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But now from March twenty ninth, nineteen fifty nine, here
is the Jimmy Carter matter.
Speaker 2: Johnny Diller, Hi, mister by yourself? Who's that you know, Jimmy,
Jimmy Sure, journey East North?
Speaker 3: What I think? Just the money for this long distance
call for my newspapers use for your own money?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I'm sure it is. But now you haven't
told me Jimmy who Jimmy Carter joined the Moody Artist artist.
Speaker 3: You saw that he's about there for up here forever?
Speaker 2: Oh sure, an East North Weald in Massachusetts. Wow, what
are you calling about? Jimmy, I can help yousel another case.
Mister Kenny what con it's mister what Yes, Sir Bob Bailey.
In the Exciting Adventures of a Man with the Action
packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator as truly
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Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Amalgamated Life Association home office, Hertford, Connecticut, following his the
kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Jimmy
Carter matter. It was only last fall that I'd gone
to the sleepy little town of East north Wealdon Up
in Massachusetts to run down a heavily bearded man who'd
stolen some money a while back from a furniture plant.
It was little Jimmy Carter who'd really solved the case
for me by drawing some hair and a beard and
a poster, a poster of the ball headed Queen shaven
Mayer had shown him up as he looked before, as
the criminal. Sure I remember Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 3: Actually spending my own money to make this long distance
joful call from the joyful in the group store crazy away.
Speaker 2: Who's Jimmy.
Speaker 3: Away?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well Jimmy easy and he and his own insurance.
Speaker 3: Cot me to. They all thought he just handed accidents.
His name was mister Andrew Parkinson.
Speaker 2: Parkinson, I see because I used.
Speaker 3: To pull my money in this joyful I saw he's coming.
Speaker 2: Man from Did he know you saw him? Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't see how he could help with her. He
didn't do anything about it, so he didn't see me.
Speaker 2: Yester, All all right, what's the name of this other man?
The killer?
Speaker 4: But you are three minutes are up?
Speaker 1: What do you ge?
Speaker 3: Oliver here?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, operator, do you hang up? The name Jimmy,
the name of the killer? No repirse the charges Jimmy
operator operator expense account had him one ten cents phone
call to the Auto club for some route information. I
had him to another time for a call to Pat mccragan,
a Universal Adjustment bureau. It was pretty early in the morning,
but fortunately he was in his office. Yes, Jimmy, Hey, Pat, listen,
I'm driving up to Massachusetts fast as I can. Wow.
Good for you. Listen, what do you Andrew Parkinson get that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And now well he died a few well that is
he died and it was supposed to be an accident.
But I I wet to see how he's dead, Johnny, Johnny,
I want to know who his insurance company is. You're
a clearinghouse for that sort of information. That's right. Well,
would you see if they have a representative or an
office of an East north Weldon mass East north Weldon.
That's right, it's just east of North Weldon. Oh, no,
you know, up north of fitchburgen. Oh, that place. I
have heard. Well, somebody in that company called it accidental,
but listen, I have reason to think it wasn't. So
if I can contact whoever it is up there and listen, pat,
there may be a kid's life at stake.
Speaker 5: Johnny.
Speaker 4: This is about as confusing as any Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm sorry. Just get me the name of
the company that insured the life of Andrew Parkinson. But
it may take a couple of hours. Okay, just get
it for me. I'll call you when I get up there.
I had them three four dollars even for a tank
full of guests. By the time I got to Fitchburg,
it was a little afternoon. Thanks to a slight argument
with a highway policeman along the way. I mean another
phone call had them for fifty at McCracken. Did you
find out that insurance company for me? Oh, Johnny, that's right. Ah, yes, yeah,
it's one of the smaller outfits. Johnny does a lot
of rural business. Amalgamated Life Association. Okay, thanks. Policy on
Andrew Parkinson was issued by their local representative of mister
Waldo bottom Lee there and East north Weldon. That's right,
And the company's report on Parkinson says that his death
was accidental. It's already been reported. H When did he die?
Pat the day before yesterday? And the claim has been filed. Yes,
ten thousand dollars with a double and them to be closed.
Wait a minute, who's the beneficiary? Lucius R. Weatherby, same town? Okay,
thanks a lot. No, no, no, no, wait a minute, Johnny,
tell me what Awaits nothing? I tell you a kid's
life may be in danger.
Speaker 1: What does a kid hit?
Speaker 2: Sorry bad, I got to hit the road. It was
after two pm when I finally pulled him in front
of the combination drug store and mercantele at the one
business corner in the village of East north Weldon. One
of the local citizenry looking slightly under the weather, set
on the riggedy porch of the store, hacking away at
a stick of wood with an old pocket knife. Hid, Hi,
you have a little drink about you, sir? No, but listen.
Where's the little boy who usually sells newspapers around here?
His name is Jimmy Cuttery. Yeah, that's right to Jimmy Carter.
Well have you seen him? You know where he is?
He name's more name, but he's not around here now, noop,
you know where I can find him? Noop? Do you
know where he lives? Where his home is? Yeah? Well
where up the street? Oh sure? What street? Sprew North
Sprew and the number eighteen. Okay, thanks. Listen. My name
is Johnny Dollar. If you see him, please tell him
I'm looking for him. Johnny Dolla. Hey, yeah, you uh
got the price of a drink on you some other time.
Just be sure I'll tell him.
Speaker 6: Yes, missus Carter, that's right.
Speaker 2: My name is Johnny Dollar. Mister Dollar.
Speaker 4: Where is he?
Speaker 7: What have you done with him?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 7: Jimmy my son?
Speaker 4: Jimmy he said he had to talk to me.
Speaker 2: Oh well he did that is he called me on
the phone.
Speaker 4: Sitting around the house like he was sick or something
all day yesterday, and he talked and turned all night
in his sleep, missus. This morning he jumped up from
his breakfast on he wasn't eating any of it, and
he said he had to see you, He had to
talk to you. He said he'd be right.
Speaker 2: Now, all right now.
Speaker 4: That was early this morning. So when he didn't come back,
I went to the school, but he wasn't here.
Speaker 7: So I went down to.
Speaker 4: The corner where he picked up his papers every noon
from the bus. But he hasn't been there. You're sure, papers,
the bundle of papers, they were all still there. Listen,
miss And he hasn't come back here.
Speaker 7: Something's happened to him, mister dollars, something's happened to Jimmy.
Speaker 2: Back too? Off yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment
coming up to ten gallons, mister johnes checker, ol fielder
and airfielder might pay one thousand dollars. How's that? Well?
Haven't you heard about Pram's big silver treasure hunt? Oh yes,
I heard something about it over my car radio this morning.
What's it all about? Well, a regular field check is
so important. The PRAM Corporation is paying sixty thousand dollars
to get car owners to check their filters now sixty
thousand dollars in cash. Oh, this is PRAMS silver anniversary.
Next year, ten thousand secretly numbered fram filters were distributed
all over the United States and installed in cars during
regular servicing. You may have one in your car not
even know it. A CRAM filter Carter is worth one
thousand silver dollars and if you do, I get a
thousand bucks too. Where what are we waiting for? Let's
check those filters now. Hurry, folks, you could win up
to one thousand dollars in cash. Join the Big Bram
treasure hunt. Check your car filters now and now act
too off yours truly, Johnny Dollar and the Jimmy Carter
matter O. Jimmy Carter, the cute little kid who'd help
me solve an embezzlement case up in the small New
England town with the unlikely name of East North Weldon.
We'd call me on the phone to report a murder.
But when I got there, Jimmy was gone, disappeared.
Speaker 4: Jimmy said he was going to talk to you, mister Dollar,
but that was early this morning and he hasn't come back.
What did you do with him, mister Dollar?
Speaker 2: Where is he? Why I haven't seen him, Missus Carney,
He said, well, he telephoned me down in Hartford asked
me to come up here and see him because he well,
he asked me to come up and see him.
Speaker 4: He idolized you, mister Dollar, ever since you were up
here last fall. And when he said he had to
talk to you, I thought you were already.
Speaker 2: In town again. I wondered what he was sot anxious
to see you about.
Speaker 4: Oh, well, he's been acting very strangely the last day
or two, ever since poor old mister Parkinson fell off
the bridge.
Speaker 2: And was killed the other night. How well did he
know this man Parkinson?
Speaker 4: Oh it's well, as he knew everybody in town.
Speaker 2: Mister.
Speaker 4: You don't think his disappearance this way could have anything
to do with mister Parkinson being killed?
Speaker 2: Oh well, what, how? How could it?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Doesn't everybody say mister Parkinson's death was an accident?
Speaker 7: Yes, yes they do.
Speaker 3: Still and not.
Speaker 2: Stop worrying, missus Canner. Jimmy, he'll show up if he
does not find him for you, Dear Jimmy's okay, you'd
better be Jimmy had said he was calling me from
a booth at the drug store. As I drove back
to what I noticed the name of the proprietor on
the sign of the fly specked window Waldo Bottomly. The
man who patted said was local representative for the insurance
company they are you tell him to take one of
these every two hours. By tomorrow, you'll be all right again, Yes, sir, mister, yes, sir,
my name is Johnny Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator. I've
heard of you, sir. All right, good now, look, but
if you're here in connection with the death of mister Parkinson, well,
in addition to representing Amalgamated Life Association, and the claim
on mister Parkinson's insurance has already been sent down to half.
I know that well. I'm also the car and I hereabouts.
Then it was you who pronounced his death as accidental. Yep,
after doctor Herbert examined the body for me. All right,
now listen to me. Mister Parkinson was an old man.
Mister Dolla had trouble with his feet. Eyesight wasn't so
good either, mister Bottomley, so when he tripped against that
old railing on the bridge the other night and the
railing gave way and he fell to the rocks. Did
anybody you know of actually see him? Trip and four?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: No, sir, well, I think that Parkinson was murdered. And
if I can find little Jimmy Cottage, Jimmy, have you
seen him today? You know where he is now that
you mentioned in mister Dolla. He should be back from
school by now and selling his paper. I asked you
have you seen him at all today? Early this morning
he was in Yeah, I changed a lot of pennies
for him into nichols and dimes and quarters, all right,
and then then he left. Hey, haven't you got a
isn't there a phone booth here in the store? Booth
is out the door, mister Dolla, around the side of
the building. Then you wouldn't have seen him. If Jimmy
went out there to make a phone call. Only one
might have seen him, is old Lucius Weather bay Lush's
web the town Drunk. Wait a minute, you're talking about
that old character sitting out front. I've asked him not
to sit there and his condition, But now that he's where,
you see Lucius, is the benefit? Yeah, Wait a minute,
Lucius weatherby is the beneficiary of Parkinson's insurance. Yeah, as
I was about to say, I wonder he wouldn't tell
me anything about Jimmy. What's that? So he killed Parkinson
to collect the insurance? Jimmy saw him? What was the bottomley?
I have a few questions. I'd like to ask that
Lucius Weatherby now. Now, wait, if you expect those Lucius
to remember anything, you bet I do plenty. Then you'd
best take along this bottle of medicinal brand aid. What yes,
that'll be three seventy five. Well break it over his head.
But you don't understand. No, he can't remember a thing. Mister,
all right, all right, Weatherby, hedy you change mind about
buying me? Where's Jimmy Carter? What did you do with him?
Speaker 7: If you don't mind, let go my collars on?
Speaker 2: Start talking? He's right? Where is he? But I seen
in this morning? You told me that before. Now what
did you do with him? Well? Nothing, sir, I swear
he came out of the store this morning, went into
that phone boat. Yeah he did do that. And then
what what did you do now, sir? If I had
a little drink I could remember better? Son? Answer me?
Speaker 7: Well, he went off in that car car what car? Well,
he didn't want to We'll.
Speaker 2: Made him go off in a car.
Speaker 7: Well, if I could just remember it was I'm on
ho somebody, I know. I'm sure I could remember if
I had a little dream.
Speaker 2: You listen to me, you lie, Oh sure he is, yes, sure,
But if you give him a bit of this additional
brand ay to refresh his memory, truly?
Speaker 5: Okay, have it seventy five if you please. Okay, Okay, here,
I'll get you the chain. No father, because if this
doesn't bring the truth out of him, so help me,
I'll Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 6: In a moment, be sociable, looks smart.
Speaker 2: To date, whipt drink light refres.
Speaker 5: Stay young, can fair.
Speaker 8: And dems be sociable?
Speaker 2: Cut see when friends drop in? Let your hospitality show
you a sociable in the modern manner. Hepsy, you know,
is the favorite of this Marty and young at heart.
Speaker 4: Be sociable, looks smart.
Speaker 2: To date with.
Speaker 3: Drink light refreshing, stay young, Can fair and devire be sociable?
Speaker 2: Have you tried to Pepsi lately?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollars the town drunk.
We can only remember things with a drink under his belt.
If he has me, that's a lot of hooey. Nonetheless,
that him five three seventy five for the bottle of
what the local drugg has called medicinal brandy, Old Lucius Weather.
He started lapping it up. Might he find sir night?
All right, you listen to me. I better let him
have a little more, mister Dalla, if he's to remember properly. Yeah,
a little more. And here's your change from the lucious.
You say that when Jimmy walked out of the phone booth,
he drove away with somebody against his will. Yeah, your change,
mister Dalla, is forced little Jimmy, right he called? Who
forced him?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Let me let me his name is yeah, yeah, oh
you know him, think lucious think come on, yeah, I'll
listen to you, old son. I want to a hobby.
Ah ah. Harvey who you know? You know everybody? Abby
Wilman Harvey? Is he Well, he's not one of our
more respected people, mister Yeah. And come to think of it,
I believe he was a distant relative of mister Parkinson.
What does he do? Where does he live? He does nothing? Really?
He was always trying to beg money from mister Parkinson.
Never got it though anybody else. I asked you, where
can I find him? Where does he live? Wither? When
that's right on the old farm out on Winter Avenue.
You can tell it by all the new machinery out front. Okay,
I'll see you, lady.
Speaker 7: Oh changed.
Speaker 2: On the way out to Harvey Woman's farm, I suddenly
realized that, for once in my life, I'd forgotten to
bring along a gun. Judging by all the equiment out front,
Woman must have gone through the Alice Charmer's catalog and
had every but the farmhouse was nothing but a one
story clavered check half him at the back of it
was a petup hol scenat. Come on, open up, hopping up, Jimmy, Jimmy,
all right, woman, open up this door. I'll break it down. Woman. Okay, brother,
you asked for it. Hey, Jimmy, Jimmy, are you okay?
Where's heart stack at the door? I was afraid the
kid got that phone call through to you. Too bad
for you? He did, all right, Look.
Speaker 3: I know he will, Jimmy.
Speaker 2: She's still in the kid's right dollar up against the wall.
Place the wall. Put your hands hie against they go ahead.
I'm not carrying a gun woman, that's what you're worried
about it. That's something I'm going to find out for myself. Yeah, yeah,
that would be a mistake. Ju jitsu. Huh not this one?
Oh well? Oh hey, hey hey Jimmy, Hey, Jimmy, it's okay. Now,
everything's okay. Look you you, You and I kind of
stopped in this tracks, didn't we. And you know something, Jimmy,
Now you're a real hero because this time you trapped
a killer for me, Adam six forty fifty for a
new sports jacket without holes in it. Yeah, Harvey Woolman
had managed to get off that one shot. I had
him seven sixty one dollars even a brand new bike
for Jimmy. Why because he saved the company from having
to pay double indemnity expense account total including manager my
car one hundred and seventeen dollars. Unless you'd like to
tack on a little extra fee, yours truly, Johnny Dollar,
Our star will return in just a moment. If your
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, this has been one whose toddle always
stands out for the reason that this name of this
character also happened to be the name of a naval
reserve officer and peanut farmer in the state of Georgia
who would go on to be elected to the state Senate,
governor and become the thirty ninth President of the United States.
But as an episode, it does illustrate the big strength
of the Johnstone era, which is its quontinuity. This episode
and its premise is a deep cut because there are
certain characters big, larger than life characters that it's not
particularly surprising if they show up again, you know, Alvin Cartwright, Sure,
La Chugery okay, Durango Laramie, Yeah yeah, you'll be back
Meg from Meg's Palace, Okay, Yeah, all very believable and
what you would expect. But Johnston said, I bet you
forgot about the little boy who drew a picture that
helped Johnny solve a case involving burglary from a not
technically almish furniture factory. But they were kind of amish.
So this is the most obscure character to make a
comeback that Johnstone ever wrote. I mean, if he continued
this long enough, you'd probably have had Hey, you remember me,
like six years ago you came into my gas station
and asked for directions. Oh yeah, back in that long
murder case I was on. Well, I just thought I
would call you, and I don't think he ever quite
got to that point. It also showcases some of the
more frustrating aspects of Johnstone's writing, in my opinion, and
that is a pacing and some unnecessary conversations. The entire
phone call to Pat McCracken could have been just summarized
in a sentence or two. Jimmy Carter being in danger
really did set up a kind of ticking time bomb
that Johnny had to get to, and the more we
kind of dealt with like bureaucracy and that sort of thing,
the less urgent it felt. It just it didn't serve
the story well. To add to that pacing, they also
included in this episode regurgitating things that happened before the
commercial break, which to me doesn't make a whole lot
of sense. There are cases for doing those sort of things.
For example, a lot of serialized television shows would start
with the scene from the previous episode or a soap
opera something like that, where there's been some passage of time. Here,
the commercial breaks are are really not all that long.
You've got, you know, a minute maybe a little more,
little less commercial break, and then you're back to the show.
You don't need a rehaf really like where was I
a minute and a half ago? And yeah, I think
that there's also a little bit of a tonal issue
because you've got a child in peril and then you've
got a comedy drunk that's not all that funny. So
this wasn't horrible, but it's a weaker episode. Well, now
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Speaker 8: You're going through with the whole scheme, dow of course
I am. How long do you think I'll be free
of this face of mind stays and the way it is?
Why do you think I had to set up house
here with that kid of my brothers.
Speaker 4: It's about something goes wrong at Doctor Franklin can't do
anything for you.
Speaker 2: I've read all about him. He can, but if he
suspects something.
Speaker 8: If you played your part all right for the last
two years, he won't as far as he's concerned. I'll
be just Bill Gordon turning home to his beloved wife Mary,
that cute little niece.
Speaker 4: Man, don't have descriptions of you all over the country
by now he may recognize you.
Speaker 2: So down they'll live the.
Speaker 8: Ledge flow down nothing, Hang on, we'll go over the edge.
Speaker 2: Did that purposely? Marry? So the cops and see the
skid marks.
Speaker 8: Uh huh, yeah, it's perfect, Marry. I can work myself
down to that ledge. You know what to do with
the car. Don't forget to leave it and hide here
before you jump. I spent three years in a pen
for that dough I snatched away. I'm not going to
lose out on it for three hours of pain.
Speaker 2: When I get through working over my face.
Speaker 8: With my knife, even you won't recognize me.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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