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I haven't heard from real fast like
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be in a hurry. J It's
a firebug, Johnny four fives four weeks

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total claims to date ninety five thousand
skeeps up. I ain't got no job

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left. You just gotta get out
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aren't you? They meet Johnny or
it's the firebug? Who'd you'd like

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to be here? When number five
goes up? That means you're going to

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be in on the ten o'clock flight. Don't tell me he works on schedule

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chew a stick. You'll like it. You really will. Expense accounts submitted

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by a special investigator, Johnny Dalla
to Home Office Eastern Indemnity and Fire Company,

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Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
an accounting of expenditures during my investigation

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of the Antillius firebug matter. Expensive
count at one one hundred and thirteen dollars

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and twenty cents airfare between Hartford and
Dallas, Texas. You're Southwestern States Manager

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Jeff Cunners met the ten o'clock flight
at Love Airport and drove me down to

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your offices on South Aycard Street.
There they are Johnny number one, candy

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store out Northwest, number two,
two family residents on east Side, three

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small factory out on Commerce Avenue.
Four garage and repair shop out Southwest Grand.

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Total claims is ninety five thousand,
and it's all yours. These all

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follow the same time pattern. Everyone
comes Tuesday night around eleven o'clock and that

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firebugess naturally lights up all new policies
Jeff written within the past six weeks to

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two months. It's right. I
think hardly gets cold on the premium checks

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when it gets all hotted up again, all the claims, any connection between

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the policy holders. Can't find one
of thre hall in different businesses, different

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parts of the city. The whole
thing just don't make sense. It does

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if the bug is in your own
organization. Yeah, that's what Lynn Borchardt

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says. Who's Borcher, Detective Lieutenant
Arson Division. He's been working on it.

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How's he making out well? I
got ten men out in the field,

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two gals in the office here,
lots of alibis to check out.

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It takes time. So far,
there's no reason to suspect anybody. Those

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fires are reason enough. But man, why do anybody want to do anything

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like that? Well, when it
comes to firebugs, who knows, could

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have a grudge against you or the
coming, or maybe it'd just like to

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see them flame shoot up. H
that's as good a reason as any.

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Well, whatever it is, we
sure got to get this boy, Johnny.

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This kind of thing keeps up,
I'll be losing my job, my

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home, my wife and everything else. I M, what's the time,

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Johnny? It's uh forming us after
eleven? Wouldn't want to lay a little

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bit while this phone's ringing at this
time of night? Would you? Eastern

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Ademnity? Connors M? Yeah,
that's figured. Where'll I get that address?

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That's uh, wait a minute,
that's seven two five East Westchester.

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Yeah, I got it? Yeah, thanks, Lieutenant? Be seen it

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number five? Yep, big apartment
building out in Westchester. You're sure it's

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one of yours. Wrote the policy
on it myself four days ago. Well,

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let's get out there and have a
look. Huh man, that's sure.

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I'm gonna yeah, there's another one
you're gonna write off. You can

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say, oh, oh, there's
Lynn bartchit over there. Didn't I be

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down here so quick? Let's say
what he's got to say. Yeah,

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sure, I had, Lieutenant,
we got down here right five be readonable

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film with Connor. Not much I
do coore she cooled down. I won't

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be before morning. I lying going
to meet Johnny Dalald. Lieutenant Well,

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i'll investigators release Johnny this lieutenant land
boyt let An. Everything looks like our

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firebug didn't waste any time showing himself
off to you, mister Dollard, No

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question about it being taught well that
guy said, I won't be able to

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get in there until morning. But
when you figure the pattern where that fire

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rolled up in the pole, no
doubt in my mind. Who reported it?

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Fellow my name and Henderson at the
second four apartment West called in from

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a hallway telephone. What kind of
a story did he give him? He

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didn't got trapped up there on the
second floor, suffering third degree burns and

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shocked. He's not in any shape
to talk to anyone. You don't know

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that I care to be around when
he is fit to talk, though,

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always as his wife and two kids, they're still in that fire. Someone

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Jeff Connors went back to the office
to wire his preliminary report to Hartford,

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while I stayed around to see if
anything would turn up. By one thirty

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am, the only thing we'd learned
was that our only possible witness, Hendrickson,

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had died en route to the hospital. A preliminary check of the record

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seemed to indicate that the fire had
started in the basement, but it was

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still too hot to check into thoroughly, so Lieutenant Borcher drove me back downtown.

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I'll dig into it in the morning, Dollar, but I can tell

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you right now, I'll find Oh, what's that, Lieutenant, There'll be

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four or five hot spots indicating the
use of kerosene gasoline, something like that

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amount of paraffin drippings. Sounds like
a candle's used for a slow fuse.

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That's what we figured. Found the
same drippings in all the other fires.

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Any idea how slow a fuse it
is, looks like an hour and a

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half two hours. He gives a
bug plenty of time to get away,

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fix himself up in Alibis somewhere,
Conna says, you think it's someone in

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his organization. Old pattern points that
way. Haven't been able to run him

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down, though takes a lot of
legwork. Connas has been a big up

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go operating right down the line,
knowing him a long alan, oh four

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or five years off the line.
He's a good man. Yeah, he

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doesn't seem to be letting his personal
trouble to interfere with his work any What

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personal troubles are those? Well,
he's been pretty broke for the last six

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months or so. Wife's been sick, run up a lot of doctor in

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hospital builds, had to buy a
new home recently. Oh, why's that

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last one burned down? Lost his
eight month old son, and that fire's

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been pretty rough going for him.
Yeah. Well, when we get this

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firebug pinned down, might help him
some take some of the pressure off or

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leave his mind. Maybe he are
dolla? Oh thanks the tennant It checked

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with me in the morning, Dollar, and think over what I've been saying.

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Maybe something will come to mind.
Yeah, yeah, I'll think about

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it. I had Bocher dropped me
off at your office, Billy. I

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I figured i'd pick up my bag
and talk things over with Jeff before checking

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into a hotel. I let myself
in with a key Jeff had given me

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and headed for his inner office.
Wow, good morning. Oh are you

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Johnny Dollar mean anything to you?
Johnny Dollar. Oh and you're that insurance

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investigat mister Connis that was coming up
from the east. That's right. Well,

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I'm plenty happy to hear that.
You gave me a pretty bad stop,

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mister Dollar. I'm sorry. I'm
Sally Martin, mister Connor's secretary.

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And the rest of it. Well, you mean what I'm doing up here?

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Well, I'm as curious as the
next guy. What I promised to

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have the material ready for mister Conners
in the morning. I let their office

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to night in such a hurry I
forgot it and we'll just drop fire to

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get it ready for him. You're
a pretty conscientious employee, miss Martin,

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getting out of bed at two in
the morning to come down to the office

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or something like that. Oh,
No, wasn't that way at all?

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Oh what way was it? Well? I had a date this evening dinner

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theater and the club Romulo is down
the street. Stopped up here on my

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way home. M Is this cterial
mister Connors wanted ready in the morning.

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Yes, it is comprehensive fire policy
on the property at seven twenty five East

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Westchester. That's right. That's pretty
coincidental, isn't it? Or maybe you

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didn't know that there was a fire
out there tonight, Piet Oh, no,

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any idea why mister Connors wanted this
particular policy out. I think if

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you have any more questions to ask, mister Dollar, mister Connors should be

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here to answer them personally. That
sounds reasonable, and maybe we should ring

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in Lieutenant Borchard too. Lieutenant Hey, Sally, what's keeping you so long?

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Oh? Hi, didn't know anyone
else was up here with you.

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Well, this is Johnny Dollar,
one of our investigators. Bill, mister

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Dalla, this is Bill Friendly.
Well, Glad, I know you're mister

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Dollar. I was telling mister Dollar
about the wonderful time we had tonight dinner

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in the theater and being at the
club Romulo until just a few minutes ago.

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Huh oh yeah, yeah, that's
right. We did have a swell

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time. But honey, it's getting
late, so if you were ready,

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let's run along. Okay, Bill, good night, mister Dallas. Glad

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I met your dollar. Hope to
see you again sometime. Being a firm

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believer in the ability of my subconscious
to resolve any knotty problems, I checked

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into the Baker Hotel for the night. The bed was very comfortable, but

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my subconscious didn't come up with a
thing. Expensive. Guy had him two

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three dollars and seventy five cents Texas
style breakfast, including steak and fried potatoes.

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That supplied me with enough energy to
walk over the City Hall and looking

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on Lieutenant Fortune. It was a
little hit and run accident corner of Westchester

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and Gates by nine o'clock last night. Dolla. It's just half block away

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from where the fire was. Seems
a fifty three Ford stand park down the

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street there suddenly took off without lights, spun around the corner and throw the

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fender off another car coming up the
street. Do you think there's some tie

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in between that and the fire,
Well, one of the boys in traffic

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thoughts. So, after witness gave
him the license number the Ford, he

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checked it through motor vehicle who was
a registered to Jeff Connors friends. No

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matter what kind of work you do, there are bound to be times when

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the job seems monotonous, you feel
tense and restless, and you need something

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Try it and see for yourself.
Get a few packages of Wriggley's Spearmint chewing

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And now, with our star John
Lund, we bring you the second act

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of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. The Traffic Divisions report of the hit

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and run accident on Westchester the night
before added nothing to what Lieutenant Borchhold had

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already told me. Jeff Conner's Ford
had been parked halfway down the block at

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approximately nine to five PM, had
roared away from the curb without lights,

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turned the corner on the gates,
smashed into the side of another car.

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Some ten feet from the intersection and
kept right on going. That'd be some

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reason for Connor's being there just two
hours before the fire, and for taking

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off from such an old fire to
hurry that way without light. Well,

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let's get Jeff's side of the story
before we jump to conclusions. Listen,

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I don't believe much in coincidence,
mister dollar. Time element checks out two.

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The two hours between the accident and
the fire. We know those candle

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uses burned an hour and a half
two. Leaving here at nine gave him

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plenty of time to ditch the corn
meet you at the airport with a pretty

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clean alibi. He wasn't driving a
forward when he picked you up, was

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he? No, it was a
plymouth coop. Maya. Well, that's

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his wife's car. And what if
you're done about getting him in But he's

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not at home, he's not at
his office. Nothing else I could do

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but send out a pickup on him. Leave word for me at the Baker

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Hotel when you're getting with him.
Sure thing, mister Donner, I know

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how you're feeling about it. I'm
sure sorry. Expensive can at him three

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two dollars and twenty five cents cab
fare out to the modern subdivision where Jeff

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Connors had his new home. Missus
Connors turned out to be a sweet,

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nice looking young woman whose recent illness
was still apparent. I'm sorry you had

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the long ride out here for nothing, mister dogger. Jeff's not home.

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He left early to get his car
fixed or something bad. You didn't call

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first. Oh that's all right,
Missus Kenners. It's you I wanted to

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see. Oh yeah, well,
I rather guess I knew that it's about

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Jeff, isn't it. Those fires? That's right? And you've noticed it

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too. Terrible things were in Sir
Can due to a man. Wow,

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until six months ago, Jeff was
the happiest man I'd ever known. Then

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a lot of world just fell apart. That's when your home burned, Missus

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Kenners. One lost that time.
Something happened to Jeff, then don't happened

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to me too. I broke down. I had to be hospitalized with with

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Jeff, Well, that was different. How do you mean he bottled everything

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up inside it and refused to let
it come out and never even talked about

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it. A person can't do that, mister Donna. You mentioned the recent

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fires, Missus Kenners, any particular
reason why, Yes, that's why has

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me worried so ever since they started, he's become terribly depressed. I'm afraid

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he's going to break down under the
stream. That's the only reason you mentioned

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them. Yes, And I decided
to depressing my power to help him.

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I thought, perhaps if we moved
away from Dallas at night help but he

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wouldn't do that. And I tried
to get him interested in sports. That

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brought the first encouraging sign I've had
in six months. Oh what was it,

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missus Connors. Well, usually on
Monday and Tuesday nights, Jeff brings

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work home with him, all the
mail that's accumulated over the weekend, the

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new premiums and renewals and so on. Uh huh. Well, for the

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past five weeks, mister dollar,
believe it or not, Jeff has gone

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bowling every Tuesday night. He's become
so infused about it, like he hasn't

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come home before midnight on any Tuesday
evening since. Now, don't you think

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that's encouraging, mister dollar? Expensive
cont item four fifteen dollars and seventy five

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cents cab fair in and around the
city of Dallas I sent the rest of

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the day checking the neighborhoods where the
fires had occurred, talking to policyholders,

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neighbors, anyone who might give me
a new or different slant. I came

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up with nothing. Around five o'clock
I called in to Lieutenant Borchard. Still

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the same man said, mister Dollar, the neighboud picked up Conna. Yet

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we checked out Sally Martin and Bill
Treandler. Though anything there there in the

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club rhyme like, they said,
yeah, I see, While it looked

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like something might have tied in.
Grandler used to work for Connor. You

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know. Trandler was with Eastern Indemnity
until about two months ago. We have

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left the town of business of his
own bowling alley expensive count item of five

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a dollar and sixty cents cab fair
to Trendler's bowling him for him on East

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Gotto Street, five alleys and a
drink and sandwich bar. Fundler was keeping

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score for a couple of high school
bobby suckses over on Alley number three.

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Don't let it get you down on
it happens to the best of us.

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Take off one of them anyway,
and I talk to you for a minute.

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Mister Trendley. Oh, it's you, the insurance man, Johnny Dollar,

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isn't it. That's right? What's
on your mind? Dollar? I'd

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like to talk to you for a
minute about the fires. Yeah, take

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over for the girls gym. I'll
be right back. Let's go on the

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office. Dollar, Let's have a
dollar. He used to work for Jeff

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Connors at Eastern Yeah, sure,
up until two months ago. Why did

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you quit? I just wasn't cut
out to be a good insurance salesman.

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So you open this bowling alley?
Anything wrong with that? Well? They

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tell me it takes money to open
these things. I had a few bucks

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saved from not being a good insurance
salesman. Why the interest in my fiens

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at a dollar? Oh, I'm
just curious. She's curious about something else.

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Huh. Okay. Did Jeff Cunners
ever come bowling here? Yeah?

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A couple of times. Jeff's wife
says he's been bowling every Tuesday night.

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I wouldn't know. Last time I
saw him was four weeks ago. Last

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night. Any idea where he might
have been those other Tuesday nights? Why?

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I'd asked Sally Martin what she got
to do with it? She's a

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secretary. She was with him the
times he came here. Maybe they figured

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out something better to do with their
Tuesday nights. She was out with you

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last night, yep, every minute
from six o'clock for two fifteen dinner theater

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Club Romulo. Well, you can
always walk out of the theater before the

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final curtain, and a ten dollar
bill can make a nightclub way. They're

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pretty confused about time. Be kind
of hard to prove anything like that,

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wouldn't it. Dollar, Well,
there's no law against trying expense account at

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them. Six one dollar and eighty
cents cab fare back to your hosses.

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They were closed for the night at
the Baker Hotel. I would a call

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into Sally Martin's apartment and got no
answer. When I was trying to figure

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out the next move, Lieutenant Borchard
called and made up my mind for me.

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Yet up front. In two minutes, Dollar, I'll pick you up.

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Where are we going? Tennant under
the viaduct over the Trinity River?

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What's out there? Another fire?
Nopef Connor's Ford, looking twelve feet of

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water. Took about an hour for
amobile crane to get there, and another

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thirty five minutes before the grappling hooks, got a solid hold and swung the

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car up on the dry land.
Butcher and I were beside the car almost

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before the crane put it down.
Well that's a big help. Disappointed lieutenant

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would have helped if he'd been in
the car. Cost money to drag a

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river like this. I don't think
you'll find him down there, and we've

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got a look. On his way
back to City Hall, Butcher dropped me

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off at the hotel. On a
hunch. I went across the street and

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had a little talk with a night
elevator man in your office building. Well,

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well, let's see. Seems to
me somebody went up to eaton indemnity

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since closing time. Yep. Here
Dars checked in at eight seventeen. Out

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again in eight twenty three. Sally
Martin was anyone with her? Come to

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think it was fellow waiting outside in
the car? Say no, I'm just

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wondered it was mister Connors himself expensive
con at him seven six dollars and ninety

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cents for a fast cab ride out
to Sally Martin's apartment. The extra five

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was for the speed. Yes,
mister, where is he? Sally?

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Where's who? Jeff Connors. Is
he still here? Then you know that

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he was hiding here today Let's say
I guess, all right, where is

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he? I don't know what now. Look, there have been five fires

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and three people are dead. You're
hurting my arm, mister Dowler. I

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want to know what you were doing
up at the office and where Jeff went

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when he left here. We went
up here to get a list of the

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new policies. It came in to
day. Why what did Jeff want with

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him? I don't know. Well, there was some reason. What was

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it? I tell you, I
don't know. I got back here to

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night and told him Missus Connors had
called about the new policies. Made me

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drive right down. I've called the
office. Well, Missus cons always did

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double check the policies with me because
of the files he kept at home.

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What was different about her call this
time? Well, nothing except the day.

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Maybe she always called on Tuesday.
There wasn't any real reason for her

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to call to day. Only one
new policy had come in fire policy,

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Yes, on an apartment building out
on the West side. Where is it,

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mister Dollar. I know what you're
thinking, But Jeff didn't have anything

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to do with those fires. Believe
me, where's the policy? Sally over

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there on the table expensive count animate
seven dollars and fifty cents cab there with

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speed to the newly insured a private
building on the west side. I called

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Lieutenant Orchard from Sally's and he was
there waiting for me. In spitted him

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yet, Lieutenant, Yeah, talking
miss Martin's car back in the alleyway.

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What are you gonna take him?
We'll just wait for you. Okay,

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let's go there it is, Donna. Yeah, keep your hands on the

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wheel. Connor, don't worry,
Lieutenant. I won't try anything you're expecting,

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as Jeff, No matter of fact, I was hoping you wouldn't show.

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Johnny, I wanted to handle this
myself. You've been handling it that

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way too long. Connors, Yeah, I guess I had. I wasn't

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really sure till I saw the car
last night. You read about the hit

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run of the morning papers. Is
that why you're dumped it in the river?

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Didn't make much sense, I guess
trying to cover up that way,

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just getting kind of desperate. Where
is she, Jeff, buy your wife?

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Where is she in the basement?
Yes, she must be through by

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now. I was waiting for it
to come out, trying to delay it

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all the last minute. I guess
I'll have to get it. Kind of

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you, he'll treat it gently,
won't you, Attendant, I'll worry.

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I'll treat her gently. Sally Martin's
not mixed up in this Johnny boy.

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She was just trying to help her
boss out of a jam. Didn't even

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know what it was. Don't worry
about it, Jeff. Doesn't make much

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sense, does a Johnny my old
wife Firebug. I suppose maybe it was

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our home and a boy. I
don't know. It doesn't make much sense.

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She was a lovely girl, Johnny, but was she'd noted he was

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such a lovely good Expense account atom
nine thirty seven dollars and forty cents.

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Hotel bill and miscellaneous expensive count atom
ten one hundred and nineteen dollars and ten

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cents. Air Fare back to Hartford
expense account total three hundred nine dollars and

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twenty five cents. Remarks. I've
seen fires burn everything from blocks of tenements

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to a hole in a rug,
but this is the first time I ever

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saw one actually burn the heart out
of a man. I don't ever want

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to see it again. Yours tuny
Jounty Dollar. Friends, Next time you

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and for real chewing enjoyment. Next
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day. Remember that's Wriggly's Spearmint Chewing
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yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Brought
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stars John Lund in the title role
and was written by Sydney Marshall with

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music by Eddie Unsteader. Featured in
tonight's cast were Hal March Barney Phillips,

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Jean Bates, Sam Edwards for Jim
Gregg and Jim Nusser. Yours Truly Johnny

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Dollar is produced and directed by Him
Delvai, the makers of Wriggley's Spearmint Chewing

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Gum. Hope you enjoyed tonight's story
of Johnny Dollar, and that you're enjoying

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delicious Wriggley's Spearmint Gum every day.
This is Charles. I'm inviting you to

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join us again next week at the
same time when from Hollywood John Lund returns

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as Yours Truly Johnny Doller. This
is the CBS Radio Network Welcome back,

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well somewhat a good twist on a
somewhat sad ending as the insurance agent who

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was suspected ends up dealing with this
a lot of grief here. You can

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really empathize with this very painful,
very difficult situation that went through some good

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human drama here. Believe it or
not, this episode has actually been used

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for mislabeled programs. Some have tried
to pass this off, believe it or

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not, as a Charles Russell episode. The first Johnny Doller from January seventh,

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nineteen fifty the title of that episode, it was nicknamed The Firebug Hunter

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matter the title that he gave in
Charles Russell, Johnny Doller sort of ways

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press out my it's best those dinner
jacket mother, I'm going to smoke.

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And usually when these sort of counterfeit
shows are posted, I probably shouldn't say

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counterfeit, but mislabels shows, there's
been some intentional doctoring to make it seem

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plausible. They cut out the Wrigley
Spearman ads, they cut out the parts

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that announced who the star is,
and they distort the sound so you think

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it doesn't sound like Charles Russell because
of the fact that the sounds disordered.

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But it doesn't sound like Charles Russell
because in fact it's John Lutt, you

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know. And I think when you
run into these mislabeled shows, it's not

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always a situation where you know somebody
is trying to literally actually cheat on the

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end the person you buy from.
Because a lot of these a lot of

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websites that will sell these radio programs, they have sixty thousand or one hundred

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thousand separate shows they're showing, so
they don't have time to be able to

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listen to them all Unfortunately, as
a consequence of that, there have been

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times when the when cannons of radio
programs have been corrupted in so the result

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of that is that some very dubious
or mislabeled stuff ends up in circulation.

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All right, well, listener comments
and feedback. We begin with Bobby who

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said we started listening out to listening
to yours truly, Johnny Doller, and

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we and we are now addicted.
Thank you for all the work you do

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finding these Thanks so much, Bobby, and Genevieve says so much fun listening,

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which I do through iTunes makes the
most dreary housework enjoyable. Enjoy your

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comments and like that they are sequential, so I'm not so I'm not listening

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to the same ones. Please keep
them coming. Would be great format for

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other genres of old time radio.
Keep it up, thanks, Genevieve,

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and I agree about other formats.
I've often thought it'd be nice if there

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were a show like this for comedies
or for family dramas like Doctor Christian Family

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Theater. But I've even thought of
doing them myself. That you know,

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issue comes into play, and so
I just hope someone else is able to

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take up that idea because there are
a lot of interesting possibilities comedies, great

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comedians, sitcoms, why a variety
of different topics could be done. Andrew

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Ryans adds some insight about music he
wrote in the Syndicated Radio Programs. He

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writes, from my understanding, they
still do this today with a show that

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is syndicated, and everyone was listening
to the same show, but local ads

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needed to be added. The music
lets them know they can still run ads

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today. They do this and may
include show's name and return time. Most

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stations shows today use one sound or
song on a loop, so when the

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sound engineer here's a change, he
can end the commercial and bring back the

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show at the same time as all
other shows around. And that's some interesting

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insight because I've often been listening to
a radio program and they'll off either in

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the middle of commercial or middle of
the host talking to go over to the

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commercials. So kind of understanding the
synchronization of that definitely helps. And that's

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got to be challenge more challenging when
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to something transcribed. All right,
well, that'll actually do it for today.

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I do want to let you know
we just passed our eight hundred and

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fiftieth episode mark, so on Sunday, we're going to bring you a special

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a little bit after the eight hundred
and fiftieth show on Tuesday, So join

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us for episode eight fifty four s
on Sunday Tomorrow is the lineup, and

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join us back here on Friday for
yours truly, Johnny Doller. In the

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