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All right, well, now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.

The original aired eight is November the thirteenth, nineteen sixty and this one is the bad one matter.

Johnny Dollar, Pat McCracken, Johnny Universal Adjustment.

Well, good for you, bat, just keep it up.

Now, what does that mean to as Simon's in one week?

Fine, oh, one and one day?

So I still like it?

What goes this time?

Johnny?

How old are you?

Just exactly three?

Do you?

Why?

Still young enough to remember how you felt enacted when you were a young punk?

Huh?

Sure?

I hope you are a better sort and the one we have to deal with in this matter.

And yet on the other hand, well.

You know the saying it takes a crook to catch a crook, So maybe we'd be better off if you'd.

Been at ain't number one delinkin when you were a puppy?

Do you mind telling me what you're yammering about?

But I suppose you were a good boy.

Well there's no Mama's warrior, that's what you mean?

Oh, I mean, no real trouble with the law, no stretching the reform school, no huodlum gang, no good contact experience.

Fat I guess not.

It's kind of too bad though, you mean, if I had a nice black record, I'd be just right for this, this whatever you have in mind.

And yet on the other hand, oh, come on.

Come on, pat start making sense, will you?

Well, yes, all right, all right, cal Pepper Walker Mono guarantee insurance company.

Do you know him and they're office in Little Rock?

Yeah, good, fly on out and see him with you, Jenny.

Because of some trouble with some some kid.

That's right, Okay, just a.

Kid, Johnny.

But what Walker says about him is true.

If you expect to get anywhere with this boy, yeah, you'd better.

Take along a pair of brass knuckles, a length of chain, maybe a switchblade.

Knight.

Oh that kind huh, that kind a real bad.

CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigatory.

Truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar the Mono Guarantee Insurance Company Little Rock Office, following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the bad One matter.

Expense account had oft want two bucks for cav to Bradley Field and I'm two eighty one ten air fared to New York to Little Rock, Arkansas.

The plane had left New York at six pm.

At eight fifty Central time, we sat down at Little Rock Municipal Airport.

There have been a lot of changes since the year seventeen seventy two, when a guy named Bernard de la Harps stopped here and tagged the place after an outcropping of rock on the south bank of the Arkansas River.

Yeah, it's an interesting town with its modern air conditioned buildings of chrome and glass.

It's busy streets and busy people, and at the same time its beautiful residential section.

Fine home.

There's plenty of trees and gardens and hedges and lawns that stay a lush green throughout the year.

Not far away are well culivated farms and dense forests, and along the river lots of rich bottom land, much of it loaded with cotton.

Any kind of crime just doesn't seem right in this area.

As soon as I got settled cal Culpepper Walker made a date with him, and then early the next morning met him in his office where he got down to business.

No, no, Darla, not right here in town, but one of the outline precincts.

I guess you call it section they call Milltown.

Ah.

I see.

And his name is Pete McGuire, works in the cotton mill.

He's eighteen nineteen years old, and he's the only one those who killed mister Briley.

Briarley Ambrose W.

Briley, client of ours, then sued for near fifty thousand dollars and his business partners and the miller also clients, very important ones.

Well, what happened and Monday night at last week, mister Briley was driving along with a payroll for the cotton mill, like I said, over in Milltown that's east of him.

Yeah, somebody ran his car off the road, bashed in his head and took the payroll, some seventeen thousand dollars in cash.

He was carrying all that money around a lawn at night.

Well, he taking an out of the bank here in town just before the bank closed.

He started out for the mill, but he'd had some trouble with his car with one of the front wheels, and he had to stop and have it fixed.

By the time he got on the road again, it was nearly dark.

Well, tell me you're sure he didn't just swerve off the road by himself.

Mmm, he shoved off by another car.

Tire marks, the skid marks showed just how it happened.

She fanned a fisher.

The Midtown Police department check that out.

I see well, uh cause the police identified to kill his car by those turnmarks, sir.

And that's where the Maguire boy comes in.

Do you mean I mean?

He was caught running away from the scene, not more than well, couldn't be more than one or two minutes after it happened, caught by home, well, a police car.

She himself was in it, just checking the beat out there.

He chased the kid down and brought him in for questioning.

Well, nothing, nothing, What do you mean nothing?

All we could get out of that tough young punk was absolutely nothing.

Well, then what am I supposed to do if the police haven't been able to get anything out of him?

Well?

You could try, can't you.

But it's a matter for the police.

If it wasn't for mister Brier, his partners, And what are they got to do with it?

Their insurance insurance on the cotton mill thousands of dollars in premiums every year, sir, I can't photo lose it dollar.

Well, so why was his partners who insisted that I get you out here to investigate?

Ah, yes, sir, mister Dolla Johnny, oh kick calp Pepper.

I'll see what I can do.

It had him three fifty bucks to posit on a rental car, and I drove over to Milltown to the one room police headquarters in the city Hall.

Yes, sure, missus, Johnny, I was right there at the sceneing the murder in my proud car, right after it happened.

Oh, how come she went at the bank and told me about mister Briley's car trouble getting dark, light, rain falling, and mister Briley told him all that money.

Well, I thought i'd better make sure he'd gotten to the mill all right, So I started out that way.

But what happens?

All right?

What happens?

I got there the Spring Road crossing, and there's his car in the ditch, and another car turn away off the road.

Oh, and this young Pete McGuire trying to get his motorcycles started and get away from there.

Candy's seen me arriving on the scene.

Oh, when I found mister brid here's a dying there in his car.

I grabbed the kid.

Yeah, fly, I had sense enough to follow up that other car.

Now you're sure this Pete McGuire didn't do it.

Well, of course he said he didn't.

That was before he climbed up like now, when he won't say anything.

And he also asked me, didn't I see that other car that left a couple of minutes before I arrived?

Geez, that doesn't.

And there was another thing, Miss Johnny.

You could still see by the track saw that other car had shoved old mister Briardley's car off the road.

Doc Hamper come along about that time.

He si to read those could you read those turmmarks?

No, sir, but Doc and I could still read the tracks from that Pete McGuire cycle.

So he come along after.

The other car left.

All right, I see, but he must have seen who was in that other car, so he knows who did it.

Oh no, wait, I'm sure of it, missus Johnny, because of what mister Briarly said.

What he said when we laying there in his car, dying thinking the doc was Pete standing there, and he kept saying, oh.

No, you saw you saw it.

You tell him, boy, you tell him who did it?

You saw it?

Boy, you tell him, you tell him.

Yes, sir, Miss Johnny, over and over again he said it, and then he died.

I see, so he knew that Pete McGuire saw who killed him and robbed him.

Well, maybe, of course he did no good kid?

Why is he no good?

She?

Why?

Well?

How should I know why?

Mister Johnny accept it?

He wouldn't go to school.

He was the town bum.

His mam never knows where he was at.

The most work he ever done was pushing a pool cue.

All well, now most cats.

Boy has been a troublemaker all of his life.

Ten fifteen times I tried to get him to send him to reform school.

You really don't like him, do you?

Nothing but trouble out of him?

And I take it he doesn't exactly go for you.

Huh.

Maybe maybe a cop hater even, yes, sir, that's right, a cop heater, just like his own man was, like his old man taught him before I had to kill him one night in the robbery Pete's man.

He ought to send this cheap punk up to the pen, but first I got to find out who killed mister Briarley.

Of course you're holding him chief on what material witness withholding evidence, there must be some way, oh with him claiming he's blacked out and don't remember anything.

So the Percy van ass Worthy tent whiler upstairs, Percy what the public defender got the judge to release Pete McGuire on his own, recognizing her whatever it is, recognizance, Yes, sir, so McGuire's out and free as a bird.

But if he tries to run up before I can get him up before the jury chief wants it, don't you worry, mister Johnny.

Everybody on that jury my friends, So they'll lock him up, all right.

Yeah, see the kind of revenge, huh, because he won't cooperate with you.

Now, look, mister Donley, just just because he's a cop hater.

Well, I find this president and this public defender upstairs in his office.

But do you think he could get anything out of that kid?

Well was the kid's defender?

Do you think he'll tell you if he did?

But if it did and you find out, you got to tell me.

Yeah, we'll see, mister Johnny.

I'm not going out of here with a punk kid making me look like a pool.

All these years working to keep order here in Middletown, having to retire a few months from now, Yeah, and going out no richer than when I was walking a beat.

So maybe I'll have to live with some of my relatives somewhere out west.

But do you think I'm going to leave with this kid making a fool out of me, I'll see you any.

To paraphrase Gilbert and Sullivan and an answers, lot is not the happy one, well not always.

I want to know why, tell you?

Why take this driving business?

You have any idea how many times my confreres and I have begged on bended microphone to have begged people not to kill themselves on the highways.

Now, once and for all, let's get together on this.

Let's understand one another.

Unless you want to pack a frustrated announcers on your conscience, slow down and curb highway carnage.

If you don't care about yourself, at least have a little consideration for us.

And now act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the bad one matter.

Oh, Percy van Ashworthy.

Tedwiler was hardly what his name might have implied.

And call me Ted, will you, Johnny?

I don't like the name Percy anymore than I imagine you do.

Yeah.

Sure, Now, as I was saying, in spite of the Chief's feelings about him and all the trouble, he head was Pete's father.

We'll put it this way, that poor ignorant kid has had the odds against him ever since the day he was born.

His father was no good I understand, his mother was an alcoholic.

And because he's always been a stupid little runt, the other kids always bullied him.

Huh yes, And when they'd pull a job, none of them very serious, I'll grant you, they'd leave him behind so that he'd be the one to get caught for their mischief and petty thievery's.

He didn't dare peach on him or they'd beat him up, and the Chief never let up on him.

So he's hated cops, hated anything that had to do with law and order, which includes you.

Yes, I'm afraid.

So in spite of my attempts to get close to him and even you, haven't been able to get him to talk.

I've tried everything, Johnny, from sugar coated kindness to the worst threats.

I could think of everything short of Chief Fisher's heavy handed methods.

Oh you mean, the good old third degree, the rubber Hull's tactics and things like that.

Well, of course, the Chief denies him, and don't forget I'm the one who got the judge to let him out on his own recognizance.

Why in the hope he'd open up to me?

But to Pete, I'm still the law just as much as Chief Fisher, Judge Thurber.

Won't you taking a big chance and is running away?

But he hasn't.

Yeah, I wonder why won't do any good to ask him?

Believe me, won't do any good to ask him anything?

Look out there out the window.

Here he comes.

Now, Pete maguire is okay, give me a try.

What?

Yeah, Look, don't tell him who I am, what I'm here for, Johnny.

If I thought you could do any good, believe me, I can.

But don't you see, unless he talks the jury, all of them friends are Chief Fisher.

And if he tries to run and I listen, I'm no friend of you, See I'm maybe I'm a trouble maker at connart Isla.

Yeah, you want me out of town.

You threaten to have me locked up a fight?

Hey, wait, here he comes, But Johnny, I'm afraid I don't.

Yeah, Okay, you just try and do it.

See, I got a right to make a unless you got some formal charge against me.

All right, now, mister.

Ted Wiler, Pete, come in.

I listen, tat Wiler, you sit down, Dollar, sit down, Yeah, make me if I have to No.

No, Pete, Pete.

You want to talk now, yes, sir, good.

Yes, sir, I sure do.

Well if that's all you got to say to me, say, I'm not throw with you.

That's what you think, well, Pete, public defender.

That's right, And that's why I tried trying to trick.

Me, is all?

Why so you got me out of the clean that's right.

So now you.

Think I don't know, I'm being followed all the time by that Chief of police or.

One of his men all the time wherever I go.

And I think I know.

Why, sir, But the chief promised me.

Yeah, the Chief promised you.

You believe that dirty cop?

I tell you, mister ted Wiler, you get them off my tail now.

Now listen, Pete, And don't you see if you just tell me what you know about the murder of old mister Brierly.

Pete, Pete, please, boy, Pete, listen to me.

If you're trying to protect someone by.

Hold I say, I really know anything?

Well, the chief says you do.

Well, oh, Pete, for the look, you're in trouble.

Boy, I'll get out of my own way.

No one's really proved you didn't kill him.

So unless you tell me what you know, you just keep that cop off my tail.

I'm gonna kid Pete, come back here?

See no dollar?

Come back here?

Hey?

What am I kidding?

Hey?

Get your name?

What's it to you?

So you don't like the cops either?

Huh?

Neither got a tail on you?

Huh?

You want to learn how to shake a tail from an expert?

Expert?

That's right me?

He called you down.

That's a good sounds like money.

Oh yeah, maybe yeah, maybe plenty of money.

And maybe I can use some help in this burg.

Huh helping?

What not?

Just wait?

Talk here in city hall with the cops level the show.

How you got a car?

I got a cycle?

All right?

Good?

I got a car, a good one.

So tell me where to meet you.

You don't care if the cops are following me?

If they follow you too?

You think I couldn't shake them?

Maybe?

All right?

You head for wherever you want me to meet you.

See.

No, if I spot somebody following Pete, I'll shake them so easy.

You sure that sure?

I'm sure they don't meet you?

Whatever you say?

Uh, because if they find out where I'm hiding.

Now you sure you won't tell them?

Look, I promise i'd give you my word.

Well, seven mile road out beyond Spring Road, at the railroad cross, you better hide your car.

There are lots of trees.

You walk in the gully on this side of the tracks.

Then you see a little toolshack on the side.

I'd be there, Okay, okay, I don't know how soon, Pete.

If we're tail I mean I may have to lead him away, but I'll see you.

Huh.

We were tailed all right, and I could see by home, and I wanted to keep him from following Pete.

I had to let the boy go on ahead.

It was nearly an hour later.

Then by the time I got to the tool shack, and I thought I'd lost the man who was telling me.

There was no padlock and a heavy hasp from the door of the tour shock.

So we all come on in, Miss Johnny.

Johnny, that's right, Johnny, and Dollar the big eye.

I see.

So they brung you here to try and make me talk.

Huh.

The insurance company, Pete, not the law, not the police.

No, No, I know all about you, Miss Johnny.

How long had I you for a long time.

I hear that you was coming here.

Oh, I hear lots of things, miss Johnny.

And I hear you coming here.

I figure maybe you can you can.

Help you, Peach.

But unless I know whatever it is you know about that murder.

Maybe.

Maybe I can tell you.

Come on, Pete, try But.

I couldn't tell the police, I tell any of them.

I tell that defender you talking to.

They don't believe me.

You think they believe me over that chief, Missus Johnny.

You think they do?

Oh, Peach, you must have a pretty sorry idea of justice.

And that chief, that chief you run this town.

And he liked to kill me like you kill.

My old man.

He don't like him, old lady.

He killed me because he'd say he'd catch me.

Trying to run away.

And I don't really know who killing mister Brinley, but I think I knowing.

That's why I don't dare say what I think to that chief of anybody.

When you saw the car, the killer's car heading away from the place.

Missus Johnny, the only one I see is the police car when it comes from the direction of the mill.

From the direction of the mill.

So I really don't know.

But the chief say, I do.

And if I try and answer.

The question, Oh wait, wait, peach quick questions like that, chief try and make me answer.

When he come there and see me, he was, I tell you, they only let me loose who they can make me try and run away, and then the chief he can kill me and nobody see it's wrong.

Wait a minute, and he do it too.

Why he himself said.

Yes, dollar chief had me let him go in the hopes he'd have confidence in me.

Talk to me.

The chief had let him go.

Sure, Maybe it was to get an excuse to kill him if he ran and another car.

Pete's on over the car.

So how would the chief know one had left the scene a couple of minutes before he got there, and there were other things.

You think I'm going to retire with his kid making him pull out of meat, cried an old man who's been running the town.

Yeah, and going away, No richard than when I was walking a beat.

Oh but he'd be rich enough with that seventeen thousand payro Sure.

And meantime he knew that Pete McGuire and his ignorance of justice in his fear didn't dare to say what he suspected, didn't dare accuse this man he thought would kill him with impunity.

Yeah, and then everyone connected with the law was against him, all against me.

And so I want to leave, missus Johnny.

I can't tell nobody, not even you.

Yeah, maybe you don't need.

You, Peter.

And besides, I only think I know killed mister Bridley.

Yeah.

Well I'm sure as sure as I a pete that smell cold on Yeah, Kerosene.

Hey, look soaking in around the store spot.

Somebody's jammed something into that hat spot.

There, missus, donnet fire.

Now they're smoking this fire?

Right, Ye, Winds is.

Locked in here.

We've reburned alive.

Keep talking, Peach, he forgot the hinges are inside the store?

What's keep talking?

When I pull the pins out of those things?

Were dying here.

We don't be cooking live and it was just one.

We're gonna turn up and were don't be cooked.

And come on all right, she Donald, that's right.

I see his shack on fire.

Yeah.

When you set this fire, it's further cover up for having killed mister Brawley.

This boy told you that I'll kill him too, Honor.

You won't Chief Probably that gun, I'll kill you too, No, you miss you.

I'm all right.

So you killed old man, Brierley said, doll and if this boy did know, but until you were sure he did, and you kept and too scared to talk.

All right, chief, you want to write and sign a confession.

But if my people found out, why shall I use this gunn of yours?

Enough?

No?

Please justice though, wouldn't it?

Well?

No, oh yes, sir, I'll signed a confession.

Okay, then up on your feet, Up on your feet.

Yeah, pretty smart using that poor ignorant kid as a means to keep any suspicion away from himself.

But believe me, not smart enough.

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Graham, author of the web Surface series and a man of You're listening to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio.

Welcome Back.

During his time as Johnny Dowler, Bob Bailey only appeared in stories that featured bad cops a handful of times.

Usually the local police were cooperative and helpful and very much above board.

Here, though, I think we've faced one of the worst cops that Johnny has dealt with.

There might have been someone more corrupt back in say the Open Town matter, but it's been quite a long time, and it acknowledges the problem that it can be faced with police corruption, and it tries to keep things balanced.

The overall message of the story is that there can be corrupt people in the justice system, but if you trust no one and don't open up to who would try to help you, don't fight through the system, Ultimately the corrupt officials will win.

At this point, though, I also have to say it does seem a little bit silly for Johnny to give his actual name or even his actual last name and expect to be unrecognized.

He just continues to become an even bigger celebrity, even as radio is waning an influence by nineteen sixty.

That's just the way it's happening here for some reason.

Also, I love the National Safety Council ad where the announcer just said, Look, if you can't be safe for the sake of making sure that you're alive for your loved ones, If you can't be safe because you care about self preservation and not getting yourself killed or seriously maimed, if none of that will appeal to you, then think of us, poor announcers.

We want to seem like we're actually being effective during these ads, and you guys are lousing it up.

Definitely a unique appeal for safety Listener comments.

Now regarding our twenty three hundredth episode special of featuring Cloud nine, Tim mathy Ritt's Cloud nine is even more ridiculous than Richard Rogue's Cloud eight.

Let's leave the other four episodes for some other podcast to play.

Well, Tim, I will want to play any further episodes of Cloud nine or have no plans.

I can't really think of any justification for doing so on Great Detectives of Old Time Radio, like that particular episode just because it was tied into detective programs.

The other four episodes are not Some are about visiting like Parish, you know, exoticck locations like that, or Arizona.

Yeah, that was actually an episode.

And then a Man look Keen for Love and then a Man Visits a Ghost Town are the other episodes that are in circulation, and so none of that would have really pertain to us.

If there were a massive demand for more Cloud nine, which I don't anticipate, with people just begging for more Cloud nine, that would be probably on the amazing world of radio.

But in the absence of such overwhelming demand, what we have is pretty much all there's gonna be, at least as far as this podcast is concerned.

Thanks so much for the comment.

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