October 10, 2025 • 26 mins
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter, first seen in 1886, from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Lon Clark played Nick Carter and Charlotte Manson played his assistant, Patsy Bowen. Nick Carter ran from 1943 to 1955.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Nick, isn't there any way out of here.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I've gone over every inch of it. Patsy, there's not
a chance.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
It's like being buried alive. I almost wish he had
shut us. It would be better than than dying like this.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm going to make him wish he'd shut us too.
What In fact, I'm going to make him come back
to do it right now and now.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
The case of the Bearded Queen. Today's adventure with Nick
Carter brought to you by a new post war old
Dutch glensor. Today, Scubby Wilson, reporter on the Globe Gazette,
finally got delivery on his new car, and he's preparing
to give Nick's secretary, Patsy Vaughn has one and only
girlfriend the first ride.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Why don't we turn this corner and you get a
look at his Hansy, the thickest glu this little convertible
that ever came out.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Of Detroit ne more right in the elevated ay, Scubby,
no man.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Scubby Wilson drives by. Strong men will turn green with envy,
and fair ladies will swoop.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
If you like you gonna let me drive?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well, I might let my wife drive if I ever
get one, so if you care clock for.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The young teens time. Scubby knows that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh, I mean it's passy with a car like that.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Think or what a honeymoon we could have Canada?
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Maybe here the rocket, Thanks Scubby, but I think I'll
stay single.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
And the pedestrians that's only because you haven't seen the
car yet. Oh and now before we turn the corner,
maybe you'd better shade your eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It may prove a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Tasty at first, the lecture in the corner.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
And see O caame a good woman. But don't say
I didn't warn you. Now behold the pride of the
motor car industry, the glory of well holly cats. My
new car's gone.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
Somebody stolen us.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
All right, sergeant. And if the car should turn up
this afternoon when you're called, I'm here at my office.
Thanks a lot, goodbye. What do you say, Nick? Nothing yet, Scubby.
They put it on the police radio, but it wasn't
very encouraging. There's been an epidemic of car thefts lately,
and none of the stolen cars has been recovered.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh gee, Scubby, that's tough.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh fine, fine, fifteen hundred dollars and I only drove
a twenty blocks brother, that's the most expensive taxi, right,
I ever had?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Have the police any ideas, Nick, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
They do, Patsy. I think it's the work of a
gang of boys about sixteen or seventeen.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
My kids that age wouldn't be able to sell the
cars that they did steal them, would they all, well,
not unless.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They were booked up with some crooked used car dealer
who had a place where the cars could be repainted
and the serial numbers changed.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Right exactly. If kids are stealing cars on a large scale,
they're working for some adult. And there's nothing more rotten
than a crook who makes criminals out of youngsters. Some
kids seem to be born that way.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh no, they're not scud.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh they're not scubby. It's a matter of environment and training.
Remember these boys grew up with no place to play
except the streets under the elevated Give him a third
chance in they're all.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Right, that's true, scuby. Nick proved it with the Downtown
Boys Club right by.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Some of those fellows down there had pretty bad records,
and we got him. But now I trust him anyway,
Oh I know.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
But at the same time, I'll let me get it. Hello,
yeah speaking huh oh, hey, that's great. They found it,
not even scratched.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Huh you sure? Oh a swell? Oh who took it?
You know? Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yes, yes, I know him. I'll thanks, Sergeantal be right down.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
It.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Tell him about somebody who know Scubby.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Somebody we all know, Pats huh Stanny Walker, Nick.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Danny Walker, I hate belonged to the Downtown Boys Club.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Sergeant Brady says they've arrested him, and he admitted.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I can't believe it. Come on, We're going to look
into this thing right now.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
I'll lay off.
Speaker 10 (04:15):
Well you, Nick, I told you if i'd known the
car belong to a friend of yours, I wouldn't it
took it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's you. I'm interested in, Danny, not the car. I
don't like to see you here in jail. Yeah. The
first member of the club was going to travel in
more than a year. I want to find out why
and help you if I can.
Speaker 10 (04:29):
I don't belong to your club no more. I quit
a month ago when my folks moved over to the
West Side.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh that's so. I knew you hadn't been around lately,
but I didn't know you'd quit.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
No, I am clubs is kids stuff. I'm eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Old, Danny. Listen, we've been pretty good friends.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
Oh look, Nick, you're a good Joe Sie, even if
you are a private eye. But let me alone, will
you know, Danny?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I won't. When you came out of reform school, you
gave me your word to go straight, and until now
you have. What's changed you? Danny? What's happened to you?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well?
Speaker 11 (05:00):
I I lost that job you got me, and I
had to get some money quick, see it. It was
kind of a dead of honor like, so I swiped
the car to get the don I got caught, and
that's that.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You stole that car for somebody else, didn't you?
Speaker 12 (05:19):
No, I didn't. I stole it from me.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Danny. Look, I came here to go your bail because
we're friends and because I thought you honestly wanted to
go straight and you can help me protect other boys.
I'm getting into trouble the same way you did. If
you'll only tell me.
Speaker 10 (05:30):
I'll turn stool pigeon.
Speaker 12 (05:32):
Huh, Well, I won't do it, No, sir.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
I tried going straight and it didn't work.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
I'll take this wrap. I'll make up for it when
I get out, I'll make up for it plenty, so.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Much joy, doesn't.
Speaker 10 (05:57):
Wonder anyone get any.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Sleep around here?
Speaker 12 (06:00):
Good news to anything?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Cassing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh there's Scubby in front of that delicate passion and
there's a space where week in park.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I hope he's unable to find out something.
Speaker 12 (06:09):
Oh beautiful, Hello Scubby, Bryan Nick.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Do you have any luck? Scubby?
Speaker 10 (06:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Not much.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
There's a gang in this neighborhood, all right. If the
kids wouldn't talk to me, they have.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Any regular place to meet.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
There's no settlement house, no boys club, but some of
them hang out at the West Pine Street garage garage.
I don't get excited. I know it sounds like a
perfect lead. But I met the boss and if he's
a crook on Jesse James.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well, i'd like to talk to him anyway. What's he like?
Nice old fellow?
Speaker 12 (06:35):
I am a Favorudge.
Speaker 9 (06:36):
Everybody calls them Pop.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You Nick?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What I said?
Speaker 10 (06:44):
I think you and Pop's Favoridge will have a lot
of coming.
Speaker 12 (06:49):
I'll never mind.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You'll see for yourself.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Come on, I just don't know whether thing, mister Carla.
Why Danny used to mind the gasoline pumps from when I.
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Go out eat.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Maybe there'd be thirty or forty dollars in the cash rests.
And he never touched his under it. I'll swear to.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That I see.
Speaker 12 (07:13):
Oh, Pops, Ni calls.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
No, not a thing.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Joe, Hey, I want you to meet my friend, Miss Bourne.
Mister Wilson, I'm miss Dacata mincarta.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
How do you do?
Speaker 12 (07:22):
This is Joe Fernie.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
He keeps his taxi here and I take his calls
for him.
Speaker 13 (07:27):
Nick kinda the private eye. Huh, heard about you? And
I'll be up front, Pops in the office.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
All right, Joe come, I'm miss Kata and you folks too.
I want to show you something I didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Tell Nick about this. Mister Bainbridge. I thought you'd like
to do it yourself.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
All right in here, we'll ride down the elevator. Will
you push the button at the carta that one.
Speaker 12 (07:50):
Mark b.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
We'll go in the basement.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh, certainly, but Rutter's on the barn. You'll see in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Nick ah cigarette, mister Bambridge.
Speaker 12 (07:58):
The name's Pops.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, thanks, I don't smoke, gotby. Don't you see the
no smoking sign on the wall?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Sorry, got way these garage elevators are big things.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Onto we parked cars on the upper floor and use
this elevator to take them up. Oh eh, no, oh,
I find the lights.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's hi.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's a clubroom. Oh look, Nick, a handball court and
they're a dark game on the radio.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Checker game? That Chad you've done alright here, Pop.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Well isn't much. But I've seen a lot of boys
get into trouble.
Speaker 12 (08:34):
Hanging around the street.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
So hey, here's a deck of cars. Like to try
a hand at gin rummy?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No thanks?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Look, Nick, somebody's been doing a little art work on
these cards.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You see the bit on this Queen of heart.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Whoever drew that has talent even changed the expression on
her face.
Speaker 12 (08:51):
Hey, that's pretty good.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
I hope I was helping the boys by fixing up
this place.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But now I don't know why do you say that? Pop?
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Look what happened to Danny, one of the final as
youngsters I ever knew? Now, maybe hanging around the garage
he had got him on in the car of his own.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I'm afraid it's not that simple. Cops. Well, thanks for
your time. You've been very helpful.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
I'm just sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I couldn't do more.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You've helped me a great deal, a great deal more
than you know.
Speaker 12 (09:26):
What's the gag?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Nick?
Speaker 10 (09:27):
You didn't come to the jail just to play cards
with me?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh? Yes I did, Denny. Let me deal your hands. Okay,
you know how to play Pokernonjoe, Sure, but I ain't
got no money. I'm playing for higher stakes than money. Wait, huh,
never mind picking up your cards. I have you beaten?
Speaker 12 (09:47):
How do you know?
Speaker 9 (09:48):
We ain't looked at the hands yet.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I have three aces and you're holding a pair of sixes.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You're a mind reader or something.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Run them over and see? Well? Hey, what is this?
Speaker 10 (10:00):
You stacking the cards on me?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
No? I was reading the backs of the cards, Denny,
mark deckh So what see this card?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Five of clubs, isn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (10:12):
Hey show me those marks.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Will you?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
In a minute? This says the ten of diamonds right right,
and the seven of spades, the clean of Hearts.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
That Queen of Hearts got a beard on it, has it?
Pete Kovic put that beard on there. I've seen him
do it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh so you played with this deck before?
Speaker 12 (10:33):
You bet?
Speaker 9 (10:33):
I played with them before.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
Where'd you get them cards.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Don't you know who gave me? You?
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Come on, quit holding out on me.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You're holding out on me, aren't you? Danny? Yeah? I
guess I have been.
Speaker 14 (10:46):
I guess I've been a sucker.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Ain't I taking the rap for somebody?
Speaker 12 (10:49):
Who?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Who? What? Denny? Listen? Nick?
Speaker 10 (10:53):
Did you mean that about going my bail if I
helped you crack this case?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Danny, the minute you tell me who's behind these car theft,
you're on your way out of here.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Oh no, get me out first, then I'll talk all right.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
May take me a couple of hours to make the arrangements,
and I have to see a client at eight. But
if I can't be here, I'll send Scubby to bring
it to my office.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
That's okay, And don't worry about your case, mister Carter.
I'll crack it for you, good boy, brother, I'll crack
it wide open.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
That's Nick's house over there, Danny, Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You better talk on this Side's gotta be Nick's cars
in front of the house.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Sure, i'llly be here a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Anyway, got to meet a guy for an interview pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh, come on, I Nix's waiting for it.
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Gee, I feel like the mayor or something with two
of you bringing me here.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, Nick, didn't want to take any chance on me
running out.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No want anything happening to you. We're your bodyguards.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
But good guiding me from what nobody even knows.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Nick's brung me?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Maybe not, but I still think that green Todam was
following us.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That greens today must have been your imagination, Patsy. Either
mat or we lost him in the last block or two,
I hope.
Speaker 12 (12:02):
So we're here, Nick, Hello?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Everything all right?
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Yeah, Hi, Nick, everything's fine.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You bring the reports on the other car thefts passing?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh, Nick, I'm sorry I left them in the car.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh, I'll get him for you.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
Miss Bowen won't take it, Danny, let's come to it.
Speaker 12 (12:21):
He ran the hills purpose.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It was that queen so Dan I saw following us.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Before head off any traffic? Sure? Nick here, Denny, Denny,
I think put my coat onto your head, Denny, Can
you hear me? It's Nick? Nick?
Speaker 14 (12:39):
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Him, Nick, I know, don't try to talk.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Got to.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Got to tell you about those cars.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
All right, Sam? What about see? Hi? What I what
do you mean? Danny?
Speaker 12 (12:59):
Look for the.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hi in the.
Speaker 14 (13:03):
L l ah Denny.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Oh, the poor kiddies fainted. No, Scubby, He's.
Speaker 14 (13:14):
Did the eye in the l. Can Danny's dying words
be the clue that will lead Nick to the head
of the car thieves and Danny's killer. We'll see what
happens in just a moment. Now back to the case
(13:39):
of the Bearded Queen. Today's inventure with Nick Carter, brought
to you by a new post war old Dutch Glinter.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Back at the office, Nick, Patsy and Scubby are puzzling
over the connection between the automobile thefts and Danny Walker's
dying words.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Look for the eye in the l, Nick, The only.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Way I can figure it must be some detective.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
On do around the elevated trains. Naturally, Rubby Brady. I'll
ask him confidentially if any l detective has shown sudden
prosperities since these cars have stuck.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Sure, Nick, if only we could have got the license
number back green Sedan.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yes, Well, at least we have the fragments of blast
from that shattered headlight that may help us to identify.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
And the police are checking every garage in town for
a Green Sadan with a broken headlight.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Limbs, I felt sure that car was following us, but
I didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
When we got here, Rubbery parked the car up the
street with his lights off and his mortar running just
in case.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And when Danny started to cross the street alone, the
murderer saw his chance and.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Took it right. Well, the next thing is to find
out if any older men said in those card games
of Danny, do you.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Think the leader of this gang played cards with the boys?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Not only played cards with him, he cheated. Oh, Danny
realized it when he saw the bearded queen of hearts
and that marked Dick, so called dead of honor. He
stole Scubby's car to repay was a gambling debt.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Well, then maybe the same trick was played on some
of the other boys that might have count.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
For the rest of the stolen cars. The way I
figure it, after a boy's stolen one card, wouldn't be
hard to frighten him and a stealing more by threatening
to expose him. Well, that's the lowest trick I ever.
Speaker 12 (15:03):
Heard of, And I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yes, Well, when we find out who won with that
mark Dick, I think we'll have the leader of the
gang and Danny's.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Murderer that's Fabridge.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You ought to know, right, Patsy, And that's where we're going, Scubby.
As soon as you've talked to Sergeant Brady about the detectives,
phone me at the West Pine Street garage.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well, there are a couple of older fellows that sometimes
used to play down them mis accata.
Speaker 12 (15:34):
But I go, oh, Joe, what's a man? No gas tonight?
I didn't hear you drive up in here two or
three minutes. So busy talking to your friend, you didn't
see me.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
We were talking about Danny Walker.
Speaker 13 (15:47):
Yeah, nice kids. Too bad he accident, wasn't it? How
about putting some gas in my cans?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You're sure?
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Joe?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Sure right away, answered that Williams Zakata.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh, yes, yes, it may be for me anyway, I'm
expecting to call it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, maybe it's for me too, Nick, I better come
with you if I didn't want to be left alone
with Joe. Did you see the look on his state
and how scared Pops was?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, I enormously. You better stay right, I'll try to go. Yeah, yes,
hello West Pines Free Garage that you Nick? Oh yes, Coby,
why did you find out?
Speaker 15 (16:22):
Honestly, as far as Sergeant Brady knows there's nothing against
any of the detectives around the elevated. Of course, there's
been no time for any investigation.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But Sergeant Brady thinks we're on the wrong track. He
may be right. The eye in the air is the
only thing we have to go on, and I'm going
to follow it through.
Speaker 15 (16:37):
Okay, always say, well, you asked Pops if you found
my cigarette lighter.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I had him.
Speaker 15 (16:42):
We were going down to the basement there. Remember when
Patsy pointed out that no smoking sign.
Speaker 12 (16:46):
And Ivy, that may be it, that may be what?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Never mind? You what headquarters?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Why, I'll call you back in fifteen minutes. Give you
the whole story for your paper.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Did he find out anything? Nick?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Wasn't anything to find out where Pops and.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Joe they went out of the gas pump?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Good? I want to take enough look at that elevator.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Were we going down to the clubroom?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Not this time? Must have been fine not to have
seen it before. Scene was an elevator made of steel
plates riveted together, push button controls and a no smoking
sign painted on the wall.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
What's unusual about that?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Here's the elevator step in. I'll show you see Patsy,
one of those rivets is right in the middle of
the eye and no smoking see eye.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
In the al the letter eye and the no smoking sign.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
In the elevator. Of course, Danny died before he finished
the word.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But how does this The elevator is run by push
button controls, Patsy, a button for each floor. But there
were another floor, a secret floor. The control button for
it would have to be concealed too, And that rivet
in the letter I may be if pushing me.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Let's find out if we're going down to the boys clubroom.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thank you'll find for going past the club room, ysic.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
But we can't go past the basement.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
No ever hear of a sub basement.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Huh, of course, Yes, we're passing the clubroom. There is
a secret floor.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Maybe we're going to discover a lot of secrets.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Well, this seems to be it. Whatever it is, Gosh,
you'd start here.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I should be a light switch near the elevator. Yes,
here it is.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I think it's another garage.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
A complete pinshop and mechanical equipment for working over stolen cars.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Look at the other end of the room. Agreeing to
the dam with a broken head light in the Fender
all dead.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's the car, all right, the one that killed jam.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
I thought you were getting down when you was telephoning.
I've been standing right the hand. This's pillow, waiting for
your baby. You and the boy.
Speaker 13 (18:53):
I look, Joe, kinda take your rod out of your
pocket and jump around the floor.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Don't turn around whatever you say, but you're not playing.
That's very smart.
Speaker 13 (19:04):
You let foot take that puckett to just in case
you might be packing some heatings.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Have you done something to him me?
Speaker 13 (19:12):
I don't do nothing, then nobody this it's an accident. Course,
I do have an awful lot of accidents.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Have to run accidents, Joe sometimes.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
But I'll be able to do better than that for
you two. Something real, neat and nartistic.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Oh wait, you don't realize the police. No, we came here,
so you come here. Then you're left.
Speaker 13 (19:31):
See nobody will find this teller, and nobody will ever
find you. Tell long, Stuckers, I'll see you against tomorrow
the next day, and when I do, you're gonna have
one of the neatest little accidents that ever happens.
Speaker 12 (19:46):
Along Stuckers.
Speaker 13 (19:47):
I'll see you against tomorrow the next day, and when
I do you're gonna have one of the neatest little
accidents that ever happens.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Next, isn't there any way out of here?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
No, it's just this one big, bare room, nothing but
the pillars that support the building, these workbenchers and garage equipment,
and the elevator shaft at the other end.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
That it's like being buried alive. I almost wish he
had shot us.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Let's see, I'm going to make Joe wish he had
shot us.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
What I'm going to make him?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Come right red to do it right now?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Why are you taking up your shoes?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I may want to walk quietly before I'm through. Hand
me that monkey wrench there.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh, that won't be any good against the gun.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Needs better than nothing. Let me have it. Okay, you'll
get inside that green todaen. Lie down on the floor.
You'll be as safe from bullets there as any place,
all right. The switch box on the wall contains the
main electrical switches for the entire building, one for the
lights and one for power. We've got to keep the
garage going upstairs as a blind, but it can't operate
without lights, so we cut the lights.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh, be careful, I.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Will I'll be behind this pillar next to this us box.
Joe will have to get those lights on again and quick,
and you'll have to pass me the dark to do it.
I left the power switch on, so the elevator still runs.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He's coming on, ye, I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Don't worry. It'll be over in a minute, one way
or the other.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Nick and Passy wait tensely in the darkness, unarmed, as
the elevator descends, bearing a killer with a gun in
his hand and murder in his heart. We'll see what
happens in just a moment. Now for the conclusion of
the Case of the Bearded Queen. Today's Nick Carter Adventure
(21:50):
brought to you by New Pulse War old Dutch glenser.
Trapped in the thought in the dark sub basement of
the West Pine Steak Garage, Nick, armed only with a
monkey wrench, waits behind a concrete pillar near the light
switches for a killer across the room. The elevator comes
to a stop. The beam of a flashlight cuts the
pitch blackness.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
In a voice.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Says that was very Cleara to turn off those lights,
Miss Takada.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Clever but fatal.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
You'll leave us no choice but to dispose of you
and miss Vaughn.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
Now come on along with this flashlight props will turn
the switch on again.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
That's the fast Joe card It probably intends to ambush it,
even if he doesn't have a gun. I'll stay here
by the elevator and keep the flashlight on you just
in cake.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Good idea.
Speaker 13 (22:35):
When the light is on, we can finish him off
nice and easy.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
I'll get this switch him.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Remember I have a gun, mister Carda said, don't think sto.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
What happened to the flashlight? How'd you come to drop
it the right way?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yard? Joe?
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Okay, card is very accurate of throwing a wrench. The
flashlight's broken.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
You know where I am?
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Joe Sky here a sound in any other.
Speaker 12 (22:56):
Part of the room. Shoot, don't worry, I will word.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Did you get him?
Speaker 12 (23:03):
Joe couldn't have missed that range bucks. I don't know
what it was him or her.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It wasn't either to go here tell me, Joe, Joey
All right.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Joe, what don't jask to me? This is Joe's gun
on your back field. He doesn't have any more use sports.
You better drop the.
Speaker 12 (23:24):
One you're holding.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah yeah, oh ell all right, Betsy, find that light
switch We're taking these two crooks to headquarters. Straight ahead
(23:44):
on the street, Scubby, you can't miss the sign out
front the West Side Boys Club Grand opening tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Okay, I'll say, Nick, when you jumped on Joe Ferner
in the dark, how'd you know.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Exactly where he was by the flash of his gun
when he fired at something across the room? Oh? I
still don't know what he was shooting at. I do, Huh.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
When I heard Bambridge tell Joe to fire at any sound,
I threw my shoe out of the window of.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
The car I was hiding it, and sure enough, he
shot at it.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Good for you, Patsy, very clever. It distracted Joe's attention
just long enough for me to jump in. Great stuff, Patsy.
Will you marry me? Scubby?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Please?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Oh? Okay? Beautiful. And then after I had Joe's gun,
it was easy to find Bainbridge in the dark. He
kept calling to Joe, so all I had to do
was to follow the sound of his voice.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Uh huh, this is it, Nick, the new west Side
Voice Club. Just look at the crowd.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You have your seat in my pocket.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Good.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You know I'm prouder of being asked to speak at
the opening here tonight than I would be if I
were asked to address hunger.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I guess the other boys who were mixed up with
Bainbridge infernal d here.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Well, thanks we have Coursecubby make out the more suspended
sentences because of the trickery used to make them seal
those cars.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And thanks to clubs like this, those boys will now
have a chance to grow. Right. Hey, Patsy, you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Know what what, Scuby, I just realized, now.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
That you've written in my new car, maybe you'll change
your mind about marrying me.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Hell, Scuby, I must admit island love with me. No
darling your car.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time and over these same stations by the Cuddy Heat
Packing Company, makers of new post war old Dutch glencers. Detective,
produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Streeven
(25:58):
Smith's Publications and carpor Lon Clark is starred as Nick,
with Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy. Scubby is played by
John Kane. Today's script was written by Jim Parsons. Original
music is played by George Wright. This program is fictional
and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is
(26:19):
purely coincidental. This is Bob Marsy saying, when minutes count,
use you post war old Dutch Clinton
Nick, isn't there any way out of here.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I've gone over every inch of it. Patsy, there's not
a chance.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
It's like being buried alive. I almost wish he had
shut us. It would be better than than dying like this.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm going to make him wish he'd shut us too.
What In fact, I'm going to make him come back
to do it right now and now.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
The case of the Bearded Queen. Today's adventure with Nick
Carter brought to you by a new post war old
Dutch glensor. Today, Scubby Wilson, reporter on the Globe Gazette,
finally got delivery on his new car, and he's preparing
to give Nick's secretary, Patsy Vaughn has one and only
girlfriend the first ride.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Why don't we turn this corner and you get a
look at his Hansy, the thickest glu this little convertible
that ever came out.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Of Detroit ne more right in the elevated ay, Scubby,
no man.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Scubby Wilson drives by. Strong men will turn green with envy,
and fair ladies will swoop.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
If you like you gonna let me drive?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well, I might let my wife drive if I ever
get one, so if you care clock for.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The young teens time. Scubby knows that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh, I mean it's passy with a car like that.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Think or what a honeymoon we could have Canada?
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Maybe here the rocket, Thanks Scubby, but I think I'll
stay single.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
And the pedestrians that's only because you haven't seen the
car yet. Oh and now before we turn the corner,
maybe you'd better shade your eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It may prove a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Tasty at first, the lecture in the corner.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
And see O caame a good woman. But don't say
I didn't warn you. Now behold the pride of the
motor car industry, the glory of well holly cats. My
new car's gone.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
Somebody stolen us.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
All right, sergeant. And if the car should turn up
this afternoon when you're called, I'm here at my office.
Thanks a lot, goodbye. What do you say, Nick? Nothing yet, Scubby.
They put it on the police radio, but it wasn't
very encouraging. There's been an epidemic of car thefts lately,
and none of the stolen cars has been recovered.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh gee, Scubby, that's tough.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oh fine, fine, fifteen hundred dollars and I only drove
a twenty blocks brother, that's the most expensive taxi, right,
I ever had?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Have the police any ideas, Nick, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
They do, Patsy. I think it's the work of a
gang of boys about sixteen or seventeen.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
My kids that age wouldn't be able to sell the
cars that they did steal them, would they all, well,
not unless.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They were booked up with some crooked used car dealer
who had a place where the cars could be repainted
and the serial numbers changed.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Right exactly. If kids are stealing cars on a large scale,
they're working for some adult. And there's nothing more rotten
than a crook who makes criminals out of youngsters. Some
kids seem to be born that way.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh no, they're not scud.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh they're not scubby. It's a matter of environment and training.
Remember these boys grew up with no place to play
except the streets under the elevated Give him a third
chance in they're all.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Right, that's true, scuby. Nick proved it with the Downtown
Boys Club right by.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Some of those fellows down there had pretty bad records,
and we got him. But now I trust him anyway,
Oh I know.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
But at the same time, I'll let me get it. Hello,
yeah speaking huh oh, hey, that's great. They found it,
not even scratched.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Huh you sure? Oh a swell? Oh who took it?
You know? Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yes, yes, I know him. I'll thanks, Sergeantal be right down.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
It.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Tell him about somebody who know Scubby.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Somebody we all know, Pats huh Stanny Walker, Nick.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Danny Walker, I hate belonged to the Downtown Boys Club.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Sergeant Brady says they've arrested him, and he admitted.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I can't believe it. Come on, We're going to look
into this thing right now.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
I'll lay off.
Speaker 10 (04:15):
Well you, Nick, I told you if i'd known the
car belong to a friend of yours, I wouldn't it
took it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's you. I'm interested in, Danny, not the car. I
don't like to see you here in jail. Yeah. The
first member of the club was going to travel in
more than a year. I want to find out why
and help you if I can.
Speaker 10 (04:29):
I don't belong to your club no more. I quit
a month ago when my folks moved over to the
West Side.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh that's so. I knew you hadn't been around lately,
but I didn't know you'd quit.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
No, I am clubs is kids stuff. I'm eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Old, Danny. Listen, we've been pretty good friends.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
Oh look, Nick, you're a good Joe Sie, even if
you are a private eye. But let me alone, will
you know, Danny?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I won't. When you came out of reform school, you
gave me your word to go straight, and until now
you have. What's changed you? Danny? What's happened to you?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well?
Speaker 11 (05:00):
I I lost that job you got me, and I
had to get some money quick, see it. It was
kind of a dead of honor like, so I swiped
the car to get the don I got caught, and
that's that.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You stole that car for somebody else, didn't you?
Speaker 12 (05:19):
No, I didn't. I stole it from me.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Danny. Look, I came here to go your bail because
we're friends and because I thought you honestly wanted to
go straight and you can help me protect other boys.
I'm getting into trouble the same way you did. If
you'll only tell me.
Speaker 10 (05:30):
I'll turn stool pigeon.
Speaker 12 (05:32):
Huh, Well, I won't do it, No, sir.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
I tried going straight and it didn't work.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
I'll take this wrap. I'll make up for it when
I get out, I'll make up for it plenty, so.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Much joy, doesn't.
Speaker 10 (05:57):
Wonder anyone get any.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Sleep around here?
Speaker 12 (06:00):
Good news to anything?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Cassing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh there's Scubby in front of that delicate passion and
there's a space where week in park.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I hope he's unable to find out something.
Speaker 12 (06:09):
Oh beautiful, Hello Scubby, Bryan Nick.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Do you have any luck? Scubby?
Speaker 10 (06:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Not much.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
There's a gang in this neighborhood, all right. If the
kids wouldn't talk to me, they have.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Any regular place to meet.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
There's no settlement house, no boys club, but some of
them hang out at the West Pine Street garage garage.
I don't get excited. I know it sounds like a
perfect lead. But I met the boss and if he's
a crook on Jesse James.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well, i'd like to talk to him anyway. What's he like?
Nice old fellow?
Speaker 12 (06:35):
I am a Favorudge.
Speaker 9 (06:36):
Everybody calls them Pop.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You Nick?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What I said?
Speaker 10 (06:44):
I think you and Pop's Favoridge will have a lot
of coming.
Speaker 12 (06:49):
I'll never mind.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You'll see for yourself.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Come on, I just don't know whether thing, mister Carla.
Why Danny used to mind the gasoline pumps from when I.
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Go out eat.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Maybe there'd be thirty or forty dollars in the cash rests.
And he never touched his under it. I'll swear to.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That I see.
Speaker 12 (07:13):
Oh, Pops, Ni calls.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
No, not a thing.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Joe, Hey, I want you to meet my friend, Miss Bourne.
Mister Wilson, I'm miss Dacata mincarta.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
How do you do?
Speaker 12 (07:22):
This is Joe Fernie.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
He keeps his taxi here and I take his calls
for him.
Speaker 13 (07:27):
Nick kinda the private eye. Huh, heard about you? And
I'll be up front, Pops in the office.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
All right, Joe come, I'm miss Kata and you folks too.
I want to show you something I didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Tell Nick about this. Mister Bainbridge. I thought you'd like
to do it yourself.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
All right in here, we'll ride down the elevator. Will
you push the button at the carta that one.
Speaker 12 (07:50):
Mark b.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
We'll go in the basement.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh, certainly, but Rutter's on the barn. You'll see in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Nick ah cigarette, mister Bambridge.
Speaker 12 (07:58):
The name's Pops.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, thanks, I don't smoke, gotby. Don't you see the
no smoking sign on the wall?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Sorry, got way these garage elevators are big things.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Onto we parked cars on the upper floor and use
this elevator to take them up. Oh eh, no, oh,
I find the lights.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's hi.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's a clubroom. Oh look, Nick, a handball court and
they're a dark game on the radio.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Checker game? That Chad you've done alright here, Pop.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Well isn't much. But I've seen a lot of boys
get into trouble.
Speaker 12 (08:34):
Hanging around the street.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
So hey, here's a deck of cars. Like to try
a hand at gin rummy?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Nick?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
No thanks?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Look, Nick, somebody's been doing a little art work on
these cards.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You see the bit on this Queen of heart.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Whoever drew that has talent even changed the expression on
her face.
Speaker 12 (08:51):
Hey, that's pretty good.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
I hope I was helping the boys by fixing up
this place.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But now I don't know why do you say that? Pop?
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Look what happened to Danny, one of the final as
youngsters I ever knew? Now, maybe hanging around the garage
he had got him on in the car of his own.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I'm afraid it's not that simple. Cops. Well, thanks for
your time. You've been very helpful.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
I'm just sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I couldn't do more.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You've helped me a great deal, a great deal more
than you know.
Speaker 12 (09:26):
What's the gag?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Nick?
Speaker 10 (09:27):
You didn't come to the jail just to play cards
with me?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh? Yes I did, Denny. Let me deal your hands. Okay,
you know how to play Pokernonjoe, Sure, but I ain't
got no money. I'm playing for higher stakes than money. Wait, huh,
never mind picking up your cards. I have you beaten?
Speaker 12 (09:47):
How do you know?
Speaker 9 (09:48):
We ain't looked at the hands yet.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I have three aces and you're holding a pair of sixes.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You're a mind reader or something.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Run them over and see? Well? Hey, what is this?
Speaker 10 (10:00):
You stacking the cards on me?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
No? I was reading the backs of the cards, Denny,
mark deckh So what see this card?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Five of clubs, isn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (10:12):
Hey show me those marks.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Will you?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
In a minute? This says the ten of diamonds right right,
and the seven of spades, the clean of Hearts.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
That Queen of Hearts got a beard on it, has it?
Pete Kovic put that beard on there. I've seen him
do it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh so you played with this deck before?
Speaker 12 (10:33):
You bet?
Speaker 9 (10:33):
I played with them before.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
Where'd you get them cards.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Don't you know who gave me? You?
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Come on, quit holding out on me.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You're holding out on me, aren't you? Danny? Yeah? I
guess I have been.
Speaker 14 (10:46):
I guess I've been a sucker.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Ain't I taking the rap for somebody?
Speaker 12 (10:49):
Who?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Who? What? Denny? Listen? Nick?
Speaker 10 (10:53):
Did you mean that about going my bail if I
helped you crack this case?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Danny, the minute you tell me who's behind these car theft,
you're on your way out of here.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Oh no, get me out first, then I'll talk all right.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
May take me a couple of hours to make the arrangements,
and I have to see a client at eight. But
if I can't be here, I'll send Scubby to bring
it to my office.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
That's okay, And don't worry about your case, mister Carter.
I'll crack it for you, good boy, brother, I'll crack
it wide open.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
That's Nick's house over there, Danny, Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You better talk on this Side's gotta be Nick's cars
in front of the house.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Sure, i'llly be here a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Anyway, got to meet a guy for an interview pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh, come on, I Nix's waiting for it.
Speaker 10 (11:37):
Gee, I feel like the mayor or something with two
of you bringing me here.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, Nick, didn't want to take any chance on me
running out.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No want anything happening to you. We're your bodyguards.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
But good guiding me from what nobody even knows.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Nick's brung me?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Maybe not, but I still think that green Todam was
following us.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That greens today must have been your imagination, Patsy. Either
mat or we lost him in the last block or two,
I hope.
Speaker 12 (12:02):
So we're here, Nick, Hello?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Everything all right?
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Yeah, Hi, Nick, everything's fine.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You bring the reports on the other car thefts passing?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh, Nick, I'm sorry I left them in the car.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh, I'll get him for you.
Speaker 10 (12:14):
Miss Bowen won't take it, Danny, let's come to it.
Speaker 12 (12:21):
He ran the hills purpose.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It was that queen so Dan I saw following us.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Before head off any traffic? Sure? Nick here, Denny, Denny,
I think put my coat onto your head, Denny, Can
you hear me? It's Nick? Nick?
Speaker 14 (12:39):
It was.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Him, Nick, I know, don't try to talk.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Got to.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Got to tell you about those cars.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
All right, Sam? What about see? Hi? What I what
do you mean? Danny?
Speaker 12 (12:59):
Look for the.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hi in the.
Speaker 14 (13:03):
L l ah Denny.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Oh, the poor kiddies fainted. No, Scubby, He's.
Speaker 14 (13:14):
Did the eye in the l. Can Danny's dying words
be the clue that will lead Nick to the head
of the car thieves and Danny's killer. We'll see what
happens in just a moment. Now back to the case
(13:39):
of the Bearded Queen. Today's inventure with Nick Carter, brought
to you by a new post war old Dutch Glinter.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Back at the office, Nick, Patsy and Scubby are puzzling
over the connection between the automobile thefts and Danny Walker's
dying words.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Look for the eye in the l, Nick, The only.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Way I can figure it must be some detective.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
On do around the elevated trains. Naturally, Rubby Brady. I'll
ask him confidentially if any l detective has shown sudden
prosperities since these cars have stuck.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Sure, Nick, if only we could have got the license
number back green Sedan.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yes, Well, at least we have the fragments of blast
from that shattered headlight that may help us to identify.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
And the police are checking every garage in town for
a Green Sadan with a broken headlight.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Limbs, I felt sure that car was following us, but
I didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
When we got here, Rubbery parked the car up the
street with his lights off and his mortar running just
in case.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And when Danny started to cross the street alone, the
murderer saw his chance and.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Took it right. Well, the next thing is to find
out if any older men said in those card games
of Danny, do you.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Think the leader of this gang played cards with the boys?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Not only played cards with him, he cheated. Oh, Danny
realized it when he saw the bearded queen of hearts
and that marked Dick, so called dead of honor. He
stole Scubby's car to repay was a gambling debt.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Well, then maybe the same trick was played on some
of the other boys that might have count.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
For the rest of the stolen cars. The way I
figure it, after a boy's stolen one card, wouldn't be
hard to frighten him and a stealing more by threatening
to expose him. Well, that's the lowest trick I ever.
Speaker 12 (15:03):
Heard of, And I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yes, Well, when we find out who won with that
mark Dick, I think we'll have the leader of the
gang and Danny's.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Murderer that's Fabridge.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You ought to know, right, Patsy, And that's where we're going, Scubby.
As soon as you've talked to Sergeant Brady about the detectives,
phone me at the West Pine Street garage.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well, there are a couple of older fellows that sometimes
used to play down them mis accata.
Speaker 12 (15:34):
But I go, oh, Joe, what's a man? No gas tonight?
I didn't hear you drive up in here two or
three minutes. So busy talking to your friend, you didn't
see me.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
We were talking about Danny Walker.
Speaker 13 (15:47):
Yeah, nice kids. Too bad he accident, wasn't it? How
about putting some gas in my cans?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You're sure?
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Joe?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Sure right away, answered that Williams Zakata.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh, yes, yes, it may be for me anyway, I'm
expecting to call it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, maybe it's for me too, Nick, I better come
with you if I didn't want to be left alone
with Joe. Did you see the look on his state
and how scared Pops was?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, I enormously. You better stay right, I'll try to go. Yeah, yes,
hello West Pines Free Garage that you Nick? Oh yes, Coby,
why did you find out?
Speaker 15 (16:22):
Honestly, as far as Sergeant Brady knows there's nothing against
any of the detectives around the elevated. Of course, there's
been no time for any investigation.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But Sergeant Brady thinks we're on the wrong track. He
may be right. The eye in the air is the
only thing we have to go on, and I'm going
to follow it through.
Speaker 15 (16:37):
Okay, always say, well, you asked Pops if you found
my cigarette lighter.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I had him.
Speaker 15 (16:42):
We were going down to the basement there. Remember when
Patsy pointed out that no smoking sign.
Speaker 12 (16:46):
And Ivy, that may be it, that may be what?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Never mind? You what headquarters?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Why, I'll call you back in fifteen minutes. Give you
the whole story for your paper.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Did he find out anything? Nick?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Wasn't anything to find out where Pops and.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Joe they went out of the gas pump?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Good? I want to take enough look at that elevator.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Were we going down to the clubroom?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Not this time? Must have been fine not to have
seen it before. Scene was an elevator made of steel
plates riveted together, push button controls and a no smoking
sign painted on the wall.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
What's unusual about that?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Here's the elevator step in. I'll show you see Patsy,
one of those rivets is right in the middle of
the eye and no smoking see eye.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
In the al the letter eye and the no smoking sign.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
In the elevator. Of course, Danny died before he finished
the word.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But how does this The elevator is run by push
button controls, Patsy, a button for each floor. But there
were another floor, a secret floor. The control button for
it would have to be concealed too, And that rivet
in the letter I may be if pushing me.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Let's find out if we're going down to the boys clubroom.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thank you'll find for going past the club room, ysic.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
But we can't go past the basement.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
No ever hear of a sub basement.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Huh, of course, Yes, we're passing the clubroom. There is
a secret floor.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Maybe we're going to discover a lot of secrets.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Well, this seems to be it. Whatever it is, Gosh,
you'd start here.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I should be a light switch near the elevator. Yes,
here it is.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I think it's another garage.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
A complete pinshop and mechanical equipment for working over stolen cars.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Look at the other end of the room. Agreeing to
the dam with a broken head light in the Fender
all dead.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's the car, all right, the one that killed jam.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
I thought you were getting down when you was telephoning.
I've been standing right the hand. This's pillow, waiting for
your baby. You and the boy.
Speaker 13 (18:53):
I look, Joe, kinda take your rod out of your
pocket and jump around the floor.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Don't turn around whatever you say, but you're not playing.
That's very smart.
Speaker 13 (19:04):
You let foot take that puckett to just in case
you might be packing some heatings.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Have you done something to him me?
Speaker 13 (19:12):
I don't do nothing, then nobody this it's an accident. Course,
I do have an awful lot of accidents.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Have to run accidents, Joe sometimes.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
But I'll be able to do better than that for
you two. Something real, neat and nartistic.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Oh wait, you don't realize the police. No, we came here,
so you come here. Then you're left.
Speaker 13 (19:31):
See nobody will find this teller, and nobody will ever
find you. Tell long, Stuckers, I'll see you against tomorrow
the next day, and when I do, you're gonna have
one of the neatest little accidents that ever happens.
Speaker 12 (19:46):
Along Stuckers.
Speaker 13 (19:47):
I'll see you against tomorrow the next day, and when
I do you're gonna have one of the neatest little
accidents that ever happens.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Next, isn't there any way out of here?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
No, it's just this one big, bare room, nothing but
the pillars that support the building, these workbenchers and garage equipment,
and the elevator shaft at the other end.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
That it's like being buried alive. I almost wish he
had shot us.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Let's see, I'm going to make Joe wish he had
shot us.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
What I'm going to make him?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Come right red to do it right now?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Why are you taking up your shoes?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I may want to walk quietly before I'm through. Hand
me that monkey wrench there.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh, that won't be any good against the gun.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Needs better than nothing. Let me have it. Okay, you'll
get inside that green todaen. Lie down on the floor.
You'll be as safe from bullets there as any place,
all right. The switch box on the wall contains the
main electrical switches for the entire building, one for the
lights and one for power. We've got to keep the
garage going upstairs as a blind, but it can't operate
without lights, so we cut the lights.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh, be careful, I.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Will I'll be behind this pillar next to this us box.
Joe will have to get those lights on again and quick,
and you'll have to pass me the dark to do it.
I left the power switch on, so the elevator still runs.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He's coming on, ye, I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Don't worry. It'll be over in a minute, one way
or the other.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Nick and Passy wait tensely in the darkness, unarmed, as
the elevator descends, bearing a killer with a gun in
his hand and murder in his heart. We'll see what
happens in just a moment. Now for the conclusion of
the Case of the Bearded Queen. Today's Nick Carter Adventure
(21:50):
brought to you by New Pulse War old Dutch glenser.
Trapped in the thought in the dark sub basement of
the West Pine Steak Garage, Nick, armed only with a
monkey wrench, waits behind a concrete pillar near the light
switches for a killer across the room. The elevator comes
to a stop. The beam of a flashlight cuts the
pitch blackness.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
In a voice.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Says that was very Cleara to turn off those lights,
Miss Takada.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Clever but fatal.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
You'll leave us no choice but to dispose of you
and miss Vaughn.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
Now come on along with this flashlight props will turn
the switch on again.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
That's the fast Joe card It probably intends to ambush it,
even if he doesn't have a gun. I'll stay here
by the elevator and keep the flashlight on you just
in cake.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Good idea.
Speaker 13 (22:35):
When the light is on, we can finish him off
nice and easy.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
I'll get this switch him.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Remember I have a gun, mister Carda said, don't think sto.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
What happened to the flashlight? How'd you come to drop
it the right way?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yard? Joe?
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Okay, card is very accurate of throwing a wrench. The
flashlight's broken.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
You know where I am?
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Joe Sky here a sound in any other.
Speaker 12 (22:56):
Part of the room. Shoot, don't worry, I will word.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Did you get him?
Speaker 12 (23:03):
Joe couldn't have missed that range bucks. I don't know
what it was him or her.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It wasn't either to go here tell me, Joe, Joey
All right.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Joe, what don't jask to me? This is Joe's gun
on your back field. He doesn't have any more use sports.
You better drop the.
Speaker 12 (23:24):
One you're holding.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah yeah, oh ell all right, Betsy, find that light
switch We're taking these two crooks to headquarters. Straight ahead
(23:44):
on the street, Scubby, you can't miss the sign out
front the West Side Boys Club Grand opening tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Okay, I'll say, Nick, when you jumped on Joe Ferner
in the dark, how'd you know.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Exactly where he was by the flash of his gun
when he fired at something across the room? Oh? I
still don't know what he was shooting at. I do, Huh.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
When I heard Bambridge tell Joe to fire at any sound,
I threw my shoe out of the window of.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
The car I was hiding it, and sure enough, he
shot at it.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Good for you, Patsy, very clever. It distracted Joe's attention
just long enough for me to jump in. Great stuff, Patsy.
Will you marry me? Scubby?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Please?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Oh? Okay? Beautiful. And then after I had Joe's gun,
it was easy to find Bainbridge in the dark. He
kept calling to Joe, so all I had to do
was to follow the sound of his voice.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Uh huh, this is it, Nick, the new west Side
Voice Club. Just look at the crowd.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You have your seat in my pocket.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Good.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
You know I'm prouder of being asked to speak at
the opening here tonight than I would be if I
were asked to address hunger.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I guess the other boys who were mixed up with
Bainbridge infernal d here.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Well, thanks we have Coursecubby make out the more suspended
sentences because of the trickery used to make them seal
those cars.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And thanks to clubs like this, those boys will now
have a chance to grow. Right. Hey, Patsy, you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Know what what, Scuby, I just realized, now.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
That you've written in my new car, maybe you'll change
your mind about marrying me.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Hell, Scuby, I must admit island love with me. No
darling your car.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time and over these same stations by the Cuddy Heat
Packing Company, makers of new post war old Dutch glencers. Detective,
produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Streeven
(25:58):
Smith's Publications and carpor Lon Clark is starred as Nick,
with Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy. Scubby is played by
John Kane. Today's script was written by Jim Parsons. Original
music is played by George Wright. This program is fictional
and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is
(26:19):
purely coincidental. This is Bob Marsy saying, when minutes count,
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