1 00:00:28,519 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Detectives of Old Time Radio from Voice Idaho. 2 00:00:35,799 --> 00:00:39,399 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,399 --> 00:00:42,359 going to bring you this week's episode of Yours truly 4 00:00:42,439 --> 00:00:45,640 Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to encourage you. 5 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,640 If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using 6 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:54,280 your favorite podcast software. I also want to encourage you 7 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,759 as you're making your travel plans. Remember Johnny Dollar air 8 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:02,039 dot com first. Johnny doll dot com is a prostline 9 00:01:02,079 --> 00:01:05,200 affiliate link, so part of your purchase price supports the 10 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:09,280 great detectives of Old Time Radio at no additional cost 11 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:12,239 to you. So remember when making your travel plans, check 12 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:16,560 Johnny Dollar air dot com first. Well now from July six, 13 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,159 nineteen fifty eight, here is the Blinker Matter. 14 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:23,359 Speaker 2: From Hollywood. 15 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:28,799 Speaker 3: It's time now for Johnny Dollar. 16 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 2: Fred willis a Surety Mutual Limited. 17 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 4: Johnny. 18 00:01:31,079 --> 00:01:33,159 Speaker 3: Oh, hi, Fred, what's on your mind at the moment? 19 00:01:33,239 --> 00:01:35,719 San Francisco. Oh? Nice, down to have on your mind? 20 00:01:35,719 --> 00:01:37,760 What's new out there? That's what I hope you're going 21 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:38,200 to tell me? 22 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 5: What do you mean, Johnny doesn't a porter out there 23 00:01:40,799 --> 00:01:41,840 name of Andrew Foreman. 24 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 6: We're carrying a fifty thousand dollars. 25 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,519 Speaker 3: Policy on his life. So have you ever heard of 26 00:01:46,519 --> 00:01:49,319 an importer getting exported? I don't get your Fred. I'm 27 00:01:49,319 --> 00:01:51,640 afraid that's what's happened to Foreman last night. 28 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:52,359 Speaker 2: He disappeared. 29 00:01:53,400 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 3: I'm on my way. 30 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,719 Speaker 2: Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with 31 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,719 the Action Pact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance. 32 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,879 Speaker 3: Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar. 33 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 2: And now Act one of yours, Truly Johnny. 34 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 3: Dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar, 35 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,400 to the Home Office Surety Mutual Limited, Hartford, Connecticut, following 36 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,960 his an acount of expenses incurred during my investigation of 37 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:51,960 the Blinker Matter expense account at a one one hundred 38 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,719 and seventy eight dollars fifty cents transportation and incidentals to 39 00:02:54,719 --> 00:02:58,159 San Francisco. On the flight out, I studied the dope 40 00:02:58,199 --> 00:03:02,439 Fred Wills at Sampay Andrew Foreman Age fifty one occupation 41 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:06,520 and porter health good. Judging from the hefty premium he 42 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,159 had to pay, his importing business must be okay. Wife 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,840 Marsha Foreman aged thirty five, sixteen years younger than her husband, 44 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:21,879 and Marsha was the sole beneficiary. My plane landed about 45 00:03:21,879 --> 00:03:23,680 eight in the morning. An hour later I was at 46 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,000 the Farman's apartment. It was spacious, modern, with a lot 47 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,840 of glass and the kind of view of the bay 48 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,360 that you had to pay plenty for. Yeah, there was 49 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,879 money written all over the place, and marsha Foreman looked 50 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:34,400 right at home. 51 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 7: I'm just having coffee on the terrace, Mitter Dollar. Won't 52 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:38,280 you join me? 53 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:43,919 Speaker 3: Oh? Thanks, I could use some out here. You sure 54 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:45,159 you got a beautiful view here? 55 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,919 Speaker 7: Yes, I never get tired of watching the bay, the ships. 56 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:55,400 There's always something going on. Oh, here you are, thanks. 57 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 8: What is it, mister Dollar? Oh I'm just looking at 58 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:03,960 the pay Alcatraz. Yeah, such a grim looking place. 59 00:04:04,439 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 3: Ah, it's a real exclusive club, but I managed to 60 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:09,759 get a couple of no members into it. 61 00:04:09,879 --> 00:04:11,439 Speaker 7: I don't think I care for the kind of job 62 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:13,960 you have, mister Dollar. Trouble wherever you go. 63 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 3: Suppose we talk about your troubles. 64 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 7: All right? 65 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:19,959 Speaker 8: I told the police all I know when I filled 66 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:21,279 out the missing person's report. 67 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,759 Speaker 7: But I'll go over it again for. 68 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:26,519 Speaker 3: You, if you don't mind. Your husband disappeared the night 69 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:27,120 before last. 70 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:27,759 Speaker 7: Yes, that's right. 71 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 3: What time? 72 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 8: I'm not sure around nine o'clock that night, somebody came 73 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,839 to see him of a strange sort of man. 74 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,439 Speaker 3: How do you mean strange? 75 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,959 Speaker 8: Well, he was dressed in rough clothes, a seaman's jacket. 76 00:04:43,399 --> 00:04:45,319 Speaker 7: He said he was an old friend of my husband's. 77 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 3: Did he give you his name, missus Farman, only blinker? Blinker? 78 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 8: Yes, he said that's what everybody called him. I guess 79 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,480 because he kept blinking his eyes very rapidly. 80 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 3: I see. 81 00:04:56,759 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 5: Well. 82 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 8: I showed this this blinker person into the den where 83 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,480 my husband was, and left the two of them together 84 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:05,439 a few minutes later, my husband came out and told 85 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,759 me he was going to drive Blinker downtown and find 86 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,040 him a hotel room. So I went to bed. I 87 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,560 was tired and went right to sleep. And well, my 88 00:05:14,639 --> 00:05:17,439 husband and I have adjoining bedrooms. When I went in 89 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,600 to call him yesterday morning, he was gone the bed. 90 00:05:20,959 --> 00:05:24,399 It hadn't been slept in. I called his office, thinking 91 00:05:24,439 --> 00:05:26,720 he might have decided to work late, but they hadn't 92 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,199 seen him. 93 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:32,199 Speaker 3: Then you call the police, yes, missus Foreman, had your 94 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,399 husband ever mentioned this man Blinker before? 95 00:05:35,199 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 7: No, I'm quite certain he hadn't. Can you describe him? Well, 96 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,480 he wasn't. 97 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 8: Above medium height, age, oh maybe in the forties. A 98 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:48,639 scar on his right cheek, his thin nose, and dark, 99 00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:49,600 rather beady eyes. 100 00:05:50,199 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 7: I'm afraid that's the best I can do. 101 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 3: Well, considering that you only got a brief look at him, 102 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:55,720 I'd say that was a pretty complete description. 103 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,319 Speaker 7: Mister Dollar. Do you think this person Blinker could have 104 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:00,560 done anything my husband? 105 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'm sure the police are looking 106 00:06:03,199 --> 00:06:08,759 for him. Just one more question, missus Foreman. Suppose Blinker 107 00:06:08,879 --> 00:06:11,079 had nothing to do with your husband's disappearance. 108 00:06:12,079 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 8: I'm afraid I don't follow you. 109 00:06:14,879 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 2: Well. 110 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 3: What I mean is, can you think of any reason, 111 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,680 any reason at all, why your husband might want to disappear? 112 00:06:22,399 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 7: No, mister Dollar, absolutely not. 113 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,079 Speaker 3: Mascha Foreman sounded pretty certain of that last answer. Maybe 114 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,360 just a little bit too certain. Expense account had him 115 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,360 to a toleraty cabfait to the office of an old 116 00:06:41,399 --> 00:06:45,160 friend of mine, Detective Lieutenant Scappella. John If Foreman took 117 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:48,040 this character Blinker to a hotel, it's no hotel we 118 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,040 ever heard of. We've covered them all. You think Blinker 119 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:56,319 could have killed Foreman? It's possibility. What's another Maybe there 120 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,560 is no Blinker? Yeah, it's capella. I thought about that too. 121 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,439 Speaker 4: General, didn't it hit you? There was something strange about 122 00:07:02,519 --> 00:07:05,920 missus Foreman's story. She said she let Blinker in the apartment, 123 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,680 she showed him to the den. Now, she could have 124 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:11,199 only seen him a couple of minutes, yet she rattled 125 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,480 off a complete description. Yeah, she rhythm me scapella right 126 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:18,399 between the eyes and the way she described. Yeah, I 127 00:07:18,439 --> 00:07:23,920 know seaman's jacket, beady, blinking eyes, scar on the right cheek, 128 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,879 or he sounds real distinctive, real distinctive or real fake. 129 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,319 The trouble is smelling of Fake's one thing. Proving it's another. 130 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:34,920 What do we got for a motive? 131 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,079 Speaker 3: For one thing? Fifty thousand bucks? She was former soul beneficiary. 132 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:46,680 That's interesting, that's real interesting. Excuse me, the gentle capella? 133 00:07:48,399 --> 00:07:54,120 Oh oh yes, what. 134 00:07:58,959 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 6: I see? 135 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:07,199 Speaker 4: Yes, okay, yes, all right, thanks miss Ronald. John looks 136 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:09,000 like we've got to back up and start all audiom. 137 00:08:09,399 --> 00:08:12,000 That was Wayne Arnold. That's Foreman's attorney. He had a 138 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,839 telephone call this morning from Foreman. Now, but from somebody 139 00:08:15,079 --> 00:08:19,439 just as interesting. Blinker, yeah, blinker. 140 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,519 Speaker 2: Fact two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. 141 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 3: In a moment. 142 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 2: Many of us on the job are clockwatchers and time 143 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:47,879 clock punchers just waiting for time to quit. When is 144 00:08:47,919 --> 00:08:51,840 it really time to quit? The man with a set 145 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,559 day of work as a schedule to adhere to. But 146 00:08:54,879 --> 00:08:58,120 the fighting man quits only when the job is done, 147 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,879 and to him, capture by the enemy does not mean 148 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,039 the end, but perhaps only the beginning of the most 149 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,720 important part of his job. One of the points of 150 00:09:08,759 --> 00:09:11,519 the Code of Conduct for the American fighting Man says, quote, 151 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,240 if I am captured, I will continue to resist by 152 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:16,559 all means available. 153 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 3: I will make every effort to escape and aid others 154 00:09:20,279 --> 00:09:20,879 to escape. 155 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:25,879 Speaker 2: I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy. 156 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:27,639 Speaker 3: On quote. 157 00:09:29,039 --> 00:09:32,759 Speaker 2: The strong ideals set forth There are the same ideals 158 00:09:32,799 --> 00:09:35,519 that gave great determination to one young officer of the 159 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,039 United States Navy. Half an hour after Lieutenant Edward VM. 160 00:09:40,159 --> 00:09:43,360 Eazak's ship was sunk by three torpedoes in the Atlantic 161 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,639 Ocean in May nineteen eighteen, at the height of World 162 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,360 War One, he was taken prisoner by the commander of 163 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,799 the German submarine U ninety. During the U boat's trip 164 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:57,519 back to Germany, Lieutenant Eazac learned a great deal of 165 00:09:57,639 --> 00:10:01,879 vital secret information about U boat moving. Determined to make 166 00:10:01,919 --> 00:10:05,720 this information available to the United States and Allied naval authorities. 167 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,639 Lieutenant Eazac, while on his way to a prisoner of 168 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,080 war camp, risked his life by jumping through the window 169 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:13,480 of a rapidly moving train. 170 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 3: Severely injured by his fall, he was again captured months later. 171 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 2: Aided by several American Army officers who short circuited the 172 00:10:22,919 --> 00:10:27,519 prison lighting system, Lieutenant Eazac escaped through barbed wire fences 173 00:10:27,919 --> 00:10:32,240 and amid heavy rifle fire from the guards. After seven 174 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,559 days and nights of rugged travel over the mountains and 175 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:39,399 with only raw vegetables for food, he swam the swift 176 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,679 current of the Rhine River right under the noses of 177 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,600 the enemy sentries. Evading many enemy soldiers. He reached the 178 00:10:45,639 --> 00:10:50,200 American legation in Berne, Switzerland, and completed his self assigned mission. 179 00:10:51,279 --> 00:10:54,240 For risking his life many times above and beyond the 180 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,919 call of duty, Lieutenant Edward Eazac was awarded the Medal 181 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,960 of Honor his personal code of conduct. It made him 182 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,720 realize that war doesn't end with confinement as a prisoner 183 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:10,279 of war. That is when the real responsibility may begin. 184 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,879 And now act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, and 185 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:20,600 the Blinker matters. Like Scapella said, we had to back 186 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,320 up and start all over again, just when we talked 187 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,080 ourselves into thinking Marshall Foreman's story about Blinker was funny. 188 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,320 Her missing husband's lawyer phone and told us he just 189 00:11:28,399 --> 00:11:31,519 heard from Blinker. It him three of dollars seventy camp 190 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:33,559 Ford of the office of Wayne Arnold, Foreman's attorney. 191 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 3: I met him just coming out his door. Did you 192 00:11:38,279 --> 00:11:41,360 wish to see me, mister Arnold. Yes, I'm Johnny Dollar. 193 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 4: Oh yes, the insurance investigator, Missus Foreman told me you'd 194 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,519 been questioning her. Look, I'm sorry, but I'm in rather 195 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:49,320 a hurry. I have an appointment and I'm late. 196 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 3: Sorry, but this will only take a minute or two. 197 00:11:51,399 --> 00:11:53,519 I was in Lieutenant s. Capella's office when you phoned 198 00:11:53,519 --> 00:11:56,200 a while ago about this man Blinker. Mister Arnold, Oh, yes, 199 00:11:56,759 --> 00:11:58,919 what did you hear from him? Just a little while ago? 200 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 4: I called marsh Woman right away, and she thought I 201 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:02,159 ought to calls Capella. 202 00:12:02,279 --> 00:12:03,799 Speaker 3: What did Blinker say on the phone. 203 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 6: There's a strange conversation. 204 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 4: Sounded nervous, excited, almost out of breath, said he wanted 205 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:12,600 money ten thousand dollars. If he didn't get it, he'd 206 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,039 and that's as far as he got. He stopped suddenly, 207 00:12:16,159 --> 00:12:19,120 said he'd contact me later, then hung up. What do 208 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,440 you make of it, mister Dollan, I don't know. Could 209 00:12:22,519 --> 00:12:25,639 be he's holding Foreman for ransom, That's what it sounded 210 00:12:25,759 --> 00:12:28,639 like to me. I take it you don't know this blinker. 211 00:12:29,159 --> 00:12:31,600 I never heard of him until Marsha told me about 212 00:12:31,639 --> 00:12:33,200 him showing up night before less. 213 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 3: Okay, just one more thing, mister Arnold. How long have 214 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:42,639 you been Foreman's attorney? Three four years? Why any reason 215 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,960 you know of why he might want to disappear? None 216 00:12:46,039 --> 00:12:47,159 that I can think of. Another woman? 217 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 4: Maybe I doubt it very much. How about his importing business? 218 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,320 As far as I know, it's an excellent shape. 219 00:12:53,159 --> 00:12:59,399 Speaker 3: Okay, thanks, mister Arnold. Mister Dollar, huh, it's man blinker? 220 00:13:00,279 --> 00:13:04,720 Why would he have it in for Andrew Foreman? Good question. 221 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,559 I don't sorry, I don't have an answer to it. 222 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,919 I went down the elevator and outside, I stopped at 223 00:13:14,919 --> 00:13:16,720 the corner to get some cigarettes, and that was my 224 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:19,840 first lucky break, because just as I was leaving the counter, 225 00:13:19,919 --> 00:13:22,480 I saw Arnold come outside, and the way he looked 226 00:13:22,519 --> 00:13:24,080 up and down the street made a plane. He wanted 227 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,559 to see if anybody was watching him. He got into 228 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,399 his car and drove off. I grabbed a taxi that's 229 00:13:28,399 --> 00:13:31,440 signed him fore and trailer. He drove into Golden Gate 230 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:34,039 Park and stopped. I got out down the road and 231 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,240 worked my way toward and behind some bushes. Pretty soon 232 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,759 a woman came over and got into his car. I 233 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,919 couldn't hear what they were saying, but I didn't need to, 234 00:13:42,879 --> 00:13:45,279 because when I saw the kiss, I got the message. 235 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,240 The woman was Marsha Forman. I went back into town 236 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,279 and waited for Marsha outside her apartment door. She showed 237 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:54,440 up about half an hour later. 238 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 7: What hi, mister dollar is it's something wrong? 239 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,519 Speaker 3: Yeah, something's real wrong. This is Foreman. I want to 240 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:03,840 talk to you. 241 00:14:04,639 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 7: All right, come in, but I've already told you all. 242 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 3: I know the story you told me about this man Blinket. 243 00:14:15,639 --> 00:14:18,519 There's no such person as there. What you and Ronold 244 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:19,000 made it up? 245 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 7: I know that's not true. 246 00:14:20,639 --> 00:14:21,759 Speaker 3: What about you and Arnold? 247 00:14:21,799 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 7: Missus Foreman, I don't know what you're talking about. 248 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 3: Well and tell me did you enjoy your visit with him? 249 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:29,919 At Golden Gate Park an hour ago. 250 00:14:31,039 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 8: Oh that yeah, Well all right, mister Dollar. Wayne Arnold 251 00:14:37,759 --> 00:14:40,399 and I have we been in love for some time. 252 00:14:40,639 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 3: Did your husband know? 253 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 8: I'm not sure you were trying to find the right 254 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,720 time to tell him. I don't think he'd really have 255 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,120 cared very much. My husband and I haven't gotten along 256 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,840 very well the last year or two. I guess I 257 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,080 really didn't know him when I married him. Mister Dollar, 258 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,360 this has nothing to do with my husband's disappearance. 259 00:14:58,399 --> 00:14:59,679 Speaker 3: You must believe that that's all. 260 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 7: I didn't make up the story about Blinker. I didn't 261 00:15:03,159 --> 00:15:04,679 kill my husband. If that's what you're thinking. 262 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 3: Has he been killed? I don't know. You got me 263 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:10,960 confused if you didn't do it. How about Arnold? 264 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:14,399 Speaker 7: No, you'd have no reason. Said he wasn't even in 265 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:15,440 town the night before life. 266 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:16,039 Speaker 3: I can check that. 267 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 8: I know you can. 268 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,159 Speaker 3: Missus foreman, Maybe you're telling me the truth and maybe 269 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,600 you're not. Sooner or later, I'm going to find out which. 270 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,039 Speaker 7: I am telling you the truth? 271 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 3: And can you give me any reason at all why 272 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:30,679 your husband has disappeared. 273 00:15:32,159 --> 00:15:37,279 Speaker 8: There's there's one possibility, mister Dollar, it might have something 274 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,879 to do with his importing business. What's that means my husband, Well, 275 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:43,799 he seems to have made a lot of money out 276 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,720 of his importing business, more than the kind of thing 277 00:15:46,799 --> 00:15:48,360 he usually imports with warrant. 278 00:15:48,879 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 3: What does he imports? 279 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 7: Oh, drinkets, curios from the Orient. Mostly. 280 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 3: Have you a kay to your husband's office? 281 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 7: Yes, let me have it. 282 00:15:57,679 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 3: I want to take a look around. I went over 283 00:16:01,639 --> 00:16:03,799 the papers in Foreman's office and found out his last 284 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,279 ship and had come in three days ago on the 285 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,919 Indian Princess. Missus. Foreman had said Blinker was wearing a 286 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,919 seaman's jacket. I had it for the waterfront, but the 287 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,279 ship was gone. The other pier was a beat up 288 00:16:14,279 --> 00:16:17,879 eating place called Gus's Cafe. A woman with an apron 289 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,320 came over. She was about six feet tall and almost 290 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,679 that wide. What can I do for you, buddy? I 291 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:26,000 want to talk to the owner, Gus. That's me your 292 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:27,679 Gus short Forgutsie. 293 00:16:27,879 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 6: What's on your mind, buddy. 294 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,919 Speaker 3: Johnny Johnny Dollar? I want some information? 295 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 6: You a cop, Betty? 296 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not a cop. 297 00:16:33,879 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 6: You look like I got now. 298 00:16:35,039 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 3: Listen that freighter that shoved off from this pier, the 299 00:16:37,279 --> 00:16:40,159 Indian Princess. That's the regular you know any of the 300 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:40,919 sailors from her. 301 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 6: It's about all of them. They all come in here. 302 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,799 Speaker 3: Look, Gussie got okay, Gus, you ever happened to hear 303 00:16:46,799 --> 00:16:47,879 of a sailor named blinker? 304 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 2: Sure? 305 00:16:49,919 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 3: You know him? Sure about medium height? Scar in the 306 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,240 right sheet blinks his eyes all the time. 307 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:57,519 Speaker 6: I said, I know him? 308 00:16:58,039 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 5: Do you want napadavit? 309 00:16:59,159 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 3: Oh, Gussie, are the most beautiful thing that's happened to 310 00:17:01,039 --> 00:17:01,519 me all day. 311 00:17:02,559 --> 00:17:05,279 Speaker 5: That's what they all tell me, buddy, flattery. Don't get 312 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:08,880 them A thing might help you though you're kind of cute. 313 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, did blink your sale on the idiot princess? 314 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:13,519 Speaker 5: No? 315 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:14,759 Speaker 3: Then where is he? 316 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,759 Speaker 6: Act is? I don't know? Blinkers disappeared? 317 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 2: Fact three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment. 318 00:17:27,799 --> 00:17:31,880 Times have changed, and so has the man. Through the ages, 319 00:17:32,039 --> 00:17:37,119 man has advanced both physically and mentally. Prehistoric man's concept 320 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,720 of war and living was like that of an animal. 321 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:45,480 His implements were crude, his knowledge simple. It was survival 322 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:49,359 of the fittest. From his club and stones to bows 323 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,960 and arrows and spears, from muskets and sabers to atomic 324 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,400 rifles and missiles. Man has progressed in the art of 325 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:03,119 attack and defense. With each new phase, man's knowledge has developed. Today, 326 00:18:03,319 --> 00:18:05,799 the warrior, if he can be called such, is not 327 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,240 a stone thrower, a bowman, or a swordsman. He's a 328 00:18:09,319 --> 00:18:13,720 technician who needs knowledge of all that science has developed. 329 00:18:14,519 --> 00:18:17,119 He's a sonar man, a radar man, a rifleman, or 330 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:18,240 a torpedo. 331 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 3: Man, a missileman, or a pilot. 332 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,519 Speaker 6: Whatever his job, he needs the skill. 333 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,039 Speaker 3: And the technical know how to do the job and 334 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,240 do it well. Yes, times have changed, so as the man. 335 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:36,799 Speaker 2: Now act three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the 336 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:37,680 Blinker matter. 337 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 3: And you don't have any idea where Blinker is now? 338 00:18:43,519 --> 00:18:45,319 Speaker 6: Gus not the slightest study. 339 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 3: Oh great, and I'm right back where I started from him. 340 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 5: Blinker was mixed up in something, all right, what do 341 00:18:51,559 --> 00:18:55,240 you mean the Indian princess docty other night? Blinker come 342 00:18:55,279 --> 00:18:57,240 in here for a cup of coffee. That's one thing 343 00:18:57,279 --> 00:18:59,359 the sailors around here all miss when they're on to 344 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:00,720 see my coffee. 345 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:04,319 Speaker 6: Is no one makes coffee like me. Why there's nobody 346 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:04,839 on the hole. 347 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know about Blinker now, well. 348 00:19:08,279 --> 00:19:11,279 Speaker 5: Seemed pretty pleased with hisself, said he was onto something good. 349 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:12,759 Speaker 3: Did he say what he meant by that? 350 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 6: No? He sit there looking pleased with hisself. 351 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:17,519 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he. 352 00:19:17,559 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 5: Showed me the elephant, that it was gonna make him 353 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:20,279 a lot of money. 354 00:19:20,519 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 3: What elephants? 355 00:19:21,519 --> 00:19:21,759 Speaker 1: He had? 356 00:19:21,799 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 5: A carved elephant about six inches high. Might have picked 357 00:19:25,039 --> 00:19:25,640 it up somewhere. 358 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 6: Maybe he was gonna sell it. I don't know. 359 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:32,039 Speaker 3: M Foreman imported curios from the Orient. His last shipment 360 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,079 came in on the Indian Princess. That elephant could have 361 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:35,640 been part of it. 362 00:19:36,279 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 6: Foreman, who's he? 363 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,799 Speaker 3: And never mind? Well, I wonder where I go from here. 364 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 5: I wonder what I'm gonna do with all Blinkers stuff 365 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:46,559 if you don't show up or it? 366 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:50,759 Speaker 3: Maybe? What did you say about Blinker's stuff? What stuff? 367 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 5: I got a back room where I let the boys 368 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:54,400 keep their gear when they're a show. 369 00:19:54,559 --> 00:19:57,839 Speaker 3: You've got Blinkers things there? Now, why didn't you tell me? 370 00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 6: You never asked me? 371 00:20:04,279 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 3: In the back round, I went through a blinker seawag. 372 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,640 Near the bottom, I found the carved elephants. An ordinary 373 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,680 looking elephant until I twisted one of the legs loose. 374 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,720 It was hollow and inside a little paper packet full 375 00:20:16,759 --> 00:20:20,319 of white powder. Suddenly the whole deal slid into place, 376 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,839 and just as suddenly, the whole deal made me slightly sick. 377 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,440 Now I wanted to see the rest of those elephants 378 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,960 real bad. According to the records informant's office, the shipment 379 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,359 was in a warehouse. I went outside, No to. 380 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 6: The pier, Johnny, oh Cus, come here, I am minute, Johnny. 381 00:20:38,519 --> 00:20:40,559 Speaker 3: Look, look, I'm in a hurry. Thanks for everything. I'll 382 00:20:40,559 --> 00:20:41,039 see you later. 383 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 2: You got time to see this over here near the beer. 384 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,079 Speaker 3: Wait a minute, yeah, good body, all right. 385 00:20:50,559 --> 00:20:52,079 Speaker 6: One of the boys just fished it out of the 386 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:53,519 water and sent. 387 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:54,279 Speaker 2: Him to call the cops. 388 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,759 Speaker 3: Looks like it's spent in the water quite a few hours. 389 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:06,680 Guess yeah, it's blinker all right. I knew I had 390 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,960 to work for us now. I headed out on the 391 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,400 pier for the warehouse. Once I thought I heard footsteps 392 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:22,920 somewhere behind me. I stopped and listened. No sound. It 393 00:21:23,039 --> 00:21:25,480 was dark inside the warehouse. With the help of matches, 394 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:28,559 I located foreman shippment. I took a crowbar and opened 395 00:21:28,559 --> 00:21:31,480 one of the crates. It was full of carved elephants. 396 00:21:32,279 --> 00:21:35,039 I picked up one of them. Yeah, it had a 397 00:21:35,079 --> 00:21:37,680 hollow leg and the hollow leg was full of the 398 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:43,200 same white powder. I hit the floor fast. The shot 399 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,640 had come from open near the door. I eased my 400 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:51,000 gun out and waited. Five ten minutes went by. I 401 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,599 kept quiet, and suddenly a shadow loomed up near the crates. 402 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:08,559 We saw each other at the same time. My shoulder. 403 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,880 Oh well, the missing man himself, Andrew Foreman, and I 404 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,200 found out what you were importing in those carved elephants. 405 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,759 He tried to blackmail. I don't know what you're talking about. Sure, sure, 406 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,480 you probably told him you'd pay off. That's when you 407 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:25,319 drove him downtown night before last. Then you tried to 408 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,359 kill him, but he must have got away. He called 409 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,480 your lawyer, tried to put the squeeze on through him, 410 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,359 but he had to hang up in a hurry. You 411 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,519 were probably getting close. You finally caught up with him, 412 00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:37,279 didn't you. Foreman. Look, you've got no proof of anything. 413 00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:39,599 Speaker 2: Why should Blinker tried to blackmail meat? 414 00:22:39,759 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 3: Like I say, he found out about the narcotics and 415 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,640 those hollow elephants. It was put there without my knowledge. 416 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,519 You have no proof I was involved, you know, Foreman. 417 00:22:50,039 --> 00:22:53,480 It doesn't much matter. You've got even bigger troubles than 418 00:22:53,519 --> 00:22:58,359 that staring in the face. I don't understand Blinker's body 419 00:22:58,400 --> 00:22:59,720 has been recovered from the bay. 420 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 9: I wouldn't know anything about that. 421 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,839 Speaker 3: You got no proof of that either. There were two 422 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,440 bullet holes in Blinker five will get your ten. The 423 00:23:09,519 --> 00:23:12,079 slugs in him came from this gun of yours. The gun. 424 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 9: Yeah, this is something that can be proved. Well, yeah, 425 00:23:20,559 --> 00:23:24,680 all right, Yes, didn't have any choice. 426 00:23:35,319 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 3: I had him five one hundred and eighty three dollars 427 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,440 even transportation and Incidental's home expense account total four hundred 428 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,319 and thirty four dollars fifty cents. Remarks Andrew Foreman made 429 00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:48,119 a complete statement to the police. I might a case 430 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,359 against him is open and shut. So it looks like 431 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,680 he's going to beat the narcotics rap after all the 432 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:58,160 hard way. Yours, Julian Johnny. 433 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 2: Dallar, yours truly Johnny Dollar Is starring Bob Bailey, originates 434 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,799 in Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. 435 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,839 Today's story was written by Robert Stanley. Heard in Arkas 436 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,359 were Paula Winslow, D. J. Thompson, Gary Bartels, Stacy Harris 437 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,759 Dictarn and Bob Bruce. Be sure to join us next week, 438 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,920 same time and station, or another exciting story of yours, truly, 439 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,119 Johnny Dollar. 440 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 3: This is Roy Rowland speaking. 441 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 2: Johnnie Dollar has come to you through the worldwide facilities 442 00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:55,759 of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 443 00:26:25,519 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: Name Welcome back. A solid mystery that had a great 444 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:14,480 hook and then developed a lot of room to guess 445 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,319 at what was going on. Blinker went from being perhaps 446 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,160 an invention of Missus Foreman or the person who kidnapped 447 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,799 mister Foreman, to actually being a blackmailer and mister Foreman's 448 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,920 murder victim. All right, well, listener comments and feedback now, 449 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,359 and Ryan Sar had some feedback on that whole discussion 450 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:41,279 about carphones in the Delectable Damsel Matter writing Perry Watt 451 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,759 had a carphone in the Adventures of Superman in the 452 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:49,519 early mid fifties. Well, thanks so much, Ryan's appreciate the comment. 453 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,880 I've seen some of the Adventures of Superman, but I 454 00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:56,079 might have missed the episode that has the carphone in it, 455 00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:59,319 or else I'm not remembering it, but thank you so much. 456 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,920 Appreciate the siding there. Well, now it is time to 457 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,359 thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want 458 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,480 to Thank you. 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Where this on be a snap? 469 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 10: Nothing to it? 470 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:51,799 Speaker 9: Huh? 471 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 2: How'd I know we'd run into a chap zero? Right? 472 00:28:57,839 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: Bucket up, buddy. 473 00:29:01,519 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 6: Now he died too fast for you, Harry. 474 00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 10: I'm gonna grab more sky. 475 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:09,759 Speaker 1: Maybe I can lose him up there. It's on a tail, 476 00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:12,480 maybe not for long. Hang on, boy. 477 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,039 Speaker 10: Most of the way up the air was thin enough 478 00:29:16,079 --> 00:29:17,799 so that I could see the nose of that zero 479 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,640 following us. And then it's seven thousand feet. The air 480 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,920 became thick and we lost him, but the plane had 481 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,119 taken quite a beating. How bad is a lot of 482 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,839 your pet we're having more than fifty miles to go 483 00:29:31,559 --> 00:29:33,640 and we can sit down and cutch in territory make 484 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:37,400 repairs before heading back to India. Okay, instead of dropping 485 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,119 that document, well delivered person, won't we get there? 486 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 9: Huh? 487 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 2: If we get there, what's that wing? 488 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:44,839 Speaker 5: It's coming off where he hit us. 489 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 490 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,680 send your comments to box thirteen at Great Attactives dot 491 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,440 net from Boise, Altah. This is your host, Adam graham 492 00:29:59,599 --> 00:30:00,200 Son nor