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nineteen fifty eight, here is the more hobby red sequel matter.
Speaker 2: Hollywood, It's time now for Johnny is you're a number
in England? Oh? Thank you all for one moment, Johnny
Dalla Jake, Johnny, So you found out I was right,
you lift our date of Arizona and going back to
hartwork wrong?
Speaker 3: You mean you're still in link by hobby resort.
Speaker 2: I sure, am, and I am still betting that you
haven't found anything to indicate Elner Hobbe's death wasn't back
to dent aroundie, so your expenses will have to come
right out of your own pocket instead of the company. Listen.
As for that crew you talked about eating honey.
Speaker 3: Listen, what have you mailed any insurance claim yet?
Speaker 2: Why? I just got to run it over to the
post office and your call came in. Turn it up
because Jake elma Hans was murdered. Bob Bailey and the
Exciting Adventures of the Man with the action packed expensive
caud America's fabulous freeliance insurance investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar now
like one of yours, Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted
by a special investigator Johnny Dollar the Greater Southwest Insurance
and Liability Company King in Arizona office. He has an
account of expenses Encourage during my further investigation of the
Mohave Red matter expense account on in won twenty cents
for the phone called to Jake Kessler and Kingman. I
made that call in the office there at Lake Mohavee Resort,
and needless to say, Jake didn't quite believe me at first.
Murdered Elmer Hobbs was murdered, Jake, I'd bet my last
buck on it, you bet, Johnny. The police spent two
or three days over there investigating the corner two and
they all reported no evidence of foul play.
Speaker 3: That's simply because they didn't know where to look.
Speaker 2: What do you mean.
Speaker 3: You know Red Barrett, the old fishing guide over here.
Speaker 2: I've heard of it. Well, Red found the boat that
Hobbes used that day. It was lying on the bottom
of one of the coves up in the Big Basin.
Sure because of the storm that drowned Elmer Hobb because
somebody sank it. That boat had a couple of air
tanks on it that would keep it a float even
if it was swamped. But Jake, those tanks were cut
open by whoever killed Hobbs. Yeah, but who did it, Johnny,
That's what I'm gonna find out. I'll call you later.
I hung up on Jake Kessler then walked on back
to the dock, where I found Red Barrett and Buster
Favor waiting for me.
Speaker 3: You get your call.
Speaker 2: The king went through, all right, Johnny? Yeah? Right, Jake
Kessler's holding up the claim on Alma Hobbs and Shirts. Good.
That's good. Did you tell Buster and what we found
up the lake. Sure, yeah, Johnny, he did. It's like
I said in the beginning. I just didn't see how
man like mister Hobbs could ever give himself captured from
the big base, no matter how bad a wind came up.
Buster was the only one that agreed with me. Johnny, Well,
quite frankly, I don't see why everybody wasn't suspicious when
hobbs boat wasn't found after the storm, right Johnny, Now
that you and Red found it sunk in the bottom
of that cove and with a flotation tanks cut over,
it sure looks like murder. Oh that's what I thought
from the first rush. That's why I telephoned all the
way to Hartford to get Johnny out here. But who
could have wanted to kill him? Any ideas? Must say no, sir, Johnny,
I certainly haven't sure there was nobody here at the
resort who might have wanted him out of the way. Johnny.
The other folks who were here at the time had happened,
why they didn't even know. Mister Howe Sure, absolutely see.
He wasn't much of a mixer. He stayed by himself
all the time, that's right, Johnny. Elmer used to go
out fishing first thing in the morning, and he'd be
the last to come in at night. He'd go to
his room, cookie supper, and then go to bed. All right, Listen,
he was killed just before or during the big storm. Yeah,
that's right. Who else was out on the lake at
that time? Nobody? Nobody from here, that is, all our people,
all our boats were back here at the landing. They'd
got the storm warning. So don't you see, Johnny, it
must have been somebody from up to lead. What do
you mean from one of the other landings? What other landings?
Cottonwood Memories, anyone of them, sir. Somebody sank his boat
and tried to sink his body with it. But we
found his body washed up on Nevada. Sure you found it, Red, Yes,
I did, my best friend. I drove down to that Boatbuster,
and I found not only the past in flotation tanks,
what the ankle line had apparently been lashed around the
body to hold it there. And you remember, Buster, the
rope marks we found on Elmer's body. Yeah. But the police,
Sheriff Connor and the red what did they say, He
probably just got tangled up in that rope when he
was fighting the storm. But they were wrong. Yeah, apparently.
Why do you say that, Johnny, Well, because so far
this evidence of murder is well, it's all circumstantial. That's
a motive. Motive I hadn't thought of that. Well. The
main thing is that that cut and open the flotation
tanks was done with some kind of a nag. I
was asking about motive, and I know that Elmer didn't
have any axe on that boat. Do you find the axe? Johnny? No? No,
And I read and I'll tell you what he had
in his boot beside his clothes. Let's cover this motive. Thing.
He had to anchor of course, that went with the
bull read. He had a nice new Sila flex rod
with a Mitchell three hundred dollars. He had a long
handled neck that he picked up somewhere in LA and
an old beat up McKinney tackle box full of plugs
and spoons and the face right, and that was all Johnny,
No axe, that was all he had. Read That bush
sure beating around is getting pretty big, Johnny. I don't
know what you mean when I asked you about possible motive,
And so far all you've done is evaded. The question, Now,
why should I do that? Well, that's what I want
to find out. Well, now, Johnny, you know of anyone
who might have wanted mister Hobbs dead? You say you
know him pretty well and I did, yes, sir. Well, no, sir, no, sir,
I certainly don't. Sure well elm Well, he wouldn't. Nobody
could want to kill a fine man like him. Johnny,
he was one of my best friend. Yeah, at least
while ever he was here. I mean I never knew
anything about him in La. I mean he was in
business back there, Armiston, that's right with the Manny co Stu. Manly,
wait a minute, what is it, Johnny, I'm going back
to the office and called j Kessler Kennon. Yes, sir,
Helmer was my best friend one. Come on up to
the office with me, Buster, use the phone here on
the dot, Johnny, No, no, come on Red, We'll see
you later. I'll be here, sir. You look like you
just got hit with an idea, Johnny. Yeah, yeah, and
I'm afraid it isn't a very pretty one. Ohman, come
in here. Oh yes, mister Carson. And they picked up
some nice bass up above the power line. Crossing, dude,
I was thinking of going up that way. Yeah, well
good luck. Now what were you going to say, Johnny?
We're read and mister Hobbes such really good friends. Well,
we're always together when he gets of course, they were
always fighting like cats and dogs over some silly thing
or other. But didn't mean it. Oh no, wait a minute.
Johnny was Red alone when he found hobbs body, Yeah
he was, and he brought it back here. But now,
look there any other boats up the lake? Yeah? There were,
but Red was searching that particular part of the shore alone.
But surely you don't think Kessler told me something about
Hobb's insurance policy. But not quite enough, Johnny, listen, come on,
let's get to that fall. Well, do I know what
you think? You ought to call in the police. No,
if you're right, that is no, let me handle us
alone for the moment. I listened, Jake, didn't you tell
me that the insurance claim was filed by one of
hobbs beneficiaries plural? That's right, by his business partner in LA.
Who were the others? Just one? If you take you
were solvaring.
Speaker 4: Up and I know of you.
Speaker 2: Now is this other beneficiary Jake.
Speaker 3: You're still sure Hobbes was murdered.
Speaker 2: Huh, I'll bet on it. And now you're looking for
somebody with a motive huh.
Speaker 3: The beneficiary, Jake, Like I.
Speaker 2: Told you, one of them was his business partner, Jay
stuartan Manley, and the other red red, Yeah, red barret
act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 4: We live in a world of symbols and signs, abbreviations
and slogans.
Speaker 2: What do they mean to us? Well, of course, that
depends you.
Speaker 4: Take the flag of the United States, for example, there's
a symbol that is respected throughout the world and cherished
by citizens of the United States of America.
Speaker 2: But there's a reason for it.
Speaker 4: It stands for the power and the glory, the fairness
and progress of the United States, based on long years
of historic tradition. The Congressional Medal of Honor is another
symbol of the highest sort, based on historic truths and traditions,
and won by gallant action above and beyond the call
of duty. How did it all get started? We'll just
listen to this. Before the Civil War, there were no
permanent awards given to the men of the armed forces
of the United States for doing their jobs now, not
even when the job was beyond the call of duty.
Fighting men did what they could because it had to
be done. In eighteen sixty two, less than two dozen
Union Army enlisted men who became known as the Mitchell Raiders,
volunteered to make a secret penetration deep into enemy territory,
steal an express train right out of the Confederate camp
and run it north, tearing up tracks, burning bridges, and
cutting wires on the way in order to disrupt enemy communications.
Only moments before reaching their own lines again, with a
mission accomplished, the train ran out of fuels. The men
tried to escape, but were captured and thrown into prison.
Most of them were executed as spies. The others, expecting
the same fate, made a brave and dangerous attempt to escape.
Six of them were recaptured and later exchanged for Confederate prisoners.
When they reported to Washington, d C. They were awarded
the first medals of honor ever given to American soldiers.
In their gallant and intrepid actions to do everything possible
to fight, to win, and when captured, to escape and
fight again. They maintained an established code of conduct for
American fighting men everywhere. What the Mitchell Raiders did is
symbolic of what keeps America a great nation. Now is
a good time to examine your own code of conduct.
Speaker 2: And now I two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the Mohave Red Sequel, two people who I know stood
the game by the death of Elma Hobbs. One his
business partner, Jase Stuart Manley in Los Angeles. The other,
Red Barrett, fishing guy at Lake Mohave Resort, who said
he'd found his body, who professed to have been his
best friend. I wondered. I said as much to Buster Favors,
who sat there in the office of the resort, red deer,
thing like that. I won't believe it, Johnny, But he's
the one person who could have engineered the whole thing busting.
But why then would he lead this to the place
where mister Hobbs's boat was sunk and find up the
fact it was deliberately sunk and an attempt made to
saint Hobbs's body with it. Oh, there's a cover up,
make him look clean. Oh no, Johnny, Well, the boat
would have been found in that cold sooner or later anyway,
I tell you you're wrong. If you just suspect Red, look
if Hobbes' business partner as a beneficiary too, why don't
you look him? I fully intend to. Unless Red did
do it, No, I can prove it. No, John, Let's
go back to the dock so I can talk to
I can't see Uster. I just oh, hello, Johnny, I
suppose you've heard him? Yes, Red Chldren. You're quite short
with murdered. Yeah, I'm sorry, lists Yeah, him as manager
of this resort, you know Red pretty well. I sometimes
wonder That's what I came up here to ask you about. Buster.
Huh did you send him skiding out of here? What?
You just left him down at the dock? I mean
you didn't see him tearing out of here in the
pickup truck a few minutes ago? I am read where'd
he go? I don't know, but he certainly left in
the hurry. Johnny, Yeah, No, I still can't believe it.
What are you boys talking about?
Speaker 3: Nothing?
Speaker 2: I ham is our car on here? I can use sure?
Take mine keys, thanks insttly, Buster. I was poking around
where Red kept his fishing tackle, trying find that rig
he barked me last week. What did you find him?
I thought Buster him might know. And the old code
got hold of that new spinding outfit Chilo flex raw Yeah,
and the bran spanking new Mitchell reel. He is all right,
ham Buster, you just sit tight. If Red comes back
here before I do him, come back, yeah, say nothing
to him about what we've learned. Just keep him here
and tell him, tell him I'll return to talk with
him later. Nothing else, John No, No, do as I say, Bo,
what's going on? I'll see you later. Well, Johnny Red
was one of Elma Hobb's beneficiaries. He was the one
who found the body. He had the fishing tackle that
had belonged to Hobbs, and when it was discovered by
him Pratt, he'd left in a hurt. We're all pretty incriminated,
which is not why I took off an Ham's car
west On seventy seven, south on ninety five and west
again on sixty six. Had him for a buck, even
for a sandwich in a cocon ball. I had him
five four eighty for a tankful of gas at the
sign of the Flying Red Horse, then Westwood again, and
always with an eye out for Red in the old
pickup truck. Finally, as the sun was disappearing over the
edge of the Pacific, I pulled into Los Angeles. The
real estate office of Manley and Hobbs was closed. The
directory at the nearest phone both gave me j. Stewart
Manley's home address thirteen oh eight Pandora Avenue, in the
residential section called Westwood. The neat white stucco house was dark,
the garage empty. I led myself and throw a back
door by slipping a lot with the eight of one
of my business cards. It's hard to see inside, but
I didn't want to turn on any lights. That was
a mistake because as I quietly rounded a corner and
started toward the den, I guess wrong. Somebody was at home.
Wasn't that den behind and now closed door? Somebody knew
that I was in the house. It was only one
thing to do, try to pull my way through. Well,
mister Manley, you're going you killer, read Johnny Dollar. It
kind of kind of looks like I made a mistake. Yeah, Red,
the biggest mistake in your life. Fact three of your
truly Johnny Dollar in a moment. Times have changed, and
so has the man in the adventurers, romantic, almost legendary
days of the American pioneer, the Prairie schooner, or the
Indian fighter with the sharp eyes of the wagon train,
or the cavalry unit which was probing the strange, treacherous
and often hostile lands that lay ahead. The crest of
a hill or a towering tree was the observation point.
Results sometimes effective, but very often extremely inadequate. Today, however,
the scout for the ocean going transport, the high flying plane,
or the mechanized cavalry unit is a man who is
highly skilled in the use of technicological accomplishments. His observation
point a radar screen, a scientific development which provides the
modern scout with the information necessary for him to detect, analyze,
and interpret the obstacles that might prove disastrous to the
advancing ship, plane, or tank. Results extremely effective, seldom inadequate.
Times have changed, and so has the man. Now I'm
free of yours, truly. Johnny Dollar and the mohave Red sequel,
You know what common sense tells me? Read what Johnny,
that you and j Stewart Man they were in Cohootes
and the murder of Elmer Hobbs. Oh no, so you
can't believe that you told us that Hobbs had a
Sila flex rod a Mitchell wheel in his boat.
Speaker 3: Yes, sure he did, just like the refound him.
Speaker 2: Read among your things back at the lake, Or you
found mine, Johnny, that Elmer gave me the match his
Look look what I found here in the man this closet.
This was Elmer's rotten real, Johnny, what all strung up
with the with the warble right scoon on it, just
just the way he faced with it. And he could
cast so accurate. You're sure this was his. Here's his
initials right on the butt and scratched on the reef.
Who h. If you'd have looked, you would have found
my initials on the rod there at the lake. Would look?
Look here? Look what I found the corner of this closet,
all wrapped up like to hide it the acts. And
I'm no detective, Johnny, but just look at these marks
like it was used to hack in some kind of
thin metal, the flotations as on that boat. Maybe you
are a detective, rent, and a good one. Why did
you come tearing in here to la in the hopes, Johnny,
I'd find these things. I thought from the first that
Manly might be the one Elmer never did really trust him.
He told me that many a time, But you didn't
accuse him. When I talked to you at the lake.
I wanted some prove Manly not only get a hunk
of Hobs insurance, but the share of the business. That's right, sir.
I pulled a little trick on him too. What do
you mean, Well, I stopped along the way and I
phoned him to make sure that he wouldn't be here
for a while. Or what did you tell him? Disguised
my voice, Johnny real good, that voice of yours. I
told him that this was a friend. I said that
I thought he ought to know that you were working
on the cave, that if he'd left any evidence of
Lake Mohave, he'd better get there and steer you away
from him, Red, And that that's the way I got
him away from here so I could find this stuff.
But if he's gone to Lake Muhammed, Oh, I knew
you could take care of him. And if I did
find these things, like I did, I was going to
phone you there to be ready for him. Well, why
did you attack me when I came in here. Sorry, Johnny,
but I thought maybe he'd got wise and come back
and maybe recognize my voice after all. Exactly what happened,
read mister Manley, Sir, that's right, Jay Stewart Manley, this
is my wife, mister deller Red kill the start. They
are burglars, don't you see? And we caught them rubbing
the house. Yet Mary, I suppose that means we're all
right that you did kill your partner, Elmer Hobbs, that
stupid old man fishing all the time instead of tending
to the office taking all the money. But now we'll
have some money for a change own the business. Yea,
I see you've found old Elmer's things. No shirt, this
fishing rod is here's not you? Oh put it. Pretty
foolish you to bring that stuff here, Manley, especially the acts.
I'm sure any good police lab will find traces of
Alumanum from the boat on it.
Speaker 3: Kill hims it their robot.
Speaker 2: Their fingerprints will be all over. Mary's right, your prowler
is ransacking my house, and I can see the pulls
of your pistol. Dollar, So when he caught in the
land up hold my right to kill you and self
defense and dollar you go first. Listen, you think you
can shoot as straight as I can cast a fishing flood?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Like this? Oh no, no, get male, I hate to
have to sock a woman.
Speaker 3: You hurt him, yeah, as badly as he hurt Elma Hobs.
Speaker 2: He looked that horrible fishing plug the hook that ripped
his hand. But it's leaning redheaded old fool things at him.
Jesus do it. That was a beautiful piece of casting.
He almost tore his hand off of that plug. Well, Johnny,
with Elmer's own rig, and I think maybe he would
have liked that. I hope so. But you know what
I hope the most, Johnny, what right that the fishing?
That the fishing is real good up where Elmery is
now Manley and his wife, Yeah, read it figured right
the morning of the day that Hobbs was killed. They'd
rented a boat out of Cottonwood Landing a few miles
up the lake and Amber. They're in the big basin.
Bob Cole and Cotton would have noticed the new rotten
wheel when they come back off the way just before
the big storm. They noticed the acts too. What he
wanted about it? Now? He knows?
Speaker 3: So from here on in except for the Sheriff's office
in the courts expense.
Speaker 2: Account total including a return of Ham's car, a few
days of fishing in the trip back to Hartford three
hundred and seven dollars even, Yours Truley, Johnny Dollar, Yours
Truly Johnny Dollar is starrying. Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood
and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also
wrote today's story burd In our cast where Virginia, Gregg, Harley, Bear,
Forrest Lewis, Barney Phillips, Reed, and Russell Thorson be sure
to join us next week, same time in station for
another very exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This
is Roy Rowan speaking.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. I have to be honest, I don't think
much of Johnny's theory of Red Bean the killer, even
before obvious evidence, because I'll allow for the fact that yes,
there was motive, but there'd be nothing to investigate without
Red if Red had committed the murder. Johnny danced around
the question of why he would get Johnny to do
this investigation, And I also feel like this is an
episode where Jack Johnstone fell in love with his guest
character and forgot who the protagonist is supposed to be.
Think about it. Red found and took Johnny to the
wreck of the stolen boat in the first part, and
then in the second part it's Red who ultimately caught
the criminal and was able to find the evidence to
prove him guilty. Johnny just came to Lake Mohave, was wrong,
went fishing, and collected an expense account. Now, of course,
if that's nice work, if you can get it, but
I generally think the hero should have more to do
with the outcome than that. How we turn to listener
comments and feedback, and we go to YouTube or riots
or comments. I think that Sea Hunt and Johnny Doller
used different parts of the same music as theme song.
I went ahead and listen to the Sea Hunt theme song,
and I can hear a couple parts of it that
do remind me of the Johnny Dollar theme. However, my
understanding and I've heard the actual Johnny Doller theme music
used on other programs, including a Dick Tracy series from
the early nineteen fifties with Ralph Bell, is that that
particular music is Library Music Music Library. The theme to
Sea Hunt was written by Ray Llewellen, but that's a
bit of a mystery, because there was no such person
as ray Llewellen. Llewellyn is credited as the composer of
the theme to eight different television series, and there was
a theory, first propounded by John Burlingame in nineteen ninety six,
that ray Llewellen was actually a pseudonym for David Rose,
a fantastic composer musician. Holiday for Strings was one of
his best known works, but he did a lot of
great stuff, though you can find it if you look
for old time radio programs. He did a series called
California Melodies, and did a lot of film and television work.
The theory is that ray Llewellen was a pseudonym. He
used to work on various non union projects, particularly for
ZIV Television, while still remaining in good standing with the
ASCAP listings. People who wrote Classic Themes dot Com point
out that ray Llewellen could have been a joint pseudonym
or a house pseudonym shared with other composers, but they
didn't notice one curious thing that seems to confirm the
idea that ray Llewellen was a pseudonym for David Rose.
Is he put out in LP in nineteen sixty eight,
which said that his music had been used as theme
songs for a total of twenty two different TV programs,
but for Union projects there were only fourteen. But if
you take the eight that were done by ray leew Wellen,
then you get to twenty two. So really a lot
of mystery behind that title. Now, of course it's possible
that some library music was used as a basis for
but likely the theme was written mainly by David Rose.
Thanks so much, appreciate the comment and the opportunity for
the little rabbit hole there. Now it's time to thank
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Speaker 2: Where then I heard it? This was someone in pain,
someone down an alley way just to my ride.
Speaker 3: She was lying alongside the wall of a building.
Speaker 2: And she was my recent friend, Gloria Lane. Help me
get me sure, Gloria Sure? This is Granger. Where do
you live? I live?
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