 Johnny dollar Johnny yes Hello George Reed Floyd's of England. Oh, what's the matter George? You sound a bit down in the mouth. I am what's up? Well, I Johnny I understand you've handled quite a few investigations for the Continental Insurance and Trust Company Oh brother, I sure have and you know something George. Yes Floyd's of England you that is have handed me some pretty wild ones over the years I know but believe me they've been nothing compared to some of the cases of Continental is handed me and you know why George why Johnny Because it's just one client of theirs. Well, he's a wealthy old screwball by the name of Alvin Peabody Cartwright Cartwright. Yeah, he carries a lot of insurance millions of it and any company that has his account is making plenty Yes, I know. The fantastic problems that man comes up with. Well, it's enough to drive you off your rocker I mean I'm always the goat. Yeah handle one crazy investigation for him only three or four weeks ago So I understand. They told Continental that if they sent somebody else around he'd leave them flat Johnny actually I suppose I shouldn't complain some of the biggest fees I've ever got have come out of his pocket And you know something? Yes Johnny in spite of all his wackiness in these silly problems. He hands me Well over the years. I've really gotten to love the old character and I mean aside from those fancy fees I mentioned yeah, I think I do almost anything within reason that is if it were necessary to help out Alvin Peabody Cartwright Anything sure anything Right now you said you have troubles George. I'm sorry I chewed your ear off about something someone that Floyd's of England doesn't have to worry about so Well, of course not because as long as he keeps his insurance with Continental Unless George unless What well, I mean if he were to change companies for some silly some Oh now wait. Yes, George Just who is your problem I'm afraid you've guessed it. Oh No, yes, Johnny Alvin Peabody Cartwright CBS radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator is truly Johnny dollar Pepsi Cola refreshers without filling Why because it's truly light Charlie. You're forgetting something wait Kay. There's more. Yes ice-cold Pepsi Is the delicious refreshment that goes great at a picnic or a party but John and Pepsi goes fast People like it. So keep plenty handy There. Oh, you did fine Except for one thing. Well, I mentioned lightness and how Pepsi refreshers and how fast it goes left out Pepsi Sociability, you know the be sociable song, okay? I can't sing I can listen Keep up to date with Pepsi Refreshing Well, at least I can say this pick up an extra carton of Pepsi today Please do and now act one of yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to Floyd's of England North American office Hartford, Connecticut Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Alvin's Alfred matter The assignments George Reed usually handed to me were usually bad enough But a combination of both George and Alvin Peabody Cartwright could be just a little too thick Anyhow expense account item won a dollar for a cab to his office George don't tell me Cartwright is shifted all his insurance over here to Floyd's of England sit down Johnny, please sure Well, yes, he has and baby as a matter of fact after months of effort and expense I managed to sell them on our company myself, oh brother But if you have any idea of the amount of his annual premiums, Johnny, it's a real feather in my cap But don't you realize what you've got yourself in for I am afraid I'm beginning to So Johnny if you can get him off my neck Cartwright twice in one month don't bank on it, but tell me all anyhow Well, it's really my own fault so anxious to get his business And if you know how much that man spends on premiums, yeah, you said that now get to the point And I suppose I should have been more thorough But well we figured that continental had known what it was doing and we simply made a direct transfer of all his policies to this company Including the one that concerns us now Only it should never have been issued what kind of a policy straight line on Cartwright No with all the riders attached to it Johnny It not only covers her life, but accident injury mysterious disappearance just about anything you can think of covers home Well the name on the policy Alfred Alfred Alfred Cartwright a relative no no But if his last name is no Johnny according to this policy Alfred is a ward of Alvin Peabody Cartwright It's funny. I never knew that Cartwright had a Well, what's the difference? What what's happened to this Alfred according to mr. Cartwright? It was an abduction. Oh a kidnapping, huh? No, not exactly. Oh, what do you mean if he was abducted that means he was Wait a minute. Yes a minute ago. You started talking about the insurance policy on her That's right, and then you started talking about Alfred Alfred is a she is a what? Yeah, well, what do you mean about an abduction of her him it not being a kidnapping? I said not exactly but Alfred was abducted. Yes. Oh look, would you start making some sense about this? I wish I could and if this sort of thing is typical of come on come on George if Alfred was abducted, but wasn't kidnapped Well, okay, what happened? Well, you see Johnny Alfred a female a female. Wow Alfred happens to be a dog Okay, so what's the difference if she's been abducted she's been she's A dog? Yes The 11th straight year camel outsold every other cigarette filter king size and regular the best tobacco makes the best smoke So if you're smoking more now, but enjoying it less change to camels get more real satisfaction every time Start to really enjoy smoking again two of yours truly Johnny dollar and the Alvin's Alfred matter Accident injury mysterious disappearance all that insurance on a dog. Yes, Johnny a female dog Yes by the name of Alfred. Yes a pet of that lovable old crackpot Alvin P. Buddy Cartwright his ward Johnny At least that's the way it reads on the policy and that's why we thought nothing of it when the policy was transferred to us from Continental insurance and trust. Oh, but why can't an animal ever wrote such a policy in the beginning? Oh that part's easy George, but the premiums only a drop in the bucket I mean compared to that on the rest of Cartwright's insurance Now listen if they'd refused to write this complicated policy on his dog We'd have lost all his business well They have now to us and Georgie you can lose it just as fast unless you try to do something about this this Disappearance of that pooch unless you do something about it Johnny You've got to find Alfred and return him her Return her to him so will you drive on over to Lakewood and talk to mr. Cartwright see what you can do? So help me and Johnny I promise will not question a single item on your expense account no matter what it is. Oh As for a nice big extra fee Are you name it? Well, will you do it? Okay, George on one condition yes that you keep this thing under your hat I mean after all if the word ever got out that Johnny dollar was chasing around the countryside looking for a Dognapper Johnny I promise I cross my heart and hope to die What a business With no limit on the expense account I should have hired a rose complete with liberate chauffeur But instead out of two is for 20 for a tank full of gas my own car Within the hour I was pounding on the front door of the card right home over in Lakewood. Hi, I'm a scared right no No, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm out. I'm far too upset to talk to anyone right now No, wait a minute Why Johnny that's right. Well, why didn't you say so come in boy come in sure Also, how are you? Yes come in and commiserate with me in my hour of bereavement How anybody could be so wicked is to take Alfred my pride and joy away from me But somebody did and Johnny you must find it and must bring the culprit to justice spare no effort But come on Joe. Well, have you any idea mr. Kite right who might have walked off with the pooch that pooch Johnny how can you use such a term? Oh, yeah, I'm sure but you haven't answered my question do I know who committed this dastardly D. Yes, of course Come on Johnny Show your Alfred's pictures so you know when you see it. All right But now why sin for me, right? What I mean if you know who did this I Certainly do and Johnny he must be made to pay the penalty for this nefarious Now look Here's dear little Alfred's room Huh, well, do you like it isn't it nice? I Could hardly believe my eyes It was more like the playroom for some much too wealthy child Well, he must have spent thousands on it on the soft thick wall-to-wall carpeting the Well all the furnishings including a bed in the corner with a foam rubber mattress There was a growing tree in the middle of the floor and a half dozen miniature fireplugs scattered about there were rubber bones and balls and toys of all sorts and sizes that Toys In addition to everything a dog could possibly play with there was a big table with a scale model electric train and a Rector set a microscope a lot of other science toys including a working model of a huh? Isn't that nice Johnny? Oh Look mr. Godright. Yes, don't tell me the dog played with these things What thing what would you want? Will this toy seismograph or what are you talking about that really works? See see how the recording needle gave a jump on the roll of tape on it. It runs for a week keeps perfect time Oh, sure. So the dog could tell one. There's been a earthquake somewhere. Is that it? Well, no, no, but I Am a as well admit Johnny that Some of these things are mine Yours yes when I was a child The only toys I had with the ones my poor mother could make with her own hands And I always said that if I ever had the money I'd make up for it That I'd have all the things I couldn't have them So maybe I'm just a silly old man second-child head that sort of thing, but I Said I'd have them and now I have I see Did you ever have a nice electric train when you were a youngster? Well, no, no my my folks couldn't afford it. I bet you wanted one Sure, I did Doesn't every now after you've grown up. I bet you spend as much time looking at them in store windows as any kid All the time wishing you dared to buy one Just just to have it You think it's all a joke Johnny Choke mr. Conrad about the man who buys his son a train for Christmas and then Well, you know plays with it all Christmas morning. Yeah Maybe you got a point there, of course And that's that's the trouble with growing up People get so proud or Stuffy or something that they won't unbend they won't let their hair down Enjoy some of the simple little things that they'd really like to do They're so afraid that somebody might laugh at them I'm not laughing mr. Cartwright And that's why I like you Johnny because you sense enough to realize that well Maybe an eccentric old character like me isn't so eccentric after all He's just become smart enough to get rid of a lot of Nonsense little inhibition. Yeah, you have got a point there Maybe you can understand why the same old man is so he's so upset about losing a wonderful companion He's a dog She is such a dear I looked all over for I found her and bought her and brought her here her Then why did you name her Alfred? Well, to be honest by Johnny. I'd really hoped for a boy. I Yeah, yes Now you say you know who kidnapped who dognapped her Clarence Clarence Brickston a stupid day server that I fired yesterday He was the only one who could have done it. Who would have done it? When did this happen last night between seven and eight? I'd gone over to visit the widow Parkinson's Oh a bit of romance in your life, mr. Cartwright. Oh, Johnny. How can you see if you? Well, she is very nice. I mean what there and there was nobody here, but little Alfred I'd even locked her in. Oh, what about the house? Was it locked? Of course it was but Clarence still had his key to it And if you know this house Johnny and nobody could have broken in I'm sure of that besides there was no sign of anybody trying to There's no footprints outside. There was no ladder marks. It was nothing Even the stupid local Yoko police agree that Clarence must have done it Then why haven't they nabbed it because they believe his alibi from that character that wife for his They live the other side of town and she swears he was at home when it happened And you're sure that only he had a key to this house. That's right outside of my own It's a so he must have done it only the dumb police won't do anything because of his so-called Alibi, huh, and we got a break that alibi. That's right how journey Well, I got a crazy idea Well, I thought I was you know one of just uh, let me take a real close look at one of these toys in here One of the toys. Yeah, that's right. It's a long chance. Mr. God, right, but let's see what happens Really Johnny dollar in a moment Welcome recording star Mel Tormey. 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I Hoped he was a stupidest card right seem to think Brixton I want to see Johnny dollar special investigator no get him out of here maple throw him out What are you so worried about Brixton first? It was those dumb cops that crazy old geezer sends around here now It's you well me. I'm fought to hear all this yakking about me taking that mangy little hounder Isn't that snappin yippin little little female she done to my clarence and sharp teeth or her He's showing me a hand Clarence. Yeah, forget it maple and shut up You get these marks when you were hauling Alfred out of that playroom against her will huh now listen a little dog You said oh not much bigger than Clarence's hand Then you've seen it mrs. Brixton Well now Clarence told me about it. Yeah, sure. I told her I see what do you see and I hope it means the dog is still alive After all if you took the trouble to bring it here Well, what are you talking about you trying to say I stole the dog off of them So maybe nobody did wise guy. What do you mean by that? That's me that lousy pooch got out of there on her own free will just to get away from that crazy cart Right like anybody in her right mind out of a locked room in a locked house Sure, I right always left the window open so she could sleep good He left so the dog took off somewhere a little dog jumped out of a third story window Why would it kill to crippled her all right? So then he was wrong about when it happened while he was out He said he was out between 7 and 8 p.m. Last night and that's when somebody chased Alfred around until he caught her Then took her away prove it. Yeah Some big clumsy ox like yourself Clarence who had a key who knew the place knew he'd better leave the place looking Undisturbed before getting away But he didn't yeah Take a look at this From a working model seismograph there in that playroom You see Clarence Every clumsy footstep of yours registered in black and white for some five or six minutes during a period between 7 and 8 o'clock Don't look like his feet to me, but I didn't touch that thing. You didn't need to Mean them squiggles on the paper my footsteps. What do you think? Now, what do you think of modern scientific investigation Clarence? Scientifically, huh cheese listen mr.. Please was only so Clarence could make like he found the dog And then take him back and then maybe get his job back Could have worked who only only only what Clarence some local cops. They was a pushover But then you You had to come along All right dollar well dollar I Give myself up Modern scientific investigation But he fell for it and Mabel brought the dog up from the cellar and she was kind of a mangy little poach The dog I mean But she meant the difference between keeping or losing Cartwright's insurance account which reminds me you can forget the expense account Cartwright did well by me as usual and he'll probably break down and take Clarence back. Oh well yours truly Johnny that I will return in just a moment Constipation can be a problem for anyone even doctors and when constipation occurs It's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about a laxative. 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