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The Matter of Reasonable Doubt - Ep 1

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · May 28, 1956 · 14 min · 2,278 words

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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Ben Garley Johnny Amherkott Northern Trust. Oh hiya Ben. What do you hear from Wall Street? Save your money. What money? I'm gonna pay you for this case. I've got a crazy one Johnny. So naturally you thought of me Nothing personal look. It's a it's a trust set up cumulative endowment insurance rider

Big deal over a quarter million bucks. Maybe half a million from home to home from a Mrs Ezra Greamley widow to her granddaughter Susan saw Mrs. Gramley owns the Flint Rock Ranch in Nevada. Never heard of it.

Our representative out there is Jonas Parks. He's the president of the Flint Rock First National Bank. Never heard of it. It's a whistle stop about 20 miles from Las Vegas. That I've heard of. Parks started the deal rolling, and then he got cold feet, now he's yelling for help.

Thanks, the old lady may be crazy. I mean, literally. And there does seem to be a reasonable doubt. Unless Parks himself is crazy. Now, that's also a possibility, Johnny. 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. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office, Amakon, Northern Trust Company, Hartford, Connecticut, the following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the matter of reasonable doubt. Item $154.40, transportation and Incinatal's Hartford, Las Vegas, Nevada, where I checked into a hotel and then phoned the local office of a National Business and Credit Rating Bureau

that my client retained on a permanent consulting basis. I asked for a rundown of Jonas Parks and got it, an A1 set of references. Parks had been a resident of Nevada for 32 years and president of the Flint Rock Bank for 17.

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