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Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: Well, now from July twenty seventh, nineteen fifty eight, here
is the Wayward Killer matter.
Speaker 3: Well, Hollywood, it's time now Paul coming in. Well, it's
about time, Paul. I began to thank you guy yourself
another board. I thank the company has thinking on a
couple of Steve but I managed to suppress which one
protecting one of our clients name is John Welcome. Oh,
I get it. One of the chances somebody getting hurt.
You don't want your own man to take any chances. Okay,
I'll go anything. Eighteenth You think HOMICI down in New York,
That's right, I sing, or told, but if we send
you down there, he said, anyone else and another thing?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 3: There'll be a nice scene and the documented this man
welcome alive? Oh my what two thousand dollars? Three thousand dollars?
Who well, well, it's been a long time since I've
seen Randy sing. Maybe I order run down and say hello,
Bob Bailey and the exciting adventures of the man with
the actual pact EPENSACU, the manic this fabulous three lamps
Incurrent investigator or Johnny now at one of your houly
Johnny dollars extrench account submitted by special Investigative twenty dollars
but the Continental and Juice and Dust Company Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut,
following his account of expenses incurred during my investigation of
the Wayward killmatics. A Prince account out of one six
twenty seventh pair to New York and taxi from Grand
Central Station to eighteen Precinct headquarters. Me forty so my
old file, doctor Randy Singer, Lieutenant Randy Singer pulled a
long space.
Speaker 2: I know my lucker's run out.
Speaker 3: Hire Randy, what are you beefing about? This side?
Speaker 2: And you might as well. Sit down, I.
Speaker 3: Guess I'll say to one of these insurance companies who
ugually with the long mother's handled things our own, what
do you mean in minted one of their clients gets
into a jam and sends somebody like you to on
the picture, Johnny.
Speaker 2: There isn't a thing you can do about this man welcon.
Speaker 3: If company says something about his life, Yeah, that's what
he is, true, got it? Why should his life?
Speaker 2: No, I don't drink it should okay, okay?
Speaker 3: Why does he think his life because he was.
Speaker 2: A witness who was shooting a murder?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: What remember reading about the book? Who was still? Last week?
Speaker 3: Over in an alley off the first avenue? You know
anything about it? Books? All right? Now?
Speaker 2: Did you read about it? I didn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I read about it. Don't tell you a whole
week is gone by? You have about the killing? We
haven't found them, even with a witness of the crime,
as John Wilson oh R. Except for the description mister
Welson gave us, we haven't a single solid everything to
go on. No fingerprints, no, no, no clues of any
kind of weapon. Thirty express on making I don't want
Apparently there was used to plug. Mister Wilk, Just what happened?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: He yeah, it was Tuesday night last week, said about
two am.
Speaker 2: Welcome. When he was taking his dog.
Speaker 3: For a walk for going to bed, and he passed
this particular ally he got these two men struggling, heard
a shot, got his dogs both throt out of yelp,
galloped around in circles, tied up his legs in the
least and he went the dog, are welcome, Welcome, and don't.
Speaker 2: Be funny, oh taking one here.
Speaker 3: The killer came running out of the alley and stumbled
over welking Well, got a good look at him in
the street light. Dog pulled the hunk out of the
killer's pants. Killers smashed wealking on the head and took off.
The dog kept yelling until the patrole and came around,
found him there and found a booking in the alley.
Did and all I want to know is what you
think you could.
Speaker 2: Do about it?
Speaker 3: No clothes, he stept, Welcome, Christ give him a look
at the mother book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he came up with you find a gun now, Belistic.
Speaker 3: Said it was a thirty eight to the tried looking
in the storm drained rob Look, why does Walton feel
he's in danger because some fool reporter wrote it up
in someday's papers that Welton not only storm killers who
had been trying to keep that quiet, but that he
could positively identify him. And when Welton tied that up
with the Franctic victim was a book. Yeah, I see.
I mean the possibility of a connection with the syndicon
or if he didn't play ball with the syndicates, they
decided to knock him off. Now, Johnny, we don't like
to admit that they might do an operation. There were
the towns absolutely well. Now all your handsome ways in
uniform has to do is mark them in Saint Patrick
j Pera had to welcome important foreign dignitary as poor
Smith Apple's off. The truth stands over on tenth Avenue.
Johnny exactly means that I think Walton's right, but making
it the racket rackets mean racket is and as a mobster,
will killed that book. He was smart enough to leave,
you know, fool. He's smart enough to shut them out
of anybody who might be able to identify him permanently.
And you got a gun him welcome.
Speaker 2: He's that's the one and man Varraine what does he look?
Speaker 3: O'broon Tim Conroy and the man I'm gonna send over
there just supported them. Then tell Conroy I'm going over
there with him. But Johnny, what for? What can you.
Speaker 2: Possibly do that we haven't?
Speaker 3: Well, look, Mandy, I'm getting to a nice big stats
see me on this. I have to at least look
like I'm running Conraight, Come in, Mandy, maybe I'll even
solve the murder.
Speaker 2: Conrad.
Speaker 3: Get this wise guy out of here? Is a Dollar?
Nice to see guy, Dolly. Yeah, near old pal, Johnny Dollar,
and I take them with you, take them anywhere, but
get him out of here. Yes, you sing, you're being.
Speaker 2: Asky to Monny's don't help me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty is Brandy hadn't gotten anywhere. I say,
I'm believing or not, but he was glad I'd come along.
But my job was soly to protect us to welk.
So in Conroy's crows Town we drove over to the
little apartment building in the fifty third, drove over the
flight of crowd, knowing about in front of the place,
rather than included a couple of New York plans. Wait,
wait away, am I Johnny? Something's happened here and I
started the thing. What it might be Macarthy's trapping around
here a little like Conroy? What's up? You don't just
see him laying there? What is the officers man named Wilson,
John I Welson, Act two of yours pull a Johnny
dollar in a moment. Here is a method problem the
Natural of Heart Institute of the Public Health Service. It
looks like an electronic control board panel.
Speaker 2: Banks with leaders and twitches.
Speaker 3: It is knee high and fixed.
Speaker 4: Seed in length, surmounted by what appears to be a
cylindrical coil. Its price is comparable to the cost of
a new three bedroom home, but in human lives saved
and repaired, its value is limitless. This is the heart
lung machine. Its development has opened new latitudes in heart surgery.
In closed heart surgery with.
Speaker 2: A finger or an instrument inside the beating hearts, the
surgeon muscle by feel alone.
Speaker 4: This closed method has been in use for many years,
and for some conditions it is still the method of choice. However,
a great man, many heart conditions cannot be corrected by
close heart surgery. Only with the development of the heart
lung machine has correction of many of these conditions.
Speaker 2: Become possible today. The surgeon can open up the heart
un see.
Speaker 4: It entirely of blood, and under direct visions make unhurried
repairs of valves or other defects inside the hearts. Exactly
what does the heart lung machine do? Its purpose is
to function temporarily as a heart pump and to oxygenate.
Speaker 2: The blood and rid it of gaseous waste in surgery.
Speaker 4: After the heart has been exposed, classitudes from the heart
lung machine are inserted into the two great veins that
normally carry blood to the heart from the upper and
lower parts of the body. Once the hookup is completed,
the blood death and four the lungs is then cycled
into the machine where it is refreshed and returned to
the system to another to incruted into the seminal argues
in the.
Speaker 3: Cooin No Your Heart was written and produced by the
National Heart Institute, one of the National Instituted Health of
the Public Health Services, United States Department of Health, Education
and Welfare, Washington, ROOC. And now that too of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar and the way word killer matter. It looks
as though I got it's too late. The man pull home.
I was the phosed to active bodyguard lay sprawled offening
on the sidewalk in front of the department. That's what
it was, all right, Johnny. Looks like you and your
insurance company was lost to play. I get this pud back.
He's still breeding. Come on, get him back, get.
Speaker 5: Mad, I'll get back.
Speaker 3: Get back in there. We got one on the way,
mister Dollard a half tragic, you know, or some cheers
were playing on here on the sidewalk. Couple of mothers
with him. They heard a lot of noise up mister
Walton's apartment up there on the second floor. Out time them.
You see up there where the windows, dogs out in
the frame. Yeah, I see what's turning on right, A
big fight, they said, And mister Walton yelling for help.
He was yelling bloody murder, they said. They hear anybody else,
anything else, No, not even the dog. Sure. Then all
of a sudden he comes smashing out through the window,
lands here on the sidewalk. Have you remembered him? Signe yes, sir,
welks the way they come on, get back, take back
of that line with the are he said. Mister Walton's
places and unholding my fot a big fight and he's
signed he a sailing No, sir, But the door of
his apartment was flung open. There was a back door
leads into a corse in the alley. Yes, sir, that's
what Wilson told me. That the fire door it can
be opened on me from the inside. So it looks
like whoever did this to Welt and made us get
away through the out and no doubt about it. Well,
all I have to say is I hope this man lives.
We'll soon find out, sir. It comes stuck straight and
that's great. I made a quick inspection and had a
stake welcome up in the department on the second forum.
It wasn't hurt strading a bump, all right, all right,
all right there, Matthew meet it was Frankly, mister Doll,
I think that it's shocked more than anything else. We're
all thrown out of the window, even if he did
suffer only a few bruisers. And conclusion, yeah, doctor and
church and stop it. How long before I be able
to talk to him? Where the sedation I've given him
to keep him.
Speaker 5: The sleep until about after that?
Speaker 3: In your season? Question? All you are right, aren't you working?
Speaker 2: Under Lieutenant Singers.
Speaker 3: Yeah maybe I am. Brandy Singer himself came over and
took charge while John Welton left me and his men
closed off the alley and went over with a find
his call. I meanwhile, since Welton had all the police
are taking to think it possibly need. And then I
went on dead the final lunch that got him two
one seventy five when I took a cab and I'm
three a dollar even to the alley off First Avenue.
Will Wilson has witnessed the murdered the week before. Just
why I don't know. I'm so glad I did. Yeah,
because of a poo working on the street light that
came up with some rather interesting in for making tell
you what I mean later, and any event had led
to write him for a dime for a phone call.
You know, a fellow in my business has to have
some loudest strame contact. My call was in one of them.
Well man, Lieutenant Randy Singer would have known by the name.
The police would probably have like to get his hands on,
or more to the points, would like to have had
some concrete evidence again or some of another thing. My
contact name was supposed to go summer ex combat, the
eric food leg a burglary, fust think numbers, rackets, a
man who's been picked up on the pretty judge, and
you can possibly think of Yeah, and a city with
an underworld besides of New York A man, I Smooky said, and.
Speaker 5: No one, Yeah, thank you. Yeah, this is Johnny dwar.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: How would you like to pick up a fast hundred bucks?
That's fine? Oh, I know I'll be standing in the
lobby of the hotel election. Come on over and see yourself. Wow,
and they will. Maybe it won't any crop. Oh, come on,
you know me better than that. Yeah, I'll see in
the lobby's election. I don't five a dollar ten for
TEXTI over the election where I would have an hour
two hours. Know it's not a suction. Then suddenly I
realized why there must have been somebody important there on
the host self. We're outside of the curve as a
police stout, a man in the uniform of the Wheels.
I wonder Smoky has to show it. I found it
out to shoot out and you started ringing the block
growing up at the first news stand. A figure that
has been hiding on and you stay with someone separately.
What shows you so long. It's but that Stoppers did
not front Johnny. I look smoky. I asked you if
you'd like to pick up a planet seen off? Then Johnny,
I need some information. What Guy?
Speaker 2: The information.
Speaker 3: Even taking any sets on my voices, Guy has to
make honest fuck now on this. Have you been working
through the syndication and Johnny, you know you're don't ask
what he's like that? But if the information I want
is in the books of the syndicty you all want
me to play stools? Know me beter than that?
Speaker 2: Okay, ask me question?
Speaker 3: Yeah, honey, he said, if he notes to get the worst,
wouldn't get the bill stop me. If there's money to get, Okay,
go ahead, that's all right. I want to know how
mung want to get anyway. I may be playing a roll. Okay, Johnny.
If my final you call me on the phone again,
maybe three thirty four o'clock. Uh and smoky. Yeah. If
there is such information there and you get it, maybe
I'll double it here, okay, Johnny. Fact three, if your
toruler a Johnny dollar in a moment, times have changed,
and so has the man babbious row In the year
eighteen hundred and sixty one organized what has been considered
the first airborne reconnaissance units of the United States arms.
His class are balloons, which was in constant use during
the Battle of Richmond, making observations every sixteen minutes, But
because of the balloon's limited maneuverability and extreme vulnerability, military
thinking and interest soon switched to the heavier than aircraft
experiments being conducted by the rich Brothers at Kittyhawk, North Carolina. Finally,
nineteen hundred and nine, the Army accepted the Reichs Brothers
forty two and one half mile per hour aircraft.
Speaker 2: Contrasts this with.
Speaker 3: The faster than sound aircraft, the supersonic speeds of our
modern planes. Contrasts the skills the technological nohow the modern
here man with that of the pioneers. You will agree,
I'm sure that time to change, so as the man
and now actually of your pully, Johnny Dollar and the
wayward Killer matter. Prince account Adams six ninety five cents
for a cab back to John how Welcoon's a problem
on each sixty sary any singers boys have found no
clues to the identity of Welnes attack well themself is
beginning he'll be able to draw too many minutes now, Johnny, okay,
good now, get down, get down for it, go away
on your pillars. No, incidentally, we found the gun that
was using the murdery witness lands week all where like
you said, and the storm drained near that alley on
First Avenue.
Speaker 2: Oh, no print, no print.
Speaker 3: Brandy, I didn't think that would be What time is it? Uh?
Three fifty one one? Make abhall call all the phones
r over. Hey, welcome coming to you? What is this?
What goes on here?
Speaker 2: All?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Well, then you're gonna be okay. Oh believe that's right.
Speaker 3: Got a thank you. I begged you. Yeah, I'm afraid
we got here a little too late, but you're gonna
be okay. The doctor though, that man, the man who
attracted the same one you're talking about the murder. Yes, hey,
well this is County dollar, Nny dollar. Yeah, what one
these three thousands, four hundred? You know, I got it? Boy?
What did you so well get to like the sixty animal? Okay? Okay,
the news, mister dollar. What did you say about about that?
Speaker 2: Johnny?
Speaker 3: What goes? Funny howl? You like to make an arrest? Right,
that's right? Randy of the man who killed that book
when you you know who he is? Yeah, well my
sure girl, And Randy, I'm ashamed of you. Why you know?
Now Johnny's wake up really deserves the credit. Good boydam Johnny?
What under the sun are you talking about that murder?
Welton says, the puff shooter hunt out of the killer's tent. Yes, yes,
he was trying to defend me. You say that killer
struck you, Well he did, but he made no move
to hit the dog. Well, I believe me that doesn't
make sense. He would have put a bullet in him
even before he struck you. Now, this is about this
so called fight here in your apartment a couple of
hours ago. Who was the same man man? And did
the dog attempt to fight him off? No, because there
was nobody wanted to fight Johnny. You think he wouldn't
have been heard down on the street if somebody really
prommed you. Well, you paid this attack on you, Welton,
to make it look like the killer with somebody else.
Too bad, you didn't break your neck when you jumped
out that window. You don't know what you're talking another thing,
and this is where you missed that Randy yeah, old
on First Avenue. I checked with a crew from the
electric company. They finally got around of fixing that street light.
Huh yeah, that light's been up for nearly three weeks.
So how could Welton have seen another man in that
alley well enough to make a positive identify? Listen Dullar
set up. Well that my phone call just now. Randy
Welton was in hot to that bookie. He murdered to
the tune of twenty three thousand bucks, and he putten me.
He said he'd killed me if I didn't pay him,
I had to kill him. If I hadn't killed him. Yeah,
breaks my aunt, Johnny, but thanks, okay, Well up on
your feet, rdam seven sixty five dollars even for a
night on the town. H Randy needed to real life
La dam eighty two hundred bucks. The Smokey kill Sollum
expense a count total, including a trip back to Heartrid
three hundred and fifteen dollars and seventeen cents. And don't
forget that's two grands. Probably after all, Walton's still alive
for a while. At least you're truly Johnny dollars. Yours
truly Johnny dollar is Sorry and Bob Dailey origination of
Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Gunstone. Walso
wrote today's story. Hers and our cast were Edgar Barrier,
her Bigrant, James Mchallian, Paul DuPaul, Laurence Dupkins, John Zayner,
Bill James, and Vic parn We want to join us
next week, same time and station, or another exciting story
of your truly Johnny Dollar. Johnny Dollar has come to
you through the worldwide the Philippines of you, United States
Armed Boss of Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. This is notable for introducing Smokey, another of
the great recurring characters john Stone brought to the series
and a really good addition to the program. And this
is beyond that, just a case of a killer pressing
his luck. Had he just stopped to claiming to be
a witness, he probably would have gotten away with it.
Also appreciate Johnny's concern about looking like he was doing
something to earn his money. You can't have a ton
of cases like the Majauvey red matter and continue to
draw top dollar. So that pond, by the way, was
not intended. But I'm not embarrassed by it all. Right
listener comments and feedback now and we have a couple
of comments regarding the Mojavey red matter, and we start
out on Facebook with Emmett, who writes, somehow I don't
remember this one. There are a few episodes where Johnny
goes fishing, but a two.
Speaker 6: Parter I don't recall.
Speaker 1: When the first part was coming to an end, I thought,
wait a minute, this can't be over in five minutes.
And to the show's credit, it wasn't a good story.
Sometimes takes a while to relate, and this is a
good story. I do appreciate when shows are willing to
stretch their stories to do a second part. And the
one thing you have to credit Johnstone with is that
he didn't have a problem doing things most other shows
didn't do, like recurring characters and sequels. There's a continuity
in Johnny to All that you just don't see in
other detective shows, and perhaps that comes from the fact
that john Stone cut his teeth as a showrunner on
programs like Buck, Rogers and Superman. It's definitely a method
that was ahead of its time, where everything was episodic
and self contained. Then we have a comment on Patreon
from Gary who follows up on a comment I made
about some of the weirdness of the first part of this, Adam,
I couldn't agree more of the weirdness you spoke of.
I was thinking the same thing as I was listening
to this is Johnny acting all mysterious with people he
knows this is his job and shouldn't be anything out
of the ordinary, almost like he suspects someone he knows
of committing the murder or something. Thought it was kind
of annoying. The only justification you can really offer for
that is the fact that he did end up suspecting Red.
But as I talked about last week, I thought that
that was kind of nonsensical. So testifying one nonsensical part
of the plot with another not something I'd want to do,
And I guess not quite as severe. The sort of
I don't know if you want to call it a
rivalry between Johnny and Randy Singer is very different from
past portrayals of the character, which is also odd because
Randy Singer is a character that Jack Johnstone created. Then
we have some comments regarding the Blinker matter, and john writes,
how does Johnny get on airplanes while carrying that heater
I can't imagine a world in which you just breezed
onto an airplane without even putting out your cigarette. It
really was a different world, John I don't know what
else to tell you. You can sometimes see that world
in old films. But yeah, there was a time when
the no smoking sign wasn't permanently let on airplanes. But
things have changed, and airport security has gotten tighter and
health regulations have changed. I was never on a flight
where smoking was allowed, which I am thankful for because
me and cigarette smoke don't get along, although if you
do smoke while listening to the podcast, that doesn't affect
me at all. But on a plane's another matter. I
did fly once before nine to eleven, back when I
was twenty, so I have at least some memory of
the before time on that, but not back to the
point where you could bring a gun on board. Then
we have some comments on YouTube. Ruby said, while I
enjoy listening to any Johnny Dollar episodes, Bob Bailey is favorite.
Thanks and Sanda laughed at the description of Gus, And
then listener writs, it would seem a lot of people
need to listen to these old time radio shows like
Dragnet Johnny Dowler, Tales of the Texas Ranger, Philip Marlow
Dragnet this is your FBI and Broadways my beat because
all these shows are filled with stories of drug smuggling
into the United States. Who reports this is not a
new phenomena, Well, thanks so much. I think of Ecclesiastes,
which says that there is nothing new under the sun,
and that can certainly be true of many things that
you'll encounter during the Golden Age of radio. And I
think on a similar note, I couldn't help but think
of how on the man called X that while it
dealt with some things like the Cold War, which ended
at least in the form that it was being fought
in the nineteen fifties, there were other issues and problems
in parts of the world that were still very much
headline news in troubled parts of the world. Now, knowing
this history can be helpful. I don't think it can
really tell you how to solve the problem, because if
it were that easy, it would have been solved decades ago.
But it can give you perspective and maybe some humility
and realizing that we're dealing with problems that others have
tried to deal with for decades and have not been
able to. All right, well, now it's time to thank
our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to
go ahead and thank Lisa, Patreon supporter since October twenty
twenty one, currently supporting the podcast at the rookie level
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E Manna.
Speaker 7: This is Captain Linked Daggad and this is a couple
of bonds of the British Army on detached service with
the OSS.
Speaker 6: It is a pleasure to meet you, gentlemen, is it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: Pumer may bonds and I speak to you alone. I
will go out on deck well, Degan, allthough we have
to say, sir, you must know how we feel about this.
I'll say a link so I don't like the idea
of taking a jerry with us in the Nazi territory.
Speaker 1: Do we have to do it?
Speaker 7: Colonel, you volunteered for this mission, Bonds, you don't have
to do anything. Here's a Degger and I can do
the job, Sir without a Jerry, even do it faster
with him, Corporal, and we've got to start hitting those
subvents as quickly as possible. Meller will be valuable to
you in obtaining information from his former fellow officers.
Speaker 6: Must have a lot of faith in this Nazis, Sir.
Speaker 7: He's not a Nazi, He's a German.
Speaker 6: Is there a difference?
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 6: Even when he was an officer in one of Hitler's
pet Division's colonels.
Speaker 7: Threw no choice of his own. Daggatt Meller was captured
by the British and North Africa two years ago. He's
been working as an interpreter for the OSS for eighteen months.
He's been thoroughly screened. We have faith in his story
that he's always been opposed to Hitler.
Speaker 6: Wellly, he could have been lying to you, sir, just
waiting for a chance like this, a chance to get
back to German territory.
Speaker 7: It could have been, but we don't think it was.
Speaker 6: But if he were, Sir Bons and I are a
couple of dead ducks, he'll sell us out the minute
we get across the channel.
Speaker 7: That's quite true, Daggett. And that's the chance you'll both
have to take.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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