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It's time now for joy, Ralph Dean, 19 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:08,639 Johnny monno guarantee? Oh hi you, Ralph? How things rough? My 20 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:13,080 wife could kill me? Johnny? Were the insurance just for kicks? Because 21 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,840 she's mad? Because you wanted a mink coat? In short, she's a 22 00:02:15,879 --> 00:02:17,400 woman. I couldn't buy her a mink I don't make that kind of money. 23 00:02:17,439 --> 00:02:20,800 You know how it is in the insurance game. Oh sure, I 24 00:02:20,879 --> 00:02:23,759 know, Ralph. You're down to your last yatch. So what happens? 25 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,800 Yesterday? I lose eighty mink coat Silver Blue, worth one hundred thousand dollars 26 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:31,120 gone. Snatch disappeared. Where's robbing? Check? Bandley furriers out in Los 27 00:02:31,159 --> 00:02:35,039 Angeles. My wife's about the blowers stack. She says. If I can't 28 00:02:35,039 --> 00:02:37,879 afford one fur coat for her, then how come I can pay for eighty 29 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:39,520 them that I haven't even got. How do you reason with a woman, 30 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:43,960 Johnny? I never try. Usually I just send flowers. I've already done 31 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,039 that. She ran them through the garbage disposer. So now what do I 32 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:58,759 do? Why? Some more flowers? Tonight and every weekday night. Bob 33 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,199 Bailey in the transcribe Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's 34 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:22,120 Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators, Truly Johnny Doller. From Special Investigator Johnny Doller to 35 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,919 the home office Mono Guarantee Insurance Company, forty three twelve Spring Street, Hartford, 36 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:30,319 Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the 37 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:36,360 Silver Blue matter right on one one hundred and fifty two dollars and forty cents 38 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,240 telephone and incidentals and transportation to Los Angeles. I called the Mono Guarantee agent 39 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,719 out there before I left and got a brief rundown on the case. Among 40 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:46,240 other things, I learned that a man I'd known and worked with before, 41 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,000 Detective Lieutenant for him On Garcia, had been put in charge. And with 42 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,080 Garcia on hand, I knew I could count on cooperation by the police, 43 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:59,400 but I still wasn't expecting quite as much as I got. Like twelve for 44 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:05,080 last Chicago. I knocked over there first joint myself. Johnny see it the 45 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:10,319 only way, we get to see your over work, underpaid, prostrated disillusion. 46 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,319 Don't appreciate it. In other way, it's fine, got your luggage 47 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,040 yet it's coming right there, Go ahead, We ought to get moving. 48 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,000 I've got a squad car outside. What's all the rush. We've got a 49 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,279 guy downtown in the hospital. I figured you'd want to talk to Well, 50 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:26,079 he'll Wade Wanny. He'd probably like to if he had any choice. He's 51 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,680 dying, kind of looks that way. He's one of the two night watchmen 52 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,720 the gang slugg when they broke into the warehouse, and he's our big one, 53 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,240 Johnny. He's all we've got. Has he been able to talk a 54 00:04:34,319 --> 00:04:38,480 couple of sentences during the night, He's got to talk. What do you 55 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,360 mean? He's the only one who got a look at But when he did 56 00:04:41,439 --> 00:04:45,079 talk, what did he say? Gibberish? Mostly he did say one thing 57 00:04:45,079 --> 00:04:47,959 though. They were kids, just a gang of kids. That's gonna make 58 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:51,000 it a rubber Yeah, in a lot of ways. What do you mean? 59 00:04:51,399 --> 00:05:00,639 You'll find out later, Johnny, Come on, let's go. We 60 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:05,519 took the freeway into town with the accelerator floorboarded and the sirens screaming. Racing 61 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:11,439 against time and against dying, weaving in and out through the four wheel madness 62 00:05:11,439 --> 00:05:14,800 that Los Angeles calls traffic, and then the other side of the carn, 63 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:19,720 the solemn quiet of hospital corridors, the calm voices of the nurses, and 64 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:25,920 the blank hardness of sterile white walls. We sat there beside a bed and 65 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,519 waited for a man to talk or to die. But the slow minutes passed 66 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:41,199 and he still didn't either, So we waited. Guess that shut the ductor 67 00:05:41,199 --> 00:05:45,879 gave him is not going to have any effect. Apparently not. It's a 68 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:50,120 crazy world, Johnny. No, just the people in there. I mean 69 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:55,120 yesterday we'd never even heard of this guy. I still don't know, isn't 70 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,000 it? And twenty four hours later, here we are a couple of strangers 71 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,360 sitting around watching him dance her on his chart at ahead of the bed Albert 72 00:06:03,519 --> 00:06:09,680 Christmas. Strangers, not even family or friends. He didn't have any family 73 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:13,360 or friends. He lived alone in a furnished room, worked alone too, 74 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,160 except for one partner. So a gang of punks jump him and bust his 75 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,399 head open. Dude, I'm a bad cup journey. I get sentimental about 76 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:26,519 things like this. How they work at Garcia. It's a warehouse district. 77 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,639 The streets are practically deserted at night. A police prowl car checks the street 78 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,920 once about every forteen minutes, and they hit at one ten a m. 79 00:06:33,319 --> 00:06:38,879 Three minutes after the police had passed suns. Profession No, just a smart 80 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,879 bunch of kids. The only further seemed to know was mink. They passed 81 00:06:42,959 --> 00:06:46,279 up a dozen or so chinchillas worth twice as much. How they get in 82 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,959 I don't know. Christman hasn't been able to tell us. They must have 83 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,480 tricked him into opening the door. What about Christman's partner. He was making 84 00:06:54,519 --> 00:06:57,639 his rounds. They slipped up behind him and slugged him. He didn't see 85 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,800 them. He didn't know what hit him, And nobody side in the streets 86 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,199 saw anything, saw them leave with the furs or any loop all. If 87 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:06,360 they did, they're not saying anything. That's a rough one, Johnny. 88 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:11,680 We haven't got a thing to go on except christmin here. They shape he's 89 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,279 in. That's only a straw if he recognized any of them, If he 90 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:18,439 lives long enough to I don at least the poor devil can grown. No. 91 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,439 I think he's closer to being conscious right now than he's been in the 92 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:28,360 last hour. Maybe all right, Chrismin. He wants a drink. Here 93 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:40,319 you go, bad enough, he wants some more. Who are you? 94 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,879 This is Johnny Dolla, insurance investigator from Hartford. I'm Lieutenant Garcia, LA 95 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,920 Police. Where house? Look? Kids? All right? Now you're in 96 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:56,759 the hospital. Now it's going to be all right? Right? Do you 97 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,759 feel like answering a few questions? Mister christmin you won't take long. Those 98 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:09,160 kids, how did they get in the gram telegram? He showed me Telera 99 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:16,759 Graham through the wind right opened the door. One of them hit me. 100 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,879 Did you get to look at the boy who showed you the telegram? Yeah? 101 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:30,920 Sorry, yeah, eighteen nine? What do you look like? Five 102 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:39,600 nine h ten? Dark skin, black hair? How was he dressed? 103 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:50,519 Dark jack, any scars, anything unusual about him? No? Are you 104 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,240 sure would you recognize him if you saw him again? Yeah? Any of 105 00:08:54,279 --> 00:09:05,639 the others? No? Only when there was a mark on his arm? 106 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:13,240 What kind of a mark? What kind of a mark on his arm? 107 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:22,600 Hurts too bad? Alight? All right? M m, well that's that. 108 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:30,120 Yeah, he's passed out again. Well, we ain't got a description. 109 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,480 Only one thing wrong with it right in that area. There are about 110 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:45,919 fifty thousand kids who fit it. I talked with mister Banley, owner of 111 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,799 the furs. Then Gussie and I went down to the warehouse. It's still 112 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,679 in the fringe of the river bottom section, front of the railroad yards and 113 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,559 backed up by block after block of weather beaten slum shacks. We looked through 114 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,320 the warehouse with the racks where the furs had hung, watchman's office where the 115 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,360 gang had entered. But knew how we did it, that we were only 116 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:07,279 going through the motions. The police technicians had already been over the place inch 117 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,320 by inch, and they'd found exactly nothing. Finally we stepped out the door 118 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:16,759 into the street, a drabbed gray street, cluttered with things cast off and 119 00:10:16,799 --> 00:10:20,799 discarded, dusty. And how there's the story of this whole district down here, 120 00:10:20,879 --> 00:10:26,399 Johnny, right there, and that's story. Yeah, it's a backwash 121 00:10:26,799 --> 00:10:30,360 service yard. It's something you need but don't like to look at. You 122 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,120 shove it out of sight. The people you need but don't want around. 123 00:10:33,759 --> 00:10:37,919 It's the same with them. You grew up down here, didn't you, 124 00:10:37,039 --> 00:10:41,120 Garcia. Yeah, I grew up down here. That's why they gave me 125 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:46,559 this case. I know this section inside out, and that's why I told 126 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,840 you this one was going to be tough. I think I get the general 127 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:54,080 idea those kids came from that slum there to the east one gets to nine 128 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,679 on that The people who live there aren't on our side, Johnny. If 129 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,879 they do know anything, they won't hard is that they wouldn't tell a cup 130 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,759 the time of day. I don't mean they're criminals, most of them aren't. 131 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,919 It's just that they always put themselves on the other side. What about 132 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,600 juvenile gangs? Do they operate around who have dozens of them? And there's 133 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,879 another thing. A few of these gangs are pretty rough, and people who 134 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,759 might talk don't because they're scared too. Oh, it's a great setup, 135 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:22,879 Johnny. A fine place to look for a hundred grand in first. You 136 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:26,759 know, I've been thinking about the fact that they knew exactly the time to 137 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:31,080 hit. They must have staked out here somewhere, sure, and probably right 138 00:11:31,159 --> 00:11:35,159 in the place you're thinking at lunch from across the street, or they had 139 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,639 to be inside or the Proud Car would have seen them. That's the only 140 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:41,200 place open at night. Did you shake it down like I told you, 141 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:46,000 Johnny? They won't give us the time of day. What about me having 142 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 a go at it? Maybe they wouldn't smell a cup on you quite so 143 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,279 strong. The owner's name is Redwellers. He was on that night. See 144 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:56,200 what you can get out of him if you want, I think I will. 145 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,639 By the way, Johnny, I know you and Sure and sky Is 146 00:12:00,759 --> 00:12:05,679 make deals sometimes no questions asked, just to get the loot back. Sometimes 147 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:11,159 yeah, but before you make any deal on this one, you better remember 148 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:26,360 one thing. Christman may die. Why are you saying, Max, save 149 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:30,759 your money? What do you want? Coffee? Yeah? I guess a 150 00:12:33,799 --> 00:12:41,960 house business bucket two a day father in the hole? O cream? No, 151 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:46,840 I'll take it black sinker with it? Oh? Thanks? Are you 152 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:54,120 Red Wallers? So that's it? What do you mean? You're in a 153 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,200 fur case, ain't you? Maybe I thought you was the same one, 154 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,960 but I couldn't be sure. Senior crushes you come up with that cup? 155 00:13:03,039 --> 00:13:05,440 Guy? See you a while to go, don't you. That's right, 156 00:13:05,799 --> 00:13:09,360 I'm an insurance investigating him. Well, you're coming the wrong address, mister. 157 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,120 I don't know nothing about nothing. Who was in the lunch room here 158 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,399 just before the robbery. I don't remember any young kids here. No, 159 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:24,279 it was all old men with long bid I see ten cents for the coffee. 160 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,200 Yeah, they got you real scared, haven't they? Haven't they? 161 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,840 I don't know any days, all right? Look you know Chrisman, the 162 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:39,360 watchman over at the warehouse, he comes in. He didn't know any days 163 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:46,200 either or about it, nothing except he's dying. I'm at the Rokens Hotel. 164 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,399 If you change your mind, Room three twelve, Johnny Dollar, Sorry, 165 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,360 I don't see no use of Mead dying too. Follow me, mac, 166 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:16,360 Johnny Dollar. This is Red Red Wallace, remember sure? Sure you 167 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,360 run that lunch from across the street from the warehouse that was robbed last night. 168 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,080 Yeah that's right. Now, look, DNA, supposing I'll tell you 169 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,679 what I know about it? What's going to happen to me? Nothing, 170 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,159 as long as you weren't mixed up in at yourself. No, No, 171 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:30,240 I mean the papers and the cups I get said I talked you want the 172 00:14:30,279 --> 00:14:31,759 last twenty four hours. I think I can take care of that. What 173 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:35,360 do you know about it? Red? That depends on what it's worth to 174 00:14:35,399 --> 00:14:37,759 you. I see, I'll have to sell out get away from this section, 175 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:41,039 so I'll need some dough. You follow me, all right, I'll 176 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:43,919 see you taken care of Just what is it? You know? I ain't 177 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,799 safe from talking from a booth. You stay right there at your hotel, 178 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,480 I see and a half hour right just you no cups? Yeah, yeah, 179 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,480 that's right, mister bank, mister bank, and six quarts of milk 180 00:14:54,519 --> 00:14:56,639 and two pounds of butter. Sure right away, thanks, mister Beck. 181 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:13,600 Goodbye. Hello, Hello from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location in Los Angeles, 182 00:15:13,679 --> 00:15:16,879 California, the home office Moneo Guarantee Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 183 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:28,240 Assignment the silver Blue Matter expense account continued IDEM four twenty cents, a phone 184 00:15:28,279 --> 00:15:31,000 call to my friend, Lieutenant Garcia of the LA Police, and a call 185 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,759 to Queen of the Angel's Hospital. Albert Chrisman, the night watchman who was 186 00:15:33,759 --> 00:15:37,360 slugged by the gang of teenage hoodlums during the warehouse robbery, was still unconscious 187 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,159 and Chrisman, unless red Weller was ready to talk now, was the only 188 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,799 lead I had toward finding a hundred thousand dollars worth of silver bloomink coats. 189 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:52,080 I waited two hours and a half a red Weller, but he didn't show. 190 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,080 IDEM five two dollars and eighty five cents taxi to the warehouse district at 191 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:03,440 the south end of the rail old Yards. It was night by now, 192 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,240 and the area was almost deserted, a lost, lonely district, shabby and 193 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,919 worn even on the softening darkness, and haunted now by fear. The only 194 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,120 lights in the block were those shining from the windows of the warehouse office and 195 00:16:15,159 --> 00:16:22,639 from Waller's lunch room across the street, reading what would you like, sir, 196 00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:26,080 cup a coffee? I guess you're lucky. I just made some fresh? 197 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,039 Would you like some cream? No? Thanks, No, I'll be 198 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:34,600 fun. Is it foggy? Yah? Yeah, a little? Not bad 199 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:42,279 though. This coffee is all right. You're a good cooks. The boss 200 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,919 always has me make it when I'm here. He says, I do it 201 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:48,639 better than he does. I'll bet you do. Is the boss around by 202 00:16:48,639 --> 00:16:52,919 the way called me and said he had to go out. That's why I'm 203 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:56,159 working. I'm on in the daytime mostly. Do you have any idea where 204 00:16:56,159 --> 00:16:59,759 he might be? No, no, he had to go somewhere. I 205 00:16:59,799 --> 00:17:03,960 get what'd you want to see him about? He wanted to see me. 206 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,920 Do you know where he lives? Well, he's got an apartment over on 207 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,839 Marina. It's about eight blocks from here. I think he'd be there. 208 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,599 No, he wasn't going home. He was going out somewhere. He actually 209 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,880 kind of strange. I don't know what he was gonna do. May I, 210 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:25,599 may I ask just what business you're in? Insurance? Oh, I'm 211 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:29,519 a special investigator. What do you mean. I'm working for the company that 212 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,319 ensured those furs, the furs that were stolen the night before last from the 213 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,680 warehouse across the street. Something wrong? Oh no, no, of course 214 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,640 not. I don't know what you mean. Can I help you gather up 215 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,720 that silver? Oh no, no, that's all right. She had. 216 00:17:47,079 --> 00:17:52,200 I don't know what happened, just careless, I guess. Yeah. Do 217 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:56,480 you do you live around here somewhere? Well? Yes, yes, sound 218 00:17:56,519 --> 00:18:02,839 Dalton three blocks up. What's your name, Carla Kalamanti? Why are you 219 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:04,680 asking? How long have you worked here? Carla? About a year? 220 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:11,160 Do many teenagers hang out here? What do you mean kids? Seventeen eighteen 221 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,880 nineteen? Do many of them come in here for coffee hamburgers sometimes? Yeah? 222 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,359 I've never noticed much. You know any of them? No? No, 223 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,039 no, I don't know any of their names. Sure, I don't 224 00:18:22,039 --> 00:18:25,920 ask him their names. Did I ask you your name? Dollar, Johnny 225 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,599 Doller? Well, I still didn't ask you. If you want to tell 226 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:33,279 me, what are you scared of, Carla? Nothing, I'm not scared. 227 00:18:33,319 --> 00:18:36,480 You're not, of course not. Why would I be scared for the 228 00:18:36,519 --> 00:18:40,079 same reason your boss is Redweller. He was scared when he talked to me 229 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,839 this afternoon and when he phoned me later. I don't know what you're talking 230 00:18:41,839 --> 00:18:45,240 about. Oh, yes you do. That's why he didn't come to my 231 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:48,680 hotel. He was afraid too. And why did you drop that silver or 232 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,519 when I told you who I am? Because you're scared alfter that? What's 233 00:18:52,559 --> 00:18:55,079 the matter with you people down here? What are you doing crawling into a 234 00:18:55,079 --> 00:18:57,680 hole because a half grown gang of hoodlum starts throwing their weight around. You 235 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:02,240 don't understand. I suppose you tell me about it. Do you think that's 236 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,200 any kind of an answer in the long run? To pull it covers up 237 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,160 over your eyes and let them do as they please and just keep hoping they'll 238 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,880 leave you alone. All you're doing is making things worse. You don't know 239 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,440 how it is. You don't have to live here, No, no, 240 00:19:15,519 --> 00:19:18,640 I don't have to live here, But I know how it is because I've 241 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,599 seen it in other places where the mobs managed to take over, And if 242 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,279 you let it happen here, then you will really have something to be scared 243 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:32,319 of. Maybe maybe they've already taken over a bunch of kids with a gripe 244 00:19:32,319 --> 00:19:34,640 on running and packs so they feel safe. Is that the kind of mob 245 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,799 you mean, Carlin. No, they're not a mob yet, but they 246 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:41,279 will be if they're not stopped. It seems to me you'd have some sense 247 00:19:41,319 --> 00:19:45,000 of responsibility to them if nobody else. Maybe if other people had a sense 248 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,119 of responsibility, kids wouldn't have to grow up in a place like this. 249 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,200 Have you ever thought of that, mister Dalla? Yeah, yeah, I've 250 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:52,960 thought of it, But it doesn't hold water. And you think so if 251 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,720 you lived here. All right, so it's a slum district, and sure 252 00:19:56,799 --> 00:19:59,960 these kids start out with a strike on them, but that's a pretty week 253 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,279 excuse for joining up at criminal bands and terrorizing a whole neighborhood, for slugging 254 00:20:03,279 --> 00:20:07,039 people and loading warehouses. Yes, yes, I know, most of them 255 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,440 find other answers. It's only a small minority that turns to crime. But 256 00:20:11,519 --> 00:20:14,839 if you let them get away with it, others will join them, and 257 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:22,079 they'll grow until finally it's too late. Well, Color, still nothing to 258 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:30,000 tell me. I can't, I just can't. I see, Wow, 259 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:36,640 there's a quarter for the coffee. Keep the change, Good night, Color. 260 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:45,759 Wait, yeah, mister Daller. Suppose suppose I knew someone who might 261 00:20:45,799 --> 00:20:48,519 be able to help you. I mean, I mean who might know something 262 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:55,720 about the robbery innocently. Of course, if you talk to this person and 263 00:20:56,039 --> 00:21:03,440 they agree to help you, could you, well, could you keep them 264 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,759 out of it? Depends on the circumstances. I do, I could that 265 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:10,960 much, I promise. I don't know. I'm not sure. You're not 266 00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:15,839 sure of what you why? I know better when I stop and think that 267 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,039 I've lived in this neighborhood too long, live with these people, and I'm 268 00:21:22,039 --> 00:21:26,319 bound by the law like any other citizen, and I won't break it to 269 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,759 help somebody cover up a criminal act. But I figure it's up to me 270 00:21:29,839 --> 00:21:33,440 sometimes to decide whether a thing is a criminal act, and if a person 271 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,720 seems to deserve it, well I could be pretty lenient. You promise what 272 00:21:37,839 --> 00:21:41,920 you just said? Yes, I promise. I've got to trust you. 273 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:47,680 I've got to trust someone. Do you know such a person, Carlin, 274 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:55,079 Yes, do you know where to find them? I think so. Well. 275 00:21:55,519 --> 00:21:59,480 I'm sure they'll be at one of two or three places not very far 276 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:03,519 from here. And who is this person? Someone who grew up around here? 277 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:18,559 A boy nineteen my brother expense account IDEM seven two dollars and seventy cents 278 00:22:18,599 --> 00:22:22,039 taxi. We went first to Carlo's apartment, where she lived with her brother, 279 00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:26,079 but there was no one there. Then we checked out a drive in 280 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,759 a few blocks away, a teenage hangout. No luck. Finally we tried 281 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:32,880 to pool Hall down south of the yards, just off Alameda Street. It 282 00:22:33,039 --> 00:22:38,160 was our last hope. I know he comes here. It's not a good 283 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,599 place for him, but a lot of the other kids do too, and 284 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,880 he wants to belong. Yeah, sure, everybody does, one way or 285 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,680 another. Gosh, it had been different if our folks had lived. But 286 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,400 a boy just won't take orders from his sister. Yeah, I know. 287 00:22:53,400 --> 00:23:03,319 Ah, thanks. If he's not here, then I just don't know, 288 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,920 worry. Oh wait, there he is down near the corner, the one 289 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,319 with the dark curly here. All right, come on take it. Just 290 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:14,319 tell him I'm a friend of yours. You want to talk to him? 291 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:19,200 We'll get him off to one side. Whatever you say, eddieh for the 292 00:23:19,759 --> 00:23:22,519 what are you doing here, Carla? Eddie, Eddie, this is mister 293 00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:27,440 Dollar, a friend of mine. We were I wonder if we could talk 294 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:32,319 to you for a moment. What a bond? Well you know better than 295 00:23:32,319 --> 00:23:33,880 to come in and joint like this, But I want to talk to you, 296 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,279 Eddie, right, talk to me at home night, Go and get 297 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:37,960 her out of here. We go, mister. It might be a good 298 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,519 idea if you listen to her first. I thought it was her that wanted 299 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:45,279 to talk to me, the one. Get her out of here, all 300 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,599 right, if you'll go with us before. I like it here. It's 301 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,319 a nice place. Yeah, at least it's better than saying, Quentin, 302 00:23:55,559 --> 00:23:59,240 what are you talking about? A warehouse robbery? One hundred thousand dollars worth 303 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,519 of furs? Stand? You may know something about it innocently of course, 304 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,440 I just said this guy was a friend of yours. That's right, Eddie, 305 00:24:04,599 --> 00:24:11,440 he's just Zzy. He's an insurance investigator. Oh so that's the pitch. 306 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:14,559 She's promised to help, Eddie. If you'll tell him whatever you know, 307 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:21,079 he'll protect No. Look, mister, I don't know nothing. About 308 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,799 nothing. I never even heard of, no fur robbery. So take her 309 00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:26,240 with you and get out of here. This maybe your last chance to get 310 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,640 off before the boat sinks. Eddie. All right, then, Allie, 311 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,920 Eddie, let him go. We can't force him to talk. Oh no, 312 00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:47,759 mister dull, I don't understanding. I do all right. I'm eight 313 00:24:47,799 --> 00:24:51,480 ten cents phone call from the pool hall to Lieutenant Garcia at police headquarters. 314 00:24:52,279 --> 00:24:56,240 He said there was no change in Albert Christman's condition yet he was still holding 315 00:24:56,319 --> 00:25:00,079 on and he still hadn't talked. But there had been another new develop on, 316 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,240 a big one. And when I joined Kyl in the taxian side, 317 00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:07,640 she knew it by the look on my face. What's wrong, mister dollar? 318 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,759 Hello? How sure are you that your brother wasn't mixed up in that 319 00:25:11,839 --> 00:25:17,119 robbery? I want the truth. I'm afraid he was mixed up in it. 320 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,680 Embrace yourself, Carlin. Your boss Red Weller, who was going to 321 00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:23,200 tell me what he knew about it, was found murdered in an alley an 322 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:42,960 hour ago. Now here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's intriguing episode of 323 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:48,079 this week's story Tomorrow. A lonely, broken hearted girl, a blood stained 324 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,079 shirt and a fight with a cornered rat. Join us, won't you Yours 325 00:25:52,160 --> 00:26:22,240 Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed 326 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:26,160 in Hollywood, written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack 327 00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:30,640 Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night at same time and station for 328 00:26:30,720 --> 00:27:37,359 the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking play ten 329 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,240 Welcome back and interesting first two parts. It not only begins to develop the 330 00:28:26,319 --> 00:28:30,400 story, but also discusses some important themes from the mid nineteen fifties, such 331 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:36,039 as the importance of fighting crime and standing up to criminals, and also the 332 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:41,599 real danger posed by juvenile delinquency and the failure to address the causes of that. 333 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:47,200 There was also a very big payoff from the episode one cliffhanger that came 334 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,279 rather quickly in this story. Well, now we turned to listener comments and 335 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,000 feedback. We start over on Instagram, where Julie the Lawyer writes regarding the 336 00:28:56,119 --> 00:29:02,039 first two episodes of the Lonely Hearts Matter. I loved when the widow said 337 00:29:02,119 --> 00:29:04,799 she wished her son was home so Johnny could meet him, and the way 338 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:11,680 Bob Bailey voiced that so do I was such obvious suspicion. Then we go 339 00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:17,119 over to YouTube for some comments on the Layer Douglas Douglas of Heather Scope Matter 340 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:22,559 regarding episodes one and two, Saceoff rides, I don't always laugh at Johnny 341 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,440 Dowler, but when I do, I know it's probably a Jack Johnstone episode. 342 00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:32,160 And then regarding episodes three through five, Okay, I sure didn't see 343 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:37,960 this ending coming. And then another listener wrote in regarding the conclusion, and 344 00:29:37,039 --> 00:29:41,319 I read his comments on Friday regarding the first two episodes and he says, 345 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,680 I dissed the first two episodes the other day. These three were so much 346 00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:52,640 better, and Nolan is a treasure my favorite. Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's 347 00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:57,039 nineteen forty eight Republic film, well, thanks so much, and I'll have 348 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:02,440 to check that out. I love a good bit of Shakespeare, and I 349 00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:07,400 appreciate Orson Wells. Although his work does tend to be a bit hit and 350 00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:12,039 mess. His films are either brilliant or terrible. So I try to see 351 00:30:12,079 --> 00:30:18,720 the really good ones like Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil and avoid having another 352 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:25,000 viewing experience like watching Orson Welles and David and Goliath. Another listener rights, 353 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,920 I'm so surprised at how much I enjoyed this considering it just randomly started playing 354 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:34,920 from AutoPlay. Yes, YouTube will do that, but I'm glad it worked 355 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:42,640 out area. And then another favorable comment from Betsy regarding the indictment episode first 356 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:48,000 Smuggling, that was pretty good. Thank you. And we also have a 357 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:53,480 couple of new reviews on the Apple podcast store and the first one here is 358 00:30:53,680 --> 00:31:03,680 from Garrett d five to seven and there are a great podcast featuring old time 359 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:10,839 radio detective and detective adjacent shows from decades past. Adam provides insiful commentary on 360 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,279 the shows, from the truly memorable to the painful a lame. 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We'll 376 00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:27,799 be back on Friday with the conclusion of this week's Johnny Do All Our story, 377 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:34,480 But join us back here tomorrow for Dangerous Assignment. Where is the Fredomential? 378 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,640 Yeah? Hey, they're loading crates out of that warehouse. Hey, 379 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:42,519 look up on Dick. Yeah, Captain Schuller, keep back in the shadows, 380 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,359 right, you know, I'd like to find out what's in those crates. 381 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,720 Wait, it looks like a side door to the warehouse. It's ahead 382 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:54,519 of us. Let's try for it there. Anybody's spot us I don't think 383 00:32:54,559 --> 00:33:04,440 so. In side quick arc in here? Great a guard? Quick, 384 00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:07,279 get behind those crazies. Okay, can your spot of Mitchell? I can 385 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:13,400 see his flashlight. He's heading this way. Probably got a gun too. 386 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:22,559 Yeah. Look when he gets closer, i'll jump. No, that was 387 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,519 quick. Yeah, it's gotta work past. It's only a question of minutes 388 00:33:24,519 --> 00:33:28,359 before they miss him. Yeah. Look there's a pro bar over there. 389 00:33:28,519 --> 00:33:32,000 Yeah. I have one craz student on any other I guess I'll try this 390 00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:42,680 one guard moving any No, he's keeping the land on good. Okay, 391 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,519 hand me a flashlight? Would you here? You are m nothing but a 392 00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:52,640 bunch of paintings. What kind of a carg was that? Hey? Wait 393 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,119 a minute. Yeah, I'm no art student, but I recognize a few 394 00:33:55,160 --> 00:34:00,160 of these. There are masterpieces, Mitchell. Hey, this could be some 395 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,559 of the stuff and nazis aluded from Europe. If I will get you ten 396 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,319 It is so. They had it hidden here in backcar all the time, 397 00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:08,920 and Schiller has been delivering it little by little to the head art collector himself. 398 00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:13,280 You've got enough evidence of grab Shiller. Look, that's the last thing 399 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,519 in the world I want to do right now. I'm a lot more interested 400 00:34:15,559 --> 00:34:17,719 in finding out just whom he's delivering this stuff too. I hope you'll be 401 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:22,079 with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen 402 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:28,199 at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and 403 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:34,239 check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from 404 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,320 Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham, Sign and AF