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Well, now it is time for this week's episode of Fillo Evans,
and we are back to chronological order with the last ten episodes of Fillo Evans.
The original air date on this one is made the second nineteen fifty and
the title as the rooftop murder case. You see Vans All office doesn't handle
only murder cases sometimes, isn't This one in the case is a little less
physical, but still it's interesting. You don't have to convince me that being
a district often and he isn't dull Markham. This Joe Sohmer, whom we're
going to see. Just what is the charge against him? His partner is
accusing him of grand larceny. I happen to know Sohmer pretty well, and
before an indictment has handed down, I want to talk to him. I
liked him quiet. Always consider it nice of you to come with me,
man. I'm glad of the chance to get out of the office. Good.
Well, this is the street, you said, Solmer lives on his
house should be that one. There's a crowd around that house. Fan,
something's happened, no doubt about that, my friend. Let's find out what.
There's a police officer over there, Markham. Yes, let's find out
about this. I'm with Hivans part me. Sorry, excuse me, please
get back everybody get back there off So I'm mistertorney Markham. Oh sure,
I regulation, mister Barkham. Spite of thing we have here, Feller lives
here. Man named Joe Sohmer jumped or felt from the roof of his house.
What he was dead when he hit the ground, Joe Solmer Markham,
that's the man you wanted to see. Not right now? It was suicide,
all right, Mister Barkham almost did a couple of people when he jumped.
That's awful. I have found a suicide note in the house. There
wasn't anybody home, but the note was right where I couldn't miss it when
I went in. I'll turn it in with my report. All right.
Well, answer, I promised you a case. It looks like it's over
before it even began. That, my friend, is a matter of opinion.
Perhaps there is no larceny case but I have an idea that instead of
it, we're going to have a murder investigation. Hi, miss Henderson dar
in his office. He's on the telephone though. Oh that's okay, you'll
want to see me. But I actually know something developed. Five. Hello,
Yah, I just got to report on that suicide note found at Joe
Sohmer's house. Yes, completely legitimate. Da, we had our experts checked
the writing. There's no question but that Joe Sohmer wrote it. He wrote
a suicide note apparently jumped from the roof of his house. What do you
mean apparently, Well, final Vans thought it might be murdered. Oh he
did. Yes, that guy thinks everything is murdered. I'm waiting for the
day when there's a murder case that he'll say it's suicide. You'll have a
long wait. Heath Vants doesn't often make mistakes. Ah, everybody makes mistakes,
do you even? I do? Not? You, Sergeant? Yeah?
Me? And if I can make them, I guess Vans can make
him once in a while too. The possibility is there on data. Well.
The only thing is I can't ever remember Vans being wrong or any length
of time. I don't imagine I'll beat along, Missus Sommer, thank you
for letting me use this desk. It's quite all right, mister Vans.
But just what are you writing? Nothing? Really just scribbling? Are there
any more pens in this house? You've tried all of them that I could
find, including Joe's fountain pen. What's the big idea? I won't know
whether or not it's a big idea until later. Now, Oh, there's
someone at the door. Excuse me, Oh, go right ahead, Missus
Sommer. Please don't let me dis you any more than you have you mean,
yes, oh, mister Dale, Missus Sommer, may I come in?
Why? Yes, yes, of course I have company, as you
can see, follow vents the private investigator. Mister Vants, this is Alfred
Dale on my husband's party. You doos. It took Joe's death to get
you over to our house, didn't it, mister Dale. Well too bad
you didn't find time to come here while he was still alive. Missus Sommer,
I assure you excuse me please, missus Sohmer. I'm finished with those
pens all right now? Can you tell me what your husband was doing on
the roof. I'm trying to find out if he deliberately went up there to
commit suicide, or if he got the idea while he was on the roof.
He left a note the paper say, doesn't that indicate he went up
there to jump? Not necessarily? And I believe I was asking missus sommer,
oh sorry. When I left the house yesterday morning, Vance I asked
Joe to fix the radio aerial on the roof that might have given him the
idea. Yes, it might. May I go up and see the roof
if you like, Wait till I throw a coat over my shoulders, and
now go up with you might just as well see the place where poor Joe
jumped. Like to come up, mister Dale, this way, gentlemen,
up these steps to the second floor. Then we go up through the attic
to the roof. Are you done? There's a light at the top of
these steps. I'll turn it down. You gentlemen might have a little trouble
in the attic. There's no light there, and I'm afraid there are a
lot of trunks lying where aren't practically every attic? Go right ahead, Jack,
I'll turn on this light. How see you Dale? Anyone? Well,
there's something about this procession reminds me of the three Delinians. Isn't that
ten little Indians? Not after seven of them were killed. You're perfectly right,
of course. Careful now, it's pretty dark up here. Indeed it
is. Just walk straight ahead, mister Dale. There are a few steps
leading up to the roof, and all there are times when I, oh,
sorry, I must have kicked one of your trunks. It can stand
it. Find the steps, all right, mister Dale. Huh, that's
a good thing you Broughger Coats is somewhere, Yes, I suppose it is.
Well, so this is the roof from which your husband jumped, fell,
or was pushed to his death. Pushed My husband killed himself. Dance
there. See there's the aerial I told you about. Look over here on
the other side of it. You see where there's new wire around the insulator.
Yes, I do. Apparently your theory was right, missus, sohmer
I imagine. So well, what else do we do now that we're up
here? Not a thing. We've done everything I wanted to do. But
what's more important, I've found out everything I wanted to know. I'm just
about to go to bed Markham, but I thought i'd call you and report
what happened today at the Sohmer's house. You know, I'm very anxious here
what you find out. First of all, I met Joe Sohmer's partner,
Alfred Dale. You did. We went up to the room. That's what's
happened. The shots, That what happened. It's all right, my friend.
I'm lying here on the floor, out of reach of any second bullet.
Besides, there's no light in the room now. Somebody fired at me
from the fire escape and got the lamp instead. But man, how can
you be that calm? Somebody just tried to kill you? Yes, I
know, and that means you're right that Sohmer's death wasn't suicide but murder,
and the murderer was just close to you. That isn't the on only thing
the shot meant, Markham. It also meant that I am very close to
the murderer. You're a smart dame, you are. Your husband knocks himself
out, and what do you do? You come running to me, Tony?
What is this playground? Tony? Tony? What do you expect from
me? They're gonna knock myself out crying? I get smart. You're cute
and I like it, But keep away from me for a while. But
I don't understand why. I don't understand why. I'll tell you why.
You inherit a lot of dough and special clause about suicide and your husband's Inschurce
takes care of it. May I'm a mud all right? Say you go
for me? So the cups fine? Not so what they say? What
can they say? What can they say? They can say? I knocked
off you're old man, so I could get you on that dough Tony about
tony me for now? Yeah, finally got you two day getting all right,
Elia, take it easy. This is the day that took my place.
I was hoping i'd find it here. I'm gonna turn her inside out.
I'm gonna out now, you heard me, I said out? Oh
no, you don't. I don't get rid of easy. Nobody's moving into
I get ready to move out, and I'm not ready yet. Get out
of here, Lila? Why because you slat me? Come on? You
slat me before a nice day? What day? Yeah? Yeah? When
I say out, I mean out to Sorry about this, I'll make you
let me in. I'm sorry, sweetie. Sila's got a temper. You
guess she is you're a pretty good guesser. I hate to think what that
girl would have done to me if you hadn't stopped it. Right now,
I'm thinking about what she's gonna do to me because I did. Now,
look, Mark, you listen to me. I know what I'm talking about.
I don't doubt that. Miss Just call me, Lila. I'm going
to hand you the murderer of Joe Sommer, hand him till you're right on
a silver planet. That's all very well, Lilah, except that indications are
that Sohmer committed suicide. He left a note. I don't care what he
left. I know a guy who wanted him dead. Just fool around with
that. Wishing someone were dead rarely as fatal to a victim. Ah,
but Tony didn't only wish. He gets what he wants, and he wanted
Missus Sohmer. Joe Sommer was in a way Tony got rid of him.
I don't know how. I just know he did, all right, Lilah,
Let's concede for a moment that you know he did. How do you
prove it? That isn't my job. You're the district attorney, aren't you.
I was when I looked glass very just a moment, I want to
call final Vance, you'd be better off calling a cop and having him pick
up Tony Up until now, Lilah, I've been a pretty good judge of
my own welfare. Thank you, Hello, Van speaking a Markham Vance,
Listen, there seems to be more and more confirmation of your murder theory about
Joe Sommer. Well, I'm glad to hear it, Markham. Actually,
and originally it wasn't a theory, merely an idea, despite that suicide note,
which has never been explained, but which will be good. Now,
what's the extra confirmation you called me about. Well, there's a girl in
my office, Markham, a girl named Lila who is the ex girlfriend of
a racketeer named Tony Lester. She's been superseded by guess who, missus sohmer.
Oh no, Vans, Well, it had to be missus sohmer,
or it wouldn't have had any connection with this case, in which event you
wouldn't have called me reasonable, reasonable, understandable, and accurate. That's what
it is. Vance. This girl claims Tony is the kind of character who
wouldn't let a mere murder stand in the way if he wanted something, all
right, anohing Vance, I wasn't talking to you. Oh well, I
thought i'd let you know about this development. Oh thank you. Now I'll
let you know something. Yes, despite the suicide note, which i'll explain
some of the time, I'll repeat that it definitely was murder. And I'll
tell you something a little more important, and that is that I also know
who pushed Joe Sohmer off the roof. This is District Attorney Markham. The
rooftop murder case began with the apparent suicide of Joe Sohmer. Vance, believing
Sohmer was murdered. His found substantiation of his theory, despite the presence of
a bonafide suicide note. Inasmuch as Vance insists it is a murder, I
know we have three suspects, Tony Lester, a racketeer, Alfred Dale,
Sohmer's partner, and Sohmer's widow. To continue our investigations. I have met
Vance in the office shared by Sohmer and Day Events. I found the partnership
papers right here in the desk drawer. Vans. You're not listening to me,
Oh yes, I am, my friend. I was just trying out
all the office pens are you through? Now? Now there you will now
have my undivided attention. Good. What does the partnership contracts say that in
the event of death of one partner, the other partner takes over completely.
I'll tell me. Is Alfred Dale the murderer? I've just found his motive?
Yes, you most certainly have issue promptly evaded, very well, tell
me this. What are you trying all those office pens for? I tried
all of the pens at Sohmer's house with the cooperation of the homicide department.
I borrowed the suicide notes Sohmer left, and I can tell you definitely none
of the pens wrote that note. In fact, I don't believe any of
the pens in this office were used either. But the note was definitely written
by Sohmer. So you keep telling me, and I agree that it was.
What's the answer you think Sohmer wrote a suicide note the murderer you he
wrote it with the intention of killing himself, but acted regardless hardly, Well,
what's going on in oh how long? Mister Dale? This is District
Attorney Mark Ohire. We've been using your office. So I see we have
a search warrant, mister Dale. It's entirely legal. It's a little embarrassing.
You'll have to admit that, legal or not, mister Dale. If
I were you, I wouldn't worry about any embarrassment that might be caused you
in this office. What do you mean? Yesterday when you and I and
Missus Sommer were on the way to the roof, the attic was very dark.
It was that you were in the lead, but you avoided a trunk
that I promptly bumped into. Yes, that's true, now that I recall
it. Missus Sohmers said you'd never been in that house before, yet you
avoided the trunk. Very good eyesight, are a good memory. What do
you mean? I just don't want you to resent our being here. That's
all. We do have good reason. Don't you think? I don't think
I have anything to say that? Mister Dale? Is probably the smartest thing
you've said since you came into this room. What does that mean? I'm
do to be arrested any moment on suspicion of murder. I wouldn't say that,
not any moment, mister Dale. I want to be very sure of
my proof before mister Markham makes any arrest in this case. But Tony,
I'm sorry, No, never now, sorry, I am. I went
to the district attorney. She's sorry. She rats on me, Now she's
sorry. Look, I'm getting tired of kicking you out of my apartment.
I've beat in line. Let me say, Tony, I won't be any
trouble. Just let me hang around. Oh ah, you're expecting that summer
day, she's gonna be hearing. Shut up? You don't you talk about
it. I don't even say her name. Oh I'm not good enough to
say her name. Huh say it. I'll scream it for everybody, can
hear? All right? Get out, get out fast? Before I came
my mind, start tossing you out? Why are you going to me?
Tony? You make me sick? How did I have a go for a
tame like you? Anyhow? Sometimes I think I'm okay. Lets they're opening
up in there? Who is it? Open up? You already did it
to me, didn't you, Lina. I'm gonna get out of here.
I can't stand a pinch right now to lift the door unlocked when I came
in. Are you okay? Unless they're holding You're not going anywhere according the
yo. According to me, I'm leaving right this, okay, okay,
thanks for the warning shot. I can take ahead. He want me to
go with you? I go. Come to think of it, even you'll
be better company than this. What is it you wanted now? It's your
pants. All the clippings you have on a man named Joe Summer, I
don't imagine there'll be too many. Well, if his name was ever in
our paper, we'd have the clips in an envelope. You don't want the
stuff on a suici idea. It's a good thing those clippings have been filed.
It T T T T two S S S E T s A s
Oh. Here we are Seee Savansky, Skelly small small small, Oh,
here we are Summer Joe. Here's the involved mister fancy. He feels kind
of thin. Well I expect that. Let's see what's in it. M
hmm. Two clippings, one day to five years ago. A little item
about the marriage of Joe Simmer and Dorothy Blaine. The other interesting huh very
this first clipping is even more revealing. However, in the light of the
second one. Listen to this first one introduced only three months ago, at
a beach club, Dorothy Blaine and Joe Sommer culminated a whirlwind romance in marriage.
At the home soon Zoon last night, a couple left for a honeymoon
in Bermuda. Well that's not too unusual in view of this it is.
Listen, here's the second clipping. Jo Sohmer, local businessman and partner in
the firm of Sohmer and Dale, was taken to Mercy Hospital this morning suffering
from a nervous collapse. According to Alfred Dale, only his fortunate earlier arrival
at the office prevented his partner suicide. That means something. It does to
me. It's going to mean a whole lot more to Alfred Dale. Tony,
Tony, Oh it's you, Tony. I waited out here in the
street to find out what would happen to you. I heard you were arrested
her and I was arrested. Share I was arrested by IM. Did they
think you killed my husband? I do? I know what they think.
All I know is I'm getting out of time. I'm going with I'd up
your job. I need you like I need a hole in my head.
You are king me going home to pack right now. I'll meet you at
the airport in an hour. She sut to take me, Tony. It'll
be so much better for you if you do. Look, I'm a busy
man, Vance. I can't be running around town just because you call me
and want me to be somewhere. You won't be bothered very much longer,
mister Dale. That's good. I wonder why Missus Simmer doesn't answer her bell.
You'd better try it again. Did it ever occur to you that perhaps
she isn't home? And did it ever occur to you that this house might
be watched? And if you weren't home, that man across the street,
who happens to be Sergeant Heap of the Homicide Department, would have told me
what still happened. Mister Vans. Yes, and mister Dale, your husband's
partner. You two remember each other. Of course we're coming in, Missus
Simmer. Yes, of course. I really don't know what I'm doing here,
Missus Sommer, I don't either. What is it you want? Vans?
We want to go into the living room. One thing. We'll talk
out here if you don't mind. Oh but I do, well, Well,
what's that I see in the living room, a trunk going somewhere,
missus, sohmer, Come in, gentlemen, Yes, I was going somewhere.
I was leaving town. Any objections fans? Definitely, missus, sohmer.
Do you own a gun? Of course not? What kind of a
question is there? Figure it out? You see, the person who killed
your husband fired a shot at me the other night. You are convinced that
someone killed my husband, Yes, that he didn't commit sus that that's right?
Dale. Do you own a gun? Why? I'll come now.
It'll probably be on record if you do. All right, Vans, I
own a gun and I carry it. I'll take it if you don't mind,
you are, thank you? Pardon my back a moment, missus.
Sure, that's what are you trying to stop? Right there? Dale?
I want you to remember something for me just one second while I lay your
gun down on the table. Now, now what, mister Dale? Do
you recall that about six or seven years ago your partner tried to commit suicide?
Yes, I do you love to suicide? Note at that time?
What happened to it? Why? I don't know? I do it's the
same suicide. Note the police found in this house just after mister Sohmer was
pushed off the roof. It had to be. There wasn't a pen in
this house or in your office that matched the pen or ink used in that
letter. The police founded the first suicide note planted here to indicate Sohmer really
did it the second time. Why are you trying to prove? And if
it's the fact that I murdered my husband, let me inform you that I
never even knew him when he tried to kill himself the first time. That's
correct. You didn't. Oh, I see what you're driving at him?
That's good. I took the note six years ago, kept it kill Somemer
the other day and left the note here. And you thought I was in
this house before when you discovered I didn't trip over the trunk in the darknetic
Is that what I'm driving at? Well, it must be. But I
won't stand for advance. I won't be famed for murder. Stop right where
you are, dale, do yourself a favor. Don't make me force you
to stay missus Sommer. Yeah, you killed your husband, of course,
so you say, so I say, and so I can prove. And
you know I'm not bluffing, don't you? You knew you gave yourself a
way up on the roof the other day. That's the reason you tried to
kill me in my apartment. Yes, I know you're not bluffing. I
realize what I did, and I realize that I've got to kill you.
Now you realize that too, don't you. She's picked up my guns.
She won't use it. Oh no, Missus Sommer, I won't use it.
Her vants, that's what you think, Ranch. My gun is Horry.
He knows and he must know that I'm going to shoot both of you.
Now. The gun won't fire, Missus Sohmer. I took out the
bullets when I turned my back on you a moment ago. Now I'll take
that gun away. That will be all, Missus Sohmer. All that is
except my explaining to mister Markham how I knew it was you? Well,
Vans, I guess there isn't anything more to tell him this case except the
most important thing of all. How do you know it was missus Sommer.
First of all, we know from her confession that she found her husband's old
suicide note. Van, Please, how did you know she was the murderer?
Or Markham? She claimed she was not at home when her husband allegedly
jumped to his death. She said he went up to the roof to fix
a radio aial, and that's what gave him the idea to come down,
write the suicide note, then go back and jump. That was her story.
She said she hadn't been on the roof after her husband was killed until
she went up with Dale and me. Yet she knew the area was broken,
or she could have known that without going up there. Markham a wired
dangling bad reception if a radio set were in good order a number of ways.
There was one thing she couldn't know, though, how it had been
fixed. She walked right over to the spot where a new wire had been
wound around the insulator. Yes, the only way she could have known that
was if she had been there when her husband was fixing it, or of
course, immediately after, which wasn't likely. It couldn't have been immediately after
nance she had to leave the house after pushing him off the roof. She
probably left by a back exit, went shopping, and returned in time to
hear the bad news. Undoubtedly, when she walked through the aerial, she
knew she'd made a mistake, but she wasn't sure that I knew what she
had done. Oh, she tried to kill me so as to be on
the safe side. But then when I let her alone for a while,
she thought perhaps I hadn't noticed her error, and she didn't try to kill
me again. Yes, I let her alone, as you must realize,
because I wanted to be absolutely sure about her. I know that her motive
was money, money, and her love for Tony Lester Vance. One thing
has always puzzled me about this case. You never knew Joe Sohmer. All
you saw was his covered body the day we went up to his house.
Yet you didn't believe it was suicide even then. Why something you said,
Markham Something, I said something you and the police officer said, Robert,
you told me how considerate a man Joe Sohmer was as we were driving over
to see him. As a policeman said that Sohmer narrowly escaped hitting some people
who were walking in front of his house when he Joe, I see what
you mean. A considerate man would have made sure he wasn't going to injure
anyone else, even though he had decided to do away with himself. That's
right of course, I wasn't sure, but subsequent events convinced me I was
right. All I can say is that fortunately for us, we had you
to get to the bottom of this murder. Thank you, But that's completely
unimportant. The only thing that matters is that when we reached the bottom of
the murder, we reached the end of the rooftop murder case the cost of
welcome back. This is a case where the murderer outsmarted herself. If she
had not planted the suicide note, I think that most people would assume that
her husband fell from the roof accidentally, and that would answer Vance's immediate concern
that he had jumped in such a way that he nearly hit two people.
Now, the gangster referenced a suicide clause in her husband's policy, but a
suicide clause wouldn't generally mean an extra payout. Generally, a suicide clause says
that you can't commit suicide and have your beneficiaries collect. But oftentimes in modern
day policies there's a time limit on that, for example, twelve months or
twenty four months times that set by statute. I did love the almost metapart
where Markham was dumbfounded about what Vance guessed about the woman in his office,
and Vance essentially said, well, logically she is going to be tied up
in this or you wouldn't be calling me about it since we're in the middle
of this murder case. And then, of course Markham being Markham, Vance
had to explain when something wasn't a clue. When Markham was like, aha,
well she knew the radio aerial wasn't working, and Vance is like,
yeah, she could have known that without being on the roof. That's not
the clue. All right, Well, listener comments and feedback now, and
we have a comment from Debrah and this one comes from the Spotify Q and
A, and she wrote on a recent episode of Follow Vans, thank you
Adam, I enjoy your podcast. I have to admit I like less polished
sound. I don't want it to sound too new. And I think this
may have been one of the first few episodes where I was talking about radio
archives. And I think that there are two sides of this. There is
something to be said for sound having like that sort of scratchy I feel,
you know, that thing that makes it sound like authentically old that may appeal
to some listeners. And even when it comes to authenticity. When we are
listening to an old time radio recording where it's been cleaned up and it sounds
very pristine, we're probably listening to it at a quality and level that's far
greater than what original listeners heard, you know, unless they had very high
end radio sets and they were you know, perfectly located near transmitters. When
you're listening to an old time radio program and it's got some of those defects,
you know, you have to think you're probably listening to it to a
similar quality that a lot of people hurt it, you know, depending on
the quality of their sets. If you've just got like an Okay radio set
or in Okay sound system, that listening experience is not going to be all
that different from someone listening online to a thirty two kbps recording that sort of
at that bare minimum level of being able to be listened to. Now,
if you like those sort of recordings, the good news is there are always
going to be a lot of them. For various reasons. There are so
many recording out there where what we have are digitalized files that based on recordings
that come from like you know, multiple generations out from the original transcription disc
and have been transferred and our copies of copies, and that's the best we're
going to get For some programs, those are always going to exist, and
we'll play them when that's the best we have available. But I also think
that there really are benefits when it comes to listening to higher quality, more
first generation material, even if that audio is much higher quality than your average
radio listener during the Golden Age of radio may have enjoyed. Beyond it sounding
nicer, I think it makes it more attractive to people who have never heard
programs from the Golden Age or radio. I know that listening to a lot
of imperfections is not going to be appealing if you're not already a died in
the wool fan. And there's something about radio and about audio that makes it
feel a bit more timeless. When you're watching a black and white movie or
TV show, or an old program from the seventies or I guess the eighties
or nineties. Now as I'm getting old, you can't help but be filled
with the awareness that you're watching people from another time, another era. And
you know, when you're talking about movies and TV shows from the fifties,
people who lived a long time ago and are very different from yourself. You
don't necessarily have those same constant reminders if you're listening to a hot quality radio
drama that sounds like really crisp and fresh. And I also think that even
if it's not something that the original listeners, many of them could have heard.
There are also little bits of artistry that kind of get lost when you
get into degraded audio. One example, probably my favorite music program from the
Golden Age of radio is the Hour of Charm. This was a program featuring
Phil Spatoni and his and I quote the group name All Girl Orchestra and Evelyn
and her Magic Violin. Now, I have to admit I love the chorus.
Their voices are beautiful, and Spatoni just had great taste in the music
that he late. But the big feature of Evelyn and her Magic Violin.
Didn't get that. It sounded like we're a pretty decent violin. Good performance,
but I didn't see why it was such a highlight of the program.
But most of the recordings of the Hour of Charm are just kind of decent.
You know, you don't have a whole lot of really high quality recordings,
but I listened to one recently and I enjoyed this so much. The
chorus sounded better than ever. But then we got to the violin and I
heard Evelyn playing and I finally got it, and it was just a small,
fine detail, And I think it's really hard to pick up if you
don't have a high quality recording, or if you weren't there in the auditorium
where she was playing. And certainly that has applications to audio drama. You
can appreciate fine details of an actor's performance, subtleties that they bring that you
know it going to be lost if you're not listening to the best quality sound.
So it's an interesting I comment, and I think there really are points
both way. When there's decent, listenable audio, I'm not going to turn
it down. But when we've got an opportunity to place something better with better
quality, I'm certainly going to go for that. All Right, Well,
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want
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We'll be back next Thursday with another episode of Follow Vans, But join
us back here tomorrow for yours truly Johnny Doller, where we will conclude the
story from Tuesday with Johnny Doller. Johnny Doller, the insurance investigator. This
is miss Ebat, isn't it. Yes? What are you doing in the
stable office waiting for you to call me? Your father threw me off the
farm a few minutes ago. A man named Kelly, who works for your
dad said he really didn't mean it, said he'd fix it up for me
to talk to you, Colly. I guess that's why he asked me to
phone the stable office. You told me the horse wasn't injured, shouldn't have
been destroyed. I hope you didn't believe all that, mister Doll. Well,
now look, I've got to settle a sixty five thousand dollars claim on
the death of a race horse. The carcass was cremated, and I have
no evidence that the horse was destroyed or even injured. I don't know what
to believe yet, but I can tell you this. Don't ever talk to
an insurance investigator the way you did earlier today, not unless you can back
it up. My you sound grim. You sound like it's a laughing matter.
Hardly anything's a laughing matter. I hope you'll be with us then.
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