# Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Will and the Way Matter (EP5045)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 21 Aug 2026, 29 min.

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar receives an urgent call from his old friend Red Barrett, who insists that the will of a recently deceased friend has been altered. Although others dismiss Red’s suspicions, Johnny heads for Arizona and Nevada to investigate—and soon discovers that someone is willing to go to dangerous lengths to keep him from asking questions. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 19, 1959 Originated from Hollywood Cast: • Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar • Virginia Gregg • Barney Phillips • Forrest Lewis • Parley Baer • Jack Moyles • Billy Halop • Byron Kane • Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone 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:Pam, Patreon supporter since July 2002 Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call 208-991-4783 Become one of our friends on Facebook. 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
[0:40] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of Yours Truly
[0:43] Speaker 1: Johnny Doller. But first I want to encourage you, if
[0:47] Speaker 1: you're enjoying the podcast, to please follow us using your
[0:51] Speaker 1: favorite podcast software. Now from July nineteenth, nineteen fifty nine,
[0:57] Speaker 1: here is the Will and a war.
[1:05] Speaker 2: Johnny, you better come right on back out.
[1:08] Speaker 3: Yeah, if I got where And Johnny, this is Red Bear,
[1:12] Speaker 3: the fishing guy out there like.
[1:16] Speaker 2: That fishing guy went to the Rocky Mount.
[1:18] Speaker 3: I'll go alongready on that. And I should recognized your voice.
[1:21] Speaker 3: But where were you last week? When I was out.
[1:23] Speaker 2: There was a king, when Kingman Arizona for a couple
[1:26] Speaker 2: of days. That's where I ran into some trouble, Johnny,
[1:31] Speaker 2: what gun right? Well? When Avery Nikola had died, yea, sir, Well,
[1:37] Speaker 2: I went over to bury him on account I was
[1:40] Speaker 2: the only real friend he had, and also to attend
[1:43] Speaker 2: to his money he left to you right un Well,
[1:47] Speaker 2: you see, Avery showed me his will a couple of
[1:49] Speaker 2: months ago. He voted all out himself. We legal from
[1:54] Speaker 2: some kind of a book, he thought, and he said
[1:56] Speaker 2: he was leaving everything to me, insurance and money and everything.
[2:01] Speaker 2: But when I does that Will out of a titan
[2:04] Speaker 2: place where Johnny, somebody changed.
[2:07] Speaker 3: Well, weren't the police and the insurance company able to
[2:09] Speaker 3: see that?
[2:10] Speaker 2: They claimed, I'm all wrong, Johnny, But I know better.
[2:14] Speaker 2: You're sure only trouble is well, Johnny.
[2:18] Speaker 3: If you ever expect to see me again, you mean
[2:20] Speaker 3: that somebody's threatening.
[2:22] Speaker 2: Do you ever expect to see me again? You better
[2:24] Speaker 2: come out here. And if I was you, I wouldn't
[2:27] Speaker 2: waste any.
[2:28] Speaker 3: Time, Johnny. Okay, right, I'm on my way. CBS Radio
[2:42] Speaker 3: brings you Bob Bailey and the exciting Adventures of the
[2:45] Speaker 3: Man with the Action Tactic Sense accounts America's fabulous freelance
[2:49] Speaker 3: insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. Expense account stability by Special Investigator
[3:14] Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar the Greater Southwest Insurance Company attention of Jake
[3:18] Speaker 3: Hessler's King in Arizona office, following as an account of
[3:21] Speaker 3: expenses incurred during my investigations of Will and a way matter.
[3:28] Speaker 3: Expreense account at a one hundred and fifty four to
[3:30] Speaker 3: fifty plan transportation from hot Print to New York to
[3:33] Speaker 3: Las Vegas, Nevada. I I'm two fifty bucks to print
[3:36] Speaker 3: it on a rental car. Instead of driving directly styles
[3:39] Speaker 3: the Lake Mohabby Resort, I took Highway ninety three to
[3:41] Speaker 3: King in Arizona. I went straight to Jake Hessler's insurance
[3:44] Speaker 3: office on East Bomb Drive. Johnny Dollars, Well down, Johnny,
[3:51] Speaker 3: tell me all about thanks, Jake hell I sure here
[3:55] Speaker 3: on account of even Nickolat's insurance. That's right, potting meself
[3:59] Speaker 3: and straight line and the beneficiary to be named in
[4:02] Speaker 3: his will? Where the bottles? He read? Well, isn't that
[4:06] Speaker 3: rather unusual? Highly irregular? But the body's doing with me.
[4:10] Speaker 3: But that was what he wanted, and that's what he got,
[4:13] Speaker 3: and it's made us a lot of trouble out of
[4:16] Speaker 3: first all latter he died, nobody knew what he'd even
[4:19] Speaker 3: made out with. All right, that isn't for some little
[4:21] Speaker 3: characters moved to Lake Mohavey come along and showed us
[4:24] Speaker 3: why he didn't it. They're in that house that that
[4:26] Speaker 3: was Red Bird. That's right, Lloyd Bird called himself read.
[4:30] Speaker 3: I understand he was a very good friend, I think
[4:31] Speaker 3: a lot and real friend he ever had. I guess
[4:34] Speaker 3: they used to do some prospects in their cattle raising
[4:38] Speaker 3: or something together. And Red was named to get everything
[4:41] Speaker 3: Avery had except insurance. What was there besides the insurance?
[4:46] Speaker 3: We threw money? How much money? A couple of thousand
[4:51] Speaker 3: dollars they had in the bank? All lest come up
[4:53] Speaker 3: that will?
[4:53] Speaker 4: Ronnie Rule was.
[4:55] Speaker 3: Glad that's had him find it for us. And then
[4:57] Speaker 3: what was old crave a holographic will. But okay, but
[5:01] Speaker 3: when Webb claimed that leaving everything to him over the
[5:04] Speaker 3: wills head, Oh called me on the phone. Okay, yeah,
[5:07] Speaker 3: he's letting to do that. And he told me that
[5:09] Speaker 3: will has been tempered. That's what he told us, only
[5:12] Speaker 3: it was. And if you don't believe me, you're can
[5:15] Speaker 3: ask the police and the lawyer about it. And you
[5:18] Speaker 3: ask him Gimble, what do you mean by that? Well
[5:20] Speaker 3: they got so sad, that's with Red having moved grounds
[5:24] Speaker 3: because the day claim and well they told me, if
[5:27] Speaker 3: he didn't stop lying about it, balling him the one plan. Oh, Jake,
[5:31] Speaker 3: I know Red, I know, I'm well, I know that now,
[5:34] Speaker 3: and then he might stretch the truth a bit about
[5:36] Speaker 3: some of his experiences the place that he's been about
[5:39] Speaker 3: the big fish over there or hobby that he knows
[5:41] Speaker 3: what I first, Johnny, that's the very But there is
[5:44] Speaker 3: no malicious one in this whole party. And I refuse
[5:47] Speaker 3: to believe that he'd never lie or try to pull
[5:49] Speaker 3: a fast one for ten thou ten minutes. But Johnny,
[5:52] Speaker 3: who was supposed to get his insurance, I fell. He
[5:54] Speaker 3: name goes Marino. Well, this is Mary Turner. She was
[6:01] Speaker 3: kind of a nursing hospeacher for Avery the past few months.
[6:04] Speaker 3: And according to her, well she didn't know much about
[6:07] Speaker 3: this Marino, but she'd heard Avery once or twice. Said
[6:10] Speaker 3: he lived up in Vegas.
[6:12] Speaker 4: Of course he sawry his name.
[6:13] Speaker 3: In the world, and she witnessed it. Well, us witness
[6:15] Speaker 3: that will mold him. What does he say about it? Well,
[6:19] Speaker 3: tream about here about three months back one night in April,
[6:22] Speaker 3: got Duncan to run his car.
[6:23] Speaker 4: Off the highway down towards Needles.
[6:25] Speaker 3: When he's no help. Well, I find this missus Turner
[6:28] Speaker 3: house an and she swears that Verna was mentioned in
[6:32] Speaker 3: the will life from the beginning. I say, but you're
[6:34] Speaker 3: a friend, Red Bear, Okay, you've been fear first. I
[6:39] Speaker 3: think I better talk to Red over Lake Mohammi Resort,
[6:41] Speaker 3: get myself a room for a line. Ask me, Gunny,
[6:44] Speaker 3: you're just wasting your time and your money. Oh my money.
[6:49] Speaker 3: I'm on an insurance case, remember, so I'm on expensive college. Well, sure,
[6:54] Speaker 3: with your comedy putting the bell. It was after Dame
[7:05] Speaker 3: when I reached the Lake Mohoti Resort, and yeah, I
[7:08] Speaker 3: was waiting for me, and it's comfortable motel ro. We
[7:11] Speaker 3: got right down the kitchen. And I tell you, Johnny,
[7:17] Speaker 3: when Avery showed me that will, there was never any
[7:20] Speaker 3: such a name as Louis Marino on it. And I
[7:23] Speaker 3: was a couple of months ago on his birthday eleven.
[7:27] Speaker 3: I'd taken him a couple of nice steaks to celebrate. Now,
[7:31] Speaker 3: what was this about your being threaten threatened? Well, that's
[7:35] Speaker 3: what you're implied to me over the phone. Well, now,
[7:39] Speaker 3: were You're just stretching things a bit to make sure
[7:42] Speaker 3: i'd come out here, now, Johnny, Yeah, I should have
[7:45] Speaker 3: known it or something like that. No, Oh, that is well,
[7:50] Speaker 3: if you could have seen Reno's face when I told
[7:52] Speaker 3: that lawyer the surgey that somebody meddled with Avery's widow,
[7:57] Speaker 3: and when I said I was going to stand on
[7:58] Speaker 3: you read, je reprobate, you're in about as much danger now.
[8:03] Speaker 3: Who would be out there practicing with a gun this time?
[8:06] Speaker 3: And Tom doubs the light? She will Johnny, that Nick
[8:12] Speaker 3: my shirt out there practicing. H those bullets were meant
[8:17] Speaker 3: for you? Maybe maybe you, Johnny and the will and
[8:26] Speaker 3: the way met her, I thought. Red Parrester the Lake
[8:35] Speaker 3: mohobby Resort, was spinning another one of his yarns. When
[8:37] Speaker 3: he told me he was being threatened by the beneficiary
[8:39] Speaker 3: of the insurance. He thought that he was incited to it,
[8:42] Speaker 3: that is until a couple of gunshots crashed in through
[8:44] Speaker 3: the window of his hotel rooms. Yes, sir, Johnny, that
[8:48] Speaker 3: Louis Marin who knew that eyes known as sin for you,
[8:51] Speaker 3: So those shots could just as well have been meant
[8:53] Speaker 3: for you as for me and my read somebody said
[8:56] Speaker 3: stay long, leave the lights out bush to fate here, Johnny,
[9:05] Speaker 3: I read to see.
[9:06] Speaker 4: You were coming out here to help him?
[9:08] Speaker 3: Yeah, Buster, pull down the blinds for Han coming the
[9:10] Speaker 3: lights on it him?
[9:11] Speaker 4: Sure, Johnny, shot Johnny, and I heard this window break.
[9:15] Speaker 4: It came from a car up on the old Mine
[9:17] Speaker 4: Road above here, and the car took off went.
[9:20] Speaker 3: Over the Hill looks like Red was right read. How
[9:23] Speaker 3: much do you know about this Louis Marino? I tell you, Johnny,
[9:27] Speaker 3: I never even heard of him until I dug Abrie's
[9:29] Speaker 3: will out of the linen closet there at his house
[9:32] Speaker 3: and I saw Marino's name on it.
[9:34] Speaker 4: The only thing I know about him is that he's
[9:36] Speaker 4: been living up there in Vegas working in the garage
[9:39] Speaker 4: about three three and a half months now.
[9:42] Speaker 3: Then he must have arrived there shortly before Tim Hansen died,
[9:46] Speaker 3: which probably doesn't mean to thing.
[9:48] Speaker 2: Well.
[9:48] Speaker 3: Old Tim was the other witness to Abley's will, Johnny.
[9:52] Speaker 4: I knew old Tim pretty well. He was kind of
[9:55] Speaker 4: a general handyman over there and came and he used
[9:57] Speaker 4: to him, come over here and give us a hand. No, then,
[10:00] Speaker 4: so well do you hear about how he does?
[10:04] Speaker 3: Sure got drunk one night and ran his car off
[10:06] Speaker 3: the road.
[10:07] Speaker 4: I mean Tim never touched the stuff.
[10:10] Speaker 3: You're sure that, yes, sir? Well did you tell the
[10:13] Speaker 3: police and Carnor?
[10:14] Speaker 4: Yeah? And I guess they changed the report now that
[10:17] Speaker 4: it means anything.
[10:19] Speaker 3: Let me get the date straightening of dates, Johnny? Yeah,
[10:22] Speaker 3: how long was Abray Nicholas living over there? In came
[10:26] Speaker 3: it's January before that, California, working in the oural field.
[10:32] Speaker 3: But the doctor told him if he didn't get over
[10:35] Speaker 3: here in the desert, that his lungs wouldn't hold out
[10:37] Speaker 3: more than a couple of months. When did missus Turner
[10:40] Speaker 3: take over as his nurse and housekeeper?
[10:42] Speaker 5: Oh?
[10:43] Speaker 3: Mary started working for him in March when he took sick.
[10:48] Speaker 3: And that's when he made out his will too, and
[10:50] Speaker 3: Mary and Tim were the witnesses. That's also about the
[10:53] Speaker 3: time Louis Marino arrived in Vegas. Yeah, Johnny, let's try
[10:59] Speaker 3: to tie these things up. And do we have good reasons? Well,
[11:01] Speaker 3: you asked me, and it was back in April of
[11:03] Speaker 3: Tim Hanson's died, Yes, sir, And when did you see
[11:06] Speaker 3: the will? In May?
[11:08] Speaker 4: That was the time I almost got killed.
[11:12] Speaker 3: Oh, I'm coming over the past. That night on the
[11:15] Speaker 3: way back here, steering on my car gave out a minute.
[11:19] Speaker 3: Did anyone examine it after that happened? Well, you had
[11:23] Speaker 3: it fixed, if that's what you mean. No, that isn't
[11:25] Speaker 3: what I mean.
[11:26] Speaker 4: What are you thinking of, Johnny?
[11:27] Speaker 3: What's the red? Warner said?
[11:30] Speaker 4: Will now still with lawyer Robbins.
[11:32] Speaker 3: I guess yeah, sure, you say surrogate on it, and
[11:37] Speaker 3: it is right over his office on North pop God,
[11:40] Speaker 3: but I'm going over there to see him.
[11:46] Speaker 4: You ask me, miss a dollar, You're wasting your time.
[11:49] Speaker 4: But well, here you.
[11:50] Speaker 3: Are last will and testament of Avery Journals Nicolette, and
[11:55] Speaker 3: it's all in order, perfectly legal. I couldn't have dictated
[11:58] Speaker 3: a better letter myself. But the part that read Berrick
[12:01] Speaker 3: claims with addedu is when my best and oldest friend,
[12:04] Speaker 3: Loyd Barrett, I becouped the whole of my estate right here,
[12:07] Speaker 3: with the exception of the proceeds for my life insurance policy,
[12:11] Speaker 3: which I should go to Louis Marino of Las Vegas, Nevada.
[12:14] Speaker 4: You see it's in the same hand.
[12:17] Speaker 3: It looks to be it is. I even had mister
[12:20] Speaker 3: Brinkerhoff down at the bank check the handwriting. Even the
[12:23] Speaker 3: police built in a handwriting X. Went a minute, What
[12:26] Speaker 3: have you got a magnifying glasses to Robins? Oh yeah, sure,
[12:30] Speaker 3: right here. Nice now listen, mister darling, mister Robins. I
[12:40] Speaker 3: don't know whether this last part is in Avery Nicholett's
[12:43] Speaker 3: hand or it's just a clever forgery. But if this
[12:46] Speaker 3: has in tambiway and I betted this. I'm betting the
[12:50] Speaker 3: Louis Marino was put in after the will was signed
[12:52] Speaker 3: and witnessed. With the met case, the will wouldn't be Well.
[12:57] Speaker 3: What I mean is well that is, just read it
[13:00] Speaker 3: instead of trying to think of something to say. Mister Robbins,
[13:03] Speaker 3: I want you to call a meeting for me tomorrow
[13:05] Speaker 3: morning here in your office, a meeting. Where's Marina right
[13:08] Speaker 3: here in Kingan waiting kyman. Okay, I'll bring Red Barrett
[13:12] Speaker 3: over Fromake Mohabi myself, but you get hold of Marina
[13:14] Speaker 3: and this is Mary Turner. Well, now, mister Dollar, now
[13:17] Speaker 3: wait wait ten o'clock sharp, mister Robins, Okay, now, mister Dollar, hey,
[13:20] Speaker 3: I'll see you. Then, as it turned out, I didn't
[13:28] Speaker 3: go back and pick up read after all. Oh sure
[13:30] Speaker 3: I started, you even got a few miles out of
[13:33] Speaker 3: the highway, but I ended up by telephony and m
[13:36] Speaker 3: I taking into a motel right there in Kingla. As
[13:39] Speaker 3: for my redal Car, Well, I don't want to sound dramatic,
[13:42] Speaker 3: but what happened was this about two or three miles
[13:45] Speaker 3: out of town as I was driving along. Yeah, a
[13:49] Speaker 3: funny buzzing noise in the water, and it stayed were
[13:52] Speaker 3: of constant even when I slowed down. Well, I've heard
[13:56] Speaker 3: that noise before, so I decided to get as far
[13:58] Speaker 3: away from that car as I but fast, and I
[14:01] Speaker 3: duck behind a mound of gravel there at the side
[14:03] Speaker 3: of the road. Yeah, yeah, you know something. As the
[14:11] Speaker 3: sort of parks and pieces came standing down around me,
[14:15] Speaker 3: I was kind of glad that I had got out
[14:17] Speaker 3: of that car. I guess I had underestimated the King
[14:36] Speaker 3: in Arizona police when I called him after having my
[14:39] Speaker 3: car blown to bits, I learned from Sergeant Tommy Parker
[14:42] Speaker 3: that they too had been suspicious of Avery Nicholas will
[14:46] Speaker 3: and particularly of the main beneficiary, Louis Marino those thing
[14:50] Speaker 3: in the morning at police had quarters, Parker laid out
[14:52] Speaker 3: the facts formbing Well, it was the police up in
[14:55] Speaker 3: Vegas whose first meant to make on him.
[14:57] Speaker 4: Whyse because he'd got to throw a I have a
[15:00] Speaker 4: couple of.
[15:00] Speaker 3: Gambling joints up there when he tried to get a
[15:02] Speaker 3: job before he worked in the garage. Yeah, the man
[15:06] Speaker 3: who run those casinos a.
[15:07] Speaker 4: Pretty wise bunch.
[15:09] Speaker 3: Somebody recognized him as Louis the penman from chicagoan a forger,
[15:13] Speaker 3: that's right from one of the mobs, and just for luck,
[15:16] Speaker 3: I started checking on this young housekeeper, Nikola's Missus Turner.
[15:20] Speaker 3: Only her maiden name was Mary Polito. Young, did you
[15:24] Speaker 3: say in the late thirties, dark haired, dark complexion, real
[15:28] Speaker 3: good looking. Remember she had herself.
[15:31] Speaker 4: A flock of husbands.
[15:32] Speaker 3: Why haven't don't tell me? Yeah?
[15:35] Speaker 4: Dollar.
[15:35] Speaker 3: The last was an old man named Harry Turner died
[15:38] Speaker 3: about a year ago in a car accident. Car accident.
[15:42] Speaker 3: One before was another old man, Lawrence Flubright, another car
[15:46] Speaker 3: accident the same time. But her first husband's Louis Marine Hall. Right. Well,
[15:51] Speaker 3: let's see you've done yourself proud. Maybe so, but unless
[15:55] Speaker 3: we can somehow hold on to them, which is to say,
[15:58] Speaker 3: unless we can find something wrong with that. And don't
[16:01] Speaker 3: forget the handwriting expert. I called in and said, it's okay, Sergeant,
[16:05] Speaker 3: maybe an expert over look something. So Ron, it's about
[16:09] Speaker 3: time for the meeting at the lawyer's office. Why is
[16:18] Speaker 3: he enough? Sergeant Parker decided to stick around outside while.
[16:21] Speaker 4: I went into the meeting.
[16:23] Speaker 3: President. When mister Robins the lawyer read Barrett William Marina,
[16:27] Speaker 3: I couldn't blame rep but not liking his looks, and
[16:29] Speaker 3: missus Mary Turner at the moment Red had the floor
[16:34] Speaker 3: and I said, I tread to you, I don't want
[16:36] Speaker 3: the money. I'll give it to charity, but I don't
[16:39] Speaker 3: want to going to somebody that avery never even heard
[16:42] Speaker 3: of this. What do you mean he never heard of me,
[16:44] Speaker 3: you crazy old bump, because he would have told That's why,
[16:48] Speaker 3: because he told me everything. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry, mister Brett,
[16:51] Speaker 3: but I'm sure I heard mister Nicolott mentioned Louis Marino
[16:55] Speaker 3: many times. And when I saw his name in the will,
[16:58] Speaker 3: somebody threw it there. I saw it were crazy? All right,
[17:01] Speaker 3: enough focus. If you think you can break this, maybe
[17:04] Speaker 3: I can't, Louise, Miss gentleman. This is Johnny Dollar, missus Turner,
[17:11] Speaker 3: investigator for the insurance company. Well good, Not that it
[17:15] Speaker 3: makes any difference to me whether mister Marino gets that
[17:17] Speaker 3: insurance money. Well, I think it does with this Turner,
[17:20] Speaker 3: Missus Mary Palito, Marino, Furlbright Turner. You to him to
[17:27] Speaker 3: Reno somewhere along there, Johnny, No, mister Dollar, listen here. Dollar.
[17:31] Speaker 3: You know it may be tough proving that you caused
[17:34] Speaker 3: the death of the other witness of that will. Poor
[17:36] Speaker 3: old Tim answer, it was a car accident. He was drunk.
[17:38] Speaker 3: They found the bottle like the side. He never took
[17:40] Speaker 3: a drink in his life. I suspect that bottle, if
[17:44] Speaker 3: there was one, was planted in his car. But the
[17:46] Speaker 3: mechanical tamper with a steering who said, And come to
[17:50] Speaker 3: think of it, you are a mechanic, can't, child Louise? Sure,
[17:53] Speaker 3: sure I am, But that doesn't mean to be hard
[17:55] Speaker 3: to prove you planted that bomb in my car. Now listen, dollar,
[17:58] Speaker 3: I'm tampered with a steering on reads and tried to
[18:01] Speaker 3: kill him off after you realized he'd seen the original will.
[18:05] Speaker 3: But sooner or later, I think these kingly and police
[18:07] Speaker 3: will be able to pin these things on you. The
[18:10] Speaker 3: only thing I have to prove, though, is that this
[18:12] Speaker 3: will was tampered with, and I think I can. Yeah. Well,
[18:17] Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mister Dowler, but that will is exactly as
[18:20] Speaker 3: it was in the beginning, Miss Turner, did you actually
[18:23] Speaker 3: see it written? Answer the booth? Start him ride it
[18:27] Speaker 3: and mister Nicolette signed it. We signed it, and he
[18:31] Speaker 3: folded it up and put it in an envelope. Oh,
[18:34] Speaker 3: this paper wasn't folded before. No it was some news stationary.
[18:39] Speaker 3: It just got himself. You're sure, of course, quite rast
[18:43] Speaker 3: a thing like that. The paper has a coating on it,
[18:45] Speaker 3: like most papers of this kind, Some of that coating
[18:48] Speaker 3: cracks a little bit when it's folded. It takes a
[18:50] Speaker 3: magnifying glass to see it. Oh what so when something's
[18:54] Speaker 3: written on it after it's been folded, the ink wi
[18:57] Speaker 3: spread a bit over the tiny cracks made in the coating. Yeah,
[19:01] Speaker 3: like it has on this point. It was a good
[19:05] Speaker 3: insurance to Louis Marino after missus Turner found the will
[19:09] Speaker 3: of the linen closet. How do you know? I mean,
[19:11] Speaker 3: I know added after the other witness died, after Red
[19:15] Speaker 3: Barrett saw it. Take a look with you our magnifying glass,
[19:19] Speaker 3: mister Robins. Yes, I certainly show so, Louie, despite your
[19:23] Speaker 3: excellent copy of Avery Nicolette's handwriting, by writing yourself in
[19:26] Speaker 3: over the pold in that paper you pulled up. Boo boo.
[19:29] Speaker 3: You're right, mister daughter, absolutely right, Well Mary Louis, all right,
[19:35] Speaker 3: dolla if it is done. Yeah, Louis pulled a gun
[19:44] Speaker 3: and started to make even more of a pool of himself.
[19:48] Speaker 3: But then Sergeant Parker quietly left in and took over.
[19:51] Speaker 3: And you know something, I think they put in time
[19:54] Speaker 3: with Mary and LOUI in the clink for this forgery.
[19:56] Speaker 3: He'll probably pin those other things I mentioned on him.
[19:59] Speaker 3: He's a good man, expense a consul's women, the blown
[20:02] Speaker 3: up rental car thirty two hundred and eighty bucks. Yours truly,
[20:07] Speaker 3: Johnny Dollars or Starr to tell you about next week's story.
[20:23] Speaker 3: Next week A beautiful girl, a terrible storm, and a miracle.
[20:28] Speaker 3: Join us, won't you? Yours Truley Johnny Dollar, Yours truly,
[20:37] Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar. Darling Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and is written,
[20:41] Speaker 3: produced and directed.
[20:42] Speaker 4: By Jack Johnstone.
[20:44] Speaker 3: Heard in our cast Brough Virginia, Greg Barney Phillips, Boris Lewis, Barley, Bear,
[20:48] Speaker 3: Jack Coyles, Billy Hallip, and Byron Kaine. He should have
[20:52] Speaker 3: joined us next week, same time and season, or another
[20:54] Speaker 3: exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Jim
[20:58] Speaker 3: Matthew speaking welcome back.
[21:02] Speaker 1: I will admit that Johnny confused me a little bit
[21:06] Speaker 1: in the solution when he said that for culprit had
[21:12] Speaker 1: written himself in over the fold. But if anyone else
[21:17] Speaker 1: was confused. The larger point was that this stationary it
[21:23] Speaker 1: had a surface coding, and so that when you folded it,
[21:27] Speaker 1: it caused cracks that became visible if you looked at
[21:31] Speaker 1: it under a magnifying glass. So where the forged writing was,
[21:37] Speaker 1: the ink had spread into these very slight cracks that
[21:42] Speaker 1: you could see when it was magnified, and the rest
[21:45] Speaker 1: of the writing, of course didn't, because that was written
[21:49] Speaker 1: before the paper was folded. It's kind of a tricky
[21:53] Speaker 1: situation for writing and performing. You're not only using a
[21:59] Speaker 1: visional clue, but a very subtle visual clue that requires magnification.
[22:08] Speaker 1: So that does stretch the audience's imagination a bit. And
[22:12] Speaker 1: this is another case where though who done it is
[22:17] Speaker 1: not really the most interesting question, it's more about how
[22:22] Speaker 1: and how Johnny will catch them. And while that might
[22:26] Speaker 1: be a bit of a departure from Johnny Doller, it's
[22:29] Speaker 1: certainly a valid form of mystery. You could find all
[22:34] Speaker 1: kinds of stories in say, Ellery Queen Mystery magazine with
[22:39] Speaker 1: this sort of setup. I also appreciated Johnny acknowledging the
[22:44] Speaker 1: limits of what he had to do. He suspected a lot,
[22:49] Speaker 1: and the story implies that our criminals had done a
[22:54] Speaker 1: lot worse, but it wasn't his job to prove that.
[22:58] Speaker 1: His job was to verify the veracity of the will
[23:05] Speaker 1: and left the rest of it to the local police.
[23:08] Speaker 1: And this is a point I do think that sometimes
[23:12] Speaker 1: we and I've probably done this, we can be a
[23:16] Speaker 1: little too harsh in our criticism of detective stories and
[23:22] Speaker 1: say things like, well, you would never convict someone on
[23:26] Speaker 1: this sort of evidence. And this argument's used, and it's
[23:30] Speaker 1: probably most unfairly leveled at private detectives, because that is
[23:37] Speaker 1: never their job. It's not their job to prove this
[23:41] Speaker 1: to anyone other than their clients. And this is an
[23:44] Speaker 1: important point. Even the great neural Wolf called it out
[23:49] Speaker 1: in at least one and may be more of his
[23:51] Speaker 1: stories where he identified the murderer with some evidence that
[23:57] Speaker 1: indicated guilt. But you could easily say this is not
[24:02] Speaker 1: going to win over a jury. But Wolf told the murderer, now,
[24:06] Speaker 1: I'm going to hand you over to Inspector Kramer, and
[24:10] Speaker 1: he has men who can investigate further and find all
[24:15] Speaker 1: the evidence it's going to take to convict you. Now,
[24:18] Speaker 1: unless you are watching Law and Order or some similar
[24:23] Speaker 1: program or book, it's not about the process of trial.
[24:28] Speaker 1: It's about the investigation and it identifine who done it.
[24:33] Speaker 1: Once that is done, the trial doesn't happen immediately unless
[24:39] Speaker 1: you were in that five part Johnny Dollar Cereal where
[24:43] Speaker 1: they sped things up. Now it's a bit more reasonable
[24:47] Speaker 1: if the protagonist is supposed to be a police officer,
[24:50] Speaker 1: because they've got to take the case that we heard
[24:55] Speaker 1: the district attorney. But even there, once the rest has
[25:01] Speaker 1: been made, that's not the end of search, traditional evidence
[25:05] Speaker 1: and discovery. Although there are some broadways. My Beat episodes
[25:10] Speaker 1: were like, there is no way that there's ever going
[25:14] Speaker 1: to be enough evidence to convict and real lot listener
[25:19] Speaker 1: comments and feedback now, and we have a comment regarding
[25:22] Speaker 1: the modeling Buddha matter over on YouTube and that the
[25:29] Speaker 1: story called to mind an incident that the commenter experienced.
[25:35] Speaker 1: Where my grandparents are from. It's a small southern town.
[25:39] Speaker 1: There was a housekeeper who worked for this old money
[25:42] Speaker 1: Southern family for almost forty years. She helped raise their kids,
[25:46] Speaker 1: and when the patriarch of the family died, his widow
[25:51] Speaker 1: was the only one who knew. They'd set up a
[25:53] Speaker 1: trust for the housekeeper. The kids that housekeeper helped to
[25:57] Speaker 1: raise they contested the will, being that it was a trust,
[26:00] Speaker 1: there was not much they could really do, And it's
[26:03] Speaker 1: important to say that there still can be wealthy individuals
[26:10] Speaker 1: who leave a portion of their fortune to those who
[26:17] Speaker 1: worked faithfully for them for many years. There was a
[26:22] Speaker 1: viral video for The Ramsey Show that went around a
[26:26] Speaker 1: while back where a woman was calling because her boss
[26:31] Speaker 1: had died and left her like a million and a
[26:34] Speaker 1: half dollars or something like that, But it's not as
[26:37] Speaker 1: commonly discussed or maybe expected, as it might have once been.
[26:43] Speaker 1: On an episode that's a little less recent. Regarding the
[26:47] Speaker 1: fair Weather Friend Matter, listener rights that Martian had to
[26:53] Speaker 1: be one of the weirdest I've ever heard. I'm sorry
[26:55] Speaker 1: you learn English by listening to commercials up well, thanks
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[27:56] Speaker 5: A pretty picture. That's the idea of bussing him here
[28:02] Speaker 5: for me and Frank just got a lovely snapshot for
[28:05] Speaker 5: my album. You gotta all right, any Frank right here
[28:08] Speaker 5: from the doorway with my trusty camera. Hey, what is
[28:12] Speaker 5: this evidence? Big boy? That's why I brought my boy
[28:15] Speaker 5: Frank and his camera along, waiting a long time for
[28:19] Speaker 5: my darling wife Kathy to step out of line.
[28:22] Speaker 3: Nick, you got this all wrong.
[28:24] Speaker 5: I just met him today, best Wigan. And if I
[28:27] Speaker 5: got it wrong, the camera hasn't. Frank's a perfect shot.
[28:30] Speaker 5: Your your Kathy's husband, j how if.
[28:33] Speaker 1: You'll be with us then in the meantime, send your
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