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The Chicago Fraud Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · February 6, 1953 · 29 min · 4,115 words

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From Hollywood, it's time now for John Lund as... Johnny Daller. Niles Hartley, Johnny, Columbia Life. Niles, how are you? I thought you were in Chicago these days. I am. This is long distance. Tell me about it.

A man could afford to buy that much life insurance, but he couldn't buy himself a hamburger. And then a transcribed adventure of a man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Here's truly...

Johnny Daller. expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the Columbia life and accident insurance company mestain building Chicago Illinois. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Chicago fraud matter expense account item one 78 dollars 13 cents plain fair and into that old Hartford to Chicago. I had breakfast the airport took the limousine

into town found a hotel room then checked in with Niall's Hartley at the The Chicago's blustery climate seemed to agree with him. He was a little bigger than I remembered, a little rutier, but efficient as ever.

I wrote a special delivery to the insurance commission in Springfield this morning. Explained we were holding up payment, pending a routine investigation of the claim. Uh-huh. But the faster we move on this, the better off we'll be, Johnny.

They're going to ask questions and we'll have to get ourselves some answers. They asked any yet? No, but the beneficiary's lane's sister. Name is Lydia Staley. She's called them and she's called us a couple of times wanting to know what's what Tough She could be I guess she has money of her own some influence and so on a lot of money

Trust stuff very comfortably fixed, but she's pretty upset by the whole business You see I had to stick my horn in right away and request the coroner to hold the body and we got something done Oh, so Lane died on the street with no identification on him by the time they did find out who he was a routine

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