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Dollar serials is one I've mentioned before, but I'll recamp briefly. CBS really
was trying to find some way to continue to use dramatic radio and they had
the idea of bringing back the fifteen minute serial for mystery dramas, and they
tried this out with two other shows prior to Johnny Doller, Mister and Missus
North and Mister King's Tracer of Lost Persons, in addition to recording an audition
for a return of Rocky Jordan. In the end, it was Johnny Dollar
that returned, with Bob Bailey taking over the role as the man with the
action packed expense account and Jack Johnstone producing. I made a list of the
top Johnny Dollar cereals and this first one ended up near the top. After
two cereals went bus. They really needed to make this five part concept work
and they went for it with Gusto. Here with this first story. It
originally aired between October third and October seventh of nineteen fifty five, and the
title is the McCormick Matter. So here now is all five parts of the
McCormick Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.
Mister Dollar, this is Father Taggart. I'm calling you from Austining. I'm
one of the chaplains here at Sing Sing. Oh, yes, sir,
What can I do for you? Father? Well, nothing for me,
mister Dollar, but possibly for someone else. Michael Cairn, one of our
inmates, asked me to contact you. Michael Khan, you remember him.
He wasn't sure you would. Old time grifter and con man who got tied
up with an insurance fraud a few years ago. Blonde fellow. Yes,
Michael wants to see you, mister Dollar. Could you possibly find the time
to come up here? Oh? I don't know, Father, is just
something important. It is to Michael. Oh, Well, look, I'll
be in New York sometime next month. Maybe I'll get a chance to stop
off. Well, couldn't you possibly make it sooner? What's the rush?
He's going to be there quite a while, isn't he not very long?
I'm afraid Michael is dying all right, father, you can expect me.
Welcome to Johnny Dollar, beginning tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey in
the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expensive Out America's Fabulous freelance
insurance Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by a special
investigator Johnny Dollar to the Allied Casualty and Insurance Company Limited, Markham Building,
Hartford, Connecticut. Attention at Barth Controller's office. This is an accounting of
expenditures during my investigation of the McCormick matter. Though you didn't authorize the investigation,
ed, I'm sure that once the facts are out you will honor the
following expense account Item one seven dollars and ninety five cents trained Fair and Incidentals,
Hartford to Arsining, New York. I was admitted inside the prison and
greeted by Father Tech. He's a tall, mile looking man, a jesuit.
I believe he had to pass already for me, and he led me
straight to the prison infirmary. Just in here. Michael will certainly appreciate your
coming. I hope it satisfies whatever's on his mind. I can't imagine what
it would be. You know, it was my investigation and testimony to put
him in here. Father. He told me all about that, and I'm
sure it has nothing to do with one. He wants to see you.
Sees lung was started to go about two years ago and there's just been no
way to arrest the condition. Does he know how close he is? He
is and he's not afraid to die? Here? We are missed a dollar?
Oh what I did the same man? I remember, Father, he's
headed bad lately, lost a great deal of weak. Yeah, sleep yes,
Michael, Michael. Oh, hey, father, I brought someone to
see you. What do you say, Hi, Am Mike? Oh,
thanks for coming, Thanks Johnny, Thank Father Taggert here. He's an all
right guy, Johnny. He's just like you. I always said you were
the best insurance cup here. What's all this out, Johnny, didn't you
tell him? Father? He told me Mike, I guess I didn't live
right. I'll be back in a little while. Thanks mother. You take
it easy, Mike. A lousy place to die in prison, but you
got my choice thanks to you. Well, it's just that you picked to
do a couple of things that the law and some insurance companies didn't agree with.
Mike. I don't whole ane of that against you. The guy does
what he does. I don't know how to tell you this. Maybe I
better get the doctor. You shouldn't be talking so much, Johnny. Look,
you know I'm no cry baby. When the doctor gave me the news,
I got to thinking. I ain't scared to blow out. You understand.
I know, Mike. I know. It's just I had a wife
once, a long time ago. When I started out, Oh yeah,
then I just kind of drifted out of her picture one day he got a
cough drop baby. Yeah, I guess what sure what I got? Anyhow,
I got to do something for her before I Johnny, I lay here
and I get myself an idea, Johnny, if there was some real easy
money lying around, would you pick it up for me? Depends on how
clean it is. Mike, and where it's lying. Yeah, sure,
sure, but it's clean, all right, you can find that out for
yourself, all right. Listen. Until they moved me down here in the
infirmary, I roomed upstairs with Jojo Penny. You know, no, I
don't believe I do Carthif from the hay stage. You've got his sabbatical three
weeks ago, parole. But I've been in the camp with a lot of
guys. But Jojo Penny takes a cake. He's got a little old five
year trick to put in, and it's Jojo. He does like a vacation,
you know, a real picnic. Every time he gets a chance out
in the yard. He's taken son, so we don't get the color.
See Yeah, when they push him in with me, I notice this and
I get to going over in my head. Yeah. Why does a guy
whistle in a saddle block, Johnny? Why is he treating it like a
rest home short term? He's got something outside waiting, that's it, baby,
He's got something waiting for him outside, something that he knows will keep
safe. Money. Thought you said this was legitimate, mikeel it is it
is? Now? Wait? I didn't ask Jojo anything about this. No,
I figured out myself. Then a couple of times I hear him yelling
in his sleep mccarmick. He yells, mccarmick. Eh, makes sense now,
Johnny, Not Johnny the Big Heist, Johnny the Big Heist. A
few years ago a rich guy named mccarmick got on Long Island. There's someplace
like that gets turned over for one hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry. You
remember vaguely? Eh, Well, I'm thinking that Jojo Penny was in on
it somewhere else. Why would he be singing in porcelain, cheering himself around
this flight trap for five years? Else? Why would he be talking about
that when he's sleeping. Mccarmick. Mccarmick. Maybe you've got something, Mike.
I know I got something, Johnny, and you got something too.
Oh, I'm all right, I'm all right. Don't you see? The
insurance company must have a reward out. They always do have reward. But
Mike, I tell you, Joe Joey is the gins of the don the
job or he knows who did it. So you look into it, work
on it, maybe turn up the stuff and get the reward. Good clean
coin yeah, send half of it to my old lady. Will you you
keep the rest yourself? What you say, go Taddy at Apostolia said interview,
I can died three hour lady. The last living thing he did was
wink at me. Expense account item two fourteen dollars and twenty cents trained fare
and incidentals. Astining to New York, I arrived at two fifteen, dropped
my bag off at the New Western, and went over to the Metropolitan Police
station to find out what I could about the McCormick matter. It was all
pretty much as all Mike had told me. A Julian McCormack living on Long
Island had suffered one hundred thousand dollars jewelry burglary in nineteen fifty one. Twelve
suspects had been arrested and released. The case was marked open and unsolved.
Allied Casually had been the insurance company involved. This is the adjustment office,
Frank Porter speaking. My name's Johnny Dollar. Mister Porter, I'm an investigator.
Oh, I think I've heard of you, mister Dolly. Yeah,
wonder if you could give me a little information about acclaim your company handled in
nineteen fifty one, A man named Julia McCormick out on Long Island, jeep
wiz, long time ago. What about the McCormick. I might have some
information on it. I don't know yet, it's a long chance. I'm
at police headquarters and I noticed you investigated for the insurance company. I'd like
to talk to you. Sure, but it's kind of late today tomorrow,
Okay, Well, you can tell me this right now. Is there any
reward being offered? Cheep whisk kind of falls my sales. I said,
we're asking about a reward. You sound like you can make full recovery and
want to make sure that you'll be paid for it. Well, I said
it was just a long shot. How about the reward, Well, that's
pretty standard with us on cases like this. Yeah. I think it's seventy
five hundred or something like that. I'm not sure. Gray staying New Western.
Well, I'll look it up, get the exact figure and call you
there. How'll that be fine? Thanks, that'll be fine. Before I
left the police station, I turned out a mug on Jojo Penny. He
was a big, broad shoulder lad with plenty of beef and a list of
petty convictions, four of them in New York's state. The last one was
for carrying concealed weapons. His parole status was good, though, and the
parole officer furnished me with his home address, the Allen Hotel. Right,
stay a week, a month, one hundred and fifteenth Street open. Come
on in HI, looking for Joe Patton. Yes, sir, that's me.
My name's Johnny Dollar. Yeah, I uh, I just came down
from Austining. I saw a friend of yours up there, Joe. Who
was that Mike Can? How's Mike? Not so good? He died today.
It's too bad. He was a nice old coot. Kind of liked
him. Said if I ever saw you to say hello. Huh. He
didn't give you my address, No, I got it from the parole office.
Use some kind of cup. Now. I work for an insurance company.
Oh why you drink? Uh? Why not expense account? I had
him three four dollars even for drinks. I wanted to look at Jojo Panny
and talk to him and figure out how I was going to go about getting
information from him. And the more I saw and the more he talked,
the more I wondered if whatever he might have said about the McCormick case in
his sleep happened to some other McCormick. After all, a man with a
long list of petty fever he's is hardly ever involved in a slick, big
time safe cracking job that takes another kind of talent. And when I was
sure that Jojo didn't have so, I'd just been taking it easy and looking
around. I figure I can get a job pushing a truck or maybe a
cab if I'm lucky. Got to get something to do for all offices.
Kind of hard nosed about things like that. Yeah, drink up? I
one more? Oh no, no thanks, please? My limit even shape?
Sure? Say you got anything to do? Nothing special? Why thought
I might go out to Long Island later on tonight to sailo to an old
friend of mine. If you haven't got anything to do, come on along,
you're okay, bub sure? Why not this friend of yours he's an
ex con too, No, he never did any time, Just a friend.
Want to salo us all rich fella. His name's Julian McCormick. You're
very big with a hellos around here today? Aren't you anything wrong? Joe?
You probably are? Why do you say that nothing? I don't know
anyone named McCormick. I knew a guy named Ernie McCormick once back in Salt
Lake City. We were paled for a while. Oh yeah, Arnie was
killed in the war. He'd got himself drafted in the infantry. Maybe he's
related to my friend Julian McCormick out one Long Island. He wasn't related to
anybody, not that bird. I'm leaving. I want to get up early
tomorrow. Why not come with me? Thanks for the drinks. He drifted
off down the street and left me standing there. And one thing I was
sure of. He had the name McCormack on his mind. Whether it was
the right McCormack of the right case, I didn't know. Anyhow. He
was my one big lead. So I was back at his hotel early the
next morning and talking to the disc claif And he did you say room to
ten, Yeah, that's right by most What he left bag and baggage last
night? Well where did he go? What's his forwarding address? He didn't
say, just left. Johnny Dollar, It's Frank Porter allied casually, Yes,
mister Porter, I'll call me Frank. Johnny. You phoned yesterday about
the McCormick matter. I got all the stuff about the case on my desk
here, and we're still offering seventy five hundred dollars reward. Thanks for confirming
it, Frank, Sure you got a tip or something. An old con
named Mike Karn gave me a tip about a guy named Jojo Panney. I'm
working on it. We need any help? No, not yet, I
might Jojo pulled out of his hotel last night, bag and baggage. What
are you going to do? I'm on my way to Long Island. I
want to talk to McCormick himself. Oh, Johnny, yeah, let me
give you a tip for your own good. Don't bother Julian McCormick unless you've
really got something. Could be dangerous. I think I've got something. Expense
accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to the Allied Casualty and Insurance Company
Limited, Markham Building, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of
expenditures during my investigation of the McCormick man. It them four ten dollars deposit
on the car I rented to drive out to Julian McCormick's home on Long Island.
And judging by the looks of the place, a safe full of one
hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry would feel right at home. It was a
mansion and the rugs on the floor were an inch thick. I'm sorry I've
kept you waiting, missus. McCormick and I were packing for a little trip
to Europe. Sit down please, thanks, going to be gone along.
Oh. We usually spend several months a year over there for a bit late
this year. Our reservations are for next week. I envy you, mister
mccomick. Dolla the name, that's right. I forgive me, but I
don't seem to recall having heard of you before. It's okay, we never
met. I'm an insurance investigator. Oh really, Am I being investigated or
something? No, no, nothing like that. It's just that I might
have a lead on that jewelry that was taken from your home a few years
ago. That's wonderful. You must tell me about it. Can I make
you a dream? No? Thanks? You're from the insurance company Casualty.
No, No, I'm not. I'm an independent investigator. Why should anyone
feel it necessary to call in it? Oh? Oh, I see there's
a reward, of course, that's right. Yeah, ah, But now
tell me how can I help you. Well, I'm just checking a few
things, mister McCormick. I haven't even gone over with a man who handled
a case for Allied. Possibly I have run into something that will help.
I don't know. I'd like you to tell me what happened. My safe
was opened and my jewelry taken. I mean how it happened. Well,
it was right in this very room, that's the wall safe there. Ah,
missus McCormick and I had just returned from our honeymoon five years ago.
It was Yeah. All I know is that when I stepped into the library
here that morning, the safe was opened and everything was gone. Whoever did
it was extremely clever and quiet, I must say. Was the safe crack?
No? No, no, it was just opened. Someone figured the
combination or something like that. Well, who knew the combination at the time,
only myself, mister Dalla. You sure of that? Why, of
course? I see. I reported it to the police right away here in
Long Island. Then some men from New York City were here too, and
your insurance comp I reported it to my insurance company immediately. They had a
man on the scene as soon as a police A mister Porter, Frank Porter.
Yes, you know him. I've taught to him on the phone.
I haven't met him. A very nice chap. He worked very hard trying
to recover it. I'm sure he did. Did they have an adjuster?
Yes? How much did you collect? If you don't mind? Not much?
What do you mean? Well, it was unfortunate by keeping that much
Julie in a small house safe. It seems I violated the clause in the
contract. It should have been kept in a safety deposit box or some such.
Consequently, the matter went into litigation. I'm afraid the court found me
at fault. I collected only a part of the insured value twenty thousand dollars,
so you can see I certainly welcome and recovery. Sure, Julie was
in the family a good many years. I had given it to my wife
and I well, a man hates to lose things he loves. Yes,
I understand. Was missus McCormick here the morning it happened. Oh, I'd
like to talk to her. She's terribly busy, but if you think it's
sufficiently important, I'll call her. No, never mind, I'm curious,
mister Dolla. This case has been closed a long time. At least no
one's contacted me or asked me for any information about it for at least four
years. What opened it? A man named Mike Ken, Well, who's
he? An all convict of it? Usening who shared a cell for a
while with a man named Joe Panny. Ken died yesterday, But before he
died, he told me he thought Panny had something to do with it.
He heard him mention your name. Well, it seems to me you should
talk with this Joe Penny. I did, and I will some more as
soon as I locate him again. Right now he's missing. Oh, I'm
sorry. Well, thanks for the time, mister McCormick. You'll let me
know you learn anything or do you honestly think you can recover that jewelry?
But then he look at all that's would be wonderful, wonderful. Why,
yes, of course, missus McCormick might be glad to know about it too.
You said it was her jewelry. I don't know why I said that
to him, just a sudden impulse. But he wasn't smiling when he walked
me to the door. Shook my hand and patted me on the shoulder.
I had a funny feeling that mister Julian McCormick was scared like a rabbit of
me. I drove back to the city, had lunch at Walgreens, and
dropped into Allied Casualti's New York office to pick up the folder on reward information.
I met Frank Porter and liked him right away. A big, redheaded
man in a tweet suit. Johnny, it makes me feel older than ever
doing this. I'll come well. I weighed fifteen pounds less when this case
started June nine. Here we are, and these are pictures and stuff.
Now that one they called Tierra del Couego some necklace, ike, you see
why. Yeah, And this one was called Imperial in the Royal Family of
Russia at one time. And this is the other one, placid, beautiful
stuff. Oh you can say that again. Is that all of me?
Well, that's about the size of a Johnny one hundred thousand dollars gone.
Yeah, helping me. Sure, It's nice to know what I'm trying to
find. Well, I hope you have better luck and I did. Yeah,
say who was the police officer on the case. Martin duels Martin out
of central. Yeah, we ran down every lead we could find, big
and small. The final said, you made twelve arrests, you know,
something like that, but not one of them panned out. Had to let
them all go. Martin requested pickups on every big time jewelry man in the
country. Now, I don't think one of them was overlooked. Wow,
No, Johnny, somebody just simply walked in that house, opened the safe
as needed, you please, and walked right out with all of this very
slick job. Had to be an experienced man. Might have been a first
job for someone just starting in. He got lucky. Yeah, we thought
of that, and we didn't think much of it after a while. He
where's Johnny? You know, nobody could be that lucky Chase the house knew
exactly where the safe was, No, what was in it? Get in,
open it up, and get out without anybody, servants, the mccormicks,
or any of their friends even seeing. Yeah. Oh that wasn't even
the hardest part. You see, not one scrap of this stuff has ever
turned up anywhere. Yeah, anywhere? Now, what did whoever took it
do with it? Did he break it down, sell it overseas, what
not a trace of it? Imagine that? You know what I think.
I think the guy who swiped all this stuff still has it. I think
he's sitting around waiting for it to cool off. Could be, but it's
never gone to cool off. Johnny. There isn't a city in this country
or across the ocean that isn't on the lookout for these pieces. I sup
now. Sooner or later, hot boy or a lucky boy, well,
whoever is, we'll make a move. Meantime, we just wait, unless,
of course, you've got something for us to look into. Not yet,
Frank, Yeah, Well when you have, we'll be right with you
all the way. Good good, How about a drink? Take a range
check? Okay, but remember we got a whole four full of lawyers upstairs.
They can get up warrants, ritch seize your orders, anything you might
want. You just let me know when you get somewhere, and we'll go
to work. I'll do that, Frank. I left Frank Porter and went
back over to the Pole office to see what had developed with Joe Pennie.
After all, if he didn't report in, he'd be in violation of his
parole. Be in real trouble, but nothing had developed. He hadn't put
in the change of address. Nothing. So I went back to my hotel
and had some dinner. Then I shaved, changed my clothes, expense account
it him five dollars and a half cab fare. I garage my reddit car,
went back to Central Police Station and pulled out the mug on Joe Penny
once more, hoping to get a line on some friends or relatives of his
where he might be staying up. Till then, things had been going pretty
routine. Then a clerk from the parole offices stepped across the hall. Hi,
mister Dollar, Hi thought it was you I saw on here. I
wasn't sure. How's it going? Fine? Fine? Doc? Your friend
Joe Joe Penny? Yet not today? Why? He seemed awful, anxious
to talk to him as well? I am, why don't you go see
him? You're playing games. I've been trying to find out where he is
all day. I already I told you you watch your I give it to
you half an hour ago when your phone when who phoned? Sure? About
half an hour ago? Look, Joe Panny call in and told me his
a dress? Yeah? I no, sooner set down a phone and you
call in and said, this is Johnny Dollar. Have you heard from Joe
Panny? What? I said? Yeah, I told you his address.
It's all what a dress to just say the Allen Hotel on one hundred and
fifteenth Street, same place he was before. What's the matter? You forget?
It took me ten minutes to get from the police station over to the
Allen Hotel, ten minutes of wondering who'd put in that call and use my
name? I went up the stairs two at a time, up to the
second floor, and right at the top of the landing I bumped into a
dark haired woman wearing a silver fernce. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't
see this all right, you heard not at all. Please let me go
past. I'm in a hurr. Yeah, I'd be in a hurry too.
What do you mean gun? You should carry it on the inside of
your purse. Oh, I suppose I take it fingernails. Give it to
me, all right, take it. She'd given it to me all right,
right on the side of the head. It didn't knock me out,
but it did knock me off balance. So I tangle up with the hall
table and that gave her plenty of time to scurry down the stairs while I
got out of the furniture and back on my feet. By the time I
got down the stairs and out on the streets, she was nowhere in sight.
Hmm, now, one yelled, I'm shot. No one did anything
but what they were already doing. Where were you just now? You weren't
here at the front desk. I got back eating my dinner. Why nothing,
you happen to see that woman who just ran through here? No,
tall, darkhaired woman about thirty war a mixed stole man. Yeah, oh,
you're kidding in this Jain. You still looking for Joe Penny. He
lives here again, doesn't he? Yeah? Have you seen him? Where
is he out? I sat down with myself and waited. Half an hour
later, when the clerk went back to finish his dinner, I stepped over
to the desk and borrowed his pass key and went back up the stairs to
room too ten. Wow, I didn't need the pass key, and I
didn't need to doubt the clerk. Joe Penny wasn't there, but all of
his things were. The curtains were drawn and the windows closed. Every drawer
had been pulled out of every dresser. The mattress on the bed was slipped
from top to bottom, and the rug had been ripped and turned over.
Expense account item six one dollar one drink from me. I left JoJo's room,
went to the nearest bar, sat down and had a drink. A
scared victim, a missing con a darkhaired woman wearing a mink and a gun,
and other things. Right then and there I decided that Mike Cann's tip
had been pretty good at that Johnny dollar. This is DULs Martin, Lieutenant
Martin. Yeah, that's right. I got a message you called while I
was out. Left this number. Yeah, I want to talk to you
about the McCormick case. Lieutenant McCormick, one hundred thousand dollars burglary out on
Long Island back in nineteen fifty one. I was the officer in charge.
Who are you, insurance investigator? I got a tip to the next convict
named Joe Panney might have pulled it. I'm at Panny's hotel. Well let
me know how you make out. Say listen, his room has been torn
apart, every inch of it's been searched. And when I came here tonight,
I got socked by a woman with a gun, give me that address.
Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar did the Allied Casualty and
Insurance Company Limited Mark I'm Building, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an
accounting of expenditures during my investigat of the McCormick. Patter expense account had him
seven two dollars two drinks for myself and Lieutenant Dules Martin, NYPD, A
big, swarthy man who seemed to know what he was about. Martin looked
over the damage done by the unknown ransacker of Joe Panny's room, questioned the
clerk, who was unable to furnish any helpful information. Then, because Joe
Penny was officially a parole violator, ordered a general pick him, he should
be able to get our hands on him pretty soon. Dollar. I hope
it's that easy, Lieutenant. Any reason why it shouldn't be fairly routine?
No, just a feeling, I guess. I don't know. This whole
matter has been flimsy. The tip was weak, but it seems to be
paying off. I think fits though I don't quite get all this. Dollar,
how'd you comment on this? All? Mike Cairn died up at Sinsing
two days ago. Before he went, he told me he believed Joe Panny
might have pulled them Acomick burglary. It didn't seem likely then, Hanny being
a small time autos even whatnot. But now it does, and view of
what's been happening lately, somebody sure warned something Panny might have. Judging from
that room, I never saw one taking a part better an expert search job.
Yeah, he, lieutenant, when you picked Choe Panny up, I'd
like to be in on it. He's my only lead in this case,
and I want to talk to him again. And that's not asking too much,
now, Doughter, about this woman you saw pretty about thirty, dark
hair, good dresser, wore a silver Minx stole. The gun she saw
me with was a little one twenty five or maybe thirty two automatic. You
think she might have done the searching in Joe's room? What do you think?
She was flustered and upset when I bumped into her, anxious to get
away from the place, and of course the gun in her hand. Yeah,
she sounded familiar to you in this neighborhood. No, No, could
be anybody. Yeah, Well, that's about litteleutenant. Yeah, no,
I got Oh, thanks, I suppose you talked to McCormick, got the
full story of the burglary from him almost first thing. Yeah, and I
remember him when it first happened. Nice enough, but strange. I thought.
It's a business about somebody funding the parole office ahead of you to get
Joe Panney's address. That stops me, though. That's hard to figure you.
Sure you're telling me everything. Sure, I'm sure that part sounds crazy,
not if somebody knew I was looking for and wanted to get him first.
But who how should I know? Well, we will see what we
will see. Can I drop you anywhere? No, thanks, I'll walk.
You'll let me know when you pick him up. Sure. Two days
passed and I didn't hear from Lieutenant Martin. I finally phoned in and a
supplementary. It turned up no leaves. Martin had men watching Joe's hotel.
His former friends and acquaintances were being checked. Meanwhile, I decided to try
and find out who the dark woman in the first stole had been. It
seemed pretty obvious that she had just come from Joe's room, that she knew
him or was connected with him. In some way. So once more I
comed over Joe Panney's file at headquarters, this time looking for a woman's name.
The only one mentioned was an ex wife who had divorced him six years
before. Her name was Iris Carter at the Bureau of Vital Statistics. The
marriage certificate and record of divorce proceedings gave me a composite picture of an unhappy
and turbuneent three year marriage. It also gave me a general description of Iris
Carter that could very well fit the woman I had seen briefly in the hallway
outside Joe Panny's hotel room. There was a six year old address to start
on than No, ma'am, I'm not unus. I don't know. I
really don't know her. Well, what do you want? I'd like to
talk to the manager. I want some information. What's your name, Johnny
Dollar? What kind of information you're looking for? Are you the manager?
Yes? I am, Well, I'm trying to locate a woman named Iris
Carter. She might have used the name Iris Panny. She was married once
to a man named Joe Panny, lived here about six years ago. Were
you here then? That was? Did you know her? I did?
Did you know him? Yeah, you went to jail. Did she live
here now? She don't? Do you have any idea where I can find
her? I don't. Well, do you happen to know if she ever
worked her? Just to talk to her? When did she move on?
Oh? Long time ago, five years? Maybe? What's your business insurance?
Oh? Oh, nobody around here by his insurance. Oh, we
don't have to go into that. If you can think of any place I
might get a line on her, i'd appreciate it. It seems to me
she worked at a bookstore down the street, down what street? Out there
block or two down that way? I think she worked there. I don't
know who. You can try? Thank you, I will. Why you
pried, you took your head? So tell me? Do you remember what
she looked like? Sort of? Yeah? Well, oh, about as
tall as I am. Nice, pretty girl, blonde of brunette, dark
here almost black. Know any of her friends when she lived here? No?
No, I couldn't tell you that. Why oh I might look up
one of them and ask her about her, that's all you ask. If
that bookstore? I think she worked there. The bookstore Iris Carter Panney had
worked in was as dismal as the neighborhood. The proprietor and Missus Owls yielded
a little more helpful information than Iris Carter's former landlady. Yes, Iris had
worked there for about six months. She'd quit almost five years before. No,
she didn't know where to find her expense account item eight, one dollar
and two cents lunch. I had it in a neighborhood diner called the Shovel
Place, where Missus Ole said Iris Carter had frequently eaten. The restaurant manager
remembered Iris vaguely. She also remembered Iris's boyfriend. I asked for a description.
She did better than that. She gave me his name, occupation,
and address, an old rehearsal hall two blocks away. The fireman combo working
there was really putting it up. Yeah, And the minute I saw him,
I knew the boy wearing the trumpet was the one I was looking for.
Just good looking and smooth enough to go with a girl. Iris Carder
sounded like him. Smooth trumpet too. Okay, guys, take five,
I'm looking for Jack Lang. I'm Johnny. Did we talk a minute?
It's about all I got, mister doll. We smoked. No thanks,
Oh man gets real tired out about this time of day. Yeah, imagine
it does the way you put it out. Well, everybody to his own
racket. That's yours insurance investigating. Okay, now what Well, I've been
asking around the neighborhood and they tell me you once knew a girl named Iris
Carter or Iris Panny Iris Carter on. I'd like to find her and talk
to her, and I thought you might be able to help me. Go
on, I want to talk to her ex husband. Most of all,
I thought somehow she might know where to find him these days. He's in
the can he was released three weeks ago. Any ideas, No, I
thought finding her might be a shortcut to him. I wouldn't think so.
They were all washed up when I know her? What was that five years
ago? She hadn't seen him for over a year. Then, huh,
she didn't have much use for him. I don't blame her. How long
did you know her? We went together for a while whilst you worked at
some crummy bookstore, and she moved away and I didn't see her after that.
I think she said something about going back to Ohio. You think I
don't remember off, Well, let me put it this way, as far
as I know, she's in no trouble. The one we want is a
rex husband. You'd be helping a lot if you could tell me where to
find her. I don't know. I honestly don't know, and I sure
wish I did. I'd like to find her myself. Why well, when
she went with me, I well, it wasn't any good. I think
she just walked out because she was tired of loser's sick up to hear you
know what I mean. Can't blame her. He gave her a pretty bad
time. I didn't do much better. But now I got something. It's
just a little five piece outfit, not much, but something. I'd like
to show it to her and say, iris is his mine. You kind
of had it bad? Huh bad? Is a guy like me can get
it? I know I'll probably never see her again as long as I live
BOFE, and never another one like her ever shows up. I'm gonna be
ready toad ever see it. No, she must have been something. Take
a look nice? Yeah, I take it back. What about seeing her?
I've seen her two nights ago in the hallway outside Joe Penny's robe.
You sure, I'm sure she hit me with a gun before she left.
The picture he had flipped out of his wallet was old and well thumbed.
It showed a sultry kind of face that could have been twenty or thirty or
forty, a wide, frank, smiling, happy mouth. Not the kind
of girl I would imagine could ever be married to with Joe Penny, but
there was no doubt about it. She had been married to him, and
I had seen her. On my way back to the hotel, I dropped
into check with Lieutenant Martin. Hi, Hi, doing any good? Any
lead on Joe Penny? And I think so far this may take longer than
I thought at first. Well, I've been not looking for his ex wife.
I didn't find her, but I found a few people knew her.
She was the one at his hotel the other night. Names Iris, Cardiff.
You sure positive I saw a picture. We better try to pick her
up too. I'll put it out right away. Fine, I'll keep him
telling Oh wait a minute, don't go huh. We had some action here
today. Sit down. Thanks. Julian McCormick called up reported you. He
said you came out there bothered him a couple days ago. He said he
doesn't want to be bothered. Well, I only talked to him to get
his story on the burglary, and I told him, as long as you
didn't break the law, there was nothing we could do to stop you from
investigating. But he didn't like it. He seemed perfectly willing to cooperate with
me when I talked to him before it. Well, sometimes he's rich.
Excuse me, Martin here, that's right? Well, how long ago?
Okay? Well they found your boy, Joe Penny. What. Yeah,
he's on his way to the Morgue. Harbor patrol picked up his body a
couple of hours ago, loaded down with slugs, some case. And that
ain't all Johnny Huh. His feet were burned, Johnny Dellar. Frank Porter
allied casually. How's it going, kid? I don't know you ever find
Joe Penny. The harbor patrol found him floating around the harbor. He'd been
shot and his feet were burnt. She was torture. Well, what can
I do to help find a girl who was once married to him? Joe
Penny had a wife. Yeah, she wears a man stool these days and
carries a gun. She's tied out with it somewhere. Her name's Iris Carter
Iris Carter, you met her just long enough to get slug with her gun.
Well, wait a minute that I'd like to get it all. Can
I come over? I'll be here. Expense accounts submitted by a special investigator,
Johnny Dollar to the Allied Casually and Insurance Company Limited, Markham Building,
Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
the McCormick matter. Expense account Item nine fourteen dollars even secretarial services. I
dictated a detailed report of one hundred thousand dollars McCormack case. I did it
for two reasons, One to make certain that Allied and the New York Police
were thaoroughly informed of my part of the matter, and two to review the
case for my own benefit. One of the key figures, Joe Panney was
a murder victim. Attached as a copy of that report. I tried to
cover as closely as possible my conversation with Mike Kern at Sing Sing when he
tipped me off that Joe Panney had something to do with the McCormick burglary of
five years ago. Also one conversation with Joe Panny, his subsequent disappearance,
and I had a copy for Frank Porter. When he showed up at my
room, he read it from top to bottom. Jeep, whitch, Johnny.
If this isn't something you come here for. Joe Penny, it looks
like he did the McCormick job. Now he's dead, you're stopped. What
can you do? Find his wife? Maybe you're doing this at your own
expense, aren't you. Oh? I think your company will pay for it
in time. You have to recover the stuff. I know you think you
will. I think so ya. Your key man's dead. You have to
start all over again. Maybe not. I don't really know whether Joe Penning
was my key man or not. I still can't see a small time auto
thief working a big, slick safe burglary. Every indication is that he was
the one. I know. I like to find that girl, Iris Carter
and talk to her about it. She's connected with it now from what you
say on the paper, Yeah very much. Oh jee whiz. I feel
like a fifth wheel. I'm not helping you a bit. You know.
I handled this case for the company when it first broke. I worked with
Lieutenant Martin for six months on it and we didn't turn up a thing.
You're on a three four days and you have all kinds of action. Well,
I must have stepped in at the right time. Yeah, Johnny,
somebody gunned Joe Panny down. I know you like to work alone, do
things your own way, but be careful if you stay on this. I
get worried when somebody starts shooting. Oh sure, I didn't get that though,
But if I keep on this, I wouldn't let it go. Now
if my life depended on it. I'm going to find that woman, and
I'm going to find the stuff. Sure well, Jeeve wish, don't let
anything happen to you. I won't. I talked some more with Frank Porter
about the case. He repeated his offer in the name of Allied casually to
help if he could. I told him I'd take it up on it if
anything came up at all. He left. I was at Central Police Station
ten minutes later, and five minutes after that, Lieutenant Duels Martin was calling
for the medical examiner's report on Joe Panni's death. A uniform man bought it
in. Martin shoved it across the desk at me. The emmy says,
Joe Panny's been dead about forty eight hours or longer to twenty five slugs right
through the chest, penetrated both lungs, one through the neck. It's very
neat shooting at that range. What range? All? At least twenty feet
maybe longer. Not many people shoot twenty Five's that? Well it's a little
gun, a woman's gun. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Now, let's talk about that woman you saw around there that night. How
you say it was Panny's X Yeah, I risk conner. I don't know
whether her gun was a twenty five or thirty two. Well, think of
I have look, don't get zor with me. It's just that she looks
like better than ever for opening this case up, I put her on all
points. Sorry, I got around. That's all right now. The emmy
thinks that Panny was killed before he was dumped in the water, possibly ambushed
by someone he didn't know or didn't trust. If he's right about the range,
did it fit in someone who knew him would do it close up?
Yeah? They wait, you said his feet were burns. Yeah, I
got the pictures here to prove it. Mayn't take a look. And these
are the glasses. Huh. Now, these are the burns here, right,
here, here, and here. Then he wasn't ambushed exactly. Look
I don't know what he was, but this is the crazy part. He
was already dead when this happened. No rope marks on his legs are wrists.
You don't sit still for burning, no matter how tough you are.
It's fascinating. Then someone shot him down and tried to make it look like
he was tortured for information. First cover up. He's supposed to look like
he knew something or had something. And maybe he didn't know or have anything
at all. Oh, how do you feel? Well? He If the
burning was cover up, then maybe the big search of his room was cover
up too, to throw us off, to throw you off, not me.
I wasn't in on it. Then, yeah, well one thing that's
genuine. What's that? An hour and a half later, a witness was
delivered to the office of Lieutenant Martin. His name was Edmund Thompson. He
sold papers in the dock area. Both Martin and I looked at him twice,
and I could tell both of us were doubting the credulity of anything he
might have to say. Why I my name's Martin. This is mister Dollar.
Yes, sir, glad to know you both. Now, would you
mind telling us everything you saw the other night? Tuesday night? Here it
was Tuesday. Sure, why not? I saw this guy dumped in the
water. We understand that. Can you tell us the circumstances. It's against
the will of God, as it certainly is against the laws of nature too.
What did you see, mister Thompson? I prayed for him both.
You tried, Dollar? When did you pray right after I saw it?
Yes, sir? On the street, huh No, I was on the
vacant lot. I was cutting across towards the dark. Oh. Then I
see this car pull, a long black car, a lot of chrome on
it. This fellow jumps out and goes around at the back. He opens
the trunk and he pulls this other fellow out, hoists him up, and
he carries him over the don Then he just lets him go. Then you
prayed, Then I prayed. I was a little too scared to do anything
else. This car. The man had long black, one lot of chrome.
Sedana cope, what's the difference? Two seats in one seat? One
happened to get the license number. All right, all right, let that
go. How about the man? Can you describe him? He stood there,
looked down at the water order and started himself as cigarette. Well what
kind of a face did he have? Dark light? A mustache? What
a devil's face? Now? What does that mean? The devil? Mister
Thompson, do you understand that we want to apprehend this man, that he's
responsible for one man's death, and then he might harm someone else. I'll
pray for him, pray for them all. Well, how was he dressed?
Didn't notice hat? But he had a long black coupei? Do you
know the make? Nope? Would you know him if you saw him again?
No? Look, when you saw him dump a body into the water,
why didn't you notify the police? Why should it's police business? Let
them take care of their business. I'll take care of mine. Any of
you fellows? Got a cigarette and I left Lutenant and Martin brooding over his
witness, went out for a white at dinner. When I called him later,
he hadn't learned anything more. So I decided to call it a night
and went back to my hotel. I found a note waiting for me from
Jack Lang, the band leader friend of Iris Carter said he got a tip
she'd worked at one time at the Elmar Theater in the Bronx. If I
learned anything, please let him know he was still in love with her el
Mar Theater. I decided my night was far from over. Are you by
ticket off front? If you want to look at I only want to see
one. Her name's Iris Carter. Does she work here? I just told
you go buy a ticket off front? Just tell me this? Does Iris
Carter work here? Is the name familiar to you? Have you ever seen
her or heard of her? You give me any more trouble or clock Tare
I told you go off front? Hadn't you answer a simple question? I'm
looking for Iris Card Iris Carter? What call me a cop? Glorio is
never mind? I'll take care of him. Come on you, Iris Curtter.
Is that what you said? Yeah? I gotta change you gotta get
back on in five minutes. Then I'll talk to you later. You haven't
got a bunch to say. Stick around, I'll change back the screen.
Okay, I'm glory you Ward? Who are you? Johnny Dollar? What
do you want with Iriscotta? I want to see her and tell her something?
Tell me, well, for one thing, Her ex husband's dead.
What better watch that screen? Oh say that again, Joe Panney? Her
ex husband's dead? Kid that no good? Buma's really dead? Where can
I find it? You don't work here? No more has worked here in
four five years? She quit? Whor is she you took over from the
old man out there? When you heard me mention her name. You've satisfied
yourself that I'm really looking for. So suppose you get with me, mister.
I'm not satisfied about anything. She got herself married to a nice guy.
Good for her? Is she in town? You sure? You just
want to see her until her Joe's dead? That's about it. I thought
maybe she might be able to help me and the police find out who killed
him. He was killed two days ago. They found his body today.
You know about that? You a cop, I'm an insurance investigator, and
you have to see her. You want to put in writing? Don't get
nahaf. What I'm getting at is this quick change? Eh? Now?
Listen, Iris is good, you know what I mean? And she's married
to a nice guy. Now will any of this make a trouble? Not?
If she hasn't done anything wrong? Well, I can tell you.
She hasn't but does make trouble. It be a shame. She set up
nice and I like to see a girl, said, well, don't you
certainly. I haven't seen her almost since she left here, but you look
like a right kind of guy. I believe you. Thanks Gloria. She
lives out in Long Island now. Her name's McCormick, Iris McCormick. By
the time I said goodbye to Glory and walked out the stage door and got
out into the alley, I thought I had most of it. The ex
wife of an ex Cohn married a wealthy Long Islander named mccomack. When the
honeymoon was over, the safe was robbed. Walking out that alley, I
was wondering whether to phone the police or allied casually. First shooting. You've
been hit. It isn't bad. Did you see him? I see nobody.
The car. See the car the one that just got out? I
ought the car. We had a long black coop a lot of chrome.
A fellow didn't have his lights on it. Hey, that's against the law.
Hey you need help, mister No, No, I'm Johnny Dollar ready
with your party in Hartford, Connecticut. Mister Dollar, go ahead, please
hello, mister bart. Yes, this is Johnny Dollar. Johnny, what's
up? I listened carefully ed. I've just been shot. Why, Oh,
it's nothing serious on backstage at the Elmar Theater in the Bronx. Johnny,
I'm all right now, listen to me. I got a tip from
old Mike Cairn, a convict, that a man named Joe Panney might have
had something to do with the McCormick case a few years ago. Yes,
jewelry case hundred thousand dollars. Oh, Panny's been murdered. I didn't get
a chance to learn anything from him, but I have learned that Panny's ex
wife is married to Julian McCormick. You've contacted our New York office. I've
been trying to get your man, Frank Porter at his home, but no
one answers. It's gonna be pretty nasty for Allied casually if she plotted with
this Joe Penny to Rob mccomick. Yeah. Do you want me to wait
and let Frank Porter handle it? No? No, No, you go
ahead. If somebody's throwing bullets around, they'd better be stopped before well,
by me rather than Frank Porter. Huh okay. Expense account submitted by a
special investigator, Johnny Dollar, to the Allied Casualty and Insurance Company Limited,
Markham Building, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures incurred
during my investigation of the McCormick matter. I'm eleven seven dollars and a half
one bottle of Scotch, which I sent the stage dorman out to get while
I was calling it barth at Allied Insurance. Apparently everybody in the neighborhood through
thought. The exchange of shots between me and somebody in a long black cope
were backfires. It was the dorman who dragged me back in the theater.
You got yourself a boy, now, mister, just a grace, I
should don't get you corner assures people an appoli. Somebody fires to god,
you call the cops. Have another drink? That's hey, Hey, where
are you going? You shoul see a doctor, lady. I went back
outside in the alley where the shooting had taken place. Ten minutes are looking
around and I'd like a pair of thirty eight slugs out of a telephone.
Post expense account out of twelve four dollars and thirty five cents campfare elmar Theatre
to Long Island. It was twelve o'clock straight up. When I got to
the McCormick home. There were no lights burning, and apparently everyone had retired
for the night. I checked the garage first, a fifty five Cadillac convertible
and a four year old Jay. No warm motors, no black coops.
I went to the house. Oh it's you, hello, missus McCarthy.
No, no, please, please don't come in here, my husband please.
I don't know who you are, but I remember meeting you at the
hotel. I'm Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigating insurance. Well, there must
be some way we can fix this up. Talk to me tomorrow. I'll
meet you somehow. How can you fix up? Murder? Murder? What
are you talking about? Joe Panny's dead ex husband. He was shot with
a twenty five, just like the one you swung at me at the hotel.
Oh no, you want to tell me about that, all right,
I'll tell you. Joe was your husband once you helped him rob this house
five years ago. He couldn't have done it alone. He wasn't that slick,
he wasn't that good. He could steal a car, but a safe
lock's different from ignition. Well, yes, yes, I helped him do
it. He made me, he promised me if I helped him, I'd
never hear from him again. I hope him the safe for him. But
you were down to see him at his hotel the other night. You searched
his room, searched his room. Yeah, well, I don't know anything
about that. He called me, said he wanted money. I didn't know
where he'd been for these last few years up the river. Oh well,
he wanted money. Only he wasn't there when I went there, and I
was yes, and the gun. I went down there to kill him,
But I didn't see him. Not then later somewhere. I hadn't seen him
at all. I tell you, just talked to him on the phone.
I don't suppose it didn't make any difference if I told you I had a
good reason. If I told you I loved my husband very much, not
likely in view of the fact you helped your ex husband rob him of one
hundred thousand dollars worth a jewelry five years ago. Oh, I can explain
that Joe came around when we got back from my honeymoon. It's an old
story. My past isn't all well anyhow. Joe threatened to tell my husband
about it unless I gave him money. I didn't have any, so I
opened the safe for him that night. It was all I could think to
do. Yeah, then you split with him later on. I told you
I haven't seen him. Why would I want to do that. I have
everything I want in life right here, mostly my husband. Well, that's
still a police madam. Missus mccomick. I spent a long time looking for
you. Maybe you better get your coat irish. You'll remain exactly where you
are, Julian, And so will you, mister Dollar. Julian, you
heard what I said, and don't worry about it. My dear mister Dollar,
I'm a gentleman. But this is a gun. I noticed thirty eight.
I got a couple of slugs in my pocket that came from it.
Stand over there. Now, this is pretty silly. You can put that
thing away and we can settle this. Anyways, told you the absolute truth
is the Dollar. She's innocent of any wrongdoing so far as I'm concerned.
Is that clear? It's pretty glib McCormick. She's accessory to one hundred thousand
dollars heist, and she hasn't done anything wrong. If she wanted to give
them away my ex husband to anybody that was her affair, I would not
press charges. Well, that takes scare of you. How are you going
to square it with Allied casually in the state of New York? And you
also forget a little matter of a dead man. But I haven't forgotten you,
mister dollar. Julian, Please don't. I've caused enough trouble. Please
calm yourself, my dear, This is the least I can do for you
after what you've done for me just being my wife. Mister Dollar, will
you accept money not enough for murder? Fifty one hundred thousand to kill you?
Mister Dollar? You tried once tonight. You referred to that before,
but you weren't very good, and now you're even worse. You forgot to
take the safety off that gun. Oh ah, he's all right, Get
out of the wine. Let me see that gun. I wasn't interested in
either one of them. For the moment I was looking at the thirty eight
I'd taken from Julian McCormick. There was a smear of cosmoline still inside the
barrel. I sniffed it, checked and found all chambers loaded. It was
a brand new weapon and it had never been fired. Expense account item thirteen
five dollars and a half cab fare again, this time from Long Island to
an apartment in Queen's. The man I wanted to see was Allied Casualty's man,
Frank Porter. He lived in a very polite neighborhood. That's apartment two
three. But mister Porter is not in. I'll wait for him. Yes,
sir, it's all right if I sit in your lobby, isn't it.
Oh, yes, sir, yes, but I'd prefer that you waited
somewhere else. He was, this is a rather exclusive apartment buildings, and
we don't like people loitering in the lobby. Well, I'm on a pretty
exclusive mission. But you don't like the mud on my clothes and the tear
on my coat? Are you a friend of mister Porter? Yeah, good
friend. He wouldn't mind if I waited in his apartment, if that's what
you mean, No, sir, impossible, But a couple of bucks can
do wonders sometimes. It was quite a lay on books, pictures, furniture
and whatnots that make living at home pretty agreeable. I prought myself up on
a stool of Frank's little bar, poured myself a drink, and sat there
waiting for him. I was like that a half an hour later when he
showed up, he looked a little unstane on his feet with Johnny dollar II.
He was the last person in the world I expect to see that light
and let you in. I didn't think it mine, No, not all.
I tried to phone you earlier tonight you were out. I'm sorry,
what's her name of mine? Johnny? I wanted to tell you I was
shot at tonight. Well, I wanted to tell you I found out who
missus McCormick is and was. Since you were on the case first for Allied,
I thought i'd tell you first what you wish. See. This is
a nice setup, full of nice things. I've been in places like this
before, Frank. They usually started three hundred or better a month, but
made service, phone service. All those things cost money, A lot of
money, don't they, Frank with when you tumbled to it, Johnny.
A little while ago, when I was out on Long Island, Julian McCormick
made me a proposition He finally offered me one hundred thousand dollars, a lot
of money. He sounded like he'd had experience making propositions. I should have
tumbled to it a couple of days ago. When you phoned the parole office
after I left you. He used my name when you asked for Joe Panney's
address. Yeah. I wondered if your tip was on the right track,
and figured Joe Panny was eligible for paroles so quick I had to get to
him before you did. He wasn't a kit and keep his mouth shut.
You shut it for him, didn't you, Frank mind if I said,
don Johnny, now go ahead, they'll be strapping it down one of these
days. Gee wish no. One hundred and a half a week investigating claims
by nice places like this. It was one of those lucky things, Johnny.
When I was called to Long Island to investigate that heist five years ago,
I met McCormick's wife, happened to recognize her as Joe Penny, and
you knew McCormick was in love with his wife enough to pay you to keep
quiet, and I gave him service for your money. The cops would have
broken at case in twenty four hours. But I covered up all the tracks
I can find, and I made it real safe by seeing Joe send up
the river. How just tipped off the cops to some of these hot car
deals, and he picked him up. He happened to be carrying a gun,
so he got the works. Then you just sat around drawing blackmail from
McCormick. Chief. Ways, don't look at me like that, Johnny.
Every guy has a price, how about you. That's the second offer I've
had tonight. It's a good one. Joe Penny was a dumb guy.
He picked up that jewelian, went right down town and punked it in a
safe deposit box. It's been sitting there all the time he was up the
rivers. Still worth for? Sorry, Frank you sure? I'm sure?
Chief, Chief wish Johnny, you are a good dick. You don't buy
off. I just wanted to see. I get sure, Frank, Well,
so we go in quietly. You'd be surprised, Johnny, how quiet?
You better dial for an ambulance if you want me to go to to
try or you were good in nelly back of the theater denight, Johnny,
when I tried to knock you off. I followed you all night looking for
my chance. You nicked me twice. Dalard Duck quick, quick, jeez,
where is it hurts? He died right there without saying hid the disposition
of the case and what to do about Frank Porter an insurance adjuster who goes
bad and as a matter I don't have to handle and I'm glad. Expense
account Item fourteen hotel on board in New York City seventy nine dollars and thirty
cents. It had him fifteen eighty four dollars legal fees and incidental expenses involved
in locating the widow of Mike Kirns, which seems is still alive somewhere in
Iowa, and will accept half the reward as promised. Item sixteen fourteen dollars
even transportation back to Hartford. Expense account total two hundred and sixty five dollars
and ninety one cents. Remarks she whiz yours truly, Johnny Daller. Now
here's our star Bob Bailey to tell you about next week's story. Thanks Next
week, the story of a ship the Molly k Destination. Davy Jones Locker
join us, won't you yours truly? Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
is trendscribed in Hollywood. Written by John Dawson. The entire production is under
the direction of Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast were Mary Jane Croft,
Virginia, Greg, Marvin Miller, fors Lewis, Frank Gerstall, Her
Butterfield, Her Bellies, Tony Barrett, Ken, Christy Jack Cruschan and Junius
Matthews. Be sure to join us on Monday Night, same time in Station
or another exciting story of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan, speaking welcome
back. I think that there were definitely virtues to the way we went through
the series originally, and I also think that there is a virtue in listening
to it as an omnibus format. You get a different experience. With the
serial format, you really got the feel of this suspense from day to day
as we went from Monday through Friday waiting for the case to be resolved.
However, when you listen to it as an omnibus format, you kind of
see the story develop differently. I think we had a lot more clues and
it was a lot clearer and easier to follow. I saw the clues to
the insurance adjuster's guilt more clearly as the story went on, with this sort
of battle of wits going on unbeknownst to Johnny. I think when you listen
to it the first time, you're almost really surprised at the end when it
comes out the way that it does, because the clues were pretty subtle throughout.
However, you have perhaps a better opportunity to catch the whole thing and
all the little clues if you listen to it altogether. And we will be
back with two more of these omnibus specials during our listener support campaign. Speaking
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that we're going to be introducing to you in the twenty fourteen twenty fifteen season
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and Tuesday we'll have a little bit of change, so you'll want to be
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