 Johnny dollar this assurance company providential assurance. That's right. You've heard of us, of course No, sir. I can't say that I have but what's on your mind? Mr. Wyman Embezzled don't try it. I want to get yourself into a lot of trouble. I beg your pardon. I'm sorry I was just trying to make it funny. Oh, yes. Yes. Well now if you care to look into this for sure Why not then I suggest you come here to my office, and I shall give you the details I take it there's a fee here in addition to my expenses if you recover the money Something over two hundred thousand dollars. You can practically name your own great. That is up to say five thousand dollars On a two hundred thousand dollar loss. That's right. Oh, well, then maybe I'd better figure on padding out my expense account Just a minute. Oh, stop worrying. Mr. Wyman But if you have any intention of just keep your shirt on I'll be able to see it Maybe ass radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, Charlie Johnny dollar But best-selling records here's a familiar tune about America's best-selling filter cigarette Winston tobacco flavor That's because only Winston has filter blend up front Choice flavorful tobaccos specially selected and specially processed for filter smoking. No wonder Winston tastes good like cigarette sure smoke Winston And now act one of yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by a special investigated Johnny dollar to the providential assurance company Hartford, Connecticut Now at this point, I don't know if it's the home office or not Anyhow following is the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the hand of providential matter For some reason or other dealing with a new company usually spells trouble for me But expense account item one a bucket of quarter for a taxi to the offices of providential down in the square when I say Offices, I mean exactly to with a connecting door I'm very glad to see you. I'm an Estelle white man. Mr. Wyman and this gentleman mr. I'm the man that had any white man's hand for you. Yes. This is me. He's a wood spring. I'm the owner of this business The soul owner mr. Sprig that's right son providential assurance is all mine lock stock and barrel I see made a lot of money in order down, Texas couldn't find a way to spend it all so I started this year So what happens all I get is more money out of it. Yeah Well, mr. Wyman said something over the phone about an embezzlement exactly $200,000 My boy tell him how it happened when you see mr. Dollar immediate public acceptance of our company is largely due to the Deming's dollar is the reason we sell to many policies is on account of we always pay off any claim for real prompt in cash and Hard-cold cash exactly and for that reason we never question a claim just pay it off and cash That's what we promise and that's what we do and for that reason mr. Dollar Why so many people who can't afford much insurance come dust? Yes, but as a result Oh, what happens instead of a nice tax loss there ain't enough claims to pay your hat All we make is profit. You mean you've hoped to lose money in this business tax loss, mr. Dollar You ever have to pay the taxes on profits from a couple of hundred producing oil wells Yeah, highly but now mr. Wyman about this and as I started to say paying off in cash That means keeping a lot of cash on hand. Oh, then this embezzlement was of your own money exactly the money was stolen from us You kept that kind of money here and here in a safe or something Wouldn't keep it laying around on the floor would you Well, I have any idea who might have taken we most certainly have are it was houser Tom Houser The only one besides whitey had the combination to the same. He also kept the books mr. Dollar Wouldn't you check his books periodically? Of course I did but when I discovered the loss this morning I also discovered he'd been juggling the accounts. Well, how long ago to this Tom Houser work here up until yesterday As I told mr. Sprig I informed how the last night that I plan to check the cash as well as the books this morning No, what happens this morning? He's gone and so was the money Well, darling When you ask me this sounds like the most loosely run insurance company dollar Are you ever managed to get a license from the insurance Commission? Well, that license is something we ain't bothered with yet You what you got to make sure we got a business first don't we are you kidding? Do you realize what the Commission will do when they find out about this? Don't give it a thought son to say nothing of the police Your job is to catch that Tom here mr. Sprig and if the insurance Commission or the government or anybody says we're doing wrong And you can bet they will why then I'll pay up and get out of this business leave me it'll cost you a lot more than this $200,000 well sure maybe couple million you'll make a nice tax loss. Yeah, and you'll probably end up in jail Well, now you let me worry about that your job is to get this embezzler and don't forget We're paying your five thousand to do it look you say it may cost your minions to get out of this mess That's right, and yet you're worried about a couple of hundred thousand Well, that's different. Huh? That was stolen son. That was illegal Trying to make sense with this man was like trying to reason with a hitching post I told him I didn't want the case and that I could understand why he'd hesitate about calling in the police Sure, they probably start asking questions with the only answers he could give them he'd really be in trouble I told them that my only duty as far as I could see was to notify the Commission of this whole operation Son if your conscience hurts you go ahead notify him after you got this money back first after I don't know much about investigation, but seems to me It was him going only a few hours Or if I was you I wouldn't be wasting any time now you got a point there sure sure and don't you forget that? What would you have done and with a fee of five thousand dollars dangling in front of your eyes? Yeah, that's what I did. I took the case Johnny dollar in a moment Begin both of them here. 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Sprague I spent item two a dollar eighty five for a taxi to a dingy rooming house on the north side of town The front door was met by a frowsy old maid wearing a rather slumbly blue house coat She looked like she just got out of bed and a stringy black hair was up in paper curlers Facial investigator, huh? That's right here my credentials Johnny dollar free lancens Mr. Tom house ain't here right now. I know have any idea where he might be I've seen him leaving bag and baggage late last night. I guess he's gone on the trip some ways I was sitting by the front window having a can of beer before I went to bed and I seen him get in his car and drive Oh, yeah, well, just let me have the key to his room. Are you sure that's all right unless you got some kind of a warrant? Yeah, I'm sure the key please. Well, I Ain't had a chance to clean his room up yet today. Don't do it. Don't touch a thing of his until I tell you Oh, well now look near you. Let me have the key and here. Here's a fire spot for your trouble. Oh Well now you what I'd call a real gent and here's the keys the first apartment on the right top of the stairs Yeah, thanks Because So he isn't here yeah, don't worry about the split on me to like I said, yeah, that will take care of it All right, all right I'm leaving it right away neither Johnny darling or anybody does. I'll be ready for him Come on now hang up. Let me get out of here Stop worrying pal. I can take care of him and anybody widely as possible. I slipped the key into the door I had some difficulty turning it but finally heard the lock slipped then I started slowly turning the knob and then Well, I'm not quite sure exactly what did happen except the door was suddenly pulled open so quickly that You want some more The idea hanging around outside You must be darling. Yeah, Johnny darling Then baby, I'm gonna make sure you never get up again Oh It'll make you feel better What do you just stay there on the floor until you feel better where where'd he go? Oh, who done this to you? You didn't Didn't you see him? I heard a big noise up here and when I run up the stairs He must have heard me and run away. He was just a laying here bleeding this way window. What's outside that window? Barskate Don't touch it. No, no, I'll I'll wrap it in my handkerchief and but who could I come here and done this to you? I can't imagine. Well, I can Tom Houser Item three a dollar twenty for a cab to police headquarters Anybody but Sergeant Ed Wilson would have asked a lot of questions that they didn't feel like answering Ed simply took the lamp told one of the boys in the lab to check and if he found any prints on it to Classify them then send the teletype to Washington item for a dollar even for a cab to my apartment After a long cool shower, I felt somewhat better. I just got back into my clothes when the phone rang Johnny Deller Wilson Johnny those prints on that land. Yeah, Thomas Hawker earliest Tim Hossker earliest Tommy Houser It is just about everything else you can think of Johnny that boy is one of the 10 most wanted no kidding And forever you got any kind of a lead on them only that rooming house where he slept me Maybe a hundred miles away by now. I wouldn't bank on it. So Ed. Yeah, you'd better put out that good old dragnet Oh, don't we remember one thing about like what if that boy thinks you recognize? 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Keep talking, but if you're already working on it. No, no just go on with what you were saying, but well We got a complaint about some new company here in town that we've never heard of see flame Yeah, sure and spider there pledged to pay off promptly and without question. Yeah also to pay off and call cash Yes, that's right Provincial assurance company Oh, what do you know about them? Johnny I'm working on a case for them. Oh No, oh Johnny don't I telephone the commission, you know to find out who they are the commission never heard of them exactly So if I were you until we can find out whether they're a legitimate. Hey, tell me Pat What'll the Commission do they've notified him by me? Why I may be too late Why if that outfits what I think it is and if I can do what I think I can Johnny if I can't collect my fee and expenses From them, maybe I'll send a bill on to you After all I may be doing the whole insurance business a great and glorious Johnny What are you talking about that is if I don't get killed first and I'll see you later Another question is but wait a minute if providential is what I think it is Where does Tommy houses theft of 200,000 come in if he was working for them? Oh, why did they call me? Johnny dolly Hello, I think I can understand that or maybe you weren't sure you'd find me around at all anymore Yeah, why not there at your office? Oh? Well, oh mr. Sprig Yeah, as soon as I can if he wants to see me if he is alone Or is this some kind of a trap? No, there was absolute sincerity in his voice. Oh sure of it. Yeah, there was something else to fear Maybe that was it fear Hello Johnny listen, you said you've been working with the police. So well I know I never get anything out of you So I call them listen if this Elwood Sprig of providential has anything to do with the beating and I'm on my way over to see Sprig right now. Well, I tried calling Providentially isn't there I know sorry patty's waiting for me over at the Guilford Johnny There was no time to waste Maybe how's it was still gunning for me with it? So well, maybe I wasn't the only one I had him find a couple of bucks for a cab to the Guilford hotel There in this room I found a very different Elwood Sprig than I talked to earlier and the story that he's slowly nervously unfolded proved to be very Interesting, so maybe I didn't ever make no oil fortune there in Texas Ain't so easy down there as you might think But I learned to use my wits and my brains to get along while smart the next man You see what I mean, mr. Dollar then those 200 oil wells you were talking about made a good line It fooled you didn't it is it even fooled any white man for a while That's that's what give me the idea the idea for what Mr. Sprig Well me me to front for this insurance racket, you know Collect a lot of premiums and then we'd skip town right in the heart of the insurance industry Always harder to pick out a bad apple in the barrel for an issue brother So what happened that earnings of sales when Johnny when he got started on the country people around here the money come Rowan in and when somebody made a claim we stole them on it How long did you think you could get away with this until the commission got wise to us and we'd move out the commission Planning to investigate you next week. I know only by that time we'd be out of here You went wiping in this Tommy Hauser Hauser Ernie brought him in he said because he had a record the police would know about him So he would take the rap and as he went wrong, but then he walks out with all the money last night And then you sent for me why of course early me go after our sir. He might have killed us Ernie didn't want to send for you, but I made him I held a gun on real nice people because maybe how I didn't know you Maybe you could have him and get the money for us So what if you did get wise to us? What what if you we should have to cut you in to keep you from blabbing to you rotten Do you think everybody in this world is a crook? Well, at least it was better than leaving the house or get away with all of it It looks to me like he has so far Johnny now listen. Oh, I'm listening now now Ernie didn't know it But I heard him on the phone. He was talking to Hauser. He was double-crossing me They're meeting somewhere to split the money. Yeah, what else did you expect now listen Johnny then? There they're coming over here to kill me so that I can talk you see that's When I've phoned you to come over here and you think from one minute I'm gonna stick my neck out to save that lousy hide of yours. You got to Johnny You got you all I gotta do is turn you over to the police Oh, would you rather just sit here and wait for Hauser and Weyman? well Or a journey all right come on at least to make keep you from getting shot, which is better than you deserve it Wow, right back inside, please That's right the one that killed Hauser when he tried to hold out on me the one that's going to kill you Elwood for what I've heard just now through this door. Oh no Ernie, please I'm Johnny and of course that means you'll have to go with him dollar. I'll get inside that room I kind of thought you might be coming over here. What are you talking about after? I told you where I was headed and you too sergeant That's right Thanks, Ed. You too, Pat. Oh and Ed. Yeah, Johnny Maybe you'd better put a pair of cuffs on Mr. Sprig here, you know to keep him out of any more trouble I'll go along peaceful So the big fat fee that was promised doesn't get paid to me after all and I'm sure I may as well forget the expense account for change But you know something it doesn't matter because the important thing was to have had some small part in wiping out this dirty racket Me? I feel good. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 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Yours truly, Johnny Dollar Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Heard in our cast were Virginia Greg, Edgar Berrier, Junius Matthews, Jerry Hausner and Lauren Stubbkin Be sure to join us next week, same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar This is Dan Coverley speaking Next, the nerve-tingling progress of the man hurled into space from suspense on the CDS radio network Citizens of Troy, this is Neil Kelleher, the Republican candidate for mayor of Troy I'm taking this brief opportunity to tell you that a Republican city administration will restore garbage collection and disposal to an efficient level The Democratic administration, having burned out the municipal incinerator, has now returned to the ancient system of garbage and refuse disposal by depositing it on an open dump I shall take steps immediately to restore the incinerator and eliminate the threat of stench and smog that will surely be blanketing the northern section of our city as soon as the refuse piles get deep enough and the underground fires begin to burn I intend also to eliminate the noisy collection of garbage in residential areas in the middle of the night so that trojans can get their sleep If you approve of the foregoing proposal, may I suggest that you can assure it's becoming a reality by voting roll A all the way Election Day Thank you