1 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:34,799 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,280 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,119 going to bring you this week's episode of yours truly 4 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,960 Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to let you 5 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:48,840 know that if you are enjoying the podcast, you can 6 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,200 follow us using your favorite podcast software. And a reminder, 7 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,079 as you are making your travel plans, check Johnny Dollar 8 00:00:56,079 --> 00:00:59,200 air dot com. Johnny Dollar air dot com is a 9 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:02,399 price line affiliate link, so part of the purchase price 10 00:01:02,439 --> 00:01:06,120 supports the great Detectives of Old Time Radio at no 11 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,040 additional cost to you. So remember when making travel plans, 12 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,879 check Johnny Dollar air dot com. First now from July twentieth, 13 00:01:14,079 --> 00:01:17,799 nineteen fifty eight, here is the more hobby red sequel matter. 14 00:01:20,359 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 2: Hollywood, It's time now for Johnny is you're a number 15 00:01:30,239 --> 00:01:35,159 in England? Oh? Thank you all for one moment, Johnny 16 00:01:35,239 --> 00:01:39,480 Dalla Jake, Johnny, So you found out I was right, 17 00:01:39,599 --> 00:01:42,040 you lift our date of Arizona and going back to 18 00:01:42,079 --> 00:01:42,799 hartwork wrong? 19 00:01:44,079 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 3: You mean you're still in link by hobby resort. 20 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,159 Speaker 2: I sure, am, and I am still betting that you 21 00:01:48,239 --> 00:01:51,159 haven't found anything to indicate Elner Hobbe's death wasn't back 22 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,040 to dent aroundie, so your expenses will have to come 23 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,879 right out of your own pocket instead of the company. Listen. 24 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:00,040 As for that crew you talked about eating honey. 25 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 3: Listen, what have you mailed any insurance claim yet? 26 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,159 Speaker 2: Why? I just got to run it over to the 27 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:08,360 post office and your call came in. Turn it up 28 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:20,759 because Jake elma Hans was murdered. Bob Bailey and the 29 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,680 Exciting Adventures of the Man with the action packed expensive 30 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:35,319 caud America's fabulous freeliance insurance investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar now 31 00:02:35,479 --> 00:02:52,840 like one of yours, Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted 32 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,879 by a special investigator Johnny Dollar the Greater Southwest Insurance 33 00:02:56,879 --> 00:03:00,479 and Liability Company King in Arizona office. He has an 34 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:03,400 account of expenses Encourage during my further investigation of the 35 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:11,919 Mohave Red matter expense account on in won twenty cents 36 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,439 for the phone called to Jake Kessler and Kingman. I 37 00:03:14,479 --> 00:03:16,840 made that call in the office there at Lake Mohavee Resort, 38 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,360 and needless to say, Jake didn't quite believe me at first. 39 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:25,400 Murdered Elmer Hobbs was murdered, Jake, I'd bet my last 40 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,039 buck on it, you bet, Johnny. The police spent two 41 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,960 or three days over there investigating the corner two and 42 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:33,840 they all reported no evidence of foul play. 43 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:35,879 Speaker 3: That's simply because they didn't know where to look. 44 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:36,479 Speaker 2: What do you mean. 45 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: You know Red Barrett, the old fishing guide over here. 46 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 2: I've heard of it. Well, Red found the boat that 47 00:03:41,319 --> 00:03:43,240 Hobbes used that day. It was lying on the bottom 48 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:44,840 of one of the coves up in the Big Basin. 49 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,759 Sure because of the storm that drowned Elmer Hobb because 50 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,800 somebody sank it. That boat had a couple of air 51 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:52,439 tanks on it that would keep it a float even 52 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:56,520 if it was swamped. But Jake, those tanks were cut 53 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:02,719 open by whoever killed Hobbs. Yeah, but who did it, Johnny, 54 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:05,159 That's what I'm gonna find out. I'll call you later. 55 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,560 I hung up on Jake Kessler then walked on back 56 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,560 to the dock, where I found Red Barrett and Buster 57 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:14,520 Favor waiting for me. 58 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 3: You get your call. 59 00:04:18,639 --> 00:04:21,639 Speaker 2: The king went through, all right, Johnny? Yeah? Right, Jake 60 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,839 Kessler's holding up the claim on Alma Hobbs and Shirts. Good. 61 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:28,399 That's good. Did you tell Buster and what we found 62 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,920 up the lake. Sure, yeah, Johnny, he did. It's like 63 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,319 I said in the beginning. I just didn't see how 64 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:37,560 man like mister Hobbs could ever give himself captured from 65 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,319 the big base, no matter how bad a wind came up. 66 00:04:40,639 --> 00:04:43,120 Buster was the only one that agreed with me. Johnny, Well, 67 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,000 quite frankly, I don't see why everybody wasn't suspicious when 68 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,120 hobbs boat wasn't found after the storm, right Johnny, Now 69 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,480 that you and Red found it sunk in the bottom 70 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,160 of that cove and with a flotation tanks cut over, 71 00:04:56,439 --> 00:04:59,040 it sure looks like murder. Oh that's what I thought 72 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,720 from the first rush. That's why I telephoned all the 73 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,319 way to Hartford to get Johnny out here. But who 74 00:05:04,399 --> 00:05:08,680 could have wanted to kill him? Any ideas? Must say no, sir, Johnny, 75 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,040 I certainly haven't sure there was nobody here at the 76 00:05:11,079 --> 00:05:13,720 resort who might have wanted him out of the way. Johnny. 77 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:16,279 The other folks who were here at the time had happened, 78 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,240 why they didn't even know. Mister Howe Sure, absolutely see. 79 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,720 He wasn't much of a mixer. He stayed by himself 80 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:26,600 all the time, that's right, Johnny. Elmer used to go 81 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,160 out fishing first thing in the morning, and he'd be 82 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,600 the last to come in at night. He'd go to 83 00:05:31,639 --> 00:05:34,800 his room, cookie supper, and then go to bed. All right, Listen, 84 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:38,519 he was killed just before or during the big storm. Yeah, 85 00:05:38,519 --> 00:05:41,000 that's right. Who else was out on the lake at 86 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,399 that time? Nobody? Nobody from here, that is, all our people, 87 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,800 all our boats were back here at the landing. They'd 88 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,319 got the storm warning. So don't you see, Johnny, it 89 00:05:50,399 --> 00:05:52,519 must have been somebody from up to lead. What do 90 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,759 you mean from one of the other landings? What other landings? 91 00:05:56,759 --> 00:06:01,959 Cottonwood Memories, anyone of them, sir. Somebody sank his boat 92 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,560 and tried to sink his body with it. But we 93 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,519 found his body washed up on Nevada. Sure you found it, Red, Yes, 94 00:06:09,639 --> 00:06:12,759 I did, my best friend. I drove down to that Boatbuster, 95 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,759 and I found not only the past in flotation tanks, 96 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,399 what the ankle line had apparently been lashed around the 97 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:20,959 body to hold it there. And you remember, Buster, the 98 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,199 rope marks we found on Elmer's body. Yeah. But the police, 99 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,319 Sheriff Connor and the red what did they say, He 100 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,720 probably just got tangled up in that rope when he 101 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,480 was fighting the storm. But they were wrong. Yeah, apparently. 102 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:38,160 Why do you say that, Johnny, Well, because so far 103 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,480 this evidence of murder is well, it's all circumstantial. That's 104 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:47,720 a motive. Motive I hadn't thought of that. Well. The 105 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,759 main thing is that that cut and open the flotation 106 00:06:50,959 --> 00:06:53,560 tanks was done with some kind of a nag. I 107 00:06:53,879 --> 00:06:56,319 was asking about motive, and I know that Elmer didn't 108 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,000 have any axe on that boat. Do you find the axe? Johnny? No? No, 109 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:01,879 And I read and I'll tell you what he had 110 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:05,240 in his boot beside his clothes. Let's cover this motive. Thing. 111 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,560 He had to anchor of course, that went with the 112 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,319 bull read. He had a nice new Sila flex rod 113 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:13,199 with a Mitchell three hundred dollars. He had a long 114 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,199 handled neck that he picked up somewhere in LA and 115 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,040 an old beat up McKinney tackle box full of plugs 116 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,519 and spoons and the face right, and that was all Johnny, 117 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,319 No axe, that was all he had. Read That bush 118 00:07:26,319 --> 00:07:29,839 sure beating around is getting pretty big, Johnny. I don't 119 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:32,800 know what you mean when I asked you about possible motive, 120 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:35,519 And so far all you've done is evaded. The question, Now, 121 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,639 why should I do that? Well, that's what I want 122 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:41,480 to find out. Well, now, Johnny, you know of anyone 123 00:07:41,519 --> 00:07:43,759 who might have wanted mister Hobbs dead? You say you 124 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,560 know him pretty well and I did, yes, sir. Well, no, sir, no, sir, 125 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:54,399 I certainly don't. Sure well elm Well, he wouldn't. Nobody 126 00:07:54,639 --> 00:07:57,879 could want to kill a fine man like him. Johnny, 127 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,920 he was one of my best friend. Yeah, at least 128 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,480 while ever he was here. I mean I never knew 129 00:08:04,519 --> 00:08:06,759 anything about him in La. I mean he was in 130 00:08:06,839 --> 00:08:10,560 business back there, Armiston, that's right with the Manny co Stu. Manly, 131 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,800 wait a minute, what is it, Johnny, I'm going back 132 00:08:13,839 --> 00:08:16,399 to the office and called j Kessler Kennon. Yes, sir, 133 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:19,399 Helmer was my best friend one. Come on up to 134 00:08:19,399 --> 00:08:21,759 the office with me, Buster, use the phone here on 135 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,720 the dot, Johnny, No, no, come on Red, We'll see 136 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:31,600 you later. I'll be here, sir. You look like you 137 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,000 just got hit with an idea, Johnny. Yeah, yeah, and 138 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,360 I'm afraid it isn't a very pretty one. Ohman, come 139 00:08:40,399 --> 00:08:42,879 in here. Oh yes, mister Carson. And they picked up 140 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:46,480 some nice bass up above the power line. Crossing, dude, 141 00:08:46,519 --> 00:08:49,159 I was thinking of going up that way. Yeah, well 142 00:08:49,159 --> 00:08:53,240 good luck. Now what were you going to say, Johnny? 143 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,279 We're read and mister Hobbes such really good friends. Well, 144 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,600 we're always together when he gets of course, they were 145 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,639 always fighting like cats and dogs over some silly thing 146 00:09:04,759 --> 00:09:09,440 or other. But didn't mean it. Oh no, wait a minute. 147 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:12,960 Johnny was Red alone when he found hobbs body, Yeah 148 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,000 he was, and he brought it back here. But now, 149 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,600 look there any other boats up the lake? Yeah? There were, 150 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,639 but Red was searching that particular part of the shore alone. 151 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,720 But surely you don't think Kessler told me something about 152 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,399 Hobb's insurance policy. But not quite enough, Johnny, listen, come on, 153 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:41,960 let's get to that fall. Well, do I know what 154 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,679 you think? You ought to call in the police. No, 155 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,840 if you're right, that is no, let me handle us 156 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:50,120 alone for the moment. I listened, Jake, didn't you tell 157 00:09:50,159 --> 00:09:52,200 me that the insurance claim was filed by one of 158 00:09:52,279 --> 00:09:56,559 hobbs beneficiaries plural? That's right, by his business partner in LA. 159 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,440 Who were the others? Just one? If you take you 160 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:02,799 were solvaring. 161 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 4: Up and I know of you. 162 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 2: Now is this other beneficiary Jake. 163 00:10:05,399 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 3: You're still sure Hobbes was murdered. 164 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: Huh, I'll bet on it. And now you're looking for 165 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:11,200 somebody with a motive huh. 166 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 3: The beneficiary, Jake, Like I. 167 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,879 Speaker 2: Told you, one of them was his business partner, Jay 168 00:10:15,879 --> 00:10:23,720 stuartan Manley, and the other red red, Yeah, red barret 169 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,679 act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment. 170 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,399 Speaker 4: We live in a world of symbols and signs, abbreviations 171 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:37,200 and slogans. 172 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 2: What do they mean to us? Well, of course, that 173 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:42,159 depends you. 174 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,159 Speaker 4: Take the flag of the United States, for example, there's 175 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,639 a symbol that is respected throughout the world and cherished 176 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:50,919 by citizens of the United States of America. 177 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:54,039 Speaker 2: But there's a reason for it. 178 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 4: It stands for the power and the glory, the fairness 179 00:10:57,519 --> 00:11:01,200 and progress of the United States, based on long years 180 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:07,039 of historic tradition. The Congressional Medal of Honor is another 181 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:12,159 symbol of the highest sort, based on historic truths and traditions, 182 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,039 and won by gallant action above and beyond the call 183 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:19,240 of duty. How did it all get started? We'll just 184 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,399 listen to this. Before the Civil War, there were no 185 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,039 permanent awards given to the men of the armed forces 186 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:28,919 of the United States for doing their jobs now, not 187 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,200 even when the job was beyond the call of duty. 188 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,399 Fighting men did what they could because it had to 189 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:39,320 be done. In eighteen sixty two, less than two dozen 190 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:43,399 Union Army enlisted men who became known as the Mitchell Raiders, 191 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,399 volunteered to make a secret penetration deep into enemy territory, 192 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,639 steal an express train right out of the Confederate camp 193 00:11:51,159 --> 00:11:54,759 and run it north, tearing up tracks, burning bridges, and 194 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:59,399 cutting wires on the way in order to disrupt enemy communications. 195 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,399 Only moments before reaching their own lines again, with a 196 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,399 mission accomplished, the train ran out of fuels. The men 197 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,200 tried to escape, but were captured and thrown into prison. 198 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,440 Most of them were executed as spies. The others, expecting 199 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,919 the same fate, made a brave and dangerous attempt to escape. 200 00:12:19,759 --> 00:12:24,360 Six of them were recaptured and later exchanged for Confederate prisoners. 201 00:12:25,519 --> 00:12:29,000 When they reported to Washington, d C. They were awarded 202 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,120 the first medals of honor ever given to American soldiers. 203 00:12:34,159 --> 00:12:37,879 In their gallant and intrepid actions to do everything possible 204 00:12:37,919 --> 00:12:41,360 to fight, to win, and when captured, to escape and 205 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:45,679 fight again. They maintained an established code of conduct for 206 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:50,799 American fighting men everywhere. What the Mitchell Raiders did is 207 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:55,799 symbolic of what keeps America a great nation. Now is 208 00:12:55,879 --> 00:12:58,840 a good time to examine your own code of conduct. 209 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,879 Speaker 2: And now I two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and 210 00:13:03,919 --> 00:13:13,000 the Mohave Red Sequel, two people who I know stood 211 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,240 the game by the death of Elma Hobbs. One his 212 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,639 business partner, Jase Stuart Manley in Los Angeles. The other, 213 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:21,840 Red Barrett, fishing guy at Lake Mohave Resort, who said 214 00:13:21,919 --> 00:13:24,799 he'd found his body, who professed to have been his 215 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,960 best friend. I wondered. I said as much to Buster Favors, 216 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,399 who sat there in the office of the resort, red deer, 217 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:34,440 thing like that. I won't believe it, Johnny, But he's 218 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,360 the one person who could have engineered the whole thing busting. 219 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:39,559 But why then would he lead this to the place 220 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,440 where mister Hobbs's boat was sunk and find up the 221 00:13:42,519 --> 00:13:45,159 fact it was deliberately sunk and an attempt made to 222 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,919 saint Hobbs's body with it. Oh, there's a cover up, 223 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,559 make him look clean. Oh no, Johnny, Well, the boat 224 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,759 would have been found in that cold sooner or later anyway, 225 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,679 I tell you you're wrong. If you just suspect Red, look 226 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,440 if Hobbes' business partner as a beneficiary too, why don't 227 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,679 you look him? I fully intend to. Unless Red did 228 00:14:02,799 --> 00:14:05,240 do it, No, I can prove it. No, John, Let's 229 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:06,639 go back to the dock so I can talk to 230 00:14:06,759 --> 00:14:11,440 I can't see Uster. I just oh, hello, Johnny, I 231 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,120 suppose you've heard him? Yes, Red Chldren. You're quite short 232 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:20,559 with murdered. Yeah, I'm sorry, lists Yeah, him as manager 233 00:14:20,559 --> 00:14:23,480 of this resort, you know Red pretty well. I sometimes 234 00:14:23,559 --> 00:14:26,320 wonder That's what I came up here to ask you about. Buster. 235 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:29,840 Huh did you send him skiding out of here? What? 236 00:14:30,639 --> 00:14:32,559 You just left him down at the dock? I mean 237 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,360 you didn't see him tearing out of here in the 238 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,240 pickup truck a few minutes ago? I am read where'd 239 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,240 he go? I don't know, but he certainly left in 240 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:45,840 the hurry. Johnny, Yeah, No, I still can't believe it. 241 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:47,559 What are you boys talking about? 242 00:14:47,759 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 3: Nothing? 243 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 2: I ham is our car on here? I can use sure? 244 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:58,000 Take mine keys, thanks insttly, Buster. I was poking around 245 00:14:58,039 --> 00:15:00,799 where Red kept his fishing tackle, trying find that rig 246 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:04,080 he barked me last week. What did you find him? 247 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,960 I thought Buster him might know. And the old code 248 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,000 got hold of that new spinding outfit Chilo flex raw Yeah, 249 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:16,399 and the bran spanking new Mitchell reel. He is all right, 250 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,080 ham Buster, you just sit tight. If Red comes back 251 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,840 here before I do him, come back, yeah, say nothing 252 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,120 to him about what we've learned. Just keep him here 253 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,480 and tell him, tell him I'll return to talk with 254 00:15:26,559 --> 00:15:29,399 him later. Nothing else, John No, No, do as I say, Bo, 255 00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:37,279 what's going on? I'll see you later. Well, Johnny Red 256 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,399 was one of Elma Hobb's beneficiaries. He was the one 257 00:15:40,399 --> 00:15:43,840 who found the body. He had the fishing tackle that 258 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:46,799 had belonged to Hobbs, and when it was discovered by 259 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,960 him Pratt, he'd left in a hurt. We're all pretty incriminated, 260 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:52,639 which is not why I took off an Ham's car 261 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,039 west On seventy seven, south on ninety five and west 262 00:15:56,039 --> 00:15:58,879 again on sixty six. Had him for a buck, even 263 00:15:58,879 --> 00:16:01,799 for a sandwich in a cocon ball. I had him 264 00:16:01,879 --> 00:16:03,759 five four eighty for a tankful of gas at the 265 00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:07,080 sign of the Flying Red Horse, then Westwood again, and 266 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,000 always with an eye out for Red in the old 267 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,240 pickup truck. Finally, as the sun was disappearing over the 268 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,080 edge of the Pacific, I pulled into Los Angeles. The 269 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,240 real estate office of Manley and Hobbs was closed. The 270 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,519 directory at the nearest phone both gave me j. Stewart 271 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,039 Manley's home address thirteen oh eight Pandora Avenue, in the 272 00:16:24,039 --> 00:16:32,639 residential section called Westwood. The neat white stucco house was dark, 273 00:16:32,639 --> 00:16:35,679 the garage empty. I led myself and throw a back 274 00:16:35,679 --> 00:16:37,279 door by slipping a lot with the eight of one 275 00:16:37,279 --> 00:16:41,159 of my business cards. It's hard to see inside, but 276 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,639 I didn't want to turn on any lights. That was 277 00:16:44,639 --> 00:16:48,720 a mistake because as I quietly rounded a corner and 278 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:56,480 started toward the den, I guess wrong. Somebody was at home. 279 00:16:57,039 --> 00:17:00,720 Wasn't that den behind and now closed door? Somebody knew 280 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,000 that I was in the house. It was only one 281 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,119 thing to do, try to pull my way through. Well, 282 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:24,839 mister Manley, you're going you killer, read Johnny Dollar. It 283 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,720 kind of kind of looks like I made a mistake. Yeah, Red, 284 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:45,720 the biggest mistake in your life. Fact three of your 285 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,960 truly Johnny Dollar in a moment. Times have changed, and 286 00:17:50,039 --> 00:17:54,880 so has the man in the adventurers, romantic, almost legendary 287 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:58,480 days of the American pioneer, the Prairie schooner, or the 288 00:17:58,559 --> 00:18:02,319 Indian fighter with the sharp eyes of the wagon train, 289 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,279 or the cavalry unit which was probing the strange, treacherous 290 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:09,880 and often hostile lands that lay ahead. The crest of 291 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,440 a hill or a towering tree was the observation point. 292 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:23,119 Results sometimes effective, but very often extremely inadequate. Today, however, 293 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,119 the scout for the ocean going transport, the high flying plane, 294 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,559 or the mechanized cavalry unit is a man who is 295 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:36,920 highly skilled in the use of technicological accomplishments. His observation 296 00:18:37,039 --> 00:18:42,799 point a radar screen, a scientific development which provides the 297 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:47,240 modern scout with the information necessary for him to detect, analyze, 298 00:18:47,279 --> 00:18:50,519 and interpret the obstacles that might prove disastrous to the 299 00:18:50,559 --> 00:18:58,599 advancing ship, plane, or tank. Results extremely effective, seldom inadequate. 300 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,920 Times have changed, and so has the man. Now I'm 301 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:13,519 free of yours, truly. Johnny Dollar and the mohave Red sequel, 302 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,519 You know what common sense tells me? Read what Johnny, 303 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,119 that you and j Stewart Man they were in Cohootes 304 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,559 and the murder of Elmer Hobbs. Oh no, so you 305 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,079 can't believe that you told us that Hobbs had a 306 00:19:29,079 --> 00:19:31,559 Sila flex rod a Mitchell wheel in his boat. 307 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,599 Speaker 3: Yes, sure he did, just like the refound him. 308 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,079 Speaker 2: Read among your things back at the lake, Or you 309 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,559 found mine, Johnny, that Elmer gave me the match his 310 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,440 Look look what I found here in the man this closet. 311 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:51,880 This was Elmer's rotten real, Johnny, what all strung up 312 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,480 with the with the warble right scoon on it, just 313 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:56,599 just the way he faced with it. And he could 314 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,920 cast so accurate. You're sure this was his. Here's his 315 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,920 initials right on the butt and scratched on the reef. 316 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:08,400 Who h. If you'd have looked, you would have found 317 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,720 my initials on the rod there at the lake. Would look? 318 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,720 Look here? Look what I found the corner of this closet, 319 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:20,440 all wrapped up like to hide it the acts. And 320 00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:23,480 I'm no detective, Johnny, but just look at these marks 321 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:25,480 like it was used to hack in some kind of 322 00:20:25,559 --> 00:20:29,079 thin metal, the flotations as on that boat. Maybe you 323 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,960 are a detective, rent, and a good one. Why did 324 00:20:32,079 --> 00:20:34,680 you come tearing in here to la in the hopes, Johnny, 325 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,559 I'd find these things. I thought from the first that 326 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,279 Manly might be the one Elmer never did really trust him. 327 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,160 He told me that many a time, But you didn't 328 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,160 accuse him. When I talked to you at the lake. 329 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,279 I wanted some prove Manly not only get a hunk 330 00:20:49,319 --> 00:20:52,240 of Hobs insurance, but the share of the business. That's right, sir. 331 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,839 I pulled a little trick on him too. What do 332 00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:58,960 you mean, Well, I stopped along the way and I 333 00:20:59,039 --> 00:21:01,079 phoned him to make sure that he wouldn't be here 334 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,000 for a while. Or what did you tell him? Disguised 335 00:21:04,039 --> 00:21:07,359 my voice, Johnny real good, that voice of yours. I 336 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,000 told him that this was a friend. I said that 337 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,359 I thought he ought to know that you were working 338 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,240 on the cave, that if he'd left any evidence of 339 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,200 Lake Mohave, he'd better get there and steer you away 340 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,759 from him, Red, And that that's the way I got 341 00:21:20,839 --> 00:21:23,119 him away from here so I could find this stuff. 342 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,440 But if he's gone to Lake Muhammed, Oh, I knew 343 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,799 you could take care of him. And if I did 344 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,279 find these things, like I did, I was going to 345 00:21:30,319 --> 00:21:32,839 phone you there to be ready for him. Well, why 346 00:21:32,839 --> 00:21:36,599 did you attack me when I came in here. Sorry, Johnny, 347 00:21:36,599 --> 00:21:38,960 but I thought maybe he'd got wise and come back 348 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,119 and maybe recognize my voice after all. Exactly what happened, 349 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:48,200 read mister Manley, Sir, that's right, Jay Stewart Manley, this 350 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,920 is my wife, mister deller Red kill the start. They 351 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,880 are burglars, don't you see? And we caught them rubbing 352 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,279 the house. Yet Mary, I suppose that means we're all 353 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,880 right that you did kill your partner, Elmer Hobbs, that 354 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,279 stupid old man fishing all the time instead of tending 355 00:22:06,279 --> 00:22:09,000 to the office taking all the money. But now we'll 356 00:22:09,039 --> 00:22:14,200 have some money for a change own the business. Yea, 357 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,799 I see you've found old Elmer's things. No shirt, this 358 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,400 fishing rod is here's not you? Oh put it. Pretty 359 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,640 foolish you to bring that stuff here, Manley, especially the acts. 360 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:27,200 I'm sure any good police lab will find traces of 361 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,400 Alumanum from the boat on it. 362 00:22:28,839 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 3: Kill hims it their robot. 363 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 2: Their fingerprints will be all over. Mary's right, your prowler 364 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,119 is ransacking my house, and I can see the pulls 365 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,400 of your pistol. Dollar, So when he caught in the 366 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,279 land up hold my right to kill you and self 367 00:22:41,279 --> 00:22:47,799 defense and dollar you go first. Listen, you think you 368 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,599 can shoot as straight as I can cast a fishing flood? 369 00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 3: Uh? 370 00:22:51,559 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 2: Like this? Oh no, no, get male, I hate to 371 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:03,960 have to sock a woman. 372 00:23:04,079 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 3: You hurt him, yeah, as badly as he hurt Elma Hobs. 373 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,319 Speaker 2: He looked that horrible fishing plug the hook that ripped 374 00:23:10,319 --> 00:23:15,480 his hand. But it's leaning redheaded old fool things at him. 375 00:23:16,599 --> 00:23:21,039 Jesus do it. That was a beautiful piece of casting. 376 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,160 He almost tore his hand off of that plug. Well, Johnny, 377 00:23:25,799 --> 00:23:29,680 with Elmer's own rig, and I think maybe he would 378 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,799 have liked that. I hope so. But you know what 379 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:38,079 I hope the most, Johnny, what right that the fishing? 380 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,440 That the fishing is real good up where Elmery is 381 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:52,279 now Manley and his wife, Yeah, read it figured right 382 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,640 the morning of the day that Hobbs was killed. They'd 383 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,480 rented a boat out of Cottonwood Landing a few miles 384 00:23:58,519 --> 00:24:01,400 up the lake and Amber. They're in the big basin. 385 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,440 Bob Cole and Cotton would have noticed the new rotten 386 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,920 wheel when they come back off the way just before 387 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,720 the big storm. They noticed the acts too. What he 388 00:24:09,799 --> 00:24:12,240 wanted about it? Now? He knows? 389 00:24:13,759 --> 00:24:16,039 Speaker 3: So from here on in except for the Sheriff's office 390 00:24:16,039 --> 00:24:18,720 in the courts expense. 391 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: Account total including a return of Ham's car, a few 392 00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:23,440 days of fishing in the trip back to Hartford three 393 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:45,640 hundred and seven dollars even, Yours Truley, Johnny Dollar, Yours 394 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,640 Truly Johnny Dollar is starrying. Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood 395 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,279 and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also 396 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:58,240 wrote today's story burd In our cast where Virginia, Gregg, Harley, Bear, 397 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,640 Forrest Lewis, Barney Phillips, Reed, and Russell Thorson be sure 398 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,839 to join us next week, same time in station for 399 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,039 another very exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This 400 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:09,880 is Roy Rowan speaking. 401 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back. I have to be honest, I don't think 402 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,680 much of Johnny's theory of Red Bean the killer, even 403 00:25:54,799 --> 00:26:00,279 before obvious evidence, because I'll allow for the fact that yes, 404 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:04,400 there was motive, but there'd be nothing to investigate without 405 00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:10,839 Red if Red had committed the murder. Johnny danced around 406 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,480 the question of why he would get Johnny to do 407 00:26:14,559 --> 00:26:18,759 this investigation, And I also feel like this is an 408 00:26:18,759 --> 00:26:23,519 episode where Jack Johnstone fell in love with his guest 409 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,400 character and forgot who the protagonist is supposed to be. 410 00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:31,000 Think about it. Red found and took Johnny to the 411 00:26:31,039 --> 00:26:33,759 wreck of the stolen boat in the first part, and 412 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:37,680 then in the second part it's Red who ultimately caught 413 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:43,000 the criminal and was able to find the evidence to 414 00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:48,880 prove him guilty. Johnny just came to Lake Mohave, was wrong, 415 00:26:49,039 --> 00:26:52,319 went fishing, and collected an expense account. Now, of course, 416 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,880 if that's nice work, if you can get it, but 417 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,480 I generally think the hero should have more to do 418 00:26:57,559 --> 00:27:01,240 with the outcome than that. How we turn to listener 419 00:27:01,279 --> 00:27:04,599 comments and feedback, and we go to YouTube or riots 420 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,839 or comments. I think that Sea Hunt and Johnny Doller 421 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,839 used different parts of the same music as theme song. 422 00:27:13,279 --> 00:27:16,759 I went ahead and listen to the Sea Hunt theme song, 423 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,000 and I can hear a couple parts of it that 424 00:27:20,319 --> 00:27:24,359 do remind me of the Johnny Dollar theme. However, my 425 00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:29,000 understanding and I've heard the actual Johnny Doller theme music 426 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,920 used on other programs, including a Dick Tracy series from 427 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,920 the early nineteen fifties with Ralph Bell, is that that 428 00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:46,200 particular music is Library Music Music Library. The theme to 429 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,880 Sea Hunt was written by Ray Llewellen, but that's a 430 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,559 bit of a mystery, because there was no such person 431 00:27:54,880 --> 00:28:02,400 as ray Llewellen. Llewellyn is credited as the composer of 432 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:08,000 the theme to eight different television series, and there was 433 00:28:08,039 --> 00:28:15,200 a theory, first propounded by John Burlingame in nineteen ninety six, 434 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:20,640 that ray Llewellen was actually a pseudonym for David Rose, 435 00:28:21,079 --> 00:28:27,039 a fantastic composer musician. Holiday for Strings was one of 436 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:30,160 his best known works, but he did a lot of 437 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,759 great stuff, though you can find it if you look 438 00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:36,079 for old time radio programs. He did a series called 439 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:41,079 California Melodies, and did a lot of film and television work. 440 00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:46,599 The theory is that ray Llewellen was a pseudonym. He 441 00:28:46,759 --> 00:28:52,359 used to work on various non union projects, particularly for 442 00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:57,440 ZIV Television, while still remaining in good standing with the 443 00:28:57,519 --> 00:29:03,519 ASCAP listings. People who wrote Classic Themes dot Com point 444 00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:08,759 out that ray Llewellen could have been a joint pseudonym 445 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,559 or a house pseudonym shared with other composers, but they 446 00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:18,119 didn't notice one curious thing that seems to confirm the 447 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:23,359 idea that ray Llewellen was a pseudonym for David Rose. 448 00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:28,519 Is he put out in LP in nineteen sixty eight, 449 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,559 which said that his music had been used as theme 450 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,519 songs for a total of twenty two different TV programs, 451 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:42,680 but for Union projects there were only fourteen. But if 452 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,920 you take the eight that were done by ray leew Wellen, 453 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,440 then you get to twenty two. So really a lot 454 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:56,000 of mystery behind that title. Now, of course it's possible 455 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,119 that some library music was used as a basis for 456 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,920 but likely the theme was written mainly by David Rose. 457 00:30:05,599 --> 00:30:08,799 Thanks so much, appreciate the comment and the opportunity for 458 00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:12,000 the little rabbit hole there. Now it's time to thank 459 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:16,039 our Patreon supporters of the day. Because this is the 460 00:30:16,079 --> 00:30:19,279 first Friday in November, I do want to go ahead 461 00:30:19,279 --> 00:30:22,480 and thank those who have been supporting the podcasts for 462 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,160 five years. 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We will be back next Friday with another 473 00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:06,200 episode of Yours Truly, Johnny, All are but join us 474 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,960 back here tomorrow for the great adventurers of old time 475 00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:13,119 radio and Cloak and Dagger. 476 00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:17,119 Speaker 2: Where then I heard it? This was someone in pain, 477 00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:20,039 someone down an alley way just to my ride. 478 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,759 Speaker 3: She was lying alongside the wall of a building. 479 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 2: And she was my recent friend, Gloria Lane. Help me 480 00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:34,119 get me sure, Gloria Sure? This is Granger. Where do 481 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,279 you live? I live? 482 00:31:38,519 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 4: Come on, baby, come. 483 00:31:39,559 --> 00:31:43,039 Speaker 2: On, wake up, and you've got to carry in an 484 00:31:43,039 --> 00:31:47,440 a rendez and call a doctor. We're an listen fellow, 485 00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:53,119 donn raw real desk. All right, so you got again. 486 00:31:53,559 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 487 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,720 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot NEP, 488 00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:05,200 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 489 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:10,920 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives From Boise, Adaho. 490 00:32:11,519 --> 00:32:14,119 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.