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The Shepherd Matter - Ep 4

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · April 19, 1956 · 14 min · 2,294 words

The transcript of “The Shepherd Matter - Ep 4”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast April 19, 1956. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar plays Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar bill crock-beat dollar. Oh you and Ben? No good. Can it wait all morning? Nope? I'm gonna send somebody out to pick you up. Are you talking about an arrest? I might be dollar Whatever I have to do to keep you around. I might get out of my own steam pal 15 minutes room two or three city hall

Okay, I may take 16 minutes if I feel like and maybe you'll need longer I want a real good story about Paul Forbes a better one than you've told so far 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.

Yaws truly? Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, tool Richard Porter, 480 Webster Boulevard Providence, Rhode Island. The following is an accounting of expenditure during my investigation of the Shepherd matter. Swindle Sheet Item 7, $0.10, one newspaper.

favor. It carried the story of Dr. Shepherd's murder and told how his life had been threatened by Paul Forbes earlier in the week. Obviously, Dr. Charles Shepherd had been lured to his death by Forbes, who had telephoned him, pretended to need a physician, waited until the victim appeared and then shot him down. The police had an APB out for Paul Forbes. All parties

concerned were notified. The deceased was survived by his mother, Mrs. Clara Shepherd of Pawtucket. Amen. Come right in, dollar, sit down. There were about six people in Crosby's office, among them Richard Porter, who had hired me to investigate Shepard because of a suspicious insurance application.

A uniform officer from the Highway Patrol who had discovered Shepard's body, and two other men from Crosby's staff. I told him how I had been hired, that I didn't believe all of Shepard's story about the threat on his life.

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