1 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:35,399 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Orlando, Florida. 2 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:39,359 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:43,159 going to bring you this week's episode of Yours truly 4 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,240 Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to encourage you. 5 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:50,159 If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using 6 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:55,240 your favorite podcast software. Also, when you're making your travel plans, 7 00:00:55,359 --> 00:00:58,960 remember Johnny Dollar air dot com. Johnny Dollar air dot 8 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,240 com is a Pricelan affiliate, so part of your purchase 9 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,400 price supports the great detectives of Old Time Radio at 10 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,040 no additional costs to you. Again, when you're making your 11 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,920 travel plans, remember Johnny Dollar air dot com. First now 12 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,079 from September the twenty eighth of nineteen fifty eight. Here 13 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,799 is the gruesome spectacle. 14 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,879 Speaker 2: Manner from Hollywood. It's time now for. 15 00:01:31,159 --> 00:01:31,799 Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar. 16 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 4: Johnny This at Barrett at Tri State Life and Casualty 17 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:35,799 in New York. 18 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 3: Oh, hi, Ed, how are you a little sick at 19 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,319 the moment? Oh, it's a minute. 20 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 4: I was planning to go up to the fishing lodge 21 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,159 of a friend of mine over the weekend. 22 00:01:44,599 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 3: Tommy Hoggrave, Oh, but now you've had to call it off, 23 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:49,280 and brother, I know exactly how you feel. 24 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:50,959 Speaker 5: Oh Johnny, I don't think you do. 25 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 3: Look, yeah, I'm a fisherman myself, and when something in 26 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:55,760 it fizz, we're going What was that? 27 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,959 Speaker 4: I just received word that Tommy had a car accident 28 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,159 up there, car rolled over on him. 29 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:02,079 Speaker 5: He was killed instantly. 30 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, Ed. 31 00:02:05,239 --> 00:02:06,799 Speaker 5: Yeah. 32 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 4: And company policy being what it is, since he carried 33 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:16,280 seventy thousand insurance double indemnity, since there was an accident involved, well, 34 00:02:16,319 --> 00:02:17,879 I got to order the usual investigation. 35 00:02:18,039 --> 00:02:23,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, I see who's the beneficiary? His wife Mary? 36 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,400 They get along all right. 37 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,719 Speaker 4: No, as a matter of fact, that nah nah, Look Johnny, 38 00:02:28,759 --> 00:02:30,520 don't get any crazy ideas. 39 00:02:30,599 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 5: Just go on up there and help her all your cats? 40 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 3: Oh sure sure? 41 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 5: Where ed place is called Shadow Hill, near the little. 42 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 3: Town of Bethel, New York. 43 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been Sullivan County. The police department is a man. 44 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 3: Named Skinner Police. If everything's okay, it. 45 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 5: Was Skinner who called me, that's all. 46 00:02:47,439 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 3: Oh Oh yeah, okay, Ed, I'm on my way, and 47 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,599 if I dig up anything. 48 00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 5: Johnny, I assure you that everything's all right about this one. 49 00:02:55,319 --> 00:02:57,159 Speaker 3: Oh sure, sure. 50 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 5: You say that as though you don't believe it. 51 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,439 Speaker 3: My suspicious wine showing I guess forget it. 52 00:03:04,159 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 2: HM Bob Bailey in The Exciting Adventures of a Man 53 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:19,199 with the Action packed Expense a cod America's Fabulous free 54 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,360 Lance Insurance Investigator. 55 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 3: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special Investigator 56 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,280 Johnny Dollar to the Tri State Life and Casually Insurance Company, 57 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,280 New York, New York. Following is an account of expenses 58 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:52,840 incurred during my investigation of the Gruesome Spectacle Matter expense 59 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,719 account Item one six twenty fair and Incidental's Hartford to 60 00:03:55,759 --> 00:03:58,120 New York item two fifty bucks to posit on a 61 00:03:58,159 --> 00:04:02,120 rental car north across the George Washington Bridge, then picked 62 00:04:02,199 --> 00:04:05,759 up Highway seventeen through Goshen with its famous racetrack, through 63 00:04:05,759 --> 00:04:08,680 the summer resort town of Bonaicello, then past White Lake, 64 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:11,120 a good fishing spot, to the little town of Bethel. 65 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:14,120 It really isn't much more than a crossroad. It's a 66 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:16,720 couple of filling stations, a general store and post office 67 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:20,720 in Emmer's Hotel where I parked my bags. Shadow Hill, however, 68 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,319 turned out to be a beautiful summer lode, sitting high 69 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:26,480 above the edge of a nearby private lake. From the highway, 70 00:04:26,519 --> 00:04:28,560 I could see the narrow, winding road that led from 71 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,399 the lodge down to the lake shore. I could also 72 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:33,680 see the spot where a car had apparently taken a 73 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,800 corner too quickly, skid it and rolled over to where 74 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,800 it lay on its side. Then, shortly after pulling off 75 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,839 the highway, I could see something else, another car, just 76 00:04:41,879 --> 00:04:44,560 short of where the accident had occurred. It was half 77 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,720 hidden in a clump of trees that bordered the road, 78 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:48,639 and as I slowly pulled up to it, a man 79 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,120 suddenly jumped out and leveled an old thirty thirty rifle 80 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:51,360 at me. 81 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,439 Speaker 6: Stop right there, don't come any cruiser. 82 00:04:55,079 --> 00:04:57,639 Speaker 3: Oh well now just a minuemister, Why. 83 00:04:59,040 --> 00:04:59,959 Speaker 6: Corn here? 84 00:05:02,199 --> 00:05:03,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you'd call me. It's stranger. 85 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 6: Maybe you were just stranger. I'm looking for. Get out 86 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,000 of that car with your hands up over your head. 87 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:11,959 Don't try no front of it. 88 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 3: Hey, what is this a hold up? Like? 89 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:15,959 Speaker 6: I tell you to be quick about it? 90 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 3: Okay, whatever you say, I like, can't seem to the store, 91 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:23,879 doesn't seem to want. 92 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 6: To trying to pull some trick on that door. 93 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 3: Well it stuck. 94 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,519 Speaker 6: I just here, I'll do it. Got it. 95 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll take the gun, all right, all right, up 96 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,720 on your feet, just turn around, go on, go on, 97 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,199 turn around. You just look a here shot you just 98 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,920 take it easy, oh man, and remember I have the gun. Now. 99 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 6: I'll lock you up for this. That's what I'll do, 100 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:58,040 you know what? Yes, sure, interfering with the law this way. 101 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:00,639 Speaker 3: The lawn you that's right? 102 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 6: Gee, here's my badge. 103 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 3: See okay, then look, mister Skinner. 104 00:06:07,079 --> 00:06:10,399 Speaker 6: You look hey, I do know my name? 105 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 3: You are mister Skinner, an't you? 106 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:11,959 Speaker 6: Well? 107 00:06:12,079 --> 00:06:12,639 Speaker 3: Sure I am. 108 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 6: I'm as Skinner only it's Chief Skinner to you, police, 109 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,879 Chief Skinner. And if you think you're going to get 110 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:21,600 away with this, what's your idea? 111 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,959 Speaker 3: Chief? It looks like you're just the man I came 112 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,720 to see only maybe you'd better have your gun back here. 113 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 6: All right? All right, now you just put your hands 114 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,240 up and say, now's the dog gone, minige. 115 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,199 Speaker 3: Who are you? Johnny Dollar? 116 00:06:40,759 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 6: Johnny Dolla? 117 00:06:42,199 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 3: What you said? That's right, Johnny Dollar. I'm an insurance investigator. 118 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:52,399 Speaker 6: Praise be the bitch. I might have known him, someone 119 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,519 like you. The way you outsmarted me banging the car 120 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,079 door against me head way. 121 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:57,959 Speaker 3: I'm sorry about that. 122 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,519 Speaker 6: Johnny, I'm I'm I'm real proud to meet you. And 123 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,040 believe me, Sean, I'm I'm just mighty glad you were here. 124 00:07:07,399 --> 00:07:08,879 Speaker 3: Oh why do you say that? 125 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 6: Just you look here, Johnny, over the edge of this road. 126 00:07:14,079 --> 00:07:16,240 Look you see it down there? 127 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:16,959 Speaker 7: That car? 128 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 3: Is that the car in which mister Thomas Hargrave was killed. 129 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:22,199 Speaker 6: Well, you know about it. 130 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 3: That's what I came here to investigate it. 131 00:07:24,399 --> 00:07:27,639 Speaker 6: All right? Then? Now you listen here to me, Johnny. Well, 132 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:31,079 I'm the one the telephone down to mister Hargrave's insurance 133 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,600 company down to New York. So I did it as 134 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,480 a favorite to marry. Yeah, she's wife on account of 135 00:07:37,279 --> 00:07:39,800 she was so broke up and all. Never did like her, 136 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,240 but she was well, she was pretty upset, considerate. And 137 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,279 I told the insurance company just what I told everybody 138 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:51,879 else that Tommy Hargrave took this turn in the road 139 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:52,600 too fast. 140 00:07:53,519 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: You see the turn right above here, Yeah, that's a 141 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:58,240 sharp one. 142 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 6: Well, he took this turn too fast and skid it 143 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:04,920 off the side, and the car went over and pinned 144 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:11,160 him underneath it. And the well, all right, now, Johnny, 145 00:08:11,319 --> 00:08:14,199 I just come over here from old Doc wakons it 146 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,920 was down to Doc and I took Tommy's body yesterday, 147 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,199 just after it happened. And you know why I come 148 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:20,680 back here? 149 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 3: Well I can think of one good reason from something 150 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:24,800 you just told me. Yeah, from what I can see 151 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:25,560 the car down there. 152 00:08:25,759 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 6: Yeah, well it was because I suddenly started thinking, how 153 00:08:29,879 --> 00:08:32,720 could a man who knows his road so well ever 154 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:36,399 make a mistake of Hey, what were you. 155 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:36,919 Speaker 7: Going to say? 156 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 6: What? 157 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 3: Chief? That car was coming down the road down from 158 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,799 the lodge, wasn't it right? That means he made a 159 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:44,440 left hand turn right here? 160 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 6: Correct, the car went off the road, fell on his 161 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,519 side and lean right where you landed, right where you 162 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:52,360 see it, right on top of Tommy. 163 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,399 Speaker 3: How that car is sit then, that's right? And even 164 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,120 from here I can see that the windows are all 165 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,600 closed except for the one next to the driver's seat. 166 00:08:59,679 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 6: Correct. 167 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:03,159 Speaker 3: But now, and it's obvious it didn't roll completely over, no, 168 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,879 shut It just flipped over on its side and slid 169 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,879 down there. And yet you say that Tommy Hargrave's body 170 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:09,480 was under it. 171 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,919 Speaker 6: That's right under the right side of the car where 172 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:13,080 we practically handed. 173 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 3: Hey, can you tell me how he could have fallen 174 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,480 under that side of the car? Windows closed. 175 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 6: Johnny. 176 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, Tommy was murdered, that's what. 177 00:09:27,159 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 6: And the car pushed over on him to make it 178 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,559 look like an exegon. And Johnny, you proved it. 179 00:09:33,639 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 3: A couple of other things. You've got approved, Chief, Hey, 180 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,679 like what who murdered him? And why? 181 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,399 Speaker 2: Fact? Two of yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment. 182 00:09:47,799 --> 00:09:51,399 Speaker 8: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star 183 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,200 there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states. 184 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,519 Rhode Island State flag is white with an anchor. First 185 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,000 used as a colony symbol in sixteen forty seven. The 186 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,480 motto hope was added in sixteen sixty four when the 187 00:10:06,519 --> 00:10:09,679 government was organized under a charter from King Charles the Second. 188 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:13,519 A circle of thirteen gold stars were added for the 189 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:17,600 original thirteen colonies. This is the flag of a unique 190 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:21,000 colony in state which carried out a most noble experiment 191 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,120 in freedom. The Royal Charter of sixteen sixty three reads 192 00:10:25,879 --> 00:10:29,360 to hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing 193 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,639 state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty 194 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:37,399 and religious concernments. Rhode Island State flag, the flag of 195 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,360 the thirteenth state to enter the Union, was adopted on 196 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,519 May nineteenth, eighteen ninety seven. 197 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,639 Speaker 2: And now Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar and 198 00:10:46,759 --> 00:10:48,320 the gruesome spectacle matter. 199 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 3: All right, Chief, tell me this when and how to 200 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,960 you learn of this so called accident that killed Tommy Hargrave. 201 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,279 Speaker 1: What it was like this journey. 202 00:11:06,759 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 6: I was sitting down at bobin Ernie's when they run 203 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,200 that mobile gas station down the highway you pass on 204 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:13,600 the way. 205 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:15,519 Speaker 3: Oh, go on, Well, we were just. 206 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 6: Sitting there talking about the Hamburtoonian and all the what 207 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,679 do you mean the Hamiltonian You know, the bigger harness 208 00:11:21,759 --> 00:11:24,919 racer run down the Gooshen every year. Oh yeah, boy, 209 00:11:25,039 --> 00:11:28,080 it's world famous, bigger than the Kentucky Jersey. 210 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 3: Yes. 211 00:11:28,399 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 6: And we was talking about how much money Barnie Marshall 212 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,240 has made taking bets on those races. 213 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:41,039 Speaker 9: And well, Chief, you mean you have a bookie here 214 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,720 in Bethel, Jack, and that you, as chief of police, 215 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:49,200 condone such goings on when not we all I'm surprised 216 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:49,440 that you. 217 00:11:49,919 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 6: Oh well, it's just a little short of harmless betting 218 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,279 at all. Sure, every man's entire to. 219 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 3: A little where you know, how ky, Yeah, now let's 220 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:01,519 get back with the subject. 221 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:05,919 Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, Wit like I say, we were sitting there 222 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,480 talking and we seen Mary Hargrave driving by on her 223 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:12,000 way back from New York where she'd gone to do 224 00:12:12,159 --> 00:12:12,720 some shopping. 225 00:12:12,799 --> 00:12:14,559 Speaker 3: That gay she wasn't here when it happened. 226 00:12:14,639 --> 00:12:15,799 Speaker 6: Well, no, sure she couldn't be. 227 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 3: You're sure, but like I told you, she was in 228 00:12:18,279 --> 00:12:18,679 New York. 229 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 6: Anyhow, she drove on up here, So what did happened? 230 00:12:23,039 --> 00:12:25,519 And drove right back to tell us at the gas station. 231 00:12:25,919 --> 00:12:29,639 We came up here, Tommy's body out from under, took 232 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,840 it down to Doc Walton's office, and that. 233 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 3: Was how carefully have you inspected that car down there? 234 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 6: Well, that's what I was about to do when you 235 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:38,600 come all right, come on. 236 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 3: Let's just take a look at it. 237 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 6: Well sure, sure. 238 00:12:42,879 --> 00:12:45,399 Speaker 3: The only way of proving Mary Hargrave was actually in 239 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:45,840 New York. 240 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,759 Speaker 6: Well, no, I guess not. 241 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:55,399 Speaker 3: Hey, look here, Chief Jesus, still in the ignition, but 242 00:12:55,519 --> 00:12:56,639 the ignitions turned off. 243 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,799 Speaker 6: You're right, Johnny, you're right. This car I wasn't rid 244 00:13:00,879 --> 00:13:01,919 over the side of the road. 245 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 3: He was pushing here. Let's see if we can get 246 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:04,720 this store. 247 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'll give you. 248 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,039 Speaker 3: Let's see if some of this very good. 249 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:13,799 Speaker 6: Well, what are you doing that handful of dust. 250 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 3: Well it's not very professional, but some of this fine 251 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,480 us start to bring out any fingerprints on the steering 252 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:19,120 Leona will be. 253 00:13:21,159 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 6: No prince there did I can see you. 254 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,039 Speaker 3: Are you're right, Chief, This wheel has been carefully wiped off. 255 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:27,360 So whoever did it? 256 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 6: M hm huh? 257 00:13:29,919 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 3: What'd you find? Did Tommy Hargrave wear glasses? Spectacles? 258 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 6: Tommy no shirt? 259 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,639 Speaker 3: What come on? Chief? The first thing I want is 260 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,399 to look at his body. At doctor Walton's just say then, 261 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:48,200 let's go well there. 262 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, it was I who suggested 263 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,840 to Amos to Chief Skinner, I should say that he 264 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,360 go back and have another look at. 265 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 3: That car, mister Dollar. Just fine, Doctor Walker. 266 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 10: Because a couple of things about this body made me 267 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:04,399 made me wonder. Look here the way the clothes are torn, 268 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,399 as though it had some kind of a struggle, scratches 269 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:08,879 and contusions. 270 00:14:08,279 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 3: On his hands. But more important here, yeah, here, at 271 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:12,799 the base of. 272 00:14:12,799 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 10: The skull, this mark up where that car is. There 273 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:18,679 are no rocks, no stones, no anything that could make 274 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,279 a mark like this. And there's another on the face 275 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:23,000 below the eye. 276 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 3: You know what that looks like to me? Doctor? What's 277 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:30,240 the mark from the butt of a thirty eight automatic, 278 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:31,759 And I've seen. 279 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 6: Plenty of them, I bet you, Johnny, you're right, And 280 00:14:34,759 --> 00:14:37,519 that would indicate how Grave was murdered and the car 281 00:14:37,639 --> 00:14:39,559 pushed over on him to make it look like Yeah. Sure, 282 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:42,200 And Johnny and me found a few other things around 283 00:14:42,279 --> 00:14:44,320 that car that would indicate the same thing. 284 00:14:44,559 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 3: Doctor, I understand Tommy Hargrave did not wear glasses, not 285 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,720 that I know of. Of course, Mary, his wife, she 286 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,720 wears them, Yes, she does. Can't do without what kind well, 287 00:14:56,399 --> 00:15:02,559 regular tortoiseshell, you know, something something like these. Maybe granted 288 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,799 one lens is smashed and part of the frame is broken, 289 00:15:04,879 --> 00:15:06,480 but is this the kind she wore? 290 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,759 Speaker 10: Yes, mister donnad say so, of course, a great many. 291 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 6: Surely you don't think his. 292 00:15:11,879 --> 00:15:13,919 Speaker 3: Own why they didn't get along too well? Did they? 293 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 6: Well? No, but after all, when any couple's been married 294 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:17,960 ten eleven. 295 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,759 Speaker 3: Also, she just happens to be the beneficiary of his 296 00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:22,120 sizeable insurance policy. 297 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 2: Good heavens, mister Donne. 298 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we'd better pay a little visit to 299 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:43,759 missus Mary Hargrave, Act. 300 00:15:43,639 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 2: Three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, in a moment many 301 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,840 times in the history of mankind. Nations have pooled their 302 00:15:51,879 --> 00:15:55,279 forces to exert a greater strength against a common aggressor. 303 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,639 This happens not only in the face of a world war, 304 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,399 but the between such giant holocausts. As during the Boxer 305 00:16:03,519 --> 00:16:07,720 Uprising in China in nineteen hundred six, nations combined their 306 00:16:07,759 --> 00:16:11,240 forces to come to the aid of their citizens in 307 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,720 the thick of the fight, undotted by devastating enemy fire. 308 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,840 Chief Bosun John McCloy of the United States Naval Contingent 309 00:16:19,399 --> 00:16:23,159 distinguished himself by meritorious conduct above and beyond the call 310 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,879 of duty. For his valorous action, he was awarded his 311 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,320 first Medal of Honor. But a man of action doesn't 312 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,879 get the job done because of possible awards. It is 313 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,679 the spirit of his code of conduct that guides him. 314 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,879 John McCloy was guided by that code again and again 315 00:16:41,799 --> 00:16:45,840 in June nineteen fourteen during the Mexican Campaign, when the 316 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:48,279 government of the United States was put upon once more 317 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,240 to aid its persecuted citizens, Chief Bosun John McCloy was 318 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:56,720 constantly risking his life. Our landed troops were in danger 319 00:16:56,799 --> 00:16:59,399 of being annihilated on the beach at Vera, Cruz When 320 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,960 McCloy voluntarily filled three picket launches with riflemen and led 321 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,359 them along the seafront to draw the enemy fire. Though 322 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,680 badly wounded, he remained at his post and gallantly directed 323 00:17:10,759 --> 00:17:15,000 his part of the campaign. For this action, Chief Bosun 324 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,640 John McCloy was awarded a second Medal of Honor, but 325 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:22,480 he hadn't been concerned with medals. His only concern was 326 00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:25,880 conducting himself as a man should, and that is according 327 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,400 to the Code of the American Fighting Man. Now Act 328 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,200 three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, and the gruesome spectacle matter, 329 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,680 the three of us, Doctor Walton, police Chief Famous Skinner 330 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,440 and I drove up to the lodge outside the little 331 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,720 town of Bethel, New York to see why missus Mary 332 00:17:44,759 --> 00:17:46,079 Hargrave had killed her husband. 333 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 3: Made it look like a car accident, that is, if 334 00:17:49,039 --> 00:17:51,720 she did it, and what little evidence we had pointed 335 00:17:51,839 --> 00:17:54,640 right straight at her. The obvious fact the car had 336 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,160 been pushed over on him after he was killed, the 337 00:17:57,279 --> 00:17:59,480 march showing he'd struggle for his life, had been struck 338 00:17:59,519 --> 00:18:01,559 with the butt of a pistol, The fact he and 339 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,039 his wife hadn't got along too well, that she was 340 00:18:04,079 --> 00:18:07,759 his beneficiary. And finally there were the glasses I found 341 00:18:07,799 --> 00:18:13,960 in the car, my bitch. 342 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 6: I wonder if she found out you were here, Johnny 343 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:17,119 and through. 344 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 3: The cop isn't that her car in the urn? Yes, 345 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:20,400 mister dollar, tear is. 346 00:18:22,079 --> 00:18:25,039 Speaker 6: All right? Then if she is here, well, sure i'll 347 00:18:25,079 --> 00:18:26,400 a rest her right on your spot. 348 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 3: No, no, let me handle this well, Johnny, I said, 349 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:28,839 please let me. 350 00:18:29,599 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 6: Yes, Oh, doctor Walton, chief Skinner, that's right. And this 351 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,279 yere is mister Johnny Dollar. 352 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 11: Oh yes, mister Dollar, mister Barrett. If the insurance company 353 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,759 phoned that you'd be here, won't you come in? 354 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:43,640 Speaker 3: Surely? Thank you. 355 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,559 Speaker 11: I'm sorry to have been so slow in answering the door, 356 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,200 but I seem to have mislaid a pair of my. 357 00:18:49,279 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 6: Glasses here that journey. 358 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,599 Speaker 11: I'm blind as a bat without them. Won't you all 359 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:54,039 sit down? 360 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:55,519 Speaker 3: Thank you? Yes, thank you. 361 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 11: I've been using an old pair of steel rims with 362 00:18:58,279 --> 00:18:59,640 an old prescription that they look. 363 00:18:59,599 --> 00:18:59,839 Speaker 7: So ter. 364 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,839 Speaker 3: When did you lose your glasses? Oh? 365 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 11: I I must have mislaid them a couple of days ago. 366 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 6: Ah. 367 00:19:09,039 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 11: Now what do you mean by that? 368 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,039 Speaker 6: It's no very well? 369 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:12,759 Speaker 7: What I mean? 370 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 3: You you don't seem terribly upset about your husband's death, 371 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,759 missus Hrgray, Why should. 372 00:19:21,519 --> 00:19:25,640 Speaker 11: I, mister Dollar, we haven't been exactly getting along for years. 373 00:19:26,519 --> 00:19:28,599 All he seemed to care about was his fishing and 374 00:19:28,759 --> 00:19:31,519 betting on the horses day after day. And I never 375 00:19:31,599 --> 00:19:34,039 did care about spending every summer up in this dodgy 376 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:36,039 little town and all its dodgy people. 377 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 3: And oh, I didn't mean you, doctor Walton. 378 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,799 Speaker 11: The first thing I'll do when I collect the insurance 379 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,640 is sell this place and go back to the city 380 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:51,240 where my friends are. I there's some excitement. And those 381 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:53,839 are those my glasses you have? 382 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 7: There? 383 00:19:55,559 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 2: Are they? 384 00:19:56,799 --> 00:19:58,839 Speaker 11: But they look like mine? 385 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 6: I mean, what happened to them? I'm sure they are hers? Journey? 386 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 3: No, no, Dollar, No, I don't think they are. Let 387 00:20:06,559 --> 00:20:10,799 me have them. Please? Sure here, what's going on here, Journey? 388 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:12,559 Speaker 6: We're just wished in time? 389 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,799 Speaker 2: No no, no, no, wait, these can't be hers. 390 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,279 Speaker 6: I should have really sure, gentlemen, Please. 391 00:20:18,039 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 10: I've seen your glasses Marry many times, very thick at 392 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,680 the edges, very thin in the center of the land. Well, 393 00:20:23,799 --> 00:20:26,799 isn't this pair, this lens, the one that's still intact, 394 00:20:26,839 --> 00:20:28,519 bears no resemblance to yours? 395 00:20:28,559 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 3: At all? 396 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:29,799 Speaker 7: No? 397 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 3: No, not I'm gonna wait. Listen, missus Hargrave, will somebody 398 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,960 please tell me what listen? Will you you say your 399 00:20:37,039 --> 00:20:38,440 husband was always playing the horses. 400 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:40,279 Speaker 11: Yes, of course he was. 401 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 3: But do you mind telling me even while he was 402 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:42,480 up here? 403 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 11: Yes, all the time. 404 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,319 Speaker 10: Mister Dolla, I don't see what you're driving at our 405 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:47,039 sure order. 406 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 3: Brother, this is probably the wildest tounch I've ever had. 407 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:52,759 Missus Hargrave. Did your husband owe a lot of money 408 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:53,279 on his bedding? 409 00:20:53,799 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 9: Oh? 410 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 11: A lot, I should say, not just the opposite. He's 411 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,119 been going around for nearly two weeks boasting about it's 412 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,160 a big killing he made if he ever collected. 413 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 3: Doctor. Let me have those glasses. Oh look here this 414 00:21:05,279 --> 00:21:06,680 little mark inside the temple. 415 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 10: Oh that's the mark of the optometrist over in Monticello. 416 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,039 Here you see, say mark's in mind. Okay, I just 417 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,240 sit tight, the three of you. Oh no, mister Dolla, No, 418 00:21:17,599 --> 00:21:18,680 you look here, and. 419 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 3: A must don't try arresting anybody while I'm gone. It 420 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,200 might make you look a little foolish when I get 421 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:33,000 back back from where I'll see you all later. Well 422 00:21:34,079 --> 00:21:38,480 that's really just about all there is to this case. Oh, except, 423 00:21:38,559 --> 00:21:41,119 of course, for the fact, the optometrist and Monticello had 424 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,640 no difficulty at all in matching the glasses I'd found 425 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,920 with the prescription of Yeah, if you guessed it, they 426 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,279 had belonged to the bookie Chief Skinner had told me 427 00:21:50,319 --> 00:21:53,799 about Barney Marston. Of course, Barney wanted to put up 428 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:56,119 a fight when we faced him with the facts, but 429 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,319 then he couldn't seem to explain the various and sundry 430 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,839 bruises he was carrying around until we reminded him of 431 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,960 the fight he'd had with Tommy Hargrave. Yeah, he'd killed 432 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,599 him and pushed the car over on top of him. 433 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,480 The reason for it all simple. Tommy had won a 434 00:22:11,559 --> 00:22:14,880 cool twenty five thousand dollars from him, had threatened to 435 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,000 put him out of business if he didn't pay, which 436 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:20,200 he couldn't. So Barney killed him and tried to fake 437 00:22:20,279 --> 00:22:24,440 the accident. And you know something, I have a sneaking suspicion, 438 00:22:24,519 --> 00:22:27,039 Chief Amos Skinner isn't going to stand for any book. 439 00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:30,240 He's operating in Bethel, New York from here on out. Oh, 440 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:35,640 and Mary Hargrave found the glasses. She'd mislaid expense account 441 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,440 total including manage on the rental car and the trip 442 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,319 back to Hartford one hundred and forty eight dollars. Even yours, truly, 443 00:22:42,039 --> 00:22:42,920 Johnny Dollar. 444 00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:57,759 Speaker 2: Our star will return in just a moment. 445 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,079 Speaker 12: Our Plague numbers fifty stars, and behind each star there 446 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,799 stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states. 447 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,720 Kansas state flag is dark blue, and in the center 448 00:23:10,839 --> 00:23:14,519 is the state's seal surmounted by a large sunflower, the 449 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,599 official state flower. The seal reflects the history of Kansas. 450 00:23:19,079 --> 00:23:22,039 The train of ox wagons going west for most of 451 00:23:22,079 --> 00:23:25,640 the great roads passed through Kansas and Indian is depicted 452 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,680 chasing a herd of buffalo, recalling the words of the 453 00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:31,920 official state song, Oh give me a home where the 454 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,640 buffalo roam, For this truly was the home of the 455 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:40,200 Buffalo and Indian. The east is represented by a rising sun, 456 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,160 and the promise of future prosperity is indicated by the 457 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,640 steamboat on the river and the farmer plowing the field 458 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,920 above a mountain range are thirty four stars, for Kansas 459 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,599 was the thirty fourth state admitted to the Union. Overall 460 00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:59,400 is the state motto ad Astra per Aspera to the 461 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,960 stars through difficulties. Kansas state flag the flag of the 462 00:24:04,039 --> 00:24:06,880 thirty fourth state to enter the Union was adopted on 463 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,279 March twenty third, nineteen twenty seven. 464 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 3: Now here's our star to tell you about next week 465 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,359 story next week, Well listen, I promise you the most 466 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,480 unusual case and some of the most unexpected people you 467 00:24:20,599 --> 00:24:25,079 ever Well Johnny's won't you Yours truly Johnny Dollar? 468 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 2: Yours Truly Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood 469 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,480 and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard 470 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:45,079 in our cast were Virginia, Greg Harry Bartel, Junius Matthews, 471 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,359 and Joe Kurns. Be sure to join us next week, 472 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,680 same time and station for another exciting story of Yours truly, 473 00:24:53,160 --> 00:25:26,839 Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Coverly speaking. This is the 474 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,359 United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 475 00:25:39,599 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 3: Welcome Back. 476 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,839 Speaker 1: Well a decent episode. I think that the evidence is 477 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,519 really well laid out, and at least a good portion 478 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,799 of the story is spent at the crime scene and 479 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,119 really reasoning and dealing with the evidence. It's a good 480 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,720 basic story, though, of course, there are plenty of the 481 00:25:59,799 --> 00:26:04,319 tees with Johnny Doller that can be a bit repetitive, 482 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:09,799 such as the insurance agent who calls Johnny in but 483 00:26:10,039 --> 00:26:13,839 is determined that there is nothing wrong with the claim, 484 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,279 which is why they are hiring a very expensive, well 485 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,240 known freelance insurance investigator, because I guess, and of course 486 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,240 we have a moment of tension in peril where our 487 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:29,079 hero gets a chance to prove his worth, but that 488 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,480 it was totally unnecessary if the sheriff had just gone 489 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:38,400 ahead and identified himself rather than pointing a gun, expecting 490 00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:42,799 that explanation to spy. And then you had Johnny hyping 491 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,079 the case with the dialogue that this is the wildest 492 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,279 hunch I ever had. Not really, not even in the 493 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,319 top twenty five. I don't think, I mean the idea 494 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,839 that wants you to establish the glasses. Weren't the wives 495 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,039 following up on the clue that the man was a gambler, 496 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:07,200 with the idea that he might have incurred the wrath 497 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,920 of a professional gambler just kind of common sense. So 498 00:27:12,279 --> 00:27:15,839 maybe that was the mildest hunch you ever had. Now, 499 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,400 of course, lines like this might lead us to take 500 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:24,440 his next time tease with a bit of a shruck. Sure, 501 00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:28,599 your most unusual case. We've heard that before, but we 502 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,799 actually do know about that story thanks to John Abbott. 503 00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:38,200 The episode itself is missing, and we'll talk about it 504 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,960 and all the missing episodes in this sort of block 505 00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:46,759 of programs. But John Abbott saw the script for it, 506 00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:51,880 and the missing matter matter begins with Johnny getting a 507 00:27:52,039 --> 00:27:57,119 call from Jack Johnstone about a missing script. Now, whether 508 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,319 this episode would qualify as the most unusual case, I 509 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,400 think it would be near the top. Oh, there are 510 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,519 many more details, and there's something about actually hearing the 511 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:16,160 script that will kind of determine how you rank it properly, 512 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:21,000 particularly when we now have the Glacier Ghost matter, with 513 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:27,400 Johnny dropping dynamite from a small plane onto a glacier 514 00:28:27,599 --> 00:28:31,039 in hopes of dislodging the body. So that top spot 515 00:28:31,079 --> 00:28:35,680 would take some work. But sometimes they hyperbole. Just it 516 00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:39,480 does make it hard to really appreciate when the show 517 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,400 is doing something very, very different. It's some stuff that's 518 00:28:43,599 --> 00:28:48,200 just relatively commonplace gets hopped up. Well, now we turn 519 00:28:48,319 --> 00:28:51,559 to listener comments and feedback, and we had a lot 520 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,279 of comments regarding the Wayward Diamond Matter. We start out 521 00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:59,640 over on Patreon where Emitt rights Truly, this has to 522 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,240 be one of the worst episodes. Jack Johnstone wrote, and 523 00:29:03,359 --> 00:29:06,839 he wrote some Doozies, but hearing the five minute dialogue 524 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:13,200 between the two crooks explicit Lee explaining the details to 525 00:29:13,279 --> 00:29:15,440 the point where I just wanted Johnny to burst in 526 00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:19,559 and shut him up. That was too much. Over on Spotify, 527 00:29:20,039 --> 00:29:25,200 Dawnton riots the worst Johnny Dollar episode ever, and that 528 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:30,079 includes the Mingtoy Murphy matter. It feels like Jack Johnstone 529 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,119 had extra material from the Malibu Mystery matter and wanted 530 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,400 a long runch. I'm going to go listen to a 531 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,319 Barry Craig episode to restore my faith in writers. To 532 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,960 be fair to john Stone, he did have a lot 533 00:29:46,079 --> 00:29:50,759 on his plate with Johnny Doller, written, directed and produced 534 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,200 by Jack Johnstone. I don't think many of us have 535 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,759 an idea the amount of work that goes into writing 536 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:05,599 an entire script, you know, as director, arranging all the 537 00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:11,880 casting and checking actor availability, getting studio space and everything 538 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,559 figured out. He's wearing a lot of hats, and whenever 539 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,960 you're doing that, you have to find ways to take shortcuts, 540 00:30:20,599 --> 00:30:24,039 and sometimes you find out you took one short cut 541 00:30:24,119 --> 00:30:27,160 too many, which may have been the case here. Harrison Wrotes. 542 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,759 Did they reuse a Mister Chameleon script? It felt like 543 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:35,000 more felt more like that than a Johnny Dollar. Script 544 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:42,160 out Mechanics sixty six responds, saying that the Hummertz wrote chameleon. 545 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,200 No matter how bad a Johnny Dollar is, it couldn't 546 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,480 see to that level. Although I'll grant you this was bad. 547 00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:54,200 And then I also got an email from Stuart who 548 00:30:54,319 --> 00:30:58,000 wrote in This email refers to the Wayward Diamond matter 549 00:30:58,119 --> 00:31:01,880 episode four eight nine zero, when the insurance adjuster mister 550 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,079 Hanley speaks to Johnny at the hotel after realizing there 551 00:31:05,119 --> 00:31:08,480 may be a potential claim involving the fake jewels. Mister 552 00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:12,240 Hanley remarks later, I suppose she decided to lose the fakes, 553 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:16,000 have them stolen, and then file an insurance claim. Johnny responds, yeah, 554 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,039 Missus Merrill is already concerned that Johnny dollars onto the scheme. 555 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,920 So if Missus Merrill does not file an insurance claim 556 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,599 on the fake diamonds, then the discussion regarding the jewels 557 00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:30,279 is entirely moot. In that circumstance, there is no actionable 558 00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:35,240 claim in therefore no case. Until a claim is formally submitted, 559 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:42,079 no insurance matter truly exists. I get the point. There's 560 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:48,839 no case where they where company could accuse her of 561 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,960 fraudulently filing a claim based on what they knew. But 562 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,440 the problem for the insurance company and for Johnny is 563 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,079 that the insurance company is on the hook for I 564 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,880 believe it was one hundred thousand dollars that the jewels 565 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:11,480 were insured for, and just because there's not fraud now 566 00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:15,839 doesn't mean that there couldn't be some fraud later. The 567 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,079 insurance company has a liability and they need to know 568 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,119 where these jewels are that they are responsible to replace 569 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,240 if stolen. I think that from a due diligence perspective, 570 00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:31,880 this was very merited. I have many criticisms of the 571 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,759 wayward diamond manner as I went into at the time, 572 00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:38,480 but the fact that the case was investigated, that's all 573 00:32:38,559 --> 00:32:40,519 one of them. But I do appreciate the comments. 574 00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 3: Stewart. 575 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: All right, well, now it's time to thank our Patreon 576 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,359 supporter of the day, and I want to thank Beverly, 577 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,440 Patreon supporter since March twenty twenty, currently supporting the podcast 578 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,640 at the Shawmus level of four dollars or more per month. 579 00:32:54,119 --> 00:32:56,440 Thanks so much for your support, Beverly, and that will 580 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,359 do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, Please 581 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,519 follow us using your favorite podcast software, and be sure 582 00:33:03,559 --> 00:33:06,440 to rate and review the podcast wherever you download us from. 583 00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:11,000 We will be back next Friday with another episode of 584 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,400 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. But join us back here tomorrow 585 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,240 as we give way to the great adventurers of old 586 00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:18,000 time radio. 587 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,039 Speaker 7: Where room we're in trouble with that's putting it mildly. 588 00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:24,279 I found out about to get this. Thenis somewhere along 589 00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:26,319 the line you took them off? I followed instructions of 590 00:33:26,359 --> 00:33:27,920 the letters and how do the nuts just kidnapped utch 591 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,720 load of What are you talking about? I saw it 592 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,599 just this afternoon, Qweenland, And now she's disappeared from the hospital. 593 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,720 What have you been doing since your plain man that 594 00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:37,079 I want every move came through customs? What did you 595 00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:37,440 tell them? 596 00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:37,839 Speaker 3: Tell him? 597 00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 7: I was to watch this and I think else. Oh, 598 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,480 I went for a cab. I didn't even let that 599 00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:43,799 fellow take my pictures. Watch fellow in the building at 600 00:33:43,839 --> 00:33:46,480 the airport souvenir photograph. He didn't look like the real article, 601 00:33:46,519 --> 00:33:49,640 so I turned away. That's your mistake when you didn't 602 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,319 let him take a picture. They knew you had a reason, 603 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,400 so they cleared just that's how they knew. You told 604 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,599 Madam loader, that's why they grabbed it. That's why they 605 00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:57,640 put the Dauphin woman on you. And I thought I 606 00:33:57,759 --> 00:33:59,720 was being smart. I forget it, and I knew it. 607 00:33:59,799 --> 00:34:04,880 Just oh my goodness. That well, there's something we can 608 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:05,359 do about it. 609 00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 610 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:12,280 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 611 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,360 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 612 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:21,119 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives From Orlando, Florida, 613 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,960 this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.