Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Show

Johnny Dollar - The Racehorse Piledriver

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Duration:: 31m
Broadcast on:: 08 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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The following is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the circumstances threatening the life of the insured, the race horse, child driver, or meet him at way off his feet if I didn't know I owed you. Or, it's great to get a kick out of life so long as it isn't a kick in the head. Entrance account item one, 18 cents, one package of cigarettes. You may consider this a personal item, but that's where this case really started at the start of the year. I had come down in one of the elevators, noticed a little guy with a cane standing with a stutter. After I passed him, I felt myself being pointed out and not being the type who likes being followed for long periods of time, I gave myself a good reason to stop and look things over. Hello, Mr. Dollar. Hi, Max. Give me a pack of luck to him. I just told you a pack when you came in. I know. But things may really start smoking any minute. Yes. Good morning to you, sir. I haven't let to believe that you were one Mr. Dollar. Would that be a fact? Yeah, I'm Dollar. What can I do for you? Well, I am quite a famous fella myself. Perhaps you've heard of the fabulous Jackie Earl Sands? Yeah, but... Well, next to him, I was among the best. May I introduce myself? I'm the famous little Nettie Montana, sometimes called a short Johnny Longdon. Take care. How do you do? To business. I think I have a way for you to solve my problem and make yourself an honest buck, besides... Oh, now whoa, pony boy. You're wasting your time. I don't bet the horses. And when I do, I don't buy chips from touts. Oh, now wait a minute, pal. I did not introduce myself for the purpose of being insulted. I will have you know that I too do not consort the touts. I will thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head. Oh, I can see this is going to be one of those days. What is your problem, Mr.? Well, it is a problem best not overheard by people in the lobbies of office buildings. But this much I can't tell you. It is about a horse and $50,000 insurance. That is why I came to you. Well, I'd be richer if I'd known more about horses and poorer if I'd known less about insurance. Maybe in this thing I can break even at least. Come on. I hope you are not too much of a purist to ride an attacking. Little Nettie looked like he stopped growing physically at the age of 14. And every once in a while he talked like his mind had also called a quits at about the same time. The only thing slick about him was his hair. The only sharp is clothes. Liars always talked too much, and Little Nettie wouldn't say a word until we were inside my apartment. So even before he started his pitch I half believed it. Well, to take it from the beginning, I was born in a stable and that's not just a figure of speech. They brought the hot water in a feed bucket so you can understand my deep affection for horses. Now, on top of that, kindly consider this. One horse in particular, a very brave steed by the name of pile driver, has not only made me very famous, but has also made me a very large pile of hay. I have ridden pile driver to a wind position since he was a maiden. Pile driver? Huh? Quite a hunk of horses. Aha. I remember. Then you might also remember that he was on his way to becoming one of the big money winners of all time until I had to go and fall off a livery stable horse while teaching a girl how to ride in Central Park. It busted up my leg and I might add my future to say nothing to pile drivers. He hasn't won a race since I got grounded. You know, well, what's all this got to do with insurance? Mr. Dolla, they are going to murder him. Huh? Can you guess why? I can try. Pile driver is heavily insured. He's also no longer winning races. He's also a man who can't have a family. No good for studs. So if Pile driver should trip and break a leg, the owner would be entitled to shoot him and he'd still collect the insurance. I know it's been done. You have hit the horse you nail on the head. Mr. Dolla, I have a considerable bundle of money. He's stashed away and I am willing to devote a considerable lump of it to the purpose of saving Pile driver. Now, maybe you wouldn't understand such a thing, but I happen to love that horse. I understand it, Mading. Where is he? Well, he is currently stable at a track named Hayawata. Oh, by the shores of Gucci Gumi? No, no, by the shores of Lake Michigan. This is located slightly north of a place called Chicago. Five telephone calls and a few hundred questions later, I learned that Pile driver was insured by your company. Got the assignment and was on my way. So, expense account item two, airfare, Hartford to Chicago, $57.72, little Nettie insisted on coming along and he kept the home of the plane from being a home drama as follows. Well, Johnny, the gentleman who owns Pile driver is an old Kentucky mid-dual of sponge named Colonel Faraday Bushnell. Now, this character has a very black heart hiding beneath the head of white hair. I trusted him until I heard him say what he was going to do. From then on, I have been seriously tempted to wrap these hands around his neck and squeeze. All I can say is he had better not hurt Pile driver. Expense account item three, $16.40, Camp Bear, Chicago Municipal Airport, the Hayawata race track. Arrival time, then I am. To me, a race track always smells good, of horses, green grass, and excitement. Hey, y'all, driver, keep it changed. Well, this is the same goes as this, Mr. Dollar. You will have to take it from here. Okay. Oh, hey. Yeah, one last word of warning. Watch out for his daughter, Lyla. Oh, why? Is she dangerous? To a guy like me? No. But to a guy like you, yes. Um, pardon me, Miss, can you tell me where I'll find the boss around here, Colonel Bushnell? Oh. I was just going to chase you away. If you don't look like just another hay in Greenhood, what's going on? I'm not. I'm buying. Where's your daddy? How do you know the colonel is? My daddy. Well, he told me he had a pretty daughter. Oh, well, thanks. Thank you. How are you, mister? Well, it's for the name, that's $20. Yes, for my business, that's trying to buy one of your father's horses. Well, the colonel will be back a little bit, but I'm bossing my knees away. I'll tell you now, I don't think he's figuring out getting any of the horses. I'll be glad to show him to you. Good enough. But there's only one I'm really interested in, pile driver. Pile driver? Well, I know daddy wouldn't sell him. Why not? Well, he's practically one of the families. He put me through the last two years of college. You don't mind if I see him anyway? What? No. Not at all. Right over here. Okay. Here, baby. You have certainly darling. We've missed a dollar. Whoa. Quite a horse. Yeah, he's just a perfect day, aren't you darling? Mr. Dollar, why do you want to buy a pile driver? Oh, he's a great horse. Got a great record. Have you been following him lately? Yeah. Well, he hasn't been winning. That'll make his price keep in the odds long when he gets back right. I just happen to think I can make a winner out of him again. But his spirit's all gone. How do you think you're going to do that? Well, if I told you, his price might be right back up. Tell me darling, I can't help you darling. Hey, wait a minute. Let's take a look over here. Please, darling. Please. Well, that was great fun, but what was it for? Darling, you shouldn't have right out here in the open. Oh, Leo. Yeah. What's going on? No, wait, Leo, honey. This guy ate your brother real wish he was. Besides, that's no way to kiss brothers. You. Get out of here. Look, Buster. If you want this girl's father, you'd better start doing some wishing. Oh, you think so, huh? Welcome. This is the toughest thing I've ever gotten. I don't like that, please. Oh, darling. Donnie, Donnie, what are you doing? Come on, mama heads like this, mama locks. And I've got the trust now, and I'll bust this arm. What's going on? What's going on here? You sexy to say, run along now about your busy. Leo, I must say I am surprised at you. Fighting in front of a lady. Get him off of me. Here, young man. I demand that you dismount me to call me. As soon a later, I guess I have to. Now, listen, Leo, are you paying close attention? Yeah. After I let you up and you make one move, except away from here, I'll give you a pair of fatties. Okay. Oh, look at this, too. I'm going to start wearing knee pads. Come on, Leo, honey. Let's get away from here. I hope you're not blaming me for what happened. I'm going to hold up. Now, see, here, I demand an explanation. So do I. I came here to get the horse business, and I end up in a fight racket. Oh, who is that guy? Their gentleman, sir, is Leo Covid, a brother horse owner. And I might do the favor of warning you that listen to him, but he's a hard enough man in business dealings. But when it comes to my daughter, he's downright violent. Your daughter was downright impulsive. Maybe so. But Leo is hardly the type to stand by while some other fellow kisses his girl. And I saw that happen with my own eyes. I don't know how to worry about your channel. I didn't come here to collect lipstick samples. Ah, one thing I can be glad about in my encounter was Mr. Leo Corbin. What is that? That he isn't James James. Come on, channel. Let's start with it. Hey, bartender. Hey, Mr. Dolla, over here. Oh, never mind. There's my man over there. How are you, Denise? Oh, I'm fine. Hey, but you. What did you get set mouse under your eye? Oh, I'm sure I was a trap. I am. You were so right about Mr. Bushnell. She's not only dangerous, she's Daffy. Huh? I didn't know she could hit that high. Oh, she didn't. I just say that she has a novel way of introducing people to her boyfriend. Oh. You know, I'm Leo Corbin. All right, if I know any more, I'd be the racing commission's witness. He owns a string of very fast horses who run very slow until he odds get right. Then he bets him up to the brisket, wins himself a pot ball. It's also rumored that he is a stiff competition to the very mutual machine. He books big bets among the owners. Well, I'll catch up to him sooner or later. They always do. Amen. But about that human group factory, my friend, the horse killing Colonel, what with him? Well, I offered him $60,000 for pile drivers. Huh? That's $10,000 more than he'd get if he knocked him off and collected the insurance. Yeah, well, where are you going to lay your mitts on 60 G's? I haven't got that kind of dough. We don't need that kind of dough, little netting. You see, I told Bushnell that I was sending it to California for my private vet, and that he'd be here in three days. And once he pronounced the horse's sound, I'd give him the money. Yeah, but that only means that pile driver is safer in the three days, and then not. And those three days is up to me to prove incense, and if it's there, I'll prove it. And have the policy casual. Once that's done, he'll probably be willing to peddle the horse for $10. That I can handle. But in the meantime, I'm not taking any chance to see. I'm keeping pile driver under my own personal eye. I wish you wouldn't, Eddie. We don't want the Colonel getting suspicious. I can't help it, Mr. Dollar. I just can't help it, okay, Eddie? But don't blow it. Be careful. [MUSIC] Michael Rase-Frank, Kyle Watte, was surrounded by motor cords and bungalows, with room for rent. Don't expense account item $4, $3, room rent. I set the 10 alarm clock for $8, and my gear for any time, and went most of the way to sleep. [MUSIC] First thing thing first, I bring the girls. Then, I bring the fire engine. And suddenly, I realize why I was hearing some. I bounced out of bed and over the window. There I saw an incendiary sunset hanging over the racetrack stable. I jumped into my pants, and into the landlady's car and got over there as fast as the 1929 Ford could take me. [MUSIC] Hey, you. You. How did it start? [INAUDIBLE] I don't know how, but the guys were looking for a little guy with a lamp when we're hanging around. Oh, where'd he go? I didn't see him, but I hear he ran in the fire and didn't come out. Some crank, I guess. [MUSIC] I had one particular horse that got to a hurry, and I hoped one particular guy. [MUSIC] The door to pile driver's stall was closed and padlocked. I drove out the stable out of the wood with a pick end of a fire ax. Through the door open, grabbed a lump full of flesh air, closed my eyes and slammed into the smoke. [MUSIC] I could have been smoked to death, or stamped to death, but I had to take the chance. [COUGH] There you go. Whoa, whoa, pile driver, take it easy, easy, easy boy. [MUSIC] I wiped him on the roof of the ax now and dropped it. I slipped to my knees, started groping across the straw covered floor. I knew that if there wasn't any air in there, it's where it would be. And if there wasn't any jotting in there, that's where he would be. And that's where he was. And the first corner I tried, I dropped his backwards toward the door, dragging him, inch by inch, out to the clean, cold shower of flesh nugget. [MUSIC] But I could have saved myself a trip that Omedi Montana was dead. He'd had a horseshoe hung on his forehead, but not for luck. And all I could think of at the moment was a jockey's big friend is not always his force. [MUSIC] In just a moment, we will return to the second act of Johnny Dollar. But first, may we take just a moment from tonight's Johnny Dollar story to remind you that three more fine adventure shows come your way each Saturday night on most of these same CBS stations. First, there are the adventures of Philip Marlow, based on the smart and tough private eye created by Raymond Chandler. Second, there's Gangbusters, one of the most famous crime shows on the air, reenacting outstanding police cases in real life. Third, there is Escape, a highly unusual adventure show which fulfills your need for escape. Here these three, Philip Marlow, Gangbusters, and Escape, along with your truly Johnny Dollar every Saturday night, won't you? Tune in, tune in this fall, for the show that you love and devolve. Listen carefully. Here's the address, it's CBS. Now with our star, Charles Russell, we return to the second act of your truly Johnny Dollar. [MUSIC] Tough luck, nice try, little nutty. It's a dollar, it's a dollar, it's a horror book. Wait a minute, it sure is, much less of a nutty. You know, I mean, he's dead. You know, when I was a kid, I knew about a story with a horse and a woman in it, Helen of Troy. I should have remembered that before I tangled with you, why don't you get lost? Well, what if there's a matter with you? Look, Miss Bushnell, two minutes after I met you, you bagged me into a fistfight with your boyfriend with a phony kiss. I don't know how much you had to do with putting little nutty where he is, but I intend to find out. Sir, you're insane, any fool, even you, Mr. Dollar, can plainly see that this boy's been kicked in the head by a horse. Lyla Chard, what are you doing here? What? What? Who's that in the ground? What? This little nutty? Don't tell me he did. What would you be if you got kicked in the head by a horse, Colonel? Well, it's quite a fool, boy. I held this lad in deep affection until just a few months back. He was my best jockey. What on earth was he doing around here at this time and I? On all I can say, little nutty swapped his life for pile drivers. As short as he was, it's a pretty big price to pay. Although I guess you wouldn't think so, would you? What? What's this? I demand an explanation of precisely what you mean to us. I mean it to some people, a dead horse is more valuable than a live one. Too bad you can't go count your money. I'm going to take my friend to the morgue. An hour later, little nutty was resting better than I was. I'd made my report to the police and was back pasting the floor on my rented room. There wasn't a long walk. Yeah? This is Lala Bush now. I've got to see you right away. Why don't you start another fire? That'll draw me. I didn't have anything to do with that fire, but I must talk to you right away. Where can I meet you? Have you got a car? Yes, yes, I'll come anything. I'll pick me up here in 20 minutes. Come along and we'll take a little drive to the country. I want to be just the three of us. You and me and the do-drops. Dawn was making a dark grave promise in the sky when she picked me up and a few easy to please birds and find something to sing about. During the first five miles, Lala denied everything except that she was a woman. And there was no hiding that. I had her pulling under a tree and said, "Well, then why don't you call me?" It was something you said to my father about a horse being more valuable dead than a lion. You sold me out once. What are you planning on now, selling out your old man? You women. You know if a truth is ever told, it'll probably come out. The goalie-locked cut her grandmother's throat to swipe the gold out of her teeth. Please don't make fun of me. Fun she calls it. Well, you have something to spill the old rocket check. My father owes Leo Corbett $50,000. He lasted that non-piled driver. Leo's been demanded his money and father doesn't have it. And I heard Leo practically order Father to destroy a child driver for the insurance. And what a dirty day to say to that. He said he'd do it. But I know he wouldn't. I know he wouldn't. I know he didn't set that fire. How do you know? I... I just know that though. Now that'll sound good to a jury. Why are you coming to me with all this stuff? Because you're our only hope. Can't your by-pounds are the right of way. It would solve everything. Everything but one thing. What's that? Why don't you go to all that trouble to get me punched in the eye? Oh, that. Yeah. I just wanted to show Leo that he wasn't going to have everything his own way. And you look strong enough to do it. Well, that's a stupid answer. Why not? Makes your stupid kind of sense. He dropped me off at my rooming house where I dropped off to sleep. It was, however, only a four-hour plunge. Expense account item five, 650. Cab fare to headquarters, homicide division, Chicago police. That's one city where the cops were an old-fashioned star. But they sure do operate with a new-fashioned speed. As witnessed, the enclosed report made by Lucan at Cray, six hours after filing of inquiries. According to the findings of the autopsy dollar, your hunch, or whatever you call it, was right. The deceased little Nettie was not kicked to death by a horse. The examination of the wound revealed that it was administered by a new horseshoe. But she won a horse's hope, would have left traces of straws, et cetera. We say that the fatal weapon was swung by a person or a person's unknown. As you suggested, he'd have to have been standing on his head to have a horseshoe make the market dead if the horse is kicked him. Fellow tenants had made only one mistake. He should have said person or person's known. Expense account item six, ten cents, two telephone calls. The idea I was working on, I'll give you for nothing. Expense account item seven, 650. Kent there, to administration building, I owe off a racetrack, where the afternoon's program was in progress, and where I got the wholehearted cooperation of the track officials and the use of a vacant offer, in which to hold the meeting I had set up. I sat myself in a swivel chair and waited. Come in. I can't tell you how happy I am, the dollarless transaction is about to be consummated. If you have the money with yourself, Pildra, please you. Wait a minute, Colonel, let's not go consummating too quickly. Boy, you indicate it. I indicated over the phone just there. I said my offer was as good as it ever was. And to tell you the truth, it's not very good. No, I'll see you here. Who's there? Sit down, Colonel. Come in. Well, Leo, what are you doing up here? Nobody shows up to hand over 60,000 of you for Pildraver, I'm going to be here. That's exactly what this smart guy called me up to tell me he's about to do. Now, gentlemen, gentlemen, let's take it easy. Before I do anything, I want to make sure I'm not doing business with a murderer. Sir, I demand an explanation. What about you, Leo? Yes, so do I. Well, here it is. The Chicago police know two things. One, that last night's fire was set, and two, that little Nettie was murdered. And the little Nettie got a couple of lung-fulls of smoke before he got hit over the head with a horseshoe. That means that whoever hit him over the head sucked in some smoke, too. I've never heard such a peck of lung change in my life. What are you getting at, wise guy? That's what I told you. I don't want to do business with a murderer, especially 60,000 dollars worth. But I've made it easy on you to prove that you want. You see, I've got a doctor in the next room with portable x-ray equipment. If you've got fire smoke in your lungs, it'll show up. Now, how about it? Well, this is ridiculous. Why don't you leave the deck-tracy stuff to the funny papers? Because I don't feel like laughing. Now, once more, how about it? I still don't know what this harmful is about, and I'll feel downright silly while I'm doing it, but I'm willing to take my attention. Okay. Leo, you're first. Follow me. Yeah! Turning your back on a murderer is no way to stay healthy, but very often, it's a good way to get him to make this move. This one's dead, right out the door, knocking me down on roots, and the chase was on. Out of the building, and out toward the grandstand, and the racing circle. And there they go, on the outside, Remi Boy, by the end. It may have been Remi Boy at the quarter, and on a track where it was my quarry by 50 inches, he headed up an island to the grandstand. Remi Boy was still doing fine down there, and I was moving up, up here. But up near the top of the grandstand, and on to the ramp leading to the press box section. Justice Remi Boy hit the three quarter, we hit the grandstand roof, and then we went into the stretch. Hey, garbage! It's hopeless! You can't get my father, you're running out of room! I slid behind a ventilator, and showed myself a drawer shot. He was loudly. If he hadn't built it, he'd be good cutting this with an air-conditioned elbow. Okay, Corbett, Joe Pack, have a time here shot! Corbett tried a few ventilators himself, and then apparently he decided the second time he fought me, he'd do better. He rushed in swinging. I was doing great, pretty touches, but he finally moved inside and threw one. I just fell, but he came up fast with me. Down, and he took off, straight to the back corner, edge of the pitch roof. He swung over the side and started to shinny down the 100-foot rain pipe, but that tape was built to carry a rain, not people. At the finish line of one tiny segment of the human race, it was gambler, arsonist, murderer, Leo Corbett, by a head. [Music] The expense account item eight, dinner for two, with a changry line, downtown Chicago, $34.46. Dinner itself only took 40 minutes, and eight of the dollars. The rest of the evening, and the money was spent listening to the story of her life. A story which would not, by any means, win any Pulitzer Prize, or for that matter, any husband. But, sometimes, when you're interested in a girl like Lila, you have to act like you're interested in what she's saying. Expense account item nine, $57.72, airfare, Chicago to Hartford. Item ten, $1.50, one book to read on airplane, titled "How to Win at the Racers." If I just hadn't found out, expense account total, $1449.22. I guess you could call that horse sense. Signs, yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. [Music] Ours, truly, Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Gordon T. Hughes and star Charles Russell. Script by Paul Dudley and Gill Dowd. Featured in the cast were Bill Copperhead, Dora Singleton, Jerry Hosner, Herb Butterfield, and Hal March. The special music is written and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. [Music] Be sure to be with us at the same time, next week, when another unusual expense account is handed in by yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. 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