# Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Sculptor Matter (EP5015)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 10 Jul 2026, 27 min.

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Today's Mystery: When an insurance company begins receiving anonymous monthly payments for a $50,000 fraudulent claim, Johnny Dollar is assigned to identify the mysterious sender. His investigation into a suspicious insurance payout leads him to the widow of a famous sculptor—only to discover that she died months earlier. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 14, 1959 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny DollarAlso starring Herb Vigran, Edgar Barrier, Carlton G. Young, Will Wright, and Lawrence Dobkin Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone Announcer: Dan Cubberly When making your travel plans, remember johnnydollarair.com Become one of our Patreon Supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Thank you to our Patreon Supporter of the Day: Brenda, Patreon supporter since September 2025 Take the listener survey at survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call 208-991-4783 Become one of our friends on Facebook at facebook.com/radiodetectives Follow us on Twitter/X at twitter.com/radiodetectives Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/greatdetectives 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 Kalispell, Montana.
[0:34] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
[0:38] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of Yours Truly
[0:42] Speaker 1: Johnny Dollar. But first I want to encourage you. If
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[1:07] Speaker 1: check Johny Dollar air dot com first. But now, from
[1:10] Speaker 1: June fourteenth, nineteen forty nine, here is the Wayward Sculpture Matter.
[1:18] Speaker 2: Universal Adjustment Funeral.
[1:19] Speaker 3: Hi, Frank, you've been neglecting me.
[1:21] Speaker 2: Yeah, but they call all the trouble and saved me.
[1:24] Speaker 4: No, I'm supposed to me.
[1:25] Speaker 2: I haven't had the bleed of one of those fancy
[1:27] Speaker 2: expense accounts.
[1:28] Speaker 4: Of yours nearly a month that you cut me to
[1:31] Speaker 4: the quick.
[1:31] Speaker 2: Oh sure, but no, well looks at all.
[1:34] Speaker 5: I has to take my.
[1:35] Speaker 2: Neck out again. What's a problem.
[1:37] Speaker 5: Well, Johnny it's a real funny one.
[1:39] Speaker 3: John Lamping already.
[1:40] Speaker 4: No, no, no, I don't mean funny.
[1:42] Speaker 2: Ha ha, I mean funny.
[1:44] Speaker 6: Hey.
[1:44] Speaker 2: You know the last time he said that, I got
[1:46] Speaker 2: John had danged on my head, nearly run over by
[1:48] Speaker 2: a truck. And I have a dozen other pleasant little
[1:50] Speaker 2: thing So come clean bad.
[1:52] Speaker 4: What is it?
[1:53] Speaker 5: Johnny?
[1:53] Speaker 4: Maybe you've better run over here so we can talk
[1:55] Speaker 4: about it.
[1:55] Speaker 2: It'll risk okay, then I'm on my way. Bob Bailey
[2:09] Speaker 2: and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action
[2:11] Speaker 2: Pact Expensive Count America's Fabulous Free Lance Insurance Investigators.
[2:16] Speaker 3: True Johnny Dollar.
[2:36] Speaker 2: Expense Accounts an Advice Special Investigator Johnny Dollar the Universal
[2:41] Speaker 2: Adjustment Bureau Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut, following his account of
[2:45] Speaker 2: expenses encourage during my investigation of the Wayward Sculpture matter
[2:54] Speaker 2: White Kid about It Pat mc crank and has handed
[2:56] Speaker 2: me some pretty wild cases in time to time, but
[2:59] Speaker 2: they've always paid off.
[3:00] Speaker 3: No spens an out of one and done.
[3:02] Speaker 2: At twenty for a kid to his office at Universal Adjustment.
[3:04] Speaker 4: Girl, I sit on, Johnny, make yourself covered a figure?
[3:12] Speaker 4: Oh thanks? Hey yeah, oh m hmm. Thanks.
[3:21] Speaker 2: Well, Well, Johnny, you know that one of Our big
[3:25] Speaker 2: problems is discouraging and prosecuting insurance brought not only against us,
[3:30] Speaker 2: but against the companies we served.
[3:32] Speaker 4: Wow. So now what I've called you about is something
[3:35] Speaker 4: that's been going on for a long long time. Okay,
[3:38] Speaker 4: what kind of fraud is it?
[3:40] Speaker 6: This?
[3:40] Speaker 4: We never know?
[3:41] Speaker 3: Huh?
[3:42] Speaker 4: Look here, yeah, a while back, International.
[3:46] Speaker 2: Life and Casualty is he's an envelope containing five hundred
[3:48] Speaker 2: and twenty dollars in cash and with it this note
[3:51] Speaker 2: that reads, please put this in company treasury of money
[3:55] Speaker 2: I took from your company on false pretensies.
[3:58] Speaker 4: Now I can have a fluor country.
[4:00] Speaker 2: And it was signed debtor like spell btttp off funny.
[4:05] Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I said to you over the phone.
[4:07] Speaker 2: Here's another one, eight hundred dollars in closes the tender,
[4:11] Speaker 2: identifying himself only as a sorry sinner more content funding.
[4:15] Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
[4:16] Speaker 2: People who collected on fraudulent claims or felt they didn't
[4:19] Speaker 2: deserve the money they collected. Nine and Johnny has been
[4:22] Speaker 2: dozens of them over the years. Most of them have
[4:25] Speaker 2: been small amounts undo one thousand dollars, some of.
[4:28] Speaker 4: Them only five or ten bucks.
[4:29] Speaker 2: In another word, is not worth investigating to see what
[4:32] Speaker 2: fraud they deliberated, Yes, exactly, But now look here, it's
[4:37] Speaker 2: with the payments anonymously received, all of them from the
[4:40] Speaker 2: same pustions eight hundred and thirty three dollars thirty four
[4:44] Speaker 2: cents received on July twenty first, nineteen fifty sixth rides
[4:49] Speaker 2: eight thirty three thirty four on August.
[4:51] Speaker 4: Twenty third, nineteen.
[4:52] Speaker 2: Fifty Yeah, same ding, September twenty, same thing to twenty
[4:57] Speaker 2: first of every.
[4:57] Speaker 4: Month since, and no letter with it, only the yes
[5:01] Speaker 4: serious to yourself?
[5:03] Speaker 2: Who's interested in serious company?
[5:05] Speaker 4: Gentlemen?
[5:06] Speaker 2: This is only a beginning against the amount paid out
[5:08] Speaker 2: on me last month. Be sure that I shall make
[5:11] Speaker 2: full restitution if it takes five years.
[5:15] Speaker 4: Good to him or her.
[5:16] Speaker 3: I hope he's coming, Johnny.
[5:18] Speaker 4: I want to know who's sends any right now? Yes, yes, yes,
[5:21] Speaker 4: not only the law but company.
[5:23] Speaker 2: Policy demands would re prostitute anyone steppating a fraud.
[5:28] Speaker 4: All the other conscience money has been in single stavements,
[5:30] Speaker 4: no way to trace them whatsoever. Also, the amounts have
[5:33] Speaker 4: been well negligible.
[5:36] Speaker 2: They've always come from the same post office. They've all
[5:38] Speaker 2: come from New York City, but from as many different
[5:40] Speaker 2: post offices as a number of famous.
[5:42] Speaker 4: That have been made.
[5:43] Speaker 2: But if a man is paying up all the ch well,
[5:47] Speaker 2: how do we know, Johnny, how do we know he'll
[5:49] Speaker 2: come to his promise? Well, and we don't know who
[5:52] Speaker 2: he is, so we can't know how much he older.
[5:54] Speaker 5: Or for what.
[5:55] Speaker 2: So all you want me to do is to through
[5:57] Speaker 2: seven million people down in New York and somehow the
[5:59] Speaker 2: one man. Oh, now, I admit it's a challenge.
[6:03] Speaker 4: God, it sure is. What knowing you?
[6:05] Speaker 3: You're right, there's only one.
[6:06] Speaker 4: Thing to do.
[6:07] Speaker 2: That's just a move up. Now listen, give me a pen.
[6:13] Speaker 2: Oh all right, he said, even if it took him
[6:16] Speaker 2: five years, Yes, that's fifty months. And at eight thirty
[6:19] Speaker 2: three thirty four a month, there was sixty years, think
[6:24] Speaker 2: three third four fifty thousand dollars and forty cents. So
[6:32] Speaker 2: all right, you started in July fifty six on money
[6:35] Speaker 2: paid out the month before, he said, So find me
[6:37] Speaker 2: a policy where Eastern Trust and Insurance paid off fifty
[6:40] Speaker 2: thousand June of nineteen fifty. Oh, and what type of
[6:45] Speaker 2: policy might I ad?
[6:46] Speaker 4: Life insurance? Oh? Really missed the detective? Why why you.
[6:50] Speaker 2: Change those monthly payments to eight hundred and thirty three
[6:52] Speaker 2: dollars and thirty three and a third cent.
[6:54] Speaker 4: But who was set a penny in the.
[6:57] Speaker 2: Johnny, you're right, you're right, And here's that come up
[6:59] Speaker 2: to exactly.
[7:00] Speaker 4: Fifty thousand even til you like that?
[7:01] Speaker 2: As usually for life insurance, Yeah, usually you'll find the
[7:05] Speaker 2: policy issued right Easton paid off in June fifty.
[7:07] Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a chance, Johnny.
[7:09] Speaker 2: But let's try.
[7:16] Speaker 4: And then suddenly it all began. It looked too easy.
[7:20] Speaker 2: In June nineteen fifty six, the total number of fifty
[7:23] Speaker 2: thousand dollars benefit paid came out to just exactly one.
[7:27] Speaker 4: On the life of Henry Davidson Pollack.
[7:28] Speaker 2: The one's being a scuffing beneficiary his wife, Sarah Norton Pollack,
[7:33] Speaker 2: and it gave her address in New York City, so
[7:35] Speaker 2: Pollack didn't really die at all, but she collected is
[7:38] Speaker 2: in sure now?
[7:40] Speaker 4: Conscience fricken, She is paying it.
[7:42] Speaker 3: That's what it looks like.
[7:43] Speaker 2: But it's bill fraud.
[7:44] Speaker 4: They'll go to it, Johnny.
[7:46] Speaker 2: Right, expense account ad him two eight dollars in the
[7:51] Speaker 2: quarter train in New York, and I cared to the apartment
[7:53] Speaker 2: house at six fourteen. He's forty ninth Streets failing to
[7:56] Speaker 2: find missus Pollack's name on the mail boxes. I got
[7:59] Speaker 2: hold of the building, SUPERINTI this is Pollack. Sure, I said,
[8:02] Speaker 2: Polack lived.
[8:03] Speaker 3: Here for years. Well where is she now?
[8:05] Speaker 2: You know you're trying to be funny.
[8:08] Speaker 4: What do you mean?
[8:08] Speaker 6: I mean, she died last.
[8:10] Speaker 4: Fall and it's too late.
[8:14] Speaker 3: No, wait a minute, those payments are still coming in.
[8:17] Speaker 3: But that you're sure that she's dead. I was with
[8:20] Speaker 3: her when she died.
[8:22] Speaker 2: And mister, what's going on around here happens to be
[8:24] Speaker 2: just plain impossible.
[8:52] Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute, are.
[8:53] Speaker 2: We talking about the same person, the same missus Pollack,
[8:56] Speaker 2: Missus Henry Davidson Pollack.
[8:58] Speaker 3: That's it, the widow the sculptor so one on.
[9:00] Speaker 2: And he lived here in his apartment too, that is
[9:03] Speaker 2: before he died. That was back in fifty six. Left
[9:06] Speaker 2: all his money, all his insurance to his wife.
[9:08] Speaker 3: Oh goodness knows why? How did he die?
[9:11] Speaker 6: And that big plane.
[9:12] Speaker 2: Crash out over the desert.
[9:13] Speaker 3: Don't you remember?
[9:14] Speaker 4: Not a single as survivor.
[9:16] Speaker 2: What what kind of a man was he?
[9:19] Speaker 3: Ooh if himself didn't like people much?
[9:23] Speaker 2: And his wife, okay, I guess she was let younger
[9:26] Speaker 2: than him, spent all his money all the time.
[9:28] Speaker 3: He didn't like it. Man like that shouldn't be married.
[9:31] Speaker 3: Nobody must have thought a lot of it or leader
[9:33] Speaker 3: of everything. He just didn't like being married. Died down.
[9:36] Speaker 3: Letn't interfere with his work. Oh, his death got him
[9:39] Speaker 3: out with.
[9:39] Speaker 2: And give her some money to spend before she died.
[9:42] Speaker 3: But somebody's been playing that money back.
[9:44] Speaker 2: Well you think maybe she suffered a change his heart
[9:47] Speaker 2: something like that. Do you think she realized she never
[9:49] Speaker 2: deserved what.
[9:50] Speaker 3: He left it?
[9:50] Speaker 2: That what you're thinking. Sure, that might have been a
[9:52] Speaker 2: possibility except for one thing. The money's still coming in.
[9:57] Speaker 3: Oh, he has signed anybody to whom she might have
[10:00] Speaker 3: turned over.
[10:00] Speaker 2: That insurance her give anything to anybody else not.
[10:04] Speaker 3: Herm is it?
[10:05] Speaker 2: And you're absolutely sure that she's dead.
[10:07] Speaker 3: I carried her in off the street after the car
[10:10] Speaker 3: hit her.
[10:10] Speaker 2: You don't believe me, Ask the doctor, duncan your maitland
[10:13] Speaker 2: o run Park Avenue?
[10:14] Speaker 3: Ask the police?
[10:16] Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I will.
[10:27] Speaker 2: I had him three fifty cents for a phone called
[10:29] Speaker 2: a Patma Cracken.
[10:30] Speaker 4: Back in Hartford.
[10:31] Speaker 2: But Johnny, if it was his wife who got that money,
[10:34] Speaker 2: she wasn't the kind of pass it off to someone else.
[10:36] Speaker 6: She'd have to be the one paying it back.
[10:38] Speaker 2: But if she's dead by last Paul, how about the
[10:41] Speaker 2: whole thing is impossible.
[10:43] Speaker 4: Damon's still been coming in. There'll probably be another one
[10:45] Speaker 4: plucked down on my desk by the time you.
[10:46] Speaker 2: Get back here. Now, I kind of somehow that woman
[10:49] Speaker 2: must still be alive, so finally.
[10:52] Speaker 4: Find her chocolate.
[10:53] Speaker 2: Why suppose by some merricle, she is still alive.
[10:56] Speaker 4: Where's the fraud?
[10:57] Speaker 2: Well, people, don't just handle the fifty thousand dollars for nothing.
[11:01] Speaker 1: Somebody's conscience is hurting.
[11:03] Speaker 2: What other possible reason could.
[11:05] Speaker 4: They be for sending that money back to us this way? Well?
[11:07] Speaker 3: No, wait, wait just a minute.
[11:08] Speaker 2: Right, Look, Johnny, I'll be honest with you. Maybe there
[11:11] Speaker 2: isn't any fraud so far as the company's concerned. But
[11:14] Speaker 2: you know something, Johnny, this whole crazy thing has me
[11:18] Speaker 2: so curious.
[11:19] Speaker 3: Now, Well, even if there isn't any insurance angle.
[11:22] Speaker 2: To it, except for the money the company keeps getting. Okay,
[11:25] Speaker 2: But Johnny, I want to know what this is all about,
[11:27] Speaker 2: and if necessary, off for your expensive compan myself. Quite well, now,
[11:32] Speaker 2: this is the golden opportunity I've been learning for for years.
[11:36] Speaker 4: Don't go over poor Johnny. Huh, but fine enough for me,
[11:40] Speaker 4: will you.
[11:41] Speaker 2: Who knows, Dear pike Man, I hadn't four seventy eighty
[11:48] Speaker 2: five taxes that cant the doctor making No, there was
[11:51] Speaker 2: no question about it. A woman who had died when
[11:53] Speaker 2: the car stucker lasts fall was missus Henry Davidson, my
[11:56] Speaker 2: wife and the sculpting.
[11:58] Speaker 4: The doctor had non work of them very well.
[12:00] Speaker 2: I checked with my old parl, Lieutenant Granby Singer at
[12:03] Speaker 2: eight Precinct Police Headquarries. He too was sure the woman
[12:06] Speaker 2: had died.
[12:07] Speaker 4: He'd been called in on the case.
[12:09] Speaker 2: Then I remembered something the superintendent of the apartment house
[12:12] Speaker 2: had said to me about the way Pollack had wanted
[12:14] Speaker 2: to get away.
[12:15] Speaker 4: From his wife.
[12:16] Speaker 2: I went over to the New York Times and checked
[12:18] Speaker 2: the old newspaper file. Yes, Henry Davidson Pollack had definitely
[12:22] Speaker 2: been a passenger on the ill fated aircraft had perished
[12:24] Speaker 2: along the rest. I even checked the main office of
[12:27] Speaker 2: the airline and learned the same thing. So neither Taught
[12:30] Speaker 2: or his wife could possibly be sending back that money.
[12:34] Speaker 2: But then who could and why Doctor Nathan had mentioned
[12:39] Speaker 2: the little art gallery over on Third Avenue. The only
[12:42] Speaker 2: gallery that Pollack had ever dealt with directly. The owner
[12:45] Speaker 2: of the gallery was a nervous of a man with
[12:46] Speaker 2: any known w of vessons.
[12:48] Speaker 4: No, those lister dollars strange as if we found. I
[12:51] Speaker 4: never mixed with the politar.
[12:53] Speaker 2: But I thought you were the only outlet for his
[12:55] Speaker 2: sculpture very soon, very true. But he was a man
[12:57] Speaker 2: who said very much by himself the public eye, so
[13:01] Speaker 2: to speak. Yes, well, now, nevertheless you must have you see.
[13:05] Speaker 2: It was his wife who always brought his work to
[13:07] Speaker 2: help for me to tell, and asough was very sure
[13:10] Speaker 2: to collect the money for them.
[13:11] Speaker 4: Quite frankly, I doubt tell it himself ever saw much.
[13:14] Speaker 2: Of the money, but resulted from his artistry, where his
[13:18] Speaker 2: sculptures weren't very much. Mister presson the dollar, I had
[13:21] Speaker 2: yet to find anyone who sees his work without wanting
[13:25] Speaker 2: to possess some of it. His beautiful excited In addition
[13:31] Speaker 2: to his superb technique his originality of design, there was
[13:35] Speaker 2: a subtle charm about everything he did that was well eeries.
[13:41] Speaker 4: To look here the.
[13:42] Speaker 2: Only one I had left thorn at.
[13:45] Speaker 4: Play differ.
[13:49] Speaker 2: Hen't good?
[13:51] Speaker 4: Yeah, I see it. That's such an old thing.
[13:55] Speaker 3: But what surprised him.
[13:57] Speaker 4: Fifteen thousand dollars. But the rights, Yeah, this one over here,
[14:03] Speaker 4: it is not a pollup.
[14:04] Speaker 3: The dollar what well, what I'm on an extra on
[14:09] Speaker 3: these things.
[14:09] Speaker 2: But it seems to me as though it has the
[14:11] Speaker 2: same well yeah, instile.
[14:14] Speaker 4: The same charm, the same delicacy of lind. It too
[14:18] Speaker 4: is a fine work of art. And if I chose
[14:21] Speaker 4: I could pass it off as a genuine polus that
[14:24] Speaker 4: it isn't, then who did it? And this this one
[14:27] Speaker 4: over here?
[14:28] Speaker 3: John Wesley Collins.
[14:30] Speaker 2: He so admired Pollock's work that he took the style
[14:33] Speaker 2: at least could not be allowed to die. Therefore he
[14:37] Speaker 2: has subjugated whatever style he himself might have had for
[14:40] Speaker 2: that of the men he worshiped. Fortunately for him, his
[14:44] Speaker 2: work to command a good price so that.
[14:48] Speaker 4: The don't touch her.
[14:50] Speaker 2: Sorry, how long has this man Colin's been doing this?
[14:54] Speaker 4: Something over two years?
[14:56] Speaker 2: Thanks, mister presser, I think you've just helped me side
[15:00] Speaker 2: a fifty thousand dollars insurance fraud. Well, mister Beson, I'll
[15:04] Speaker 2: see you later. I walked down the front door of
[15:25] Speaker 2: a little light gary on Third Avenue.
[15:27] Speaker 3: Over my shoulders, I closed the door.
[15:28] Speaker 4: I could see me on her.
[15:29] Speaker 2: Water best and make a dance with a little office
[15:31] Speaker 2: inside and grab a telephone. I sneak back then and
[15:34] Speaker 2: stepped up behind a rack of picture frames and canvases
[15:36] Speaker 2: and listened and.
[15:38] Speaker 4: Ray Thissus Walter, well the that's listen, no.
[15:42] Speaker 2: Listen, something has just happened. But well there was a
[15:46] Speaker 2: man here, Johnny.
[15:47] Speaker 4: Dollar, some kind of insurance investigator. So you no, don't
[15:51] Speaker 4: you buston? But if he comes back here, m very well,
[15:57] Speaker 4: I'll unlock the back door for you. But are you
[16:00] Speaker 4: who were you? Hello, Henry, Henry.
[16:09] Speaker 2: When Busson went to the back door, I quietly slipped
[16:11] Speaker 2: out the front. I found a telephone move with a
[16:13] Speaker 2: drug store on the corner right him five a dime
[16:15] Speaker 2: for phone quarterback.
[16:16] Speaker 6: That cheels me.
[16:19] Speaker 2: Yes, mister Dowler, And I told you when you were here,
[16:22] Speaker 2: and they were both.
[16:22] Speaker 3: Patient and mind for several years.
[16:24] Speaker 2: All right, doctor tell me this. Did Henry Davidson pronack
[16:27] Speaker 2: have a scar, a deep scar on the front one hand,
[16:31] Speaker 2: the right hand.
[16:32] Speaker 6: Yes.
[16:33] Speaker 3: Yes.
[16:33] Speaker 2: He told me that when he was a child he cut.
[16:36] Speaker 4: Through the tip of that thumb very deeply, all the
[16:38] Speaker 4: way down to the ball.
[16:39] Speaker 2: That's all I wanted to know.
[16:41] Speaker 3: Thank you, doctor, thanks a lot.
[16:47] Speaker 2: The tips of the corner on that phone call couldn't
[16:49] Speaker 2: have taken me more than five or six minutes. And
[16:51] Speaker 2: when I went back to the eye Gallery, Beson was
[16:53] Speaker 2: coming out of the little office, careful to close the
[16:55] Speaker 2: door behind him. Well, mister teller, I didn't expect you
[17:00] Speaker 2: to return if he'd not for food. Had we decided
[17:04] Speaker 2: to buy one of the sculptures by John Lesley Collins
[17:07] Speaker 2: fan No, of course, so far as the one remaining
[17:10] Speaker 2: genuine Pollock is concerned, but the method also? Would you
[17:17] Speaker 2: like to sit down and write a statement forming datement?
[17:20] Speaker 4: I'm afraid I don't understand.
[17:21] Speaker 2: Why would you rather call on the police what you're
[17:24] Speaker 2: talking about? I told you before, mister Besson fault. And
[17:28] Speaker 2: since it's pretty obvious that you're an accessory, you mentioned
[17:32] Speaker 2: the great similarity between the sculptures and Henry Davidson Pollock
[17:35] Speaker 2: and John Wesley Collins. Yes, and I told you.
[17:37] Speaker 4: The reason for it. It's you, of course, all right,
[17:40] Speaker 4: Look here this one fawn at play.
[17:44] Speaker 2: You called it the Pollock, the genuine polop.
[17:46] Speaker 3: You'd swear to that, of course I would.
[17:48] Speaker 2: And how could you pull it? Well? Well, there's one way.
[17:52] Speaker 2: The mark's left by the artist's right thumb here and there,
[17:55] Speaker 2: for instance, because that numb was split on the end,
[17:58] Speaker 2: left its imprint on the clerk with the dollar. And
[18:01] Speaker 2: I can prove that these recent things done by the
[18:03] Speaker 2: man you called John Wesley Collins were done by the
[18:05] Speaker 2: same person.
[18:07] Speaker 3: They all bear that same mark very well with the dollar.
[18:12] Speaker 4: But the world will never.
[18:13] Speaker 2: Know now by some said thing down, Yes, put it
[18:18] Speaker 2: down the letter, Henry.
[18:20] Speaker 4: I mean if the Collins, I.
[18:22] Speaker 3: Henry, will do.
[18:24] Speaker 4: Miter dollar. I suppose I should have known sooner or later. Yeah,
[18:30] Speaker 4: I give myself.
[18:31] Speaker 6: Up to you.
[18:32] Speaker 2: But Henry, if the stories are simple than mit the dollar,
[18:35] Speaker 2: I suppose you'd like to do it.
[18:36] Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly WoT you see.
[18:40] Speaker 2: I wanted to get away from my wife for reasons
[18:43] Speaker 2: that you don't do.
[18:45] Speaker 4: Have to go too. I planned to fly out to
[18:48] Speaker 4: the West Coast to.
[18:49] Speaker 2: Disappear, but at the last minute I gave the plane
[18:55] Speaker 2: to take it to someone else on the plane that
[18:57] Speaker 2: crash out there over the desert.
[18:59] Speaker 4: There.
[19:00] Speaker 2: Then, knowing that my wife thought me dead, and realizing
[19:04] Speaker 2: I could become lost in this tremendous city as well
[19:07] Speaker 2: as anywhere else in the world.
[19:10] Speaker 4: But I've forgotten about the insurance.
[19:12] Speaker 2: So then anonymous of the course, I started bringing back
[19:17] Speaker 2: in my saying all of this was very long. I know,
[19:20] Speaker 2: well I'm afraid of something for the course. Now it's
[19:22] Speaker 2: a party, mister Dollars.
[19:25] Speaker 4: The works have done best.
[19:26] Speaker 2: Columns are sold very low at good prices. Only this morning, listen,
[19:32] Speaker 2: I was able to.
[19:33] Speaker 4: Mail the whole balance of the fifty thousand dollars.
[19:35] Speaker 2: To the insurance company.
[19:38] Speaker 4: Do you think that will help? Sir A part?
[19:46] Speaker 2: Here you have it, and you can take whatever action
[19:48] Speaker 2: you may think is necessary.
[19:49] Speaker 4: Olig is waiting for the company, or the courts or whoever.
[19:53] Speaker 2: And while the rest of is too scared to going
[19:56] Speaker 2: every that's account, I think that company.
[19:59] Speaker 4: Can afford it.
[20:00] Speaker 2: The total, including the trip bank on Harford, is twenty
[20:02] Speaker 2: six dollars and.
[20:03] Speaker 3: Fifteen cents, Your truly, Johnny Dollar.
[20:21] Speaker 2: Now here is are story to tell you about next week.
[20:24] Speaker 2: Story next week one of my oldest and wildest friends
[20:27] Speaker 2: in one of my rarest and wildless adventures. Joy us,
[20:30] Speaker 2: thank you, yours truly, Johnny Dollars, yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
[20:47] Speaker 2: Stirring Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and has written, produced
[20:51] Speaker 2: and directed by Jack Johnstone for an oar cast worker, Biglan,
[20:55] Speaker 2: Edgar Barrier, Carlton g Young, Will Light and Laurence Subcos
[21:00] Speaker 2: He's going to join us next week same time, and
[21:02] Speaker 2: Fasion or another exciting story of your Johnny.
[21:12] Speaker 4: This is Van Coverly.
[21:21] Speaker 1: Welcome back. Pat seemed a little too fixated on missus
[21:27] Speaker 1: Pollock somehow being alive. My first thought was that the
[21:32] Speaker 1: sculptor was alive, even not thinking of the title, but
[21:37] Speaker 1: the facts of the plane crash I think gave Johnny
[21:40] Speaker 1: a good reason to presume against it. Johnny's deduction on
[21:44] Speaker 1: the thumbprint was able to flush out the altar and hiding.
[21:51] Speaker 1: And when you think about it, the scheme that the
[21:54] Speaker 1: art gallery owner worked up was a bit too cute
[21:59] Speaker 1: by half an admirer of the sculptor whose work looked
[22:04] Speaker 1: almost identical to the sculptor being imitated, and pieces for
[22:10] Speaker 1: both are being sold by the same dealer. Well, now
[22:14] Speaker 1: we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have
[22:17] Speaker 1: some regarding the big h matter. Dawn writes, anybody else
[22:22] Speaker 1: bothered Johnny didn't bail for that pack of cigarettes. It's
[22:25] Speaker 1: sad to see the great ones lose a step. I
[22:29] Speaker 1: will say that when you get towards the end of
[22:32] Speaker 1: Johnny Doller, the expense accounts become a lot less detailed
[22:36] Speaker 1: and are used a lot less in storytelling. It becomes
[22:40] Speaker 1: even more pronounced when you get into the Reddick Kramer years.
[22:44] Speaker 1: And then Elwood writes, I was waiting for the homeowner
[22:49] Speaker 1: to talk about her actor brother John, and of course
[22:54] Speaker 1: the name of the big h was Helen Dayner. Now
[22:59] Speaker 1: I will say, looking at John Abbott's book, that who
[23:02] Speaker 1: is Johnny Dollar matter? And he went through the scripts
[23:07] Speaker 1: over at Thousand Oaks Library when they were there, now
[23:11] Speaker 1: moved to the Pailey Center at CLA. But he spelled
[23:16] Speaker 1: her last name as da.
[23:18] Speaker 2: N E R.
[23:20] Speaker 1: So her last name sounds like John Dayers, but apparently
[23:24] Speaker 1: it would be no relation because the spelling is different.
[23:28] Speaker 1: Then we turn to YouTube, where we have some comments
[23:31] Speaker 1: on the Cask of Death matter. Kathy Wright's congratulations on
[23:36] Speaker 1: your milestone. Jeffrey writs, your voice sounds husky. Hope you
[23:41] Speaker 1: feel better, Suit of six, Thanks Adam, Well, thanks so much, Jeffrey,
[23:45] Speaker 1: and I am feeling better. Generally, when my voice is
[23:49] Speaker 1: a bit off, it's corrected Before the episode even comes
[23:55] Speaker 1: out in the podcast, but appreciate your concern. All right, well,
[23:59] Speaker 1: now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
[24:03] Speaker 1: and I should say supporters, because I am thanking those
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[25:06] Speaker 1: old time radio ware.
[25:09] Speaker 4: You're quite a character. Horn.
[25:12] Speaker 6: While addressing me doctor, kindly use my type.
[25:15] Speaker 5: Of course professor, Horn only who made you a professor?
[25:22] Speaker 5: The only person in the world who's qualified myself? All
[25:29] Speaker 5: arm gods, I'm still. We're in the prison walls. Within
[25:34] Speaker 5: the prison wall, doctor, hold still now. I don't understand
[25:42] Speaker 5: why your upper lipids and healing. This is a bad infection.
[25:46] Speaker 5: I believe the lack of healing is due to hyperprotonemia
[25:50] Speaker 5: because the food is lacking simeon.
[25:51] Speaker 6: Hydro chloride and near cinemaid.
[25:53] Speaker 4: No, really, thank you, no medicine.
[25:56] Speaker 6: Don't you pardon me if I speak medically over your head? Doctor?
[26:00] Speaker 6: But then ignorance always irritates me.
[26:03] Speaker 5: A have hair, Robby, I'll have to cover your whole
[26:10] Speaker 5: upper lip with adhesive again.
[26:12] Speaker 6: How long will you a horse? Doctor?
[26:15] Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Man.
[26:19] Speaker 5: Really, hey here you may takes attempt to escape in
[26:24] Speaker 5: two months, horns our news does travel. That's only ten
[26:31] Speaker 5: days more you're transferred to the death house.
[26:34] Speaker 6: You have a morbid mind, haven't.
[26:36] Speaker 1: Zero No If you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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[26:58] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

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