# Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Double Trouble Matter (EP4905)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 5 Feb 2026, 32 min.

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Today's Mystery: Johnny has to determine which of two men are the long-lost beneficiary to a large life insurance policy. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 16, 1958 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Vic Perrin; Sam Edwards; James McCallion; Parley Baer When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com Become one of our Patreon Supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Thank you to our Patreon Supporter of the Day: Phillip, Patreon supporter since December 2019. Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
[0:36] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
[0:39] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of Yours Truly
[0:42] Speaker 1: Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to encourage you.
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[1:10] Speaker 2: First.
[1:11] Speaker 1: Now we find ourselves actually in the middle of one
[1:16] Speaker 1: of the biggest gaps through Johnny Dollar. After last week's program,
[1:22] Speaker 1: ten of the remaining twelve nineteen fifty eight episodes are missing,
[1:29] Speaker 1: which makes it the single biggest block to have missing episodes.
[1:34] Speaker 1: The only one rivalrying it is the nineteen fifty two
[1:40] Speaker 1: hole in the Edmond O'Brien era, win ten of eleven
[1:44] Speaker 1: are missing. Today's program actually aired on November the sixteenth,
[1:50] Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight, and it's the Double Trouble Matter.
[1:55] Speaker 3: From Holleywood. It's time or Dollar Earl Foreman, Johnny Hi Earl.
[2:05] Speaker 3: I think it's sunny Florida. I think I'll move to California.
[2:08] Speaker 3: What I mean, get away from this grazing insurance business.
[2:11] Speaker 3: As far as I can. You sound like you have
[2:13] Speaker 3: a problem. I sure have a real wild one trying
[2:16] Speaker 3: to get rid of sixty five thousand dollars. That's a problem.
[2:19] Speaker 3: That's insurance on a policy bought and paid for by
[2:21] Speaker 3: one Albert Skyler Kingdom. Well, he died and left the
[2:25] Speaker 3: money to his only child's son, Henry Worsavanna. Can't you
[2:28] Speaker 3: find him? My name? That's just the trouble, Johnny. I've
[2:31] Speaker 3: found two of them. Bob Dailey in the Exciting Adventures
[2:43] Speaker 3: of the Man with the Action packed Expense of God
[2:45] Speaker 3: America is fabulous. Freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly, Johnny Dollar,
[2:56] Speaker 3: no act one of yours, truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account
[3:12] Speaker 3: submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri State
[3:16] Speaker 3: Life and Casualty Company, Sarasota, Florida, following us an account of
[3:20] Speaker 3: expenses incurred during my investigation of the Double Trouble matter
[3:31] Speaker 3: expense A count itam one eighty three twenty Plain Fair
[3:34] Speaker 3: and Incinental's Hartford to Tampa to Sarasota, Florida. It him
[3:38] Speaker 3: two a bus seventy five for a cab to Earl
[3:39] Speaker 3: Portman's office in the Conroy Building. That's right after waiting
[3:43] Speaker 3: twenty years for this sole beneficiary to show up. Twenty years.
[3:47] Speaker 3: Like I told you, the insured was Albert Schuyler King
[3:50] Speaker 3: sixty five grand. Yes, he was a widower, lived up
[3:52] Speaker 3: near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and he had a son
[3:55] Speaker 3: named Henry. Henry was his sole heir and beneficiary of
[3:58] Speaker 3: his polace. Okay, and you say that kingman died twenty
[4:01] Speaker 3: years ago, Yes, douring that big hurricane back in thirty eight.
[4:04] Speaker 3: Remember it did about forty million dollars damage up and
[4:06] Speaker 3: down the coast. Oh. I was a mere child at
[4:09] Speaker 3: the time. Oh sure, Oh was Henry? Well, he was ten,
[4:12] Speaker 3: just a kid. Anyhow, it was several days before the
[4:15] Speaker 3: old man's body was fine, and the boy no trace
[4:17] Speaker 3: of him disappeared in due course of time because of
[4:21] Speaker 3: the statute of limitations. The old man's estate was well,
[4:24] Speaker 3: I guess it went to the state, but not his insurance. No, No,
[4:28] Speaker 3: we kept the matter of the insurance open company policy
[4:31] Speaker 3: requires a lot of legal finagling, but in the company's
[4:34] Speaker 3: history they turned up beneficiaries as much as fifteen eighteen
[4:37] Speaker 3: years after death by advertising. And that's what accounts for
[4:42] Speaker 3: the sudden appearance of two Henry Kingman's, each claiming to
[4:45] Speaker 3: be the beneficiary of Albert Kingman's policy, and each having
[4:48] Speaker 3: a logical, legitimate story, each saying he didn't know about
[4:51] Speaker 3: the insurance until he saw the ad. Where are these
[4:54] Speaker 3: boys right here in Sarasota. They arrived yesterday. They arrived together, no,
[4:58] Speaker 3: a couple of hours apart, unknown to each other. They say,
[5:02] Speaker 3: I hope you made it perfectly plain that one of
[5:04] Speaker 3: them has to be a phony, and that when he's
[5:05] Speaker 3: found out, it's gonna go pretty rough with them, naturally,
[5:08] Speaker 3: But Johnny, I can't find anything wrong with either of
[5:11] Speaker 3: their stories. You know, their background, where they've been and
[5:14] Speaker 3: so on. Where they're staying, a couple of dingy little
[5:17] Speaker 3: motels on the edge of town. Now, look, here's the
[5:21] Speaker 3: file on them, or rather on the old man. Well,
[5:25] Speaker 3: I don't know that that's gonna be much help. There's
[5:27] Speaker 3: information about not only Kingman but his wife who died
[5:31] Speaker 3: before him. There's a lot of miscellaneous information about the boys,
[5:35] Speaker 3: I mean the boy where he went to school and
[5:37] Speaker 3: Sunday School, who his teachers were, the names of some
[5:40] Speaker 3: of his friends. There's a lot of stuff here. Well,
[5:42] Speaker 3: then maybe i'd better go through it. Sure now, look
[5:45] Speaker 3: it's getting like you're gonna stay with Gertrude and me
[5:47] Speaker 3: as huge. Sure that is necessary, which he'd killed me
[5:50] Speaker 3: if I didn't bring you home. So come on, we'll
[5:53] Speaker 3: drive on out to the quay, have cocktails and some dinner,
[5:56] Speaker 3: and you can spend the evening pouring over that material.
[5:59] Speaker 3: Come on, con tails and dinner were great, they always
[6:07] Speaker 3: are with the poets. Only poor man is a misnomer
[6:10] Speaker 3: that Homer. Theirs on Saint Aman's Key is not only
[6:13] Speaker 3: big and new, but beautiful. They have their own private
[6:15] Speaker 3: dock and speedboat on the bio directly back of the house. Yeah,
[6:18] Speaker 3: and they own a couple of spanking new, fancy air
[6:20] Speaker 3: conditioned cars. I decided that if I ever get enough
[6:24] Speaker 3: to retire, this will be the kind of a setup
[6:25] Speaker 3: for me. It was nearly ten o'clock by the time
[6:28] Speaker 3: I got around of the folder on Henry Kingdom, but
[6:31] Speaker 3: by two am, so help me I knew more about
[6:34] Speaker 3: him than he himself could. Yes, I was all set
[6:37] Speaker 3: to expose one of these claimants as a phony, a fraud.
[6:40] Speaker 3: Had the whole situation right in the palm of my hand,
[6:43] Speaker 3: I thought, But brother, I had no idea of what
[6:46] Speaker 3: was coming. Believe me, act too of yours, truly, Johnny
[7:05] Speaker 3: Dollar in a moment.
[7:07] Speaker 4: And now for another episode in the life of Sergeant
[7:09] Speaker 4: Donald's Belwick.
[7:11] Speaker 2: My husband, Reba, Rebar what is it?
[7:23] Speaker 5: Donald?
[7:24] Speaker 3: Confound and read by can't find the fountain pen. I've
[7:26] Speaker 3: looked all through this desk.
[7:28] Speaker 5: Here it is, dear. You must have used it as
[7:31] Speaker 5: a marker when you're reading this book. See this great
[7:34] Speaker 5: literary classic Six Sults.
[7:37] Speaker 3: All right, never mind about my reading habits. Just look
[7:39] Speaker 3: at the coverage we're going to get with this new
[7:41] Speaker 3: auto accident policy.
[7:43] Speaker 4: Let's see collisionteen fifty dollars, doctor fire, the public, livebuilding,
[7:49] Speaker 4: property damage, medical benefits. In other words, we have complete coverage.
[7:53] Speaker 3: That's right. Of course, it's going to cost us money.
[7:55] Speaker 3: I'm sending the company a check right now. Gee. It's
[7:58] Speaker 3: too bad we don't live in Rhode, Rhode Island, Oh,
[8:01] Speaker 3: because on our rate should be lower Rhode Island has
[8:04] Speaker 3: less accidents per capita than any other state.
[8:06] Speaker 5: Oh, which state has the highest?
[8:09] Speaker 3: Me? See? Yeah here it is Nevada, by Gellan. Nevada's
[8:13] Speaker 3: second highest. Alaska has the most.
[8:14] Speaker 5: Really, I didn't know that.
[8:17] Speaker 4: You know, it's just too bad we can't eliminate traffic
[8:19] Speaker 4: accidents completely. Not only would it save life and land,
[8:22] Speaker 4: but it's a lot less straight on the pocketbook.
[8:24] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's for sure. These automobile accident policies get more
[8:27] Speaker 3: expensive every year just because there's so many costly accidents.
[8:31] Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad we've got some good insurance coverage, Donald,
[8:33] Speaker 4: but just remember one thing.
[8:34] Speaker 2: Oh what's that?
[8:35] Speaker 5: Well, some auto accidents ruin a fender and some ruin
[8:38] Speaker 5: a family.
[8:39] Speaker 3: That's true, very true.
[8:41] Speaker 4: But as far as I'm concerned, I don't want any
[8:43] Speaker 4: of your old insurance money. I want you here at home,
[8:47] Speaker 4: safe and sound. You could always drive carefully.
[8:51] Speaker 5: Won't you?
[8:51] Speaker 3: Hmmus, I will do.
[8:53] Speaker 5: That's my Donald, that's my doll, No.
[9:07] Speaker 3: Act too, if yours? Truly? Johnny Dollar and the Double
[9:10] Speaker 3: Trouble matter. The next morning, in the cheap little motel
[9:22] Speaker 3: on the north edge of Sarasota, I'd spent nearly an
[9:24] Speaker 3: hour carefully questioning Henry Kingman number one, and I was
[9:27] Speaker 3: getting nowhere. Obi O'Brien, sure, mister dollar. He was one
[9:31] Speaker 3: of the kids I used to play with back in
[9:33] Speaker 3: Elizabeth City, He and Bobby Tank. Uh. You see the
[9:36] Speaker 3: scar on my arm right here, that's where Obi hit
[9:39] Speaker 3: me with a stick one time when we were playing caddy. Yeah,
[9:41] Speaker 3: I see. If you know where Obi is these days,
[9:44] Speaker 3: you asked him and you'll probably remember scared him to death.
[9:47] Speaker 3: He thought he'd busted my arm. Now, let's see, how
[9:50] Speaker 3: about Miss Albertis Albertas Yes see, I don't remember any
[9:55] Speaker 3: Miss Albertis his Sunday school teacher. They're in Elizabeth City. Listen,
[10:00] Speaker 3: I was only ten years old, but I remember my
[10:02] Speaker 3: Sunday school teacher real good. Her name was Miss Griswald,
[10:05] Speaker 3: and she was Look, are you trying to trick me
[10:09] Speaker 3: or something? Yes, I am, because Henry, why did you
[10:13] Speaker 3: call me Hank? Everybody else does the Frank remains Hank?
[10:16] Speaker 3: That one of you two claimants to the insurance is
[10:18] Speaker 3: a phony. Well, believe me, it's not me. Everything you've
[10:22] Speaker 3: told me about your childhood checks perfectly with the information
[10:24] Speaker 3: I have. Well, of course, mister Donner almost too perfectly. Listen.
[10:30] Speaker 3: Where did you live and go to school after the hurricane? Well,
[10:33] Speaker 3: I'll be honest, I didn't have much school. Where did
[10:36] Speaker 3: you live, mister Dollar? I wandered around more than Little
[10:39] Speaker 3: rap and Annie, all over North Carolina than up north?
[10:42] Speaker 3: Did you live anywhere long enough to be well really
[10:44] Speaker 3: be recognized as Henry Kingman? And I'm afraid I was
[10:47] Speaker 3: just a bum and all anybody ever knew me by
[10:50] Speaker 3: I was Hank. You saw the ad about the unclaimed
[10:52] Speaker 3: insurance in New York, Yes, sir, I was working on
[10:55] Speaker 3: the doc Steve Adoring saw that ad in the Times,
[10:59] Speaker 3: and I decided that if I had that much money
[11:01] Speaker 3: coming to me and I could get ahold of it right,
[11:03] Speaker 3: maybe I could amount to something, get an education maybe
[11:06] Speaker 3: or whoa Hank. All the insurance company has to go
[11:10] Speaker 3: on as your memory, or what you say is your
[11:12] Speaker 3: memory of your childhood. What I've told you is true, sir.
[11:15] Speaker 3: But if the other claimant comes up with the same
[11:17] Speaker 3: kind of a story, but he can't because don't you
[11:19] Speaker 3: sees her, I'm really Henry Kingman. I've told you all
[11:23] Speaker 3: about my father and the house, and the hurricane and
[11:25] Speaker 3: the people I knew about what's happened to me. Yeah,
[11:29] Speaker 3: it's because I am Henry Kingman. Ah huh, we'll see.
[11:40] Speaker 3: I tried to trip him up in a dozen ways,
[11:42] Speaker 3: but with no success. He had a logical, reasonable answer
[11:45] Speaker 3: for every question about his past and present. As for
[11:48] Speaker 3: not being able to produce anyone who could identify him
[11:50] Speaker 3: as Henry Kingman, but it was simply because of his
[11:53] Speaker 3: rather aimless life spent wandering from city to city, never
[11:56] Speaker 3: having any close friends. Because he chose to go to Law,
[12:00] Speaker 3: a tall, well built lad with a mop of blonde
[12:02] Speaker 3: hair and clear blue eyes. And I must confess I
[12:05] Speaker 3: kind of liked him his open frankness. Do you know something?
[12:10] Speaker 3: I could have been awfully wrong.
[12:18] Speaker 6: Although most men by nature don't feel in a combat
[12:21] Speaker 6: mood much of the time, there are some who just
[12:24] Speaker 6: can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there
[12:27] Speaker 6: is good sound reason for him. In July nineteen hundred,
[12:32] Speaker 6: when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty
[12:35] Speaker 6: of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising, the battle
[12:39] Speaker 6: was a furiously forught affair.
[12:43] Speaker 3: Army Private Robert H.
[12:45] Speaker 6: Von Schlick, serving with Company C of the ninth United
[12:48] Speaker 6: States Infantry Division was in the thick of the frakers.
[12:52] Speaker 3: Although he had been wounded previously.
[12:54] Speaker 6: While carrying a wounded comrade to a place of safety,
[12:57] Speaker 6: he rejoined his command, which partly occupied and exposed position
[13:00] Speaker 6: on a dike. Private von Schlick remained there after his
[13:05] Speaker 6: company had been withdrawn, and, in spite of the hail
[13:08] Speaker 6: of bullets around him, single handedly continued to fire into
[13:11] Speaker 6: the enemy ranks. Oblivious to the fact that he was
[13:14] Speaker 6: a conspicuous target. He refused to leave the fight until
[13:18] Speaker 6: he was literally shot off his position by the enemy.
[13:23] Speaker 6: Robert von Schlick earned the Medal of Honor for valiant
[13:26] Speaker 6: devotion to duty and added heroic background to the Code
[13:31] Speaker 6: of Conduct of American Fighting Men.
[13:34] Speaker 3: Now Act three of yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar, I got
[13:43] Speaker 3: into the car that Earl Proman hat lonely and drove
[13:45] Speaker 3: to the motel east of town to see Henry Kingman
[13:48] Speaker 3: number two, all dark and well dressed. He was terse
[13:51] Speaker 3: and to the point, and he answered all my questions
[13:54] Speaker 3: with the same ease and conviction as the other boy,
[13:57] Speaker 3: in only one major respect in his story. Oh so,
[14:01] Speaker 3: I can't name you a single person who can identify
[14:03] Speaker 3: me as who I really am, Henry Kingman. And for
[14:06] Speaker 3: a very simple reason, what's that Henry? It's Henry, mister dolla.
[14:10] Speaker 3: And the reason is that right after the hurricane I
[14:11] Speaker 3: was adopted by a family they just moved into nearby Bridgton.
[14:15] Speaker 3: Their name is McGovern, so I took their name, come
[14:18] Speaker 3: up to Bridgeton and ask them show them my picture
[14:20] Speaker 3: anything you like, Well, I'll tell you I'm Henry McGovern.
[14:22] Speaker 3: Only my foster parents knew that I was really Henry Kingman.
[14:27] Speaker 3: They both died about seven years ago, and they told
[14:30] Speaker 3: nobody else who you really were, now, even the preacher.
[14:33] Speaker 3: They'd wanted a son for years. Now they had a son,
[14:36] Speaker 3: and they didn't want anyone to come along and take
[14:38] Speaker 3: me away from them. Then how did you find out
[14:40] Speaker 3: that you're Henry Kingman? If you are, I'll liken that
[14:45] Speaker 3: last part of your question was a dolla. They didn't
[14:47] Speaker 3: tell me until my twenty first birthday. Bridgeton. Isn't that
[14:52] Speaker 3: the little town up near kur Tuck that was completely
[14:54] Speaker 3: destroyed by fire a couple of years ago?
[14:56] Speaker 4: Oh?
[14:57] Speaker 3: Yes, of course I forgotten there. It's a living soul
[15:00] Speaker 3: up there anymore. Oh, but I'm sure a man like
[15:03] Speaker 3: you could track down some of the people who lived there.
[15:06] Speaker 3: When were you last in Bridgeton? I went up law
[15:09] Speaker 3: rather of my parents, my foster parents died. As I
[15:12] Speaker 3: told you, I've been living in working in New York.
[15:14] Speaker 3: I'll look here, mister dollar. Wow, Hasn't everything I've told
[15:16] Speaker 3: you checked perfectly with what you know about my father,
[15:19] Speaker 3: my childhood? Everything? Hasn't everything I've told you proved to
[15:22] Speaker 3: be true? Isn't it proof that I'm Henry Kingdom? There's
[15:26] Speaker 3: only one trouble. What's that You're not the only one
[15:30] Speaker 3: who has that kind of proof? There here, Johnny has
[15:41] Speaker 3: some more of this baked seat craft.
[15:42] Speaker 5: Oh no, thanks, sir, Johnny, You've hardly touched a thing.
[15:45] Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, Gerturne. I'm sorry. I will have another
[15:49] Speaker 3: cup of coffee though. I'm sure.
[15:54] Speaker 5: So you haven't got very far in your investigation.
[15:57] Speaker 3: I'm afraid not. I told you, Johnny. The store worries
[16:00] Speaker 3: of those two boys check out perfectly unless the information
[16:04] Speaker 3: the company's been collecting for the last twenty years is
[16:06] Speaker 3: all wrong. But both of them can't be Henry Kingman,
[16:09] Speaker 3: so one of them must be lying. But which one?
[16:12] Speaker 3: What I suppose, just for example, that the blonde is Henry. Yeah,
[16:18] Speaker 3: then how would the other have got hold of all
[16:20] Speaker 3: that information? Unless, well, you suppose they've known each other
[16:26] Speaker 3: sometime in the past. They certainly don't like each other,
[16:29] Speaker 3: I mean each other's being here. I asked them, merl
[16:31] Speaker 3: and they both deny having ever seen each other until
[16:34] Speaker 3: they came here within a few hours of each other.
[16:36] Speaker 5: I didn't see the blonde boy, but the other came
[16:38] Speaker 5: here to the house. I just didn't like him, the
[16:41] Speaker 5: dark haired one. I mean, hey, wait a minute, Yeah,
[16:45] Speaker 5: what is it, Johnny?
[16:46] Speaker 3: The description of the father and that folder? Excuse me?
[16:49] Speaker 3: Can I help you? No? No, no, thanks, I got
[16:51] Speaker 3: it right here. Huh why did they listen? Doctor? Just
[17:00] Speaker 3: still live out the street? Sure? Do you want me
[17:02] Speaker 3: to drive you over? Now? Thanks, I'll walk, Johnny, what'd
[17:05] Speaker 3: you find? I'll see? Walking out that street? And there
[17:10] Speaker 3: was no moon? Turned out to be a big, fat mistake.
[17:13] Speaker 3: In the first place, I almost bumped into a palm
[17:15] Speaker 3: tree in front of the house. In the second place,
[17:17] Speaker 3: I didn't see what stepped out from behind the next
[17:19] Speaker 3: palm tree until it was too late. Huh do you want?
[17:36] Speaker 3: Times have changed? And so has the man. Through the ages,
[17:40] Speaker 3: man has advanced both physically and mentally. Prehistoric man's concept
[17:45] Speaker 3: of war living is like that of an animal. His
[17:48] Speaker 3: implements were crude, his knowledge simple. It was survival of
[17:53] Speaker 3: the fittest. From his club and stones to bows and
[17:57] Speaker 3: arrows and spears, from muskets and sabers to atomic rifles
[18:01] Speaker 3: and missiles. Man has progressed in the art of attack
[18:04] Speaker 3: and defense with each new phase. Man's knowledge has developed. Today.
[18:10] Speaker 3: The warrior, but he can be called such, is not
[18:12] Speaker 3: a stone thrower, a bowman, or a swordsman. He's a
[18:16] Speaker 3: technician who needs knowledge of all that science has developed.
[18:21] Speaker 3: He's a sonarman, a radar man, a rifleman, or a
[18:23] Speaker 3: torpedo man, a missileman, or a pilot. But whatever his job,
[18:29] Speaker 3: he needs the skill and the technical know how to
[18:32] Speaker 3: do the job and do it well. As times have changed,
[18:37] Speaker 3: so has the man now act for off yours? Truly?
[18:43] Speaker 3: Johnny Dolly decided maybe I'd better drive him over anyway, Doc,
[18:57] Speaker 3: And that's when I found him lying out there by
[18:59] Speaker 3: the palm tree. Well, it's lucky you did, Earl. I
[19:02] Speaker 3: thank you's smelling sauce. Bring around whoever attacked. You must
[19:07] Speaker 3: have seen you coming and forward. It's okay, Johnny, Yah
[19:12] Speaker 3: wants Doc Crutcher suck me. You don't know, Johnny, You
[19:17] Speaker 3: sure don't. Brother. I have a suspicion a couple of them. Here,
[19:23] Speaker 3: good hot tea gee, sure get him. It's like a brandy. Oh,
[19:28] Speaker 3: only make it scotch, good man, Doc, you feel okay?
[19:31] Speaker 3: Now listen, Yeah, get on the phone. Call the hotels
[19:35] Speaker 3: where those boys are staying. Tell them to get over
[19:37] Speaker 3: here immediately. Better still, I'll drive over and get him meantime. Doc, Yeah, here,
[19:42] Speaker 3: here's your scotch.
[19:42] Speaker 5: Johnny.
[19:43] Speaker 3: Thanks, and if you want some more rest a minute.
[19:45] Speaker 3: Woman wears mine.
[19:47] Speaker 5: Of course, Doc, I'm sorry like me.
[19:50] Speaker 2: Huh.
[19:50] Speaker 3: Listen, Doc, I want to ask you a couple of questions.
[19:52] Speaker 3: What about heredity? Heredity?
[19:54] Speaker 2: Yes?
[19:55] Speaker 3: Okay, shoot, all right, Just to keep things straight, I'll
[20:10] Speaker 3: call you Hank, sure, mister Doner, and you I'll call Henry.
[20:14] Speaker 3: Well it does happen to be my name. Now, Ell
[20:16] Speaker 3: tells me he found you both in Hank's motel. Just now,
[20:19] Speaker 3: that's right, sir. Comparing notes, I went over there to
[20:22] Speaker 3: tell him that he's a phony. But if he doesn't
[20:24] Speaker 3: get out of towel. Sure, sure, he let me see
[20:27] Speaker 3: your hands. Huh oh, sure here sir, what about the look? Doc?
[20:35] Speaker 3: I ally you're right right about what sir? How did
[20:38] Speaker 3: you bruise these knuckles? Well, it was kind of clumsy,
[20:42] Speaker 3: but my hands slipped trying to open one of the
[20:44] Speaker 3: windows in that cheap motel. Don't you believe it, Johnny,
[20:46] Speaker 3: he's the one who's laid them. Man, this one has
[20:50] Speaker 3: a bruised knuckle too. Ah. Now, what's your excuse, Henry? Well,
[20:54] Speaker 3: you can believe it or not. Such yourself, but exactly
[20:56] Speaker 3: the same thing happened to me. You ask me, Johnny,
[20:59] Speaker 3: they both attect you. On the other hand, early, they
[21:01] Speaker 3: may both be telling the truth about this truth sir,
[21:06] Speaker 3: What did you mean about this? I mean that at
[21:09] Speaker 3: least one of you was lying about being the son
[21:11] Speaker 3: of Albert Skyler Kingman. Well, pipe down for a minute.
[21:17] Speaker 3: I suddenly realized that the laws of heredity could solve
[21:20] Speaker 3: this case a lot quicker than detective work. So I
[21:23] Speaker 3: checked with doctor Crutcher to make sure I was right.
[21:26] Speaker 3: Then I checked descriptions of Henry Kingman's father and mother,
[21:28] Speaker 3: did you, sir? Both of them had brown hair and
[21:32] Speaker 3: brown eyes. So what were both parents have identical color
[21:36] Speaker 3: hair and eyes. Any offspring will have the same, Hank,
[21:41] Speaker 3: your hair is so blind it's almost white, and your
[21:43] Speaker 3: eyes are blue. Your hair is almost black. Your eyes
[21:46] Speaker 3: are also blue, and crazy fool, I told you this
[21:49] Speaker 3: wouldn't work, crazy fool. If you let me come here along, yeah,
[21:52] Speaker 3: then you'd never have cut me in.
[21:54] Speaker 2: Of course, I got suspicious. I could get that out
[21:55] Speaker 2: all the way.
[21:56] Speaker 3: I got here first at night.
[21:57] Speaker 2: Well, I don't know you were coming.
[22:00] Speaker 3: All right, Oh it is all right, dog, Come on,
[22:02] Speaker 3: I'll put that thing down.
[22:05] Speaker 2: Come no, go ahead, john Did you.
[22:10] Speaker 3: Get back?
[22:11] Speaker 6: Get back?
[22:19] Speaker 3: Johnny? You outdrew that Henry like wow, Yeah, take a
[22:25] Speaker 3: look at what happened to Hank. Huh? Is everything all right?
[22:28] Speaker 2: Boy?
[22:29] Speaker 3: Holy Gertrude, what did you hit him with?
[22:33] Speaker 5: L I never did like that old base anyhow.
[22:44] Speaker 3: Yeah, my heredity gag was just that, a gag, but
[22:48] Speaker 3: it certainly brought things to ahead and hurry. How did
[22:50] Speaker 3: they know so much about the real Henry Kingman? We'll listen.
[22:54] Speaker 3: As soon as we locked them up, I called the
[22:55] Speaker 3: National Press Services had them put the story of this
[22:57] Speaker 3: attempt at fraud in the headlines all over the country
[23:00] Speaker 3: self a phone called the head of an orphanage where
[23:03] Speaker 3: the real Henry had been taken in as a child,
[23:04] Speaker 3: where he still lived. And yeah, the phonies were a
[23:08] Speaker 3: couple of kids who'd run away from that orphanage after
[23:10] Speaker 3: he'd piled around with them, told them all about himself.
[23:14] Speaker 3: As for why they both appeared to make the claim,
[23:16] Speaker 3: sure each of them saw the company's ad and tried
[23:19] Speaker 3: to get in ahead of the other. Well, they weren't
[23:22] Speaker 3: all right for a long time. Expense account total inputing
[23:26] Speaker 3: incidentals in fair back to haydrid One save in the
[23:28] Speaker 3: age seventy Yours Truly, Johnny Dolla. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
[24:01] Speaker 3: starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and has written, produced
[24:05] Speaker 3: and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were
[24:09] Speaker 3: Virginia Gregg, Vic Perlin, Sam Edwards, James McCallion, and Parley Bear.
[24:14] Speaker 3: Be sure to join us next week, same time and station,
[24:17] Speaker 3: or another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This
[24:26] Speaker 3: is Dan commerly speaking, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar has been
[25:24] Speaker 3: a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio and
[25:27] Speaker 3: Television service.
[25:33] Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Some interesting twist on a pretty typical plot
[25:39] Speaker 1: for the era of someone claiming to be a long
[25:44] Speaker 1: lost heir, with two claimants, another actually being the rightful air,
[25:51] Speaker 1: and Johnny solving the case through one of his favorite methods, bluffing.
[25:57] Speaker 1: It means there's nothing to fact check because Johnnie was
[26:01] Speaker 1: making it all up and probably knowing that the argument
[26:06] Speaker 1: wasn't correct. After talking to the doctor and just making
[26:10] Speaker 1: the case, you know, I thought that this was the
[26:13] Speaker 1: way it worked, and if I thought it, they might
[26:17] Speaker 1: think it, and if they think it, then I might
[26:19] Speaker 1: find out whose line without having to go digging into
[26:24] Speaker 1: someone's background in great detail. I found the Bellweathers episode interesting,
[26:30] Speaker 1: and out of curiosity, I tried to locate similar stats.
[26:34] Speaker 1: I could not find a reliable source for just accident rates,
[26:40] Speaker 1: which was what they were comparing. However, I did find
[26:45] Speaker 1: a reliable source for traffic deaths, and even though much
[26:51] Speaker 1: has changed over the past seventy years, but Rhode Island
[26:58] Speaker 1: was still of twenty twenty four, the lowest or the
[27:05] Speaker 1: next to the lowest for rates of road deaths, depending
[27:11] Speaker 1: on whether you were measuring by desk per billion miles,
[27:17] Speaker 1: in which case Massachusetts came out ahead. But if you
[27:21] Speaker 1: were measuring for desk per one hundred thousand people or
[27:27] Speaker 1: per one hundred thousand drivers, Rhode Island came ahead. So
[27:31] Speaker 1: it's fascinating to me that apparently right so consistently for
[27:37] Speaker 1: so many, I guess decades. Now, well, now we turn
[27:42] Speaker 1: to listener comments and feedback, and we've got a comment
[27:46] Speaker 1: from Harrison regarding the Johnson payroll manner over on Spotify.
[27:52] Speaker 1: I swear I've heard this script before for Johnny Dowler.
[27:55] Speaker 1: Is this a reu script from a john Long episode?
[27:58] Speaker 1: Either that or I've heard this in the feed at
[28:03] Speaker 1: some point, perhaps at a special anniversary show. Either way,
[28:07] Speaker 1: I quite enjoyed the episode. As much as I enjoy
[28:09] Speaker 1: the fun adventure episodes. Some of the best dollar plots
[28:14] Speaker 1: are the ones where he has to be on the
[28:18] Speaker 1: hunt for someone or something. That's the one thing every
[28:22] Speaker 1: dollar iteration does well from what I've seen so far.
[28:26] Speaker 1: Up to Bailey, well, thanks so much. This was not
[28:30] Speaker 1: a reused script, at least not from the Lund era
[28:34] Speaker 1: or Johnny dol Er. Don't know if the writer ever
[28:38] Speaker 1: wrote anywhere else, but I will say that the payroll
[28:43] Speaker 1: robbery is a relatively common crime for Johnny to investigate
[28:49] Speaker 1: and there have been multiple payroll robbery cases across different
[28:55] Speaker 1: iterations of the character. And of course the reason this
[29:00] Speaker 1: is used so much is it's probably the thing of
[29:03] Speaker 1: all possible crimes, the one that you're most likely to
[29:06] Speaker 1: call in a high priced insurance investigator on, because these
[29:12] Speaker 1: are huge robberies that you may be thinking of another story.
[29:16] Speaker 1: Joey writs, I think the killer small talk was feasible.
[29:21] Speaker 1: He had to distract Johnny at the time. How was
[29:24] Speaker 1: he supposed to know Johnny would actually find out the
[29:28] Speaker 1: truth about the fish around there? Well, that's a fair point.
[29:32] Speaker 1: And when I went back and listened, Johnny started the conversation,
[29:37] Speaker 1: and really the answer about bass was probably even somewhat casually.
[29:42] Speaker 1: But then Johnny called up the point about catching bass
[29:47] Speaker 1: off the pier, and he probably realized, oh, this guy's
[29:51] Speaker 1: a fisherman. I got a cover. Uh yeah, yeah, there's
[29:56] Speaker 1: kelp around here, And that was enough to allage Johnny's suspicion.
[30:01] Speaker 1: So the guy knew a little bit about fishing, just
[30:04] Speaker 1: not enough about local conditions because he hadn't been fishing there.
[30:08] Speaker 1: So I guess an internstein interaction. And then we also
[30:12] Speaker 1: have some comments on YouTube. These are regarding the Wayward
[30:17] Speaker 1: Diamond matter, Sarge says love Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and
[30:22] Speaker 1: James shout out to our heroes from the Boxer Rebellion
[30:26] Speaker 1: and that was a nice little piece of history. And
[30:30] Speaker 1: I do really enjoy the bits of educational content we
[30:35] Speaker 1: get with those Armed Forces Radio Service or I should
[30:40] Speaker 1: say at this point Armed Forces Radio and Television Service recordings. Well,
[30:45] Speaker 1: now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
[30:48] Speaker 1: and I want to thank Phillip, Patreon supporter since December
[30:51] Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant
[30:55] Speaker 1: level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month.
[30:58] Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your support, Philip, and that
[31:01] Speaker 1: will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast,
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[31:08] Speaker 1: sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download
[31:11] Speaker 1: it from. We'll be back next Friday with another episode
[31:15] Speaker 1: of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. But join us back here
[31:19] Speaker 1: tomorrow as we give way to the great adventurers of
[31:22] Speaker 1: old time radio and we introduce you to Counterspy, where.
[31:27] Speaker 7: It's a clear cutcase of suicide mistiding. You're the chief
[31:31] Speaker 7: and let you say goes, but it's just the case
[31:34] Speaker 7: of a wealthy bachelor and poor health. I admit Mark
[31:37] Speaker 7: William Terres probably did commit suicide, but remember this World war.
[31:44] Speaker 7: They get stop or experts at making a murder appear
[31:47] Speaker 7: to be a suicide, then you're really going to investigate it.
[31:51] Speaker 7: I think I would leaves to ask a few questions. Yes, sir,
[31:54] Speaker 7: now the no arras left. Mark said he was committing
[31:57] Speaker 7: suicide because of ill health. I think I'll drop in
[32:01] Speaker 7: on his doctor and see how bad his health really was.
[32:04] Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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[32:21] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

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