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The Clinton Matter - Ep 5

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · March 16, 1956 · 14 min · 2,116 words

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From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Deller. Toby of Ryan, Johnny. Heard you had a run-in with Sharon in his office. Yeah, I don't think he will though. He'll have to do something close to it.

I got some information on Richard Hobb, the building inspector who was murdered. Yeah? Yes, dear. What's that? I'll wait. Hobb's salary is six- Holy. And I'll wait. This one was paid off after each inspection paper.

We got some other things on paper too, Toby. Hold on, keep digging. 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.

Yours truly? Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location Clinton, Colorado, to United Adjustment Bureau 418 West 61st Street, New York City. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Clinton matter.

Expense Account Item 15, $45 for photos static copies of deposit slips in the the account of Richard Hobb, building inspector, lately murdered. Furnished by one of my operatives, Toby O'Brien. Here you are. Okay. I got a feeling this whole town's coming apart at the seams, Johnny.

The sheriff threatened you openly. Everybody was anybody around here is trying to cover up the school burning down and the way it was built. I think I can hurry up the process. Now you be careful, these people seem to play for keeps.

They've got to realize we do too. These photos stands to the first real bit of presentable evidence that the building was constructed under fraudulent circumstances. Yeah, take it easy. You keep the originals, mail them out to the office.

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Roy Vickery. That's close enough. Last night after you were here, Richard came back. I told him what you'd said to me. He said, Vicry and the others were going to make a patsy out of him.

So he left to see you. And got shot up. Hey, wait a minute. Vicry was outside your house when I left. He might have done it himself. That's all I can tell you. Now, do I get my insurance?

If what you say is true, Mrs. Homb, I'll have to check first. You'll find out. Say, where do you come from, anyhow? Hartford, Connecticut. Connecticut. Say, I got an idea. What's the housing situation in Hartford?

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