1 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:34,719 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,079 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:38,079 --> 00:00:42,479 gonna bring you this week's episode of Yours truly Johnny Dollar. 4 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,079 But first I want to encourage you. If you're enjoying 5 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:49,399 the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 6 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,920 And as you're making your travel plans, remember Johnny Dollar 7 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,119 air dot com. Johnny Dollar air dot com is a 8 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,399 Priceline affiliate, so part of the purchase price wills the 9 00:01:00,439 --> 00:01:03,560 great Detectives of Old Time Radio at no additional cost 10 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,560 to you. So remember when making your travel plans, check 11 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:10,319 Johnny Dollar air dot com first. But now, from June 12 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:14,879 twenty eighth, nineteen fifty nine, here is the Miling Buddha 13 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,799 manner from Hollywood. 14 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 2: It's time now for Johnny Dollar Mardi Bruce Johnny at 15 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,879 Worldwide Mutual. Oh hi, Marty, how are you? Did you 16 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,319 ever hear of the mailing Buddha? Nope, I'm afraid I never. 17 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,799 It's probably the most valuable piece of jade. 18 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:37,799 Speaker 3: There is a little statue not more than three three 19 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,239 and a half inches high, made during the Meiling dynasty, and. 20 00:01:41,159 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 2: You've incured it yes, how much forty thousand. What's happened 21 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:47,920 to it? I don't know. I don't know if anything's 22 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:48,519 happened to it. 23 00:01:48,719 --> 00:01:51,079 Speaker 3: But if nothing's happened to it, I'm not even sure 24 00:01:51,079 --> 00:01:53,359 of that that nothing's happened to it. 25 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,719 Speaker 2: Come on over here, let's talk about it. Huh Yeah, 26 00:01:56,879 --> 00:02:09,000 And they got better Bob Bailey in The Exciting Adventures 27 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,280 of a Man with the Action in fact expense account 28 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:31,560 America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator are truly Johnny Dollar expense 29 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:35,520 account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Worldwide 30 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,479 Mutual Insurance Company home office, Hardford, Connecticut. Following is an 31 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:42,479 account of expenses encourage during my investigation of the Mailing 32 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:52,800 Buddha Meta expense account. I don't want a dollar ten 33 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,080 for a taxi from my little apartment to the office 34 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,199 of Worldwide Mutual, where Marty wasted no time in getting 35 00:02:58,199 --> 00:02:59,800 to the point. 36 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,879 Speaker 3: Sure if it went for that knuckleheaded Ray Kermer who's 37 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,280 he one of our contment got back from the European 38 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,479 vacation just this morning, But being so stupid, I ought 39 00:03:09,479 --> 00:03:12,039 to fire him. He knew we did ensure that Jade, 40 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,479 Buddha and when he saw it over there in Paris 41 00:03:14,479 --> 00:03:15,319 a couple of weeks ago. 42 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,599 Speaker 2: He should have looked into it, found out what it 43 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,560 was doing there, doing just exactly where Marty in a 44 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,840 dingy little antique shop, somewhere on the route to something 45 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,280 or other. He didn't even have sense enough to get 46 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:29,800 the address or the name of the place. Where was 47 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:30,680 it supposed to. 48 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 3: Be locked up in the home of the late Darryl 49 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,360 Harcourt up in Boston. 50 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: And of course it isn't. Well, that's the point. I 51 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,000 don't know. There's been no report of effect. Well, if 52 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,919 somebody seen it in Paris, is that Buddha pretty well 53 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:46,800 known among collectors and so on. 54 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,639 Speaker 3: I told you it's probably the most valuable piece of 55 00:03:50,719 --> 00:03:51,919 jade in the whole world. 56 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 2: And let me use your phone. Sure here, but if 57 00:03:55,439 --> 00:03:57,479 we don't even know what shop or where it is 58 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:04,680 in all of Paris, leave it to me. My phone 59 00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:07,159 call was to a slimmy little character whose name is 60 00:04:07,199 --> 00:04:10,599 de Marsac, but who calls himself with Chagri, the great cat, 61 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,319 who knows the Paris underwear like the back of his hand. 62 00:04:14,039 --> 00:04:15,599 He's been a lot of help to me some months 63 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:17,800 before and locating a painting that was stolen from my 64 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,399 good friend and the actor and I collector Vincent Pride 65 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:25,120 certain one. If you are willing to pay me, well, 66 00:04:25,319 --> 00:04:27,279 if you can dig up the information I want, I'll 67 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,439 maybe you a check for one hundred bucks American immediately, Johnny, 68 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,399 only two hundred what you call bucks for my in 69 00:04:34,519 --> 00:04:39,040 the scheme of both services? Okay, two hundred. Now listen, 70 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:42,519 there's a little idol the mailing Buddha. I know it 71 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,959 will Oh, I saw it only this morning here in 72 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,839 Paris where patty shop of Monsieur Dubuisson on the Rue 73 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,240 de Parte l He was smuggled in only a few 74 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,480 weeks ago. And the price on it, well, for such 75 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:04,680 aware and exquisite piece. Oh, how much you thirty two 76 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:09,199 million francs. That's around eighty thousand dollars. So it must 77 00:05:09,199 --> 00:05:11,639 be the McCoy you wish me to. 78 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 4: Shall we see obtain it for you? 79 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 2: You mean steal it? What a purch was you? But 80 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:21,040 for a price? No, no thanks, I'll send you a check. 81 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,439 You're giving him two hundred bucks just for back, a 82 00:05:24,439 --> 00:05:27,519 lot cheaper than my flying over there. Well, yes, so 83 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,639 now i'd better check at the home of this what 84 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,199 do you say. The name is Darryl Harcourt in Boston. 85 00:05:32,439 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 3: I'll put down the address for you, sed about two 86 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:36,040 years ago. 87 00:05:36,319 --> 00:05:37,319 Speaker 2: Home's in charge of his. 88 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,199 Speaker 3: Old housekeeper and missus Mary Pascal, and I take it 89 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:45,360 his property, his final tapestries and the furniture. 90 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 2: Yes, will to various museums here, everything but. 91 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,439 Speaker 3: The contents of Missus Haskell's Roman to study the ladder 92 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,560 he willed to a nephew, Charles Curtis, to be given 93 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,759 to him the day he finishes at Harvard. Well, that's 94 00:05:57,759 --> 00:06:00,600 a funny sort of arrangement. Harcott was a funny man. 95 00:06:01,439 --> 00:06:03,600 The Buddha was the only thing of real value in 96 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:07,160 that room, and he figured it was enough to get 97 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,120 his nephew started in the business of some kind. 98 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: I see this Curtis boy at the house too. No, No, 99 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,000 that goes to Missus Haskell. After Curtis gets the contents 100 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,079 of that one room. Well, look as though i'd better 101 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:21,720 hie myself up to Boston and make sure that Buddha's 102 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:30,120 really gone. I had him too. The two hundred dollars 103 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:32,720 check to my informant in Parrots, who was sure he'd 104 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:35,319 seen the mailing Buddha was sure it had only arrived 105 00:06:35,319 --> 00:06:39,199 there recently. But if so, why hadn't it been reported 106 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,360 missing from the home of the late Darryl Harcourt up 107 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,000 in Boston. I had him three fifty bucks to posit 108 00:06:44,079 --> 00:06:47,000 on a rental car. When I reached Boston, I headed 109 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,839 west on Deacon Street a couple of miles beyond Kenmore Square, 110 00:06:50,079 --> 00:06:52,560 and there, on a little side street found the Harcourt Hall. 111 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,600 It wasn't much of a place anymore. The lawn and 112 00:06:55,639 --> 00:06:58,399 garden had been neglected, and the building itself was in need. 113 00:06:58,399 --> 00:07:06,879 Abir pair was the old fashion time. Yes, missus Haskell, 114 00:07:06,879 --> 00:07:08,720 I'm Johnny Dollar insurance investigator. 115 00:07:08,879 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 5: Oh, of course, do come in, mister Dallas rather dismal. 116 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 2: That's what you live here all the time. 117 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:21,199 Speaker 5: I am responsible for this house until the terms of 118 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:22,519 the will I've fully met. 119 00:07:22,759 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 2: That's when Charles Curtis finishes school. 120 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:28,279 Speaker 5: Yes, of course, my own quarters at the back or 121 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:32,079 its tide is there's always been, and mister Harcourt studies 122 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,079 exactly as it was when he passed away. 123 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 2: I want to see that study. 124 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,759 Speaker 5: No to be left as it is until master Charles 125 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,879 opens it to play his inheritance. 126 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 2: You're talking about the mainling. 127 00:07:44,199 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 5: Buddha, furniture, books and things. 128 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: How long since you've seen that little jade idyl? 129 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 5: Well, not since mister Harcourt died. I locked the door 130 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:56,959 and it hasn't been open since. 131 00:07:56,839 --> 00:07:58,639 Speaker 2: Except that is well. I'm sorry, but I have to 132 00:07:58,680 --> 00:07:59,399 look around in there. 133 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:02,759 Speaker 5: But you have the key, of course, keep it on 134 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,800 this chain about my neck at all times. 135 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 2: Let me have, mister Dallas. I can get a court 136 00:08:08,439 --> 00:08:10,480 order if necessary, but it would only waste time. 137 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 5: Am I to nose? 138 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 2: You're even? Well? That is here, my creatacious I'm a 139 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,839 fully authorized agent of the company that ensured that Buddha, 140 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:25,800 but i'm responsible. Has it occurred to you, missus Haskell, 141 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,040 that the mailing Buddha might possibly have been stolen? That's impossible, 142 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:33,039 is it? Okay, where's the study. 143 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 4: I'll go with you and I'll open the door. 144 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:47,759 Speaker 2: No, mm hmmm. This door looks a couple of inches thick, 145 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:51,000 just like. 146 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,519 Speaker 5: The one to the library. Mister Harcourt kept all his 147 00:08:55,159 --> 00:08:56,360 lovely pastry. 148 00:08:57,799 --> 00:09:00,759 Speaker 4: Dear, look at all that dust. 149 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 2: Dust is right? It was on everything, the accumulation of 150 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,600 a couple of years. On the desk that shares the 151 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:13,080 open floor, bookshelves and tables. They're almost dark and glooming. 152 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:19,399 Speaker 5: Yes, it looks just the same except for all this 153 00:09:19,759 --> 00:09:24,120 horrible dust. But as I told you, mister Dalla, this 154 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,039 is the first time the door has been opened. 155 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, now where is the Oh? Oh, I hope you 156 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,080 didn't hurt yourself. I just didn't see it. 157 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 5: But he always insisted on keeping the electric fan on 158 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:38,679 that little table next to the door. 159 00:09:39,639 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 2: Now where's the Buddha? 160 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,639 Speaker 5: The little wooden casket on the desk? 161 00:09:43,279 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: I must seem ah wow, I was afraid of this, 162 00:09:58,759 --> 00:09:59,360 afraid of what. 163 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,159 Speaker 4: Oh no, it's gone. The Buddha's gone. 164 00:10:04,279 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 2: Oh no. I searched the room thoroughly and found no 165 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,480 trace of the mailing Buddha. Somehow someone had got in 166 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,559 that locker room and stolen it. Must have happened recently. 167 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:20,320 A piece as valuable as that wouldn't be allowed to 168 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,080 lie around for long. If Issaka told me had arrived 169 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,279 in Paris only a few weeks ago, and I had 170 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,279 no reason to done it, How could anyone possibly have 171 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,360 got in there without leaving marks in the dust that 172 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,120 swirled about our feet every time we moved. That showed 173 00:10:34,159 --> 00:10:37,039 a clear imprint of every step we made. That left 174 00:10:37,039 --> 00:10:38,559 a mark on everything I touched. 175 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 4: Oh dear, oh dear, this is terrible. 176 00:10:42,919 --> 00:10:45,399 Speaker 2: You're sure you have the only key to this room, 177 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:47,159 missus hask Yes, it was. 178 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,759 Speaker 5: In trusted to me to prevent this very thing. 179 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,279 Speaker 2: Oh dear, what about the nephew, Charles Curtis. 180 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 5: No, I'm sure he's never had one. 181 00:10:56,159 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 2: You think he could have got hold of yours and 182 00:10:57,759 --> 00:10:59,399 had a copy made impossible? 183 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 4: In Oh dear, where that's school at Harvard? 184 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: I think i'd better see that boy. 185 00:11:05,759 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 5: Certainly you can't think that Master Charles did this. 186 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,039 Speaker 2: I don't know what to think yet. Tell me you're 187 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,000 absolutely sure you've let no one in here since mister 188 00:11:15,039 --> 00:11:15,720 Harcourt died. 189 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:19,399 Speaker 5: You can tell by the dust over everything that no 190 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:25,879 one has been in here, not for years, absolutely, except 191 00:11:25,879 --> 00:11:28,559 for the federal tax man of course. The appraiser for 192 00:11:28,639 --> 00:11:33,000 the estate was that a month or so after mister 193 00:11:33,039 --> 00:11:34,480 Harcourt passed away. 194 00:11:35,039 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 2: And he showed up in Paris on. 195 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,879 Speaker 5: I was within mister Dollar, and so was the attorney attorney, 196 00:11:42,039 --> 00:11:43,799 mister Howard Bancroft in town. 197 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:45,039 Speaker 2: Do you have his address? 198 00:11:45,639 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 5: Office is just off Copley Square, And I've. 199 00:11:49,879 --> 00:11:52,799 Speaker 2: Got two people to see Charles Curtis and Howard Bancroft. 200 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 4: Mister Dollar about master Charles, he's a good boy. 201 00:11:58,039 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm sure. 202 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 5: Simply ants thinks that he Anyhow, no one could have 203 00:12:04,519 --> 00:12:06,240 gotten here without leaving a trail. 204 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,799 Speaker 2: I want you to close up this room again and 205 00:12:10,879 --> 00:12:14,360 leave it close. I'll be back, please, how about childs 206 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,960 listen to me? Maybe later, Missus Haskell later, Yeah, after 207 00:12:19,039 --> 00:12:37,360 I've talked to him. One thing puzzled me. If young 208 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,840 Charles Curtis did steal the Buddha, why did he do 209 00:12:39,919 --> 00:12:42,639 it after a few months more at Harvard to get 210 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:45,080 it anyway, and he'd be able to sell it on 211 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,200 the legitimate market for a lot more than it would 212 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,000 ever bring on the Paris black market. On the way 213 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:51,440 and to look him up, I stopped at the office 214 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,399 of the lawyer Howard Bancroft. I can't believe it, mister 215 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,799 donne Well. The fact remains, mister Bancroft, that the Buddha 216 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,679 is not only missing from the Harcourt home but has 217 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,559 turned out in Paris. But the only person who had 218 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,480 access to that room with Missus Haskell. In accordance with 219 00:13:05,519 --> 00:13:08,559 mister Harcourt's wish, that room hasn't been added for years 220 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:12,600 until today. And yet if the Buddha has shown up 221 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,240 only recently, I'm afraid I don't follow you, sir. Mister 222 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:18,799 Harcourt willed it to his nephew, didn't he. That's right, 223 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,679 Charles Curtis, when he finishes school, and he willed the 224 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,639 house to missus Haskell, didn't he? Yes? And it will 225 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,279 be little enough reward for her years of service to him? 226 00:13:27,279 --> 00:13:30,200 How do you mean mister Harcourt paid her very little 227 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,840 during all those years? She and I I too, quite frankly, 228 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,480 felt she was entitled to a great deal more. You see, 229 00:13:37,519 --> 00:13:41,039 his will be valuable things. The collection of tapestries he 230 00:13:41,159 --> 00:13:44,840 willed to various museums Soderston. They were kept in an 231 00:13:44,879 --> 00:13:49,879 her medically sealed room, the library her medically sealed practically. 232 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,240 Didn't you notice the tremendous doors on the study and library, 233 00:13:53,320 --> 00:14:00,279 the sealed windows? Then? How could any dust but about 234 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:04,399 Charles Curtis, mister bangrust, admirable young man. In addition to 235 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,120 the money his uncle always gave him, well, his own 236 00:14:08,159 --> 00:14:10,919 family is very wealthy, you know, No, I didn't know. Yes, 237 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,320 they've given him everything he wants and it hasn't spoiled him. 238 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,799 A bit even during college. He's an excellent, hard working student. 239 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,639 He's going to be a lawyer, mister Dollar, and you'll 240 00:14:20,679 --> 00:14:23,039 be a good one. And maybe my thinking about him 241 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,720 has been wrong or definitely by mister Dollar, He's planned 242 00:14:26,759 --> 00:14:29,360 to donate the mailing Buddha to a museum when it 243 00:14:29,399 --> 00:14:33,240 comes into his possession. You see, AH has just that. 244 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,639 After handing more or less straight insurance cases for so 245 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:39,000 many years, I almost instinctively suspect anyone close to the 246 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:41,919 well of the problem in hand in this case, Young 247 00:14:42,039 --> 00:14:46,600 Charles Curtis, even Missus Haskell, maybe even you. I beg 248 00:14:46,639 --> 00:14:48,559 your pardon, but I guess I'd better just shake the 249 00:14:48,639 --> 00:14:50,279 dust out of my brain and tackle this as a 250 00:14:50,279 --> 00:14:56,759 plain ordinary Wait a minute, just eh, it's a little 251 00:14:56,759 --> 00:14:59,000 matter of dust that really has me stopped. That makes 252 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:04,480 it impossible for that added since tapestries you said I mentioned, 253 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:08,840 of course, how blind can I be? Look? You better 254 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,960 get ready for some legal action and be having your client, 255 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,399 the late mister Darryl Harcourt. I'm going to play a 256 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,240 hunch with the bankroft. Maybe it's all wrong, maybe it's crazy, 257 00:15:16,799 --> 00:15:27,120 but I'm going to play it to the hilt. No 258 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,440 mister doller, you can't do this. You have no right. 259 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,240 I'll see about that. These are my own personal things. 260 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,120 I don't believe you're and then should investigate her whatever 261 00:15:38,159 --> 00:15:41,639 you like. Have you a warrant to search my room 262 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,000 this way? No? 263 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,559 Speaker 5: No, you're just some tea some. 264 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, this bank book your name? No, you 265 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:54,879 give me that some twenty years of a balance that 266 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,039 never got above six or seven hundred dollars. Give me 267 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:02,120 that here two months ago, single deposit of twenty one thousand. 268 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 5: That was money that either. 269 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 2: That was the money you got from some crook. We'll 270 00:16:05,879 --> 00:16:08,200 let the police run him down. Some crook who smuggled 271 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,480 the mailing Buddha over to Paris after you stole it 272 00:16:10,519 --> 00:16:11,159 out of the study. 273 00:16:11,279 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 5: That's impossible, and you know it. 274 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:14,919 Speaker 4: That study hasn't been open for. 275 00:16:14,879 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 2: Nearly two years. 276 00:16:15,879 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 5: You saw the lair of dustin there yourself. 277 00:16:18,039 --> 00:16:20,399 Speaker 2: Oh yes, you pointed it out to me half a 278 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:24,000 dozen times. I should have caught on. Then, come on, 279 00:16:24,039 --> 00:16:26,679 we're going into that study you need to keep No, 280 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,519 I won't. I don't have to rip it off that 281 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,279 chain your neck all right? Here? 282 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,879 Speaker 4: You saw for yourself. 283 00:16:35,559 --> 00:16:37,639 Speaker 2: Yes, I saw it, all right, and I didn't have 284 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,759 sense enough to realize what kind of dust that was, 285 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,399 and look at it? Full of earth? What you talking 286 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,960 about about the old fashioned method of cleaning fine tapestries 287 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,120 with full of earth. That's the way mister Harcourt cleaned them, 288 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,159 isn't it. What difference does that man? And there's probably 289 00:16:57,159 --> 00:16:59,200 a supply of it down on the cellar somewhere that 290 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,639 he always kept on. What there is that doesn't prove anything? Yeah, 291 00:17:02,639 --> 00:17:04,839 I was blind, blind as a bat when I knocked 292 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:07,880 over this electric fan that didn't have any dust on it, 293 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,000 because it's what you use to spread the dust. The 294 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,279 fine particles are full of earth all over this room, 295 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,960 A little sackful maybe held in front of the fans, 296 00:17:16,279 --> 00:17:19,119 and it left proof apparently that nobody's been in here 297 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,319 for a couple of years. Yeah, it had me fooled, 298 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,119 but not anymore. Better get your coat. 299 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:40,079 Speaker 4: No, No, I deserved far more from mister Hockcourt for 300 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:40,839 my years. 301 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,839 Speaker 5: Think of watching him squander his money on the idol ta. 302 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 2: Nephew who had money of his own. 303 00:17:52,079 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 4: Now I have money, gent. 304 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 2: Gentlemen, more than I lived. 305 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:00,319 Speaker 4: I'm an old woman. 306 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 2: Thank you. You're young. Perhaps you could use some. 307 00:18:09,039 --> 00:18:11,839 Speaker 4: Perhaps ten or twelve thousand dollars. 308 00:18:13,279 --> 00:18:15,279 Speaker 2: You will have to think of a better way out 309 00:18:15,319 --> 00:18:19,960 than that. And you know something, I have a notion 310 00:18:20,039 --> 00:18:21,440 you're going to have time to think about a lot 311 00:18:21,519 --> 00:18:32,839 of things, plenty of times. Yeah, I know, the mainland 312 00:18:32,839 --> 00:18:35,640 Buddha still has to be brought back from Paris. Maybe 313 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,920 I'll get the assignment. Maybe he'll go to one of 314 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,440 our regular foreign investigators. As for Missus Haskell, well, I'm 315 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,599 sure mister van Craft will lose no time in taking 316 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:49,160 whatever steps are necessary. So expense account total, including mileage 317 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,400 on my rental car and a few incidentals, Well call 318 00:18:52,400 --> 00:19:09,079 it three hundred bucks, even yours truly, Johnny Dollar, now 319 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,799 here is our star to tell you about next week? Story? 320 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,240 Next week? Well, far be it from me. They get 321 00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:16,759 up on a soapbox. But I hope he'll make a 322 00:19:16,799 --> 00:19:19,440 point of listening to him. It concerns a lot of 323 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,680 money in the wrong hands, in the hands of a 324 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,079 bunch of kids too young to meet responsibility, too young 325 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,200 to realize that cutting loose from family before they're ready 326 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,720 can lead to trouble, in this case, murder. Yeah, I 327 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,680 think you'd better hear it, so join us, won't you 328 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:51,680 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring 329 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,000 Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and has written, produced and 330 00:19:55,079 --> 00:19:59,000 directed by Jack John Starr. Heard in our cast were Virginia, 331 00:19:59,039 --> 00:20:02,759 Greg Paul Duba, will write and Boris Lewis. Be sure 332 00:20:02,799 --> 00:20:05,880 to join us next week, same time and station Well. 333 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,519 Another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. 334 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 1: Welcome back. 335 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:12,559 Speaker 2: Now. 336 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:17,039 Speaker 1: It is tempting to wonder why Johnny would try to 337 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:21,759 give the Great Cat a low ball offer, But to 338 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:26,440 be honest, if the Great Cat didn't get an opportunity 339 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,640 to haggle Johnny up, he just would not have a 340 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:37,480 good day. This is a case where our criminal defeated herself. Now, 341 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:42,039 the point is that the room was sealed. It wasn't 342 00:20:42,319 --> 00:20:47,119 in any meaningful way hermetically sealed, but there was very 343 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,640 little airflow and she had the only key. So she 344 00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:55,039 goes into this room that has hardly any dust on 345 00:20:55,079 --> 00:20:57,960 it and says, I want to make sure that no 346 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,680 one can tell I've been here, So I'm just gonna 347 00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:05,559 coat this room in Fuller's earth to make it look natural. 348 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:10,200 Johnstone's stories often have this one does have an element 349 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:17,079 of social and moral commentary through the spate of Bancroft, 350 00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:23,400 in which he says that essentially mister Harkhart has done 351 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:28,960 missus Haskell wrong. In life, he was very cheap in 352 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:33,720 how he paid her, and in death didn't really leave 353 00:21:33,839 --> 00:21:38,119 her a good inheritance. And in some ways it might 354 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,720 be harder to grasp in today's world, where you have 355 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,599 a much more mobile workforce, where people will spend a 356 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:49,160 few years at a job and then move on to 357 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:55,200 another one. But you had, particularly among those who worked 358 00:21:55,400 --> 00:22:01,680 for wealthy people who would work for them for decades, 359 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:07,519 and a housekeeper who lived with you and took care 360 00:22:07,759 --> 00:22:11,920 of the house and looked after you for all those years. 361 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:15,920 You know, there's the old cliche. Yeah, she's just like 362 00:22:16,039 --> 00:22:19,319 one of the family, which you can, you know, pass over. 363 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,079 But if somebody's been there, you know, twenty thirty years, 364 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,559 then that's a real natural feeling. And the idea Johnstone 365 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:35,079 is expressing here is through Bancroft is expressing, is if 366 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,519 someone is wealthy and they have someone take care of 367 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,160 them for decades of their life, they ought to take 368 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,680 care of the people who take care of them, both 369 00:22:50,759 --> 00:22:54,440 in life and in death. And Harcourt clearly did not 370 00:22:54,599 --> 00:22:58,039 do that. Well, now it's time to think our Patreon 371 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,839 supporter of the day. 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But tomorrow we yield to the 380 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,440 great adventures of old time radio and hand it over 381 00:23:35,519 --> 00:23:37,319 to Counterspy, where. 382 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 2: Mister Peters call mister Harding right away. Mister Peters call 383 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:48,319 mister Harding right away. Yes, we do. Has anything come 384 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,759 in on the investigation of that benefit for the disabled? 385 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,960 There's not routine anymore. Bring whatever you've got to my office. 386 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:57,519 We've got to go to work fast. 387 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,799 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime. 388 00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:03,880 Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 389 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,839 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 390 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:13,119 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash great detectives from Boise, Idaho. 391 00:24:13,319 --> 00:24:15,759 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.