November 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 (00:01):
New Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser Paymous for Chasing Dirt presents
Nick Carter, Paymous for Chasing Crime every week. At this time,
two great names are joined as New post War Old
Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and
(00:22):
daring characters in all detective fictions, Nick Carter, Master Detectives.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You haven't noticed anything at all unusual. Share, nothing that
I can think of, mister Carter, not even some little
thing that's out of the ordinary. That's the only thing
I've seen different is that a lot of folks who
never wore glasses are worm here. Wait a minute, Share,
it's a lot of folks have suddenly taken to wearing glasses.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That's right, mister Curran Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's the answer I was looking for.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
New glasses.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Come on, come on, worse, the cats a murderer, and
there's no time to lose.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And now the case of the Failing Eyes. Today's adventure
starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, rough to you by
New post War Old Dutch Cleanser. This early summer morning,
a sleek new card drives into the yard of a
small farm in western Pennsylvania, a man of a woman
get off briskly carrying notebooks and sheets of official looking documents.
(01:21):
They approached the tall, old farmer who was watching them curiously,
and explain their business crisply.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Good morning, sir, morning. I hope we're not intruding. Permit
us to introduce ourselves. My name is Lake and this
is miss Ransom. Good morning morning, ma'am. We're research experts
for the Federal Foundation. Mister Armers heard, Oh, mister Thomas,
you've heard of the Federal Foundation's chorus. Well, the Federal
Foundation is engaged in a nationwide survey of public health.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Miss Lake and I are one of fifteen hundred teams
of research scientists covering the entire country.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So if you've gone half an hour to spare, we'll
get our information as quick is possible and move on. Ready, Alice, Yes,
that all right? Physical condition of farm excellence, drainage good.
That's a chemical disposal plant back there, mister Thomas.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I thought I so splendid electricity. Oh yes, yes,
I see the wiring bottle.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Gas for cooking, excellent, best conditions for maintenance of health.
Got it, Allas by now your own condition, mister Thomas,
age servant, any recent operations or illnesses, no physical conditions.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The best I should say, I can set one moment.
What is it mind? If I take a close look
at your eyes, mister Thomas, My eyes?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Hmmm, yes, I see you're having difficulty reading lately, hermus Thomas, Woa?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Matter of fact?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Do print is blurred? Your eyes seemed dim? Tendency to
squint headaches sometimes, I'm that's too bad. I'm sorry, mister Thomas. Alice, yes,
put down condition of eyes bad, first stages of cataract,
first stages of what cataract?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yes, you mean mister Thomas is going blind?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, I'm sorry this cataract un mistakable symptoms.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh, it's no laughing matter, mister Thomas. If you value your.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Eyes, son, you almost had me full for a minute.
It's the same old racket, but with new trimmings, mister Thomas,
mean cheap, little crook. Do you think you were handing
out this line color rube? I was a detective for
thirty years before I retired to this little place.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Okay, sorry, let's get let's see your.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Rackets ended right now.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We ain't got an eye doctor in a hundred miles,
but we got a fine little jail down in Commas.
You heard cataract.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Has told you the right. Now. What's the letter, say Patsy.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It says my dear mister Carter, in accordance with the
old wishes, I'm keeping you in touch with the news
about your.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Old friend, Fred Thomas. I'm very sorry to tell you that.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Fred is dead dead. Come on, Patsy.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
He committed suicide on his farm sometime yesterday, suisid. A
note was done on which Fred stated that he had
been depressed for some time owing to failure of his health,
and that he had decided.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
To give up the struggle. Why that's impossible.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I can't tell you how sorry I am to give
you this news. He was very sincerely Walter Blake of Attorney.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I can't believe it, Patsy said.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Thomas was pretty close to seventy nights.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It could be one hundred and seventy. He'd never commit suicide.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Well, some people when the health failed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yes, say Fred Thomas worked with my father. He was
my father's friend and mine. Fred never gave up a fight.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Never, Well, what do you think happened next.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I'm not going to do anything. A'ta tell He's got facts.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
To go on, tell me to write to the lawyer Bleaker.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, get your bag packed. We're driving out to West
Village once. All right, Sheriff parks in place, mister, I'd
like to talk to you. My name is Nick Carter.
(05:22):
This is my secretary, Patsy Boone. Hello, the detective fellow.
What do you want to talk about, Fred Thomas? Nothing
to talk about cases? Close well, Sheriff, I'm not exactly
satisfied with the facts as they stand.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We're not eh No, I'm not. I ain't not too bad.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Look, mister Nick Carter, We've got a small police department here,
not exactly fancy like you're a big city outfice, but.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We know our way around. I'm sure you do.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You've got any idea of making a big show down here.
Excuse me, Sheriff. I don't like to interrupt, but you
don't understand. I've come down here to cooperate and help.
There are any headlines you can have them? Ha look
Sheriff phats say, and I just checked in at the
Westville Hotel. Would you mind calling the death clerks? Why
should I do that? To prove that I'm sincere call
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him and ask him to read you the names of
the people who just checked in. If that doesn't satisfy you,
we'll get out of town. I think you're crazy, but
just to get rid of you, I'll do it. Elly,
get me Sam Woods at the hotel. Yeah, Sam, this
(06:32):
is Joe Pish. I understand. A man and a woman
just checked in. What's their names? Mister Nelson Crane and
miss Paula Brown Shoe Shalesman. Well, well, thanks Sam, Well sheriff,
I guess maybe I made a mistake. Mister Carter, I
(06:55):
apologize you, and miss Bone forget a sheriff. All I
want to do is to find out what happened to
my old Fred Fred. I'll come on, come on, we'll
go out to Fred's farm right now, and by heaven,
if you weren't any headlines, I'll.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Split him with you.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This is where he was found, mister Carter, day before yesterday,
mister Poler, all right, old missus Jameson found his body.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
She used to clean up for him every few days.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Oh, then Fred lives alone, all alone was born.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, here's a note we found on the table. Fred
was slumped in the chair right in front of her.
My health is going fast. I'm seventy years old. Doesn't
seem worth fighting anymore, Sheriff, This doesn't smell right.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
No, this note is printed.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Why wasn't it written? That bothered me too, But then
I remembered Fred's eyes had been going back on him. Maybe,
But how about the suicide to shoot himself?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, through the heart.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You checked the gun for Prince. Yeah, the gun's down
at the courthouse, but I've got photos with me. Yeah,
I was showing to me. It was a thirty eight automatic.
The bullet checked with the gun, all right, We dusted
it for Prince. Inside knock found Fred's prince all over it,
sharp and clear, the crystal, everyone of them, you seem I.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Think the Sheriff's right, Nate, Fred must have committed suicide.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, Petsy.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
So these photographs prove I'm right. The fingerprints on that
gun were placed there after Fred was killed. They were
what the simple matter, Cheff. You know that all the
killer had to do is take the dead man's hand
wrap it around the gun.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
But what makes you so sure that's what happened?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Because the prince are too clear and sharp, Petsy, Especially
when Fred supposed to have held the gun when he shot.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Himself too clear. Yes, the recall of the.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Gun in his dying hand, with a smudge of the prince,
they couldn't possibly be sharp.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
By having you right, I've been a fool.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
The question now is who killed Fred Thomas and why?
That's right, Let's go back to your office, Sheriff, and
start thinking.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You say Fred had no way he's at all in Westville,
not one. He was a fine man and everyone liked it.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
And you also say he had nothing worth.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Stealing, No, nothing wrong the stone.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And it gets down to this. Fred must have come
across something new, something bad here in Westville. Whatever that was,
he was killed as a result. We've got to find
what it was. You name it, mister Carter, and we
will find it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So Cheff, you're the man to call the turn now
I am ah. Well, have you.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Noticed anything new or different or unusual about Westville recently?
Suspicious strangers passing through new businesses?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Anything.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I can't think of, nothing at least, nothing suspicious, not
even some little thing that's out of the ordinary. And
the only thing I've noticed recently is that lots of
folks who never wore glasses and wearing them. Now, wait,
you say lots of folks have suddenly taken to wearing
glasses or never wore them before.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That's right, alright.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Why even though jam Small's got a pair, why do
you mention Jim Small, particularly because he'd be the last
far I'd expect to see wine glasses?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Why he were a minute? I wonder where Jim got
damn spects he's wearing.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
And they probably brought them at the oculus, same as
anyone else.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's just the point, Miss Varne. There ain't no oculist
in Westville. Well, if there's when anyone wants glasses, they
drive the sixteen miles over to Garrett Town. Was Jem's
then laid up for the last two months of the
lame back. He couldn't get to garyt Town.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Maybe he brought them by.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Mail, not jam Small. He'd want to see what he's
buying for Sheriff. I think you've given me the answer.
I was looking for a new glass.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I don't get you.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Let's go ask Jim Small about it. There's just one
chance in a hundred that this is something new that
killed Fred Thomas. Physical condition of farm excellent, best conditions
(11:01):
for maintenance of health.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Gott it, Alice.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now about your own condition, mister Rowson, age was sixty five.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Recent operations or illnesses ten years ago.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Get appendix taken oe.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Nothing curious than that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Now you're a physical conditions I'm the best I should say.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I should one moment. What is it jarious? In mind?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
If I take a close look at your eyes, mister Olson, Yes, yes,
I see you're having difficulty reading lately, Prince blurred, your
eyes seemed dim, tendency to squint, headaches sometimes you're that He's.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Right, that's too bad. I'm sorry, mister Olson. I've got
bad news for you. News. Take this Alice. Condition of eyes.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Dangerous first stages of cataract course cataract.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yes, you mean go blind. I'm sorry, but it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Looks as if you not mind the klinical blind ter.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Oh, it's not as bad as all at mister Elson.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Mister you and lady, you scientific people from Federal Home,
from Sedual Foundation, you know science, you know about age.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Maybe maybe you tell me how affection up? Please, Well,
there is a cure, mister Rolson.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
You are tearing me.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
The Federal Foundation elixir Alice. Get a bottle.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now, this treatment, when taken with a special foundation glasses
retirds the progress ctaract. Unfortunately, it's a difficult formula to prepare,
mister Olson, it's rather expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Uh one dollars one hundred dollars. Yeah, the price is
too much for you.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No, no price, too much to pay for age you
may here.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I got money from home. I get a pair of
the Foundation glasses.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Didn't know.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
When southwest one four miles now parameter twenty nine point
nine one and four. Pay they one again.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Next time she leaves you you bring him a special warning.
Sheriff part in negotiation with Nick Carter warns all citizens
to be on the lookout for two crooks now working
in the cataract racket. Ms Jarney, that's a man and
a woman claiming to be representative that a federal foundations.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Are working through the farms and.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Selling bogus church for imaginary cases of cataracts.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Any information as you there, whereabouts should be phone directly
to this station. A reward of one thousand dollars will
be paid in umany I get the man I get
before two. Hello, missus shout, I want to call radio
station right today. Sure I hear alounce, but I think
(13:52):
iden rewards you get radio stations to please I think
crooks is here on my farm. Now, pretty it's I
take one hundred dollars from me. Now I take one
thousand dollars from them. I tell Nick Carter all the.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Busies, good work, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, he's our curl. Hang up that receiver quick. Okay,
you're in a jam.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But there's one ray of sunshine. At least this big
mouse didn't get.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Through to Nick Carter.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
The two crooks stand over Olson's body, and Nick is
seventy miles away.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
We'll see what.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Happens next in just a moment. Now back to the
case of the Failing Eyes. Today's adventure with Nick Carter
brought to you by new post war old Dutch Cleanser.
It's four o'clock in the afternoon. Heavy thunderclouds are slowly
covering the sky as Nick's long black convertible scorches down.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The roads, eating up the mile to Olton's bark. I
might wear the shirt just cool, miss Bourne.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You know, Nick, I keep thinking about that phone called
the radio station. People kind of make fun of the
way local phone operators in the country gossip and listening
to local conversations. Yeah, but if that missus choke, you know,
the local operator. Hadn't been in the habit of listening
in on what people were saying, he wouldn't have been
able to relay mister Olson's message to us.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, I'm still worried about Olson.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Lyon, what do you think happened to him?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
My friend? The crooks overheard his call and shut him up.
He's off, mister Carter, here's Olson's place?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Golly, thanks having that's.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Over seventy miles of seventy two minutes.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
That's traveling. Sure is come? This is uh head Larry
local police officer.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
All right, eh, so finally going yeah, yeah, this is
Nick Carter in Miss Patsy Bourne.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Head Lara, how do you know how's Olcer?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Mister Larro, Hey, don't let Rusby know? Ms Cutter, how
what are you mean?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Seems like he ain't around nowhere, Ms Cudder, seems like
he's disappeared. Well, Nick, We've checked the house, the barns,
(16:20):
shed in, the chicken coops, all the buildings on the farm,
and he ain't.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Many of them. Miss Connie.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
He must be here somewhere.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I'll tell you what were Scellara.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Suppose you have your men check the rest of the farm,
search all the ditches, gullies, the brook back of the
orchard and so on.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Okay, we'll do that. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
If Alston was murdered and as a throne chance he was,
the killer may have buried his body, so be on
the lookout for fresh turned earth.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Will you keep our eyes open? Miss cotter?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Sir, will you come out to the driveway that turns
off the road.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Tire treads oh rained last night, just enough to make
all the tire marks made today plainly visible. So he
quite a massive tracks in this drive, mister Connor, think
you can make anything out of them? And maybe let's see.
This diamond pattern tread belongs to at Lara's car. This
India balloon is from Osin's truck.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well, how do you know that Nike? I checked them
on the sheriff and his men were looking for osen.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Oh, so that's why I didn't go with them.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, and these are the marks of my tires. These
triangular treads are from the other officer's car. Also the
ones of the straight boarded band. Yes, those are from
Tom Adams car. And that accounts for all our cars. Right,
He'll look here, Sheriff, here's one tire track unaccounted for.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
It's a half moon pattern. Funny looking too, and.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
An easy pattern to identify. Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Let's have another look at those pictures you took at
the time of Fred Thomas's murder.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah, I got right here. N you want a one.
I remember one in particular close up of the drug.
Here it is.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
It's the picture some tire marks. How'd you happen to
take that one, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well, well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I've been reading a book on detection, and it's said
to never overlook a thing. Oh, when I saw these
marks and knew that there wasn't Fred's car, I took
the picture just in case something might come up later, and.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It has there. Look closely at this shot. N.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
That's the same tread.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, that same half moon pattern.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And since that tread appears in both places where we
know the Cataract crooks have been as tender one of
us the tread of their car, I'll buy that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
What we do, well, this is mostly a backcountry district. Pactically,
all the roads are dirt. Maybe we can follow this
tire mark and catch up with those crooks. Maybe if
the rain holds off, yeah, gotta work fast, want to
beat the rain. Let's see the tire marks here from
the right are over the left by those going out
to the left. That means the once of the left
the more recent.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Then the killers drove out and turned south on the road.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Right, So let's get in my car and follow the tracks.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
You really think we've got a chance, Nike, Yes, Patsy.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
If they stick to the dirt roads, and.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
If the rain holds off, trade ahead, much, Carter, trade ahead,
I can still make ot the have moon gottern? It's
certainly been weaving in it out of the back road.
Probably hasn't marriage to take credit for that. How so
(19:06):
he set up roadblocks and the ten mile circle right
after I spoke to him on the phone. Good man,
it means our friends are running in circles trying to
find a place to break.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, thanks by day Oh dog, Garnic smetter
shift the rain start.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Show what has we don't ever take them before the
next pork or cross right them afraid they'll get away
unless the roadblock stop him. Carter, look up their head
by the smoke, black smoke. But does that remind you
of Sheriff I burning oil? Gasoline.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Them crooks couldn't a cracked up running away, could they?
We'll see in a moment.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Hold on right, it's a car.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Down in the covert.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Come out, good grief.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Look at him pretty well burned off us the crazy
at least an hour ago.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, watch your step, that.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Says, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Hey, Look two bodies inside badly burns.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Looks like a man and a woman.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh, two doors to dance, touch light on rough fog,
lights of a bumper, and last two numbers of license plate.
I have nine not to kill this car without any questions.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah, it looks like that's cut them before we get.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
They give me a hand with this job with the
shirt porch it open. A man and a woman about
all we can say. Now I have to check further
for identification. Looks like the remainions of books and bottles
here in the back seat, and what's left a lot
of spectacles too.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Well, I guess nobody driving this car again.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You don't know that anybody who want to drive it.
And two giroks don't need a car no more, not
that they're both dead. I wonder whether they are this
water just do you mean batsy?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I've got a job for you.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
This case isn't finished yet. You crazy with the car.
Don't death finish The case depends on who's dead, Chef.
I listen to both of you. Here's what I want
to do. Somewhere up the far.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Golly's getting so dark and getting all mixed Upnick said,
to cover all.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
These back roads. But I don't know where I've been
and where I haven't.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
These don roads twist and turn like a like a labyrinth.
I wish Nick were here. I'd like to ask him whether, hey, hey,
get off the road.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
You want to get knocked down, looted over the door?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Sister, What in the world's a gun? Sister, Get out
of the car. I've been waiting two hours for an
easy mark to come along, and you are it. The
car belongs to me. No, lady, you won't be meeting
it anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Patsy stairs at the wild eyed man, who fingers his
revolver nervously and motions around of Nick's car. We'll see
what she does in just a moment. No, for the
conclusion of the case of the Failing Eyes. Today's adventure
with Nick Carter rough to you by new post war
old Dutch cleanser on the lonely country road. Patsy crouches
(22:23):
behind the wheel of Nick's convertible. The armed man who
has stopped the car, ships his gun to his left hand,
reaches through the open door and grabs Patsy.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Come on, you heard me, get out?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No, I just de son.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Let you have an as man, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Are you now from the description that cares it?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Lady, if you ever had a chance, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Now come on.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
He can't help you. Now, come on, let's get off
the road. I don't want them to find you right away.
Just a couple of hours in your cars all I need.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Don't be a pole sister yelling help.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
None, It's fine enough. I'm not gonna waste time here.
This is it? Looking for that?
Speaker 6 (23:12):
It's probably burt and poison Paty, No.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
No, no, it's just my heart. It bons start again.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I'm sorry, I got all thank love trying to get
out of luggage compartment. Well, my friend, the racket's finished, and.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You da no names please?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
After all, I could call you a three time killer, swindler,
thief and all around crook, but I won't. I'll just
call you a jailbird.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Feeling better though, I get so, But golly, I was
scared stiff, Nick.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What even though we planned everything in that band?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I know?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
But Nick, how did Jerry Lake get away with that
cataract racket?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
How do you manage to scare people in the pooling point?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
They only picked on the older folks, people who were
sup bring from the natural short sightedness of old age.
All he did was describe the symptoms of failing.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Eyesight, and they thought he was describing the symptoms of cataract.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
That's about it.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
What a dirty wrecking?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Oh well, another thing, Nick, Yeah, you say it was
Olson's body that was burning Jerry Lake's car.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
If he Jerry murdered the girl he worked with, left
her body and Olson's body in the car when he
burned it. Yeah, he figured I'm making us think he
was the one who was who died in the phony
wreck that he could get clear.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Well, you said you.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Knew it was a phony accident because the car was
still in low gears.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well, I certainly did.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
If the wreck had been on the level and they'd
gone off the road while they were driving along, the
car would have been a high gear.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I didn't notice what geared was, and I just saw
the dead body and that was that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
That's what most people think. They look, but they don't see.
That's like Jerry Lake.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
What about Jerry?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
He couldn't see that when he put Fred's fingerprints on
the gun, he was really putting the finger on himself.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
As a result, he's.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Going to get well acquainted with the electric.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Chair, which is as it should be.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, Nick, what about the adventure that new post war
old Dutch cleanser will bring us next week.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It's a story about women's fashions.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Mike, women's fashions, they've always been a mystery to me,
don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
In this case, they're more than a mystery. There are
cause for plenty of violence.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
You see, the fashions were being stolen and Mary Daniel
said she knew who was stealing them.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And when we went to see her, she walked out
of her apartment without saying a.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Word, and a moment later we found her murdered in
her bedroom in that same apartment.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hey, wait, this is confusing enough without going any further.
What do you call this adventure?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Nick? I call it the Case of the Quiet Roommate.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Nick Carter, Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cutter Heat Packing Company. It is produced
and directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street
and Smith's Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy.
Today's script was written by Alfred Bester. Original music is
played by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any
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This is Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count, use new
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New Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser Paymous for Chasing Dirt presents
Nick Carter, Paymous for Chasing Crime every week. At this time,
two great names are joined as New post War Old
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daring characters in all detective fictions, Nick Carter, Master Detectives.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You haven't noticed anything at all unusual. Share, nothing that
I can think of, mister Carter, not even some little
thing that's out of the ordinary. That's the only thing
I've seen different is that a lot of folks who
never wore glasses are worm here. Wait a minute, Share,
it's a lot of folks have suddenly taken to wearing glasses.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That's right, mister Curran Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's the answer I was looking for.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
New glasses.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Come on, come on, worse, the cats a murderer, and
there's no time to lose.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And now the case of the Failing Eyes. Today's adventure
starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, rough to you by
New post War Old Dutch Cleanser. This early summer morning,
a sleek new card drives into the yard of a
small farm in western Pennsylvania, a man of a woman
get off briskly carrying notebooks and sheets of official looking documents.
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They approached the tall, old farmer who was watching them curiously,
and explain their business crisply.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Good morning, sir, morning. I hope we're not intruding. Permit
us to introduce ourselves. My name is Lake and this
is miss Ransom. Good morning morning, ma'am. We're research experts
for the Federal Foundation. Mister Armers heard, Oh, mister Thomas,
you've heard of the Federal Foundation's chorus. Well, the Federal
Foundation is engaged in a nationwide survey of public health.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Miss Lake and I are one of fifteen hundred teams
of research scientists covering the entire country.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So if you've gone half an hour to spare, we'll
get our information as quick is possible and move on. Ready, Alice, Yes,
that all right? Physical condition of farm excellence, drainage good.
That's a chemical disposal plant back there, mister Thomas.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I thought I so splendid electricity. Oh yes, yes,
I see the wiring bottle.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Gas for cooking, excellent, best conditions for maintenance of health.
Got it, Allas by now your own condition, mister Thomas,
age servant, any recent operations or illnesses, no physical conditions.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The best I should say, I can set one moment.
What is it mind? If I take a close look
at your eyes, mister Thomas, My eyes?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Hmmm, yes, I see you're having difficulty reading lately, hermus Thomas, Woa?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Matter of fact?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Do print is blurred? Your eyes seemed dim? Tendency to
squint headaches sometimes, I'm that's too bad. I'm sorry, mister Thomas. Alice, yes,
put down condition of eyes bad, first stages of cataract,
first stages of what cataract?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yes, you mean mister Thomas is going blind?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, I'm sorry this cataract un mistakable symptoms.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh, it's no laughing matter, mister Thomas. If you value your.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Eyes, son, you almost had me full for a minute.
It's the same old racket, but with new trimmings, mister Thomas,
mean cheap, little crook. Do you think you were handing
out this line color rube? I was a detective for
thirty years before I retired to this little place.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Okay, sorry, let's get let's see your.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Rackets ended right now.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We ain't got an eye doctor in a hundred miles,
but we got a fine little jail down in Commas.
You heard cataract.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Has told you the right. Now. What's the letter, say Patsy.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It says my dear mister Carter, in accordance with the
old wishes, I'm keeping you in touch with the news
about your.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Old friend, Fred Thomas. I'm very sorry to tell you that.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Fred is dead dead. Come on, Patsy.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
He committed suicide on his farm sometime yesterday, suisid. A
note was done on which Fred stated that he had
been depressed for some time owing to failure of his health,
and that he had decided.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
To give up the struggle. Why that's impossible.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I can't tell you how sorry I am to give
you this news. He was very sincerely Walter Blake of Attorney.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I can't believe it, Patsy said.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Thomas was pretty close to seventy nights.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It could be one hundred and seventy. He'd never commit suicide.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Well, some people when the health failed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yes, say Fred Thomas worked with my father. He was
my father's friend and mine. Fred never gave up a fight.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Never, Well, what do you think happened next.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I'm not going to do anything. A'ta tell He's got facts.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
To go on, tell me to write to the lawyer Bleaker.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, get your bag packed. We're driving out to West
Village once. All right, Sheriff parks in place, mister, I'd
like to talk to you. My name is Nick Carter.
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This is my secretary, Patsy Boone. Hello, the detective fellow.
What do you want to talk about, Fred Thomas? Nothing
to talk about cases? Close well, Sheriff, I'm not exactly
satisfied with the facts as they stand.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We're not eh No, I'm not. I ain't not too bad.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Look, mister Nick Carter, We've got a small police department here,
not exactly fancy like you're a big city outfice, but.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We know our way around. I'm sure you do.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You've got any idea of making a big show down here.
Excuse me, Sheriff. I don't like to interrupt, but you
don't understand. I've come down here to cooperate and help.
There are any headlines you can have them? Ha look
Sheriff phats say, and I just checked in at the
Westville Hotel. Would you mind calling the death clerks? Why
should I do that? To prove that I'm sincere call
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him and ask him to read you the names of
the people who just checked in. If that doesn't satisfy you,
we'll get out of town. I think you're crazy, but
just to get rid of you, I'll do it. Elly,
get me Sam Woods at the hotel. Yeah, Sam, this
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is Joe Pish. I understand. A man and a woman
just checked in. What's their names? Mister Nelson Crane and
miss Paula Brown Shoe Shalesman. Well, well, thanks Sam, Well sheriff,
I guess maybe I made a mistake. Mister Carter, I
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apologize you, and miss Bone forget a sheriff. All I
want to do is to find out what happened to
my old Fred Fred. I'll come on, come on, we'll
go out to Fred's farm right now, and by heaven,
if you weren't any headlines, I'll.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Split him with you.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This is where he was found, mister Carter, day before yesterday,
mister Poler, all right, old missus Jameson found his body.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
She used to clean up for him every few days.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Oh, then Fred lives alone, all alone was born.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, here's a note we found on the table. Fred
was slumped in the chair right in front of her.
My health is going fast. I'm seventy years old. Doesn't
seem worth fighting anymore, Sheriff, This doesn't smell right.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
No, this note is printed.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Why wasn't it written? That bothered me too, But then
I remembered Fred's eyes had been going back on him. Maybe,
But how about the suicide to shoot himself?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, through the heart.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You checked the gun for Prince. Yeah, the gun's down
at the courthouse, but I've got photos with me. Yeah,
I was showing to me. It was a thirty eight automatic.
The bullet checked with the gun, all right, We dusted
it for Prince. Inside knock found Fred's prince all over it,
sharp and clear, the crystal, everyone of them, you seem I.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Think the Sheriff's right, Nate, Fred must have committed suicide.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, Petsy.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
So these photographs prove I'm right. The fingerprints on that
gun were placed there after Fred was killed. They were
what the simple matter, Cheff. You know that all the
killer had to do is take the dead man's hand
wrap it around the gun.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
But what makes you so sure that's what happened?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Because the prince are too clear and sharp, Petsy, Especially
when Fred supposed to have held the gun when he shot.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Himself too clear. Yes, the recall of the.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Gun in his dying hand, with a smudge of the prince,
they couldn't possibly be sharp.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
By having you right, I've been a fool.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
The question now is who killed Fred Thomas and why?
That's right, Let's go back to your office, Sheriff, and
start thinking.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You say Fred had no way he's at all in Westville,
not one. He was a fine man and everyone liked it.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
And you also say he had nothing worth.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Stealing, No, nothing wrong the stone.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And it gets down to this. Fred must have come
across something new, something bad here in Westville. Whatever that was,
he was killed as a result. We've got to find
what it was. You name it, mister Carter, and we
will find it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So Cheff, you're the man to call the turn now
I am ah. Well, have you.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Noticed anything new or different or unusual about Westville recently?
Suspicious strangers passing through new businesses?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Anything.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I can't think of, nothing at least, nothing suspicious, not
even some little thing that's out of the ordinary. And
the only thing I've noticed recently is that lots of
folks who never wore glasses and wearing them. Now, wait,
you say lots of folks have suddenly taken to wearing
glasses or never wore them before.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That's right, alright.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Why even though jam Small's got a pair, why do
you mention Jim Small, particularly because he'd be the last
far I'd expect to see wine glasses?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Why he were a minute? I wonder where Jim got
damn spects he's wearing.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
And they probably brought them at the oculus, same as
anyone else.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's just the point, Miss Varne. There ain't no oculist
in Westville. Well, if there's when anyone wants glasses, they
drive the sixteen miles over to Garrett Town. Was Jem's
then laid up for the last two months of the
lame back. He couldn't get to garyt Town.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Maybe he brought them by.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Mail, not jam Small. He'd want to see what he's
buying for Sheriff. I think you've given me the answer.
I was looking for a new glass.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I don't get you.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Let's go ask Jim Small about it. There's just one
chance in a hundred that this is something new that
killed Fred Thomas. Physical condition of farm excellent, best conditions
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for maintenance of health.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Gott it, Alice.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now about your own condition, mister Rowson, age was sixty five.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Recent operations or illnesses ten years ago.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Get appendix taken oe.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Nothing curious than that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Now you're a physical conditions I'm the best I should say.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I should one moment. What is it jarious? In mind?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
If I take a close look at your eyes, mister Olson, Yes, yes,
I see you're having difficulty reading lately, Prince blurred, your
eyes seemed dim, tendency to squint, headaches sometimes you're that He's.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Right, that's too bad. I'm sorry, mister Olson. I've got
bad news for you. News. Take this Alice. Condition of eyes.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Dangerous first stages of cataract course cataract.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yes, you mean go blind. I'm sorry, but it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Looks as if you not mind the klinical blind ter.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Oh, it's not as bad as all at mister Elson.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Mister you and lady, you scientific people from Federal Home,
from Sedual Foundation, you know science, you know about age.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Maybe maybe you tell me how affection up? Please, Well,
there is a cure, mister Rolson.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
You are tearing me.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
The Federal Foundation elixir Alice. Get a bottle.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now, this treatment, when taken with a special foundation glasses
retirds the progress ctaract. Unfortunately, it's a difficult formula to prepare,
mister Olson, it's rather expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Uh one dollars one hundred dollars. Yeah, the price is
too much for you.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No, no price, too much to pay for age you
may here.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I got money from home. I get a pair of
the Foundation glasses.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Didn't know.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
When southwest one four miles now parameter twenty nine point
nine one and four. Pay they one again.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Next time she leaves you you bring him a special warning.
Sheriff part in negotiation with Nick Carter warns all citizens
to be on the lookout for two crooks now working
in the cataract racket. Ms Jarney, that's a man and
a woman claiming to be representative that a federal foundations.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Are working through the farms and.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Selling bogus church for imaginary cases of cataracts.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Any information as you there, whereabouts should be phone directly
to this station. A reward of one thousand dollars will
be paid in umany I get the man I get
before two. Hello, missus shout, I want to call radio
station right today. Sure I hear alounce, but I think
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iden rewards you get radio stations to please I think
crooks is here on my farm. Now, pretty it's I
take one hundred dollars from me. Now I take one
thousand dollars from them. I tell Nick Carter all the.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Busies, good work, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, he's our curl. Hang up that receiver quick. Okay,
you're in a jam.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But there's one ray of sunshine. At least this big
mouse didn't get.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Through to Nick Carter.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
The two crooks stand over Olson's body, and Nick is
seventy miles away.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
We'll see what.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Happens next in just a moment. Now back to the
case of the Failing Eyes. Today's adventure with Nick Carter
brought to you by new post war old Dutch Cleanser.
It's four o'clock in the afternoon. Heavy thunderclouds are slowly
covering the sky as Nick's long black convertible scorches down.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The roads, eating up the mile to Olton's bark. I
might wear the shirt just cool, miss Bourne.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You know, Nick, I keep thinking about that phone called
the radio station. People kind of make fun of the
way local phone operators in the country gossip and listening
to local conversations. Yeah, but if that missus choke, you know,
the local operator. Hadn't been in the habit of listening
in on what people were saying, he wouldn't have been
able to relay mister Olson's message to us.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, I'm still worried about Olson.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Lyon, what do you think happened to him?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
My friend? The crooks overheard his call and shut him up.
He's off, mister Carter, here's Olson's place?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Golly, thanks having that's.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Over seventy miles of seventy two minutes.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
That's traveling. Sure is come? This is uh head Larry
local police officer.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
All right, eh, so finally going yeah, yeah, this is
Nick Carter in Miss Patsy Bourne.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Head Lara, how do you know how's Olcer?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Mister Larro, Hey, don't let Rusby know? Ms Cutter, how
what are you mean?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Seems like he ain't around nowhere, Ms Cudder, seems like
he's disappeared. Well, Nick, We've checked the house, the barns,
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shed in, the chicken coops, all the buildings on the farm,
and he ain't.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Many of them. Miss Connie.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
He must be here somewhere.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I'll tell you what were Scellara.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Suppose you have your men check the rest of the farm,
search all the ditches, gullies, the brook back of the
orchard and so on.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Okay, we'll do that. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
If Alston was murdered and as a throne chance he was,
the killer may have buried his body, so be on
the lookout for fresh turned earth.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Will you keep our eyes open? Miss cotter?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Sir, will you come out to the driveway that turns
off the road.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Tire treads oh rained last night, just enough to make
all the tire marks made today plainly visible. So he
quite a massive tracks in this drive, mister Connor, think
you can make anything out of them? And maybe let's see.
This diamond pattern tread belongs to at Lara's car. This
India balloon is from Osin's truck.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well, how do you know that Nike? I checked them
on the sheriff and his men were looking for osen.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Oh, so that's why I didn't go with them.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, and these are the marks of my tires. These
triangular treads are from the other officer's car. Also the
ones of the straight boarded band. Yes, those are from
Tom Adams car. And that accounts for all our cars. Right,
He'll look here, Sheriff, here's one tire track unaccounted for.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
It's a half moon pattern. Funny looking too, and.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
An easy pattern to identify. Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Let's have another look at those pictures you took at
the time of Fred Thomas's murder.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah, I got right here. N you want a one.
I remember one in particular close up of the drug.
Here it is.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
It's the picture some tire marks. How'd you happen to
take that one, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well, well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I've been reading a book on detection, and it's said
to never overlook a thing. Oh, when I saw these
marks and knew that there wasn't Fred's car, I took
the picture just in case something might come up later, and.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It has there. Look closely at this shot. N.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
That's the same tread.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, that same half moon pattern.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And since that tread appears in both places where we
know the Cataract crooks have been as tender one of
us the tread of their car, I'll buy that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
What we do, well, this is mostly a backcountry district. Pactically,
all the roads are dirt. Maybe we can follow this
tire mark and catch up with those crooks. Maybe if
the rain holds off, yeah, gotta work fast, want to
beat the rain. Let's see the tire marks here from
the right are over the left by those going out
to the left. That means the once of the left
the more recent.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Then the killers drove out and turned south on the road.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Right, So let's get in my car and follow the tracks.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
You really think we've got a chance, Nike, Yes, Patsy.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
If they stick to the dirt roads, and.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
If the rain holds off, trade ahead, much, Carter, trade ahead,
I can still make ot the have moon gottern? It's
certainly been weaving in it out of the back road.
Probably hasn't marriage to take credit for that. How so
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he set up roadblocks and the ten mile circle right
after I spoke to him on the phone. Good man,
it means our friends are running in circles trying to
find a place to break.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, thanks by day Oh dog, Garnic smetter
shift the rain start.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Show what has we don't ever take them before the
next pork or cross right them afraid they'll get away
unless the roadblock stop him. Carter, look up their head
by the smoke, black smoke. But does that remind you
of Sheriff I burning oil? Gasoline.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Them crooks couldn't a cracked up running away, could they?
We'll see in a moment.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Hold on right, it's a car.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Down in the covert.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Come out, good grief.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Look at him pretty well burned off us the crazy
at least an hour ago.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, watch your step, that.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Says, I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Hey, Look two bodies inside badly burns.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Looks like a man and a woman.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh, two doors to dance, touch light on rough fog,
lights of a bumper, and last two numbers of license plate.
I have nine not to kill this car without any questions.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah, it looks like that's cut them before we get.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
They give me a hand with this job with the
shirt porch it open. A man and a woman about
all we can say. Now I have to check further
for identification. Looks like the remainions of books and bottles
here in the back seat, and what's left a lot
of spectacles too.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Well, I guess nobody driving this car again.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
You don't know that anybody who want to drive it.
And two giroks don't need a car no more, not
that they're both dead. I wonder whether they are this
water just do you mean batsy?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I've got a job for you.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
This case isn't finished yet. You crazy with the car.
Don't death finish The case depends on who's dead, Chef.
I listen to both of you. Here's what I want
to do. Somewhere up the far.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Golly's getting so dark and getting all mixed Upnick said,
to cover all.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
These back roads. But I don't know where I've been
and where I haven't.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
These don roads twist and turn like a like a labyrinth.
I wish Nick were here. I'd like to ask him whether, hey, hey,
get off the road.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
You want to get knocked down, looted over the door?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Sister, What in the world's a gun? Sister, Get out
of the car. I've been waiting two hours for an
easy mark to come along, and you are it. The
car belongs to me. No, lady, you won't be meeting
it anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Patsy stairs at the wild eyed man, who fingers his
revolver nervously and motions around of Nick's car. We'll see
what she does in just a moment. No, for the
conclusion of the case of the Failing Eyes. Today's adventure
with Nick Carter rough to you by new post war
old Dutch cleanser on the lonely country road. Patsy crouches
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behind the wheel of Nick's convertible. The armed man who
has stopped the car, ships his gun to his left hand,
reaches through the open door and grabs Patsy.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Come on, you heard me, get out?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No, I just de son.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Let you have an as man, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Are you now from the description that cares it?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Lady, if you ever had a chance, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Now come on.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
He can't help you. Now, come on, let's get off
the road. I don't want them to find you right away.
Just a couple of hours in your cars all I need.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Don't be a pole sister yelling help.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
None, It's fine enough. I'm not gonna waste time here.
This is it? Looking for that?
Speaker 6 (23:12):
It's probably burt and poison Paty, No.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
No, no, it's just my heart. It bons start again.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I'm sorry, I got all thank love trying to get
out of luggage compartment. Well, my friend, the racket's finished, and.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
You da no names please?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
After all, I could call you a three time killer, swindler,
thief and all around crook, but I won't. I'll just
call you a jailbird.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Feeling better though, I get so, But golly, I was
scared stiff, Nick.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What even though we planned everything in that band?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I know?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
But Nick, how did Jerry Lake get away with that
cataract racket?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
How do you manage to scare people in the pooling point?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
They only picked on the older folks, people who were
sup bring from the natural short sightedness of old age.
All he did was describe the symptoms of failing.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Eyesight, and they thought he was describing the symptoms of cataract.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
That's about it.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
What a dirty wrecking?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Oh well, another thing, Nick, Yeah, you say it was
Olson's body that was burning Jerry Lake's car.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
If he Jerry murdered the girl he worked with, left
her body and Olson's body in the car when he
burned it. Yeah, he figured I'm making us think he
was the one who was who died in the phony
wreck that he could get clear.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Well, you said you.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Knew it was a phony accident because the car was
still in low gears.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well, I certainly did.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
If the wreck had been on the level and they'd
gone off the road while they were driving along, the
car would have been a high gear.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I didn't notice what geared was, and I just saw
the dead body and that was that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
That's what most people think. They look, but they don't see.
That's like Jerry Lake.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
What about Jerry?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
He couldn't see that when he put Fred's fingerprints on
the gun, he was really putting the finger on himself.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
As a result, he's.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Going to get well acquainted with the electric.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Chair, which is as it should be.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, Nick, what about the adventure that new post war
old Dutch cleanser will bring us next week.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It's a story about women's fashions.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Mike, women's fashions, they've always been a mystery to me,
don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
In this case, they're more than a mystery. There are
cause for plenty of violence.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
You see, the fashions were being stolen and Mary Daniel
said she knew who was stealing them.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And when we went to see her, she walked out
of her apartment without saying a.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Word, and a moment later we found her murdered in
her bedroom in that same apartment.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Hey, wait, this is confusing enough without going any further.
What do you call this adventure?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Nick? I call it the Case of the Quiet Roommate.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Nick Carter, Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cutter Heat Packing Company. It is produced
and directed by Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street
and Smith's Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy.
Today's script was written by Alfred Bester. Original music is
played by Henry Silvern. This program is fictional and any
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resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
This is Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count, use new
post war old Dutch plensors. This is the mutual broadcasting
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