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The Ricardo Amerigo Matter - Ep 5

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · January 20, 1956 · 14 min · 2,067 words

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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar John John. This is don't tell me Harry Branson at Philadelphia mutual. Yes. Yes. It is Listen John. I know you found his amati violin. Are you sure? But Ricardo Amarego himself Nothing and after all there's not only the $20,000 policy on him, but what do you mean? Am I sure?

Are you sure it was Amarego's amati violin? I found why have good? What do you mean? What if it wasn't? What if it was just an imitation? John, stop it. That's impa- What do you mean?

That $30,000 well-insured fiddle I picked up in the South Jersey swamps may be a phony. Oh no. For heaven's sakes, come over here to the office and tell me- You won't take it easy, Harold Boy, until I've had time to find out a few things.

John? See ya! Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly? Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar, location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Philadelphia Mutual liability and casualty company.

Following as the final accounting of expenditure is incurred during my investigation of the Ricardo Amerigo matters. When Ricardo Amerigo's car was hauled out of a swamp somewhere near Port Morris, New Jersey, there was no sign of his body.

Only a saw through steering arm on the car that indicated somebody had done him dirt. However, I did find the fiddle, the $30,000 of Mottie that had helped him become one of the world's top concert violinists.

Anyhow, with a fiddle under my arm, I ended up with the shop of violin maker Eric Snowden for final confirmation that it was the genuine Mottie that I'd found. This Eric confirmed. However, while we were in the second floor workroom of his shop on Eisminger Street talking about the fiddle, somebody pounded on the street door downstairs.

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