October 20, 2025 • 25 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 (00:04):
Yes, you say, it couldn't have been either an accident
or suicide.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
No, Petsy, it couldn't.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
But trudn't say. Mister Briggs is alone in his study
at the time.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I know it sounds impossible, Dress, but somehow I believe
he's telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
But who fired a gun that kill Briggs?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Hah, that's really the sixty four dollar question.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
No, Petsy, the newspapers are right about Briggs's space.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's the four million dollar question. Now for the case
of the Devil's Left Eye. Today's adventure starring Lon Clock
as Nick Carter, brought you by a new post war
old Dutch cleanser. Lucky Bristol is a very polite individual.
Impact His first rule for success in running a gambling
(00:49):
house is always be polite to the sucker the customers.
As for a second rule, well, lucky, isn't it now
politely explaining it to one of the said customer the
way I figure, mister Willard, what's the use of winning
if you can't collect? And so I make it a
rule to always collect. Oh how much? Why are you? Lucky?
(01:11):
Better than fifty grands? More than I ever let anybody
dip me out of well? You know, Lucky, those are
gambling debts. Legally, you can't collect your hand on the
one hundred percent correct, mister Willards. So when I run
into a welcher, I have to use methods that aren't
so legal. If you're threatening me, why I wouldn't harm
a hair of your head, mister Willard. But you could
(01:34):
meet up with an accident, couldn't him? What do you
mean a couple of broken legs. Maybe it could even
be a fatal accident. In fact, I'm willing to bet
that's what it would be. Lucky like, you gotta get
me time. I'll be able to pay every ten if
you'll only wait wait ah, Well, my uncle Jonathan has minions.
(01:56):
I'm his only heir.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
If it just be patient, you mean, wait still, the
old man kicked off.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He might outlive the two of us. But if anything
happens to me, you'll never get too money. Yeah, yeah,
maybe they'd be better if your uncle met up with
an accident. Huh, you don't mean that. I don't mean anything.
Why don't you ask the old boy the loan of
(02:23):
the money. So I was tried, that's right, you cry,
try hard enough and maybe they won't have to be
any accidents. Well, mister Woodard, it was over a week
(02:46):
ago you said you were going to ask your uncle
the loan of the money. How about it. I begged
him a dozen times to let me have the money,
but he won't. That's too bad, isn't It? Look like
I'm going to let a said for the weekend, but
I'll ask him again on Monday. So if you'll only wait,
untime waited a long time now, mister Willids. From now on,
(03:09):
I'm making no promise.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Mister Jonathan Big visited.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Hello Kirby, I'd like to speak to my uncle.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Oh, yes, mister Herry, just the moment, sir, he's in
the steady.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I'll put your call through to him there.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Hello, hello, uncle Jonathan, This is Harry. Oh.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I thought you were up at Lake Classic.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's where I'm calling from.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
I was worried about your cold.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know very well, and I'm so much better. The
doctor said I could get up today, But Uncle, you've
been in bed for the past week and I smash it. Yeah,
what you really call about that money, wasn't it? Well, Kirby,
can't hear you? Kenny? What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You know I'm always alone.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
In my study at this time of day. Oh yes,
Uncle Jonathan, I did want to talk to you about
the money.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Well you can save your breath.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I won't give you one single solitary bread strength.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
But uncle Jonathan, I a.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Penny and that's final. It's you overdonnaugh Uncle John's It's
(04:43):
I'm Nick Carter. This is my secretary, Miss Bone.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Argent Mathison of a homicide b I'd asked me to
come up here and take a look around. He is,
won't you come in? Thank you you steady? This is
you're Kirby. That's the biggular house.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I don't you.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Here's what I who found the body, asked to be
the accidents.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Mister.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Mister Briggs said he hi, Hi is like a room
in a middle River castle.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's what it give me. Mister Briggs bought the entire
room from the owners of mc clennon Castle in Scotland
and brought it over to a minute, a piece by piece,
even the wall paneling and that huge stained glass window
across the room. There everything stain.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
How unusual to find a room like this in a
big city apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
He's yes, me the city didn't town photographic last year
for the a two bery shoes.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh look at this magnificent anti cabinet here by the door.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, that's the high boys.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
And look at those old guns on the wall beside
the high.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Boy mister Briggs collected antique fire arms. Me, this here
is the one that's it's caused the accident, m and
all spent locked mustard. Yes, sir, it certainly is a
clumsy looking things about it? Dead yet close range? Is
a shotgun?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Why they called a flint lock?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I see, passy, The hammer holds this bit of flint, Yes,
I can see it. First you have to cock it,
and then when a trigger is pulled, a hammer falls.
The flint strikes against his piece of steel here and
causes a spark. Then was did a little hollow here?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's called a firing pan holds a small amount of powdered.
That potter was ignited by the spark, and that sets
off the real charge inside the gun barrel, causing the
gun to be fired by You have to.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Go through all that preparation to make the gun shoot.
How did it go off by accident?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's what Maddy was wondering, and that's why he asked
me to take a look. Suppose you tell me just
what happens? Kirby will to mister.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Biggs within his study as Hills was at that time
of day earlier this afternoon, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He is?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Said? The clock could just go too thady. When mister
Haley called from the fleshid he wanted to talk to
his own past and I pushed the button for the
buzzer in the study, and when I heard mister Briggs
pick up the phone and I hung up. How long
after that did you hear the shot? It looks more
than you me to to, sir. I rushed in here
and found mister Briggs in that chair behind the desk,
(07:05):
digs since the gun was lying on the floor over
there on the floor, Yes, sir Curry, are you sure
there wasn't anyone else in the room with mister Briggs?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
But they couldn't possibly have been, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So you can see there's no place to hide in here,
and there's only one door. I would write, outside, and
if no one could have.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Got past them, how about that stained glass window? Does
it open onto a terrace?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Miss, outside, there's a sheer drop of twenty three stories
and it's the only window in the room. M Well,
guess the next thing is to talk of mister Briggs's nephew. Oh,
mister Harry hasn't arrived home from Lake Cataye yet. I
expect him at ten tomorrow morning. I say, all right,
then you're gonna expect me at eleven, Lucky, what's the
(08:01):
idea of phoning me here at the apartment? That was
a nice convenience and lack that that your uncle had,
wasn't it? Willis convenience? Look, I can't talk to you now.
I just got in from Lake Placid an hour ago,
and there's some people waiting for me in the study.
You called me back, Yeah, yeah, yes, of course, goodbye.
(08:26):
I'm retired to keep you waiting, mister Carter.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I I was in my workroom, work room in apartment
like this.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, I I make a hobby of astronomy, and I
have a little place picked up where I can build
my own telescope. Down's very technical. Well it is ratherah,
of course, I can't grind my own lenses, but I
have them made my specifications and then do the rest
of the work myself. Well, I I suppose you want
to know about uncle Johnnath. No, No, that's all right, Jerby.
(08:56):
Keep coming to your work, made any help of that ladder?
Tell me thank you?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Said, hey, good manage, and all through the steam rousindow,
I'll do the outside first.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How's that? Shy goodness?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
How do you get at it?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Him?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Broom?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Mister bred Head. The window mounted on a special stream
so that it swings into the room.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You see, Oh, very neat arrangement.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's a beautiful window, mister Willard.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I've always thought so, as you can see, it represents
Satan being cast out of heaven. Uh. Well, mister Willard,
about your uncle act, I'm afraid there isn't much I
can tell you. I was talking to him by a
long distance when I heard the shot, and then a
moment later Kirby picked up the phone and told me
(09:51):
what happened. How do you think it happened?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I thin he's pretty obvious to me. The gun fell
off the wall and was discharged by the.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Jar when it hit the floor.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Do you mean to say that a gun like that
hung on the wall loaded?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It never was loaded. As far as I know, that's
the you killed it and pull he's gone on you,
I forgot about I better call him right now as
oppoll in the living room. If you want to use it,
better come along tat you because you want any of
those figures your head for it right now?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Good grease?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, what's the matter, Kirby? Something wrong with the windows? Heavy?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Something bitty?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Oh? What is it? Kirby? He can loose eye? It turn.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Out the window lorss balance. I tried to grab him,
but it was two race.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He fell twenty three stories down to the streets from
the antique stained glass window. The evil face of Stating
seems to live a triumph to play down into the
room where a violent death is struck twice within twenty
four hours. We'll see what happens in just a moment,
(11:07):
Nick Carter brought you by a new poll war. All
that's cleanser. A room transplanted from a medieval Scottish castle
to the tower apartment of the Manhattan Skyscraper has been
the scene of two apparently accidental deaths. Two hours have
passed since the second tragedy, and Nick and Patsy, on
their way back to Nick's office, have stopped in front
(11:28):
of a small shop.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
This place before you're set to Selena the second man
books the magazine.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Dippi quite a character. You like it?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Oh ah, my friends, he see it. It's to be negos.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Good. This is Deppe Sorry, no, Pattyppe, Miss dam I.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Am very happy to meet you. Senora.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Hello, used to be in Ordeville.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Oh see see where I am not so fat? I'm
like the game play all the.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Busy time before flying sornos someber.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I wonder if you have a copy of a city
in town for October of last year.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Uh sure, sure, sure, that's the way we got a
moll all rank.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Exactly issue a city in town. The true is taking
tay a picture of the brig study.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
How's business is Effie? Season?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
No grows everybody? She's got so much money, can afford
the new magazine? No one's on the magazine.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, would you like to pick out some extra cash?
I've got a job for you one No, I say
its fine.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
October nineteen forty six.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You are yes, that's she is almost the likely news
that thanks to the picture there in it here it
is color too.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh the same glass windows certainly shows.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Well, then here's what I was looking for. What a
gun at seventeenth century flint luck. I knew it couldn't
have fallen from the wall beside the high boy.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And landed where it did.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
R it's on the high Boy in the texture, and
I'll bet that's where it was when it killed Jonathan Briggs.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
But even if it was then, that doesn't explain how
to go off by itself.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Now you're right there.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
But it may prove that Willard was lying about where
the gun was, and with j Seppi's help, I may
be able to learn how the.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Second so called accident.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
That's the kind of job.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Do you like for me to do something that's right
in your line? Is that be a little tumbling?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Oh, I'm not so sure it's long term, nough, Since
I do very hard something.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
This one won't be hard to say. We can do
it right in my office, and it's easy, as easy
as as falling off a ladder.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Oh, he's a hard words to fulfet the moon like you.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You've made him fall off that ladder a dozen times.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
At first, you haven't.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Leaned to the lessingly gets off his balance, so you
haven't leaned to the right.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yes, and every time he and the ladder fallen opposite direction. Huh,
what do you mean, okay, if Kirby had been leaning
away from the window opening, he'd have fallen inside the room,
and the ladder would have fallen across the sill away
we found it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So Kirby didn't fall inside. He fell outside, and he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Leaning away from the opening.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
If he'd been leaning towards the opening, he would have
fallen outside and the ladder would.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Have fallen inside the room. But why, that's what the
stuff he's been proving for me. When you fall off
the ladder, your feet instinctively push it away from you
in the other of the direction. But the person happened
this way not heard?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
No, no, no, But what's the big guy idea? Bush
is the ladder when I'm in the.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Roop, Sorry, Giuseppe, I had to prove my point, see Betsy.
When I pushed Giuseppe and the ladder both fell in
the same direction, just as Kirby and the ladder did
this morning.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
But oh, you mean you think Willard pushed Kirby out
the window.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
From what we've seen here, I think he did. But
this tested you. It isn't fruit that he killed Kurby. No,
But when you add this to the fact that he
was probably lying about the gun hanging on the wall.
Mister Willard appears to be a very suspicious character as
far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But Nick Willard would and write heart that he couldn't
pull the trigger of the gun.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
By right, but he could have, shall we say, made arrangements?
What kind of arrangement, Betty? Are going to take another
look at Jonathan Brake study? Maybe that will answer your question.
(16:12):
Might be hers the police people the room up right
after Kirby was killed. If but in the atmosphere, nobody's
had a chance to destroy it.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Mm even if step ladder still here?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Fortunately for us, I need that to get where I'm.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Going to step Where you're going?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah? Where is that? I want to go? Look at
the top of the highway.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Uh uh, be careful that you don't fail next.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I won't. I don't. Let's see what you're looking for, Nick,
Uh huh, that's as I thought. Why MUTI reside me?
I'll show you.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That'll be good, Nick, I don't like ladders. It is good.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, Oh, were a singing that beautiful sinners is all
scratched up?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yes, happened to be where the gun rested and here's
a dent in the wood paneling there where the butt
of the gun must have been. When the gun went off,
the recoil threw it back against the wall where the
dent is. Uh huh, and it bounced off the high
boy under the floor. Gun liked it didn't have to
have quite a kick.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Well, what donose those books are doing up here?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The butt of the gun were propped up on those books,
and the muzzle we're resting on the edge where these
scratches are. Where would the gun be pointing?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But why did that chill? When mister Briggs was singing
when he was shot?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
He began to see how he was killed?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh, yes, till me. Such a short distance it couldn't
a moved right, But how is the gun set off?
You still don't know that?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I think I do see these burned places here, but
here's they look like s.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Dreaper And but nobody could lay a cigarette down up here,
it's too high.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Patsy, take a look at the face of Stayton in
the stained glass window there across the room. Seeing anything
strange about it?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
No, so it's pretty badly warped. But that's just old,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Don't get his eyes, but they don't know exactly the
right one it's yellow, and the left one it's white.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
How do you remember what time mister Bridge was killed?
About two thirty two.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Be said, right, and about two thirty tomorrow. I think
we can put this case in the file marked case closed.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Why didn't you insist on.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
My meeting you here in the study at this time
at the carter I had an appointment for two o'clock
with a friends. It's is more important, Willard, just there
behind the desk, please all right? But what is this
all about? Now? Everything is just the way it was
two days ago.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You're sitting where your uncle was, and he was shot,
and the gun is back on the high boy, loaded
and trimed.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
What on the high boy, Willard? Not on the wall
where you said it was, and it's pointed directly at
the chair where you sit.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
I'm going out back in.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That chair a gun if it would go off to
kill you, just as it did your uncle. If there's
no flint in the hammer this time, so it can't
possibly go off, cannet, Willard, I won't.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Stay here, you'll say, in that chair, might have to
hold her there? What time is it Patsy to nine.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Chorus, to let me out of here in a midute
of the two.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
It'll be too.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Later, No danger, Willard. The gun can't go off byself,
or can it? For the level of heavens? Look at
Seyton's verse five in a few seconds. Or you know
about that left eye? You put it that, didn't you?
And you followed your uncle at exactly two thirty one
the next day to be sure he'd be sitting in
that chair at the right time, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You had better know what I mean if you want
to get out of that chair, and you better talk fast.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yes see, yes I did it. How about Kirby? He
noticed the eye.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I had to do something quick before he had a
chance to tell you. So you push him through the
open window cord.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Let me out of this chair. It's after two thirty.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Now, don't worry. The gun isn't loaded. This is loaded.
Now that we have the truth on you, nothing's going
to happen. That's the way you're wrong, my friend. Lucky,
things are going to happen right now, goble cutter. This
gun of mine doesn't have to wait for the sun.
(20:40):
Lucky Bristol stands in the doorway, his revolver aimed at Nick,
and it looks as though Jonathan Briggs study maybe the
scene of still another killing. We'll see what happens in
just a moment. Now for the conclusion of the case
of the Devil's Black Guy, Today's hunture with Nick Carter
(21:01):
brought you buy a new post war Oh that's cleanser.
Harry Willard has confessed to the murder of his uncle
Jonathan Briggs. But before Nick can take him to the police,
Lucky Bristol, the gambler appears in the doorway of a
bomber in his hands. Well, well, Lucky Bristols, how are
you fitting to this picture? Lucky, I'm just protecting a
(21:23):
little investment of mine, mister Carter, and mister Willard here
owes me one hundred grand, one hundred. It's only fifty towns.
HiT's one hundred thousand now, mister Willard, or do you
want me to tell mister Carter he can put his
hands down, No, no, no, a hundred joy and seep
at half the price. When you didn't show up at
my place at two o'clock, I came up here to
see why.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, you found out?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Now what now? Nothing I'm leaving for? What about them?
They know about Uncle Jonathan? If I were you, i'd
make sure they didn't tell anybody. You mean I've got
I don't know what you're going to do. I won't
be here before I go. You better get Carter's gun
to do it with. Yeah, yes, of course I'll try anything, Carter.
(22:06):
I'm still protecting my investment. Don't worry. I know when
I'm like. Okay, Lucky, I got Carter's guns. Okay, I'll
send a couple of my boys around late tonight in
case there's anything you want carried out of the building
and left someplace. Song, you're gonna let this man make
a fool of your Willard? What do you mean? You
(22:28):
think we'd better be killed? Look atact your secret, don't you? Well?
Of course? How about Lucky? I don't kill you a
about Lucky? You're gonna let him walk out of You're
knowing enough about you to send you to the chair. Mary,
I'll kick Carl. Yes, he is smart, Lucky. I never
thought of that. Why you poor? You see the pocket?
You think you can get away with anything like this? Ps?
(22:49):
I told you.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Nice work.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Make let them shoot it out with each other.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Then you shoot the winner's gun out.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Of his hand where he gets a gun cover. I
thought we'll look to Willard that the Gunny took wasn't
the only one I had. I carry this one on
the shoulder horse if for just such emergencies. You're a
lucky skiff Corner. I may be lucky, but I'm no stiff.
All right, Willard, you can get up off the floor now.
I'm hotcutar, hurt. You live, stone on your shoulders.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
S the gun back, mate, Willard?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Is all true with it?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Thanks Patsy that it's all the police sandlance for Willard,
and tell Maddie to stand along the hurry up wagon
for his pals. They may ride down the headquarters separately,
but they'll end up in the same place when they
answer for their crime.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Why do you don't explain what's been going on? I
don't understand it at all.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I didn't want to try to explain until I could
shul you little experiment, huh, Patty. When you were a
little girl, didn't you ever set a piece of paper
on fire by focusing the sun's rays on it with
a magnifying glass? Till her old kids do that, so
you can set off gunpowder the same way. And that's
that's what Willard did. Go on, I'm listening.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Willard replaced Satan's left eye in the stain glass window
with a special lens he'd had made, a lens bet
would focus the sun's rays right on the powder in
the firing pan of the old flintlock.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He fired the gun that way or all these dawned
with the.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Charred spots on the top of the highboard that gave
him away. You see, he had to experiment for several
days at the same time in the afternoon to be
sure that he had the lens settlement and do it
exactly the right angle. Doll.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That must have been pretty complicated, figuring the angle of
the sun, the right kind of lens, the right time
of day and everything.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It was even for an amateur astronomer like Willard. But
fortunately his uncle was taking bed for a week and
Willard was able to use the study undisturbed, so he
was able to set the.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Gun, go to right passes three hundred miles away, and
then Callazackle on the phone and jump the right time
to be sitting at his desk when the gun went off.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Right now, you know as much about it as I do.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I knew Satan was there injury, and I've heard of
the evil eyes, but I.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Expected to see a stained glass shape with an eye
evil enough to kill a man the whole.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That's really something
Yes, you say, it couldn't have been either an accident
or suicide.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
No, Petsy, it couldn't.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
But trudn't say. Mister Briggs is alone in his study
at the time.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I know it sounds impossible, Dress, but somehow I believe
he's telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
But who fired a gun that kill Briggs?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Hah, that's really the sixty four dollar question.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
No, Petsy, the newspapers are right about Briggs's space.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's the four million dollar question. Now for the case
of the Devil's Left Eye. Today's adventure starring Lon Clock
as Nick Carter, brought you by a new post war
old Dutch cleanser. Lucky Bristol is a very polite individual.
Impact His first rule for success in running a gambling
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house is always be polite to the sucker the customers.
As for a second rule, well, lucky, isn't it now
politely explaining it to one of the said customer the
way I figure, mister Willard, what's the use of winning
if you can't collect? And so I make it a
rule to always collect. Oh how much? Why are you? Lucky?
(01:11):
Better than fifty grands? More than I ever let anybody
dip me out of well? You know, Lucky, those are
gambling debts. Legally, you can't collect your hand on the
one hundred percent correct, mister Willards. So when I run
into a welcher, I have to use methods that aren't
so legal. If you're threatening me, why I wouldn't harm
a hair of your head, mister Willard. But you could
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meet up with an accident, couldn't him? What do you
mean a couple of broken legs. Maybe it could even
be a fatal accident. In fact, I'm willing to bet
that's what it would be. Lucky like, you gotta get
me time. I'll be able to pay every ten if
you'll only wait wait ah, Well, my uncle Jonathan has minions.
(01:56):
I'm his only heir.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
If it just be patient, you mean, wait still, the
old man kicked off.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He might outlive the two of us. But if anything
happens to me, you'll never get too money. Yeah, yeah,
maybe they'd be better if your uncle met up with
an accident. Huh, you don't mean that. I don't mean anything.
Why don't you ask the old boy the loan of
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the money. So I was tried, that's right, you cry,
try hard enough and maybe they won't have to be
any accidents. Well, mister Woodard, it was over a week
(02:46):
ago you said you were going to ask your uncle
the loan of the money. How about it. I begged
him a dozen times to let me have the money,
but he won't. That's too bad, isn't It? Look like
I'm going to let a said for the weekend, but
I'll ask him again on Monday. So if you'll only wait,
untime waited a long time now, mister Willids. From now on,
(03:09):
I'm making no promise.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Mister Jonathan Big visited.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Hello Kirby, I'd like to speak to my uncle.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Oh, yes, mister Herry, just the moment, sir, he's in
the steady.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I'll put your call through to him there.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Hello, hello, uncle Jonathan, This is Harry. Oh.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I thought you were up at Lake Classic.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's where I'm calling from.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
I was worried about your cold.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know very well, and I'm so much better. The
doctor said I could get up today, But Uncle, you've
been in bed for the past week and I smash it. Yeah,
what you really call about that money, wasn't it? Well, Kirby,
can't hear you? Kenny? What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You know I'm always alone.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
In my study at this time of day. Oh yes,
Uncle Jonathan, I did want to talk to you about
the money.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Well you can save your breath.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I won't give you one single solitary bread strength.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
But uncle Jonathan, I a.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Penny and that's final. It's you overdonnaugh Uncle John's It's
(04:43):
I'm Nick Carter. This is my secretary, Miss Bone.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Argent Mathison of a homicide b I'd asked me to
come up here and take a look around. He is,
won't you come in? Thank you you steady? This is
you're Kirby. That's the biggular house.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I don't you.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Here's what I who found the body, asked to be
the accidents.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Mister.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Mister Briggs said he hi, Hi is like a room
in a middle River castle.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's what it give me. Mister Briggs bought the entire
room from the owners of mc clennon Castle in Scotland
and brought it over to a minute, a piece by piece,
even the wall paneling and that huge stained glass window
across the room. There everything stain.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
How unusual to find a room like this in a
big city apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
He's yes, me the city didn't town photographic last year
for the a two bery shoes.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh look at this magnificent anti cabinet here by the door.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yes, that's the high boys.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
And look at those old guns on the wall beside
the high.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Boy mister Briggs collected antique fire arms. Me, this here
is the one that's it's caused the accident, m and
all spent locked mustard. Yes, sir, it certainly is a
clumsy looking things about it? Dead yet close range? Is
a shotgun?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Why they called a flint lock?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I see, passy, The hammer holds this bit of flint, Yes,
I can see it. First you have to cock it,
and then when a trigger is pulled, a hammer falls.
The flint strikes against his piece of steel here and
causes a spark. Then was did a little hollow here?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's called a firing pan holds a small amount of powdered.
That potter was ignited by the spark, and that sets
off the real charge inside the gun barrel, causing the
gun to be fired by You have to.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Go through all that preparation to make the gun shoot.
How did it go off by accident?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's what Maddy was wondering, and that's why he asked
me to take a look. Suppose you tell me just
what happens? Kirby will to mister.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Biggs within his study as Hills was at that time
of day earlier this afternoon, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He is?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Said? The clock could just go too thady. When mister
Haley called from the fleshid he wanted to talk to
his own past and I pushed the button for the
buzzer in the study, and when I heard mister Briggs
pick up the phone and I hung up. How long
after that did you hear the shot? It looks more
than you me to to, sir. I rushed in here
and found mister Briggs in that chair behind the desk,
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digs since the gun was lying on the floor over
there on the floor, Yes, sir Curry, are you sure
there wasn't anyone else in the room with mister Briggs?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
But they couldn't possibly have been, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So you can see there's no place to hide in here,
and there's only one door. I would write, outside, and
if no one could have.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Got past them, how about that stained glass window? Does
it open onto a terrace?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Miss, outside, there's a sheer drop of twenty three stories
and it's the only window in the room. M Well,
guess the next thing is to talk of mister Briggs's nephew. Oh,
mister Harry hasn't arrived home from Lake Cataye yet. I
expect him at ten tomorrow morning. I say, all right,
then you're gonna expect me at eleven, Lucky, what's the
(08:01):
idea of phoning me here at the apartment? That was
a nice convenience and lack that that your uncle had,
wasn't it? Willis convenience? Look, I can't talk to you now.
I just got in from Lake Placid an hour ago,
and there's some people waiting for me in the study.
You called me back, Yeah, yeah, yes, of course, goodbye.
(08:26):
I'm retired to keep you waiting, mister Carter.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I I was in my workroom, work room in apartment
like this.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, I I make a hobby of astronomy, and I
have a little place picked up where I can build
my own telescope. Down's very technical. Well it is ratherah,
of course, I can't grind my own lenses, but I
have them made my specifications and then do the rest
of the work myself. Well, I I suppose you want
to know about uncle Johnnath. No, No, that's all right, Jerby.
(08:56):
Keep coming to your work, made any help of that ladder?
Tell me thank you?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Said, hey, good manage, and all through the steam rousindow,
I'll do the outside first.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How's that? Shy goodness?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
How do you get at it?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Him?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Broom?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Mister bred Head. The window mounted on a special stream
so that it swings into the room.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You see, Oh, very neat arrangement.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's a beautiful window, mister Willard.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I've always thought so, as you can see, it represents
Satan being cast out of heaven. Uh. Well, mister Willard,
about your uncle act, I'm afraid there isn't much I
can tell you. I was talking to him by a
long distance when I heard the shot, and then a
moment later Kirby picked up the phone and told me
(09:51):
what happened. How do you think it happened?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I thin he's pretty obvious to me. The gun fell
off the wall and was discharged by the.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Jar when it hit the floor.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Do you mean to say that a gun like that
hung on the wall loaded?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It never was loaded. As far as I know, that's
the you killed it and pull he's gone on you,
I forgot about I better call him right now as
oppoll in the living room. If you want to use it,
better come along tat you because you want any of
those figures your head for it right now?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Good grease?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, what's the matter, Kirby? Something wrong with the windows? Heavy?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Something bitty?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Oh? What is it? Kirby? He can loose eye? It turn.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Out the window lorss balance. I tried to grab him,
but it was two race.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He fell twenty three stories down to the streets from
the antique stained glass window. The evil face of Stating
seems to live a triumph to play down into the
room where a violent death is struck twice within twenty
four hours. We'll see what happens in just a moment,
(11:07):
Nick Carter brought you by a new poll war. All
that's cleanser. A room transplanted from a medieval Scottish castle
to the tower apartment of the Manhattan Skyscraper has been
the scene of two apparently accidental deaths. Two hours have
passed since the second tragedy, and Nick and Patsy, on
their way back to Nick's office, have stopped in front
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of a small shop.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
This place before you're set to Selena the second man
books the magazine.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Dippi quite a character. You like it?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Oh ah, my friends, he see it. It's to be negos.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Good. This is Deppe Sorry, no, Pattyppe, Miss dam I.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Am very happy to meet you. Senora.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Hello, used to be in Ordeville.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Oh see see where I am not so fat? I'm
like the game play all the.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Busy time before flying sornos someber.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I wonder if you have a copy of a city
in town for October of last year.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Uh sure, sure, sure, that's the way we got a
moll all rank.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Exactly issue a city in town. The true is taking
tay a picture of the brig study.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
How's business is Effie? Season?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
No grows everybody? She's got so much money, can afford
the new magazine? No one's on the magazine.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, would you like to pick out some extra cash?
I've got a job for you one No, I say
its fine.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
October nineteen forty six.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You are yes, that's she is almost the likely news
that thanks to the picture there in it here it
is color too.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh the same glass windows certainly shows.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Well, then here's what I was looking for. What a
gun at seventeenth century flint luck. I knew it couldn't
have fallen from the wall beside the high boy.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And landed where it did.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
R it's on the high Boy in the texture, and
I'll bet that's where it was when it killed Jonathan Briggs.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
But even if it was then, that doesn't explain how
to go off by itself.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Now you're right there.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
But it may prove that Willard was lying about where
the gun was, and with j Seppi's help, I may
be able to learn how the.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Second so called accident.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
That's the kind of job.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Do you like for me to do something that's right
in your line? Is that be a little tumbling?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Oh, I'm not so sure it's long term, nough, Since
I do very hard something.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
This one won't be hard to say. We can do
it right in my office, and it's easy, as easy
as as falling off a ladder.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Oh, he's a hard words to fulfet the moon like you.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You've made him fall off that ladder a dozen times.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
At first, you haven't.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Leaned to the lessingly gets off his balance, so you
haven't leaned to the right.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yes, and every time he and the ladder fallen opposite direction. Huh,
what do you mean, okay, if Kirby had been leaning
away from the window opening, he'd have fallen inside the room,
and the ladder would have fallen across the sill away
we found it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So Kirby didn't fall inside. He fell outside, and he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Leaning away from the opening.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
If he'd been leaning towards the opening, he would have
fallen outside and the ladder would.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Have fallen inside the room. But why, that's what the
stuff he's been proving for me. When you fall off
the ladder, your feet instinctively push it away from you
in the other of the direction. But the person happened
this way not heard?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
No, no, no, But what's the big guy idea? Bush
is the ladder when I'm in the.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Roop, Sorry, Giuseppe, I had to prove my point, see Betsy.
When I pushed Giuseppe and the ladder both fell in
the same direction, just as Kirby and the ladder did
this morning.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
But oh, you mean you think Willard pushed Kirby out
the window.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
From what we've seen here, I think he did. But
this tested you. It isn't fruit that he killed Kurby. No,
But when you add this to the fact that he
was probably lying about the gun hanging on the wall.
Mister Willard appears to be a very suspicious character as
far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But Nick Willard would and write heart that he couldn't
pull the trigger of the gun.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
By right, but he could have, shall we say, made arrangements?
What kind of arrangement, Betty? Are going to take another
look at Jonathan Brake study? Maybe that will answer your question.
(16:12):
Might be hers the police people the room up right
after Kirby was killed. If but in the atmosphere, nobody's
had a chance to destroy it.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Mm even if step ladder still here?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Fortunately for us, I need that to get where I'm.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Going to step Where you're going?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah? Where is that? I want to go? Look at
the top of the highway.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Uh uh, be careful that you don't fail next.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I won't. I don't. Let's see what you're looking for, Nick,
Uh huh, that's as I thought. Why MUTI reside me?
I'll show you.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That'll be good, Nick, I don't like ladders. It is good.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, Oh, were a singing that beautiful sinners is all
scratched up?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yes, happened to be where the gun rested and here's
a dent in the wood paneling there where the butt
of the gun must have been. When the gun went off,
the recoil threw it back against the wall where the
dent is. Uh huh, and it bounced off the high
boy under the floor. Gun liked it didn't have to
have quite a kick.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Well, what donose those books are doing up here?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The butt of the gun were propped up on those books,
and the muzzle we're resting on the edge where these
scratches are. Where would the gun be pointing?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But why did that chill? When mister Briggs was singing
when he was shot?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
He began to see how he was killed?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh, yes, till me. Such a short distance it couldn't
a moved right, But how is the gun set off?
You still don't know that?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I think I do see these burned places here, but
here's they look like s.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Dreaper And but nobody could lay a cigarette down up here,
it's too high.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Patsy, take a look at the face of Stayton in
the stained glass window there across the room. Seeing anything
strange about it?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
No, so it's pretty badly warped. But that's just old,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Don't get his eyes, but they don't know exactly the
right one it's yellow, and the left one it's white.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
How do you remember what time mister Bridge was killed?
About two thirty two.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Be said, right, and about two thirty tomorrow. I think
we can put this case in the file marked case closed.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Why didn't you insist on.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
My meeting you here in the study at this time
at the carter I had an appointment for two o'clock
with a friends. It's is more important, Willard, just there
behind the desk, please all right? But what is this
all about? Now? Everything is just the way it was
two days ago.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You're sitting where your uncle was, and he was shot,
and the gun is back on the high boy, loaded
and trimed.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
What on the high boy, Willard? Not on the wall
where you said it was, and it's pointed directly at
the chair where you sit.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
I'm going out back in.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
That chair a gun if it would go off to
kill you, just as it did your uncle. If there's
no flint in the hammer this time, so it can't
possibly go off, cannet, Willard, I won't.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Stay here, you'll say, in that chair, might have to
hold her there? What time is it Patsy to nine.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Chorus, to let me out of here in a midute
of the two.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
It'll be too.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Later, No danger, Willard. The gun can't go off byself,
or can it? For the level of heavens? Look at
Seyton's verse five in a few seconds. Or you know
about that left eye? You put it that, didn't you?
And you followed your uncle at exactly two thirty one
the next day to be sure he'd be sitting in
that chair at the right time, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You had better know what I mean if you want
to get out of that chair, and you better talk fast.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yes see, yes I did it. How about Kirby? He
noticed the eye.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I had to do something quick before he had a
chance to tell you. So you push him through the
open window cord.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Let me out of this chair. It's after two thirty.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Now, don't worry. The gun isn't loaded. This is loaded.
Now that we have the truth on you, nothing's going
to happen. That's the way you're wrong, my friend. Lucky,
things are going to happen right now, goble cutter. This
gun of mine doesn't have to wait for the sun.
(20:40):
Lucky Bristol stands in the doorway, his revolver aimed at Nick,
and it looks as though Jonathan Briggs study maybe the
scene of still another killing. We'll see what happens in
just a moment. Now for the conclusion of the case
of the Devil's Black Guy, Today's hunture with Nick Carter
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brought you buy a new post war Oh that's cleanser.
Harry Willard has confessed to the murder of his uncle
Jonathan Briggs. But before Nick can take him to the police,
Lucky Bristol, the gambler appears in the doorway of a
bomber in his hands. Well, well, Lucky Bristols, how are
you fitting to this picture? Lucky, I'm just protecting a
(21:23):
little investment of mine, mister Carter, and mister Willard here
owes me one hundred grand, one hundred. It's only fifty towns.
HiT's one hundred thousand now, mister Willard, or do you
want me to tell mister Carter he can put his
hands down, No, no, no, a hundred joy and seep
at half the price. When you didn't show up at
my place at two o'clock, I came up here to
see why.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, you found out?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Now what now? Nothing I'm leaving for? What about them?
They know about Uncle Jonathan? If I were you, i'd
make sure they didn't tell anybody. You mean I've got
I don't know what you're going to do. I won't
be here before I go. You better get Carter's gun
to do it with. Yeah, yes, of course I'll try anything, Carter.
(22:06):
I'm still protecting my investment. Don't worry. I know when
I'm like. Okay, Lucky, I got Carter's guns. Okay, I'll
send a couple of my boys around late tonight in
case there's anything you want carried out of the building
and left someplace. Song, you're gonna let this man make
a fool of your Willard? What do you mean? You
(22:28):
think we'd better be killed? Look atact your secret, don't you? Well?
Of course? How about Lucky? I don't kill you a
about Lucky? You're gonna let him walk out of You're
knowing enough about you to send you to the chair. Mary,
I'll kick Carl. Yes, he is smart, Lucky. I never
thought of that. Why you poor? You see the pocket?
You think you can get away with anything like this? Ps?
(22:49):
I told you.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Nice work.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Make let them shoot it out with each other.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Then you shoot the winner's gun out.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Of his hand where he gets a gun cover. I
thought we'll look to Willard that the Gunny took wasn't
the only one I had. I carry this one on
the shoulder horse if for just such emergencies. You're a
lucky skiff Corner. I may be lucky, but I'm no stiff.
All right, Willard, you can get up off the floor now.
I'm hotcutar, hurt. You live, stone on your shoulders.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
S the gun back, mate, Willard?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Is all true with it?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Thanks Patsy that it's all the police sandlance for Willard,
and tell Maddie to stand along the hurry up wagon
for his pals. They may ride down the headquarters separately,
but they'll end up in the same place when they
answer for their crime.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Why do you don't explain what's been going on? I
don't understand it at all.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I didn't want to try to explain until I could
shul you little experiment, huh, Patty. When you were a
little girl, didn't you ever set a piece of paper
on fire by focusing the sun's rays on it with
a magnifying glass? Till her old kids do that, so
you can set off gunpowder the same way. And that's
that's what Willard did. Go on, I'm listening.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Willard replaced Satan's left eye in the stain glass window
with a special lens he'd had made, a lens bet
would focus the sun's rays right on the powder in
the firing pan of the old flintlock.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He fired the gun that way or all these dawned
with the.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Charred spots on the top of the highboard that gave
him away. You see, he had to experiment for several
days at the same time in the afternoon to be
sure that he had the lens settlement and do it
exactly the right angle. Doll.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That must have been pretty complicated, figuring the angle of
the sun, the right kind of lens, the right time
of day and everything.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It was even for an amateur astronomer like Willard. But
fortunately his uncle was taking bed for a week and
Willard was able to use the study undisturbed, so he
was able to set the.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Gun, go to right passes three hundred miles away, and
then Callazackle on the phone and jump the right time
to be sitting at his desk when the gun went off.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Right now, you know as much about it as I do.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I knew Satan was there injury, and I've heard of
the evil eyes, but I.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Expected to see a stained glass shape with an eye
evil enough to kill a man the whole.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That's really something
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