What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for the Monogram Guarantee Insurance Company, travels to Little Rock, Arkansas, to look into the robbery and killing of Ambrose Brierley, a client whose cotton mill payroll was stolen on a rainy night. Police Chief Fisher has detained a young local man, Pete McGuire, who was seen fleeing the scene, but the boy refuses to speak. Johnny is asked to find out what McGuire knows. The episode is part of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on November 13, 1960, with Bob Bailey in the title role.
Little Rock and Milltown, Arkansas, around 1960
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Pete McGuire, Chief Fisher, Ambrose Brierley, Culpepper Walker, Ted Thurber
Listen for: Pete McGuire's account of the night of the robbery and the chief's behavior toward him
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.