1 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:35,640 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,119 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:46,159 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, Follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:51,240 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, 5 00:00:51,359 --> 00:00:56,679 slash Great Detectives. If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using 6 00:00:56,759 --> 00:01:02,640 your favorite podcast software. A reminder, as you're making your holiday travel plans, 7 00:01:02,719 --> 00:01:06,719 remember Johnny Dollar Air dot com. Johnny Dollar air dot Com is a 8 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:11,200 price line affiliate length, so part of the purchase price goes to support the 9 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,959 Great Detectives of Old Time Radio at no additional cost to you. Remember when 10 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,599 making your travel plans, check Johnny Dollar Air dot com first. Well, 11 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:26,959 now it is time for the conclusion of this week's Yours truly Johnny Dollar Cereal. 12 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:32,599 The original air dates are June sixth, seventh, and eighth of nineteen 13 00:01:32,719 --> 00:01:38,280 fifty six, and this is The Indestructible Mic Matter Episodes three, four, 14 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:51,239 and five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. What you're John 15 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,799 Wesley Consgrave, aren't you? That's right? Well, my name is Johnny 16 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,760 Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator. Oh, of course, I've been expecting 17 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,159 a call from you, or at least from somebody like you. What's that 18 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:06,159 supposed to mean? I expect you're interested in why I've ensured the life of 19 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,479 a Bowery bum for fifty dollars. You bet, I am. I want 20 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:15,800 to see you? Why not anytime? Only? It won't do you any 21 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:27,439 good Tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the 22 00:02:27,479 --> 00:02:31,960 Man with the Action Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator Ours Truly 23 00:02:32,439 --> 00:02:51,879 Johnny Dollar Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location New York, 24 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,960 New York to the Lakeside Life and Casualty Company. Following is an accounting of 25 00:02:54,960 --> 00:03:04,840 expenditures incurred during my investigation of the indestructible mic matter. Expencer con hadem nine 26 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,639 ten cents. The phone called a John Wesley Cosgrave from my dingy little hotel 27 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:12,159 on the Lower East Side. I had him ten to two seventy TEXI uptown 28 00:03:12,199 --> 00:03:15,080 to see Sergeant Randy Singer detect the Division eighteenth Precinct. You get back to 29 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,039 the glad Hand rescue mission in time after all when the Lamb boys discovered that 30 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:23,240 so called whiskey was almost pure wood. By the time I got there, 31 00:03:23,319 --> 00:03:25,319 Randy, the poor old coop had drunk nearly half the bottle. Oh it's 32 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,759 too bad. Well, I'm better arrange for him to be hauled out of 33 00:03:28,759 --> 00:03:31,240 the morgue. Uh uh, Oh, Mike's still alive and happy. Oh, 34 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:35,400 it's impossible. You don't know the half of it. A week or 35 00:03:35,479 --> 00:03:38,080 so ago, somebody stabbed him with an ice pick just below the heart. 36 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:42,599 Result, he said, the scar itched a little bit. Two days ago, 37 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:45,439 somebody drove a couple of thirty eight slugs throw him. He said it 38 00:03:45,479 --> 00:03:47,360 gave him a slight twitch in his side for a few whiles. Johnny, 39 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,680 come on, he goes and drinks nearly half a bottle of wood alcohol. 40 00:03:52,159 --> 00:03:55,960 Result a bit of a headache. Indestructible mic, indestructible mic. Where is 41 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,280 he now? Locked up in my room at the Brakley Hotel? I ortis 42 00:04:00,319 --> 00:04:02,039 eat the groceries I picked up for him, and to let nobody in good 43 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:06,080 good. But whoever's trying to get him is going to give up. Hey, 44 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,879 did you dig up anything on the beneficiary of his fifty thousand dollars life 45 00:04:09,879 --> 00:04:13,560 policy. Cosgrave only enough to scare you to death. Listen to this. 46 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,879 John Wesley Cosgrave formerly known as John W. Gordon, John Dutchy Gordon alias 47 00:04:18,879 --> 00:04:26,319 Skippy Grant alias Duchy Smith eighteen arrest was only one conviction back in nineteen thirty 48 00:04:26,319 --> 00:04:30,000 eight for possession of arcotics. Randy Ever hear a murdering corporation. Sure, 49 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,079 but apparently they had a subsidiary. Apparently your friend Gordon or Cosgrave or whatever 50 00:04:34,079 --> 00:04:36,360 you like to call him, was one of the big shots in it, 51 00:04:36,399 --> 00:04:40,839 but outside of the narcotics. But the department was never able to really pin 52 00:04:40,959 --> 00:04:44,439 anything on him. But this guy's addresses here, let me see six twenty 53 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,120 one's forty ninth Street. Yeah, that's not only a respectable neighborhood, but 54 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:51,279 pretty plush. That's right. Well, how recent is his record? What's 55 00:04:51,319 --> 00:04:56,399 he doing now? Last pickup was in nineteen forty four numbers game and book 56 00:04:56,439 --> 00:04:59,959 making charges dropped for lack of evidence. Then, apart from the record, 57 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,199 is he still in the rackets? He is? Nobody can prove it. 58 00:05:01,519 --> 00:05:04,319 Like in the old days, he masterminded and let somebody else do the dirty 59 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:11,120 work. It's listed Here is a quote retired unquote, Well my money says 60 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,040 he's still in business. Well, if you can prove it the department in 61 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:16,279 the DA's office, I'll love you dearly, but I don't think you will. 62 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,519 Every time we dragged in a stoolie who could give us what we wanted, 63 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:24,199 something happened to him, like what jump bail. You should have known 64 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,199 better than to let him have bail. One of them poisoned in is selling 65 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,879 the tombs one breakout and his body was found in the East River, even 66 00:05:30,879 --> 00:05:33,680 won suicide, Like to bet I can't tie him in with these attempts on 67 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,959 Mike Finn's life. Well, no, that's something else again. Maybe it's 68 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,040 something we should have. No no hands off and I mean all right, 69 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,560 I don't get testy about it. John. I like the old guy, 70 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,279 and anybody who tries to hurt him has to answer to me. And somebody's 71 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:56,920 tried expense account out of eleven one sixty five cav Fair of the Smart Water 72 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,480 apartment building at sixty two one East forty ninth, where the dorm and announced 73 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,000 that mister J. Wesley Cosgrave was expecting me and to take the elevator to 74 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:11,920 apartment eleven B come in mister Dollar. The apartment was expensively but tastefully furnished 75 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,959 with overall carpeting. It fell an inch and a half thick. Several original 76 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,920 oils by famous contemporary artists hung on the walls. But it was the man 77 00:06:18,959 --> 00:06:23,079 himself who really seemed not a character with a rundown Randy had given me. 78 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,959 He was six one or two, built like a man who spends his odd 79 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,839 hours in the gym, quick gray eyes, his hair slightly gray at the 80 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,879 temples, and his tailor was amastic. Do you like it, mister Dollar? 81 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,120 Eh? What that is a genuine Picasso you're looking at. And I 82 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:43,480 consider myself very fortunate to possess this original by Salvator Dolly. Oh, and 83 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:47,560 I'm sure you'll appreciate the excellent view of the city from these corner windows. 84 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,759 Yeah. I must have the best, mister Dollar, only the best. 85 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:56,079 Oh sit down, Please? May I pull you a drink? No? 86 00:06:57,439 --> 00:07:00,720 Oh? Thanks? I suppose you're wondering. I decided to buy old Michael 87 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:04,759 Flynn the life insurance policy in which he's so proud I am. That was 88 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:10,000 really very easy to explain. You see, I was born and brought up 89 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:15,120 in the Lower east Side, mister Dollar in deplorably poor circumstances. My early 90 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,600 life was a never ending struggle for survival and for whatever questionable sort of education 91 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:24,519 I could glean from those about me, many of them criminals who were my 92 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,480 only companions. That's all very touching, mister Casker, and I'm afraid I 93 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:33,319 did little to lift myself out of the gutter until one winter night, hungry 94 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:38,920 and broke, I wandered into the Helping Hand Rescue Mission. Yeah, I 95 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,639 understand. You still go around there now and then, Oh, yes, 96 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,120 I do, in the hope that somehow I can help the poor unfortunates there 97 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,360 the way the Mission and Daddy Bill helped me repay some of the debt I 98 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:51,319 feel, I owe. Is that the only reason what do you mean? 99 00:07:51,399 --> 00:07:56,519 Is that the only reason You've given jobs to some of those poor unfortunes from 100 00:07:56,519 --> 00:07:59,439 time to time, haven't you? Yes, Yes, I have what kind 101 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:03,480 of jobs? What business? That's hardly a concern of yours, mister Dollar. 102 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:07,240 I've contributed much to the Mission. I've tried to make life easier for 103 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:11,920 some of the deserving habituaries of the Mission. It's the least I can do 104 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,920 after so much was done for me. In the case of Mike, why 105 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,759 his greatest desire in life was to be the proud owner of life insurance? 106 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,480 Why, I don't know, I dom because you sold him on it. 107 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,120 That's a lie, that's a desert. Then why make him name you as 108 00:08:28,199 --> 00:08:31,919 beneficiary instead of a mission of some other deserving cause? And that, mister 109 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:35,200 doll, it was his own idea, and since it made him happy, 110 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,639 I didn't protest. I suppose the real reason for this particular desire was his 111 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,120 feeling that it might give him dignity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now 112 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,600 tell me something, where does all your money come from? Dutchy Dutch? 113 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,320 Who told you that? Nobody calls me duchy? No more, I knew 114 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,039 you and nobody else. Them days are over. I'm respectable, even educate. 115 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:56,080 I'm wondering. Look at my record. I hadn't been on the blot 116 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:01,480 of since forty four, and that was a bump to dollar. I make 117 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,480 no pretensions about not having a past. During prohibition and later I made millions, 118 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,879 yes, millions, of rum running. And the policy racket is a 119 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:11,080 betting commissioner' a narcotics sure, it was hardly a caper in this town. 120 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,480 I didn't have a figure into and I was smart. I pocketed the profits, 121 00:09:15,519 --> 00:09:18,120 not my boys. That's why I can afford to be retired and live 122 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,720 decent. And I'm going to keep on living this way. You were lucky 123 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:26,480 some of those boys that Mabby yours didn't rint on you. Yeah, thanks 124 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,879 to a couple of convenient rubouts that I had nothing to do with. You 125 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,320 understand, I managed to stay clean with the law. And now you're as 126 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:41,440 pure as the driven snow dollar. If this was the old days, you 127 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,240 wouldn't even live long enough to regret what you're implicating. You think, which 128 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,399 makes me dead sure, I'm thinking right. I don't know how much money 129 00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:52,320 you've got socked away from those old days. I don't care. But from 130 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,240 once you've just admitted to you dollar, not to any judge or da right, 131 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,480 And I'll never believe that a clever mind like your smartn to keep you 132 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,200 out of the pen. Oh, flattery won't get you. I refuse to 133 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,679 believe you could turn down a chance to make a crooked buck. I don't 134 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,200 know what kind of jobs you sent out those poor suckers from the mission. 135 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,559 On the fact they never came back makes that look pretty bad. You care 136 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,720 along came Mike Flynn, poor old alcoholic Mike. Where the talk of insurance 137 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,919 came from, I don't know, but it was too good to pass up 138 00:10:18,759 --> 00:10:22,080 and sure his life for fifty thousand bucks. Have him name you as beneficiary, 139 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,080 give him a few dollars so I could spend his last days in a 140 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,799 happy alcoholic Hayes. Then rub him out and collect the fifty g mission dollar. 141 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,440 If Mike gets knocked off, neither you nor anybody else is going to 142 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,440 be able to tab me with it. And one other thing, Yeah, 143 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,600 what's that as a friendly piece of advice? If I was you, I 144 00:10:37,799 --> 00:10:43,480 wouldn't even try. Is that a threat? Oh, mister dollar, he 145 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,799 made a miserable host of me. Come let me pour you a drink the 146 00:10:46,879 --> 00:10:52,120 five US twenty five year old Scotch and we can talk of pleasant things. 147 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,279 For some reason or other, I did have the drink with him, But 148 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,519 he knew what was in the back of my mind, and I'm afraid I 149 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:03,720 knew I was in the back of his. Something along the same line as 150 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:09,320 a couple of convenient rubouts once or twice, as when aera of education slipped. 151 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,200 But all in all, he made a fair conversationist. Finally I left, 152 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:15,919 and all the way down to the street, I kept wanting to look 153 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,080 back to see if I was being followed. Somehow, somewhere there was a 154 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,360 way to get this Cosgrave, but I could see it would have to be 155 00:11:22,399 --> 00:11:26,360 through someone else, someone working for him, and whoever that might be could 156 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:31,799 very well be out to get me first or Mike. I had a'm twelve 157 00:11:31,799 --> 00:11:33,679 two ninety five taxi back to the Braakley Hotel, where I hope the old 158 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,519 boy was still locked up on my room. He was, Oh well, 159 00:11:37,759 --> 00:11:43,840 Johnny man, I was beginning to wonder what had happened to you? Hey, 160 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:46,360 hey, hey, hey, what was the matter with that food I 161 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:48,799 left with you? You hardly touched I had enough. It was kind of 162 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,440 dry, though, kind of dry. There's a container of coffee there because 163 00:11:52,519 --> 00:11:56,440 the carfag just doesn't seem to quench my thirst. We should let me bring 164 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,799 the rest of that bottle, Alonge that what alcohol? Any more of that 165 00:12:00,799 --> 00:12:03,639 would have killed you. I did have a kick, though, I don't 166 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,720 know how you live through it, holl Look now I want some lunch, 167 00:12:07,799 --> 00:12:09,879 and Mike, I'm gonna take you along with me. Oh that'll be if 168 00:12:09,919 --> 00:12:11,759 I could I have maybe a little drink too, Oh, sure you can 169 00:12:11,799 --> 00:12:15,039 have one. Oh that's nice. Good of course, the size of the 170 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,840 drinks they serve nowadays, just one, now, come on, Oh that's 171 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,279 fine. One would be a say, oh, there's a lovely saloon just 172 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,960 around the corner. You know, even sandwiches for those that want them. 173 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:28,679 I understand. I could, oh, on these stairs, and maybe we 174 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,000 could just bring a bottle back, whether it's to your room, if we 175 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,559 are going to come back. Sweet funny. Also, I loved him, 176 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,639 and I knew that without me, he'd be a dead one so fast. 177 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:46,120 So far the attempts on his life had been made by persons unknown unless the 178 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:52,600 mission Daddy Bill. Could Daddy Bill be somehow tied in with Cosgraves operations? 179 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:58,799 I wanted I paid the check that's item thirteen twenty five. When we started 180 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:03,080 walking to the glendhad Rescue mission along some of the back streets. I want 181 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,720 a time to think it out, if I could think over the incessant pleasant 182 00:13:05,799 --> 00:13:09,440 and I'm really enjoying life now that I have money now. And then sometimes 183 00:13:09,519 --> 00:13:13,360 I get on the subway and I just ride all over town all day. 184 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,639 Yeah, you told me why don't you try that sometimes? John, it's 185 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:18,519 really want to say. There's a bar there on the corner. Why don't 186 00:13:18,519 --> 00:13:22,159 we just talk? No, No, let's past them. John. Why 187 00:13:22,159 --> 00:13:24,279 do you feel that you have to look after me this? You know? 188 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,200 John? Well? Why? Hey, watch the curve. Why I'm looking 189 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:35,519 after you, it's because somebody's under Mike, Mike, Mike, listen to 190 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,000 me. Can you hear me? Mike? Hey, mister, get a 191 00:13:39,039 --> 00:13:41,080 cop an ambulance for him or what's left of them? Yes, hurry, 192 00:13:41,639 --> 00:13:45,480 what's the matter with you? Lose your eyes? Buddy? It's too late, 193 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,480 Johnny Dollar. Johnny, this phone number you left for me to call 194 00:14:05,519 --> 00:14:07,919 it? You at Bellevue Hospital? Yeah, Randy, what's wrong? You 195 00:14:09,039 --> 00:14:11,960 at headquarters? Yeah? The truck ran over Mike Flynn, and I'm sure 196 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,759 it was deliberate. But he's alive. I hope he was four hours ago 197 00:14:15,799 --> 00:14:18,440 and I dragged him in here indestructible. Mic. I'm not so sure this 198 00:14:18,519 --> 00:14:20,679 time. What about that truck? Did you get the license? Yeah? 199 00:14:20,679 --> 00:14:24,440 The boys are the first precincer working on it. Check with him, will 200 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,600 you while I stay here at the hospital? Sure, Johnny? And one 201 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:30,039 other things? Yeah, find out how long that lad hand Rescue mission has 202 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,279 been in existence place where all Mike's been living. Yeah, why, I 203 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,200 don't know yet, But do it, will you? Sure? And you 204 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:41,000 let me know when Mike's out of danger. Huh, Johnny better pray a 205 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:58,240 little bit randy. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location, 206 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,080 New York, New York, to the Lake Side Light Casualty Company, following 207 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,399 as an accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the indestructible mic matter. 208 00:15:09,279 --> 00:15:13,200 The veneer of Class and Education assumed by Jay Wesley Cosgrave, just wasn't think 209 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:16,879 enough to hide the fact that he was better known a few years ago as 210 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,919 Duchy Gordon and in the old time racketeer. It looked like a cinch. 211 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,360 Pick up a Bowery bomb like Mike Flynn, ensure his life of fifty grand, 212 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,279 give him a few weeks a high living, then knock him off and 213 00:15:28,279 --> 00:15:33,480 collect the insurance. Yeah. Real sinch, especially for Cosgrave, who learned 214 00:15:33,519 --> 00:15:35,799 as far back as the early days of Prohibition how to employ hired thugs to 215 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:41,080 do the dirty work while he sat back and collected the profits. I knew 216 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,679 as surely as I'm sitting here that Cosgrave was behind the knifing, the shooting, 217 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:46,960 and now this accident to old Mike. But how to prove it? 218 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,320 Yeah, sitting here in the waiting over the hospital, waiting waiting for some 219 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:58,639 word of Mike's condition. Oh, yes, Tuck, can I see him 220 00:15:58,639 --> 00:16:00,360 now? Very shortly? I believe? How is he? Is he a 221 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:06,600 phone call for you at the floridask? Oh? Great? But how is 222 00:16:06,639 --> 00:16:08,679 Mike? Doc? How is he? You'll be able to see him shortly? 223 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:17,039 Yeah? Oh nice? Johnny Dollary, Oh, mister doll I was 224 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,879 quite sure that you would be there at the hospital. This is J. 225 00:16:19,039 --> 00:16:23,080 Wesley Cosgrave. What made you think that? Why? Because of the accident 226 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,879 to Michael? Jeremiah Flynn? How did you know about it? I kept 227 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:29,919 it out of the papers. I find it helpful to know about a lot 228 00:16:29,919 --> 00:16:32,799 of things that don't get into the papers. Well, your boy, Goofed 229 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,360 Cosgrave. Mike is still alive, My boy, You know as well as 230 00:16:36,399 --> 00:16:37,720 I do, Duchy, that one of your mob was at the wheel of 231 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,559 that truck that ran him down. You better keep you a yep shirt dollar 232 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:47,279 U. I I thought I made it plain to you earlier that I no 233 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,799 longer have any connection with the doings of the shall we say underworld? Oh? 234 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:53,639 Sure sure. As for poor old Mike, I understand it was an 235 00:16:53,639 --> 00:16:56,720 accident, very unfortun knock it off, Cosgrave. I was there when it 236 00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:00,399 happened. Oh yeah, pretty still, But would be killer to try that 237 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,400 with an investigator right next to Mike, wasn't it. Did you see the 238 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,960 driver of the truck? I suppose I Did you say he wasn't one of 239 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,039 your boys? So what difference would it make to you? Why? No, 240 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:15,920 none at all? Did you see him? Why don't you worry about 241 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:25,000 that? For a while? Again? I waited, sat and waited and 242 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:29,920 paced the corridor of the hospital. Outside. The sun sank slowly behind the 243 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,599 horizon of skyscrapers, and the busy clamor of the day's traffic segued to the 244 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,200 softer, muffled but still busy traffic. Come up night, and I waited 245 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:44,200 and smoked and waited. Finally, it must have been close to midnight. 246 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,839 The nurse led me quietly down the hall and indicated the private room that I'd 247 00:17:47,839 --> 00:17:52,799 had set aside for Mike. After a brief instruction about not staying too long, 248 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:59,000 she pushed open the door for me and she tiptoed away, and there 249 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:03,200 lo and behold and all his glorious head, swathed in bandages, but wearing 250 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:10,039 a smile of mile wide set indestructible. Mike, Johnny, Mike, Oh, 251 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:15,599 Mike, you will reprobate it. I guess there is something in prayer 252 00:18:15,599 --> 00:18:18,640 after all. How about this, Johnny, this well, isn't this the 253 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,279 finest place you ever said? Oh? Mike, you're gonna be okay, 254 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:26,960 aren't you gonna? Yeah? I am, But I guess I had those 255 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,839 doctors scared. Oh my my mind, Johnny. You just should have seen 256 00:18:30,839 --> 00:18:34,640 the way they fluttered around. Or and those nurses, Johnny, I never 257 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:40,119 saw such beautiful ladies and all mile I am so nice? And doesn't it 258 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,440 smell good in here? The disinfect they usedn't he as much nice? And 259 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:45,480 Daddy Bill has the mission. And you know, somebody, I haven't seen 260 00:18:45,519 --> 00:18:49,359 a single bit bub, not even a cockgrow. No, Mike, Mike, 261 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,039 I'm so glad to see in one piece. Sure I am. I 262 00:18:53,079 --> 00:18:56,640 don't old bum hasn't any righting and pretty place like this. You had no 263 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,400 more business living through that accident? Then? How you talk? Yeah? 264 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,039 Yeah, you mustn't talk so much? No, matter how good you feel, 265 00:19:03,079 --> 00:19:07,799 you need rest, time to heal up whatever got broken broke me. 266 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,119 Well, you still need rest and quiet. Here, I'll turn off this 267 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:18,759 light. I'll see you in the morning. Oh but Johnny, Yeah, 268 00:19:18,039 --> 00:19:25,160 Johnny, how can I just sleep? Too much? Pain? Want the 269 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:26,319 nurse to give you a hype hoe? Oh? They filled me up with 270 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:32,480 more needles than you ever saw. But there's only one real pain killer, 271 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:41,880 you know. Yeah, I'll see you later. If the administration of Bellevue 272 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:45,839 Hospital ever found out that I was back in Mike's from a few minutes later 273 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:49,079 and why, they'd probably have my neck. But I didn't leave the whole 274 00:19:49,079 --> 00:19:52,519 bottle with him. I swear it. Only about three fingers in his water 275 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:56,680 tumbling, and the blissful expression on his face as he closed his eyes to 276 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:03,920 sleep made me sure I'd done right. I'd am fifteen one eighty taxi back 277 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:07,920 to my dingy little hotel, and I thank whatever gods may be that all 278 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,839 Mike could pull through. Eve been right. They just couldn't seem to kill 279 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,799 him so far. But I knew they wouldn't give up, not with fifty 280 00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:21,119 thousand dollars at stake, fifty thousand more to line the pockets of Dutchy Gordon, 281 00:20:21,279 --> 00:20:22,599 who I was sure was just as much of a racketeer as ever, 282 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,160 despite his present name of Jay Wesley Cosgrave and his pretense of gentility. Because 283 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,920 his henchmen had always feared to squeal or died violently before they could. The 284 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,599 police had nothing on him. My job was to find one of the mob 285 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:40,200 make him sing. But how I guess I was still thinking or dreaming about 286 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,880 it when my phone rang the next morning. Hello, Joy Dollar, this 287 00:20:45,039 --> 00:20:53,960 is Jad Hello, oh oo Johnny Dollar. Hey he's still in bed? 288 00:20:56,039 --> 00:20:57,720 Oh Randy? Yeah, I thought you were gonna call me. Is he 289 00:20:57,799 --> 00:21:02,599 still alive? Was when I last saw him about midnight? Well it's a 290 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,000 miracle after what that truck did to him? And say, yeah, the 291 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:08,519 boys downtown found that truck. Yeah, he had it been stolen and was 292 00:21:08,559 --> 00:21:12,799 abandoned. Did they find any Prince plenty who's lefty skillman? Well have they 293 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,160 picked a Yeah? Yeah, they found him all right, died up in 294 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,920 a sack floating in the East River, old time gangsters style. So helped 295 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,799 me. I knew that when Cosgrey sang, yeah, Mike's gonna be okay, 296 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:26,000 Randy, he was sitting up in bed, pricky as a cockatoo. 297 00:21:26,279 --> 00:21:29,279 No, I don't know how he does it. Why he was all ready 298 00:21:29,279 --> 00:21:32,119 to pack up and go back to the glad hand Rescue mission. Huh felt 299 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:33,599 he didn't deserve to be in such a nice, clean place as the hospital. 300 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,400 Bless his foolish art. Did you find out anything for me about that 301 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,400 flumphouse? Yeah, that's what I called you about, But you still haven't 302 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,480 told me. What'd you find? Well, according to the records, the 303 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,519 building was put up in nineteen oh one as a mission as a pianost store. 304 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:55,000 Nineteen one to nineteen six, real respectable place. Then well that section 305 00:21:55,079 --> 00:22:00,640 began to degenerate. Nineteen six to eighteen was a cheap grocery store for nineteen 306 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:06,319 fifty six nineteen eighteen at twenty two was the second hand clothing store and the 307 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,160 Speak Easy nineteen twenty nine. You going, Randy, I guess the depression 308 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,559 knocked that out, because next it was a saloon. How long? Let's 309 00:22:12,599 --> 00:22:18,319 see nineteen forty four, that's when William Grover Larkin took over the lease. 310 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:22,720 Daddy Bell, Yeah, Randy, I know it. Yeah what Dutchy Gordon 311 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:26,680 alsg Wesley Cosgrave told me that he'd got a hand from that mission when he 312 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,200 was just a kid. That would have meant twenty five thirty years ago at 313 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:33,319 least. Yeah, it's only been a mission for twelve Hey, wait a 314 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,319 minute, lease on that property when it was a speak easy it was in 315 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:41,519 the name of Larkin too. Had one more fact, Randolph, And you 316 00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:44,720 see what I'm getting at. What's that? Your own police file show Cosgrave 317 00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:47,599 was still in the rackets in forty four. Yeah, but on a charge 318 00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:51,440 that we couldn't substantie right, tie him up. Cosgrave was a rum runner 319 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:53,920 during Prohibition. Daddy Bell ran to speak for him since nineteen forty four. 320 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,079 Whoa, whoa? Now, boy, you're trying to build a case on 321 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,759 purely circumstantial eleven All right, but I think I can make it stick now. 322 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:03,720 And where does Cosgrave get the thugs for whatever job he's pulling now? 323 00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:07,000 Of course he is, and he gets him out of that flophouse. The 324 00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:11,480 boys he gives jobs to that I've never seen again. Remember, Yeah, 325 00:23:11,559 --> 00:23:14,359 wow, Hey, maybe it does tie Oh, you bet your sweet life 326 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:15,480 it does. At least I'm going to tie it up there and I'll take 327 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,440 it easy. Johnny. Just how are you going to go about. Well, 328 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,559 the first thing, I hold it, what's the matter? Somebody outside 329 00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:26,519 the door of this room, I think, hold on, ready, no, 330 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,559 no, wait, wait a minute, Johnny, all right, what 331 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:37,839 do you think you're doing? Whoever hit me with, whatever he hit me 332 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,960 with, wasn't full of me. In the second before I passed out, 333 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,559 I vaguely remember hearing a voice, the voice of the room port, shouting 334 00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:52,160 at whoever it was, and the sound of footsteps running away in blackness, 335 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,599 a dark, heavy throbbing in my head. Then, after a long time, 336 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:03,759 another familiar voice. It was Randy, I think dimly somewhere along the 337 00:24:03,799 --> 00:24:07,799 line, I could see figures bending over me, hear the voice again, 338 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:14,839 and more darkness, and the weird sounds in my brain. Other sounds too 339 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:23,839 that seemed familiar. It seemed meaningless, meaningless, meaningless. Finally, after 340 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,319 an eternity of jumble sounds and shadows of cold, bright light pierced into my 341 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:33,119 slowly returning consciousness. Momentarily I could see a man in white and women and 342 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,480 yeah, yeah, a hospital. These were the doctor and the nurses. 343 00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:41,359 I tried to speak to them, I couldn't, but slowly a realization of 344 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,000 what had happened. Came to my muddled fire. Randy on the telephone had 345 00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:48,160 heard the attack on me and had brought help. An ambulance, had brought 346 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,160 me here. For a brief moment, I saw that gwind of a needle 347 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:59,119 poised above my arm. Then blackness again, but a soft, quiet, 348 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:15,559 peaceful blackness. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Oh wow, Wow, Johnny, 349 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:21,880 that's the boy. Wake up, Mike. That's right, isn't it 350 00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:26,319 nice? They put you in the same room with me? Yeah? Right, 351 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,839 you're policeman. Friends are to it. And he told me something, 352 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:37,759 Johnny, and he's right. You've got to be careful. They're out to 353 00:25:37,799 --> 00:26:03,519 get you too, Johnny Dollar, Randy Singer, Johnny, how are you 354 00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:07,519 feeling? Thanks to you and having got me here? Pretty good? Bellevue 355 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:11,039 is a good hospital. I'll be released within the hour, So Mike Flynn 356 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,640 and I'm going down to the glad Hand Rescue Mission to straighten out a few 357 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,599 things with Daddy. Bill. Sounds to me like I ought to be police 358 00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:18,759 business. Johnny. I'll be right over. No, let me handle this 359 00:26:18,839 --> 00:26:22,319 alone. You got your gun, you bet your sweet life I have, 360 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:40,640 Johnny. I'll report to you later. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny 361 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,000 Dollar location, New York City to the Lake Signed Life and Casualty Company. 362 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,599 Following is an accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the indestructible mic matter. 363 00:26:49,559 --> 00:26:53,440 It am sixteen one night a cab fare for Mike Flynn and myself Bellevue 364 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,680 Hospital to the Dingy Hotel Breakley. Both of us had her heads still swathed 365 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,920 in bandages. With the help of the room clerk, I installed Mike in 366 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,720 a small room on the fifth floor, with instructions to keep his door locked. 367 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,200 In my own room, room two o three, I picked up my 368 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,880 thirty eight and down the old clothes I'd bought item seventeen fifty five cents taxi 369 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,599 to the neighborhood of the glad Hand Rescue Mission. For obvious reasons, I 370 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,119 walked the last couple of blocks. When I got there, the big front 371 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,240 assembly room was empty, so was the soup kitchen in the back of the 372 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,759 place. I called Daddy Bill's name a couple of times, it got no 373 00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:32,160 answer, and finally decided to wait for him in the little room back of 374 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,200 the assembly hall that he used for an office. I still felt a little 375 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,160 shaky from the blow on the head, so I didn't mind just sitting a 376 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,559 while, But I left the door open a crack, and a few wants 377 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:49,400 later heard the street door open. It wasn't Daddy Bill, but I recognized 378 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,920 him as a new coming of the mission, whom I'd seen on my first 379 00:27:52,960 --> 00:28:00,319 visit. He made directly for the little office. Already, Daddy he ain't 380 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,640 Daddy Bill said, Oh, do you know where he is? Out shopping? 381 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,599 At least that's why he say he was going. Didn't I see you 382 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,319 in here the other day? Why? Yes, sir, I guess you 383 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,359 did. My name's Emery. I just read the rods in from Ohio. 384 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,640 Boy, I had to I got myself in a jam back at it. 385 00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:22,359 Yeah, I guess I just got me too much muscle. But they won't 386 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,640 catch up with me here. Daddy Bill promised me that see I should have 387 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,119 known you wasn't him in here? Oh? Sure? He said? He 388 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,960 wouldn't be back for another hour. You playing the white for him? Sure 389 00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:37,799 do? He promised me a job. I wouldn't money on it. Enough 390 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,400 money, he said, to get clear out of the country and he'd help 391 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,400 me do it. Doesn't it strike you funny? Bud? That a guy 392 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,160 running a place like this would help you skip the country man, when you 393 00:28:48,359 --> 00:28:51,440 like me and you get a help in and you just don't ask no questions, 394 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,759 you see, Mike, Mike Flynn, Yeah, he come back. 395 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,400 No, why that Bill left me a package for him? Him? Are 396 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,079 Johnny if they come back here? Well, I'm Johnny. Well here, 397 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,079 I get it right outside the door here, Yes, sir, liquor, 398 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:14,079 he said, And maybe you let me have some here. See, I'll 399 00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:17,799 take it, licker, did you say? That's what he said? That's 400 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:21,240 o no, no, hands off, look at it. Man. Well, 401 00:29:21,319 --> 00:29:26,759 Mike always shares this stuff with Lefty skill Man, Lefty Skimmer. It 402 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,599 was Lefty who'd run us down with a truck whose body was found on the 403 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,000 river. Lefty one of Daddy Bill's poor unfortunates. Here at the mission, 404 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,599 things were beginning to add up. And this package left for Mike and me, 405 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:44,640 Liquory said, But it didn't gurgle. Em Mary, listen to me. 406 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,079 Sure, Johnny get this package. I'm taking it with me back to 407 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:51,160 the Waldorf Waldorf. Yeah, that's right, that's where I'm staying. Don't 408 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,000 let these close for you. I thought there was something funny about you the 409 00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:59,200 way you talk so fine. You a dick. Never mind. If Dandy 410 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,759 Bill wants me, that's where I'll be. Old. Mikey won't find because 411 00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:06,440 I got him in room two o three at the Brakeley Hotel, Room two. 412 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:10,359 Forget it. He's still recovering from that accident. Shouldn't be disturbed. 413 00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:12,640 He's all doped up anyway. That's why I took him to the Braakley, 414 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,240 where nobody will find him. I said, forget about that room two o 415 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,279 three. If Daddy Bill wants me, tell him to call me at the 416 00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:23,039 Waldorf. I had an eighteen ten cents phone call from a booth in the 417 00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:26,880 street to Sergeant Randy Singer. I had him nineteen five bucks even for a 418 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,920 fast but gentle taxi ride to the eighteenth Precinct, where Randy had promised to 419 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,000 have the lab boys alerted for me. As I said, Jenny, yeah, 420 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,799 I'm handled softly. Okay, okay, are you gonna stick around. 421 00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:41,119 I'm going back to the Braakley to make sure Mike is all right, and 422 00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:44,839 I'll look here. Jae. Call the Waldorf for me, get me registered 423 00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:47,759 there, and struck the desk that if there are any calls for me I'm 424 00:30:47,799 --> 00:30:49,359 eating lunch or something, and I'll be back in my room and say an 425 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:53,960 hour do it. I'll see you later. I'm nineteen taxi back to the 426 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,839 Brakeley Hotel to the service entrance in the alley for five bucks. The freight 427 00:30:57,839 --> 00:31:02,279 elevator operator swore tell no one he'd see me. Take the backstairs to room 428 00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:04,400 two oh three, My room, not Mike's, as I told Emory at 429 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:11,960 the Mission office room. Click, this is Johnny Dollaran two o three. 430 00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:14,759 Oh yes, are you still working there? Listen? Listen carefully. If 431 00:31:14,759 --> 00:31:17,960 the police call me, put them through to anyone else who calls it comes 432 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,039 looking for me. I'm not here, I never was. He never heard 433 00:31:19,039 --> 00:31:22,799 of me, understand. Oh yes, indeed, mister Dolla. We've worked 434 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:26,279 with police and private investigators before. Okay, but if anybody wants to know 435 00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:27,880 about Mike Flynn, I want Flynn. Yeah, the old bomb I had 436 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,839 you put in the room up on the fifth floor. Oh yes, if 437 00:31:30,839 --> 00:31:33,000 anybody asked for him, tell him he's in this room two o three. 438 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,720 Oh very well. You sure you got that straight? Yes, sir, 439 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,319 time was on my side, I hoped Emory back at the mission. It 440 00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:42,880 said Daddy Bell wouldn't return for an hour, but I couldn't be sure. 441 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:45,960 As quickly as I could, I spilled a half bottle of whiskey around the 442 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,519 room and the hope it would give the effect Old Mike was there. Then 443 00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:52,359 I pulled down all the shades and drew the drapes tight across the windows. 444 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,759 I turned on the bed and must have the covers so it would be ready 445 00:31:55,759 --> 00:31:57,440 for me. I watched it. I still had time to kill, so 446 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:02,039 I ran upstairs to Mike's from on the fifth. I'm carrying a fifth Bless 447 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:07,200 my soul, Johnny, and look what you've brought me. On one condition, 448 00:32:07,279 --> 00:32:10,839 Mike, Oh yes, oh, anything you? Oh, you've been 449 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,559 so good to me. I want you to promise that, no matter what 450 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,039 happens, you'll stay right here in this room until I come back. I 451 00:32:16,079 --> 00:32:21,400 of course, Johnny, anything you say, especially now that you brought me 452 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,920 this bottle of to kind of keep me company. See, wouldn't you like 453 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,279 a little nip before you go? No? No, thanks, so and 454 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,279 keep this store locked now you sure you wouldn't like just one little No. 455 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,799 I hate to think of me having it all alone, and you probably need 456 00:32:34,799 --> 00:32:37,680 as much as I do. Oh say Johnny. Yeah, when are you 457 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:42,000 and I going to be able to take these awful looking bandages off our hit? 458 00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:44,480 We'll talk about that later. I got to get back to my room. 459 00:32:44,519 --> 00:32:49,240 Now you're sure I can't? I'm sure? Yeah. Now lock this 460 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,720 door all out, Johnny, But if you decide you want to with me 461 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,160 quickly and quietly. I went back downstairs to two or three in cautiously let 462 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,240 myself in, leaving the door unlocked. That would have been there if I'd 463 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:19,440 made it in time. And now all I could do was wait, hello, 464 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,240 Johnny, Yeah, Randy, better make it fast. Oh what's the 465 00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:29,160 matter? What do you call about it? That pretty little package you dropped 466 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:30,759 off of the lab land? Yeah, you sure were right about it? 467 00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:34,519 A bomb? Huh? If you or mine could opened that package by now, 468 00:33:34,559 --> 00:33:37,279 you'd be spread all over the island and tiny little pieces. Look, 469 00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:38,400 Johnny, come on, let me in on it. Huh. What are 470 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,319 you up to do down there? I'll tell you when it's all over, 471 00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:43,640 That is, if what I think is going to happen does happen. Are 472 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,359 you sure you don't want some help? No? I think I can gotta 473 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:52,079 go. I'd heard footsteps out in the hall. Quickly I slid into the 474 00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:57,160 bed, leaving nothing but my heavily advantage head showing the footsteps past, and 475 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,799 then far down the corridor, I heard a door open and close, and 476 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,880 I still awaited and lying there thinking. I began to wonder if I'd been 477 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,559 right in turning down Randy's offer of help. How could he help with him? 478 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:19,679 Footsteps again, and this time they stopped outside my door. All clear 479 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:28,960 out here in the hall. That voice was Daddy Bill's and he wasn't alone. 480 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,239 Mike, Mike, what on the light, Mike, Oh, he's 481 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,000 in here all right, Smell that booze. He's there on the bed to 482 00:34:38,079 --> 00:34:44,239 sleep. You mean, drunk close to hey seem end of the world. 483 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,559 Are you sure this is going to be safe? Dutchy, Why do you 484 00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:49,800 suppose that took so long? The case the journey? Yeah? But what 485 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,519 about Dollar? I told you Bill at the wall, doll. Are you 486 00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:54,719 sure you talked to him? No? No, he was in the coffee 487 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,280 shop. Gonna shut up, get this over with. Always we do the 488 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,760 dirty with for you, all right, This is one I'll do myself. 489 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:12,599 Who's shut up, Johnny, Johnny, Wait a minute, that's Mike, 490 00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:16,519 who's on that bed? Shut up? All right, Dollar, you can 491 00:35:16,519 --> 00:35:19,800 get up out of that bed and take it in the chest, or lay 492 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,199 there and get it in the back. All right, Cosgrave touching both hands 493 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:30,960 up high, drop that gun, sure, Johnny shut him about there, 494 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,760 Bill, Yeah, Daddy Bill, quiet, Dollar, you'd better do something, 495 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,920 Cosgravy. You have two witnesses, the man who always kept his skirts 496 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,880 clean. Huh. They'll let him lock him both off. Make it look 497 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:45,400 like a fight between them. Something on the wait, boss, Johnny is 498 00:35:45,440 --> 00:36:00,119 something I'm coming. Oh, no, you do, Hey, Randy, 499 00:36:00,639 --> 00:36:04,239 Hey, you're real rough, aren't you. No? Wait a minute, 500 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,880 are Mike get up off his chest? I want to see what your dear 501 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,519 friend Daddy Bill looks like. Oh what'd you hit him with? Anyway? 502 00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:16,199 Oh? Dear, the poor bottles all broke? I just think it happened 503 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:21,480 to you, Mike. Ah. Oh, this is Duchy Gordon alias J. 504 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:24,400 Wesley Conns Gray. He won't be for long line. Well what's that, 505 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:29,840 Daddy Bill? You're feeling better? You always hung it on somebody else? 506 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,199 And what are you talking about? Left? Shortly all of them. 507 00:36:32,559 --> 00:36:44,599 This one need to hung on me this time. God, Randy's grave dead 508 00:36:44,679 --> 00:36:47,519 as a door. When Daddy Bill comes to after that sock on the chin, 509 00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:59,519 you can tell him he's cooked his own goose. The world will be 510 00:36:59,559 --> 00:37:04,760 a bit better without Duchy Gordon, Alisja Westley Cosgrave, and of course the 511 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,159 courts will take care of Daddy Bill lacking plenty, Mike indestructible, Mike, 512 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,400 well, he'll probably outlive the rest of us. I hope I can get 513 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,079 down to see you now and talk over our great adventure together. Expense acount 514 00:37:19,119 --> 00:37:23,039 total six fifty, which is a lot less than the fifty thousand you might 515 00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:39,440 have had to pay off on Mike. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now, 516 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:44,039 here's our star to tell you about next week's intriguing story. Next week, 517 00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:49,599 the heady romance of Moonlight on a lonely Beach in Mexico. Moonlight from 518 00:37:49,639 --> 00:37:54,119 a Killer's Moon Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar? 519 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,719 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. 520 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:14,280 It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote this story. 521 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,840 Heard in this week's cast were Howard McNair, Lawrence Dumpkin, Harry Bartel, 522 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,719 Herb Bigran, Alan Reid, and Roy Glenn. Musical supervision by A Marigo 523 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:28,320 Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join us on Monday night at same 524 00:38:28,400 --> 00:39:47,559 time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny Dollar Roy Rowan speaking 525 00:39:04,039 --> 00:40:19,079 when welcome back. Last time through, I think The Indestructible Mic Matter was 526 00:40:19,159 --> 00:40:24,159 probably my least favorite serial, but this time I appreciated a bit more. 527 00:40:24,519 --> 00:40:28,559 To be sure, there are flaws, and I think a lot of that 528 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:34,079 comes down to the writing. As often happens in Johnstone's serials, were treated 529 00:40:34,119 --> 00:40:38,480 to policemen whose arrival is so quick and sudden that they must be teleporting. 530 00:40:39,079 --> 00:40:46,280 Cosgrave's plan was dumb. His big play to collect on Myck's insurance policy attracted 531 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:52,199 the attention of both the police and the insurance company and put his nice quiet 532 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:59,119 operation at risk for a reward he didn't really need. His live about having 533 00:40:59,199 --> 00:41:02,960 been helped at the mission was also foolish. It's one of those things where 534 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,159 the writer wants us to believe that we're dealing with a criminal mastermind, but 535 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:15,840 every step he makes is just so transparent, obvious, and poorly considered. 536 00:41:16,639 --> 00:41:22,719 And I can't say a whole lot for Johnny's insistence on taking Cosgrave himself as 537 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:29,800 the only thing it served was dramatic tension rather than any real in universe benefit. 538 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,199 Still, I guess having listened to File Advance recently leaves me a bit 539 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:38,800 more tolerant of dumb plans because this story doesn't feature one of the top ten 540 00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:43,800 dumb plans that I've heard this year. Yeah, if I'm fair, I 541 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,239 don't think the story is bad, even if it has its flaws, and 542 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:53,480 there's a lot to like about it in terms of production and performance. The 543 00:41:53,559 --> 00:41:59,840 strings really stand out. I think Johnny's real affection for Mike is sweet, 544 00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:06,800 and it speaks to this sort of humanity that attracts people to Bob Bailey's portrayal 545 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:12,239 of Johnny Doller even seventy years later. Of course, this was a role 546 00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:17,239 made for Howard mcneer, and he really brings the character to life with all 547 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:24,239 the sort of eccentricity that mcneer really excelled at portraying. When talking about this 548 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:30,159 run of Johnny Dollar, there are probably three actors people credit a lot of 549 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:36,920 Bob Bailey, Virginia Greg and mcneer, and that's rightly so. They really 550 00:42:37,039 --> 00:42:43,199 had some solid performances. However, there were so many good performances that have 551 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,920 stood out to me as we've been going through the serials this time. You 552 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:53,800 know, we've had a few weeks where Jeanette Nolan turned in really intriguing, 553 00:42:54,079 --> 00:43:00,400 well done characters, and I have to admit that Alan Reid really did a 554 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,400 great job with Causgrave. I don't think there was a whole lot to do 555 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,519 with the character that was all that unique in episode five, but he really 556 00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:14,119 got a bit of a chance to shine in episode three where he had this 557 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:19,639 really long scene. He had to shift from being Causegrave, the retired gentleman, 558 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,360 to being a menacing hood and he did this multiple times throughout the conversation. 559 00:43:24,559 --> 00:43:30,639 Sometimes he was changing within the same sentence, and he does it Flawlessleigh 560 00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:38,159 in a way that makes it really believable that this character is struggling with this 561 00:43:39,039 --> 00:43:45,400 and at the same time brings some solid minutes. Now, Fred Flintstone is 562 00:43:45,519 --> 00:43:51,199 a great legacy for Reid, but he had some serious acting talent that I 563 00:43:51,199 --> 00:43:54,400 think a lot of people forget about. I also had to appreciate the segment 564 00:43:54,440 --> 00:44:00,199 in episode four where Johnny loses consciousness. It's such a great way to take 565 00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:06,639 the audience into this disorienting place with our hero well, some shows will have 566 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,400 the detective near rate as he's drowning or running out of breath, or even 567 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:17,519 being drug This creates a well crafted sound experience where you really kind of enter 568 00:44:17,599 --> 00:44:22,519 into it with your hero. This must have taken some real skill to design, 569 00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:29,440 particularly with the audio engineering technology that you had available in nineteen fifty six. 570 00:44:29,679 --> 00:44:32,199 Overall, I don't think this is one of my top ten episodes. 571 00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:37,440 I know that many listed as one of their favorites, but I think that 572 00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:42,880 it might at least be in my top fifty after really getting a chance to 573 00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:45,880 reflect on it again. Now. John Abbott noted in his book that Who 574 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:52,400 Is Johnny Dollar Matter that there was an actual case in nineteen thirty three where 575 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:59,039 five acquaintances attempted to murder a former firefighter named Iron Mike Malloy, and there 576 00:44:59,039 --> 00:45:02,239 were multiple ailed attempts as we heard in the episode, but in real life 577 00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:08,840 the murder attempt did eventually succeed, even though the criminals were all brought to 578 00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:19,199 justice. The story served as an inspiration for many different programs Beyond the Indestructible 579 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:25,400 mock Matter. There was an episode of the nineteen eighty series Amazing Stories that 580 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:30,599 was inspired by the same incident. I also heard an episode of the Mutual 581 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:37,400 Radio Theater in nineteen eighty and it had the title of Oh Really, Noah 582 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:44,960 O'Reilly and was set in the Old West, probably about thirty to forty years 583 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,440 before the real life incident that inspired it. Well, now we turn to 584 00:45:49,559 --> 00:45:57,199 listener comments and feedback, and Carrie had a question on listening to our special. 585 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,599 I just finished listening to the House on ninety second Street and noticed that 586 00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:07,840 a lot of the incidental and transitional music seemed to be identical to music from 587 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:12,400 Tales of the Texas Rangers and yours truly, Johnny Dollar. I wonder if 588 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:19,239 they use recorded samples or live music reproducing those small snippets of music. Any 589 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,840 thoughts, Well, thanks so much for the question, and I've covered this 590 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:28,679 in some other context. But by the time you get to the nineteen fifties, 591 00:46:29,079 --> 00:46:35,800 television was really starting to eat into the profit margin of radio, and 592 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:42,000 so radio shows had to reduce expense in order to continue on the air, 593 00:46:42,079 --> 00:46:50,559 particularly dramatic programs, and what you saw was a shift away from orchestrated scores. 594 00:46:51,119 --> 00:46:54,360 You listen to say, let George do It in the mid forties, 595 00:46:55,039 --> 00:47:00,639 and they've got a full orchestra doing the score. They ended up down ungrading 596 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:05,440 to organ music. And some programs and I think most of the shows over 597 00:47:05,679 --> 00:47:13,000 MBC started a system where you would have the original feed and then all of 598 00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:20,440 your incidental music would be exactly the same thing across every single show, and 599 00:47:20,519 --> 00:47:27,159 it would come from a pre recorded music library. And this really became kind 600 00:47:27,199 --> 00:47:31,880 of the standard at NBC, but you also began to hear it on CBS 601 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:37,119 programs. Now, it wasn't true of every program. The big exception over 602 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:45,760 NBC obviously is Dragnet. But Dragnet one had a sponsor and was therefore bringing 603 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:52,760 in money and could afford to have its full score, and it was also 604 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:59,519 a flagship program. But most programs weren't like Dragnet. For so many programs, 605 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:06,519 once you get past the opening theme, all the incidental music gets all 606 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,320 exactly the same thing, one show very much like another. And that was 607 00:48:10,599 --> 00:48:16,320 just how radio tried to economize because they had to Thanks so much for the 608 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:22,079 question, Carry and now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 609 00:48:22,119 --> 00:48:23,840 and I want to go ahead and thank John. John has been one 610 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:30,119 of our Patreon supporters since August twenty twenty two, currently supporting the program at 611 00:48:30,159 --> 00:48:34,679 the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. 612 00:48:35,079 --> 00:48:37,960 Thank you so much for your support, John, and that will actually do 613 00:48:38,039 --> 00:48:43,000 it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your 614 00:48:43,119 --> 00:48:46,800 favorite podcast software. And if you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure 615 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:51,880 to lock the video, subscribe to the channel, and mark the notification bell. 616 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:57,480 We'll be back with the start of another Yours Truly johny Dollar serial next 617 00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:02,960 Tuesday, but join us back here tomorrow for drag nat where. Nine minutes 618 00:49:04,039 --> 00:49:07,239 later, at four minutes past midnight, the men from the crime lab showed 619 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,280 up. It started to drizzle. They went over the room in detail. 620 00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,840 They dusted everything in the room for fingerprints, the walls, the doors, 621 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,320 the fixtures in the bathroom, the lamps, chairs, everything. They took 622 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:22,480 samples of the girl's blood and their lipstick. Small pieces of flesh and human 623 00:49:22,559 --> 00:49:25,159 hair were found under the girl's fingernails. The nails were scraped carefully and the 624 00:49:25,199 --> 00:49:30,840 contents put in an envelope, marked and sealed head Backstrand ordered. Pictures taken 625 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,599 up the room and the girl's body from different angles. Every object in the 626 00:49:34,679 --> 00:49:37,599 room that could have any possible tie in with a murder was photographed. It 627 00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:42,639 was raining. The rear of the hotel, where the fire escape was overlooked 628 00:49:42,679 --> 00:49:45,840 a vacant lot. Ben had a hunch. While the lab men were at 629 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,840 work, we left the hotel and circled around into the lot for a look 630 00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,880 at the ground directly underneath the fire escape ladder was raining hard. Now help, 631 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:58,639 You'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments 632 00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:05,679 to box thirt at Greatdetectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, 633 00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:10,000 and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great 634 00:50:10,039 --> 00:50:16,199 Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. Sign 635 00:50:16,199 --> 00:50:16,519 it off.