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Richard Diamond: The Evans-Farmer Murder Case (EP2225)

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Well, now it's Tom for today's episode of Richard Diamond.

This one is the Farmer Evans murder case and the original air date is August the twenty third of nineteen fifty.

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Now your w rex Paul Family Druggist brings you a transcribed half hour with Richard Diamond, Private Detective starring Dick Powell.

Speaker 5

Diamond Detective Agency.

Speaker 6

We never say die, mister Diamond.

That's right.

How would you like to make twelve hundred dollars?

Do I have to name the mystery melody?

This is not a quiz show, mister Diamond.

Speaker 7

I have a proposition for you, a business arrangement by which you may prompt to the June of twelve.

Speaker 6

Hundred dollars oh, well, that's my favorite tune.

Speaker 8

My name is.

Speaker 7

Evans, Doctor William Evans.

I have an office in the Grand Professional Building, Suite four o.

Speaker 5

Nine, Grant Professional Building, Suite four nine.

Speaker 7

Yes, i'd appreciate it if you would come right over.

Speaker 6

Well, it's after six now I'll stay in my.

Speaker 7

Office until you get here, and so as to save time with explanations.

On your way over, pick up a Late Afternoon Times and read the article on page three, column two, a story about a man called Farmer.

Speaker 6

I locked the office, went downstairs and out on the street, where I purchased the Late Afternoon Times, and in the cab headed for doctor Evans's office.

I read the article on page three, column two, George Pyre burns to death and the picture of a deceased According to the article, Farmer had been on a vacation in the north Woods.

He'd gone to sleep smoking a cigarette, and that was that.

Mattress caught fire before anyone noticed, the whole cabin was burning.

My cab let me out in front of doctor Evans's building, and one look at the Lyde's crowd, plus the very familiar black sedan and the passenger loading one.

I had my stomach and a nodding.

Speaker 8

All right, now get back.

Speaker 6

You you evening side of notice.

Speaker 8

Oh what are you yelling about, mellenhat.

Speaker 5

Oh evening, Lieutenant Levinson?

Speaker 6

Oh no, I hope you were just passing by, mister Donald.

Speaker 4

I saw the.

Speaker 6

Crowd, Lieutenant Levinson, and came over to find out if you had notice, were playing hopscotch or possibly kicked the cane.

Speaker 9

This is a swell time to make with the jokes.

Some guy took a dive out of the fourth floor.

Speaker 5

Window, fourth floor dead.

Speaker 6

Very name was Evans had offices in the building, Doctor William Evan's guy named Evans offices on the fourth floor.

Doctor some guy.

Just twenty minutes before he'd called me with a twelve hundred dollars proposition, And now it looked like the only thing I was going to get out of the deal was a late afternoon paper and a story about a guy named Farmer.

Farmer burned to Deathan bad.

Oh, yeah, we got a report on the case.

Speaker 5

U listen, doctor Evans was hooked up with it in some way.

Speaker 6

You overd you twelve hundred dollars, he asked me if I was interested.

Silly boy, I think it's the doctor's office.

And there's the window he went out of.

Who saw him jump?

Speaker 9

Bill Mitchell, cop on the beat, saw the body come out of the window feet first, said, at least it looked.

Speaker 6

Like he jumped, no sign of struggle.

I'll have the boys give the room a good going over.

Well, we're pretty sure of two things, Walt.

First, there's a strong possibility that doctor Evans didn't commit suicide.

Also that he knew something about George Farmer, the guy who got burned to that might have been Farmer's doctor.

Speaker 5

There's one way to find out.

Speaker 6

This Times article says that Farmer left the widow.

While you're checking things here, I think i'll go see what Missus Farmer's views are on dead husbands and dead doctors.

Yes, Missus Farmer, Yes, I like to talk to you about your late husband.

Speaker 10

Are you from the police again, Well, I just left them.

Speaker 6

But this is my own idea.

Speaker 5

My name's Diamond.

Speaker 6

I'm a private detective.

Speaker 10

Oh, you working for the insurance company, then, just what do you want?

I'm tired of questions about my husband's death.

I've told the police, an insurance company everything I know.

Speaker 6

I know it's been difficult, but I won't take long, and there are a few things I'd really like to find out.

Speaker 5

Well, what are they do you know what doctor Evans?

Speaker 11

Doctor Evans?

Speaker 10

No, No, I don't know any doctor Evans.

Speaker 5

Your husband never mentioned him, said he knew him?

Speaker 10

No, he didn't.

Besides, what does this doctor to do with my husband?

Speaker 6

I don't know yet.

You mentioned an insurance company.

Was your husband insured, Missus fireman.

Speaker 10

Yes, the National Mutual.

If you're not working for the insurance company.

Speaker 11

Or the police, who are you working for me?

You look?

Speaker 10

Would you mind telling me what possible interest you could have on the death of my husband?

Speaker 6

The truth I really don't know, but they're twelve hundred dollars mixed up in it somewhere, and that's not keeping me you well interested until I find some answers.

Speaker 5

Thank you, missus Fireman.

Hello, well all all right?

You see the wife?

Speaker 6

Yeah, lovely girl.

I could like to bring home to mom.

You'll find out anything.

Nothing in the room to indicate the doctor was pushed out of the window.

Missus Farmer didn't know the doctor that her late husband didn't either, but she thought at first I was from an insurance company.

One company, a National Mutual.

Speaker 9

Artist got the names of the officials and National Mutual.

Speaker 6

Yeah, bring him in right, Wow, the action we checked with the dead doctor's nurse, she said.

Speaker 9

Aside from his regular practice, he worked for two or three big insurance firms.

Speaker 6

National Mutual was one of them.

Speaker 9

I didn't think of the connection then, but I made the check just in case.

Speaker 6

Well, George Farmer was burned to dead.

Doctor Evans knew something about Farmer.

Farmer was insured with the National Mutual and the doctor worked for National Mutual might be a tier.

Speaker 9

Vice president of National Mutual is Arthur Peterson.

It's not true, right, let's take a run over to his house and see if he knows.

Speaker 6

Anything about it.

Speaker 12

Well, gentlemen, an answer to your questions, Yes, we didn't show the late George Farmer, and doctor Evans does work for us to whether or not he was the doctor examined Farmer.

Speaker 6

I really couldn't say.

Speaker 11

I'd like to check the.

Speaker 12

Files then, and don't are satisfied you think there's something wrong?

Speaker 6

We don't know.

Doctor Evans jump go was pushed out of his office window the same night.

Speaker 5

Good lord, he Carl.

Speaker 6

Mistered Diamond here and indicated he knew something about Farmer's death.

Speaker 5

Have you settled the claim with missus Farmer.

Yet no, but it's to be settled within the week.

Twenty five thousand dollar policy.

Speaker 6

If someone could show your company that Farmer's death was no accident of their reward, wouldn't they yes.

Speaker 12

Ten percent of the policy in this case twenty five hundred.

Speaker 6

Half of that'd be about twelve hundred.

You think we could look at your records tonight, mister Peterson.

It's very important.

Speaker 12

I of course, I'll just get a coat and we'll go right down to the office.

Speaker 5

We left with mister Peterson and headed for the.

Speaker 6

Offices of the National Neutrable.

A quick look through the file showed us what we wanted.

Speaker 5

A full report in the state of George Farmer's health.

Speaker 6

Okay for insurance about the examining physician, doctor William Evans.

Speaker 8

Too bad.

Speaker 12

The first claim on an action policy has.

Speaker 5

To be a death.

Speaker 6

Well, and tie that up.

Now, what have we got?

Enough to keep on looking?

I think I'll go have a long chalk at Farmer's wife.

Speaker 12

Our company detectives checked that it was right here in the city when her husband died.

Speaker 5

Well, a little talk won't hurt who saw Farmer the policy.

Speaker 6

Mister Peterson.

Speaker 12

According to the files, the insurance man was Martin Names.

Speaker 6

You have his address here?

Yes, here you.

Speaker 5

Are, good man, one of our leading salesmen.

Speaker 6

Well, you're talking with missus farmer wall.

I think I'll run over and see this man aims.

Maybe he can do us some good.

If the late doctor Evans hadn't offered me twelve hundred dollars, I would have vocated his four floor dives an active suicide.

But the way things were shaping up, he was going to split an insurance reward, and, knowing doctors to be pretty practical people, I just couldn't imagine him giving up that kind of money for a fast trip to the sidewalk.

The home of my Names was an apartment on the Lower east Side.

His wife answered the door.

Speaker 10

My husband here.

Speaker 5

You know where I can find your husband, Missus Eames.

Speaker 10

It's by the important I don't know what you want, but if you want to see my husband, that's where I'm going.

Now he's got a call.

He had an aumobile accent.

Miss Yes, I'm mister James, my husband.

Oh yes, Misses, if you'll just have a seat, I'll call doctor Tully.

He's in charge of your husband's key, but I want to see my husband.

Speaker 11

Can I see you?

Speaker 10

I have to see doctor Tully, but I want to know how surtous it is.

Speaker 11

I should be with my husband.

Speaker 10

If you will just be patient for the moment, museums, I'll get doctor.

Speaker 6

I'm on, missus James.

Speaker 5

Let's sit down over here.

Speaker 6

I just sit down over here and try and remember.

Speaker 11

Doctor Kelly Helly.

No, this is a police officers, police officer.

Speaker 6

He's a friend of Minaea's names.

Speaker 11

Not think about my husband.

Speaker 5

Doctor Tully's the man you want to see.

Can I talk when you're rick?

Speaker 13

Excuse me?

Yes, of course, he'll be all right.

I'll be all right, Okay, well this feigner about her husband.

Speaker 6

Yeah, I was questioning missus Farmer when I got the call over the hardshat.

I remember, and so I figured you'd wind up here.

Have you heard how he is dying five minutes ago?

Oh?

Speaker 5

No, accident, hid and run Before he died, he told us the.

Speaker 6

Car ranhim off the road, went down a twenty foot embankment and right into a cement retaining wall.

The walls stopped him going any further, but broke his neck.

Speaker 5

Any lead on the other car, I'll only stretcher.

Speaker 6

No one else saw it.

That happened too fast.

Frames Wait a minute, that must be doctor Tully going over to miss Zaimes.

Speaker 5

Now he did everything he could.

I don't envy.

Oh no, please control yourself, missus Ames.

Speaker 6

Come on, this is turning into a rocket case.

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And now back to tonight's adventure with Richard Diamond, Private Detective Starrying Dick Paul.

Speaker 5

The laughter six I got a phone call and by six point.

Speaker 6

Thirty the man who called was lying on a sidewalk broken in two from a four story drop.

Two hours later, an insurance salesman named Ames was run off the road and ended up with a broken neck.

Two incidents, not a bit.

Wald found the location of the place where George Farmer had burned to death.

Then we climbed to the squad car and started the long drive for the Catskills.

Around seven in the morning, we turned off the main highway and onto a dirt road.

A sign reading Sportsman's Retreat two miles pointed the way, and twenty minutes later we were pulling up in front of the lodge.

Speaker 8

Many many Welcome to Sportsman's Retreat.

Speaker 6

All right, police car, I'm Lieutenant Levinson, theft bracing New York place is mister Diamond?

Speaker 4

Ooh?

Speaker 6

Heardy?

Speaker 8

Are you up here about mister Farmer's deck?

Speaker 6

I'm officially you run the place.

Speaker 8

Yeah, yeah, I'm the farmer.

My name's Pop pop Stone, but everybody just called me Pop.

Speaker 5

We thought of it still, how Pop?

Speaker 6

Can he put us up for sure?

Sure?

Speaker 8

How long you figured out being around?

Speaker 14

Oh?

Speaker 6

Not long?

We only brought one change of clock.

Speaker 8

Well, come on in.

Breakfast was hour ago.

But if you're hungry, I can have to cook rustle up some baiton and ages.

Speaker 6

It sounds good.

Speaker 5

Many people staying here?

Speaker 6

Pop?

Speaker 14

Oh?

Speaker 8

By fourteen?

Yeah, fourteen?

Same crowd comes up every year short of a club.

Speaker 6

You might call it.

How many years did George Farmer come out?

Speaker 8

Oh, mister Farmer come up about you?

For the last ten years?

Hey, who wan's the blessed mister Phillips.

He ain't here now, but he phone and says he'll be in sometimes afternoon.

See.

How come you felers who are interested in mister Farmer's death.

We had the police and the insurance up here for three days.

Speaker 6

You're little a age, Well, there are a few things we haven't cleared up.

Sure appreciate some help, Pop.

Speaker 8

Yeah, just sure give you all the help I can.

I'll go get some breakfast for you, and then we can gabble it in a while.

Speaker 6

Bob went back to the kitchen and we relaxed in a couple of big leather chairs in front of a large window that looked out on the row of cabins.

That last cabin must have been farmers.

Speaker 5

Yeah, nothing much left of it.

Speaker 6

It's beautiful up here.

Speaker 5

Look at those trees with the sunshine and through them your soul.

Speaker 6

The showing wall.

Oh, it was a beautiful place, all right.

The cabin stood in the clearing, fronted by well kept pies.

Speaker 5

And back by tall trees.

Speaker 6

Pop came in a little later with enough bacon and eggs to feed a platoon of tapeworms, and we talked, where is everybody, Pop, I'm fishing.

Speaker 8

Get up about four thirty around here.

Speaker 5

Many of the men bring their wives, oh.

Speaker 8

Some of them.

Mister Farmer used to bring his ingen up every year.

Find looking woman.

Missus Farmer didn't come up this year.

There was why, well might have sieved them used to smoke in bed all the time.

Maybe if she'd been around here, she might have quught him atic who discovered the fire?

Oh, we all saw it, but it was too late.

By the time we got there, the whole place was burning.

By the time we got the hoolie going, there wasn't much left.

Speaker 5

You say, all saw it?

Speaker 6

Where were you?

Oh?

Speaker 8

We was up to Willow Peak cooking out.

That's about three miles from camp.

You he from there?

See she the tall peak there lifted them trees.

Speaker 6

H I'm come.

Farmer didn't go along.

Speaker 8

Oh he never went on many hikes, had trouble with his legs.

Speaker 5

You know, anyone to stay here in camp besides farmer?

Speaker 8

No, no, no, everybody was up to Willow Peak.

Speaker 6

Who examined the body?

Speaker 8

Doc Comb from Emerson come up and look at the body.

Speaker 6

Where's Evanston about.

Speaker 8

Fifty miles east.

But if you want to talk to the dock, you'll have to wait till everybody comes in from fishing.

Speaker 5

Oh God's up here now, yeah, yeah, come up last night.

Speaker 8

We'll stay weak for the fishing.

Oh ah, oh, well, I'm Bonn and Mimus Phillips the figure.

You just have to do this.

This is mister Phillips, the owner.

Speaker 6

Oh, I have some bags out in the car.

When they got them?

Speaker 8

Please the good morning, gentlemen, Good mind, yere's some more police fellas.

Speaker 5

Mister Phillips, Oh about.

Speaker 8

I got to clear up a few things.

Speaker 6

Would you please get those bags form up banks?

We just wanted to ask a couple of questions, mister Phillips, I am Lieutenant Elevens and this mister, well out of you?

Do you mind deface it?

Out?

Hold?

Not at all.

I thought the authorities were subspent.

I guess they are.

Where were you when they accident the curt mister Phillips, Oh, I was on my way here from the city, arrived about an hour later.

Speaker 5

You live in the city, mister Phillips, Well, yes, I have a house there.

Speaker 6

I divide my time between there and the lot.

Tell me something about Farmer, mister Phillips.

Speaker 8

Of the man, was they well you finished run any more?

Breakfast?

Speaker 6

No thanks, man, I'll go ahead, Miss Phillips.

Speaker 5

Good old.

Speaker 6

Well, there really isn't much to tell.

Farmer was a nice sort of a guy, got quiet, as you know.

He had a very bad habit of smoking in bed.

You have any trouble with him smoking in bed before?

Oh?

Speaker 5

Yeah, several times, nearly started a fire two years ago.

Speaker 6

Well wouldn't that make you watch them a little more closely?

Well, you see His wife came up with him every year, but this one she was usually near enough to prevent any trouble.

Speaker 5

How long did he use to stay here?

Speaker 6

Oh?

Week, ten days?

However long his vacation lasted.

Speaker 5

M What was his business?

I think he was an advertising take much money?

Speaker 6

I have no idea.

He certainly never spent much.

As tight as the devil.

It was no important fact.

Coming up here was the only luxury he allowed himself.

He'd tell everyone he'd save all year just to come up here and relax for.

Speaker 8

A week of He ain't, Lieutenant, it comes Doc Holmes.

He must have got his limit.

Speaker 6

Oh you gentlemen interested in talking to the doctor.

Yeah, Pop tells us he was the one who examined the body.

Speaker 8

Well what did you get, doc.

Speaker 4

Hi, Pap, I got my limit?

Speaker 6

Good for you, Good for you?

Speaker 8

Come on over here, he prefers one.

Speaker 11

Talk to you.

Speaker 14

Well, how I fail?

Pop said, you weren't doing endless afternoon?

Speaker 6

Oh this is Lieutenant Lemonson and mister police.

Speaker 8

Yeah, yeah, they want to ask you a few questions.

We got a clear up, a few things about George Farmer getting burned.

Speaker 6

Pop, that's enough.

Speaker 14

Well, certainly, gentlemen, here, will you take these fish please pop the old Yeah.

Sure, Well, I don't think I could tell you much more than I've already told the police.

Speaker 6

Did you know George Farmer prior to his death?

Oh?

Yes, over the period of ten years.

Speaker 5

Did you identify the body?

Speaker 6

Well?

Not at first it was too badly burned.

Not at first, you mean you did identify it later?

Speaker 14

Well, when they told me that George had a broken wrist, I found the broken section of bone and identified.

Speaker 6

Him broken risk.

Oh yes, mister diamond.

You see, when George arrived his lower arms in the cast, he told us that he'd broken his wrist the week before.

What day did he arrive on?

Tuesday?

Last week?

Well?

What did they call to Ordison?

Haven't find out where George Farmer had his broken wrist treated?

Most of all, when the accident occurred.

What are you getting at right?

Then?

Have him find out the day the insurance policy went into effect, doctor, which risk was broken?

The right one and it was in a cast?

Huh would you say?

A good move his fingers well enough to write?

Depends on recent the accident stepping it?

Well, okay, but I don't get it.

Speaker 9

I talked Otis He'll get the information call us back.

Now, would you mind telling me what the devil this is all about.

Speaker 6

George Farmer had to sign the insurance policy, didn't he Yeah, but he could have done that with his left hand.

An accident policy would cover a broken wrist, wouldn't then, sure, mister Phillips, you said Farmer was known to be careful with his money.

Yes, that's right.

Speaker 5

I can vouch for that.

Speaker 14

I treated him for a cigarette burns three years ago, and then.

Speaker 6

A devil of a time collecting thanks Doccer which, so if Otis gives us the answers I want, I think I can show you George Farmer was murdered.

Murdered.

Yeah, and I think I can explain why an insurance salesmen and the doctor were killed.

Speaker 5

So we all sat around and waited for my hunch.

Speaker 6

To grow muscles.

I kept turning the whole thing over in my mind.

The more I thought, the more the whole thing tied together.

Around noon, a call came in from OTIS and Walt gave him the information I needed.

Here it is George Farmer broke his wrist on the twenty sixth of the last month.

It was treated at the Olive Hospital about three weeks ago.

He stayed one night at the hospital and went on What day did he arrive here, mister Phillips, about the fourth, two weeks after the accident.

Speaker 5

He died on the eleventh, according to papers.

Speaker 6

Yes, that's right, he'd been here about a week.

What did insurance policy go into efect?

Wall twenty second?

And last month it went into effect.

It wasn't taken out.

I sat went into effect.

I would cost him a few bucks to have a broken wrist taken care of and spend the night in the hospital withn't the doctor?

Yes, it would.

Remember what the vice president of the National Neutral said, Walt, who bad the first claim on an accident policy had to be dead?

Yeah, And if Farmer had an accident policy, why didn't he put in a claim for his broken wrist?

Come on, Walt, I was going back to town and talked to missus.

Farmer.

Speaker 5

You got your men spotted around the building.

Speaker 6

Whole blocks surrounded.

Peterson and Evers are covering the front cars in every corner.

There is going to play.

And there's been some complaints about noisy cats in the neighborhood.

So I stuck otis and back in the alley.

You'll drive every cap right into the river.

You might have made a mistake.

One yell out of otis and he'll end up with all the shoes in the block here it is.

Yeah, oh the mind if we come in missus.

Speaker 11

Farmer, No, I guess well what is it this time?

Lieutenant?

Speaker 6

We think your husband was murdered.

Speaker 11

Well that's ridiculous.

Speaker 6

I mean, no, you didn't do it, but you were in on it.

You know who did?

Speaker 11

Are you serious?

Speaker 6

Right?

We just had the lab make a check on the insurance policy.

The signature and the finger prince was in the right hand.

So your husband didn't have a broken rest at the time.

Speaker 11

Well, no, he did that sometime later, and you'll sear.

Speaker 5

That it's his signature on the policy.

Speaker 11

Certainly.

I went to the doctor with him.

Speaker 5

I thought you said you didn't know a doctor rabbit, I don't.

Speaker 6

He was the insurance doctor.

Speaker 11

Well I've never seen him before or since.

Speaker 6

How could you expect me to run a husband didn't turn the claim for his broken rest?

Speaker 11

He didn't.

Oh that was his business, wasn't it.

Speaker 6

Don't you think it's rather strange to take out an accident policy and not turn in a claim when your first accident I don't know.

Speaker 10

I didn't bother with my husband's Is this.

Speaker 6

Your husband's driver's license?

Speaker 11

Where did you get that?

Speaker 6

Motor Vehicle department?

Is it your husband's license?

Yes, so the signature on his license is not the same as the one on the insurance policy.

Speaker 11

What do you mean?

Speaker 6

He means that the signature on the insurance policy is a very clever forgery.

Who forged it?

Missus Farmer?

Speaker 11

I don't know.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 6

Who went to the doctor's office representing your husband?

Speaker 11

No one.

Why in the world would I do that?

Why would I have someone represent my husband?

Speaker 5

Probably because you wanted your husband out of the way.

Speaker 11

It's horrible.

Get out of here.

That's not true.

Speaker 6

Who was in it with you?

Who killed your husband?

Not but his cabin at the line?

Speaker 11

Get out, Get out.

Speaker 5

It had to be someone at the lines.

You knew what cabin he was in.

Speaker 10

No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 5

Did you give the papers your husband's picture?

Speaker 4

Yes, you're lying.

Speaker 6

The newspapers tell us you claim not.

Speaker 11

To have a well, I don't remember.

I don't remember.

Speaker 5

Sure you do.

Speaker 6

You didn't want to give the papers a picture of your husband because you knew the insurance salesman and the doctor would identify it as not.

Speaker 5

Being the man who took out the accident's palace.

Speaker 6

No, you knew your husband was going to take his trips, so he planned his death and stayed home for an alibi.

The picture came out and the insurance man and the doctor had to be killed.

A man killed them, missus farmer, someone strong enough to run a car off the road and lift an unconscious man out.

Speaker 5

Of a window.

Feed first, who killed them, missus farmer?

Speaker 6

Stop otis has got something.

Let's get out on the fire escape a new line.

Somebody halfway up the fire escape, look out on this hit a hurt of elephants and brew closet.

He got him.

Speaker 5

No, make him happy, wall climb out and see what we got.

Speaker 6

Okay, just take it easy, honey.

Yeah, that guy Phillips, the one on one by lot and he's dead.

Speaker 5

Well, missus farmer, that's it.

Want to tell me about it?

Speaker 6

Oh?

Speaker 11

Yes, it doesn't make any difference.

Speaker 5

Now, Phillips killed your husband and the other two men.

Speaker 11

It's selling not three sons ago.

But he planned the whole thing.

Speaker 10

Was his idea?

Speaker 6

Oh sure, sure I know.

But the state is pretty narrow minded about those things, honey.

Guy like that gets ideas and gets dead for it.

You like his ideas, and you just got to get in some kind of trouble along the way.

Oh onlime here and you're not hurt that dad, I guess you get shot ots.

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Speaker 11

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Now let's get back into the show.

Speaker 1

Welcome back, well and unusually serious Richard Diamond, very minimal on any sort of laughs.

This script would actually be adapted as a Yours Truly Johnny Dollar script with DM and O'Brien starred.

This program was adapted as the George Farmer Matter, which aired March or junananth excuse me of nineteen fifty one, and use many of the same plot details, only making changes such as the doctor pulling up Diamond was obviously not part of the plot, and no doctor called up Johnny Dollar under Edmin O'Brien and Johnny Doller was one of those that adapted a lot of scripts from other materials, and this was just one of them.

Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and I have an email from mister Kelly who writes in, I've just discovered your site on YouTube.

I'm a longtime fan of old time radio.

I really appreciate how you take the time to do an introduction to the programs you post.

I look forward to becoming a loyal listener and supporter of your side.

Well, thank you so much.

Appreciate your comment, Kelly, and this is the first actual email we've received from someone who found us on YouTube, and hopefully it won't be the last.

Speaker 6

We have.

Speaker 1

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I suspect will be up to about seventeen hundred or so by the time that this UH is released, so check that allout YouTube dot Greatdetectives dot Net.

Join us back here tomorrow for Boston Blackie, and next Wednesday will be back with another episode of Richard Diamond.

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