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Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: Now, the only other circulating episode from this period in
Johnny Dollar history from November thirtieth, nineteen fifty eight. Here
is the hair raising.
Speaker 3: Manner, Hollywood. It's not war other Johnny.
Speaker 4: This is pritt melt here.
Speaker 3: It's not mutual Ritz. I can't think of anybody had
read it here from what every insurance case you've called me, honest,
But a lot of dough in my pocket. Well now,
and it just happens that right now I can use
a few extra bucks, quite a few, So what's the deal.
Speaker 4: Well, as a matter of fact, I haven't thought in
terms of anything on them. We'll pay whatever expenses you may.
Speaker 3: Oh, you trust me with my expense account.
Speaker 4: Prits, you're kidding of costs?
Speaker 3: Okay? Then, now that we understand each other, what's the problem,
A rother? Who's the problem?
Speaker 4: John Wakefield Edwards?
Speaker 3: Ever hear of him? No, I can't say that I
have retired businessman another goose, I think it was.
Speaker 4: He lives just outside of Albany in New York.
Speaker 3: So what's happened to him?
Speaker 4: Well, nothing that I know of. He has a lot
of insurance with it, including a straight life policy worth
one hundred and fifty five thousand.
Speaker 3: Hold is decret in his late sixties.
Speaker 4: Mary his wife died well three or four years ago.
Speaker 3: Then who's the beneficiary?
Speaker 4: His adopted daughter of Maryland?
Speaker 3: And how old is she?
Speaker 4: In her late twenties. She's a very attractive girl, I understand.
Speaker 3: Then, who cares about a fleet? Rit's? I take you? Simon? Aye? Johnny?
Speaker 4: You probably won't even see her?
Speaker 3: Oh why not?
Speaker 4: But she lives and works over in Troy.
Speaker 3: Ah. Well, what's happened to me? All man?
Speaker 4: Well, they called me a few minutes ago and half
or rather demanded that I send you over to see
him immediately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why he wouldn't say.
Speaker 4: What he did say though, just before he hung up,
is that under no circumstances that.
Speaker 3: You'd have let her know that you're coming, mean, Marilyn,
mm hmm. I won there.
Speaker 4: Oh Johnny, Wow, you there well, first thing in the morning.
Speaker 3: Okay, Fritch, We'll do Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures
of the Man of the Action packed Expensive Out America's
fabulous free lance insurance investigator. Yes, truly, Johnny Dollars, Now
act one that yours truly Johnny Dollars expense accounts of
it buy a special investigator Johnny Dollar that the Storm
Mutual Insurance Company Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut, following as an
account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the hair
raising matter when a beautiful girl and a fortune are involved.
While instead of waiting until morning, I got out my
car and drove over to Albany. I had them one
seventeen twenty from Miley I Ryan. Shortly after midnight, shut
checked in at the sherit and ten Ike, and although
I was pretty tired, I ran up by him too
a dime for a phone call yesh, Sir John Wickfieldwick
Johnny Dollar, mister Edward, Well, why do you waste your
time and.
Speaker 4: Money calling me? I told Bridge Pelcher to send you
up here.
Speaker 3: I'm reading Albany story.
Speaker 4: Oh good?
Speaker 3: Do you want me to come out and see you
right away? It's pretty late.
Speaker 4: Oh, first thing in the morning will be all right.
I'm sure nothing will happen before then anything. I'll expect
you to have breakfast with me.
Speaker 3: I beg you, what was that I said to hear
at breakfast seven thirty sharp? Oh okay, but now, just
what did you mean about nothing will happen? I'll tell
you about it in the morning. Well, now wait a minute, look,
you're the bus while Why didn't I call him back
command to know what it was that he was expecting
to happen or it obviously tied in with his wish
to see thee But I guess I was tired after
the long drive, and he seemed to think the morning
was timing up. So I hit the sack early in
the morning. Some coffee sent up to my room, and
then the hotel said, okay to nine dollars even that
side him three and by twenty five minutes after seven,
I swung onto the long winding drive that led up
to the front of the Edwards mansion. It was in
a wealthy residential section a couple of miles north as
the city Propper, and sat in the middle of what
must have been a full acre of beautiful trees and gardens.
As I approached the house, I noticed the car parked
out fox of sweet new Little woodcot. The door was open,
and I've been looking and got out of it and it
was just about to climb in. As I pulled up
to a stop, she stood there looking at me questioningly.
This is the Edwards Paul, Isn't.
Speaker 5: That's why you want to see somebody?
Speaker 3: Why? Yes, As a matter of fact, mister Edwards sent
for me.
Speaker 2: Oh really, are you an old friend of here?
Speaker 3: Oh? I didn't know it, Shure, That isn't what I mean.
Speaker 6: My name is Johnny d John insurance detective or investigator
or whatever you call it something like that.
Speaker 7: Hi, I'm Marilyn Edwards.
Speaker 8: Well, Hi, I said, guess he'd sent to someone like you, Johnny,
Come on in.
Speaker 3: Why uh why do you say that?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 6: Well, Daddy seemed to be worried about something lately.
Speaker 8: You know what no, at least I'm not sure. That's
why I thought i'd stopped by this morning before.
Speaker 3: Going to work. Oh I thought you were just leaving.
Speaker 7: No, I just got here just before you arrive.
Speaker 3: What do you do for a living?
Speaker 8: Don't laugh, I'm a model. A Stop raising your eyebrows.
After all, somebody must suppose for those dads for this.
And so we go in and see Daddy, that is,
if he's up.
Speaker 3: I have a breakfast day with him at seven point thirty,
and it's not exactly seven thirty one. Can we better
go in?
Speaker 7: Hi, Daddy, Daddy, Durkin.
Speaker 5: Dourcin Hi here, I'm here you your foster father hasn't come.
Speaker 3: Down yet, Donnie.
Speaker 6: This is Durkin Daddy talking at his breakfast prompt at
seven thirty, and I ring with Donny, don't come down
for it?
Speaker 9: Stop it.
Speaker 3: There now.
Speaker 6: That's the third time, third.
Speaker 8: Time, Daddy, not punch. I think I better go up
and see.
Speaker 3: I'll go with you.
Speaker 5: A line clock go off three plays of an hour
ago to.
Speaker 2: Daddy.
Speaker 3: Wait another night?
Speaker 8: What is it, Johnny?
Speaker 3: But I caught up with a cord, I.
Speaker 2: Guess, daddy, Johnny, Johnny?
Speaker 3: Oh no, great, so Marylyn. He said, together with Marilyn
Edwards and not his daughter of John wake here, that
I found his body in his bedroom points over, no
sign of any wound, no evidents of foul play, without
touching nobody. I found the Albany Police Fomicide Division and
with a minute judged Christie arrive with doctor Walden Lincoln
and sold the doctor. Examination was brief and very thorough,
including settle on the spot. Tests were poisons of any kind.
How who in.
Speaker 6: Theory was with I didn't doctor. He was sixty eight
or nine, I.
Speaker 3: Think, And he hasn't been sick, not that I know
of Dick and the hospital and would know better than I.
Speaker 5: Hasn't had a day of sickness since he caught that.
Speaker 3: Cold last spring. Well, his pump gave out, that's all.
Don't expect that in the man his age. Yeah, I
know you're O. You didn't find anything, did you, Chris not?
I think God why they bothered to call us in
instead of his own doctor purse. If new folks want,
I can order an audition.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, that would be.
Speaker 3: Terrible and down it goes to the natural causes. I'm
dead approximately seven fifteen, doctor, and I expect you can
carry on from here, cantamish.
Speaker 6: I'll take casting Anne.
Speaker 5: If he can't, I will again. And with closing these wizards, well.
Speaker 3: Come on target back to the Morgue. Oh the morg.
Speaker 5: Well, if you want some breakfast. I ain't gonna do
him any good now can help?
Speaker 8: But I suppose we're may as well, Johnny, and do
whatever we have to do here.
Speaker 3: There was something mighty wrong here, yet I couldn't put
my finger on him. Had I really caught the smell
of Cordie before we entered that room? It was too
late to tell now, even when the windows closed, those
windows the cold morning. Had he left them open while
he dressed Marilyn, heir to his big insurance poot? Had
she really just arrived when I got there? If the
housekeeper Durkin had been in the kitchen making breakfast, it
would have been easy for someone to sneak in. But
who and why? And what about Durkins?
Speaker 10: I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 3: The police medic said, death to the natural causes, no happen,
no wounds of any kind, So that's fast. The undertaker
must have been hungry for business, because he got there
before noon and took the body away meantime. Of course,
I'd questioned both Durkin and Maryland pretty early.
Speaker 8: Emmy, Oh no, Sonny, Daddy doesn't have.
Speaker 3: Nny.
Speaker 2: You keep talking as though you think he might have
been murdered.
Speaker 3: Does anyone beside you benefit from his death?
Speaker 7: Marylin, that's a horrid thing to say, I do.
Speaker 2: What are you doing snooping around this way?
Speaker 5: As much high affair as yours? Now that miss Edwards
is gone.
Speaker 3: What do you mean by that?
Speaker 6: Kin mean the money he left me in his will
and the co disciline as will it says Maryn's got
to share the insurance with me if she collected.
Speaker 3: What do you mean by that?
Speaker 6: Everybody knows her and her father, her foster father, anything
getting along too good, every since she decided to get
out and learn her own living, or tried to.
Speaker 5: I've been getting along all life here, sure, and.
Speaker 6: All the attention you've been giving your dear.
Speaker 5: Daddy these last couple of years.
Speaker 6: By today's the first time you've been in this house.
Speaker 2: And that doesn't mean that do you and I haven't
there's something you wished to be left alone?
Speaker 3: Sorry, Johnny Marlin. I want to go up and look
at your fathers again.
Speaker 8: All right, if you like, I'll go along.
Speaker 3: Thanks, I'd rather do it alone. Oh why did I
find nothing? Sure, there were a couple of old bottles
of hair tonic in a way under some shirts. But
after all, I mean at his age. And that's funny
little thing on the dressing table. It was a little
well half stand. I guess you'd call it the kids
you find in a woman's hatch up, you know, a
little wooden stand about eight or ten inches high. Johnny, Look,
huh did you get that?
Speaker 8: After what you said downstairs? I guess I began the one.
So I looked around outside, you know, for footprints.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I was looking for it, and
you found his handgun. It was in the middle of
a myrtle bush.
Speaker 8: It was Donny's done. And see one son has been tired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I also see you carefully put your fingerprints all
over it. Oh fine, now my prints are all over it.
So if it was used to what am I talking about?
If it had been a shot trick and would have
heard it. What's more, there would have been a bullet wound.
And there was no sign of anything.
Speaker 4: In the.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Maryland, maybe there was. It was six
uals now act free if you're truly doney dollar, I'm
the hair raising letter. My hunt was right. I was
sure of it now. I told miss taking and Maryland
to stay there at the house and wait for me,
then jumped into my car and drove into Albany to
the undertaker.
Speaker 11: Here we are stellar. The embalming room is right here.
Speaker 3: I'm not confess we.
Speaker 11: Haven't had the opportunity to prepare mister Edward's body. Good
sez he's not a rushed all day. Yeah, I'm sure
worthy result.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Was he a relative of room? No? No, are
you doing but trying to make sure that a crazy
hunter had looking? How are you trying to pull his
hair off? No? Off? Well, I think if now look here,
young man, Look you see what's what I'm trying to
do here? What? Yes, cold heaven, I can't believe it.
Speaker 11: He would never know.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody would have done. But it's a
hair piece, all right, that's big enough to cover a
small ball, but it matches the rest of his hair.
So he got some kind of a solvent. I don't
want to have to rip it off.
Speaker 11: But yes, I think we had to be.
Speaker 7: Sure.
Speaker 3: Those old bottles of hair tonics, probably hadn't used them
in years. But evert wooden't stand sure. He parked his
wing on it, and probably nobody knew who he wore
except himself and somebody very close to him.
Speaker 11: Here, mister dollars, this will move to pay without day. Yeah,
I don't understand where.
Speaker 10: You want to take it though, Oh god, yeah, right
in the middle of his boss, but covered up by
the hair feet and the bullet admitted was a thirty
eight specially and you said you didn't get here this
morning until I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Johnny, you're sure? Yes, Johnny went into his room again.
Where's the kitchen? Idea?
Speaker 2: John You have a funny look.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, I'll tell you this much. Your
father was murdered, all right, as sure as that? Yes,
you said, I am, ah, what's here here on the
dressing table?
Speaker 4: You know what this is?
Speaker 7: Of course?
Speaker 3: It's a little hatstand.
Speaker 8: I used when I was here.
Speaker 3: What's it doing here?
Speaker 8: No, Fanny, I never really noticed it before.
Speaker 3: How long did daddy wear to pay Marylynd what to
pay a hair piece?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: Never?
Speaker 2: He was always very proud of the care.
Speaker 3: You're sure about that?
Speaker 4: Quick?
Speaker 8: I am for a long time he always used to
smell of hair tonic when he came down stairs.
Speaker 3: What was going to happen?
Speaker 4: You're wrong?
Speaker 3: What a small, very well made hairpiece covered the ball
spot where he was shot this morning with this thirty
eighth you say you found outside?
Speaker 5: I did honestly, all right, all.
Speaker 3: Right, I believe you in spite of the way you
covered up any fingerprints that may.
Speaker 7: Have been honest You did too, Johnny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now listen, that leaves only one person who could
have one about the hairpiece have killed him and then
covered up the bullet worm with it. I knew i'd
smell burn Gunpotter when we first came up here. Think yeah, yeah,
but I prove it. I've got to try ah bluff. Yeah,
it seems like a bluffer. I don't believe it.
Speaker 5: Yet with him dead, you'd have money.
Speaker 3: More money.
Speaker 4: Well, Dric, So you're back, are you then?
Speaker 3: Anyway? Checking up on something something I should have suspected
last night when I talked to mister Edward's on the phone.
What do you mean line clicks that meant somebody was
listening in on the phone downstairs. Don't look at me.
Speaker 5: I didn't even know you called him last night?
Speaker 3: I wasn't dead asleep. Were you drinking? But I was
just checking on at police headquarters. The police headquare was
a set of fingerprints I found on a glass you'd
been using in the kitchen. I wanted to compare them
with some prince I found on this gun.
Speaker 5: That's mister Edward's gun.
Speaker 3: When you used to kill it.
Speaker 2: That's a lie.
Speaker 5: I wasped him off and.
Speaker 3: Threw it out the window, then over the other windows
to let the smell of powder up.
Speaker 5: Yes, I wasped them off.
Speaker 7: At Lisa, I I thought, I, okay, let's go.
Speaker 3: Don't worry. There'll be no part of the insurance or
any other money for circuits. Of course, we'll take care
of that, and probably with Benny from Maryland. Well, you
know something, here's again I think i'd like to see again.
And I don't mean because of her fortunes. Expense accounts total,
including all the mileage on my car forty seven fifty
yours to lean Anny dollars. Our Star will return in
just a moment. Now here's our Stars tell you about
next week's story. Next week, a little jade statue is
the key to one of the cleverest spots I've ever
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Truly Johnny Dollars starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and
has written, produced and directed by Jack john Star. Heard
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, this is a solution that really does
brain credulity and really to the breaking point, the murder
depends on just a ridiculous amount of things believable. Really,
if somehow she was able to liver the shock close
enough that there was a minimal splatter that had to
be cleaned up, but having the crime happened at seven
point fifteen meant that she had fifteen minutes to clean
up the scene and get breakfast started and ready to
be on the table. Though that no one would suspect
what she'd done, And really the whole thing falls apart
if a real thorough medical examination is done. The fact
that she came up with the plan that she concocted
this very cold blooded, very calculated plan and then delivered
precision execution on the crime. And then Clumbusile incriminates herself
not once, but multiple times. So this was a below
average installment, which, given the fact that we have so
few episodes from this era in circulation, is a bit disappointing.
All right, Well, listen her comments and feedback now, and
we have of comments on YouTube regarding the Johnson payroll matter.
First off, we start with Allen, who says, well written story.
It had me guessing, And James said, I thought I
had heard all of the Bob Bailey episodes, but I've
never heard this one. I'm happy to help the algorithm
by hitting that hot button. Well, thank you so much.
I appreciate everybody who does what they can to help.
I have tried to use the hot button on other
videos and I can't seem to locate it, but thanks
so much for those who can find it. The idea
of having you have heard all of the Johnny dollars
it has actually been a situation where the number of
circulating episodes has been evolving over the years. It hasn't
changed all at once, but it was interesting. I was
listening to an interview that John Dunning did with Bob
Bailey's daughter a few years back, and it struck me
when he talked about the Johnny Dollar cereals. He said, wait, yeah,
I've got about forty of those. I think he said
something like yeah, and I got about thirty forty of
the half hour episodes. And now, of course we are
up to more than one hundred and seventy of the
half hour episodes, and all the cereals are around, although
there are four which have a single episode missing. But
there have been a steady trickle over the years of
more Johnny Dollar episodes, which gives me hope. Obviously, just
a few months ago we played one that I'd never
heard before, and I've heard five new ones come into
circulation just in the time that I've been doing this podcast,
and I'm so glad that I was around to hear
Johnny Dollar using the plan of dropping explosives onto a
glacier from a small plane. It gives me hope that
someday I will get to hear the episode where Jack
Johnstone actually wrote a self insertion story, but alas not
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