The Chesapeake Fraud Matter - Ep 4

From Hollywood it's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny dollar this is western Union, mr. Dollar message for you in Baltimore, Maryland. Okay. Go ahead received your air special regarding investigation of the Chesapeake matter You've proved Frank Bowers of Denver is not John Ritten of Baltimore Fingerprints don't lie therefore logical to believe John Ritten really did

Come on home, your expenses are running too high. That's signed Pat Kelleher, Universal Adjustment Bureau. Should I mail this to you? No, that's all right. Can I send an answer? Yes, sir. Pat Kelleher, Universal Adjustment Bureau of Baltimore, Maryland.

Fingerprints don't lie, but people do. All the time. For all sorts of reasons. It may be finished as far as your concern, but I'm just beginning. Love, Johnny. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly? Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar. To the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Baltimore, Maryland. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Chesapeake fraud matter.

I'd sent out to prove that John Rodden had not died back in 1950 in a boat accident on Chesapeake Bay. To prove that he was still very much alive in the person of one Frank Bowers currently living here in Denver, Colorado.

Everything all I could learn of the man's history reports from his neighbors, friends, even his fingerprints. Everything indicated he really was Frank Bowers. And yet for some full reason or other I wasn't convinced. Expense account continued, item 10, 63 bucks for one overcoat.

Denver can be a very cool city when the wind comes in from the north and it decides to snow. Almost as cold as the damp wind off Chesapeake Bay on a certain day back in 1950. Hi. Hi, George. How's it going? Well, I washed Bowers' house from six last night till two this morning. He read a book last night in the living room. He made a phone