The Pearling Matter - Ep 2

From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Dollar. Ready with your call to Hatford. Hello? Hello, Mr. Scottman. Johnny Dollar. Hope I didn't get you up. No, no, no. I've been very anxious to hear from you.

Well, I thought I'd better call Mr. Scottman. I just found out that David Pirling paid a reporter here in Key West to print that story about his death. You meet me there sometime? I can meet you at idle while. My plane comes in at 7.20.

Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventure. 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 Eastern liability and trust company Hartford, Connecticut.

The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the purling matter. Expense account continued item $3.98 in nine cents. Airfare and Incinetals including board and room key west in New York City. Mort Scottman was in the airport coffee shop having tea and toast in the best tradition of a vice president. He looked shaved, rested, and fresh. Would you like

some breakfast Mr. Dollar? Just coffee for now thanks. A cup of coffee please. Well we seem to have made nice connections. Not 7.30 yet. Yeah. Mr. Scottman the reporter in Key West who printed that story about David Pirling was paid $100 in cash to do it. Pirling paid her to file an erroneous story that he had been killed in a

You said, uh, cash? No, that's right, cash. No check. No way to prove it one way or another. Just the reporter's word. And she said she denied, if anybody else asked her, disclaim the whole thing.