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The Forbes Matter - Ep 4

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · December 29, 1955 · 14 min · 1,988 words

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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Yes, didn't you get it? Attempted suicide by guests Sheldon Forbes f o r b s No, no relation insurance investigator. I just found him Are you kidding I asked you tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action

In fact, Expensacow, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly? Johnny Dollar. Expensacow submitted by Special Investigator, Johnny Dollar. To the Continental Adjustment Bureau, 418, Elizabeth Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Forbes matter.

Sheldon Forbes pleaded guilty to a $4,285 embezzling charge. He waved jury trial and was awaiting sentence when he was bailed out of jail, went home, and turned on the gas. Thirty seconds after I dragged him from the apartment I called the police emergency squad.

And a matter of minutes they arrived and a couple of interns were working on floors with a foam motor. And that dingy, dirty, badly landed hallway. There was no telling how much gas forms it breathed in.

Or for how long a period after he went into his apartment the gas jet had been opened. Hand me that hyperwell. Swab. Okay. He, uh... He alive? Barely. You the fellow found a mister? Yeah.

Hard to say what can happen on these kind. The shot I just gave him should produce some reaction. This year, please? Yes. You know who he is? His name's Sheldon Forbes. Nice looking guy. Hell, I'll need that.

Yeah, thanks. I think we're getting somewhere now. Look, can I help? No. Hell, you better hand me one of those two. I'd be pretty sick if... Hey, goodies, he's catching on. Yeah. Let's have a little increase, Al.

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