going along 257 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:56,160 as I headed back up the highway toward Kingwy. We stopped where the old 258 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,640 trail cut in, only long enough to see if the cheap tracks had come 259 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:03,839 back on the highway. They now we're on the way, Johnny. Where 260 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:06,920 are we gone? Any of these ranches out here used jeeps, Fuster, 261 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,519 most all the big ones, but including the Too Lazy two. Yes, 262 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:15,319 right now, Wait a minute. I didn't ask you who you thought was 263 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,519 shooting at us out there on the lake. Who you thought overheard you talking 264 00:20:18,559 --> 00:20:21,599 about going fishing. I figured if you wanted to tell me, you would. 265 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:23,400 Oh. The trouble is, I still can't prove anything. All right, 266 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,200 let me tell you who can shoot like that and with that kind of 267 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,359 a gun. It was a thirty yard six, you could tell by the 268 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:34,559 sound. Thirty odd six with a long barrow. That could mean it had 269 00:20:34,559 --> 00:20:38,759 a scope. Site almost have to for that kind of shooting. Alex Bundy 270 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,759 four minute, the Too Lazy two, that's who hard Luck Tennis said, 271 00:20:42,799 --> 00:20:47,720 shot at him. And it ties up Johnny does it you got a few 272 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:49,759 too many under his belt. One night at a dance party in Kingman, 273 00:20:49,839 --> 00:20:53,119 Yeah, he started yapping his head off about how a lot of soft living 274 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,720 millionaires from back east could come out here and own the place while he had 275 00:20:56,759 --> 00:21:00,799 to do all the work. It wasn't fair. Worm would turn sometime, 276 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,440 even if he had to help it turn, and he'd be the one who 277 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:08,359 counted the money. That's about the time everybody started talking about him and Dora, 278 00:21:08,799 --> 00:21:11,720 Dora, wife of one of the Haskell brothers that was killed on the 279 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:17,599 mineh Kevin Haskell go on. Must seems Alex and Doro seen a lot of 280 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,160 each other on the sly. Everybody kind of stood around waiting to see if 281 00:21:21,279 --> 00:21:25,079 Alex was trying to get some control of the rants. That way, that's 282 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:29,519 union passed right ahead over the tops of the road to the left, short 283 00:21:29,559 --> 00:21:32,559 cut to the two Lazy too. That's where you want to go in, 284 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:38,960 Yeah, bust, that's where I want to go. It was only a 285 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,279 couple of miles into the ranch's fence line, but I got three miles further 286 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:47,480 to the main house and its cluster of out buildings. Buster sharp Eyes first 287 00:21:47,599 --> 00:21:49,359 noticed the jeep park by the side of what looked like a big tool shit, 288 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,319 and I drove slowly past it, slowly enough so that he could study 289 00:21:53,359 --> 00:22:02,160 its tires and the tracks on the dusty ground. Uh huh, Well it's 290 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,640 the one, all right. Then keep an eye out for Alex and that 291 00:22:04,839 --> 00:22:11,759 gun of his and be ready to duck. Okay, you know, I 292 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,559 got a kind of funny feeling now that we're here. We should have brought 293 00:22:15,599 --> 00:22:18,960 a posse along, right. It's too late for that. Now. That 294 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,599 is a gun bulging unto your jacket, isn't it. Oh? Yeah, 295 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,079 but I'm wondering what chance a little thirty eight lemon squeeze her hands against the 296 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:32,599 high powered rifle. Oh, come on, keep your eyes feel Johnny. 297 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,680 I'm beginning to feel like I'm right in the middle of an old time Western 298 00:22:34,759 --> 00:22:38,920 movie. Maybe you are a buster, maybe you are why buster? Or 299 00:22:40,759 --> 00:22:44,440 how are you? Dora? Don't just stand there, yes, ma'am. 300 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:51,319 The woman standing on the porch of the old house looks strangely out of place 301 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,799 on this big western desert ranch. Perhaps it was because of a close two 302 00:22:55,839 --> 00:22:59,000 toned sports shoes and a crisp, well tailored white linen dress that serve to 303 00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:02,440 accent the lines of a from athletic figure and go perfectly with her short boy's 304 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:07,960 cut hair. Ms. Haskell, this is mister Dollar Johnny Donnar. Hello, 305 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,039 mister dollar. Jack Kessler told me you were here, Come in please, 306 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:17,000 okay, thank you. I suppose he told you why I'm here. 307 00:23:17,559 --> 00:23:21,920 No, leave the door open for the breeze. He said, to investigate 308 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,720 the death of my husband, Kevin and his brother's not mine. Accident. 309 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:29,480 It' sit down, won't you thank you? Do you think it was an 310 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:33,480 accident? According to mister Kesler, you don't why because it means his company 311 00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:36,960 would have to pay only a million and a half to me instead of three 312 00:23:37,039 --> 00:23:41,200 million. Somebody found pretty concrete evidence there in the mind that one of the 313 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:45,759 rock pillars supporting the roof had been deliberately pulled down. Hard luck, Dennis, 314 00:23:47,319 --> 00:23:48,799 But you say is true. He must have done it. It was 315 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,319 hard like who told me about it? Who showed me the winch that was 316 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,400 used to do it? And that winch, Missus Haskell could have come from 317 00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:00,200 only one place around here, this ranch. Oh no, you mean no, 318 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:03,480 you can't mean that somebody here at the ranch did it. Kind of 319 00:24:03,559 --> 00:24:07,079 looks that way, doesn't it. But who That's what I hoped you might 320 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,640 be able to tell me who beside you could profit by the death of your 321 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,400 husband and his brothers who here at the ranch, Alex Bundy. Perhaps Alex, 322 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:18,960 how by marrying into the family. What are you talking about? That 323 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,599 is, of course, if one of the Haskell brothers were to die, 324 00:24:22,519 --> 00:24:26,920 Kevin, perhaps that's absurd. Oh, I had a notion that you and 325 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,880 Alex were someone interested in each other. Well, you're wrong. He may 326 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,319 have been interested in me. He was, as a matter of fact, 327 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,720 he made it very difficult for me. How do you mean that he kept 328 00:24:37,759 --> 00:24:41,319 trying to force his attentions on me and you didn't reciprocate it. Of course, 329 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:48,799 not because we'll go on. Because I knew what his real motives were, 330 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,200 all right, go on this ranch, This ranch is what he wanted. 331 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,079 He knew that Kevin wasn't well, that's why Kevin had come out here 332 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,119 with his brothers in the first place. I did hear that he was in 333 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,880 a little trouble with his lungs, Johnny, he didn't have long to live, 334 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,279 not many years, that is, even in this hot, dry air. 335 00:25:07,839 --> 00:25:11,319 So Alex did it? Sure looks their way, isn't it, Johnny? 336 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:17,720 What led you to look for him here? It was Alex Bundy who 337 00:25:17,759 --> 00:25:21,559 shot up hard Luck Tennis. Then somebody overheard me say, I was going 338 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,160 fishing down at the lake. That's where I was shot at by somebody who 339 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,119 was not only a crack shot, but more important, was driving the jeep 340 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:32,079 that's parked outside. The jeep was gone from here this afternoon. You know 341 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,720 where Alex Bundy is now? He must be somewhere around the ranch and you 342 00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:38,720 must getting mister Dollar. I'll help you. I'll help you find it, 343 00:25:40,319 --> 00:25:44,240 but don't go unarmed. Here. I'll give you one of my rifles. 344 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,160 Hey, the collection of high powered rifles is yours. Yes, international rifle 345 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:55,240 team in college. Here, I'll give you ammunition and buster you take one. 346 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:00,000 It's thirty thirty. I don't know miss what mister Dollar says about it. 347 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:03,000 It is true Alex may try to shoot before you. It's a dollar. 348 00:26:04,079 --> 00:26:08,680 It's a dollar to be ready when he comes in. Weren't you tell 349 00:26:08,759 --> 00:26:11,599 me you would throw the jeep? You know I wanted to use it this 350 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:18,839 afternoon? All rah, Well, well, don't move, mister Dollar. 351 00:26:18,839 --> 00:26:48,440 Your gun isn't loaded. Johnny Dollar answer it, Answer it. Johnny Dollar. 352 00:26:48,839 --> 00:26:52,039 Hello, Johnny, Jake Kessler. Be careful what you say, Johnny? 353 00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:55,839 What are you doing out there at the too lazy? Too Johnny to 354 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,240 him, be careful, don't forget this gun? Why, Jake, what's 355 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:03,640 on your mind? Three million dollars of insurance. Dora Haskell's filed the claim 356 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,359 on the basis of accidental death. So unless you can come up pretty quick 357 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,319 with proof the Haskell brothers were murdered, Jake, I have a funny feeling. 358 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,440 I'm looking at that proof right now. You mean they're at the ranch. 359 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,400 You still haven't told me what you're doing out there? Why uh, 360 00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:23,160 why don't you come out here and see Jake? What are they talking about? 361 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,079 Johnny? I'll pull this trigger is so fast. You try that, 362 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,640 Dora and Jake will hear it over this phone and come out here anyway? 363 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,759 What he Hello? You heard that? Hang up? Hang up? Come 364 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:49,440 hanging up yourself From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location near Kingman, Arizona. 365 00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:55,799 Attention, mister Jake Kessler, Greater Southwest Insurance and Liability Company. Following is 366 00:27:55,799 --> 00:28:02,519 an accounting of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Midas Touch matter Proof that 367 00:28:02,599 --> 00:28:06,240 the Haskell brothers were murdered rather than killed accidentally in the cave in that the 368 00:28:06,279 --> 00:28:10,200 minas touched mine could save Greater Southwest a cool million and a half dollars. 369 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,680 But the one man who could have given me that proof was murdered himself. 370 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,759 Thanks to Buster favorite the Lake Mohabi Resort, who could read a set of 371 00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:19,759 tire tracks like you and I read a newspaper, I was able to trace 372 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:23,960 the killer's car to the two Lazy two ranch and there the evidence all pointed 373 00:28:25,039 --> 00:28:27,799 to the foreman, Alex Bundy. However, when Alex appeared to the ranch 374 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,519 house, he also put the finger on Dora Haskell. That's when your phone 375 00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:41,640 call came in, Jake, and that's when you don't thanks Buster. Yeah, 376 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,640 well, I kind of hit a woman that way. But she wouldn't 377 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,480 have missed with that rifle. Matter of fact, she didn't. She preached 378 00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:51,759 her arm there. Just forget it. First of all, let's take this 379 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:57,720 gun out. Oh that's right, Alex kind of forgot about you. Oh 380 00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:02,559 why don't you put that thing down before you make the same mistake she almost 381 00:29:02,599 --> 00:29:04,240 did. It won't be a mistake dollar now, Look, shut up, 382 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,240 Buster, you should have known better, and to mess around this whole thing. 383 00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:11,400 Maybe you're the one I should have known better, Alex. According to 384 00:29:11,519 --> 00:29:15,400 Dora here a few minutes ago, I heard from outside the window, heard 385 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,200 all of it, and she lied, keep an eye on a buster. 386 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:21,319 Yeah, sure to stay where you are, stay stay away from that gunners 387 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:23,000 too. Look, Alex, why don't you just calm down? You lied? 388 00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:26,599 She was the one who shot at you down at the lake, not 389 00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:29,599 me. But it was you who shot up old hard Luck Dennis when he 390 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,279 tried to talk to me, Sure, sure I did. I had to. 391 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,160 He was going to tell you it was me that keeved in the mitas 392 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,680 touched on the Haskell brother. He did tell him. Sure he was going 393 00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:40,119 to tell you. I know he was, And I had to stop him. 394 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,440 Wouldn't you stop the man who was trying to put a noose round your 395 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,759 neck? But you will listen to me. That's why I had to kill 396 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:47,240 him there at the hospital, when he was well enough to talk some more, 397 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:48,559 he would have put the finger on me. I'll tell you he already 398 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,000 had. He would, I know he would, And I had to stop 399 00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:55,799 him. But it wasn't my fault. It wasn't my fault. Dollar, 400 00:29:56,039 --> 00:29:59,279 she was lying to you. I heard her outside. I heard she was 401 00:29:59,359 --> 00:30:00,960 trying to lay all on me. But she's the one, not me, 402 00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:04,240 in spite of your murder of hide luck, I had to don't understand me. 403 00:30:04,279 --> 00:30:07,720 I had to look, why don't you put down that gun? And 404 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,240 he's the one all the way from the start. I'm not dumb, Dollar, 405 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,200 but she was smarter than me, and she kept getting me in deeper 406 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:17,480 and deeper. I'm a good ranch forman Dollar. See for yourself what I'd 407 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,359 done for the Too Lazy two. But this kind of thing I don't know 408 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,400 about. So she got me in deeper and deep right from the start. 409 00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:26,680 Just how did it start, Alex, I'll tell you. I'll tell you 410 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,880 how it started. I got drunk one night over in Kingman, so I 411 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,960 heard made a lot of foolish talk about wanting the Too Lazy two for herself. 412 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,160 Any foreman wants to have a big ranch of his own. Any of 413 00:30:36,279 --> 00:30:37,119 masked him. You ask him, is't that true? Buster? You know? 414 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,720 Stay back, you stay back. I want him to know. I 415 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:47,599 want him to know everything she heard about what I said. Understand. Then 416 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,559 she came to me, sweet talked me, said I could own the Lazy 417 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,599 two along with her made it sound so wonderful, just me and her. 418 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,480 But then when she started plotting how to get rid of her husband. She 419 00:30:57,559 --> 00:31:00,000 thought he was gonna die when he came out here, but he didn't see, 420 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,079 so she started plotting how to get rid of him, and I was 421 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:07,680 I was scared about that, but she told me I was already in it 422 00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:08,799 on a kind of I knew about it, so I better help her. 423 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,599 So what else could I do? And all the time she kept me thinking 424 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,279 how how wonderful it would be just me and her. Do you know what 425 00:31:15,359 --> 00:31:18,279 that means to a man, mister dollar? Well, so I helped her 426 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:21,680 with the boat. You know the time, Buster, You mean when the 427 00:31:21,759 --> 00:31:23,440 hask goes sank during the windstorm out on the lake. Yeah, yeah, 428 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,519 because I fixed the boat. I took out the flotation thanks and weakened the 429 00:31:26,559 --> 00:31:30,319 transom so any kind of strain it would sink, and it did. Brother, 430 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,160 you were in so deep, but you went after him. You saved 431 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,480 him, didn't you, Buster? Yeah? I guess I did so, 432 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,880 But then I wasn't too deep. You see, do you understand? Yeah? 433 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,119 I like SI understanding, And I'm afraid that you are she thought of 434 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,799 the mine. She made me tell Old hard Luck to take him out to 435 00:31:42,839 --> 00:31:47,000 the Midas Touch because he thought they were still gold in it. Johnny had 436 00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:48,519 hard Luck tell you the door got him started on that page. Now, 437 00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:52,880 nobody would have. That's why I had to kill him, because he would 438 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,519 have blamed her, and then she would have blamed me the way she did 439 00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:57,359 you just now, don't you see? All she was doing was using me. 440 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,160 You didn't come out here looking for her. You were looking for me, 441 00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:02,920 weren't you, Yeah, Alex, I guess we were. And if 442 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,839 there had been a fight, if I tried to gun you down, she 443 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,839 would have killed me. Then she would have been in the clear. Don't 444 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,240 you see? She would have killed me the way she made me kill hard 445 00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:14,759 Luck. It took you a long long time to realize it, didn't it, 446 00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:19,519 Alex. There are a lot of things you didn't realize. But what's 447 00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:22,279 done is done, and you can't ever change it. You're in so deep 448 00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:25,200 there's no way out for you now, and you know it, Alex. 449 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,960 But you're not going to make things any easier for you, so no can 450 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,880 get back. I'll tell you I'm in so deep I can't get in any 451 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,559 deeper. That's what you really mean, isn't it? So I'm only chances 452 00:32:35,599 --> 00:32:37,839 to kid you gonna try to get away with Alex before I tried. I'm 453 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:42,039 gonna kill her. I'm gonna kill her, but because what she's done to 454 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,000 me. Listen, you're crazy, mixed up? Sure, maybe I am 455 00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:46,279 crazy, maybe I've been crazy all along, but I'm gonna kill her. 456 00:32:46,359 --> 00:32:50,559 You hear me. I'm gonna kill her now. No, you're not done. 457 00:32:55,079 --> 00:33:00,440 Okay, Alex, Okay, you've done it, Adam, one more 458 00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:02,759 murder to your list, and I'm glad. I'm glad I did it. 459 00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:07,440 And put that gun down. And if you try to phone me up to 460 00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:09,279 you too, Come on, Johnny, I've got her gun. Oh go 461 00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:12,799 ahead, it's jammed. That's why she couldn't pull it on him. She 462 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,759 did. Yeah, we can't just let him get away. Here, buster, 463 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,880 while I make a phone call, see if you can find a gun 464 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:27,559 for yourself and some ammunition. You sure she's dead? Yes? Hello, 465 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,880 operator, A couple of thirty eight handguns here, Johnny, and find some 466 00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:37,200 m operator. Operator got me kingmin one nine nine seven oero emergency Oh set 467 00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:39,400 with his side arm. Johnny, you want a rifle. Jake, Alex 468 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:44,640 Bundy has killed Dora Haskell and headed for Parts unknown. Yeah, that's right, 469 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,720 called Ted hiding at headquarters. Haven't put a roadblock and every highway leading 470 00:33:46,759 --> 00:33:51,000 from this ranch. Be sure there's a block at Davis Dams so he can't 471 00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:55,319 cross over into Nevada. Yes, that's right, he can fall. By 472 00:33:55,359 --> 00:33:59,160 the time I hung up, Buster had my rented car started in waiting, 473 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,319 so we took off on the main road leading from the ranch. We could 474 00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:05,240 still see the dust left by Alex Bundy, and the chief could see that 475 00:34:05,279 --> 00:34:08,079 when he swung onto the highway he turned right toward Lake Mohabi. We saw 476 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:10,840 our dust on any other side road. So we kept on going down toward 477 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,039 Davis Dam, hoping that by the time he could get there, the road 478 00:34:15,079 --> 00:34:17,800 block would be set up. We'll be able to see when we get to 479 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,239 the top of this hill, Johnny, go ahead, Yeah, yeah, 480 00:34:22,599 --> 00:34:27,199 yeah, you see him cars across the road over the dam. That means 481 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,000 he will have seen him, and there's only one place he could go, 482 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,920 Lake Mohave Resort, Right, Dan is just up the head All right, 483 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,679 we'll take it on two wheels. We aren't having to track them this time. 484 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:42,119 A wind's coming up. See the dust blowing off the Mason's up to 485 00:34:42,119 --> 00:34:45,440 the east. Yeah, when that east wind comes up, it comes up 486 00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:51,000 fast. All right, Hang on, here's our turn. Bluster was right. 487 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,559 By the time we got down to the dock at Lake Mohave, the 488 00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:55,960 wind was blowing a gale. The chief we've been chasing was parked next to 489 00:34:57,039 --> 00:34:59,880 the tackle shop, and no sign of Alex Bundy. We learned the race 490 00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:02,800 from Ham Pratt, general manager of the resorts. Hey, Johnny, Fuster, 491 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,480 what's going on here? Blundy? Ham? Listen, Ham, did 492 00:35:06,519 --> 00:35:08,480 you see Wilex Bundy came down the road like a bad out of heat. 493 00:35:08,519 --> 00:35:12,079 He's a couple of minutes ago? Where'd he go? Jumped out of his 494 00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:15,400 jeep waving a rifle, tore down to the dock and took off in his 495 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,039 outpoord run about? Got a boat for us? Buster here? Sure he 496 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,159 come on me along. Oh, two of us is better, Ham. 497 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:22,880 We'll need all the speed we can get out on that lake. All right. 498 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,519 That boat of Alex's is the fastest one of the loft. Too, 499 00:35:25,639 --> 00:35:31,840 dirty horse by Johnson's here we on, I mean, Johnny cast us off. 500 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:40,639 Ham at y'all are up here, we go, all right? This 501 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,800 winter is really coming up? Sure is we're gonna have us a rough ride? 502 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:52,639 Why would he head Dockwood landing about twenty miles up, or even Nelson's 503 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,760 landing. He has enough gas either way, get over into the bottom. 504 00:35:57,119 --> 00:35:59,760 All I hope is he's having us rough a time of it his way. 505 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:05,039 He is that boat of his as fast but not a seaworthy as this. 506 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,119 Hang on. I hear in the middles where we'll really get this wind? 507 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,519 And we did. And unlike salt water, where the wind builds up long 508 00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:15,960 swells, did you have a chance of riding over this lake? Developed a 509 00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:20,119 chop waves only three or four feet high, but one on top of the 510 00:36:20,159 --> 00:36:22,320 other. With a less skillful hand than buses at the wheel, we would 511 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,480 have swamped a minute. As it was, we were both soaking wet and 512 00:36:25,559 --> 00:36:30,519 hanging on for dear life as a little outboard pounced and bounded along. Look, 513 00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:34,280 John, yeah, I see him. Hey, he's making an awful 514 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,480 lot of speed. Too much feed for that pullet. In this kind of 515 00:36:37,559 --> 00:36:39,559 weather, you'll pound the bottom out of it. What do you think you're 516 00:36:39,639 --> 00:36:44,199 doing to this boat? This will hold again? All right? It was 517 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,440 a mad chase, a crazy one. And then I noticed that we were 518 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:51,000 slowly but surely gaining on Alex. I knew he couldn't take it in that 519 00:36:51,159 --> 00:36:53,960 hull. See, he had to slow down granchially. The distance between us 520 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,599 grew shorter, two hundred yards a hundred at least he'd never be able to 521 00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:00,960 aim his rifle in the sea like, at least until we got right on 522 00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:04,639 top of him. Keep your gun on him, Johnny. It's gonna be 523 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,519 rough trying to lash on to him in this chopper. Okay, w you 524 00:37:07,599 --> 00:37:12,360 pull us alongside him. Then it happened. As we came up on him, 525 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,239 Alex suddenly swung his boat straight in at us and gun his two motors 526 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:32,960 wide open. That's really all there is to it, oh, except that 527 00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:37,360 ham Prep bless his heart, had followed us with an outboard cruiser and picked 528 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:42,599 us up. Alex will the shock of crashing into us must have wedged him 529 00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:45,079 into his boat, and with the bottom of it torn out, it sank 530 00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:47,719 like a rock, and he went along with it. Expense account total, 531 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,800 including transportation back to Hartford nine seventy eight thirty five remarks. There was no 532 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,880 question, of course, but that the Haskell Brothers had been murdered. No 533 00:37:57,039 --> 00:38:01,119 double indemnity and Dora's little scheme to the cool three million. Well, I've 534 00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:07,960 got her exactly what she deserved. Won't people like that have learned? Yours 535 00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:23,360 truly, Johnny Dout. Now here's our star to tell you about next week's 536 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:30,000 intriguing story. Next week, a quiet little New England town with elm shaded 537 00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:35,159 streets, picket fences, flower beds, and a killer on the loose. 538 00:38:36,119 --> 00:38:50,840 Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dout? Yours Truly Johnny 539 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,719 Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. It is produced and 540 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:59,079 directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote this week's story. Heard in this 541 00:38:59,199 --> 00:39:02,159 week's cast where Virginia, Greg, Johnny Jacobs, Her Butterfield, Parley Bear, 542 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:07,039 Barney Phillips, Chapmanken and Roland Winters. Musical supervision by A. Marigo 543 00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:12,760 Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same 544 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,880 time in Station for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Roy 545 00:39:17,039 --> 00:41:00,679 Rowan speaking welcome back. This is such a solid cereal really playing to Johnstone's 546 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:06,599 strengths as a writer, there was really a lot of time spent developing the 547 00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:12,000 fast friendship between Johnny and Buster, which is really the highlight of the cereal. 548 00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:15,400 I love that scene in the mine in episode three, and then we 549 00:41:16,199 --> 00:41:22,280 really had some great action scenes, particularly some of the water based action scenes 550 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:29,000 that made this aquat exciting serial. John Andy's handling of the phone call with 551 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:34,760 Jake and Dora having a gun on him was gussy, but it was also 552 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,480 a move that you can pretty much only afford to make if you make the 553 00:41:37,559 --> 00:41:44,119 conclusions one that your opponent is inexperienced and can be shaken, and two that 554 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:49,159 your chances of escape otherwise are not very good. John Abbott, in his 555 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,280 book The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter, notes that Jack Johnstone went to the 556 00:41:52,480 --> 00:42:00,679 actual Lake mohave resort with Robert Taylor to fish frequently, and that him and 557 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:06,000 Buster were the actual names of the owners. As a writer, I've often 558 00:42:06,119 --> 00:42:14,199 found myself as I'm visiting places, imagining the ways that a scene could happen 559 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:20,360 there, particularly action and chase scenes. And you can just imagine Jack Johnstone 560 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:25,199 out on Lake Mohavey fishing or taking a speedboat, and his mind is just 561 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:31,519 spinning this idea of how this could work as a great bit of action radio 562 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:37,360 and how you could have chases and the shooting and all of it just while 563 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:44,960 he is technically not working. Abbott also points out that the Bundy's surname that 564 00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:52,719 was used for the Foreman was actually john Stone's wife's maiden name, and Johnstone 565 00:42:52,760 --> 00:43:00,119 actually wrote some things under the pseudonym John Bundy, so it was one of 566 00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:05,920 those last names that he really liked to use. If there's one gribe or 567 00:43:06,039 --> 00:43:12,920 even really any comment on this episode, it's the common twist with the Laird 568 00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:20,320 Douglas Douglas of Heatherscope matter of the female character turning out to be the big 569 00:43:20,519 --> 00:43:24,840 villain and then cheerleading the hero to go and kill someone else, in this 570 00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:30,920 case even handing Johnny and Buster weapons. I think that if you're a detective, 571 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:36,480 you have to be suspicious of someone whose attitude is, oh, you're 572 00:43:36,599 --> 00:43:39,239 right, they're the killer, and you better go kill them first. Ask 573 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:45,039 questions later, Just shoot them, shoot them, shoot them hard, shoot 574 00:43:45,119 --> 00:43:47,679 them dead. I mean that would make me a little bit suspicious, is 575 00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:53,000 all I'm saying now. Very briefly. I did get one listener comment on 576 00:43:53,119 --> 00:44:00,519 the first episode of The Long Shot matter concern that they weren't getting episode one. 577 00:44:01,039 --> 00:44:05,000 Now, that was partially because there was another erron. And if you 578 00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,679 heard the file where my introduction played twice, that was an eron. We 579 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:15,960 got that corrected. But the story itself did start where it was supposed to. 580 00:44:15,679 --> 00:44:22,480 In essence, it began with a telephone call that sent Johnny to Hollywood 581 00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:28,719 that was essentially off stage. So Tony Barrett, as a writer, decided 582 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,880 to begin the story differently than most of the other writers did. But the 583 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:37,159 story is complete, So if anyone else got thrown by that, I just 584 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,920 wanted to show you nothing's missing. All right, Well, now it's time 585 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:44,519 to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead 586 00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:50,280 and thank Andrew. Andrew has been one of our Patreon supporters since April twenty 587 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:55,800 twenty one, currently supporting the podcast at the Master Detective level of fifteen dollars 588 00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:00,599 or more per month. Thank you so much for your support, Andrew, 589 00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:05,280 and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please 590 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:10,039 follow us using your favorite podcast software, And if you're watching on YouTube, 591 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:15,119 be sure to lock the video, subscribe to the channel, and mark the 592 00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:20,159 notification bill. All those great things that help the channel to grow. We 593 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:24,880 will be back on Tuesday with another yours truly Johnny doll or Cereal. But 594 00:45:25,199 --> 00:45:31,679 join us back here tomorrow for Dragnet Where notice anything else funny about the guy? 595 00:45:34,559 --> 00:45:37,639 I don't know? Here's those names? Joe? Thanks. Kelby was 596 00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:42,280 upset, all right for some reason. He didn't strike me as react the 597 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,159 way and normal guy reacts when his wife disappears. All right, ell, 598 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:50,000 how would you react? Bar get he's worrying again. Oh now, listen, 599 00:45:50,079 --> 00:45:52,760 boys, it's no fooling't matter. This is one I'll bet on. 600 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:57,639 It's a homicide, all right? How about to copy this report? Yeah? 601 00:45:58,079 --> 00:46:01,760 Where I get the phone? Missing person? Spaghetti? Who's that? 602 00:46:04,119 --> 00:46:13,840 Oh? H yah? Yeah? But what? Oh? Sure? All 603 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:20,360 right sir? Four o'clock? Yeah, goodbye? That was kelby stepson. 604 00:46:20,519 --> 00:46:23,599 What do you want? I think something's happened to his mother. I hope 605 00:46:23,639 --> 00:46:28,280 you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments to 606 00:46:28,599 --> 00:46:34,960 Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, 607 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,280 and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives 608 00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:45,199 from Boise, Idaho. This is your host Adam Graham signing off