1 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from 2 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:39,240 Boise Ataho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, 3 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,960 we're going to bring you this week's episode of Yours 4 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:48,000 Truly Johnny Dowler. 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It's time now for Johnny Dollar. 13 00:01:26,599 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 3: Hi, Johnny, this is Steve Kilmer Providential Life and Cashley Steve. 14 00:01:30,599 --> 00:01:31,599 Speaker 2: It's been a couple of years. 15 00:01:31,719 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. Listen, Johnny, how'd you like to attend 16 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:35,000 a wedding? 17 00:01:35,079 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 4: Well? 18 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 2: Why not? As long as it is mine? 19 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you mean. 20 00:01:38,239 --> 00:01:39,239 Speaker 2: Oh you're a bachelor too. 21 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:41,799 Speaker 3: Huh, Well I would be if it weren't for a wife, 22 00:01:41,879 --> 00:01:43,439 for kids and a couple of grandchildren. 23 00:01:43,599 --> 00:01:45,879 Speaker 2: Whoop, Johnny, do you buy any chance. 24 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: Remember Martha Mayfield Merriman, the. 25 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,439 Speaker 5: Old gal down in New York, Alan's Consolidated Tyrann Rubber Company. 26 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, and a half a dozen other companies. 27 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,959 Speaker 2: Well, sure, one of my old sweethearts. 28 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 5: Don't you remember back in fifty seven when I played 29 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,400 up that false report of her dead. 30 00:01:58,799 --> 00:02:00,599 Speaker 3: I thought she rigged out herself in order to make 31 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:01,680 a killing in the stock market. 32 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,319 Speaker 5: Well, of course she did. But Steve, she must be 33 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,319 seventy three or four years old. Seventy four, Well, don't 34 00:02:07,359 --> 00:02:09,000 tell me she's getting married again. 35 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 3: No, it's her son, Edgar. Oh, but she insists that 36 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,319 you'll be among those president at the ceremony. 37 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,199 Speaker 2: Well, now that's kind of funny. I wonder why, Yeah, 38 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:17,800 so do I. 39 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 3: And I wonder why she'd have me call you unless 40 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,719 she anticipates trouble of some kind. 41 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 5: Johnny, Okay, Steve, I'll run on down there, Bob Bailey. 42 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,199 In the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action 43 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,240 Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous freelance Insurance Investigator, Yours truly, 44 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:51,919 Johnny Dollar and no act one off, Yours truly Johnny Dollar. 45 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:08,159 Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the 46 00:03:08,199 --> 00:03:11,680 Providential Life and Casually Insurance Company Home office, Hartford, Connecticut. 47 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 2: Following is an. 48 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 5: Acout of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Shang 49 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:23,039 Car Diamond Matter expense account out of one seven eighty 50 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,879 train to New York at a cab to the Brownstone 51 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:25,919 House on Sutton Place. 52 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 2: Martha Mayfield Merriment. 53 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 5: Who looks more like somebody's cute little grandmother than the 54 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,039 clever stock market operator, but who thinks and sounds. 55 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:35,319 Speaker 2: Like, well, judge for yourself. 56 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,719 Speaker 6: Can you dig that, Johnny that's proud of mine is 57 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:39,159 finally taking a leap to. 58 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 7: Sucond Well, after all, Martha Day, how about you? Johnny? 59 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:43,759 Speaker 2: How about what about me? 60 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 4: You know? 61 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 7: Marriage? 62 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 2: Well, uh, let's change the something. 63 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:49,199 Speaker 7: Huh turn me down? 64 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,199 Speaker 6: Well, then I'll just have to wait a couple of 65 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,159 years and try again. Or has that Betty Loui's been 66 00:03:55,159 --> 00:03:56,680 making time with you behind my back? 67 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: Oh do you know, Betty? 68 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 6: No, but I heard the broadcast in that case where 69 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,680 she kept you from getting knocked off by that gangster 70 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,240 that to curly Water. 71 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:05,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, Martha, she saved my life. 72 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 6: And then didn't have sense enough to get her hooks 73 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,759 in you. Johnny the dames nowadays are really slipping. Just 74 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:13,639 don't you forget, though, that I've got to lead on 75 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:15,680 all of them, because I've already. 76 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,439 Speaker 2: Proposed to you, Martha, you are a dog. 77 00:04:17,319 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 7: Sure I am. And if I was a couple of 78 00:04:19,319 --> 00:04:21,279 years younger, Johnny, I'd run you ragged. 79 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:22,759 Speaker 5: What do you mean if you were a couple of 80 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,120 years younger? Have you forgotten that night on the top 81 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:26,560 after I had ou other case for. 82 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:26,959 Speaker 8: You to day? 83 00:04:27,079 --> 00:04:28,959 Speaker 7: We really had a ball, didn't we. 84 00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 2: Boy nearly a week to recover. 85 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 8: Well, they we'll just have to do it again after 86 00:04:33,199 --> 00:04:36,040 this wedding's over with. Speaking of which, I would you 87 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:36,879 like a little snort? 88 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,079 Speaker 6: Lock it? 89 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:39,879 Speaker 2: Well, don't you think maybe better? 90 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 7: Of course you would locking locking? 91 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 6: You call mother buying things, snooping around outside the door, 92 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,800 trying to find out what Johnny Dollar's doing here? 93 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,759 Speaker 2: Certainly not, of course you were. 94 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 6: Now bring us a couple of drinks Scotch on the rocks, okay, Johnny, sure, 95 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:58,959 honeything up to it, larking? Oh, and crack the wall 96 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,600 safe and bring me the ring, the ring, very good, madam, 97 00:05:03,079 --> 00:05:06,759 No good, Old Larkin. He's leaving me, you know, and 98 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,279 I'm really going to miss him. 99 00:05:08,439 --> 00:05:11,959 Speaker 5: Whatever, Martha Larkin has the combination to your wall, say, 100 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:12,480 why not? 101 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:14,759 Speaker 8: What would he ever do with the junk I keep 102 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,240 stashed away in it? 103 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:18,439 Speaker 2: Or what kind of hunt? 104 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,399 Speaker 8: Some odds and nands, necklaces and brooches and rings, mostly 105 00:05:22,519 --> 00:05:23,560 a couple of bracelets. 106 00:05:23,879 --> 00:05:26,399 Speaker 7: And what's the ring Shanka diamond? 107 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,399 Speaker 2: What isn't that the one I've read about? 108 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,879 Speaker 5: Probably the one supposed to be the opposite of the 109 00:05:31,879 --> 00:05:34,720 Hope diamond that's supposed to have good luck charm about it? No, 110 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:37,439 why the thing's worth close to a midion, isn't it? 111 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,519 Speaker 7: That's what the insurance company says. 112 00:05:39,879 --> 00:05:42,199 Speaker 2: And you planned the word when your son Edgar gets married. 113 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,759 Speaker 8: Oh well, it's silly superstition, I suppose, but maybe it'll 114 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:50,079 bring him and marry Luanne good luck in their marriage. 115 00:05:49,319 --> 00:05:54,160 Mary Luanne Melanie Beaufort exemon culpepper. 116 00:05:53,959 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 2: Sounds like something out of Gone with the Wind. 117 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 6: The most gorgeous viol in Greensboro, North Carolina, Sir, is 118 00:05:59,519 --> 00:06:01,879 that the wedding to be let the old family plantation 119 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,839 right outside of town. You're going to escort me to 120 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:08,160 the wedding and the bang up reception afterward. I understand 121 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,600 those seven folks really know how to throw a wingding. 122 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,199 Speaker 5: Hey tell me, Martha, do you expect somebody to make 123 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:14,079 a try for that time? 124 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 8: And well, sure, I always do. Some of the top 125 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,680 jewel thieves in the country have tried to snatch that rock. 126 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: Hu who else knows that you've called me in? 127 00:06:23,319 --> 00:06:23,959 Speaker 7: Not a soul? 128 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 2: Let's keep it that way. 129 00:06:26,079 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 7: I'm with you, okay. 130 00:06:27,959 --> 00:06:29,759 Speaker 5: Then I'll run on back to hertfend and get some 131 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:30,879 clothes for the occasion. 132 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 6: Johnny with you entails and me in a set of 133 00:06:33,639 --> 00:06:35,600 threads that balanced. I go sacked me a couple of 134 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,079 g's for we're gonna knock them dead. 135 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:40,439 Speaker 5: Then I'll come back here. We'll pick up the diamond 136 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:41,600 and go down the Greensboro together. 137 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 7: I know. 138 00:06:42,399 --> 00:06:44,959 Speaker 8: We'll take one of my company planes, just the two 139 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:47,439 of us, Johnny with maybe a case of champagne on board. 140 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:50,319 Speaker 2: How about that, Marta, We will have us a ball 141 00:06:53,519 --> 00:06:59,079 wedding now. And if I have that much, get up 142 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:01,759 and go when I'm hurry. Well, I hope you'll live forever. 143 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, the trip to Greensborough sounded like it would really 144 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,000 be a ball. Just before I left her lack and 145 00:07:07,079 --> 00:07:10,399 brought in the Shang Cahard diamond, all thirty four carrots 146 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:15,920 of her flawless, perfect, beautiful, And it suddenly occurred to 147 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:19,319 me that somebody who wanted that stone, wanted that really bad, 148 00:07:20,399 --> 00:07:22,040 might not hesitate to kill for it. 149 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: BacT two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in. 150 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,759 Speaker 6: A moment, and now for another episode in the life 151 00:07:37,759 --> 00:07:39,959 of Sergeant Donald's Dellwether, my. 152 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:53,439 Speaker 9: Husband, that's what I call a good dinner. 153 00:07:53,879 --> 00:07:54,959 Speaker 2: Oh that was delicious. 154 00:07:54,959 --> 00:07:57,279 Speaker 7: Well, I'm glad to hear that, dear Mark coffee. 155 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 2: Uh yes, thank you. 156 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 7: Now tell me all about your safety class. Did the 157 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:07,319 boys enjoy your speech? 158 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he sure did, thanks to you. 159 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:13,079 Speaker 10: I did quite well, my lieutenant complimented me afterward. Were good, Yeah, 160 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,360 but that the same lieutenant threw me a curve too. 161 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 2: How did well? 162 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:19,319 Speaker 10: After I gave my talk, he asked the man if 163 00:08:19,319 --> 00:08:20,800 there were any questions. 164 00:08:21,079 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: Well, I did it. So one of the guys stood 165 00:08:22,759 --> 00:08:25,079 up and said, said, look. 166 00:08:25,079 --> 00:08:28,399 Speaker 10: Sorge, you claim they were over ninety five thousand deaths 167 00:08:28,399 --> 00:08:30,519 and over nine and a half million people entered in 168 00:08:30,639 --> 00:08:33,480 accidents in the US last year. It looks to me 169 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,360 like all those safety campaigns and slogans are doing no 170 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:36,960 good at all. 171 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:40,879 Speaker 2: Hot a answer. I didn't. I couldn't think of an answer. 172 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:43,159 Speaker 10: I got out of it by saying I'd have more 173 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:44,879 facts and figures at the next meeting. 174 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:50,399 Speaker 7: All right, let's see now. Oh yeah, here it is now. 175 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 8: First, Sergeant Bellwether, you start off by telling the boys 176 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,159 that since nineteen hundred and thirteen, the accidental death rate 177 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,919 had been reduced thirty five percent, or, in other words, 178 00:09:01,919 --> 00:09:04,519 if there hadn't been campaigns and safety measures put into 179 00:09:04,519 --> 00:09:08,279 effect to reduce accidents, almost a million more people would 180 00:09:08,279 --> 00:09:10,200 have been killed in the last forty six years. 181 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 7: It certainly is. 182 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 8: I'm reading it right out of the National Safety Council 183 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,759 record book. Oh and another thing, accidents in. 184 00:09:17,759 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 7: The farming areas are much higher than in the city. 185 00:09:21,279 --> 00:09:21,960 But do you know why. 186 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 8: Why Because in rural areas there are fewer policemen enforcing 187 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:29,600 safety laws and less traffic signs and signals to guide 188 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,360 the motorists. You know, many more cars travel the city streets, 189 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,759 and yet the per capita rate of accident is much 190 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:38,559 higher in the rural areas. 191 00:09:39,159 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 7: Of course, the reason is obvious. 192 00:09:40,799 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 8: In the city, more safety measures are instituted and obeyed. 193 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,759 Speaker 10: Really, you are wonderful, and that's a good logical answer. 194 00:09:49,159 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: I don't know what i'd do with that. 195 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 7: Oh, that's my Donald, that's my doll. 196 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:06,799 Speaker 8: No. 197 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,759 Speaker 5: Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar and the shan 198 00:10:09,879 --> 00:10:15,879 Car Diamond matters expense account ADAM two sixteen fifty the 199 00:10:15,879 --> 00:10:18,159 trip to Hartford for my formal clothes and back to 200 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,120 New York in the home of Martha Mayfield Merryman. By 201 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,840 the time I arrived, she was packed for the trip 202 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,039 to Greensboro, North Carolina and the wedding of her son Ager. 203 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:27,639 Ruschel fur drove us to the airport and then, much 204 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,759 to my surprise, took over as pilot of the huge 205 00:10:29,759 --> 00:10:31,480 private two engine plane that was waiting for us. 206 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 2: Within a few minutes we were. 207 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:35,519 Speaker 5: Airborne and on our way, and in my pocket was 208 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:37,480 the ring, the shang Car diamond. 209 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 7: Why are you looking so glum about, Johnny? 210 00:10:44,279 --> 00:10:45,039 Speaker 2: You Martha? 211 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:46,399 Speaker 7: Oh, what are you talking about? 212 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 8: And I'm the one who ought to have this sour puss? 213 00:10:48,799 --> 00:10:51,279 I propose to you, you turn me down, Artha. 214 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 2: I don't think you really level with me. 215 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 7: You think I wouldn't marry you? You're good looking? No, 216 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,879 I mean about this diamond now, Johnny, I don't did you. 217 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 5: Why has there been some real serious attempts to steal 218 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:06,159 it before or I would have been warned by the insurance. 219 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,399 Speaker 7: Company, So they forgot to tell you, is it? 220 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 5: Or do you have reason to think that somebody's going 221 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,120 to try to get it now while you're away from 222 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:14,320 your usual police protection? 223 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 2: I thought so? Okay, Michael wol. 224 00:11:20,919 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 6: Did you get a look at my chauffeur, Johnny, the 225 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:25,080 laddie who's steering this creek? 226 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: I can hardly help it? Do you mean to say yes. 227 00:11:29,399 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 7: Yes, Johnny? 228 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 8: I think the only reason Eric ever took a job 229 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,360 with me was to get his hands on that diamond. 230 00:11:34,519 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 7: Eric Eric Melvin Chattony. 231 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,799 Speaker 8: Yes, he's a distant cousin of lark In, my butler, 232 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,080 and Markin's leaving you shortly to. 233 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:45,279 Speaker 7: Spend his last days in his beloved England. 234 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 2: Did Larkin recommend it to you? 235 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 9: Oh? 236 00:11:47,879 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 6: No, Actually he didn't even know much about Eric, in 237 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:51,360 spite of their being related. 238 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,799 Speaker 2: How long has Locke been with oh, miss Eric? 239 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 7: Five or six months? 240 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 2: Michael? Why do you suspect him? 241 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 7: It will not to reasons. 242 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 6: In checking up on him after I hired him, I 243 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:04,919 found out that his old man, Byron chatt and he 244 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,440 is still serving time in English prisoner for he was 245 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:09,279 a jewel thief. 246 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 5: Sure, sure, I remember reading about him. He was a 247 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,840 real expert painstaking, a patient spent over three years working 248 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,480 on a plan to get hold of the crown jew. 249 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,279 Speaker 6: That he didn't plan long enough, and that's when they 250 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,480 nabbed him. If some of the headshrinkers are right, if 251 00:12:23,879 --> 00:12:25,720 crime is in Eric's blood. 252 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,759 Speaker 2: Well what was your second reason? 253 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 6: About a week ago, I found Eric alone in the 254 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,240 study and I think he was casing the walls, ay, 255 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,559 but you're not sure. He had a dust cloth and 256 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,320 he started flicking it around and muttering something about giving 257 00:12:39,399 --> 00:12:43,000 lark In a hand, which is highly unlikely me. No, 258 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:44,919 he just made it known that I was going to 259 00:12:44,919 --> 00:12:47,039 take the diamond with me to the wedding, and I 260 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:47,600 sent for you. 261 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 7: But if he knows who I am, what my business, 262 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:52,080 I don't see how he. 263 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 6: Can wait, Johnny, Is there any way he could have 264 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,039 been hearing us up there in the pilot's. 265 00:13:00,279 --> 00:13:01,159 Speaker 2: No, I don't see them. 266 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 7: Yes, Eric, thank you, Eric, We'll be ready. 267 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,039 Speaker 5: Well, Johnny, why the only time you will have this 268 00:13:14,159 --> 00:13:15,480 diamond is at the wedding. 269 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,039 Speaker 7: And the reception? 270 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 6: After all, it the only chance that old biddies will 271 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:20,399 have to show off our furs and. 272 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,279 Speaker 5: Jewelry, Okay, in the reception. The rest of the time, 273 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,000 it'll be right here with me. But nobody's to know 274 00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:31,960 that why they could be wrong, of course about Eric. 275 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,080 I mean, the fact remained that within a few hours 276 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,159 everybody in Greensboro knew about her being there with a 277 00:13:37,159 --> 00:13:40,200 Shankhar diamond. The culpepper has made us comfortable in the 278 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,799 old mansion. The sweet they gave to Martha was big 279 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,919 enough to house a family of twelve. During the next 280 00:13:45,919 --> 00:13:48,279 twenty four hours, the place was well, I call it 281 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,399 kind of dignified madhouse. What with all the preparations for 282 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,960 the wedding. There were house guests by the dozens. Some 283 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,919 were obviously very wealthy, but some had just as obviously 284 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,200 seen better day, and I couldn't help wondering if a 285 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,960 couple of them might have designs on that million dollar diamond. 286 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:07,799 I stayed as close to Martha as possible, and at 287 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,360 the same time kept a constant watch on Eric. The 288 00:14:10,399 --> 00:14:12,399 police who'd been hired for the occasion appointed him as 289 00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:15,919 a special guard. Don fools. They didn't know it, but 290 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,879 they were playing right into his hands. If that is 291 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:26,200 Martha's suspicions were right. Then late the following afternoon, the 292 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,080 wedding went off without a hitch. The blushing bride was beautiful, 293 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,720 and the bridegroom looked appropriately happy. After the ceremony, the 294 00:14:32,799 --> 00:14:35,159 ladies all retired to predect themselves in their most fetching 295 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,320 gowns and furs and jewels, and finally, about eight pm, 296 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,360 the big reception. 297 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 2: Got under way. 298 00:14:40,399 --> 00:14:41,759 Speaker 5: There must have been a couple of hundred people in 299 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,960 that ballroom, and the champagne had bourbon flowed like water. Ah, 300 00:14:45,039 --> 00:14:47,080 and I danced with some of the prettiest, most gorgeous 301 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,279 girls I've ever seen, right out of Charles of the Ritz. 302 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,440 Then it must have been well after midnight. I caught 303 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,399 a glimpse of a shadowy face outside one of the 304 00:14:54,399 --> 00:14:57,600 big French windows. As I looked again, it disappeared, but 305 00:14:57,679 --> 00:15:00,960 I was sure that it was Eric. Accuse myself from Martha, 306 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,279 with whom I'd been talking. 307 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,279 Speaker 2: And well, that was a mistake. 308 00:15:03,759 --> 00:15:05,879 Speaker 5: As I reached the window, all the lights suddenly went out, 309 00:15:05,879 --> 00:15:06,960 and behind me I heard a stream. 310 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:09,799 Speaker 2: It was Martin, no question of it. 311 00:15:10,759 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 5: By the time I fought my way back through the 312 00:15:12,399 --> 00:15:14,159 crowd where I had left to the lights came up again. 313 00:15:14,919 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 11: Yeah. 314 00:15:15,159 --> 00:15:17,759 Speaker 5: There she lay unconscious on the floor, the Shang card 315 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,080 diamond stripped from her finger. 316 00:15:23,279 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 2: Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. 317 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,799 Speaker 12: In a moment, do you know who said absolute freedom 318 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,360 of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation 319 00:15:33,519 --> 00:15:37,960 stone of American liberty. Those words were said by former 320 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,759 President Herbert Hoover. Mister Huber was well aware of the 321 00:15:41,799 --> 00:15:44,279 important role that freedom of the press had played in 322 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,879 the creation and growth of the United States of America. 323 00:15:47,919 --> 00:15:51,440 He realized that without freedom of the press, no democratic 324 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,919 form of government could exist. One of the first steps 325 00:15:54,919 --> 00:15:58,559 in the path toward totalitarianism is the creation of a 326 00:15:58,639 --> 00:16:02,279 controlled press. A free press hampers the work of a 327 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:06,840 potential dictator. When the press is free, the people of 328 00:16:06,879 --> 00:16:10,559 a country are free. When the press is not free, 329 00:16:11,159 --> 00:16:14,399 the people of a country are in danger of slavery. 330 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,080 Remember the words of Herbert Hoover. They are part of 331 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:24,120 your American heritage. Freedom of the press is a foundation 332 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,000 stone of American liberty. 333 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 2: No act free of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. 334 00:16:33,679 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 5: Within a few minutes of the time, the lights had 335 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:36,840 gone out, and Martha had been robbed. We had her 336 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:40,320 upstairs in a suite of doctor in attendance. Fortunately she'd 337 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,159 only faded from shock and the pain of having the 338 00:16:42,159 --> 00:16:44,279 shang Caar diamond forcibly strip from her finger. 339 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:45,559 Speaker 2: I acted fast. 340 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 5: I had the special police hall Eric Chatterley in the Greensboro. Then, 341 00:16:49,279 --> 00:16:51,519 after organizing a methodical search of the old mansion, I 342 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,840 checked around outside the window where I'd seen Eric's face, 343 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,320 and they are sure enough was the main fuse box 344 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,639 where the lights had been turned off. I checked back 345 00:16:58,679 --> 00:17:00,320 with Martha to be sure she was open. Hey, then 346 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,639 borrowed a car and drove into Greensboro the police headquarters. 347 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 11: Yo, better give it some other reason to hold them on, 348 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:07,480 mister Dollard. 349 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 2: What do you mean, Chief? 350 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,839 Speaker 11: My boys went over every stitch on them, but they've 351 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:13,319 found absolutely no sign of that diamond. 352 00:17:13,039 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 2: You're talking about. It's quarters there at the plantation. 353 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,319 Speaker 11: Now, you know as well as I do, say, no 354 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,480 chance to hide anything except on his person. Hey, no, sir, 355 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,039 unless you can prove me wrong, we got no reason 356 00:17:24,039 --> 00:17:24,519 to hold him. 357 00:17:24,559 --> 00:17:27,319 Speaker 2: Wait, where's the nearest hospital hospital? 358 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 5: Yes, and Chief, I give you odds I can find 359 00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:34,839 that diamond on Eric Chatterley. The X ray of Chatterley's 360 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:36,880 mid section took a few minutes, the development of the 361 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,599 film a few minutes. More careful examination of it only 362 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,240 a few seconds. Great, mister Dolly, you were right, sir, 363 00:17:43,519 --> 00:17:46,440 yeah was I look for yourself. You must have taken 364 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,119 it out of the ring. 365 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,279 Speaker 11: But the important thing, the diamond is sitting right there 366 00:17:49,319 --> 00:17:50,400 in the middle of his stomach. 367 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,279 Speaker 2: The outline of that stone is just as clear. 368 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,039 Speaker 5: And that's just the trouble, chief troubles. Oh, that's the 369 00:17:56,079 --> 00:17:58,000 stone that Eric tore off her finger. All right, so 370 00:17:58,039 --> 00:18:00,519 go ahead hold on to him. But if that's it's Chief, 371 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,079 that's not the shang Car diamond. 372 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 2: All right, godnor all. 373 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:09,519 Speaker 13: Right you caught me with already. 374 00:18:09,559 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 5: Goods on, miss, I'll take there for it, and it 375 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:12,559 won't be the first time. 376 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 7: But you got to admit it was pretty clever of me. 377 00:18:15,799 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 5: Clever when you couldn't tell the difference between the real 378 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,359 thing and it carefully made imitation. 379 00:18:20,599 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 2: Imitation. That's right, the stone that you swallowed. 380 00:18:23,599 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 13: No, he told me she had the real thing when 381 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,920 he got me the job with her, at least when 382 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:31,440 he wrote me I should come over from England and 383 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:32,079 applied for the. 384 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:33,839 Speaker 2: Oh, Eric. 385 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:35,880 Speaker 7: I've said enough. 386 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you have it that. 387 00:18:47,799 --> 00:18:50,599 Speaker 14: Eric had the combination of that wall safe, of course, 388 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,960 not as I too do the own well, of course 389 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:58,720 I am when you say page and I, Johnny, are 390 00:18:58,720 --> 00:18:59,160 you kidding? 391 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:00,799 Speaker 2: When's the last time you wore the Shank card? 392 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 6: Now it's the big charity ball last spring. If it 393 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,119 was the Shank car, not this imitation you're talking about. 394 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 5: I haven't had it cleaned a check by a jeweler, said, oh, 395 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,279 why should I? Then it probably wasn't the Shang car. 396 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:14,960 And you're sure you didn't know about this imitation? 397 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 7: Do you think I'd go around flashing a phony? 398 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,079 Speaker 8: Now? Look here, Johnny, I love you dearly, but don't 399 00:19:20,079 --> 00:19:21,519 you cool me with a line like that. 400 00:19:21,599 --> 00:19:22,279 Speaker 7: Don't rile me. 401 00:19:22,319 --> 00:19:22,559 Speaker 3: Boy. 402 00:19:22,559 --> 00:19:24,079 Speaker 2: Okay, honey, okay, keep your head on. 403 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 5: Just get ready for a quick trip back to New 404 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,799 York as soon as I can find as another flyboy. 405 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,039 Speaker 2: During the flight back to New York, Martha asked a 406 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:34,000 lot of questions, but I. 407 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 5: Sidestepped all of them, promised her a real dramatic ending 408 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,799 of the case, and I kind of quietly prayed for 409 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,759 one myself. When we reached the old brown Stone House 410 00:19:41,799 --> 00:19:43,640 on Sutton Place. We told lok In the butler about 411 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,359 the robbery, then, at my insistence, went upstairs to his 412 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:46,920 quarters on. 413 00:19:46,839 --> 00:19:55,279 Speaker 2: The fourth floor. Here you are so afraid. I don't understand. 414 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,039 Speaker 8: You sure got me bugged too, Johnny, Why can I 415 00:19:58,079 --> 00:20:01,200 see you're already packing for your back to dear Olie. 416 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,079 Speaker 13: Yes, sir, during my four years of service with Madam, 417 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:05,680 I find that accumulated Carter. 418 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,599 Speaker 2: I beg your pardon, sir. I'm going through every one 419 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:11,960 of these bags of yours. 420 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 8: Now, Johnny, even tear them apart to look for false bottom. 421 00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:18,759 Speaker 5: Compared, I'll do the same thing to your clothes, your 422 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:22,680 shoes if necessary, until I find the shank, Caard, diamond. 423 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,039 Speaker 13: Mister dollar Murdam. 424 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 7: Now, Johnny, what's the gag? 425 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,599 Speaker 5: Sometimes blood will tell? Isn't what that headshrinker said to you? Yes, 426 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,039 you were thinking only of Eric, of his relationship with 427 00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:37,559 a notorious Byron Chapeli, the man who quietly patiently spent 428 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:38,960 years working on a plan to get hold of a 429 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:39,880 precious stone. 430 00:20:40,519 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 2: You forgot all about Larkin being related. 431 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,039 Speaker 7: Now just a minute, dusted Larkin. 432 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 5: To the point of levitying him have the combination of 433 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,720 the safe where you kept the shank car so he 434 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:52,200 had an imitation, made a beauty out of a thing 435 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,519 they call stress. Yeah, it's a highly leathered glass that 436 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,400 only an expert can tell from a real diamond when 437 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,160 it's cut correctly. 438 00:20:58,759 --> 00:21:00,519 Speaker 2: That's what you've been wearing the last few times. 439 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 7: I just can't believe it. 440 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 5: But Blackin realized that sooner or later the fake would 441 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,400 be spotted, so he evolved another scheme. They have the 442 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,559 fake one stolen by his distant cousin, Eric, same blood. 443 00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:13,519 Remember if Eric got away with it, okay, and Lacan 444 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,880 was clean, he could split with him later when Eric 445 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,599 got wise to the phony. If Eric was caught as 446 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:23,279 he was, Lacin's skirts would still be clean, right, Lacan. 447 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:27,759 Speaker 13: Quite, sir, And you won't need to destroy my luggage. 448 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,319 I'll fetch you the diamond. 449 00:21:29,839 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 2: Yeah you may as well. 450 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 13: But I must say, if you hadn't discovered one, Eric 451 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:36,440 still was paced, I'd never have got on to you. 452 00:21:36,519 --> 00:21:39,960 May I ask how you did it, sir? Sure the 453 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,519 x ray of your beloved cousin's belly. Will I realize 454 00:21:43,599 --> 00:21:46,319 that that's how you located the stone. 455 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,079 Speaker 2: It also told me it wasn't the real one. 456 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 7: Well, so help me Johnny, I don't dig you. 457 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 5: We'd never have seen the real one. What genuine diamonds 458 00:21:54,400 --> 00:22:03,519 are completely transmit to X rays. So the diamonds safe 459 00:22:03,559 --> 00:22:06,039 and sound, and Locking and his dearly beloved cousin are 460 00:22:06,039 --> 00:22:08,559 in the clink. Martha was a bit upset over what 461 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,920 Locking had done, but well she'll get over it. Yeah, 462 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,079 And I sure hope I get over this headache. That 463 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,599 brawl she threw for me by way of celebration was 464 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,039 a dilly expensive got total, including incidentals and the trip 465 00:22:20,079 --> 00:22:24,720 back to Hartfred call her fifty bucks. Yours truly, Johnny dull, 466 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:02,480 Yours truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood 467 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:07,440 and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnston. Heard 468 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:12,039 in our cast were Lillian Baiath, Jack Edwards, Barney Phillips, Horace. 469 00:23:11,799 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 2: Lewis, and Eric Snowden. 470 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 5: Be sure to join us next week, same time and station, 471 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,799 or another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 472 00:23:35,799 --> 00:23:37,519 Speaker 2: This is Dan coverly speaking. 473 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 5: Johnny Dollar has come to you through the worldwide facilities 474 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,680 of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 475 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: Welcome back. I enjoyed this one, I think particular mainly 476 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:47,079 because I enjoyed Martha, and she made the episode fun 477 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,920 to listen to. And again, when you are working with 478 00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:56,160 interesting characters, you're you're planning to Jack Johnstone's strength as 479 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:03,400 a writer. Now more thought actually did appear. This wasn't 480 00:25:03,559 --> 00:25:07,240 like an off air adventure being referenced in The Golden 481 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:13,759 Touch Matter, which aired on February seventeenth, nineteen fifty seven. 482 00:25:14,599 --> 00:25:19,440 It is a last one of the three missing nineteen 483 00:25:19,519 --> 00:25:23,680 fifty seven episodes, and I'd really enjoy listening to it, 484 00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:28,279 And there were probably other nineteen fifty seven episodes that 485 00:25:28,599 --> 00:25:30,920 were not as fun as that one. I know that 486 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,759 there's probably at least one lestener who would gladly trade 487 00:25:35,839 --> 00:25:39,839 this for the Mingtoy Murphy matter. As to the solution 488 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,200 about the diamond in the stomach, it turns out that 489 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,519 is pretty plausible. Now for my research. It might be 490 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:55,000 a simplification to say that diamonds are invisible to X ray, 491 00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:00,160 but they are pretty hard to spot, particularly smaller diamonds. 492 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:05,960 Now the shan Car diamond, maybe a very experienced and 493 00:26:06,039 --> 00:26:10,640 talented X ray technician might be able to figure it out, 494 00:26:10,799 --> 00:26:14,200 but it would still be very hard. Strass would be 495 00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:18,359 more dense and therefore would show up clearly on the 496 00:26:18,519 --> 00:26:22,680 X ray, and as Johnny described the results being clear, 497 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:27,000 that gives it away that it's paced. It is interesting 498 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:33,839 that this episode, for the first time, suggests that the 499 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,759 episodes on the radio are being played are recent cases 500 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,720 and apparently disclows every aspect of Johnny's personal life. It 501 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,720 makes you wonder why he hears so much about the 502 00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:52,960 expense account, because Johnstone had better be paying him for 503 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:59,599 the level of access being provided here. Listener comments and 504 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,799 feed and we have some comments regarding the doting Dowager matter, 505 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,440 and we start on Spotify. Harrison rotts, this was a 506 00:27:08,519 --> 00:27:11,240 decent enough episode, but it's kind of like the Dollar 507 00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:14,599 episodes where it's resolved without him having to do anything. 508 00:27:15,079 --> 00:27:18,039 I'm probably a bit by since I'm currently listening to 509 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,119 the entire Dollar run and every episode seems to be 510 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:26,319 getting shot. I think that there's something to that. I 511 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,160 do think there in this one. There's at least the 512 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:33,680 point that we're going out to meet this unusual character 513 00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:38,200 and things are going to be fine after he looks 514 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,519 around and just showing that hey, in some cases, he 515 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,400 just goes with it. It's not like those where I 516 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,839 don't like the ones where he does like an entire 517 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:55,680 involved investigation like the Mojavey red matter in the sequel, 518 00:27:55,839 --> 00:27:59,920 and it's like, oh, he didn't actually achieve anything. I 519 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,279 thought this was a little different. ALVD doctor who who 520 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,839 done it was even more critical. This week's Johnny Dollar 521 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,119 was co written by Jack Johnstone, Frank and Ann Hummer 522 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,319 ouch Uh. Then we all have a comment from Allen 523 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,279 on Instagram though, who says this is one of my 524 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,359 favorite episodes just for the weirdness. So if you like 525 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,400 a weird departure every now and again, this is a 526 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,960 good episode for you. 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We will 535 00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:01,960 be back neck Friday with another episode of Johnny Dowler, 536 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:05,039 but join us back here tomorrow as we give way 537 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:09,799 to the great adventurers of old time radio and Counterspy where. 538 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,720 Speaker 4: A very beautiful apartment. Oh, thank you, mister handing. Colonel. 539 00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:20,319 I am here to make a very unusual request. You 540 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:26,359 knew Harold Blake personally? Yes, this is a suicide of 541 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,839 bona fide suicide, perfectly candid, Colonel Higgins, I don't know, 542 00:29:31,839 --> 00:29:35,039 and that's why I come to you. I need the 543 00:29:35,079 --> 00:29:37,640 aid of a citizen colonel who has a very important 544 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:43,720 governmental responsibility. You're forty eight, that's correct, A bachelor, a 545 00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:48,319 confirmed one. You're a very handsome man. Oh come down, 546 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,039 very fascinating to women. Hold. Oh wait a minute now, 547 00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:55,000 Oh that's a serious business, girlan as I understand it. 548 00:29:55,599 --> 00:29:58,640 When there's being engaged in the Pacific Island, at the 549 00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:02,559 very last minute, charts must be supplied to all freighters 550 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,960 so they'll know the little harbors where they'll have to 551 00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:09,119 unload the supply. Yes, that's correct, and naturally months beforehands. 552 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,799 I have lists of such harbors so those charts can 553 00:30:11,839 --> 00:30:14,559 be printed at the last minute. Huh. That's why I'm 554 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,799 so careful of making new acquaintances. I have her responsibility 555 00:30:17,839 --> 00:30:20,759 on your colonel that's just why I've come to you. 556 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:27,000 Do you happen to know her, Miss adele Winston. No, no, 557 00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:29,319 I've never happened to meet her after hiding, but she's 558 00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:33,400 a very gorgeous woman anyway, she's usually surrounded by any 559 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,200 number of admirers. Well, I'm going to arrange for you 560 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:39,759 to meet her, Colonel, I'm going to ask you to 561 00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:42,359 make yourself just as interesting to her as possible. 562 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:42,599 Speaker 1: Oh. 563 00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:44,519 Speaker 4: In fact, I'm going to ask you to try and 564 00:30:44,599 --> 00:30:48,200 make it even a constant attachment for a time. Oh no, Harting, 565 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,799 that's a little too well, not at all, colonel. Can 566 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,480 you could be the principal factor and possibly exposing one 567 00:30:56,519 --> 00:30:58,960 of the most clever spies in this country today. 568 00:30:59,319 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 569 00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:06,160 do send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 570 00:31:06,319 --> 00:31:10,359 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 571 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:16,640 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 572 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,799 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.