Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Deadly Swamp Matter 04/17/1960
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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What is the Deadly Swamp Matter about?
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Johnny Dollar. St. Clair, Mr. Dollar, in Kennett, Missouri. Would it be possible for you to come out here right away? Kennett, Missouri. What did you say your name is?
Charles Kingsley Sinclair.
I'm... Oh, yeah, with Providential Assurance Company.
Yes, that's right.
Yeah, now, wait a minute. I thought you were leaving the company.
Dollar.
If you're such a gentleman, you just couldn't stand doing business with the poor, wretched clients you inherited.
Mr. Dollar, I am a changed man.
Well, good for you.
Who is Johnny Dollar and what is his role?
It is true that some of the people that I've been sent down here to deal with, well, I... I consider them nothing more than poor white trash, ignorant, illiterate. Well, I'll say this for them. They sure know how to make some pretty powerful moonshine. Very true. If one of those characters hadn't poured some of that white mule down my gullet, I doubt if I'd have been crazy enough to go out after that killer.
But thanks to you, Dade Whopperman was indicted, tried, found guilty, and has been incarcerated.
Yeah, that was the one, Dade Whopperman.
Unfortunately, Mr. Dollar, Dade has a brother.
His name is Daniel. I beg your pardon.
Daniel.
He's been making trouble, very serious trouble.
Oh? Like what?
Murders.
I see. So if you take a plane to Memphis, I shall be more than glad to meet you there. Oh, now look, mister, I was lucky once. Got out of that swamp country alive. But I'd be nuts to stick my neck out again. And since those people already know who I am, what my job is... Okay, St.
Clair, I'll grab a plane.
CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Providential Assurance Company office in Kennet, Missouri. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the deadly swamp matter. Item one is 7645 Plainfair, Hartford to Memphis. Charles Kingsley St. Clair met me as promised, and apparently the man had change. considerably from the snooty, better-than-thou stuff shirt I'd found him to be on my first trip. Yes, Mr. Dollar, in spite of my earlier feelings about the clients my predecessor had left me... Yeah, I know, Mr. St. Clair, but those moonshiners and such existing in that 20-mile swamp are hardly typical of the folks living around Kennet, where your office is.
Oh, I realize that now, and I shall stay in Kennet, try to justify the company's confidence in placing me there. Very good. Nevertheless, when I came to this part of the country, the swamp people were the only ones with whom I had to deal. They were the only ones to whom he had sold insurance. And when I saw the horrible, dirty, squalid way in which they lived, in those broken-down shacks full of vermin... Kind of turned your stomach, huh? Quite frankly, it did exactly that. That's why I requested transfer to our New England offices. But now, of course, I plan to stay down here. Now, um... When you came here before, you taught me a great lesson in how to deal with them, how to understand them. Yeah? By having my car wrecked for me, by getting shot at and nearly drowned in that swamp?
But you succeeded in enlisting the help, the cooperation of the good ones among them, earning their respect. Well, I had to do something to get out of there alive. The point is that you did. You have friends among them now, and you'll be willing to help you again. Yeah, well, that's something that... Oh, now, wait a minute. Yes. You mean these murders you call me about, they're back in that swamp country, too? Oh, great. Oh, no, no, no, Mr. Doyle. And I thought that maybe for once... Okay, St. Clair, let's have it. What's it all about? As I told you, a series of murders. So you're having to pay out a lot of insurance. No. And you think that I can somehow miraculously put a stop to them?
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