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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · April 27, 1956 · 14 min · 1,941 words
The transcript of “The Lonely Hearts Matter - Ep 5”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast April 27, 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 Max Lancer Johnny he is office How is she pretty weak the hospital staff are doing all they can for her, but they don't give him much hope No, not yet. Maybe not ever it was ground glass. All right the doctor sure of it now Why Johnny why her I'll guess with you
Maybe she figured we were closing in on her. The game was over and took this way out. We had nothing on her, Max. Suspicious, that's all we were going on. She'd had two husbands in the last three years. Both of them died from the effects of ground glass poisoning.
And both times she goes for $50,000 insurance. That's all we had to go on, and it wasn't enough. But maybe she didn't realize that. I can give you a better theory. Okay, sound off. Somebody tried to murder her.
Tonight and every weekday night. 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. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Chicago, to the home office, Northwestern Surety Company, Hartford, Connecticut, assignment, the Lonely Hearts Matter, expense account's final page.
Item 15, $2.60, sandwiches, cigarettes, and incidences, which I had sent up from a lunchroom across the street from the hospital. It was evening again now. I'd spent the whole day in the lounge down the hall from the room where Mabel Burke Wells was fighting for her life fighting and slowly losing I Tagged her as a murderous responsible for the deaths of two of her husbands
But then she herself had been struck down by the same poison And now only she had the key to the puzzle a key she might never give up Dr. Kenloy, you need to walk in the delivery room.
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