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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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going to bring you this week's episode of Yours Truly

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Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to encourage you.

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Speaker 2: First.

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Speaker 1: Now we find ourselves actually in the middle of one

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of the biggest gaps through Johnny Dollar. After last week's program,

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ten of the remaining twelve nineteen fifty eight episodes are missing,

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which makes it the single biggest block to have missing episodes.

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The only one rivalrying it is the nineteen fifty two

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hole in the Edmond O'Brien era, win ten of eleven

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are missing. Today's program actually aired on November the sixteenth,

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nineteen fifty eight, and it's the Double Trouble Matter.

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Speaker 3: From Holleywood. It's time or Dollar Earl Foreman, Johnny Hi Earl.

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I think it's sunny Florida. I think I'll move to California.

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What I mean, get away from this grazing insurance business.

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As far as I can. You sound like you have

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a problem. I sure have a real wild one trying

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to get rid of sixty five thousand dollars. That's a problem.

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That's insurance on a policy bought and paid for by

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one Albert Skyler Kingdom. Well, he died and left the

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money to his only child's son, Henry Worsavanna. Can't you

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find him? My name? That's just the trouble, Johnny. I've

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found two of them. Bob Dailey in the Exciting Adventures

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of the Man with the Action packed Expense of God

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America is fabulous. Freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly, Johnny Dollar,

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no act one of yours, truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account

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submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri State

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Life and Casualty Company, Sarasota, Florida, following us an account of

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expenses incurred during my investigation of the Double Trouble matter

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expense A count itam one eighty three twenty Plain Fair

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and Incinental's Hartford to Tampa to Sarasota, Florida. It him

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two a bus seventy five for a cab to Earl

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Portman's office in the Conroy Building. That's right after waiting

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twenty years for this sole beneficiary to show up. Twenty years.

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Like I told you, the insured was Albert Schuyler King

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sixty five grand. Yes, he was a widower, lived up

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near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and he had a son

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named Henry. Henry was his sole heir and beneficiary of

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his polace. Okay, and you say that kingman died twenty

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years ago, Yes, douring that big hurricane back in thirty eight.

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Remember it did about forty million dollars damage up and

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down the coast. Oh. I was a mere child at

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the time. Oh sure, Oh was Henry? Well, he was ten,

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just a kid. Anyhow, it was several days before the

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old man's body was fine, and the boy no trace

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of him disappeared in due course of time because of

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the statute of limitations. The old man's estate was well,

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I guess it went to the state, but not his insurance. No, No,

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we kept the matter of the insurance open company policy

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requires a lot of legal finagling, but in the company's

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history they turned up beneficiaries as much as fifteen eighteen

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years after death by advertising. And that's what accounts for

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the sudden appearance of two Henry Kingman's, each claiming to

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be the beneficiary of Albert Kingman's policy, and each having

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a logical, legitimate story, each saying he didn't know about

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the insurance until he saw the ad. Where are these

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boys right here in Sarasota. They arrived yesterday. They arrived together, no,

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a couple of hours apart, unknown to each other. They say,

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I hope you made it perfectly plain that one of

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them has to be a phony, and that when he's

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found out, it's gonna go pretty rough with them, naturally,

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But Johnny, I can't find anything wrong with either of

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their stories. You know, their background, where they've been and

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so on. Where they're staying, a couple of dingy little

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motels on the edge of town. Now, look, here's the

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file on them, or rather on the old man. Well,

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I don't know that that's gonna be much help. There's

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information about not only Kingman but his wife who died

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before him. There's a lot of miscellaneous information about the boys,

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I mean the boy where he went to school and

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Sunday School, who his teachers were, the names of some

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of his friends. There's a lot of stuff here. Well,

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then maybe i'd better go through it. Sure now, look

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it's getting like you're gonna stay with Gertrude and me

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as huge. Sure that is necessary, which he'd killed me

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if I didn't bring you home. So come on, we'll

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drive on out to the quay, have cocktails and some dinner,

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and you can spend the evening pouring over that material.

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Come on, con tails and dinner were great, they always

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are with the poets. Only poor man is a misnomer

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that Homer. Theirs on Saint Aman's Key is not only

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big and new, but beautiful. They have their own private

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dock and speedboat on the bio directly back of the house. Yeah,

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and they own a couple of spanking new, fancy air

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conditioned cars. I decided that if I ever get enough

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to retire, this will be the kind of a setup

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for me. It was nearly ten o'clock by the time

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I got around of the folder on Henry Kingdom, but

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by two am, so help me I knew more about

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him than he himself could. Yes, I was all set

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to expose one of these claimants as a phony, a fraud.

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Had the whole situation right in the palm of my hand,

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I thought, But brother, I had no idea of what

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was coming. Believe me, act too of yours, truly, Johnny

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Dollar in a moment.

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Speaker 4: And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant

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Donald's Belwick.

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Speaker 2: My husband, Reba, Rebar what is it?

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Speaker 5: Donald?

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Speaker 3: Confound and read by can't find the fountain pen. I've

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looked all through this desk.

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Speaker 5: Here it is, dear. You must have used it as

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a marker when you're reading this book. See this great

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literary classic Six Sults.

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Speaker 3: All right, never mind about my reading habits. Just look

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at the coverage we're going to get with this new

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auto accident policy.

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Speaker 4: Let's see collisionteen fifty dollars, doctor fire, the public, livebuilding,

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property damage, medical benefits. In other words, we have complete coverage.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Of course, it's going to cost us money.

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I'm sending the company a check right now. Gee. It's

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too bad we don't live in Rhode, Rhode Island, Oh,

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because on our rate should be lower Rhode Island has

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less accidents per capita than any other state.

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Speaker 5: Oh, which state has the highest?

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Speaker 3: Me? See? Yeah here it is Nevada, by Gellan. Nevada's

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second highest. Alaska has the most.

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Speaker 5: Really, I didn't know that.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's just too bad we can't eliminate traffic

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accidents completely. Not only would it save life and land,

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but it's a lot less straight on the pocketbook.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's for sure. These automobile accident policies get more

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expensive every year just because there's so many costly accidents.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad we've got some good insurance coverage, Donald,

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but just remember one thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh what's that?

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Speaker 5: Well, some auto accidents ruin a fender and some ruin

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a family.

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Speaker 3: That's true, very true.

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Speaker 4: But as far as I'm concerned, I don't want any

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of your old insurance money. I want you here at home,

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safe and sound. You could always drive carefully.

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Speaker 5: Won't you?

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Speaker 3: Hmmus, I will do.

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Speaker 5: That's my Donald, that's my doll, No.

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Speaker 3: Act too, if yours? Truly? Johnny Dollar and the Double

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Trouble matter. The next morning, in the cheap little motel

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on the north edge of Sarasota, I'd spent nearly an

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hour carefully questioning Henry Kingman number one, and I was

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getting nowhere. Obi O'Brien, sure, mister dollar. He was one

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of the kids I used to play with back in

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Elizabeth City, He and Bobby Tank. Uh. You see the

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scar on my arm right here, that's where Obi hit

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me with a stick one time when we were playing caddy. Yeah,

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I see. If you know where Obi is these days,

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you asked him and you'll probably remember scared him to death.

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He thought he'd busted my arm. Now, let's see, how

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about Miss Albertis Albertas Yes see, I don't remember any

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Miss Albertis his Sunday school teacher. They're in Elizabeth City. Listen,

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I was only ten years old, but I remember my

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Sunday school teacher real good. Her name was Miss Griswald,

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and she was Look, are you trying to trick me

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or something? Yes, I am, because Henry, why did you

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call me Hank? Everybody else does the Frank remains Hank?

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That one of you two claimants to the insurance is

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a phony. Well, believe me, it's not me. Everything you've

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told me about your childhood checks perfectly with the information

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I have. Well, of course, mister Donner almost too perfectly. Listen.

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Where did you live and go to school after the hurricane? Well,

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I'll be honest, I didn't have much school. Where did

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you live, mister Dollar? I wandered around more than Little

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rap and Annie, all over North Carolina than up north?

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Did you live anywhere long enough to be well really

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be recognized as Henry Kingman? And I'm afraid I was

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just a bum and all anybody ever knew me by

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I was Hank. You saw the ad about the unclaimed

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insurance in New York, Yes, sir, I was working on

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the doc Steve Adoring saw that ad in the Times,

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and I decided that if I had that much money

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coming to me and I could get ahold of it right,

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maybe I could amount to something, get an education maybe

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or whoa Hank. All the insurance company has to go

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on as your memory, or what you say is your

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memory of your childhood. What I've told you is true, sir.

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But if the other claimant comes up with the same

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kind of a story, but he can't because don't you

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sees her, I'm really Henry Kingman. I've told you all

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about my father and the house, and the hurricane and

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the people I knew about what's happened to me. Yeah,

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it's because I am Henry Kingman. Ah huh, we'll see.

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I tried to trip him up in a dozen ways,

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but with no success. He had a logical, reasonable answer

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for every question about his past and present. As for

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not being able to produce anyone who could identify him

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as Henry Kingman, but it was simply because of his

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rather aimless life spent wandering from city to city, never

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having any close friends. Because he chose to go to Law,

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a tall, well built lad with a mop of blonde

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hair and clear blue eyes. And I must confess I

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kind of liked him his open frankness. Do you know something?

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I could have been awfully wrong.

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Speaker 6: Although most men by nature don't feel in a combat

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mood much of the time, there are some who just

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can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there

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is good sound reason for him. In July nineteen hundred,

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when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty

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of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising, the battle

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was a furiously forught affair.

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Speaker 3: Army Private Robert H.

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Speaker 6: Von Schlick, serving with Company C of the ninth United

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States Infantry Division was in the thick of the frakers.

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Speaker 3: Although he had been wounded previously.

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Speaker 6: While carrying a wounded comrade to a place of safety,

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he rejoined his command, which partly occupied and exposed position

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on a dike. Private von Schlick remained there after his

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company had been withdrawn, and, in spite of the hail

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of bullets around him, single handedly continued to fire into

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the enemy ranks. Oblivious to the fact that he was

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a conspicuous target. He refused to leave the fight until

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he was literally shot off his position by the enemy.

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Robert von Schlick earned the Medal of Honor for valiant

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devotion to duty and added heroic background to the Code

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of Conduct of American Fighting Men.

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Speaker 3: Now Act three of yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar, I got

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into the car that Earl Proman hat lonely and drove

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to the motel east of town to see Henry Kingman

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number two, all dark and well dressed. He was terse

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and to the point, and he answered all my questions

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with the same ease and conviction as the other boy,

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in only one major respect in his story. Oh so,

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I can't name you a single person who can identify

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me as who I really am, Henry Kingman. And for

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a very simple reason, what's that Henry? It's Henry, mister dolla.

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And the reason is that right after the hurricane I

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was adopted by a family they just moved into nearby Bridgton.

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Their name is McGovern, so I took their name, come

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up to Bridgeton and ask them show them my picture

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anything you like, Well, I'll tell you I'm Henry McGovern.

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Only my foster parents knew that I was really Henry Kingman.

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They both died about seven years ago, and they told

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nobody else who you really were, now, even the preacher.

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They'd wanted a son for years. Now they had a son,

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and they didn't want anyone to come along and take

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me away from them. Then how did you find out

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that you're Henry Kingman? If you are, I'll liken that

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last part of your question was a dolla. They didn't

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tell me until my twenty first birthday. Bridgeton. Isn't that

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the little town up near kur Tuck that was completely

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destroyed by fire a couple of years ago?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, of course I forgotten there. It's a living soul

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up there anymore. Oh, but I'm sure a man like

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you could track down some of the people who lived there.

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When were you last in Bridgeton? I went up law

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rather of my parents, my foster parents died. As I

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told you, I've been living in working in New York.

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I'll look here, mister dollar. Wow, Hasn't everything I've told

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you checked perfectly with what you know about my father,

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my childhood? Everything? Hasn't everything I've told you proved to

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be true? Isn't it proof that I'm Henry Kingdom? There's

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only one trouble. What's that You're not the only one

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who has that kind of proof? There here, Johnny has

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some more of this baked seat craft.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, thanks, sir, Johnny, You've hardly touched a thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, Gerturne. I'm sorry. I will have another

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cup of coffee though. I'm sure.

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Speaker 5: So you haven't got very far in your investigation.

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid not. I told you, Johnny. The store worries

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of those two boys check out perfectly unless the information

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the company's been collecting for the last twenty years is

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all wrong. But both of them can't be Henry Kingman,

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so one of them must be lying. But which one?

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What I suppose, just for example, that the blonde is Henry. Yeah,

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then how would the other have got hold of all

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that information? Unless, well, you suppose they've known each other

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sometime in the past. They certainly don't like each other,

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I mean each other's being here. I asked them, merl

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and they both deny having ever seen each other until

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they came here within a few hours of each other.

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Speaker 5: I didn't see the blonde boy, but the other came

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here to the house. I just didn't like him, the

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dark haired one. I mean, hey, wait a minute, Yeah,

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what is it, Johnny?

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Speaker 3: The description of the father and that folder? Excuse me?

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Can I help you? No? No, no, thanks, I got

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it right here. Huh why did they listen? Doctor? Just

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still live out the street? Sure? Do you want me

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to drive you over? Now? Thanks, I'll walk, Johnny, what'd

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you find? I'll see? Walking out that street? And there

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was no moon? Turned out to be a big, fat mistake.

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In the first place, I almost bumped into a palm

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tree in front of the house. In the second place,

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I didn't see what stepped out from behind the next

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palm tree until it was too late. Huh do you want?

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Times have changed? And so has the man. Through the ages,

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man has advanced both physically and mentally. Prehistoric man's concept

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of war living is like that of an animal. His

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implements were crude, his knowledge simple. It was survival of

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the fittest. From his club and stones to bows and

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arrows and spears, from muskets and sabers to atomic rifles

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and missiles. Man has progressed in the art of attack

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and defense with each new phase. Man's knowledge has developed. Today.

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The warrior, but he can be called such, is not

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a stone thrower, a bowman, or a swordsman. He's a

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technician who needs knowledge of all that science has developed.

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He's a sonarman, a radar man, a rifleman, or a

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torpedo man, a missileman, or a pilot. But whatever his job,

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he needs the skill and the technical know how to

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do the job and do it well. As times have changed,

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so has the man now act for off yours? Truly?

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Johnny Dolly decided maybe I'd better drive him over anyway, Doc,

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And that's when I found him lying out there by

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the palm tree. Well, it's lucky you did, Earl. I

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thank you's smelling sauce. Bring around whoever attacked. You must

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have seen you coming and forward. It's okay, Johnny, Yah

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wants Doc Crutcher suck me. You don't know, Johnny, You

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sure don't. Brother. I have a suspicion a couple of them. Here,

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good hot tea gee, sure get him. It's like a brandy. Oh,

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only make it scotch, good man, Doc, you feel okay?

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Now listen, Yeah, get on the phone. Call the hotels

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where those boys are staying. Tell them to get over

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here immediately. Better still, I'll drive over and get him meantime. Doc, Yeah, here,

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here's your scotch.

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Speaker 5: Johnny.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, and if you want some more rest a minute.

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Woman wears mine.

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Speaker 5: Of course, Doc, I'm sorry like me.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 3: Listen, Doc, I want to ask you a couple of questions.

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What about heredity? Heredity?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Okay, shoot, all right, Just to keep things straight, I'll

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call you Hank, sure, mister Doner, and you I'll call Henry.

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Well it does happen to be my name. Now, Ell

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tells me he found you both in Hank's motel. Just now,

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that's right, sir. Comparing notes, I went over there to

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tell him that he's a phony. But if he doesn't

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get out of towel. Sure, sure, he let me see

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your hands. Huh oh, sure here sir, what about the look? Doc?

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I ally you're right right about what sir? How did

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you bruise these knuckles? Well, it was kind of clumsy,

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but my hands slipped trying to open one of the

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windows in that cheap motel. Don't you believe it, Johnny,

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he's the one who's laid them. Man, this one has

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a bruised knuckle too. Ah. Now, what's your excuse, Henry? Well,

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you can believe it or not. Such yourself, but exactly

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the same thing happened to me. You ask me, Johnny,

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they both attect you. On the other hand, early, they

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may both be telling the truth about this truth sir,

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What did you mean about this? I mean that at

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least one of you was lying about being the son

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of Albert Skyler Kingman. Well, pipe down for a minute.

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I suddenly realized that the laws of heredity could solve

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this case a lot quicker than detective work. So I

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checked with doctor Crutcher to make sure I was right.

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Then I checked descriptions of Henry Kingman's father and mother,

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did you, sir? Both of them had brown hair and

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brown eyes. So what were both parents have identical color

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hair and eyes. Any offspring will have the same, Hank,

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your hair is so blind it's almost white, and your

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eyes are blue. Your hair is almost black. Your eyes

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are also blue, and crazy fool, I told you this

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wouldn't work, crazy fool. If you let me come here along, yeah,

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then you'd never have cut me in.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I got suspicious. I could get that out

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all the way.

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Speaker 3: I got here first at night.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know you were coming.

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Speaker 3: All right, Oh it is all right, dog, Come on,

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I'll put that thing down.

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Speaker 2: Come no, go ahead, john Did you.

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Speaker 3: Get back?

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Speaker 6: Get back?

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Speaker 3: Johnny? You outdrew that Henry like wow, Yeah, take a

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look at what happened to Hank. Huh? Is everything all right?

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Speaker 2: Boy?

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Speaker 3: Holy Gertrude, what did you hit him with?

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Speaker 5: L I never did like that old base anyhow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my heredity gag was just that, a gag, but

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it certainly brought things to ahead and hurry. How did

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they know so much about the real Henry Kingman? We'll listen.

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As soon as we locked them up, I called the

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National Press Services had them put the story of this

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attempt at fraud in the headlines all over the country

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self a phone called the head of an orphanage where

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the real Henry had been taken in as a child,

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where he still lived. And yeah, the phonies were a

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couple of kids who'd run away from that orphanage after

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he'd piled around with them, told them all about himself.

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As for why they both appeared to make the claim,

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sure each of them saw the company's ad and tried

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to get in ahead of the other. Well, they weren't

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all right for a long time. Expense account total inputing

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incidentals in fair back to haydrid One save in the

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age seventy Yours Truly, Johnny Dolla. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,

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starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and has written, produced

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and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were

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Virginia Gregg, Vic Perlin, Sam Edwards, James McCallion, and Parley Bear.

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Be sure to join us next week, same time and station,

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or another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This

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is Dan commerly speaking, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar has been

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a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio and

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Television service.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Some interesting twist on a pretty typical plot

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for the era of someone claiming to be a long

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lost heir, with two claimants, another actually being the rightful air,

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and Johnny solving the case through one of his favorite methods, bluffing.

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It means there's nothing to fact check because Johnnie was

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making it all up and probably knowing that the argument

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wasn't correct. After talking to the doctor and just making

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the case, you know, I thought that this was the

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way it worked, and if I thought it, they might

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think it, and if they think it, then I might

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find out whose line without having to go digging into

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someone's background in great detail. I found the Bellweathers episode interesting,

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and out of curiosity, I tried to locate similar stats.

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I could not find a reliable source for just accident rates,

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which was what they were comparing. However, I did find

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a reliable source for traffic deaths, and even though much

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has changed over the past seventy years, but Rhode Island

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was still of twenty twenty four, the lowest or the

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next to the lowest for rates of road deaths, depending

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on whether you were measuring by desk per billion miles,

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in which case Massachusetts came out ahead. But if you

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were measuring for desk per one hundred thousand people or

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per one hundred thousand drivers, Rhode Island came ahead. So

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it's fascinating to me that apparently right so consistently for

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so many, I guess decades. Now, well, now we turn

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to listener comments and feedback, and we've got a comment

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from Harrison regarding the Johnson payroll manner over on Spotify.

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I swear I've heard this script before for Johnny Dowler.

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Is this a reu script from a john Long episode?

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Either that or I've heard this in the feed at

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some point, perhaps at a special anniversary show. Either way,

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I quite enjoyed the episode. As much as I enjoy

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the fun adventure episodes. Some of the best dollar plots

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are the ones where he has to be on the

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hunt for someone or something. That's the one thing every

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dollar iteration does well from what I've seen so far.

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Up to Bailey, well, thanks so much. This was not

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a reused script, at least not from the Lund era

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or Johnny dol Er. Don't know if the writer ever

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wrote anywhere else, but I will say that the payroll

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robbery is a relatively common crime for Johnny to investigate

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and there have been multiple payroll robbery cases across different

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iterations of the character. And of course the reason this

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is used so much is it's probably the thing of

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all possible crimes, the one that you're most likely to

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call in a high priced insurance investigator on, because these

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are huge robberies that you may be thinking of another story.

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Joey writs, I think the killer small talk was feasible.

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He had to distract Johnny at the time. How was

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he supposed to know Johnny would actually find out the

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truth about the fish around there? Well, that's a fair point.

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And when I went back and listened, Johnny started the conversation,

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and really the answer about bass was probably even somewhat casually.

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But then Johnny called up the point about catching bass

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off the pier, and he probably realized, oh, this guy's

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a fisherman. I got a cover. Uh yeah, yeah, there's

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kelp around here, And that was enough to allage Johnny's suspicion.

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So the guy knew a little bit about fishing, just

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not enough about local conditions because he hadn't been fishing there.

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So I guess an internstein interaction. And then we also

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have some comments on YouTube. These are regarding the Wayward

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Diamond matter, Sarge says love Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and

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James shout out to our heroes from the Boxer Rebellion

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and that was a nice little piece of history. And

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I do really enjoy the bits of educational content we

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get with those Armed Forces Radio Service or I should

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say at this point Armed Forces Radio and Television Service recordings. Well,

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Thank you so much for your support, Philip, and that

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it from. We'll be back next Friday with another episode

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of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. But join us back here

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tomorrow as we give way to the great adventurers of

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old time radio and we introduce you to Counterspy, where.

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Speaker 7: It's a clear cutcase of suicide mistiding. You're the chief

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and let you say goes, but it's just the case

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of a wealthy bachelor and poor health. I admit Mark

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William Terres probably did commit suicide, but remember this World war.

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They get stop or experts at making a murder appear

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to be a suicide, then you're really going to investigate it.

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I think I would leaves to ask a few questions. Yes, sir,

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now the no arras left. Mark said he was committing

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suicide because of ill health. I think I'll drop in

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on his doctor and see how bad his health really was.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net,

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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.