1 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,799 --> 00:00:39,520 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,479 going to bring you this week's episode of Yours Truly 4 00:00:43,799 --> 00:00:47,560 Johnny Dollar. But first, if you are enjoying this podcast, 5 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,719 please follow us using your favorite podcast software, and remember, 6 00:00:52,759 --> 00:00:56,479 when making your travel plans, check Johnny Dollar Air dot com. 7 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,679 Johnny Dollar air dot com is a price line affiliate, 8 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,479 so part of your purchase price supports the great detectives 9 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,760 of Old Time Radio at no additional cost to you. 10 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,319 So remember when making your travel plans, check Johnnydollar Air 11 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,879 dot com first. But now, from January eleventh, nineteen fifty nine, 12 00:01:16,079 --> 00:01:18,519 here is the deadly doubt matter. 13 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar is Caerl Carson. 14 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 3: Mister Dollar, you don't know me, and I'm sorry to 15 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:33,920 be calling so late. 16 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,799 Speaker 2: What time is it? Anyway, when I am a friend of. 17 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,159 Speaker 3: Yours, mister Ralston mentioned your name to me today. He 18 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:42,879 said you were here in New York for the weekend 19 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,040 and mentioned your hotel. 20 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: Look, Riss Carson. Yes, Carol Carson, it's nice talking to 21 00:01:48,599 --> 00:01:50,519 you and all that, but it is right Later I 22 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:52,560 realized what had happened a few moments ago. 23 00:01:52,959 --> 00:01:56,799 Speaker 3: You were the first person I thought of. Maybe you 24 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,000 can help me, mister Dollar. I need help. 25 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:01,719 Speaker 2: Actly what's the trouble. 26 00:02:02,439 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 3: I'm at the apartment of Everett Read on East sixty. 27 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: Seventh over any particular reason. Yes, I think I've just 28 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:23,039 killed him, mister Dollar. I'll be right over Bob Bailey 29 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,680 in the Exciting Eventures of a Man with the Action 30 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:30,479 in fact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigator as 31 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:38,039 truly and now act one of yours, truly Johnny Dollar 32 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:56,120 Expense accounts of ented by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to 33 00:02:56,199 --> 00:03:00,120 the Interstal Adjustment Bureau Home Office, Hertford, Connecticut, following as 34 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,599 a kind of expenses encourage during my investigation of the 35 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:12,120 deadly Doubt Matter expense accundine one a dollar any cab 36 00:03:12,199 --> 00:03:15,199 from my hotelity apartment I've ever read on East sixty seventh. 37 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,120 Harol Carson was waiting for me at the door. She 38 00:03:18,199 --> 00:03:20,599 looked sort of dazed as she pointed to a body. 39 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:20,879 Speaker 3: On the floor. 40 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: He's dead. 41 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 3: To Dollar, ever read, let's see, Yes, this is his apartment. 42 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: You said over the phone you thought you'd kill him. Well, 43 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:35,599 he's dead, all right. 44 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 3: That's not what I meant. I meant I thought I 45 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:44,439 was the one who killed him. I'm not sure I had. Oh, 46 00:03:44,479 --> 00:03:48,719 I don't know. Doesn't seem to matter. He's dead. 47 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:49,719 Speaker 2: I guess that's all. 48 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:59,439 Speaker 3: I get hold of yourself, Carol, I guess I'm not 49 00:03:59,479 --> 00:04:04,639 making that sort of funny lightheaded. 50 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 2: Let us. 51 00:04:07,759 --> 00:04:08,439 Speaker 3: Thanks? 52 00:04:08,919 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 2: Oh, why didn't you start at the beginning? 53 00:04:12,039 --> 00:04:17,759 Speaker 3: All right? I came to see tonight about eleven o'clock. 54 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 2: I guess he was a friend of yours. 55 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 3: Oh, he sent for me. I had to come. 56 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 2: Why I'm telling me why. 57 00:04:29,319 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 3: He insisted that I have a drink with him. Then 58 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,600 I started to feel funny, busy. I had to get 59 00:04:37,639 --> 00:04:38,079 some air. 60 00:04:38,639 --> 00:04:39,959 Speaker 2: You think there was something in the drink. 61 00:04:42,319 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 3: He didn't want me to leave, but I had to. 62 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 2: What time was that? 63 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 3: I think a little before? Maybe I wandered around the streets. 64 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:53,279 I was in kind of a day. 65 00:04:53,439 --> 00:04:54,959 Speaker 2: How long were you wandering around? 66 00:04:56,319 --> 00:04:57,759 Speaker 3: It seemed like a long time. 67 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,639 Speaker 2: Then why I came back here. 68 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 3: To the apartment. I had a terrible headache. I remember 69 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:06,959 walking in the door, and. 70 00:05:08,879 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 2: That's all that's all. What do you mean, That's all that's. 71 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 3: All I remember. I must have passed out when I 72 00:05:16,399 --> 00:05:18,160 came to, I was lying on the floor and that 73 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,000 gun was near my hand. In front of me was 74 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:25,279 and I called you. 75 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:27,639 Speaker 2: That's all you can tell me? 76 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,959 Speaker 3: Great, So as much is it? 77 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:32,519 Speaker 2: The dollar? 78 00:05:33,639 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 3: I can't believe I killed him. 79 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: I couldn't you say you left this apartment a little 80 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,079 before eleven thirty. The police medical examiner will be able 81 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,000 to tell the approximate time of day if you weren't 82 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:45,759 here at that time. 83 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:48,439 Speaker 3: That's just it, mister dollar. I don't know how long 84 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,560 I was on the street. It seemed like a long time, 85 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,800 but oh my head was spinning and everything was pretty hatey. 86 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 2: Well, you gotta remember where you went to try to think. 87 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:08,079 Speaker 3: It's no good. Wait, coffee, a cup of coffee. 88 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 2: You stop somewhere for a cup of coffee. I think where. 89 00:06:12,199 --> 00:06:16,959 Speaker 3: I remember a neon sign on on Third Avenue. 90 00:06:17,079 --> 00:06:20,199 Speaker 2: You've got to do better than that. That's all I remember. 91 00:06:20,959 --> 00:06:27,279 Did you talk to anyone while you were walking around? Yes? 92 00:06:29,079 --> 00:06:33,519 Speaker 3: Yes, but he was following me. I think a man. 93 00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:36,800 He was following me for quite a while. He told 94 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:44,800 me his name, no Tom, Yes it was Tom. I 95 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,240 remember that dark eye look. 96 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:49,959 Speaker 2: That description fits thousands of guys in New York. 97 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 3: The whole story. Well, it doesn't sound very convincing, does. 98 00:07:01,519 --> 00:07:04,519 Speaker 2: I called Detective Lieutenant Mike Tovich homicide and he was 99 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,279 there ten minutes later. He was still questioning her. When 100 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,040 I left. I had them two one dollar drinks for 101 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:13,360 me while I thought about the whole deal. Of all 102 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:15,199 the guys in New York, Why did she have to 103 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,399 pick on me? But yeah, I'd do what I could 104 00:07:18,439 --> 00:07:22,040 to help her. It's that story of hers. It sounded 105 00:07:22,079 --> 00:07:30,279 so pony, it just might be true. Act two, you 106 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:34,920 were truly Johnny Dollar. In a moment, it was truly 107 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:40,160 Johnny Dollar. And the deadly doubt matter. I had them 108 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,360 three two dollars and twenty cents a telephone called a 109 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:46,240 Pat McCrackan at Universal Adjustment Bureau. Yeah, Everett Reid had 110 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,279 been insured by one of the Universal's member companies. So 111 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:50,879 I got myself officially assigned to the case, and I 112 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,519 went to work kicking out Carol Carson's story what there 113 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,519 was of it, and it wasn't much. All she remembered 114 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,920 was wandering around the streets, getting a cup of coffee 115 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:03,319 somewhere on Third and being followed by a guy named Tom. 116 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,319 I started checking every Joint on Third Avenue from sixtieth 117 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:08,920 to seventieth Streets. An hour and a half later, I 118 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,519 had paid her to Eddie's Baring Grille. Yeah, yeah, I 119 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,560 think I remember, all right, Harson, Perrell, Carson, her name. 120 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 4: Don't be nothing, but from the description you give me. Yeah, sure, 121 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,319 I remember now. I remember thinking she looked kind of 122 00:08:23,319 --> 00:08:24,079 funny once. 123 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,879 Speaker 2: You walked in, like she was in a daze or something. 124 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,439 All right, all right, now, what time was it when 125 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:30,120 she came in here? 126 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 3: Oh? 127 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,799 Speaker 2: No, two three hours ago? That's not good enough. Was 128 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:41,159 it eleven eleven thirty midnight? Well? What? Well, maybe around midnight? Maybe? Yeah, 129 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:42,200 be sure about it? 130 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 4: Before I can remember, I kind of remember somebody in 131 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,440 the door, we have to come in, but I didn't 132 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,440 know somebody with her or not. 133 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 2: What happened then? So she asked for a couple of coffee, 134 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,039 so I pored it and said it down in front 135 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,320 of her. So she left. She what Yeah, I'm left 136 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:03,080 still to her? Funny, I see, how much of a 137 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,080 time can you account for that? I mean, how long 138 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,080 was she here in your place? No more than about 139 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:17,279 one minute? Matt oh raach for a dollar. Lady camp 140 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:21,200 for at the police headquarters and Lieutenant Mike Tovich and homicide. Look, Johnny, 141 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:22,919 you're not trying to tell me I should buy an 142 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,559 aloe buy like Carol Carson's, are you. So it is 143 00:09:25,639 --> 00:09:28,399 pretty vague, Mike, vague enough to be true. At least 144 00:09:28,399 --> 00:09:30,000 she was telling the truth about going into that jo 145 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,519 on Third Avenue for a cup of coffee. So she's 146 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,840 covered for one minute out of two hours two hours. 147 00:09:36,279 --> 00:09:39,320 She said she went to Reed's apartment about eleven o'clock, right, 148 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,000 the medical examiner says time of Read's death was between 149 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,440 eleven thirty and twelve thirty. She called you at one o'clock. 150 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,240 But if she can prove she was out of that 151 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,919 apartment for that hour, she's only proved she was out 152 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:52,919 of it for a minute, plus the time it took 153 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,159 to get the Third Avenue and back, say five minutes 154 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,799 each way, and would still give her plenty of time 155 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,919 to kill him. But if he could find this guy 156 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:03,840 named Tom she says she was, that was following her around, 157 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:05,799 maybe he could prove she was out of the apartment 158 00:10:05,879 --> 00:10:08,039 during the time of the murder. Oh sure, that was 159 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,960 a real helpful description. She gave us. Curly hair and 160 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,799 dark eye. Yeah, Look, Johnny, so you're taking a liking 161 00:10:14,879 --> 00:10:17,240 to her. That's too bad, But don't let it make 162 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:20,000 a fool out of you. Mike. Did Carroll tell you 163 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,200 why she went to Read's apartment? No, No, she wouldn't 164 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,080 talk about it. She also wouldn't explain the lump she 165 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:29,000 has on the side of her head. Yeah, we think 166 00:10:29,039 --> 00:10:31,360 she got it fighting with Reed. What do you know 167 00:10:31,399 --> 00:10:35,399 about him? Bad boy, a big gambler. And the way 168 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:39,840 we heard he'd been winning pretty big lately. Maybe somebody 169 00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:42,919 he won from couldn't pay off except with a bullet. 170 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,080 Maybe anything, Johnny, prove it? And I'll listen. What did 171 00:10:47,159 --> 00:10:50,600 Reid run around with? You know, usual crowd, Johnny, Jack 172 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,399 Mistil had outfit miscile. I've read one a lot of 173 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:59,960 money from him. Like I say, Johnny, anything you can prove? Yeah, yeah, Johnnie, 174 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,679 that's right. I'm Larry Bowman. I want to know what's 175 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,559 going on with Carroll Carson. Oh what's it to you, 176 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,240 mister Bowman? I'll say anything, are locked up? That's right, 177 00:11:12,519 --> 00:11:16,600 suspicion of murders. She didn't kill anybody, and you know it. Look, 178 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,600 if I knew it, she wouldn't be locked up, would she? Now, 179 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:22,679 maybe you can tell us why she went to this 180 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,120 ever at Read's apartment last night. I don't know why 181 00:11:25,159 --> 00:11:26,879 she went, and I don't supposed to ask her either. 182 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,879 I trust the lieutenant, and she went to seem she 183 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,440 had good reason. But Carol's not kind. You could kill anybody. 184 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,240 You must have realized that just talking to her. The 185 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,360 main thing that I realized is that my personal opinion 186 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,320 is besides the point, Bowman. Look, the thing we need 187 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,200 to know is if Carol was away from Read's apartment 188 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:46,960 for almost an hour and a half, why she seems 189 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,080 to think she was walking around the streets. Say that 190 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,960 sooner I can prove she was. I was with her. 191 00:11:54,399 --> 00:11:59,120 Oh funny, she didn't mention it. She was probably confused. 192 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,039 You're not the one who was confused. Now, look I 193 00:12:02,039 --> 00:12:04,240 tell you I was with her. Okay, where were you 194 00:12:04,759 --> 00:12:07,919 on the street? What street? I don't remember? Sixty sixty 195 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,720 eighth Street. I think that's not the street. Carol says 196 00:12:10,759 --> 00:12:13,240 she was on. As I say, she was probably confused. 197 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,159 As you go to a bar, would you have to drink? Oh? 198 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:21,639 Carol too sure? Why not? You're fighting a losing battle, bond. 199 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:24,919 Carol says she had a cup of coffee on Third Avenue, 200 00:12:24,919 --> 00:12:27,480 and that a guy named Tom was following. I'll listen. 201 00:12:27,639 --> 00:12:30,559 You told us enough. Woman. I can't blame you too 202 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,399 much for trying. I guess, but it won't work. You 203 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:37,799 weren't with Carol, and you know it. I know she 204 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,200 didn't kill it. You mean you hope she didn't When 205 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,600 it comes to knowing right now, every bit of evidence 206 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,440 we got says she did, and we've got nothing that 207 00:12:47,519 --> 00:13:06,919 says she didn't act pre you off yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 208 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:11,440 In a moment, yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and the deadly 209 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:22,320 doubt matter. Oh I dont five thirty cents coffee for 210 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:24,639 Larry Bowman and me had a little join around the corner. 211 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,799 Lieutenant Toby, you can talk about evidence until he's blue 212 00:13:27,799 --> 00:13:30,600 in the face, do it. Carol's not a killer. You 213 00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:33,039 proved that, and Tobach will be the first to listen. 214 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,639 But cooking up pony alibis for Carol's not gonna help 215 00:13:36,639 --> 00:13:39,360 any Okay, Okay, So it was a stupid thing to do. 216 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,399 I can't just stand by and do nothing. Don't you 217 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,799 have any other leads? You can follow up one? Maybe? Why? 218 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:48,879 What is it? Reed? Was a gambler. Could be somebody 219 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,559 was losing big stual. Carrol's my fiance, and I know 220 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,840 she doesn't have that kind of money anyway, she doesn't gamble. 221 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,759 I wasn't thinking about Carol. Who then Jack Whistle, for instance, 222 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,600 we found out Read's been seen with vessels several times. 223 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,440 Lay question him about it. I may as well, after all, 224 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:15,679 at this point, we got nothing to lose. You're bucking 225 00:14:15,799 --> 00:14:19,559 up a wrong tree. Dollar, what reason would I have 226 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,480 to kill Reid? Could be a real good reason, Vessel. 227 00:14:23,039 --> 00:14:26,200 Maybe you lost money to him, Camra. Some nights you win, 228 00:14:26,919 --> 00:14:29,399 some nights you lose. So maybe you lost one nights 229 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,240 and you won, so maybe you will read some money. 230 00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:36,840 Oh that could be the motive. Look, Dollar, why don't 231 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,039 you take your crazy theory someplace else? Yeah, I ow'd 232 00:14:41,159 --> 00:14:45,080 read money. I owe him all the two bits. Now 233 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:51,600 is that enough to bump them off? I started making 234 00:14:51,639 --> 00:14:54,559 the rounds a long third avenue again, but I got nowhere. 235 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:57,720 Nobody remembered seeing her, and nobody remembered the guy named Tom, 236 00:14:57,919 --> 00:15:00,480 the one she told me had been following her. Two 237 00:15:00,559 --> 00:15:02,879 hours later, I gave up. I was preached. I went 238 00:15:02,919 --> 00:15:15,279 back to my room and flopped on the bed. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, 239 00:15:14,519 --> 00:15:18,840 uh Johnny tellon, that's right. Who are you? I'm the 240 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,919 guy you've been looking for it. Why my name's Tom. 241 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,679 I ring a bell? It sure does? You the one 242 00:15:26,679 --> 00:15:29,679 who was walking around the streets with Carol Carson. That's right. 243 00:15:29,759 --> 00:15:32,039 I'm a alibi. So I bust my neck trying to 244 00:15:32,039 --> 00:15:33,639 find you, and it ends up with you finding me. 245 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,200 I read in the papers that looked bad for Carol 246 00:15:36,279 --> 00:15:38,080 unless they found the guy I was with it. He 247 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,480 didn't show up any too soon, believe me, brother. How 248 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:43,039 long were you with her? Oh? I figure at least 249 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,440 an hour. I kept following her, and once in a 250 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,120 while she'd stop and talk, but she seemed kind of 251 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,840 dazed and apparently re put something in a drink. Anyway, 252 00:15:51,879 --> 00:15:54,440 I finally gave up. I figured, if it was that 253 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,559 tough to get acquainted, what's the use. But you're willing 254 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,159 to swear you were with her for an hour? Why 255 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:04,519 at least I'm around eleven thirty. After twelve thirty, he clears, there, 256 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:09,879 come on, I had am sixty dollars ready camp for 257 00:16:09,919 --> 00:16:13,879 at the headquarters. Tom repeated a statement. Carol identified Tom 258 00:16:13,919 --> 00:16:16,679 as the man who'd been following her. So it looked 259 00:16:16,679 --> 00:16:17,399 like it was all over. 260 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 3: Hi. I guess I'll never be able to thank you enough, Johnny. Well, 261 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:24,600 if it hadn't been. 262 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 2: Well, let's just say on the stubborn type, Carol. Once 263 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,879 I believe your story, I had to follow through on it. 264 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,559 Speaker 3: It's hard to realize I'm free. It's been like a 265 00:16:34,639 --> 00:16:36,279 bad dream. 266 00:16:36,399 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 2: I'll bet Larry Bowman's glad it's over too. Have you 267 00:16:39,519 --> 00:16:39,960 called him in? 268 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,879 Speaker 3: I'll call him from my apartment, Johnny. All I can 269 00:16:44,919 --> 00:16:46,519 say is thanks again. 270 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 2: Carol took a cab to her apartment. I started back 271 00:16:56,039 --> 00:16:58,200 into the building, and then out of the corner of 272 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,639 my eye, I spotted another cat pulling up the curve 273 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,799 following Carroll's and it was Tom. I figured i'd better 274 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,759 join that procession. I tagged along to Carroll's apartment. Inside 275 00:17:08,759 --> 00:17:12,839 I could hear voices. The door was unlocked. Carol was 276 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,680 in the process of handing over some money. 277 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:16,839 Speaker 3: Tom. 278 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 2: Johnny, Yeah, looks like I got here just in time 279 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,640 to witness the payoff. So you butcher yourself an alibi, Carrol, No, 280 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,000 I look, Doll, I got to stay out of it, Carroll. 281 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:31,440 I got to hand it to you. 282 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,519 Speaker 3: You really had me for what you don't understand, Johnny, don't. 283 00:17:34,279 --> 00:17:36,599 Speaker 2: Be a sucker. Dollar cut yourself in on the pie. 284 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:38,640 I'm willing to have a partner. What are you talking about? 285 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,160 Last night? When I followed Carroll back to Read's apartment, 286 00:17:41,559 --> 00:17:43,920 just as I was leaving, I spotted somebody coming down 287 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,359 the fire escape. I followed him and found who he 288 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,920 was and where he lived. And when the story came 289 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,680 out in the papers, I realized I knew who the 290 00:17:51,759 --> 00:17:54,759 killer was. I figured it makes him go out of it, 291 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:56,880 but not as long as Carol was in jail. 292 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,799 Speaker 3: Johnny, just not when he wanted money to keep him 293 00:17:59,799 --> 00:18:03,119 from telling the police. Oh, I didn't know what to do. 294 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:05,200 I thought if I gave him what I had, it 295 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,359 would keep him satisfied until I could figure it out Larry. 296 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:14,519 Speaker 2: When am it was too late, open door, It struck 297 00:18:14,599 --> 00:18:17,440 Larry's arm, the flipped his shot before he could shoot again. 298 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 3: I nailed him, Johnny, Are. 299 00:18:26,079 --> 00:18:30,839 Speaker 2: You all right? Yeah, Larry Bowman's the killer. 300 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:35,519 Speaker 3: I guess I was afraid of that right from the start. 301 00:18:37,039 --> 00:18:40,799 You see where he'd been gambling with Reed and losing 302 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,759 to him. I tried to make him stop, but he 303 00:18:43,759 --> 00:18:48,000 wouldn't I more than he could pay. 304 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,559 Speaker 2: So you want to read his apartment of try and square. Huh. 305 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 3: He told me maybe something could be worked out. He 306 00:18:55,799 --> 00:18:58,240 put something in my drink. I realized what he meant. 307 00:18:58,599 --> 00:18:59,480 That's why I got. 308 00:18:59,279 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 2: Out and Larry out of the apartment when you were away, 309 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:05,079 killed reed, slugged you when you came back and planted 310 00:19:05,079 --> 00:19:05,559 the gun on you. 311 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:11,599 Speaker 3: I guess so I wasn't true until Tom told me 312 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:18,880 he'd seen Larry climb down that fire escape. First, I 313 00:19:17,039 --> 00:19:25,319 just I just couldn't believe that Larry would How do 314 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:29,079 you figure a thing like that? Johnny? How do you 315 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:29,640 figure it? 316 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 2: I didn't try to answer that one because I didn't 317 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,759 have an answer. Yes, it just isn't any I had. 318 00:19:43,759 --> 00:19:46,000 I made thirteen dollars and forty cents in Sinnettal's in 319 00:19:46,039 --> 00:19:48,880 transportation back to Hardrid expense account total and forty one 320 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,960 dollars even. Yeah, Larry Bowman's gambling was a big fat mistake. 321 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,720 First with ever read and in trying to frame Carol. 322 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,440 I guess with the trouble, Yami push you luck too far, 323 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:08,359 and sooner a lady bound to loose us? Truly, Johnny 324 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:25,000 Dale our star will return in just a moment. Ah, 325 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,880 here is our star to tell you about next week's story. 326 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,240 Next week at Doulting Dollager who sets me out on 327 00:20:31,319 --> 00:20:35,359 the wildless case I ever handled? Johanne, Won't you yours truly, 328 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:48,920 Johnny Dale, Yours Truly Johnny Dollars Salute Station k r 329 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,759 MG and Tulsa, Oklahoma. K r MG is our newest 330 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:55,480 to Philliot station and serves nearly a million families in 331 00:20:55,559 --> 00:21:00,559 the Southwest. Yours Truly Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Dailey, produced, 332 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:04,039 I'm directed by Jack Johnstone. Today's story was written by 333 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:08,079 Robert Stanley. Heard in the cast where Virginia, Greg, Julius Matthews, 334 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:12,000 Paul Dubar, James Mcalliam, Allan Reed, and Frank Gristoll join 335 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,920 us next week. What another exciting story of Yours Truly, 336 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,799 Johnny Dollar. This is damn coverly. 337 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: Speaking, welcome back, well, a decent script overall, a good mystery, 338 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,160 and I think a surprising ending too. Now, of course, 339 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:38,640 there are many, many documented cases of Johnny Dollar using 340 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:44,640 scraps from other programs, but this is one of those where, 341 00:21:44,759 --> 00:21:49,119 even though there's not a documented duplicate, I am really 342 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:54,400 really suspicious that this was a reused story. First of all, 343 00:21:54,559 --> 00:21:59,160 the Fry has a very non standard way that Johnny 344 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,559 gets involved in the case, as well as an insurance 345 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:09,200 angle that feels somewhat tangential and added to justify his presence. 346 00:22:09,279 --> 00:22:13,400 And there are lines of dialogue like Johnny saying, of 347 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,279 all the guys in New York, why did she call me? 348 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:17,799 Speaker 3: That? 349 00:22:18,039 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: Do make me think that this was originally written for 350 00:22:21,079 --> 00:22:25,000 some sort of New York private Eye. Now the writer 351 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,519 Robert Stanley. The only writing credits I could find for 352 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:33,599 him were Johnny Dowler and Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, and 353 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,759 obviously I don't think this was reused from Luke Slaughter 354 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,599 of Tombstone. However, there are a lot of old time 355 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,759 radio detective programs with quite a few lost episodes, and 356 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,519 so it's possible that Stanley wrote this script for another 357 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:54,160 program that we just don't have access to. I'd actually 358 00:22:54,319 --> 00:22:59,440 be surprised if we ever definitively found proof that wasn't 359 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,279 the case. I would not be at all surprised if 360 00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:07,480 an old time radio program came into circulation for some 361 00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:12,359 obscure detective series with the exact same storyline. As this 362 00:23:12,519 --> 00:23:16,759 episode listener comments and feedback now and we go to Spotify, 363 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,799 where doctor who Done It wrote I think the real 364 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,480 twist here is that the woman Johnny was interested in 365 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:28,920 wasn't guilty and she didn't wind up dead. Guilty, dead 366 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:35,119 or both are the popular outcomes for Johnny Dollar love interest, 367 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,200 so I guess it's worth noting in the hair raising 368 00:23:39,279 --> 00:23:42,039 manner that it didn't work out that way. Thanks so much, 369 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,759 appreciate the comment. 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We'll be back next Friday with another 380 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,640 episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Doller, but join us back 381 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,400 here tomorrow as we give way to the great adventurers 382 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:34,519 of old time radio and counterspy where this is going to. 383 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 2: Be a tough enough to crack munting half a minion 384 00:24:37,079 --> 00:24:38,319 force gasoline. 385 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,759 Speaker 5: Coupons, bud counterfeiting or all bring gasoline coupons just as 386 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:46,640 bad now as counterfitting money work. I have a hunch 387 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,599 of this is even more serious than it appears on 388 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,519 the surface. How do you mean I'm afraid that this 389 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,839 gas is being obtained by counterfeit coupons to be used 390 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,200 to lead you animy submarines. 391 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 2: Do you think it goes that deep? 392 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,519 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with with us then in the meantime, 393 00:25:01,839 --> 00:25:06,440 send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 394 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,839 follow us on Twitter, Radio Detectives, and check us out 395 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:15,720 on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 396 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,680 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.