This is a horse on me, but I did find out that the race
for life and death. The police laboratory is where they make the photo finish.
This is another and the adventures of America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar.
At insurance Investigation, Johnny Dollar is only an expert at making out his
expense account. He is an apolote genius. Freens account submitted by special Investigator
Johnny Dollar to Hartford Branch Lloyd's Underwriters Association. The following is an accounting of
my expenditures during investigation of the circumstances threatening the life of the ensured the racehorse
file driver or been way off his feet if I didn't know my oats or
it's great to get a kick out of life, so long as it isn't
a kick in the Headpen's account item one eighteen cents one pack of the cigarettes.
You may consider this a personal item, but that's where this case really
started. At the cigar stands ground floor terminal office building here in Hartford.
I had come down on one of the yellovators noticed the little guy with a
cane staying with a stotter. After I passed him, I felt myself being
pointed out and not being the type of lights being followed for a long periods
of time. I gave myself a good reason to stop and look things over.
Oh we could Timac give me a pack of Lucky for him? I
just told you a pack. What your game is? I know, but
things may really start smoking any minute. Yeah, good morning to you,
sir. I haven't led to believe that you were one of This is John
Dollars, be it fact? Uh? Yeah, I'm dollar. What can
I do for you? Well, I am quite a famous feller myself.
Perhaps you've heard of the fabulous jockey Earl sand Yeah, but well, next
to him, I was among the best. May I introduce myself? I
am the famous little Nettie Montana, sometimes called the short Johnny Longen. Take
hands. How do you do ah to business? I think I have a
way for you to solve my problem and make yourself an honest buck. Besides,
oh now, whoa pony boy? You're wasting your time. I don't
bet the horses, and when I do, I don't buy chips and cows.
Oh now, wait a minute, pal, I did not introduce myself
for the purpose of being insolved I will have you know that I too,
do not consort with touts. I will thank you to keep a civil tongue
in your head. Oh, I can see this is gonna be one of
those days. What is your problem, sir, Well, it is a
problem best not overheard by people in the lobbies of office buildings. But this
much I can't tell you. It is about a horse and fifty thousand dollars
insurance. That is why I came to you. Well, it'd be richer
if I'd known more about horses, and poorer if I'd known less about insurance.
Maybe in this thing I can break even at least. Come on,
I hope you are not too much of a purist to ride in a taxi.
Little Nettie looked like he stopped growing physically at the age of fourteen,
and every once in a while he talked like his mind had also called a
quiz at about the same time. The only thing slick about him was his
hair, the only thing sharp his clothes. Liars always talked too much,
and Little Netty wouldn't say a word until we were inside my apartment. So
even before he started his pitch, I half believed it well to take it
from the beginning. I was born in a stable, and that's not just
a figure his speech. They brought the hot water in a feed bucket,
So you cannotderstand my deep affection for horses. You know. Now, on
top of that, kindly considered this one horse in particular, a very steed
by the name of pile Driver. Has not only made me very famous,
but has also made me a very large pilot. Hey, I have ridden
pile Driver to a win position since he was a maiden file Driver going a
hunk a horse. Ah ha, I remember then. You might also remember
that he was on his way to becoming one of the big money winners of
all time until I had to go and fall off a livery stable horse while
teaching a girl how to ride in Central Park. It busted up my leg,
and I might add my future to say nothing to pile drivers. He
hasn't won a race since I got grounded. You know, well, what's
all this got to do with insurance? Mister dollar? They are gonna murder
him. Oh can you guess why? I can try? File Driver is
heavily insured. He's also no longer winning races. He's also a man who
can't have a family. No good for studs. So if file Driver should
trip and break a leg, the owner would be entitled to shoot him,
and he'd still collect the insurance. I know it's been done. You have
hit the horse from nail on the head, mister dollar. I have a
concent durable bundle of money stashed away, and I am willing to devote a
considerable lump of it to the purpose of saving pile Driver. Now maybe you
wouldn't understand such a thing, but I happened to love that horse. I
understand at Netti Worthy. He is currently stable at a track named Hiawatha Oh
by the shores of Gitchi Gumi no No, by the shores of Lake Michigan.
This is located slightly north of a place called Chicago. Five telephone calls
and a few hundred questions later, I learned that pile Driver was insured by
your company, got the assignment, and was on my way. So expense
account adam too. Airfare Hartford to Chicago fifty seven dollars and seventy two cents.
Little Nettie insisted on coming along, and he kept the hum of the
plane from being a home drum. As followed well, Johnny The gentleman who
owns Pile Driver is an old Kentucky mid julep sponge named Colonel Faraday bush Now,
now this character has a very black heart hiding beneath the head of white
hair. I trusted him until I heard him say what he was going to
do. From then on, I have been seriously tempted to wrap these hands
around his neck and squeeze. All I can say is he has better not
hurt the pile Drive Spencer count I UM three sixteen dollars and forty cents.
Camp Fair, Chicago Municipal Airport, the Hiawatha Racetrack. Arrival time ten.
I am to me a racetrack always smells good, horses, green grass,
and excitement. Hey driver, keep a change. Well, this as the
saying goes, is it, mister dollar? You will have to take it
from here? Okay? Oh? Hey? Yeah? One last word of
warning. Watch out for his daughter Lilah a warrant. She's dangerous to a
guy like me, No, but to a guy like you. Yes.
Uh, pardon me? Miss? Can you tell me where I'll find the
boss around here? Colonel Bushnell, Oh, I was just gonna chase you
away if you don't look like just another hey in green hurcheon. That's I'm
not I'm buying. Where's your daddy? How do you know the colonel is
my daddy? Well they told me he had a pretty daughter. Well who
are you, mister? Well, it's for the name. That's twenty dollars,
that's for my business. That's trying to buy one of your father's horses.
Well, the colonel will be back for a little bit, but I'm
bossing on. He's away. I'll tell you now, I don't think he's
figuring I'm selling any of his horses. I'll be glad to show him to
good enough. But there's only one I'm really interested in. Pile driver.
Pile driver? Why I know Daddy wouldn't sell him? Why not? Well
he's practically one of the family. He put me through the last two years
of college. Do you mind if I see him anyway? Right? No,
not at all? Right over here, okay, year baby, you
have tiney darning needs mister dollan, Oh quite a horse. Yeah, he's
just a perfect dear auntie Donald, mister dollar, Why do you want to
buy a pile driver? Oh he's a great horse, got a great record.
Have you been following him, Nick, Yeah, finally he hasn't been
winning. That all make his price cheap and the odds long when he gets
back running. I just happen to think I can make a winner out of
him again, but his spirit's all gone. How do you think you're gonna
do that? If I told you, his price might be right back up,
Johnny Darling, I can't help it done well. It was great fun,
but what was it for Joey? You shouldn't have right out here in
the open? Oh, Leo, Yeah, what's going on? I'll wait,
Neil, honey, guy, it's your brother, will wish he was.
Besides, that's no way to kiss brothers. You get out of it,
buck Buster. If you want this girl's father, you'd better start doing
some wishing. Oh you thanks? So? H tell me what are you?
My head's like this kind of locks and I've got now and out going
on here you spectators run along now about your business, Leo, I must
say, I am surprised that you man tightened in front of a lady.
Get him off of me here, young man. I demand that you he's
mounts sooner or later. I guess I'll have to now. I listen,
Leo, are you paying close attention? Yeah? After I let you up,
as you make one move except away from here, I'll give you a
pair of fanniers. Okay, sou'mna start wearing pads him on leil honey,
Let's get away from here. How do not name me for what happened now?
See here? I demand an explanaians not I. I came here to
get the horse business and I end up in a fight racket. Who is
that guy there, gentleman, sir? Is Leo Kobd a brother horseholer?
And I might tool the favorite of warning you that mister Copas is a hard
enough man in business dealings, but when it comes to my daughter, he's
downright violence. Your daughter was downright impulsive, maybe so, but Leo is
hardly the tight stand by while some other fellas kisses his girl. And I
saw that happen with my old eyes. I don't want to worry at colonel.
I didn't come here to collect lipsticks samples. One thing I can be
glad about in my encounter was mister Leo Corby. What is that that he
isn't James j come on channel, let's start business, Hey, bar tender
Hey, mister Dallas over here. Oh, never mind, there's my man
all of that? Oh yeah, I mean, oh, I'm fine.
Hey, but you what did you catch that lous under your eye? I'm
sure there's a trap? I am. You were so right about missus Bushnell.
She's not only dangerous, he's daffy. Eh. I didn't know she
could hit that high, or she didn't just say that she has a novel
way of introducing people to her boyfriend. Oh you know, I'm Leo Corbett.
If I knew anymore, i'd beat a racing Commission's witness. He owns
a string of very fast horses who run very slow until the odds get right.
Then he bets him up to the brisket wins himself a potball. It's
also rumored that he is a stiff competition to the perimutual machine. He books
big bets among the owners. They'll catch up to him sooner, they always
do. Amen. But about that human glue factory, My friend, the
horse killing colonel, what with him? Oh? I offered him sixty thousand
dollars for file driver. Huh, that's ten thousand more than he did.
He knocked him off and collected the instran. Yeah, well, are you
gonna lay your mits on sixty g's. I haven't got that kind of dough.
We don't need that kind of little netting. You see. I told
Bushmill that I was sending to California for my private vet, and that he'd
be here in three days, and once he pronounced the horse sound, I'd
give him the money. Yeah, but that only means that pile Driver is
safe for another three days, and that's lot. And those three days is
up to me to prove intense. And if it is there, I'll prove
it and have the policy canceled. Once that's done, he'll probably be willing
to peddle the horse for ten thousands that I can handle. But in the
meantime, I'm not taking any chance to see. I'm keeping pile Driver under
my own personal eye, and I wish you wouldn't, Nettie. We don't
want the colonel getting suspicious. I can't help it, mister Dollar. I
just can't help it. Okay, neddie, but don't flow it. Be
careful. Like all race track, Kyle Walker was surrounded by motor courts and
bungalows with rooms for rent. No expensive count four three dollars room rats.
I set the tin alarm clock for h and my ear for any time,
and went most of the way to sleep. First things being first, I
dreamed the girl. Then I dreamed the fire engine, and suddenly I realized
why I was hearing some I bounced out of bed and over the window.
There I saw him Sunday of sun bed, hanging over the race track stables.
I jumped into my pants and into the landdy's car and got over there
as fast as in nineteen twenty ninety four. It could take me. Hey,
you you, how does start? I don't know half of the guys.
We're looking at my little guy with a lamp while we're hanging around.
Oh, where'd he go? I didn't care that I heard it right in
the fire didn't come out stop right again. I had one particular horse to
get to hurry, and I hoped one particular guy. The door to pile
Driver's store was closing padlocks. I throwed on the stable out of the wood
with the pick end of a fire axe through the door. Ophin grabbed a
lung pull of fresh air, closed my eyes and slammed into the smoke.
I could have been smoked to death, Furst to death, a stamp to
death. But I had to take the chance Stadio whoa whoa pile driving out?
Take it easy, easy, easy boy. I wiped him on the
rump and the axe handle and dropped it. I slipped to my knees started
groping across the straw covered floor. I knew it. If there was any
air in there, that's where it would be. And there was an ex
jockey in there, that's where he would be. And that's where he was
in the first corner. I tried threw off his backwards toward the doors,
dragging him instry in out into the clean, cold shower of fresh night hand.
But I could have saved myself a trip. Little Neddie Montana was dead.
He had a horseshoe hung on his forehead, but not for luck.
And all I could think of at the moment was Jackie's big friend is not
always his force. In the moment. We will return to the second act
of Johnny Dollar, but first, may we take just a moment from tonight's
Johnny Dollar stories will remind you that three more fine adventure shows come your way
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Here these three Philip Morlow, Gangbusters and Escape, along with yours Truly Johnny
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Best of all is the address. Now with our star Charles Russell,
we returned to the second act of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Tough luck,
Nice try Little Neddie Millar, this is horrible. It sure as much left
for Little Neddy. You do, yeah? I mean he's dead. You
know, when I was a kid, I knew about a story with a
horse and a woman in it. Hell about Troy. I should have remembered
that before I tangled with you. Why don't you get lost? What is
the matter with you, miss Bushmill? Two minutes after I met you,
you bagged me into a fist fight with your boyfriend with a phony kiss.
I don't know how much you had to do with puttying middle Nettie where he
is? But I intend to find out true. Any fool leaving you,
mister Dollar, complainly see that this boy's been kicking the head by a horse.
What do you keep? What? What? What? Who sat their?
What? This little nitty do kill me? What would you be if
you got kicked in the head by a horse? Colonel quite the pool boy.
I held this lad in deeper fiction until just a few months back.
He was my big jockey. What on earth was he doing around here at
this time of night? And all I can say, Little Netty swapped his
life for pile drivers. As far as he was. It's a pretty big
price to pay, although I guess you wouldn't think so what what's it?
I commanded an inclination of precisely what huisas I mean that to some people,
a dead horse is more valuable than a live one. Too bad, you
can't go count your money. I gotta take my friend of the morgues.
An hour later, little Neddie was resting better than I was. I'd made
my report to the police and was back pacing the floor in my rented room.
There wasn't a long walk. Yeah, I gotta see you right away.
Why don't you start another fire that'll draw me. I didn't have anything
to do with that fire, but I'm not talk to you right away.
Where can I meet you? Have you got a car? Yes, yes,
I'll come. Anybody take me off here in twenty minutes. Come alone,
and we'll take a little drive to the country. I want to be
just the three of us, you and me and the dew drops. Dawn
was making a dark gray promise in the sky when she picked me up,
and I feel easy to please birds and found something to sing about. During
the first five miles, Lilah denied everything except that she was a woman,
and there was no hiding that. I had her pull in under a tree
and said, well, I won't you call me it's it was something you
said to my father about a host being more valuable dead than alive. You
sold me out once. What are you planning on now selling out your old
man? You women? You know if a truth has ever told, it'll
probably come out the Goldilocks cut her grandmother's throat to swipe the gold out of
her teeth. Please don't make fun of me, fun, she calls it.
Well, you have something to spill. Get it off your check.
My father, who's Leo called it fifty thousand dollars he lost at that non
Chile driver. Leo's been demanding his money and father doesn't have it. And
I heard Leo practically order father to destroy a tile driver for the insurance.
And what did Daddy dare say to that? He said he'd do, but
I know he wouldn't. I know he didn't set that far. Oh you
know, I just know that that will sound good to a jury. Why
are you coming to me with all this stuff? Because you're our only hope.
Can't you buypile drive a rod of wing? It would solve everything everything?
But one thing? What's that? Why didn't you go to all that
trouble to get me punched in the eye? Oh yeah, I just wanted
to show Leo that he wasn't going to have everything his own way, and
you look strong enough to do it. WHOA, that's a stupid answer.
Why not makes a stupid kind of sense. He dropped me off at my
rooming house, where I dropped off to sleep. It was, however,
only a four hour planning expense account on him five six fifty cab fair to
headquarters thomisop Vision Chicago Police. That's one city where the cops were an old
fashioned star, but they sure do operate for a new fashion. Speed has
witnessed the enclosed report made by looking at Craig six hours after filing of inquiry.
According to the findings of the autopsy, Dollar, your hunch or whatever
you call it, was right. The deceased Little Nettie was not kicked to
death by a horse. Examinations of the would reveals that it was admitted by
a new horseshoe. The shoe on a horse's hoop would have left traces of
the straws conca. We say that the fatal weapon was swung by person or
person's unknown. As you suggested, he'd have to have been standing on his
head to have a horseshoe make the market did if the horse had kicked him,
the Lord Tenna had made only one mistake. He should have said person
or person's known. Spencer count Adam six ten cents two telephone calls the idea
I was working, and I'll give you for nothing. Spencer Counadam's seven six
fifty cap fair to Administration Building Hiawatha Racetrack where the afternoon's program was in progress,
and where I got the wholehearted cooperation of the track officials and the use
of a vacant office in which the whole the meeting I had set up.
I sat myself in a swivel chair and waited, come in. It's the
dollar. I can't tell you how happy I am the doll this transaction.
He's about to become committee. If you have the money with yourself, pile
droppies. You wait a minute, colonel, let's not go consummating too quickly.
Bo. You indicated to the telephone. I indicated over the phone.
Justice, I said, my offer was as good as it ever was,
and I tell you the truth, it's not very good. No. See
who's there? Come in? What WILLO? What are you doing up here?
Anytime anybody shows up the hand over sixty thousand the U for a pile
driver, I'm going to be here. That's exactly what this smart guy called
me up to tell me he's about to do. Now, now, gentlemen,
gentlemen, let's take it easy. Before I do anything. I want
to make sure I'm not doing business with a murderer, I demanded, an
explaining, what about you, Leon, Yeah, so do I. Well,
here it is. The Chicago police know two things, One that last
night's fire was set, and two that little Nettie was murdered. And the
little Netty got a couple of lungfuls of smoke before he got hit over the
head with a horseshoe. That means that whoever hit him over the head sucked
in some smoke too. I've never heard such a pem none change in my
life. What are you getting a wise guys, That's what I told you.
I don't want to do business with a murderer, especially sixty thousand dollars
worth. But I've met it easy on you to prove that you weren't.
You See, I got a doctor in the next room with portable X ray
equipment. If you've got fire smoke in your lungs, it'll show up.
Now, how about it? This is ridicularly, Why don't you leave the
dick tracy step to the funny papers because I don't feel like laughing now once
more? How about it? City? I still do to what this kump
fool is both, and I'll feel down right hilly while I'm doing it,
but I'm willing to take my casus Okay, Leon, you're first follow me.
Turning your back on a murderer is no way to stay healthy, but
very often it's a good way to get him to make his move. This
one did right out the door, knocking me down on route, and the
chase was on out of the building and out toward the grand stand and the
racing circles. There they go. It may have been Dreamy Boy at the
quarter and on the track where it was my quarry by fifty lanches. He
headed up an island to the grand stand. Dreamy Boy was still doing fine
down there, and I was moving up up here whatever the top of the
grand stand, on to the ramp leading to the press box section, justin
dreaming. But we hit the free quarter, we hit the grand span roof,
and then we went into the stretch. Hey, Corvette's hopeless. You
can't get much farther. You're running out of room. I slid behind a
ventilator and showed myself a drawer shots. He was loudly if he hadn't Dick
hitting this with a near conditioned elbow. Okay, Carvett, you pass,
I'm tying her shots. Corbett tried a few ventilators himself, and then Apparently
he decided the second time he fought me, he'd do better. He rushed
and swinging. I was doing great treating punches. But he finally moved inside
and through one like bloat. But he came up past to his knee,
said, and he took off straight to the back corner edge of the pitch
roof. He swung over the side and started shooting down on the hundred foot
rain pipe. But that pipe was built to carry a rain, not people.
At the finish line of one tiny segment of the human race, it
was gambler, arsonist, murderer Leo Corbett by a head. He spends account
item eight Dinner for two with the Changri Line downtown Chicago, thirty four dollars
and forty cent dinner itself, when he took forty minutes and eight of the
dollars the rest of the evening, and the money was spent listening to the
story of her life, a story which would not by any means win any
pulitive prize, or for that matter, any husband. But sometimes when you're
interested in the girl like Lilah, you have to act like you're interested in
what she's saying. Expense Account Item nine fifty seven dollars and seventy two cents
airfare Chicago to Harford. Item ten A dollar fifty one book to read on
airplane titled how to Win at the Races As if I just hadn't found out.
Expense account total fourteen and forty nine dollars and twenty two cents. I
guess you could call that horse sense. Signs Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Hours
Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Gordon T. Hughes and Charles Russell,
script by Paul Dudley and Gildald. Featured in the cast were Bill Cotrad,
Dora Singleton, Jerryhausner, Herb Butterfield, and Hall March. The special
music is written and conducted by wild Patch. Be sure to be with us
at the same time next week when another unusual expense account is handed in by
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Those mystery adventure shows we mentioned earlier, the Fun
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