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But now, from July 17 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,480 ninth and tenth, nineteen fifty six, here is the Shady Lane Manner, 18 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:13,240 Episodes one and two from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar, Pete 19 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:15,280 Carlson, Johnny Star muchuer, Oh, Hi have Pete? How's the family 20 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,680 great? The lucky dogs are at Cape Cod for the summer while I toil 21 00:02:19,719 --> 00:02:23,759 and Fred what's fretting you at the moment? Letter Johnny, Listen, if 22 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,280 you're wanting to know who murdered ellen Bate, you pay no mind to that 23 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,280 person or person's unknown. You just look real close to home, Look real 24 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,680 close to home. The postmark Shady Lane, Vermont, and the signature, 25 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:40,879 I suppose is that famous old name. That's right, anonymous. Ellen Bate 26 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,319 was killed there a month ago. We shot to death. We carried a 27 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,120 ten thousand dollar policy owner and the beneficiary, Ben Bates, her husband. 28 00:02:47,199 --> 00:02:51,560 He's got a farm about four miles out of Shady Lane. What's the status 29 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,759 of the investigation? Stay on, mate, Johnny. The coroner's jury brought 30 00:02:53,759 --> 00:02:57,919 in an open verdict and there's been nothing turned up since we were just on 31 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,319 the point of paying off the policy. Now, all right, Pete, 32 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:12,879 I'll fret for you if I can find Shady Lane on the map tonight and 33 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,680 every weekday night. Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the 34 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:35,840 Action Packed expensingout America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator, Yours Truley Johnny Dollar, from 35 00:03:35,919 --> 00:03:38,840 Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office Star Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, 36 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:44,639 Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Shady 37 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:52,960 Lane matter. Itam one thirty six dollars and seventy cents transportation and incidentals. 38 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,719 Hartford to Shady Lane. A quiet little town of around a thousand population, 39 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,360 drowsy streets lined with white frame home, picket fences and flower bedded yards. 40 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,800 A town with a well chosen name, built under the protecting shade of venerable 41 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:12,159 elms and spreading maples. A country crossroads town with one of everything, one 42 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:15,639 in, one restaurant, one garage, one general store, one barber shop, 43 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,720 and one constable, a gaunt and a lantern jeored, leather faced man 44 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:23,839 of middle age named Jed Bramler. Yeah, it's a fact, mister Doller 45 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,000 lived here all my life. First time I've ever seen it this hot. 46 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,079 It's fore more right for this time of year. At least. Weather's changing. 47 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:36,519 World two, everything's changing except human nature that too. Maybe take this 48 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,600 killing, don't rightly know how to go about dealing with it? Well, 49 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:45,079 maybe we can figure out something between us. That's the bullet that killed him. 50 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:48,439 Yeah, that's the one. It's an odd size and shape, hand 51 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,759 poured. Say it's hand poured. It's for an old fashioned squirrel rifle, 52 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,519 smooth bore, single shot. I see, and I reckon. That's about 53 00:04:56,519 --> 00:04:59,319 all I can give you in the way of facts or clues. I guess 54 00:04:59,319 --> 00:05:02,399 you call them. Oh, facts will do all right. Hellen Bates was 55 00:05:02,399 --> 00:05:05,879 a fine woman, had a hard life. She was married, no children, 56 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,680 She was alive. Now she's dead. Cause of death, a bullet 57 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,560 and the heart. Them's all facts, mister dollar. How did it happen? 58 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:17,240 Don't rightly know? Want no witnesses. Could have been an accident, 59 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,839 even what do you mean an accident? Were one of them hunters from the 60 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:27,240 city them through here, regular confounded idiots shoot at anything that moves, Well, 61 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,879 surely not a human being sitting in her own living room. They might 62 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:34,240 have never can tell crazy as they are shot a gold belonged to Het Wilmer 63 00:05:34,399 --> 00:05:38,720 last fall, caught him with it tied on their bumper. Said it was 64 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,480 a mountain sheet. Yes, yes, might have done it unintentional, then 65 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:46,240 got scared and run out. Yes, possibly, except for one of those 66 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,680 facts, which fact this bullet. Hunters from the city don't use old fashioned 67 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:56,199 squirrel rifles, mister Bramler, m Well, I said it could have been 68 00:05:56,199 --> 00:06:00,040 an accident. Who didn't say it was? I reckon somebody meant to kill 69 00:06:00,079 --> 00:06:02,319 her? Oh, I don't think there's much dot of that. There ain't 70 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,759 wi sill was might not feel so dang worthless? Then what do you mean 71 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:11,600 Ellen Bates was a fine woman. Hate to think of somebody killing her and 72 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:15,040 getting clean away with it, And let's make sure they don't get away with 73 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:17,839 it. Got nothing to go on, mister Dollar, Not one lonesome thing. 74 00:06:18,759 --> 00:06:23,800 What about a possible motive? Haven't turned up a single one. Did 75 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,920 she have any enemies? Everybody that knew her loved her? What about this 76 00:06:28,959 --> 00:06:32,040 bullet? Did you have a ballistic check maiden? Yeah, send it clear 77 00:06:32,079 --> 00:06:35,560 to New York. They come up with anything. Six page report. Yeah, 78 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,160 she's got it here somewhere. You can look at it if you want 79 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:42,240 to know. No, no need too. What was their conclusion, same 80 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,680 as mine? Fired from an old fashioned squirrel rifle. Now anybody around here 81 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,160 might own a gun like that. Yeah, but now anybody in the township 82 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:56,480 must be three four hundred of them rifles around keepsakes handed down family souvenirs. 83 00:06:57,439 --> 00:07:01,959 And that's one dead. Then couldn't be much dead. It's like I told 84 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:04,680 you, ain't no clues at all, at least none to speak of. 85 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:08,800 Woman without an enemy in the world, sitting in front of her window, 86 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:14,560 shot fired from outside the house. Woman's dead. Them the facts and all 87 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:19,439 the facts. No, not quite all, eh, But you mean people 88 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:27,000 persons are factional and their relations with other persons are facts, facts that we 89 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,720 can check on. Already told you, mister Dolla. Ellen Bate didn't have 90 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:35,040 no enemies. The person who killed her wasn't exactly a friend known enemies, 91 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:39,399 I mean, but she had contacts and relations with other persons, and one 92 00:07:39,399 --> 00:07:43,360 of them, known or unknown, was her enemy. Maybe an accidental enemy 93 00:07:43,399 --> 00:07:46,959 with a motive in the capacity for murder. What you mean by accidental Maybe 94 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,439 missus Bates saw something from that window of hers something that made her dangerous to 95 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:56,439 someone else. Maybe she didn't even know she'd made an enemy. Yeah, 96 00:07:56,439 --> 00:08:01,199 that might be. Or maybe it's just a matter of her death benefiting somebody 97 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:03,920 who otherwise wouldn't be her enemy. Mm hmmm. It thought of that course, 98 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,920 but it don't lead nowhere. It might. I've got a letter here, 99 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:11,959 mister Bramler. I wish you'd take a look at it, all right. 100 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:15,560 It arrived yesterday at the home office of my client in Hartford. It 101 00:08:15,639 --> 00:08:20,160 was mailed here in Shady Lane, cool and close to whom looked real close 102 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:26,360 to whom. Not signed, eh No, not signed. Any idea who 103 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:30,279 might have sent it? Yeah, somebody with a lot of vinegar in their 104 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:35,440 blood, don't know. It's a fact, wouldn't count too much on it. 105 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:37,960 Five of you, what do you mean? Well, like you just 106 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,600 said, a matter of her death benefiting somebody. So with that insurance policy 107 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,000 like tears, the person that had benefited most would be her husband, Ben 108 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,080 Bates. Forget him? Why, Like you said, motive and capacity. 109 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,000 Even if money was motive enough for Ben, he just hadn't got the capacity 110 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,399 for murder. Forget him. Is Ben Bates a good friend of yours, 111 00:08:58,399 --> 00:09:05,720 mister bramlery since we were boys together. I see maybe you only think you 112 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:09,600 see, I ain't making allowances for him. Just know him, that's all. 113 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,279 Maybe i'd better meet him, all right, farms just out of town 114 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,720 ways. I'll drive you out there if you want. Oh, i'd appreciate 115 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:20,879 that. Only one thing. You've got an expense count of some kind, 116 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:24,519 isn't you sure that's right? Why? Well, we're not exactly a poor 117 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:28,200 folks up here, but we ain't rich neither. And the township is kind 118 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,879 of trugal with their money. I see going to have to charge it for 119 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,320 the car expense, if it's alright with you? Oh, sure that sounds 120 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,679 fine. Yeah, well, then maybe we could make a couple of other 121 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,679 calls on the way, would you want to see? Well, mostly i'd 122 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,440 like to talk to the corner here, and you already have. Uh well, 123 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:52,600 i'm the coroner, mister dollar. Well are we ready? Expense account 124 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,759 item too? Three dollars even transportation and constable jet Bramley's car from Shady Lane 125 00:09:56,759 --> 00:10:01,639 to the Ben Bates farm. It was a pleasant trip summertime on a country 126 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:07,039 road, winding among the farms, climbing lazily over the ridges, the heavy 127 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,159 pungent scent of flax and clover, the hum of bees. But I couldn't 128 00:10:11,159 --> 00:10:16,480 completely enjoy it. I kept wondering how much real help I could expect from 129 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,879 a constable who'd already made up his mind that the top suspect wasn't capable of 130 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:24,279 murder, A constable who was also coroner and for all I knew county attorney 131 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:31,799 and district judge, a constable who might even be just natal thought might even 132 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:37,000 be a murderer. Now this is a prene farm, Ben Bates's placed. 133 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,000 He is the next one about a quarter mile. I see that's Martin Prene 134 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:43,639 there outside of the road, working on that fence. Matchwhell passed the time 135 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,720 of day with him. I reckon where the Prine's and the baits good friends? 136 00:10:46,919 --> 00:10:54,000 Yeah, real close afternoon jab Martin township must be getting lex at Ugo 137 00:10:54,039 --> 00:11:00,480 gallivant and around on pleasure trips being paid for Martin facial business. This here's 138 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,320 mister Darney Dollar from down round Hartford. Martin Preeney, mister Dollar, I 139 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,240 do that's quite a job you're doing that, mister Preeney. Well, the 140 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,000 rock wall do just fine if you stack them real careful, so they lock 141 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,919 together. What's pretty difficult. Takes a knack, no doubt about that, 142 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,320 and work and time. But if it's dug in below the frost line, 143 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,759 rock wall will last a lifetime. And that's what I believe in, mister 144 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:30,720 Dollar, planning ahead and building right, that's a good philosophy. And then 145 00:11:30,799 --> 00:11:33,960 too, the rock wall is a site cheaper that Benson. And right there 146 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,320 is his real reason, mister Dollar. A man that wastes a substance, 147 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:41,240 the fool and a sinner. I believe in Pruden. It's your only virtue, 148 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:46,360 Martin Fiddlesticks. We got callers. Sarah, come on out here. 149 00:11:46,799 --> 00:11:50,480 Ain't staying Martin. Just passing just a minute, Martin, just what's so 150 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,600 called official business? You owned? Jet murder of Ellen Bates. Mister Dollar 151 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,519 here is an insurance investigator. He's come to look into it. I see. 152 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,840 Well it's a terrible tragedy, mister Dollar. Sad thing for the whole 153 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:07,440 township, especially for Sarah and me. Yes, I imagine. So they've 154 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,240 been good neighbors, fine people, folks about to be proud to know. 155 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,519 So I understand couldn't help Feln sorry for him, just didn't seem to get 156 00:12:16,519 --> 00:12:20,440 ahead inspite of Ben being a good hard worker, and then this on top 157 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,279 of all the other trouble. You there, what do you mean by trouble? 158 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:26,519 Afternoon, gentlemen, come here, Sarah wants to meet a friend of 159 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,000 Jed's. Mister Johnny Dolla, my wife, Sarah. Mister Dollar comes from 160 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:35,759 hating. Then he's here for he works for an insurance company. He's given 161 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,200 Jed the hand with this Ellen Bates thing. Oh yes, I see, 162 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,559 Well, don't let me interrupt. Ah, I'm just tell him, mister 163 00:12:43,639 --> 00:12:46,159 Dolla, what good neighbors the Baits have always been. A body couldn't ask 164 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,240 for a better friend than Ellen Bates. Mister Preeney, you said something about 165 00:12:50,279 --> 00:12:56,159 all the other trouble later, I was referring to Ellen's illness way after that 166 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:00,559 operation last year. She was pertinently an indig you might say. Ben had 167 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,120 to wait on the hand and foot, along with Doom for the house and 168 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:05,080 running the fire. A lot of time you spent taking care of her, 169 00:13:05,279 --> 00:13:09,559 now, Sah, not half as much time as he spent hanging around that 170 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:11,639 girl. What girl is that? Missus prey? Why that little flipper digy? 171 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,960 But that works up? I'm sorry Martin. But it's true, and 172 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,080 you know it, mister Dolla. I'm afraid my wife had just repeating gossip 173 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:24,200 she's heard. And Bait's a fine young man. Any story to the contrary, 174 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,240 I had a rumors, nothing more. Well, sometimes the best way 175 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,519 to stop an idle rumor is to check into it. If you'd care to 176 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:33,399 tell me who I know the girl, mister Dolla, her name is Millie 177 00:13:33,399 --> 00:13:37,320 Wales. He's a waitress at the Shady Lane Cafe. I'd like to talk 178 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,759 to her. You can when we get back to town where folks reckon. 179 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:43,919 We'd better be getting on. And mister Dolla, Ellen Bates was a fine 180 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,200 woman. Whoever it was killed her. I hope you get him. I 181 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:54,440 believe we will. Oh and by the way, missus Springey, the company 182 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,320 was very grateful for your letter. My letter, I mean, how did 183 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,360 you know it? No? I was just guessing. Nice to have met 184 00:14:03,399 --> 00:14:24,360 both of you. See you again, Johnny Dollar. Ready, would you 185 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:28,360 call the Hartford mister Dollars Nanks operator? Go ahead, Hartford? Hello, 186 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:31,759 Giant, Yeah, Pete a big fan expense account and you still reverse the 187 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:35,559 call? I had to. I'm phoning from a crossroad store. Look, 188 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,519 I need a quick factor to in connection with the Ellen Bates murder. That 189 00:14:37,639 --> 00:14:41,679 ten thousand dollars policy on Ellen's life? When was it written? Pete? 190 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,240 Around four years ago. I'll get the exact date if you want to hang 191 00:14:45,279 --> 00:14:46,559 on. No, No, that's close enough. I was hoping it was 192 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,360 only a year or two. Back knocks a pet theory in the head. 193 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,279 No, but it doesn't help. But any hey, is there also a 194 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,639 policy on the life of Ben Bates? Yeah, same amount, taking out 195 00:14:56,639 --> 00:15:01,320 the same time, right after they were married. A nice round zero. 196 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,600 What do the local authorities thinks? The only local authority in Shady Lane is 197 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,440 sitting outside in the car right now, and he thinks the same as I 198 00:15:09,519 --> 00:15:26,720 do, which is what we're both stumped. I'll be talking to you from 199 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:31,559 special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Shady Lane, Vermont to the home office Star 200 00:15:31,679 --> 00:15:37,399 Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment. The Shady Lane matter expense 201 00:15:37,399 --> 00:15:45,480 account continued. It had him four to seven cents a copy of the Shady 202 00:15:45,559 --> 00:15:48,919 Lane Weekly Crier, the paper that prints the folksy news. According to the 203 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:54,360 Masthead, maybe it would help because the whole case seemed to have a foxy 204 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,120 flavor. A young farm wife named Ellen Bates, a semi invalid without a 205 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:02,799 known enemy in the township, had been shot to death a month before the 206 00:16:02,919 --> 00:16:07,399 killer. Unidentified motive, unknown physical evidence, non existent, leads none. 207 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,919 I rejoined Constable Jed Bramler in the car and glanced over the paper as we 208 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,639 drove on to the base farm. I began to realize that folks here on 209 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:18,720 that the Baits case was probably going to be tougher than an old boots. 210 00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:26,240 We'll leave the car here at the road and walk up through the draw. 211 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,639 I'll show you how it happened. All right, good, the shirt doesn't 212 00:16:30,639 --> 00:16:37,200 look like very good farmland, tain't. Ben's got a few good acres north 213 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:38,559 of the house, but most of it's like this. Won't grow much of 214 00:16:38,559 --> 00:16:41,799 anything except in rocks. Takes a lot of scratch in to make it go 215 00:16:41,879 --> 00:16:45,279 over a place like this. Yeah, yeah, I mentioned. And it 216 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,240 would be even tougher if you had to take care of an invalid wife at 217 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,759 the same time. I reckon could watch yourself on that barb wire, mister 218 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:56,960 Dollar, all right, heck, there's easier ways to get into the house. 219 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,799 But I figured you'd like to see how the killer got away. And 220 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,919 this is it you think? Huh he fired the shot from cover and then 221 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,319 oh she did all right, whichever and then he or she ran back down 222 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,160 this draw here and got away. Yeah, must have been seen otherwise, 223 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,680 But here in the draw a person would be out of sight from both houses, 224 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,960 either the Baits place or the preenies over on the other side. I'll 225 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,079 buy that one, all right. This brush is thick enough to hide or 226 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,359 herd a channel. Yeah. Once the killer got to the road back where 227 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,519 we left, the car might have gone any place. That's the trouble. 228 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,119 This case is too full of mites. Tried to pick up a trail in 229 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,359 here, even brought in dogs, but they didn't turn up nothing. Dogs 230 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:42,160 is mostly overrated anyhow, So I've heard Yeah, let's see now how to 231 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,279 be right about here? Some ah ah, yes, there we are over 232 00:17:47,319 --> 00:17:49,359 that way. Uh huh yeah, yeah, I see the stake you put 233 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,400 up to market place. Nope, because need to put it up. It's 234 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,319 a survey marker. But it's just about where I calculate the shot was fired. 235 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:03,799 Drum uh right about what was the survey for mister Bremler Highway Department. 236 00:18:03,079 --> 00:18:07,480 They was figuring to build a new turnpike through here last year fell through. 237 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:11,839 Though how come the whys of a public bureau ain't for mere man to know, 238 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,240 mister Dolla. They finally picked someplace else a few months ago, came 239 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:19,039 too, might have made this land worth something to be in another one of 240 00:18:19,079 --> 00:18:23,400 those mites. Now, look through the bushes there, just to the left 241 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:29,480 of that big maple. That's the corner, the parlor corner of the Bates 242 00:18:29,519 --> 00:18:33,440 house. And Ellen was sitting right there in that big front window when it 243 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,480 happened. Ben has put the glass back in since, well, it wouldn't 244 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,599 have been too difficult. A shot from here in old fashioned squirrel rifles is 245 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,880 mighty accurate, and nearly everybody in the township has one, that's about it. 246 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,039 That's not a matter of finding a needle in a straw stack. It's 247 00:18:49,079 --> 00:18:53,759 finding one special straw in a strawstack. Mighty hard chore, I'd say, 248 00:18:55,519 --> 00:19:00,400 so would I. So there she sat, an easy to market, alone 249 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:07,759 at her own front window. Well not exactly alone, mister Dollah. Alone 250 00:19:07,839 --> 00:19:10,960 at the window, yes, but missus Preeney was in the room with her 251 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,519 at the time. The woman who wrote the anonymous letter accusing Ben Bates, 252 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:18,519 I didn't know that, didn't seem to have no burying. She just happened 253 00:19:18,559 --> 00:19:21,559 to be there, brought over a cake or something from next door. She 254 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,759 was always doing things like that for Ellen. Uh huh. But missus Preeney 255 00:19:25,799 --> 00:19:29,559 didn't see who fired the shot. She just heard the window glass crash and 256 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:32,759 saw Ellen come half out of her chair and then fall on the floor, 257 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,559 an invalid, helpless sitting there at a window. Now, what the devil 258 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:40,920 could a woman like that do to make somebody hate her enough to kill her? 259 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,240 Dollar? If I could answer that, I would have somebody locked up 260 00:19:45,279 --> 00:19:51,839 by now if anybody did hate her? Of course, meaning maybe hate wasn't 261 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,599 the reason. Got a better one. Oh, I'm just supposing, eh, 262 00:19:56,799 --> 00:19:59,279 and quite a bit of that. Hey, tell me something, mister 263 00:19:59,319 --> 00:20:03,599 Bramler. This waitress at the Shady Lane Cafe, the one missus Preeney made 264 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:07,839 the insinuations about it. Millie Wells? Yeah, Millie Wells? Is she 265 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,440 pretty? Rare? Hard? Say? Tastes differ? I reckon though most 266 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,680 anybody'd call her pretty? Though? Well, what about that gossip missus Preney 267 00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:18,640 was spouting? Is it just a romer? I was Ben seeing Millie before 268 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,920 his wife was murdered hard nuts. Here ain't a very big town, you 269 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,359 know what I mean? Did he go out of his way to see her? 270 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,720 Stopped in the cafe there once in a while, a cup of coffee, 271 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,079 piece of pie, doing all the cooking at home like he was? 272 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,640 He got a mite tired of it? I reckon? What about now? 273 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,440 Is he still singer each most of his evening meals? There is that all 274 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:45,160 that amounts to? Well, Folks generally agree that there's some interest building up 275 00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:49,200 since his wife's dead. What about his wife? Did she have any chance 276 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,920 at all of getting well? Nope, not, according to the doctors. 277 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:59,880 I see, mister dollar, you are bocking up that same wrong tree again. 278 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:03,000 Oh it kind of adds up figures. Lie Sometimes pretty girl, young 279 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,079 and alive, interested, maybe an invalid wife, run down farm, a 280 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:11,119 ten thousand dollars insurance policy, all tacked true enough, He wouldn't be the 281 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,359 first man I went wrong with a setup like that. Ah not, ben 282 00:21:15,799 --> 00:21:19,319 I told you before. Murder just ain't in his nature. Oh come on, 283 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,039 let's walk on up to the house and talk to him. Woman And 284 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:26,839 one other thing, that anonymous letter, missus Preeney sent us, And why 285 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:29,920 would she go out of a way to get Ben Bates in trouble. I'd 286 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:33,559 say I thought she was a friend of the Bates, of missus Bates. 287 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,960 Yes, Ellen, But for some reason she never has seemed to like Ben 288 00:21:37,079 --> 00:21:41,440 very much. I don't know why she's done it, mister Dollar, but 289 00:21:41,559 --> 00:21:45,599 I sure wouldn't put no stock in what she said. It's just her nature, 290 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:52,680 that's all it is. It was late afternoon, long shadows were beginning 291 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,440 to stretch out over the flinty ground, almost the same time of day that 292 00:21:56,519 --> 00:22:02,759 Ellen Bates was killed her husband. I was beginning to believe, and yet 293 00:22:02,759 --> 00:22:07,279 Constable Jed Bramler swore by Ben, his longtime friend, human ties, human 294 00:22:07,319 --> 00:22:11,839 emotions, just plain folks, and a case that was growing messier and more 295 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:22,640 vague by the eye. How much sign of life? Well, Ben's in 296 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:29,640 and out, you never know. Sounds like somebody coming around the house. 297 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:33,039 Must have been working out in the barn. Always plenty to do on a 298 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:37,240 flint rock farm. You've come looking from it, Constable, how are you, 299 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:45,079 grod eight? He said, how are you? I'm fine. I'm 300 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:49,200 just fine. Ben around. I've been working our back fixed and spread it. 301 00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:53,720 Yeah, let fine, Grode, He's Ben here Ben. No, 302 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,160 No, Miss Ben's not here. No where he is. No, he's 303 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,000 not here. Any idea when he'll be back. No, no, he 304 00:23:03,039 --> 00:23:07,000 didn't say you can go in, and said, though, if you want 305 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:12,759 constable, maybe we will. Grody, this is mister Dollar, Grody Huwkins. 306 00:23:12,799 --> 00:23:18,640 How I'm fine. I'm just fine. Grody does our jobs for Ben. 307 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,119 Some of the other farmers too. Oh, I see were you working 308 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,359 here the day missus Bates was killed? Well, that's a lie. I 309 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,359 won't even near here that day. And anybody that says I was a liar, 310 00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:32,920 I was crow over on the other side of town. We'll go inside 311 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:41,279 and wait. Mister Dollar, all right, see you. Grody kind of 312 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:47,039 gets excited when he figures he's being cued something. Yeah, he seems scared 313 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:51,960 of you. Has he been in trouble before, Teddy? Stuff like shooting 314 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:55,400 game out of season? Is he a good shot? Dead shot? Never 315 00:23:55,519 --> 00:24:03,519 miss his In fact, we waited in the parlor for a while. The 316 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,720 room where Ellen Bates had died. Her picture was still over the mantel, 317 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:11,920 a clear eyed, sober woman much younger than I'd imagined. The sun gradually 318 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,039 set, and the light on the picture grew dim but Ben didn't come back. 319 00:24:17,079 --> 00:24:19,160 We gave up finally and drove back to town. I left Bramler at 320 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,400 his office and walked down the street to the Shady Lane Cafe to eat dinner. 321 00:24:26,079 --> 00:24:29,799 I'll be right when you, sir, No hurry, you'll be cooler 322 00:24:29,839 --> 00:24:33,400 if you sit there by the window. Oh all fine, thanks. There 323 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,240 were half a dozen tables in the place, all empty. I was the 324 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,039 only customer. The girl was pretty and friendly and fitted the description of Milly 325 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:45,759 Wells. That roast is awfully good this evening. I think you'll like it 326 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,400 all right, you've made a sale. You're a stranger in town, aren't 327 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:53,440 you. Yeah. Yeah, I'm investigating the murder of Ellen Bates. I 328 00:24:53,559 --> 00:25:00,359 see, are you by any chance, Milly Wells? Yes? Then I 329 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:06,400 guess you're the person i'm looking for. You worked very fast. I thought 330 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,839 it would take longer. Mm hmmm. Oh. I knew you'd find out, 331 00:25:08,839 --> 00:25:11,839 of course, sooner or later. But I was hoping Ben and I 332 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:17,880 would have a little time together first. I see we were fools to expect 333 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,119 it, though. Once you've been tagged, you don't have a chance. 334 00:25:21,279 --> 00:25:23,359 Did Alan Bates have a chance? I didn't give her the slightest cause to 335 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,200 worry. I didn't let Ben know once how I felt, not until after 336 00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:30,400 she'd been killed. That was very considerate of you. And I know he 337 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,359 didn't give me one thought as long as she was alive. It's not in 338 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,200 his nature, so I've heard. Doesn't it mean anything at all when a 339 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,799 person has been acquitted? Quit acquitted of? What? Of murder? What 340 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:52,480 else? Isn't that what? Oh? I thought you knew. I thought 341 00:25:52,640 --> 00:26:03,039 that's what you. I guess Maybe you'd better tell me about it, Millie. 342 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:17,319 Now here's our star to tell you about Tomorrow's intriguing episode of this week's 343 00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:22,279 story. Tomorrow, A sudden twist and a cool threat, a strange revelation, 344 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,920 and the lies come thick and fast. Join us, won't you? 345 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:42,240 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is 346 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:47,559 transcribed in Hollywood, written by Less Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by 347 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,440 Jack Jemstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and station 348 00:26:52,640 --> 00:27:57,079 for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking, 349 00:28:36,759 --> 00:28:41,119 Welcome back. So far, it's a good start to the serial. Johnny 350 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,599 is definitely a stranger and a strange land, but very keen as he figured 351 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,319 out who sent the letter in the first episode. Now, I will say 352 00:28:49,359 --> 00:28:55,640 that his suspicion that Jeb Bramler might have been involved in the murder seems a 353 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,319 bit out of left field. I will see if that pays off on fry. 354 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,519 Well. Now we turn the listener comments and feedback and we go over 355 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:10,720 to Great Detectives dot net and people who leave comments there from time to time, 356 00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:17,559 and Eli writes there, thanks for this fascinating episode of the Irving Gonzala 357 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:22,319 series. Too bad it had to be jumbled with all the extrainous material about 358 00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:27,440 the insurance investigator and that murder's doctor hope to hear much more about the taco 359 00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:33,079 stand. And of course that's on the long shot matter. And that's an 360 00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:40,519 interesting point. I did not think that the Irving Gonzales scene went too long, 361 00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:45,599 and I kind of understand why writers do that, because even if they 362 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:52,640 are just one seen characters, who can run into a problem if all of 363 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:59,680 your one seen characters are just completely functional, because then the conversations can be 364 00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:03,799 a bit at Dole and wrote, and there are some characters where they just 365 00:30:04,119 --> 00:30:08,240 need to be that way, but you don't want them all to be that 366 00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:15,160 way. But sometimes when you're a writer, you can forget who the main 367 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:21,880 character is and you can be just so interested in having this really interesting guy, 368 00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:25,880 particularly if you've been writing a lot of characters who are more functional. 369 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,119 You're like, oh, this person is really interesting. Well, we got 370 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,480 to spend some time here, and you can go too far to the point 371 00:30:32,559 --> 00:30:36,759 the audience is like, the story, are we going to get back to 372 00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:40,880 that at some point. I don't think that Tony Barrett went too far with 373 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:47,240 Irving Gonzalez, but obviously some people might differ. Then over on Instagram doc 374 00:30:47,359 --> 00:30:52,079 rights great five part episodes, the characters and plauts can be more fully developed. 375 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,839 Bob Bailey is definitely the best. Johnny doll Er keep up the great 376 00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:00,640 work at him. And then on Spotify, Jeff says, I'm going to 377 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,799 say I think that it was well written, and Vicky says this is very 378 00:31:04,839 --> 00:31:12,839 similar to a Dragnet episode. I'm not certain what Dragnet episode Vicky's referring to. 379 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:21,480 Specifically, there have been a couple of episodes of Dragnet dealing with mistaken 380 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,960 identification, probably in the nineteen fifties. The best one was The Big False 381 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:33,480 Make, but I think it definitely has a more realistic style. But I 382 00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:38,599 think Dragnet brought to so many crime programs. Jeff had another suggestion. He 383 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:44,079 emailed in love your podcast and listened to it every day on my way to 384 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:49,279 work. Something you said after the long shot matter eluded got me thinking that 385 00:31:49,359 --> 00:31:53,400 could so easily have been a great episode of The rock Profiles. Of course, 386 00:31:53,400 --> 00:32:00,519 it would have been yet another episodes where Rockford's firebird gets wrecked. Looking 387 00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:05,720 forward to getting my am transmitter done so I can also listen on my nineteen 388 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:10,000 forty one Emerson Radio because after all, real radio's glow in the dark. 389 00:32:10,119 --> 00:32:14,279 Well, Jeah, that sounds like a great project, And I agree. 390 00:32:14,319 --> 00:32:21,759 This really could have easily been turned into a Rockford Files episode a few modifications, 391 00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:24,079 and of course, you know, updating the setting a little bit so 392 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:29,759 that it fits into the world of the nineteen seventies. So I could totally 393 00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:36,200 say this episode starting with a lawyer friend of Jim Rockford dragging into the jail 394 00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:39,440 to meet the con man who's been accused of murder. As far as I 395 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:45,640 know, I don't think Tony Barrett recycled any of his radio scripts or early 396 00:32:45,759 --> 00:32:52,400 television scripts, and sadly he passed away relatively early in the Rockford Files run. 397 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:57,240 He died in nineteen seventy four at the age of fifty eight. I 398 00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:01,880 agree this would have been a very good episode to redo for television. And 399 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:07,200 then we turned to Apple podcast for reviews. And while we haven't played well, 400 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:14,359 we did play the neural Wolf Sunday en Corse last month. We got 401 00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:20,839 this review on the old time radio neural Wolf feed and listener writes, my 402 00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:25,880 grandkids, ages five and eight, love this and we listen over and over 403 00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:30,119 again. Now that's what I love to hear. Then we also have a 404 00:33:30,319 --> 00:33:39,200 review from Vic Gord on Apple Podcast in Canada. I've noticed there's a piggyback 405 00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:45,079 episode behind episode four two three. Oh, this is not the first one. 406 00:33:45,599 --> 00:33:49,640 The last cast is the Restless Ones. Hope there's an explanation or maybe 407 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,359 your feed is forced to do this great show, Adam. I enjoy every 408 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:57,839 workshift helps pass the time. Well, thank you so much, appreciate the 409 00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:01,880 comment. Now I've gotten some questions on this. Some people have even suggested 410 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:07,039 that it's an infomercial, and I'm not even sure they make those anymore. 411 00:34:07,159 --> 00:34:14,559 But it is is it's a podcast discovery system called padroll, and it's being 412 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:21,719 adopted by a lot of different people within the podcast industry and various major services. 413 00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:29,800 And what it is is that essentially podcast pay for a chance to get 414 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:35,440 their podcasts discovered by listeners to other podcasts. Now, if you don't like 415 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,440 a podcast that appears, just feel free to press the stop button and delete 416 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:46,159 the episode. And that's that. I will say that I have a degree 417 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:53,679 of control over what podcasts actually will show up, and I reject a lot 418 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:59,639 more than I will allow in. I'm pretty selective. If you've got any 419 00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:04,639 episod rated explicit, you are not going on my part role. And then 420 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:10,199 I look for controversial topics or annoying sound or intros. There are a lot 421 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:15,519 of things that podcasts can get to not be included. It all includes some 422 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:21,119 episodes and reject others. So that's what that is, nothing to worry about. 423 00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:24,480 But thank you so much for the review. And now we go over 424 00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:32,760 to YouTube where a listener had a thought regarding the laughing matter. And I've 425 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,480 read at least three books based on the early days of the late night talk 426 00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:43,039 show hosts like Steve Allen, Jack Parr, and Johnny Carson, and this 427 00:35:43,159 --> 00:35:47,719 episode gets it correct about how everyone around seemed to hate them. Well, 428 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:55,519 thanks for the comment. I did not actually view Lovable Charlie as a late 429 00:35:55,679 --> 00:36:04,639 night host because there were no reference to guess. It was all kind of 430 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,440 vague as to what exactly the type of comedy was. Now, I do 431 00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:15,239 think that it's possible that Les Crutchfield, who wrote that particular story, had 432 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:21,000 talked to people who didn't like a specific comic or working with a comic. 433 00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:24,480 Might it have been a late night comic but inspired the story It might have 434 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:30,920 been, But I think that they would want to be very very careful not 435 00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:37,199 to give anything away in that regard, and certainly when it comes to the 436 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:43,480 laughing matter, it doesn't give anything away because it's really vague as to what 437 00:36:43,599 --> 00:36:47,280 type of program it is. Like. At times, it sounds like that 438 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:55,480 this might be a sitcom with one character being considered the signature star. But 439 00:36:55,559 --> 00:37:04,639 that whole Desert Island scene that ended up in tragedy in episode four that sounded 440 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:09,559 more like sketch comedy. I don't know that a TV sitcom in nineteen fifty 441 00:37:09,639 --> 00:37:15,280 six would have that type of scene on it, and particularly if you were 442 00:37:15,559 --> 00:37:21,639 changing it back and forth. So it's really vegas to what type of comedy 443 00:37:21,679 --> 00:37:25,440 it was. And I think that's intentional because you don't want anyone be able 444 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:30,360 to say, oh, they were talking about this or that specific comedian. 445 00:37:30,519 --> 00:37:37,239 I was doing some research and found one potential inspiration for the show being in 446 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:46,800 Mexico, and that was that for Duffy's tavern ed Gardner actually moved the production 447 00:37:47,039 --> 00:37:52,639 to Puerto Rico so that he wouldn't have to pay taxes. It was a 448 00:37:52,760 --> 00:38:00,119 move that was derided at home a bit. Obviously Puerto Rico is not Mexico. 449 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,719 Oh, but that might have been something that served as a basis for 450 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:13,800 cultural backdrop of having a comedy show filmed outside the United States. And then 451 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:19,199 we have a comment from Boomer who writes, Johnny Dollar is always a safe 452 00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:22,679 bet for good entertainment. Definitely agree with that. Well, now it is 453 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,400 time to think. Our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Magda, 454 00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:34,440 Patreon supporter since June of twenty eighteen, currently supporting the program at the 455 00:38:34,599 --> 00:38:38,239 rookie level of two dollars or more per month. Thank you so much for 456 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:43,159 your support. And that will do it for today. If you are enjoying 457 00:38:43,199 --> 00:38:47,440 the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software, and be sure 458 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:52,440 to rate and review the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back 459 00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:58,519 on Friday with the conclusion of the Shady Lane Matter, but join us back 460 00:38:58,519 --> 00:39:02,559 here tomorrow for day the interious Assignment. Where anyone come through here the last 461 00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:07,000 minute or so? No? No one? Why? There are other offices 462 00:39:07,039 --> 00:39:10,400 facing the patio the guarden, mister Mitchell, that's mister Harveson's, mister Walker's. 463 00:39:10,519 --> 00:39:13,639 Okay, we'll check them in a minute. Something else I want to 464 00:39:13,639 --> 00:39:19,360 look at first. Come on, let's go back inside. You've been going 465 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,239 out of the office long, miss Borland, ten minutes or so. Mister 466 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,360 Gainsley sent me down to the fireroom. I see, And when you looked 467 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,320 in, Johnny, he was alone, right, he was packing away at 468 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,880 the typewriter. Mister Gainsley, Was it my typewriter? Yeah? Look, 469 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,199 there's a piece of paper still in it. That's what I'm interested in. 470 00:39:36,079 --> 00:39:40,000 Let's see what what is it? Mister Mitchell. Brother, here's what mister 471 00:39:40,119 --> 00:39:45,599 Gainsley typed out one sentence. What did he write? It reads? Mary 472 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,719 had a little Lamb. Hope you'll be with us then. 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